skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of agree. The only snag is that you present gaining a lot of experience before tackling that task as opposed to start building up your own stuff. They are not exclusive by any means. Rather than encouraging a novice to climb Mount Everest directly by either North or South Ridge, have him start building his own low-steep slope path surrounding the mountain, with some books about mountaineering and maybe some friends that created their own roads a while ago. Maybe, in 15 years, he will reach the tip.
Not for nothing, but the last time we had a balanced budget there was a Democrat in the oval office. Expiring the Bush tax cuts would cut the deficit in about half over the next 10 years, and we could hit up the military, farm subsidies, actually send GE a tax bill and bank on a little GDP growth for the rest. It's actually not that hard to close if you're willing to look anywhere besides "cutting domestic discretionary even though THAT ENTIRE BUDGET is less than the deficit".

And, FWIW, many individual congressional republicans may have effectively had "a choice between 2 budget bills", but one of those bills (the one we're discussing) was entirely written by Republicans. So it's not like their hands were tied here, someone made the decision to go after this.
This type of jokes that just scream "April 1st! April 1st!" are not my favourite...
Interactive iterated function system in WebGL
If you want a priority invite to LaunchRock, just email me at jameson at launchrock dot com. We're going to open it up as soon as we can, but we're focused on scaling right now and a few other things before we're 100% comfortable letting the masses in.
I liked AFD just fine, pre-Internet. The problem is, this kind of humor is tolerable in limited doses. But now - on AFD - everybody in the frickin' world is trying to gag everybody else in the world, and the non-stop stream of stupidity gets old pretty quick.

I had hoped that the HN readership was above posting all of this garbage here, and would leave it to Reddit and Slashdot - but sadly that appears not to be the case.
How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fools’ special
Bay Area/SLC, Ut - INTERN, FULLTIME

Fusion-IO - Tools Engineer

We are growing fast and shipping lots o product. Python is used all over the place where lower level languages aren't necessary.

Tools: Python/Django/JQuery/Postgres/Couchdb/emacs|vim/etc

Email: mharrison at fusionio.com (job isn't posted on website)
A WebGL port one of my friends did of: http://superfiretruck.com/iteration/

Works well in Chrome on OSX for me, after an initial slowness while my MBP switches from integrated to discrete graphics.
Needham, MA - Remote a possibility.

Node/C/C++ developers

Profitable and exciting Healthcare SaaS startup that was acquired, but independent.

max.l.irwin -at- googlemail -dot- com
Ask HN: How Long Does it usually take to become profitable?
Supposing that I start up today, how long do you think would it take to become profitable. I mean to exclude here start ups that might go viral, or, on the other hand, start ups that might take much longer than usual. I mean to include on average, only, and without funding. Would you say one or two years?

If so, how would you support yourself during this time?
"If MacRuby was a public part of OS X, developers writing programs with MacRuby wouldn't have to ship the MacRuby runtime. On the flipside, developers would also be tied to the MacRuby version shipping with Mac OS X ..."

Why couldn't an application bundle its own ruby runtime and skip using the built-in version?
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What's your second sentence supposed to mean?
Google Launches Chrome Time Travel
Culver City, CA - Contract PHP Engineer

We're a small team looking for someone to help us with a specific client project, but it could lead to more.

Our web-based digital asset management application uses a PHP backend and javascript front-end that behaves more like shrinkware than web application.

We're also expanding our knowledge base into other areas, such as Nodejs and NOSQL, and looking for engineers not just coders.

Bottom Line: We want engineers with strong PHP5/Ajax background and a solid grasp on building great web applications. Read: A team player that can just all round BRING IT!

Company Site: http://5thkind.com

Job post/application here: http://bit.ly/hB4G8h

p.s. Excellent Foosball skills recommended
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Philadelphia, PA

The Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia Research Institute needs a Quality Engineer/Programmer to establish quality assurance as a core competency of our rapidly growing, entrepreneurial R&D software group. We’re looking for a unique individual who is interested in moving beyond typical QA roles and responsibilities, someone who is driven to create new methods for testing complex biomedical software. This need is driven by translation of our successful research applications into clinical practice.
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http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/10507/sr-programmer-qu...
I love the idea. Prizes are great in so many ways. They legitimize the task, which helps cut red tape involved with bio-engineering or launching small shuttles, etc... Prizes also cause a lot more development than just the winning design. It's also common for close runner-ups to also have learned and built things of value.
Mine cost about $2,000 more, including a GeekDesk frame and file cabinets, but I like it: http://bit.ly/d7IH3v
Can someone explain the P=NP thing to me? I've tried looking at the Wikipedia article, but I'm going to admit right not that my computer science/mathematics skills aren't as amazing as I'd like them to be.

