skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote from US timezone or onsite at London (UK) office.

Pusher - http://pusherapp.com/

We're doing awesome stuff with Websockets to provide realtime browser push as a service. People with ace Ruby skills and a keen interest in realtime messaging should drop us a line (jobs@)

Panda - http://www.pandastream.com/

Cloud video encoding service. Checkout http://jobs.github.com/positions/64dc8f0c-23e1-11e0-97e7-85d... for more info.

Contact me if you have any questions or are interested: damien@pusherapp.com/pandastream.com
I used to be like you, not using a framework for exactly the same reasons: I wrote everything myself, and since it's PHP, it wasn't that hard. I knew how to exactly when something was going wrong, I didn't have that power of clarity when I was using a framework. But over time I've learnt the following lessons:

1. I was naive to think that my code would be better than the code of an established frameworks that have undergone through extensive testing by a big community.

2. It's a lot harder to bring people on board to help with coding. I can navigate my code very easily, but many people who are used to how to do things in a framework found it very hard.

3. Without the help of a community, I had to code EVERYTHING myself. There is no gem or plugin to install, which will REALLY help speed things along. In a startup environment, speed is a real competitive advantage, every bit of speed you can gain over your competitor should be pursued. I can't stress this enough.

4. When you run into serious problems, Google search is unlikely to help if you don't use a framework. You're likely the only one with that problem. Whereas if you use a framework, there's a very high chance other people have run into the problem before, and the error thrown out will be in a Stack Overflow or a bug tracker somewhere. Your life will be much easier when trying to track down serious bugs.

I used to use PHP for about 5 years, and I think the problem with PHP and frameworks is that there are so many frameworks around, and we just don't know which one are the one to use. So many developers have this question. Code Igniter or Kohana or CakePHP or... 20 other frameworks out there? It really sucks when you have to put in the time to figure out which frameworks work for you, and it's one of the reasons why people don't use a framework in the first place. Where as for Python, Django is a clear winner and Ruby, there's RoR. Those languages have many other frameworks too, but they have a clear winner with a large community who could help you.

As for me? I'm now doing almost everything in Ruby and Rails, and not looking back. I feel very good about the way I work now. I have become as good with Rails as I was with my own code, and it only took a few months. I suggest you give it another try. It will be time consuming at first, but it's very worthwhile in the long run.
Scribd is: top 100 site, we use mostly iOS, Android and Rails - http://www.scribd.com/jobs
LearnBoost's Stylus: Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS
Terribly addictive things: drinking, video games, social networking, and online forms.

Is it ethical to prod your alcoholic drinking buddy because he's fun to be around? Maybe the one not wanting to be alone has a problem too and just can't see it.

When somebody admits they found a negative influence in their life, congratulate them, acknowledge you'll miss them, then let them move on.
Remote from US timezone.

Pusher - http://pusherapp.com/

We're doing awesome stuff with Websockets to provide realtime browser push as a service. People with ace Ruby skills and a keen interest in realtime messaging should drop us a line (jobs@)

Panda - http://www.pandastream.com/

Cloud video encoding service. Checkout http://jobs.github.com/positions/64dc8f0c-23e1-11e0-97e7-85d... for more info.

Contact me if you have any questions or are interested: damien@pusherapp.com/pandastream.com
ShiftIt is awesome, it just needs support for multiple monitors.
Along with licensing costs?
Google Translate now with real-time audio translation
The answer looks like he's looking for something closer to:

>>> print [1]*5
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
> Interestingly enough, we never heard that SQL or the relational model was the root of all their problems.

i really think that sometimes SQL and the relational model is a problem. at least, the relational database design is a course in a university, along with (object oriented) programming. so, to properly use postgre or mysql in your sophomore web startup, you should know two things well, or have a clever db guy...

i have seen brilliant web programmers that design nightmare database schemas.
This is the kind of message that reminds me that HN is not eternal.

That one day, it will be remembered as a precious community, surprising in the quality of its members and the stability of its standards. A sort of modest, modern day digital Athens if you wish.

