skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just kidding! Follow the instructions in the script, and it works on localhost just fine. :-)
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We're about to move into a brand new office, so it should be fun. Offer a lot of freedom and challenging responsibilities.
thats not true, its not very hard to create a fake listing that looks fairly real:

social media startup startup.ly is now hiring: our stack looks like this: html5 frontend, node.js backend and nginx for static content. We use redis for real time analytics, cassandra for our social graph, mongodb to store user data with an easy interface with node. We are looking for people who know lisp, php developers need not apply.
Thanks for posting this. We're building a very strong machine learning, data science, and algorithms team here at Clover. Come work with a Robocup champ and a rocket scientist in Mountain View! I'm particularly looking for people to design, build, and operate our data pipeline. Strong Hadoop experience a definite plus.

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I can't upvote this enough. A proper mat made all the difference for me. I'd say it easily quadrupled the amount of time I could deal with working while standing and eliminated most of my initial foot pain.
Indeed :) Sorry for the mishap.
Faster, ligher JS library: üjs
&q=helvetica
This thread is almost all people looking for work, but the (mainly on-site) hiring thread is almost all people offering work.

Seems like a little flexibility on either side could get good results.
Don’t believe the no apps for Honeycomb meme
It's actually a good game... would like some guns on the airship... click to fire?

Found a similar game for the iPhone (since it doesn't do Flash) and it's free this weekend! Amazing Blue Fugu http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazing-blue-fugu/id415074279...
I can tell this an April Fools joke, but that's a nicely designed website.
It's like the author just drilled into my mind and started pulling things out. I continually question every decision I make, relying on as much data as I can, but ultimately the buck stops with me, and if you don't find that prospect terrifying, then you're probably not of the right mind to run a company.
Sigh. Yes. It's April 1st. Don't believe <correction>anything</correction> you read.

I hate the internet on April 1st.

And yet... I'm still here. I should get a life.
Apart from immigration/travel policies, how does this stuff affect science at all?

Lets take anti-intellectualism in science. It's true that a few high profile intellectuals (e.g. James Watson) have lost their jobs do to this and that there are certain questions you Just Can't Ask (e.g., "would climate change be a good thing?"). But do you really think anyone will avoid a career in science for fear of that happening? I mean, it might scare me away from psychometrics of race/gender as a field, but it wouldn't prevent me from working on quantum mechanics.

As for reducing the cost of k-12 education closer to the OECD average, why would I avoid physics as a result?
You're probably right about that. Not everybody thinks "reluctant to incorporate new information" when they see the name "Conservapedia" and has a little giggle.
Braintree's New Mobile App Green Allows You to Pay with Cash From Your Phone
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At MovingTruckRental.com, there is no need to search for moving truck rentals. We have created a system that allows these companies to search for you!
Scientists Plan to Reach the Earth's Mantle by 2020
Bonobos: Turning good-looking pants into a $15m company in 3 years
http://www.businessinsider.com/bonobos-andy-dunn-1-2010-12
Aside: Does anybody know what the source format of these documents is?
How To Make The New Mac Skype Not Suck
Tony Hsieh: How to Find the Perfect Business Opportunity
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Hotels are cramped and uncomfortable.
Slightly off-topic but why is Lynx so much popular than Elinks? Elinks gives you the same experience, but has tabs.
I have sold other products on both platforms and they match this example.
I tried http://www.google.com/search?q=zapf+dingbats but no luck.
That's what I expected. Like I said, my test site wasn't "neutral", it was clearly rated positive on vendor reliability and child-friendliness. So what it boils down to is that someone arbitrarily gave taketake.com a very negative rating, not necessarily based on anything real. I'm not saying it may not be justified, but this kind of reputation system is clearly very flaky and prone to manipulation.
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I don't think he's saying that being a CEO is harder than being a parent or teacher. His main point is that CEO's often underestimate the mental/emotional strain that comes with their role. It's true that people who are fired have to live with the consequences - but they usually have friends and family to empathize and support them. Nobody is going to listen to a CEO's sob story about how hard it was to lay off someone - but the fact is it's quite painful.

When I was running the Stanford Daily, we were bleeding cash and I had to lay off a 65 year old lady who had been working at the company for 10 years. She was reliable but did poor work and was costing the company tens of thousands of dollars annually. That conversation was not fun and the entire process was stressful. I can't imagine having to lay off an entire division, especially of people that I hired.
Thank you, stupid stuff like that makes the article so annoying to read because you have to scan back.

And no, what separates the women from the girls is boobs.
Failing by Design
Trade in your used Flash games on Kongregate
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ReadWriteWeb Announces Major Investment
> many NP hard problems have practical approximations, many P problems are prohibitively costly to solve.

I don't know if there is more to Sariel Har-Peleed's piece than the one paragraph in the poll, but as of today, most P problems used in practice actually have a very good running time O(n^3) or O(n^4). I don't know if there are too many problems that are in P but only "theoretically".

