skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many methods including google that help retain knwoledge outside one's brain.Cheat sheets, visualizations, intellisense, etc...

And many times, using one of those methods to recall something is faster that using memory. for example using intellisense to see what can i do with a certain object is much faster than using memory.

I think a more useful property of the human memory is the ability to connect different pieces of knowledge, both consciously and unconsciously. Connecting two pieces of knowledge using a computer is much slower and harder, and requires a lot of intellectual effort.
Gmail Motion BETA [April Fools' Video]
Ask HN: Serious FB alternatives?
Hi HN, I figure with your expertise in start ups and hot tech companies, you would be the best resource for answering a simple question: is there a social network out there that doesn't suck? In my opinion, FB has become a terrible user experience that just keeps getting worse. The most recent experience being that I keep getting added to stupid groups by my friends, to which the only solution is to immediately remove myself. Is this a joke or something for which I am dumb to the punchline? This feature alone is infuriating. So is there a social network that isn't just out to exploit me and my information, or even if they do, can they at least give me more control over my own identity?
Boston, MA - Engineers / Technologists / Programmers - not remote

Why get drowned out in the Valley / SF when you can work on a sweet consumer web startup in Boston! OK I'll get it out of the way, the weather: well, yeah, there's snow/slush on the ground right now on April 1st (jokes on us), but it does make you appreciate when it is nice out a lot more.

We're a new company (http://smarterer.com), recently funded, with some big ideas. Not only are we exploring a space with tons of potential, but we plan on putting "consumer web" back on the map in the Boston startup scene.

There are just three of us at the moment (and only one tech person: me) so joining now means you get to have a big impact on the product, the company, the vision and the technology.

There are lots of interesting product, algorithm, gaming, infrastructure and scaling challenges. We're currently using Python (not Django), but we're not language-religious, anyone who loves web tech, big problems, big systems, design, products and programming might be a good fit.

Sorry, no remote right now. The early core team needs to be local to really gel (just from my personal and previous startup experience).

if you're interested, email me: mikepk@smarterer.com
I think it's turnabout here. Spamming, being crappy business people, I think this is their 74 minute way of getting the people to never call them again.
Amazing to have a real service like that. What do other HNs think?
San Francisco, CA - Blurb

Blurb lets people tell their stories - currently through print-on-demand books, but increasingly through other venues.

We are both established and growing like mad (we were #47 on last year's Inc 500). We have a great group of people and a lot of fun challenges in the year ahead.

We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, Rails, iPhone, and more.

http://www.blurb.com/join_us
COLOURlovers Goes Colorless for April Fools
I can't believe people in the comments are actually writing stuff like "If this is not Aprils Fools..." C'mon, of course it is.
http://cl.ly/2R1g352G0n3E253p1m2s priceless.
The Cloud is not a silver bullet.
Here's a place to post April Fools stuff without filling up the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394349
Prague, Czech Republic - SUSE

SUSE Studio - Designer and Web Developer - http://susestudio.com/jobs/designer_and_web_developer

SUSE Studio - Package and Appliance Assembly Engineer - http://susestudio.com/jobs/package_and_appliance_assembly_en...

There are a few other jobs in Prague working on different things. There are two free YAST developer and Ruby on Rails developer positions and there is also support. I couldn't find a way to link to them from the careers page however: http://careers.novell.com/psp/css89prd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_H...

Lots of jobs in other parts of the world there as well.

The atmosphere is great here, it's laid back, while at the same time you get to work on very big projects and interact with the OpenSUSE community or other big open source projects outside SUSE.

If you're applying for one of the jobs in the Prague office, feel free to ask me anything in an email or send your CV for me to forward it to HR.
Where "abuse" is defined by fiat, rather than clear apriori regulations?

What happened to the rule of law?
Yeah we're a little concerned about the fax receiving service: interfax if anyone's interested. We've seen fragments coming in a few times and heard one report of a fax that didn't go through.
Please review my startup and website design
Amazon.com - Seattle WA - No remote, but willing to relocate based on experience. H1B is possible, again, depending on experience.

I am looking for a strong Systems Support Engineer for our growing team. We like to describe our organization as a Startup within Amazon, as our part of the business is still growing rapidly and our engineers can have a lot of influence on where the product goes.

Job description below. Contact me at ${hn_username}@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Amazon Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running and our customers happy. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and solve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during business hours oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience
A Detailed Technical Account of What Happened At Fukushima [powerpoint]
It's lame to name something an April Fool. On April first you pretty much expect anything twisted to be an April fool !!
So, you don't actually have any users?
Etsy, the global marketplace for buying, selling and discovering handmade goods, is hiring across the board in Engineering and Product.

We value iterative development, minimal design aesthetics and deep passion for creating the things you care about (whether it's an oak table or a Hadoop cluster).