So let's enjoy it to the fullest while it lasts, and thank you Jacques, for all the invaluable contributions you brought to the community.
What is the Purpose of SEO?
Samsung Admits Galaxy Tab Sales Are 'Quite Small'
Please remember that SOA is an approach to development and to architecture. Having a "SOA platform" is nice but, without the service oriented thinking, it gets you exactly 0% of the way towards having an actual service oriented architecture.
Smart contact lenses for health and head-up displays
Potato (London,UK)

Hiring Python, Django web developers in London, UK. Clients include Google and PayPal.

http://www.potatolondon.com/people/jobs/python-web-developer...
Interesting.. so this is like sass with functions, iteration and optional colons?
Good call on the sharp front edge. That was my #1 MBP complaint.

No mention of USB3? The Apple Store is already selling harddrives with fast USB3 hookups (though none of their current laptops can take advantage of it).
Emacsmirror  - emacs lisp packages at github
Right, that's what the parent is worried about - not the money part, the catalyst, organizer, and validator part. As he said, When government contributes money [...] great.

The TechStars Network sounds fine and all, but I really don't understand why it'd hitch itself to the broader governmental initiative, which on first glance looks both bureaucratic and problematic.

For example, I read over on TechCrunch that Cass Sunstein is leading the associated regulatory review. That's like asking Bernie Madoff to supervise financial reform - the only thing I want from people like Sunstein is for them to be distracted elsewhere.
He talks about populating MongoDB with "rows". No one should be using (or benchmarking) a technology unless they understand what it actually is, and what problems it aims to solve.
Their page title advertises Techstars as the "#1 Startup Accelerator in the World." I'm not sure what metric they are using, but that seems a bit disingenuous.
you mean the dubble bubble.
Beware of Microsoft's jQuery-tmpl templates, if you care about being able to render your views with reasonable performance. You can benchmark 'em yourself here:

http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/73

TL, Didn't Benchmark: Two orders of magnitude slower (approx) than other engines. On the iPad, for example, jQuery-tmpl was able to render a small template 181 times in a second, whereas Eco, at the other end of the scale, was able to render the same template 11,549 times.
Thanks for the comment, Ryan. I think you make my point. If I know the project is called 'cancan,' you're right GitHub results are favored. But when I search for 'ruby authorization,' the only CanCan hit is a blog post from someone else giving an overview of the project.

Love CanCan btw.
What is the section between the DSLAM and PoP? Why does Bell need to charge usage-based on that section seeing as the peering itself is not the issue? Some more explanation of that part of the diagram would be much appreciated. :)
Ask HN: Any OSS for face recognition and/or analysis of a photo?
Wondering if anyone knows of any open source software for recognizing faces in photographs (not just detection but recognizing the same face over and over again)... or that can detect text, ie numbers, inside a photograph?

Thanks!
I wish that this event would change Oracle's approach to open source projects. Sadly, I imagine Oracle's internal response is along the lines of, "Good riddance to those open source dweebs. Now, we can finally do it the Oracle way." Therefore, I expect Jenkins (n.e. Hudson) to be the first, not the last, of major projects that experience significant friction with Oracle which will drive good engineers away and drain significant resources from innovation and development.
If I were a YC company suddenly getting $150K, I would set aside at least a small part of it for testing different user acquisition strategies and business models.

Take as little as $15K and make that your testing budget, money you're not afraid to lose learning what works and what doesn't.

Create a few different landing pages testing different price points, appeals, targeting different customer segments, etc.

Or take the patio11 approach and create a few highly targeted mini-sites centered around a very specific niche or customer.

Then test every traffic source out there, carefully documenting the traffic volume, CPC, CTR, conversion rate, CLV, etc from each one. AdWords, Facebook, media buys, buying backlinks, it doesn't matter. You're just testing.

The goal when testing traffic sources/acquisition strategies is to move fast and fail as quickly as possible. And that's a lot easier when you're not constrained by a $10/day budget and worrying about every penny.

