skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. I felt the same way for him when Crayon Physics became popular. Box2D is a fantastic library, and it felt a little unfair when Crayon Physics got on the news and didn't even mention him, even though the game was essentially a skin/sandbox over Box2D.

Granted, Angry Birds it much more than just a skin over Box2D, but the game wouldn't be what it is without a great physics engine, and they ought to give him credit.
And how many of those are likely to be active and be expecting serious email instead of newsletters and spam?
So what you're saying is, you didn't make it to the part of my comment where I indicated that I wasn't on board with his stunt?

I merely pointed out that dismissing his gripe is a bit premature. How he went about expressing his gripe is an entirely different matter, and embarrassing companies publicly is often not a good first step.
"So government could simply say... That way there is no regulation"

When the government says something, people, desks, computers, buildings, health plans, 401Ks, and occasionally arsenals, all need to be set up to prevent Joe Schmoe from saying, and more importantly, doing something contradictory. That's called regulation.

"The individual will lose more in the long run than they will gain..."

So why are you in favor of Net Neutrality again??
auctex does the rendering-inside-text part, but I don't know of one that does it for html img tags

can't be hard
We make the Sooloos line of products. They compose a music management solution that currently sells in the high end market (luxury, hifi, audiophile, etc..)

Our product is far too expensive right now for most people. We are in the middle of executing a plan to create a budget appliance and a free piece of software to expand past our current markets. This requires some additional features that must be implemented to ensure success (social features, offline mobile players, more 'remote control' on devices people already own, etc..).

When we started, it was not possible to bring our product to the masses because the computer resources required to create a great experience were not common place. Thats why we built an appliance. The last 2 generations of hardware have been capable, so it's now possible to bring our vision to the masses.

We are hiring 4 developers, and here are some of the things we would like to see in developers:

c# (msft on windows & mono on osx, linux)
opengl (windows and osx)
c/c++
linux
social networking experience
server side experience
client app experience
ui sensibilities
design sense
iphone/ipad
android
a passion for music

The above are nice to haves, and not requirements. Smart, experienced, and passionate development history is more important.

Our work environment is very focused on fast execution, while providing a great lifestyle. Our team is spread out over the globe (NYC, SF, Bangkok, UK) and tiny (3 developers + 2 designers). We live inside the Meridian Audio umbrella, but we are responsible for the Sooloos line. You would work wherever you wanted to live. We have a small concentration in NYC, but NYC is not a requirement. Our management style is very relaxed and it will require you to be great while not being micromanaged. You must be a great communicator (in English), especially online. Fast typing and familiarity with online communication mechanisms is required.

We will also hire consultants to do a few projects we have been able to isolate as good for short term consultancy work.

You can read about our existing products in many reviews on the
internet. Here are a few:

mainstream press:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/tech-therapist/enter-the-soo...

and in the hifi market:
http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/

and then, an update from a few months ago:
http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/index10.h...

and another:
http://www.hometheatermag.com/mediaservers/meridian_sooloos_...
my initial reaction, as a developer, is that most of what I do is in one language, so I want to use a platform that is a specialist and not a generalist.

That said, I'm sure I'll check it out and it does sound intriguing.
Amazon? they have a great business and an awesome platform.
it's hard to put a limit on what you could do with that kind of resources.
I presume the same percentage as all gmail accounts. I saw nothing that indicated that these users were less active than anyone else.

Unlike Hotmail, I think a very large percentage of Gmail accounts are pretty active.
One language may be fine but there is also different types of databases, queueing systems...
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Well, yes, but I assume that you know what you're doing and when you need to make updates and changes to your server you'll be able to handle it yourself.

I, however, don't know very much about being a sys admin and I certainly wouldn't want to be put in charge of maintaining any production server.

That's what DotCloud is for. I have a beta account with them and its been working out great so far.
Called me old fashioned, or lazy, but I hate reaching into my pocket just to check the time. A Casio watch fits the bill perfectly.
I'm curious about some threads that get killed, too--afaik it can happen due to mod intervention or when the community hits "flag" enough times, but I always wonder which one it was.
Why not? The pay is lower than Google, equity is below that of Facebook and rather meager, it doesn't provide the freedom of a startup, and 80 percent of the job is navigating politics.

I have my list of why it's a great place to work, but I also have my list negatives. I'd like to hear other's candid opinions.
http://jsfiddle.net/npPM5/
In an utterly opposite-topic vein, I've recently discovered the joy of automatic, mechanical watches. No battery, no electronics, no manual winding. They're just a spring, gears, and a rotor that 'charges' the spring when you move your arm.