Wouldn't that mean that N == 1 and that P == P?
I'm hard pressed to come up with an alternative. Fallout is fissile byproducts falling to ground from the atmosphere after a "nuclear explosion." While Fukushima did not experience a nuclear explosion, the results are similar, if not vastly safer.

The problem I had with the article was that it didn't deal with public health risk until the very end.
Enjoyed this post a lot, thanks for writing it, Ben.
I run a number of personal start-up projects that I constantly hire for, and I project manage a few for other firms as well.

Constantly looking for talented technical professionals that are a pleasure to work with.

Email me: vlad@startfinder.com
or Add me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vlokshin
That's what data hosting is. If they were doing webhosting, sure, but the article repeatedly states they were doing "data hosting".

Here's the company's web page detailing their data backup plan: http://www.cyberlynk.net/services_corporate/dsp_backup.cfm
The average is 31 days per co founder, plus 10 days for each 100K in funding.
Berlin, Germany & San Francisco, California

SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com/jobs

SoundCloud is hiring! Back-end Developers, Front-End Developers, API Developers, VP Eng, Developer Evangelist, Partner Integration Manager, Systems Administrator, and Music Information Retrieval Developer.

Founded in late 2007, SoundCloud is an international start-up headquartered in Berlin with smaller satellite offices in London and San Francisco. With the 50+ people onboard, we’ve got 11+ nationalities covered and a range of interests so diverse that you’ll fit in all over the place!
Who's glorifying? Teachers are awesome, but if you're claiming that the average psychological burden of teaching is remotely comparable to the average psychological burden of being a CEO -- well, you're completely wrong.

(I'm not gonna talk about parents; I've never been one and it seems pretty all-consuming to me. But there are an awful lot of parents out there who will happily tell you how insane being a parent is, so they're probably not a good example for your argument.)
It's difficult to combine the various units of measurement they use in the article (combined with the difficulty in comparing point radiation readings with doses over periods of time), but my understanding of the article is that the radiation detected is a fraction of 1 percent above what we normally receive as background radiation (anyone able to confirm or correct me)?

ie: Measurable but completely insignificant.
San Francisco, CA - Rails developer (also Android developer, Product Manager)

MedHelp is the largest online health community, with 12 million uniques and growing. We're profitable without having to take VC money, and we're growing without having to pay for traffic.

Your general intelligence, work ethic, and personality matter much more than your rails experience. However, the more rails experience the better.

Website: http://www.medhelp.org
Email: Opportunities@medhelp.org
Job description: http://www.medhelp.org/Jobs/index.htm
Solar Highways - clever take on new highway design
Gmail motion, best thing since sliced bread
Vancouver - Ruby on Rails developer

http://www.e-xact.com a credit card processing company with a rails based infrastructure needs a developer with lots of experience in Ruby. May consider remote work for Canadians and Americans though has a preference for local.

jobs at e-xact.com
I don't think you can give a fixed timeframe. Many startups are not "profitable" but are capable of paying their founders salaries. Depends on what your profit goals are.
Edinburgh/Cambridge, UK (Engineer)

FreeAgent is a fast-growing and hugely popular Edinburgh-based company obsessed with building fantastic online accounting software. We're a team of smart people looking for clever, productive Ruby engineers in Edinburgh or Cambridge, UK.

http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs

Our engineering team will be at the Scottish Ruby Conference this week, so if you're going along be sure to grab them for a chat about the role!
To me the most important line is something I realized after working in a decently run 200 person company and then moving to a really well run 30 person company many years ago.

> "If you manage a team of 10 people, it’s quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors."

His only mistake is thinking that 10 people is the limit. I think with some effort you can probably get to 30-40-50 people and still run it "with very few mistakes or bad behaviors."

To me that's the ideal. There are very few things a really well motivated, hard working, talented team of 50 can't do that a mixed-competence, unmotivated, bureaucratic team of 1000 can do.

Most people grow their companies to thousands of people without really thinking about it, because that's historically what you're supposed to do.

Not enough companies try to be small and "perfect".
Someone came up with a very similar solution for Reddit a short while ago: http://codereddit.com. Not to say that this is plagiarism; great minds often think alike.
The year is 2230. The Nuclear Winter has passed, and the water wars have come.

One mathematician - the last of his kind - dares to spend precious time puzzling through theorems, seeking out ancient tomes of knowledge written in arcane symbols. He is searching for a proof which meant something to his ancestors hundreds of years ago.

One day, in a dusty library in what used to be called New England, he finds it. Not only through reading the works of others, no, he has proven many new theorems, and his results would have held application to the software efforts of centuries ago. God weeps that there is no software now.