Don't worry about getting an immediate ROI on that money just yet- you're paying for valuable data that you can show investors and use to scale your business. Don't think about the money as wasted- every paid click brings you more data you can use to refine your campaigns.
Edmonton. They started reporting bandwidth usage on last month's bill.
I'm looking for a CSS/HTML designer. Must be willing to learn how to use tools like Staticmatic, Sass and Compass so as to generate clean semantic css and html while using a CSS framework.

I'm also looking for a good graphic designer (even better if he can also do the above)...

My email is in my profile
Yeah the word "social" is not accurate, thanks for pointing that out. Githacking is about connecting developers to projects and surfacing accessible tasks to get involved in OSS. ie: I'm a developer looking to get involved in git development. Git is a very complex piece of software, so I have 2 options: dive in head first and hope for the best or find someone to help me choose a task to work on. Githacking takes the second route but removes the 'someone' from the equation.

It pulls data from repositories and issue trackers to make it easy to find projects with tasks you can do based on your preferences and confidence level.
Study finds 37% of NFL players have opiate abuse problems
What Your Resume Really Says About You
Ask HN: Building the Ultimate Social Login Table
I am finding it hard to locate all of the different ID formates for the various social networks. This is the table I have so far, can any of you contribute to this list.

*Social Login Table*

SERVICE	id	size	TYPE	Charset	Doc Source

=======	==	====	====	=======	==========

facebook	fuid	64bit	BIGINT	0-9

twitter	64bit	BIGINT	0-9

yahoo	guid	26byte	string	2-7 A-Z
http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api_guide/ysocial_apis-guids.html

google	21byte	string	0-9	@willnorris
I had two audiences in mind:

* General interest. I.e. what are the implications to YC companies themselves? The letter format was intended as a fun way to frame it :)

* The YC companies. From talking to a handful of them, I am much less certain than you are that every founder has completely digested the full implications of the note (various ways to use it, and what to think about avoiding).

As you point out, the YC team has some great people on it, who can undoubtedly support their startups in navigating some of these issues.
Is Lanyrd built using Django?
When I first starting working for the previous startup, I took an accouting for small business course at the local small business bureau. It was extremely helpful in that it gave you the rigt mind-set of how to do right with the company's bookkeeping. At the end, we may still need to get some professional help (software or people); but at least we won't end up with a shoebox of receipts mixed with useless papers.
I think we're at the more formal end of "business casual", but I normally wear a collared shirt and slacks, with no tie or jacket.
i guess rdbms will never show "older tweets are temporary unavailable". because we don't need that, its our special domain! :)

//ps. i am a huge nosql fan dont downvote! :)
Get an accountant. You don't want to mess this up.
Blue Gecko - Seattle, WA (remote from anywhere)

http://www.bluegecko.net

Blue Gecko is a remote DBA services company. We're looking for intermediate to expert MySQL or PostgreSQL DBAs. Although our headquarters is in Seattle, many of our DBAs work at home full time, and our corporate culture is configured to accommodate remote workers. Since we operate 24/7 we need folks in every timezone.

Drop me a line if you're interested, my email address is in my profile.
I know that Designer-Friendly Templates are new to Lift because I was the guy who told DPP about Enlive, and he said that's what inspired the new hands-off templating.

Which is not to say I don't think it's inevitable though. As Lift moves way from XHTML, it made less and less sense to shove in custom tags.
You can talk to an Egyptian ham about what's going on and then decide yourself to pass on the information.

As I understand it, this is acceptable. The FCC defines third-party communication as: "A message from the control operator (first party) of an amateur station to another amateur station control operator (second party) on behalf of another person (third party)." If there's no particular person for whom the message is intended, it would just be something I heard on the radio.

Also, how does the prohibition on passing third-party messages mesh with packet radio equipment? Am I not allowed to send email over packet? I thought that was one of the main uses back in the 90s.

For domestic traffic (with no encryption, pecuniary interest, etc.), email over packet should be fine.
Google Docs gets a dose of Gmail, with ‘Priority Sort’ and document Collections
Restrepo

The Smashing Machine
Wavii is hiring in Seattle, WA.