Sure, I have a mobile, but I feel a bit silly digging in my pocket when I just want to check the time. Plus, there aren't many non-tacky forms of jewelry for men. Finally, there's just something neat about a completely mechanical solution which is simultaneously old-tech (concept) and high-tech (execution).

Searching for "Seiko 5" on Amazon turns up a lot of options, and the core mechanism has been around since the 1960s. My absolute favorite automatics are the Seiko SKX007 and 009 dive watches, which seem to be unrivaled in value for money.

I'm very curious if this old-tech option appeals to the 20-somethings as much as it does to me, a guy who grew up when digital watches and (gasp) calculator watches were the coolest thing on the planet.
Yes, where you give up traffic data to M$ and AT&T. I'm astonished that given that QR codes are royalty free that someone hasn't said "Oh gee, that is like a 10 minute web app", and blam.
This works well... up to a point when you realize that you're paying someone close to a full-time salary to manage your ever growing Fabric scripts and an AWS account.
An interesting thought for the original writer (Dylan Ginsburg):

Not only will you get the benefits of each new app, but as you build a library of apps, you'll get the long-tail benefits of each, significantly raising your income along the way.
Obviously figure out how rugged and shock proof you want it. From there, you can design the shell and component mountings to withstand the shocks. And then make sure you don't get any thermal problems with whatever chips you'll want to use.

In other words, find an engineer who designs physical things, and get him on board (or at least get him to give you a quick rundown of stuff).
The Kochs have donated to several libertarian causes, many of which would be considered "liberal," such as in favor of abortion. Hell, David Koch was the 1980 vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.

The people attacking the Koch brothers are from the Left--left-wing blogs, left-wing radio hosts, and so on. You don't give any reasons why my statements missed the mark, so I can only assume you have none. You may not like the phrase simply because you don't like being labeled--I'm sure the Right feels the same way.

Anonymous is just a label any anonymous people can use, and I didn't make a determination about who any anonymous people belonged to. I simply described the recent attacks on the Koch brothers, which is most definitely coming from the Left.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't dispute that this would be a frivolous lawsuit. I just wanted to mention the possibility that their actions may be guided by overly cautious lawyers.

I'll give you a practical example. If you work for the average software company, you can pretty much use any open source software and redistribute it freely according to the terms of the license. If you work for a company like IBM, there is a few month long process to get an approval by a committee, who will evaluate the license, the code's pedigree, and so on.

Regardless of what the license says, the process is intentionally overly cautious to prevent a random developer from accusing a multi-billion dollar company of using his code.
If you want credit, put it in the license. Simple as that. You can't have it both ways. You can't claim popularity of your software due in part to the flexibility in the license and then complain about not getting credit later. While not likely, its possible that Rovio wouldn't have used the product if the license were more restrictive.

I have no reason to believe that Rovio didn't act in complete good faith.

And if this is an issue for him he should change the license right NOW. If the license isn't changed, this just seems opportunistic.
I've been using it religiously for a little while now, and I've deployed a couple of Django instances, a Flask project, Wordpress, a Simplemachines forum, a handful of MySQL databases, 1 postgreSQL instance and memcache.

The only tweaking I had to do for any of it was provide a WSGI script for the Python, which Dotcloud was able to provide in a tutorial.

It might be a big problem to tackle, but they are most of the way there.
It seems that from the start you've had an ingrained sense of hustle.

I actually laughed at your anecdote about selling sporting goods. When I was in high school I sold electronics at Best Buy. We would have reps come in and tell us about the printer resolutions and pages per minute, the hard drive seek times, the lcd refresh rate, etc. But, as you said, the customers didn't care about that. All they wanted to know was if they could print a 4x6 photo and have it look nice, or run a word processor, or play a video game.

That hustle doesn't seem to die. I've always found a way to turn something into a more entrepreneurial venture, even when working in a corporate environment.

Thankfully my best friend and I are partnering up to create something of value for ourselves now. It's exciting, especially when I've spent the last 10 years hustling!
Wolfram Alpha does get it (mathml required)
Here is what you should have done: Told them that you will sign the documents to close the acquisition. If he wants, he can sue later. In truth, he won't sue for a few reasons: a) it is the right thing to allow the acquisition to happen, and b) he doesn't want the truth to come out that he blocked the sale solely because he un-rightfully wanted a bigger chunk of the company.