Also, even though P=?NP might not have very practical ramifications, if one believes in the notion of asymptotic complexity, it raises fundamental philosophical questions -- is judging creativity as easy as being creative.

As usual Scott Aaronson has excellent material on this question: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=459
hi im a Front-End Engineer in Bel Air, MD. Is there a direct email contact I can send my resume to?
I doubt he uses female pronouns to be politically correct: rather, he's doing it to address the very real problem of lack of women in tech startups.
This is a truly amazing article, I've never seen these issues from this perspective.
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The chart of a woman's mood throughout the month makes sense, but It is scientifically proven?
We're not giving away 100% of it. We don't want to have an active role anymore and are willing to give away a majority equity stake to a qualified and competent team who would be taking charge of it. It's almost as if we were taking another co-founder on board. But because we would be taking an advisory role, it's just fair that (after vesting) the new people in charge have the majority stake in it.
Got rid of the huge deal "provider" / service and made it smaller. Should check out the change: http://dealpage.me Considering your other comments as well.
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Familiarity with the following is helpful to take this on:
* Storing location data in ActiveRecord (PostGIS/PostgreSQL and MySQL)
* Accessing location data in Controller
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or
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* GeoKit
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How to compile with continuations
How would I find those if you didn't link them? Doesn't seem obvious how to find these "channels".
The Threat to Book Publishing From Long-Dead Authors, and a Solution
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/04/threat-to-book-pub...
The rss is generated by post id, which is created at the time of writing.

Just change post_id at http://whoishiring.heroku.com/rss/post_id with your desired post, so you can get rss feed for any post.
I'm sure a lot of people are "worried" about that. Remember, the mathematical community went through the same thing about 80 or so yrs ago when Gödel came up with his Incompleteness Theorem just about when most of the mathematical world believed that were were just a few steps shy of axiomatizing all of mathematics in a consistent manner (see: Hilbert's Second Problem).
More general and useful is spaced repetition: http://www.gwern.net/Mnemosyne.html
http://www.rfc-editor.org/formatting.html

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-editor/instructions2authors.tx...
I don't get it. What is this supposed to do? Is it supposed to style the page with the Helvetica font?

If this is the joke, I guess it doesn't work for me since this font is not available on my machine (using Ubuntu). Or is it something else I'm missing?

Edit: seems like I wasn't far from the truth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#Search
http://www.google.com/landing/csfe/
Your problem is that you believe that since you personally don't want to do crack, that the overall usage of crack in the general population wouldn't increase if it was available at the corner store. That's called "projection".

Toluene is obviously not as pleasant and/or addictive as crack, or else you'd see as many people strung out on Toluene on East Hastings as you do crackheads. Oh - let me guess, we don't see that because of all the anti-toluene education and toluene recovery programs that are available.

Try this thought experiment on for size: do you think that in Saudi Arabia, if alcohol was made legal and available, that alcohol use would increase among the general population? Do you think that if cigarettes were sold cheaply at school cafeterias, that cigarette use would increase? If your answer is "no", then you're either deluded or a troll.
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About VOKLE:

We were started a year and a half ago and have seen fantastic growth. Additionally, we've got a fun stack to work on and a great office environment.

You'll be working in Santa Monica, the heart of LA's startup community. We're active members of the community (I'm the organizer of LA Hacker News actually) and this is a great place to be if you want to be a part of it.

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"PS: Notice how all the default pronouns in a Ben Horowitz post are female? I find that totally awesome."

I found it mostly distracting. I'm as progressive as it comes in this regard, but please - "separate the women from the girls"?
I dont think its western diet, i am orginally from southern india and the number of diabetes there is one amoung the worlds highest. This is mainly due to the traditional vegetarian south indian diet (processed white rice & veg curry)
Is this an April Fools' joke, or just another little easter egg from google? There are usually some good April Fools' jokes like the one by Starbucks last year.
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Am I the only coder who doesn't like working with light text on a dark background? I have 20/20 vision, and I find it really uncomfortable to use these.
Ummm.... what's the date again people? This looks like way too much work to just "give it away". I was expecting an empty homepage with a single search box. Nice prank though. Me likey.
> This glorifying of CEO's (and entrepreneurs) is making me sick. Sure, it's hard being a CEO. It's hard being a teacher. It's hard being a parent. Stop believing you're so special.

They're different kinds of hard, and they're also all worth thinking about. There's many places that articles and discussions are happening on being a better teacher or being a better parent too.

And this blog post (1) isn't gushing, and (2) has a lot of truth in it. I'm staying with a friend of mine in China who left IBM to start his own company. He's experiencing the whoa-holy-shit-I'm-the-guy-responsible feeling.

There really aren't too many things similar to it - being the final decisionmaker is its own kind of stress and neurosis. If things screw up, it's your fault alone and you have to live with that. In theory, that's true for everyone. In practice, there's a huge difference between being employed or contracted, and running your own shop or self-employed. The psychology of it is really, tangibly different - that's not glorification, that's just the facts here.