But he has at last found it, the final proof: that it cannot be proven that it cannot be proven ... that it cannot be proven conclusively whether P = NP.
Is Shark Tank with Mark Cuban a realistic depiction of angels & VCs?
Yeah, rustboot's pretty printer leaves something to be desired. We have a much better pretty printer in rustc (see src/comp/pretty/).
I see all of these solutions to have a giant raisable desk- as a programmer I don't actually use my desk anymore. A desk is a computer, computer monitor, and computer keyboard holder.
I normally just make a stack of (free) books or boxes on top of a desk to create a place to set my monitor on. Boxes that still have foam inserts work best, as do books on Java or C.

I use this ballpark-vendor like laptop holder sometimes: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/a988/
The big problem is you have to crane your neck down.
I am trying out an artist's easel for a standing desk. Cheap and portable. I Can hold the monitor while I use the connect-a-desk for my keyboard.
Startup Advice: Spank your employees
why weren't they sent out?
Seems like you built it, but never gave it a chance to run.
"Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?" Professor "Yes I would, Kent."
If this isn't an april fools joke why would you post it today? I call shenanigans. I guess we'll see tomorrow though.
First, I would recommend you to update the website design :) It lacks color (and backgrounds!) in Firefox and it needs an horizontal scrollbar on my 24" screen :|

Concerning the framework, I must admit that I'm quite impressed. It's clearly different from current mainstream framework, particularly due to your use of aggressive inlining. It may not me the best bet for all use case, but it's definitely worth a look.
Some people have zombie apocalypse plans.

Me? I have P=NP plans.
It didn't cross my mind to be honest. Had much more serious stuff on my mind than April's fool when I posted this. It's not a prank.
HTML5 is too old, we need to start using HTML11
html11 looks amazing, just wish it was real...
you can call it radioactive contamination, which is what it is. fallout is a _type_ of radioactive contamination, as well as an excellent dessert survival game.

but you're right. its easy to pick the wrong word without thinking. it just bugs me that 'fallout' is the one they go with, because I know its done to get eyeballs.
The NP is just one variable and not N times P, it stands for Nondeterministic Polynomial time. The wikipedia article you want is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen have been doing this for a long time; not coincidentally, Marc co-founded Ning with Gina Bianchini as the CEO.
San Francisco -- Frontend Engineer (* see info about Macbook Air below)

Looking for someone with strong frontend skills (javascript, css, html).

You'll be our fourth technical hire. We have a great blend of highly motivated, smart people and a low stress, positive environment. And fashion is a very hot area right now.

If you are interested, email me at matt@styleowner.com with some info about yourself. I'll give you an overview of our business plan and next six months trajectory. Please mention HN for extra points.

Caveat: We are only looking for someone who either lives in the Bay Area or who is willing to move here.

* Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and Macbook Air included in compensation package.

We're looking to fill this position in the next few days and will take a thoughtful look at all applicants.
So... how am I supposed to access my domain?
Some good discussion from a blogger in the drug discovery industry:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/11/makenas_pric...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/24/more_on_kv_a...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/30/kv_pharmaceu...
San Francisco, CA

Heroku is hiring for engineering (Ruby and Erlang), business manager and sales positions: http://jobs.heroku.com/

Also, we need some badass Logo hackers: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/4/1/announcing_heroku_f...
When I was a little younger than your son, my parents got me a book called The Third Millennium which was absolutely fascinating. It's basically a "history" written from the perspective of someone in the year 3000 looking back on how science and society changed in the years 2000-3000.

I posted about it earlier and will try to find that post, but I would highly recommend it. It touches on many facets of science and how they might evolve and coexist over the next 1000 years. I got a copy for my daughter and I hope she gets as much out of it when she's older as I did when I was younger.
What I'm saying is that whatever is in the contract is what matters. Data hosting, web hosting, data storage, whatever terms are used matter little.

EDIT: Case in point: We probably all agree that dropbox could be called "data storage", but they specifically say that backups and backup costs are to be done by the client (http://www.dropbox.com/dmca#terms), not by them.
The only drawback to this method is that it makes it easier for dream-spelunking thieves to commit a heist in your mind.
I would use:

Y = λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x))

Where y is months to profitability, λ is # of cofounders, and x is funding.

Serious answer: Who knows. Some businesses models just can't achieve profitability no matter how much time, money and brainpower you throw at it. So without some idea of the idea, no way to really answer the question.
Rate my startup: FaxIns.com, like Reddit for undigitized content
"How to Develop a Perfect Memory"
We're not multiplying N by P. P and NP are complexity classes.

Essentially, a problem is in class P (for polynomial) if an optimal solution can be found in polynomial time (that is, if the number of steps required to solve the problem is at most a polynomial function of the number of factors to check). So if you have a problem, and you can always solve it in polynomial time, it's in P.

A problem is in class NP (for nondeterministic polynomial) if the optimality of any solution can be checked in polynomial time. So if you have what you think is a solution, and you can always verify that in polynomial time, the problem is in NP.