We need frontend developers to work on a rapidly iterating consumer facing website.

We are also hiring backend developers interested in natural language processing and the infrastructure needed to support large scale data processing.

TechCrunch coverage:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/time-to-meet-wavii-the-supe...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/17/wavii-waviimania-investors/

jobs@wavii.com
Ask HN: Who's Hiring (Feb 2011) - H1b/International Edition
For all employers for whom visa sponsorship is no bar. This wasn't clear in the other thread.
Make up your own rules of probability
I think that there are no longer any required non-html tags in Lift, as of 2.2's final release. The surround stuff goes in as a fake CSS class now, which is a fairly unobtrusive way to do it.
I am saying that all the advantages go to the country with the biggest size. Economics of size. Bigger market. One language. One set of regulations. There is far better economic opportunity in the larger country, whn you just look at the size.

That is fact. Not an opinion.

Also, macroeconomics, public health, health care economics, etc compare countries all the time. Fact. The argument "It doesn't compare due to size" is something that crops up on the internet with people trotting it out as a reason for why their policies/countries/footballteams cannot possibly be expected to perform.
There is never any reasoning for why size has this effect of excusing select objects from comparing to others of the same class.
Nor any musings on whether the scaling can be compensated for. It is an internet thing, this cry of "SIZE! Can't be compared."

Menawhile, if yoy check out some serious research papers of a nmber of disciplines, you'll see they don't hesitiate to compare countries of widly differing sizes.
This doesn't come as a surprise to me. I was super excited for the Galaxy Tab when I first heard about it, but the price point is way too high. A non-apple tablet needs to be much cheaper to beat the iPad (I was thinking $300 for the wifi-only model would be fair).

After hearing about Samsung's reluctance to update Android on the Galaxy phones, I don't think I would buy one of these even if the price did lower.
Hacker Challenging Court Order to Surrender Computer Gear to Sony
Using Deferreds in jQuery 1.5
The author says the chart is adjusted for purchasing power.

But it isn't.
How to Choose a Male Enhancement Supplement 
Read these tips before you purchase a male enhancement supplement online.
Yes. Have fun playing with the open source code to the Google Maps app. Or the Mail app. Or the source code to the Market. Or removing all the vendor spamware.

Really. This article overlooks things.

Also.... and this is a big one...... owning a smart phone does not mean you use it as a smart phone...... it is meaningless to "win" this battle just by numbers...... some people own a washing machine just to store bottles in it.
I suspect from the outside it looks like an arms race, but as a TS founder from Seattle '10, it is not uncommon for TS/YC founders to hang out, give each other discounts (or free services), and otherwise be generally helpful. It's never really felt competitive. We're all just trying to succeed (and help each other along the way).
anyone have a mirror?
DECK Monitoring (Eugene, Portland) is looking for senior Ruby and JavaScript developers. We do renewable energy monitoring software.

You should rock at: JavaScript, Ruby, Rails 2, HTML/CSS, MySQL, RSpec and testing, version control, basic math.
It'd be cool if you knew: haml/sass, git, jQuery, linux (Debian), ActionScript 3, Cucumber, Rails 3, Sinatra, foosball, agile/scrum/xp

Email your resume or a short intro to careers@deckmonitoring.com.
Last time I heard, twitter still uses MySQL for the statuses (tweets) table. They did have a plan to migrate to Cassandra, but didn't go all the way through with it. So I find it hard to agree with "you just can't scale those". It may be a lot of work, but for some applications you can scale them.