Check us out at www.etsy.com/jobs
(All positions are local in Brooklyn, New York unless otherwise marked)
I don't think so. Also, I predict the same sort of submissions will happen next year - and there will be a post just like this, and the comments to follow will have roughly the same set of opinions.. It's almost as if it all happened about this time last year. Spooky.
Diaspora is one alternative. I had the pleasure of meeting the founders and they are great guys. Their philosophy around social networks is that its your information and you should be able to control it, take it with you and share it on your terms. It is still in the Beta stage so if you would like to join, send me your email address and I'll send you an invitation to join so you can check it out. Another one, which is mobile only, is Colors. It's photo based and uses location and frequency of interaction to manage what information you share with whom. You can find it on the iTunes app store. Hope that helps!
Albert Einstein joins Linked in
wait I know these guys..they spammed me as well
For runners - http://www.malenippleremoval.com/
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or NYC

I do freelance work and focus on projects that use or want to use mongoDB, backbone.js, rails, nodejs. my github is http://github.com/codebrew
link to the original Joel test
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
interested - can you send us an email with details of your past work. contact info in profile.
I would argue that you want to do the filtering at the aggregation layer and not at the application level. So while you may want to set different flags or parameters that will be logged (ie: severity, component, etc) those parameters should be injected into the log stream rather than to alternative streams. Let the aggregation point use those clues to filter the logs appropriately.
On some level I find it hard to take Facebook or most other social networks "seriously" because they mainly exist for frivolous entertainment. (And for marketing, which I suppose is serious, but you don't sound like you're interested in marketing)

Part of what makes social media "social" is that your identity is defined by you plus the community around you, so you've never really going to control your own identity.

Other people can't put things in your Twitter feed and if you want "real control" you can get a domain name and make a personal site. Even then there's nothing to stop somebody from saying you're a jackass on other web sites.
Yes, possibly the next few paragraphs:

> This number needs to be placed in context, however. Norman and co say: "If a person were to drink a typical amount of water per day containing the EPA limit of I-131, then in one year he or she would receive a whole body dose of < 0.04 mSv (4 mrem). This dose should be compared to the US average annual radiation dose of 6.2 mSv (620 mrem)."

> And since Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days, and so decays very quickly, Norman and co say that it is extremely unlikely that the public will be exposed to anywhere near these levels in drinking water.

> They end their paper with this conclusion: "Thus the levels of fallout we have observed in San Francisco Bay area rain water pose no health risk to the public."

- It's not the safe limit that's being exceeded, it's the recommended limit.

- It's still an extremely small amount, which would have very very little effect on you (it would be only about 2% of the average annual dose of radiation, if you drank rainwater containing the concentration found for an entire year).

- It will probably last only a few weeks, so if you want to panic you can drink bottled water instead of tapwater for a while (how quickly does rainwater get into the pipes and become tapwater?)
London, England
Dennis Publishing - Mobile (iOS, Android) developers

We're a publishing company building a first class internal team to help us create a range of apps for mobile phones and tablets. We'll be looking at taking our existing brands onto new devices in interesting and exciting ways, as well as launching mobile and tablet software based on completely new ideas.

Great central London location, brand new team and lots of opportunity for creative input :)

Details: http://www.dennis.co.uk/node/1741, http://www.dennis.co.uk/working-at-dennis/vacancy/1745/ios-m..., http://www.dennis.co.uk/working-at-dennis/vacancy/1747/mobil...
It makes me feel good about the $200,000 spent on my education that I got to take classes with two of the people mentioned with important results. One of them, Mulmuley, was the most intimidating professor I ever had, and I felt very lucky to get out of that class with a C.
Merrill Lynch “Macs are no good. Go to your library and use a PC”
You know what my solution for this problem?

Skip HackerNews every April 1st.

HN isn't a must-visited must-read site.

Get Real. Be Pragmatic.
I've actually seen the tipping point between more value in `the cloud' and in our own data-center. The article is leaving out some of the massive overheads in managing your own metal, but even with that factored in, the cloud often comes out to be significantly more expensive.

Finding that tipping point requires that you have a very clear understanding of your company's use-case, which is unlikely to be true when starting out. I often recommend that startups go down the cloud route while still exploring, while keeping a close eye on the costs, and having a clear set of migration criteria and plans.
Yuri Milner (Y Combinator 150K $ loan) buys a 100$ million house
We don't drink rainwater directly -- it probably sits in treatment facilities for a while before coming out of your faucet.
I can't up-vote this enough. The whole final-ness of being where the buck stops is certainly a little overwhelming - but it also is a great feeling when things go great. I forget who said: "The good is never as good you think, and the bad is never as bad".