We know trivially that NP is a superset of P: any P problem has to be an NP problem, because determining the solution in polynomial time counts as checking that solution in polynomial time. What we're not sure of is whether NP is a proper superset of P: the two could be equivalent, and we could just be overlooking polynomial-time algorithmic solutions to the problems we currently believe to be NP but not P.
It's not only distracting but unnecessary. The English language has a perfectly usable way to avoid gender-specific pronouns: just use the plural. "A good CEO knows his/her values" becomes "a good CEO knows their values".
I'm stuck at level 16 or so, I had to use my nose to touch the red button in one level because I ran out of fingers. Amazing game.
The Pylons Project Announces Web2Pyramid
"Men from the boys" is a common idiom. It harks back to the days when male adolescents would have to commit some act of skill and/or bravery to be considered adults. Writing it as "women from the girls" seems forced and clumsy. Especially since there's no history behind it; in those ancient societies a girl became a woman by getting married.
That actually overstates the danger. If the rainwater remains that radioactive for an entire year it will give people 1 percent above normal background radiation, but really I can't think of how the radioactive iodine levels could possibly remain that high so long. So more realistically the citizens of San Fransisco are looking at their yearly radiation dose going up by .1%.
The story reads great :D

But first and foremost, I like how ``it cannot be proven that...'' is a special kind of negation, much different than the ordinary negation in boolean logic. Is there any formalized logic system with a negation with properties like ``it cannot be proven that...''?
From what little video editing I've been involved in, we had source material in 2 or 3 different places, plus multiple edits of said material, plus rough edited timelines, plus the final product.

And keeping everything in the cloud would be insane. In our shop every video editing workstation had it's own RAID array just for realtime editing. In a large shop you'd have a SAN of some kind.
http://i.imgur.com/ELqhr.png Seriously?
It looks nice, is there a tmTheme file?

Currently I use TwilightMod, which is as the name suggests, a modification of Twilight.

This is what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/u802t.png

Get it here https://gist.github.com/809720
Why is the EPA limit so low if their aren't any negative health effects until the doses get so many orders of magnitude higher?
The Founder Who Sold Limos.com. Twice. – with MJ DeMarco
" are there specific people who you read, or subscribe to? Who's blogging regularly about this?"

I've been too busy lately to be as actively involved in organizing events as I used to, and I'm not up on what's current. I had some sites bookmarked and did a bit of searching.

But I think if you google around for "barcamp" and "unconference" you'll get a feel for who knows what, and then you can tweak the recipe to sit the kind of event you want.
Melbourne, AUS - Generalist Web Dev code monkey [FULL TIME, NO REMOTE]

The small web development team within Infoxchange Australia (http://www.infoxchange.net.au/) is looking for a couple of developers. We work on a Debian/Apache/Perl/PHP/PostgreSQL stack on some fairly JS-heavy applications. The team is so small, that it is essentially a startup. You'll be a vital part of the team sure to making important contributions to all aspects of development. Please feel free to contact me if you want more information on the kind of work we do and the applications we develop. Graduates welcome to apply.

More information about the job: http://www.jobseeker.org.au/employment/results.chtml?filenam...
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Tech CEO Approval ratings
Hah, somebody lives in SLC.
San Francisco, CA

Sifteo - http://sifteo.com

We're looking for software generalists, but have immediate needs in the frontend realm: designing & implementing the interaction experience with our software, both on the web and within a Qt/WebKit web panel in our desktop software. This position sits right in the middle of our stack, interacting directly with the user, with the web backend, and with the interface to our hardware.

We've just shipped our first units, and need help building out our platform, creating an SDK, and making sure that our users have great experiences. We're well funded, and have been getting lots of good press.

Software: JavaScript/Qt/C++/Python, Rails on the server

Drop me a line at liam at sifteo.com with any questions!
What would really be interesting is someone finding a nonconstructive proof that P = NP. It would be quite a scramble to find the missing algorithms...
I like the video, who made it?
F-Secure's April Fools Hack Article is No Joke
I'm not seeing anything different.
Not fast or light enough for me, i only use vapor.js

http://vaporjs.com/

It's not even an april fools joke....
Disclaimer: This is not mine.. just found it a few days back .. and loved the simplicity vrs the first thing that comes up on google for " countdown timer "
Why, and what's the proper term?

(And if it's the wrong term, why are researchers at MIT and Cornell calling it "fallout"?)
The Flip Side of an API Economy
Seeking freelancer

Web developer, remote ok.

Project is to catalog every product in existence.

Database knowledge a bonus.

E-mail is in my profile.
Just over an hour? I thought he'd at least take him out bass fishing for an afternoon.
Rich from WePay here. Definitely did not want this to end up on HN. Awkward...

edw519: I know what you're going to say...and I agree with you this time ;)
"You abuse it, you lose it" actually sounds like a pretty good rule of thumb for enforcement of patent law...