Edit: twitter cassandra link (don't know if this is the latest): http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/cassandra-at-twitter-...
But the user could've still forgotten it though..
Just a point of clarification, but it is a per-server lock, not a global lock across the whole database.
we have many many more features that I could not mention in the screencast. Nothing even remotely as robust was available for node apps, and the syntax is far less verbose, however of course some people will prefer the verbose css-like syntax of less/scss.
Hi, I am one of the co-founders of Mixtent. Would love to get your two cents on what we launch today
Where is the screencast?
Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I suspect that part of the reason Facebook's recent investors have accepted such a ridiculous valuation is that they expect the everday ubiquity of Facebook to drive a flood of dumb money into Facebook after the inevitable IPO.
screencast: http://screenr.com/bNY
Viddler (Bethlehem, PA, remote works too)

We're looking for a Rails developer. We're growing pretty quickly, so we need some extra hands to help build out new products and services. Email jobs@viddler.com if you're interested.
Basho

http://basho.com

Engineers
Sales/Marketing
The Camellia Library is an open source Image Processing & Computer Vision library. http://camellia.sourceforge.net/
The Cloud Arms Race
New, on the new 15" MacBook ProAir: Micro-Ethernet! All of the speed of GigE with 100% more dongles.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think that the results of an HN addiction can be more productive than the results of alcoholism. Contributing to reasoned debate on HN probably helps to educate a lot of people even if they don't participate themselves.
Not sure what connection you're making. Steve Case created a billion-dollar company from scratch... What have you done lately?
That's how spin works. You don't outright lie, but you "spin" the facts. Fox News doesn't work by lying -- it works by selective reporting. It's not that most of their news reports are lies, but in their totality they have a very clear bias.

The fact that I can find, literally about 10 positive articles written about Apple in the past few months by MG, and maybe one (borderline) about MS, is quite telling. Despite the fact that MS generated larger profits than the "Insane" profits of Apple.
The server is under DDOS attack.
yes, introducing people to people they don't already know is "social". This is going to kill.
Even though Cheezburger is my Mortal Enemy (see: http://demotivatedposters.com/) since they started many of the ideas I have have, I think it would be pretty cool to work for a total agile shop...
Thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood your post as saying GitHub's project pages don't rank well in Google in general. I agree that a custom project page allows you to better target other keywords (such as "authorization") for SEO.
I use an app called Screenshots on the appstore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenshots/id402728913?mt=12
I think he's going for "Netscape, unlike (my example) webvan.com, did some cool things, back in the day". It's not that it's any less bankrupt; it's not that the Netscape coders didn't work long hours (indeed, see jwz's well-known ramblings); the point is that Netscape left an impressive legacy (in Navigator/Firefox, in a host of highly succesful people, ...). Netscape is dead, but all the hard work was not (entirely) for nothing.

Also see TomOfTTB's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162290.
A little off-topic, but I wonder if it would be easy/hard to write some sort of proxy rule that strips all cookies sent to the news.ycombinator.com domain. That would prevent you from ever being able to login, but would still allow you to maybe browse the frontpage. (Or even better strips all cookies, and only allows access to the frontpage or just the RSS feed)
No one uses Microsoft anymore
They do have personal information, your password for that site and your email address. Lots of people reuse passwords, and that might be their email password. Once you have email & password, you have access to 90% of their online identities.
The only point is that it's now hosted at jenkins-ci.com; otherwise, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156828.
It is indeed, also uses all sorts of other exciting back-end moving parts - take a look at our colophon for more details: http://lanyrd.com/colophon
i just started reading conversations, before that i even didn't know they exist under @newsycombinator links. i thought some kind samaritan collects the really interesting stuff along the web.
AppCloud in Chrome Web Store
I'm not seeing any signs of bubblenomics going on around here. Where's the beef?
Zoho Creator makes App Engine Apps now
Did anyone else miss this in December?
46 ... started last year with my husband. Never imagined I would be doing something like this. A lot of new things to learn ... very exciting actually.
There is also OpenCV http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki, which I believe has several wrapper libraries that add higher level functionality. PHP, for one, has a face detection library: http://www.xarg.org/project/php-facedetect
http://bit.ly/h1pDXA
Added the link there. We wanted something similar to sass for flexibility, but there were some things obvious to me that were missing or that could be improved both as far as syntax goes and features
Ruby based Processing + Live-coding
https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing/
a really cool project.
Maybe relevant: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/f647p/i_found_a_seri...