> the people being fired have to live with the consequences. Jason only has to live with making the decision, which is much easier. Jeez.

Have you ever recruited anyone to work for you, had it not work out, and had to let them go? It's one of the hardest, most gut-wrenching things you'll ever have to do. You asked someone to trust you, and you were wrong and someone else is going to suffer for it... and you have to pull the trigger now. Ask anyone who has had to lay off someone they recruited and brought into the company - it's miserably awful.

Agreed it's also bad for employees to be let go, but writing it off as "much easier" to say to someone, "I'm sorry, I made the wrong decision and you have to suffer for it"... I don't know, I'm guessing you've never had to do it. Very few things weigh so heavily on your conscience.
I used an Osborne 1 as a child, it was my uncle's. He used to take it with him as he travelled between factories a lot and often had to write reports.

Although it looks ridiculous now, it really was mind-bending technology at the time. This was a full computer running full CP/M! Wordstar! Everything! Here's a video of the Osborne 1 in action[1].

He also had an Epson HX-20[2] which he eventually gave to me, it's an amazing machine and bizarrely Epson still provide support pages for it.[3]

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTC2_Y8SQ4

[2] - http://oldcomputers.net/hx-20.html

[3] - http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_...
This is hilariously awesome!
Madrid, Spain

C# developer.

We help sport clubs with our web based product. You would help us improve it and build features.

The position is for our office in Alcobendas but you could do some remote if you want.

Right now we are using Git, VS, Windows to develop and apache and linux on the server.
Here is how i remember stuff, with mnemonics

http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2008/08/rememberi...
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The handshake thing worries me a bit... that seems more in the category of things that many people rely on, but actually tell you very little about the person.

Someone with a good handshake either:

* just naturally learned to shake hands in the way you like

* found out that handshakes are important to first impressions and spent time perfecting theirs (including maybe a handwarmer in the pocket...).

Does either of those things reveal any important traits?

People naturally have different levels of perspiration & circulation in their hands, particularly when nervous. Anyone going for a job interview they care about should be at least moderately nervous.

So someone might have a cold clammy handshake purely through genetics. How many strikes against them should that be? Firmness and eye contact are based on habits, generally -- again, the developer who's thinking ahead to the "important" parts of the interview will just give you the handshake they learned as a child. How many points against them should it be if it's very soft (because they were raised by an arthritic grandmother)?

Too much rambling for a small point, but I just want to say you should try to reserve judgment on exactly this kind of thing until they've had a chance to relax a bit, get talking, etc..

Personally, my handshake is probably pretty good, but I'm not going to be really at ease talking with you until we've been interacting for at least a few months. I've learned to fake it over the years (and keep calm enough in the face of strangers that I can think straight, for the most part...), but the hiring process is definitely harder on introverts.

I went through an phone interview a few months ago that included some quizzes, talking through solutions to invented problems, etc., and was glad she agreed I could hang up the phone while I thought (and took notes)... this resulted in a much better answer than I would have given if forced to think through it while on the phone with a stranger.
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I found this off-putting, too. The guy comes across as narcissistic and appears to not be familiar at all with psychology.
Some perspective, please?

If it's not involving building collapses or motor vehicle collisions or bomb blasts or wildfires or other forms of mayhem, and if the decision doesn't involve significant risk of or result in death or serious personal injury, then "terrifying" probably isn't right word.

Bankruptcy is not death. Dead is dead.

Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Repeat, or however you prefer to think of the decision-making process.

Make your decisions with the best possible considerations and information that you have available, work to get the best and the smartest folks around you and with you, and don't undermine yourself with second-guessing your own decisions.

And if you're going to be involved in any serious forms of mayhem at all regularly, sure, it can get scary, but you train for it, equip for it, and you make the best available decisions and the perform the best triage you can manage. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Repeat.
How long does a great movie last? A filet mignon? A roller coaster?
Thanks, I've been looking for a crank adjustable base like this. The motor-operated ones seem overly complex for a task that could easily be accomplished manually and the OP's 2 person solution struck me as horribly inefficient.
My theory is that it depends on when/where you normally work. If you have a tendency to code at night or in dark rooms, dark on light is very bright. At least, that's why I go light on dark.
In case it is not obvious, this is a joke.
I'm 6'1 and my eye-level difference is 13-inches. My monitor has 5 inches of adjustment.

If you think you need more than 12 inches you're slouching while you're sitting.
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Guess it's a matter of different levels of empathy.
...and also, how do you feel about firing ppl?
That poll was very interesting. I particularly enjoyed this "proof:" http://www.cs.cornell.edu/hubes/pnp.htm
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395020

Not one upvote yet :( I'm suprised nobody has submitted that URL yet.
NSA backdoors in Postgres ... ;)
This has got to be a joke. There should be an April 1 Firefox plugin or something.

@DHH was just interviewed on Mixergy saying they wouldn't take any VC and, if they were to do it again, they'd even have turned down the Bezos investment.

Here's the interview: (runs over an hour)
http://mixergy.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-37signals-interv...