It is my strong opinion that him going dark with communication was a negotiating tactic. He was stretching you over a barrel and then fucking you. You telling him you will (and then doing it) to sign the legal documents is the way to unblock that situation. That is what happened to the other person who had a VC do this.

You need to absolutely document that this VC did this in TheFunded.com. There needs to be consequences to VCs. You would want your VCs in the future to be self-policed by TheFunded against doing something like this.
In what world does that matter?

I think the word "tape" tells you all you need to know about how serious this issue is.
> but it was composed on a typewriter and Gibson had relatively little experience with programming or computers.

I have a hard time seeing this as a negative. If he drew from knowledge about real-life computers, we'd all be snickering at the dated references.

I enjoy Snow Crash (more as brain candy), but the reasons for doing so have absolutely nothing to do with how accurate the descriptions of technology are.
Kinect is incredible technology.
No, libertarians understand the allocation of scarce resources. Politicians, on the other hand, act as if taxpayers have "virtually unlimited piles of money for which they can pay for basic services like clean water or a functioning local road system".

With $14 Trillion of mounting debt, you can continue to bury your head in the sand and pretend the wealthy will somehow be able to pay for it all and everything will be alright, OR you can perhaps use reason and facts to ascertain that government pyramid schemes (SS and Medicare), unnecessary wars, and corporate welfare (Ethanol subsidies!) have a little bit more to do with the problem than libertarian thinking.
There is a total of 3 finger photos.
> After reading my post, Brandon Watson, head of Windows
> Phone developer experience, reached out to me to offer me
> some help getting started with WP7 development. Again, a
> really great reaction by someone who knows how to take
> advantage of this kind of press.

I liked that comment the most. That's a gutsy move and tells you that Microsoft wants to attract as many people to their platform as possible.
Guidewire Software (San Mateo, CA) is looking for a half dozen or so software interns this summer. Paid, naturally, because who wants to work for free? We've got tons of fun things to work on, possibly including updating our outdated website!

http://www.guidewire.com/careers
So what is THE advantage of using dotcloud over my own AWS account where I can configure my servers using libraries like boto or Chef. Using AWS I can go for Elastic BeanStalk or do the complete configuration myself. Not able to see what is the benefit it provides.
I can't get enough of early computing history.

Steven Levy's Hackers is the definitive tome on this, and you can't really be an educated hacker without being at least familiar in passing with the events in the book.
iSEC Partners in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle

http://www.isecpartners.com/careers/

"We are a security research and consulting company that is fortunate to work on some of the most interesting software products and problems in the world. We are looking for motivated students to work with us as a paid summer intern."
I wouldn't accuse them of bad faith either. An oversight, perhaps, and one easily rectified. I certainly don't think there's malice involved.

Changing the license, on the other hand, would make the legal situation extremely complicated. I'm not sure legally he could do it, at this point, since a large number of clients (including Rovio Mobile) already agreed to the prior one. Even if he did, he can't expect the new terms to apply retroactively, which defeats the whole point.
I never saw LaterBro, but if the complaint before was the layout, you should definitely consider it remedied.

That site is gorgeous.
Not a single reference to "invader" or "Zim" is found on the linked document :(
What a tease, indeed.
this must mean that objectivism is true!
Mertado is hiring interns in Palo Alto, CA.

http://www.mertado.com/index.php?spact=cms&cmpg=jobs&;
What is our world coming to?
the license doesn't say he can't complain, yo.
We're working toward an agony sort that has all of those subtleties baked into it, even weighted depending on how important they are to you. e.g., I'm quite price insensitive when it comes to wireless + power on my frequent NY<->SF route -- if you can keep me online and powered up for the whole flight, I'll pay for it.

Once we can take into consideration, say, subjective reviews of airlines, routes, etc, things get even more interesting.

Thanks for hipmunking in the meantime, though!
I'll quite often get a 'Read More' after a paragraph of information. That's usually for stories hosted on crunchgear though.
Most surprising statistic on the site: only 2.7% of the YC funded companies have women as founders.

Compare that with the ~37% of entrepreneurs in the US that are women. [1]

I don't mean to be presumptuous or to imply anything, but this definitely jumped out at me. Any explanations?

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/women-in-business-2010-11#16-...
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The grocery store nearest to my house happens to be right across from the Saints' training facility [1]. It's not uncommon to spot a player in there every now and then. I mostly ignore them as I'm not a die-hard fan, and well, I wouldn't want random people bothering me while I was shopping either.