The mental game of entrepreneurship is certainly the biggest component.
SEEKING WORK (Remote or Local)

Boulder, CO

Freelance PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/jQuery, 10 years experience.

Work full time as a lead engineer / architect, looking to turn spare time into dollars.

E-mail and sites in profile.
So coin an all new term, don't knock a square peg into a round hole. Next you'll say that's sexist I suppose. Note that there are no real rites of passage for either sex in the present day, how is it "present aware"?

Sorts the pros from the wannabes, how's that?
Rather than just being snarky why not correctly correct the post by mentioning named pipes?
This is the only April Fools joke in the past few years that I actually smiled and chuckled at :-)
Oh now, that ain't right. lol
Good production practice isn't that different from good practice anywhere; 3-2-1 is baseline. That is to say you keep - at minimum - three copies of everything, two local and one remote.
This is not real. This is another April Fool's Joke.
Because a troll might do the exact the same thing, and it's April Fools.
San Francisco, CA
UX LEAD:: Razorfish
https://jobs-razorfish.icims.com/jobs/8829/job

FRONT END WEB DEVELOPER :: Razorfish
https://jobs-razorfish.icims.com/jobs/8459/job

SENIOR FRONT END WEB DEVELOPER :: Razorfish
https://jobs-razorfish.icims.com/jobs/8516/job
SEEKING WORK - remote or local
PA-Lehigh Valley (Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton)

My partner and I have a small design studio LLC called Solid Design Group.

I am a Rails/jQuery programmer with ops experience constructing, deploying, and maintaining many production websites/apps. I run a nice Rails stack including hoptoad/github/backup/capistrano/haml/sass/compass, etc

He is a print/web/advertising graphic designer.

We both have many years of experience working with small businesses and fortune 500 clients.

We specialize in websites, web apps, branding for small bus/startups, and print work (brochure/bus cards/letterhead/etc).

Website: http://soliddesigngroup.net
Github: http://github.com/jonathanb and http://github.com/soliddesign
Yammer is hiring. Both server side (Scala, Java, Ruby) front end (JS), and especially mobile clients (Android/iPhone/Blackberry).
https://www.yammer.com/jobs

It is great company, with a really fun and awesome environment.

shoot an email at ardit33[at_gmail_com]
Gmail Motion.
DROP BOX or Yousendit.com PRO
> 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.

* Soak up millions of dollars

* Make their department/manager/owner look/feel important

* Suck the last dregs of originality and usefulness out of a product or idea

Sorry, my inner cynic was spoiling for a fight. :)
Pulse Completes Unprecedented Round of Funding
SEEKING WORK

I've just released an open source X server for Lisp hackers.

Am now available for Systems, Mobile and possibly Backend projects !

Straight to my Github : https://github.com/pyb

Or for more info : http://pyb.github.com
Europe-18-Plus-Chat-Rooms
I'm getting sick and tired of phoney accounts on LinkedIn. I'm a hardcore LION who's probably got 10x as many connection as you, but I get sorely tempted to IDK people like "Darth Vader".

Somebody wrote a pretty good profile of his career on LinkedIn and sent me a connect request. I didn't IDK, but I did "Ignore" the request. So far as I can tell, poor old Anakin Skywalker got deleted, as will probably happen to Mr. Einstein.
That's a good point about controlling your identity. I think that's really the only reason I still have a FB account: I can remove myself from irresponsible content my friends post. However I think this FB groups fiasco clearly crosses a line.
Gestures for writing emails. Gmail Motion beta
The Fridge is generally similar to Facebook in function, but is supposedly much easier to control who sees what, and segments off your work life from your family life from your friends.

I haven't used it, but it's YC funded I believe, and gets rave reviews: http://www.frid.ge/
LinkedIN's April Fool Joke: You might know the hatter
Baby Monitoring Comes Of Age
I'm interested. Have ample Rails experience, no domain experience with geolocation, but I'm a motivated and quick learner. Please see my post in this thread for contact info
Thanks - seems to be working a treat here. Cheers!
Just pointing out "tail -F" instead of "tail -f".
Life is Short. Record Your Calls.

I wish you would slow the pictures way down and have them fade into each other. They are all pictures of relaxation but the flipping is a little hectic
It just worked, or at least, seems to be working :o)
Waterfall Conference [2006]
I am also interested on more information on this matter. I see some companies specify in the job post that they are willing to help you relocate but haven't heard much talk about this.

I know this process is not really cheap (+20k) for the company and surely not a walk in the park but would it be more appealing for the company if the job applicant would agree to pay all the expenses related? Possibly this way it will (I think) be treated as any other local applicant.