[1] http://goo.gl/EBitf (sorry, direct maps links are gigantic)
Right, although we have been trained otherwise by rainbow diagrams from birth, colors do not map 1:1 to wavelengths, and most of the light we observe is a mixture of wavelengths; we can only sample an intensity from each of three fuzzy bands of the spectra, and the rest is in our heads.
I'm a fan too. We probably need another topic with lists of hacker history books and/or sites (like folklore.org or doteaters.com).
Their site says:
More dependable & better quality than other services
TellFi works with the phones you have. So, unlike VoIP, you still receive calls if your Internet connection is down. Which seems to happen to everyone from time to time. Plus, call quality is always great.
This answers the main objection to virtual PBX that our business had.
Feingold said corporations don't have a right to free speech, so I hardly think he should be supported by libertarians.

And based on that lofty single-issue standard, have you refrained from supporting candidates who voted in opposition to your views on the Patriot Act?
In Christensen's definition of disruption there's nothing about "excruciating pain". It's about serving non-consumers, then getting better. A key idea is you don't confront a competitor head-on, but begin in markets that they don't care about, with a product that's not as good, in their customers' opinion, and so doesn't threaten them.

> Disruptive innovation, a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually displacing established competitors.

> An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill. Characteristics of disruptive businesses, at least in their initial stages, can include: lower gross margins, smaller target markets, and simpler products and services that may not appear as attractive as existing solutions when compared against traditional performance metrics.

> Because companies tend to innovate faster than their customers’ lives change, most organizations eventually end up producing products or services that are too good, too expensive, and too inconvenient for many customers. By only pursuing “sustaining innovations” that perpetuate what has historically helped them succeed, companies unwittingly open the door to “disruptive innovations”.
http://www.claytonchristensen.com/disruptive_innovation.html [see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology#The_theor...]

Far from being excruciatingly painful, the disrupted incumbent is often at the height of their success, well-respected and well-liked, and doing a great job at serving their customers. For example, just before Digital's fall (the puzzle that Christensen wanted to understand in his PhD) it was a highly lauded company. How could Digital get killed? he implored.

To me, this article's use of "disruption" is a signal of quality that says: this is not a rigorous article. It seems to be using disruption in its common dictionary meaning, to shake things up. But when writing on technology adoption and startups to a seasoned audience, one would expect an awareness of the technical meaning. Although, to be fair, it does seem that many people in startup circles use the term extremely broadly (as if it meant "to compete with" or "to beat"). I agree with the article on that point.

A counterpoint to this entire comment: fortune favours the brave, not the meticulous.
I don't think those properties should be thrown out. As someone said they are useful for what they were meant to do: style documents. But they're very clumsy when it comes to laying out applications. CSS (and/or HTML) simply needs a friendlier and more direct interface for this purpose.
Market timing
I just tested it! I don't know what is wrong but somehow it doesn't seem to work. I mean when I log-in, the default controller doesn't show any information. The app is tracking my location info but it is not showing any retrieved info. Please do check what the problem is.
PS:
I am on Google Chrome Canary Build
Tasmania is beautiful, but it is an economic backwater. Economically it is a mendicant state, relying almost entirely on mainland Australia to prop it up. Its biggest export earner is logging ... and its fastest growing political party is the Greens. Things do not bode well for the apple isle.
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Thats a fair point, I used to pay Telstra 19c /Mb when starting an ISP back in the late nineties - it doesnt look like much has changed in that regard where Telstra is concerned.
However I see OrionVM as a great option for those clients of mine that flat out refuse to be hosted outside Australia and to my suprise there are more of these than I thought there would be.
Justin.tv is also hiring interns: http://jobs.justin.tv/software-engineer-intern.html
Interesting stuff, but no real sharable content yet, as far as I could tell.
We're based in Shanghai and looking for interns. We are a startup doing consulting on the side to finance our product.

We mostly work with Ruby on Rails but also have a new project in Node.js. When something is a better tool for the job, we use it and if you come and convince us that it's the case for a part of your project, we will listen to you.

So if you're interested, send an email at intern@agiletomato.com
Since they got a warning that the email address was temporarily unavailable (at least that's what they should have received) any well configured mailserver should have resend the email.
Pattern Insight is hiring interns in Mountain View, CA

http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.php

We develop solutions for searching and analyzing vast quantities of semi-structured data. Many of the biggest tech companies (Cisco, Qualcomm, Juniper, Motorola) rely on Pattern Insight for their internal search.

Many of our team members joined the company after working part-time or as interns
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