Are there any other road blocks beside the costs involved? How long would the process take (without the interview)?
I'd go see that movie.
I thought it was pretty clear from the title that it's a joke :)
Skip the internet on April 1. It's not worth the brain power trying to sort news from pranks.
Palo Alto, CA - SurveyMonkey.com

We're looking for Javascript/FrontEnd Developers, Python Developers, and Ops people. We also have some Product Manager and QA positions available.

Feel free to email me directly or hit up our jobs page: http://www.surveymonkey.com/jobs/Home_Jobs.aspx
There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.
I had sorta forgotten about those guys after the unfavorable media about security vulnerabilities. As a developer I know how important it is to have security built into the foundation of a product and since that first impression I'm just not convinced that they have the technical chops to build a solid product if they didn't get security right.

Thanks for the invite but I think I want to wait a little bit longer and see where they go.
A/B Testing is DEAD
We're actually working on this at Sparkmuse. We call it Matchmuse, an e-harmony for cofounders. I'm actually glad this one was a joke, but it doesn't matter because ours will rock! Matchmuse generates introductions to other cofounders in our 1000+ member community based on multiple dimensions of compatibility (sounds familiar doesn't it?). Our goal is to help entrepreneurs, especially those outside of the valley, form their own core groups.

edit: If anyone here who would be interested in using it, we'd love to hear from you~
box.net is a good option for sharing information with clients.
Yes, but the 256 mode is actually an approximation of the real color theme. For exact colors you have to set up the 16 ansi colors of your terminal to the right colors and set a var in vimrc. See the docs for details.
From the folks at Unbounce:

"Thought you had page optimization and testing all figured out? Think again rockstar. It seems the tide is turning back in favour of opinion based design.

According to a group of notable industry experts (including Rand Fishkin, Dan Martell, David Hauser and Chris Goward), A/B testing is apparently no better … “statistically speaking” … than the subjective opinion of your average CEO or corporate “design by committee” session.

A “HiPPO” – is the Highest Paid Persons Opinion."
SummerOfCode/2011 - Mercurial
Eventbrite is hiring in San Francisco. It's a fun place to work, and we've got lots of openings:
http://www.eventbrite.com/jobs/

Email cubes@eventbrite.com if you're curious.
The Acknowledgements section says:

>This document was produced using the xml2rfc tool [RFC2629].
Palo Alto, CA - Criteo (www.criteo.com)
The R&D team at Criteo is building the next generation of digital advertising technologies that power billions of ad impressions every month. We are looking for great developers who are passionate about engineering challenges!

Currently looking to fill R&D positions:

- C#, Java or C++, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML

- Must be hard working, team oriented, bright, creative, cooperative, and an exceptional problem solver

- Extraordinary analytical skills

- Solid understanding and working knowledge of relational databases a plus

http://www.criteo.com/us/about/careers
Personally, I think that a good compromise is for foreign devs to become technical co-founders with others who are based in SV.

The issue is that all the devs here have a great job market to pick from - and there are a ton of startups looking for technical folks who cant compete with BigCo for devs.

Further, there is so much energy (money, interest, thought, etc) flowing in the startup space right now. Get into/form a company here - build an MVP, get funding, sponsor your own visa or at least regular visits (trust me, the living costs are really high here).

I know I am looking to connect with people.
"Hipster" is the word that came to my mind. "Too cool for the internet"

Oh well. I like them.
Thanks....will take care of it
Factorization is NOT NP-hard. There has never been a proof that guarantees I can't wake up tomorrow and factor any public key on the internet in polynomial time. It just so happens that nobody has figured out how to do it in the history of number theory (or to prove that it's impossible).

Shor's Algorithm factors primes. If prime factorization were NP-hard, that would imply BQP=NP (BQP is Bounded-error Quantum Polynomial time), or at least that BQP contains a subset of NP. Scott Aaronson, who has been linked to here a few times, is firmly convinced that is not true. And the implications of it are nearly as huge as the implications of P=NP! (with the small drawback that we can't actually build quantum computers yet :)
Named or anonymous, pipes are still just types of files. "Everything is a file" isn't snark, it's a saying almost as old as unix itself.
What's the link for my.js on Github?
San Francisco, CA - Ruby/Rails Engineer

We are an early-stage, angle-funded startup building the next generation online video marketplace. We have several significant customers using and profiting from our application. Founders have had several exits with big players (e.g., IAC and Viacom); we are looking to do it again.

We are hiring a Ruby/Rails Engineer. If you are passionate, have strong opinions, and are not afraid to be critical then we would like to talk to you.

We have a small engineering team, and we offer plenty of opportunity to work anywhere in the stack. Everything from jQuery plugins to cluster management tools will need work. There are plenty of things to be done, and everything you do will have an immediate and significant impact. You don't have to be a generalist, but the opportunity is there if you want it.

Company Site: http://www.realgravity.com/

Apply Here: workfor@realgravity.com
you sly dog!