skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company Name: MedHelp

Company Size (number of people employed): 30-40

Company URL: http://www.medhelp.org

Position: Rails developer

Contact Email: opportunities@medhelp.org (mention that you saw this on HN)

Skills Needed: Since I'm mostly focused on iPhone dev, I can't speak with authority. However, this is an internship, so the only skill needed should be general coding competence. However..

Skills Desired: Ruby on Rails or related MVC framework development experience, database experience (MySQL, NoSQL), AJAX, JS, prototype, CSS, and experience building scalable and performant applications
No. The difference between passwords and this is.
Why is it not a race anymore? Even if you're Hussein Bolt, the race is still on: set new records, challenge others, show boat.
And why is "having a strategy the start of the end"? You seem to imply that it isn't because Google's strategy is flawed, but that having any kind of strategy is a sign of the end times. Surely all organizations, even a colony of bacteria, will need a strategy.
Redis sharding with Erlang
If you can afford TV you can afford to be rich. TV is the top of they pyramid for advertisers
That's where linking, cloning, and profile forwarding come in.
For anyone who missed the details on when this is available (as I did on the first read) and who read it thinking of taking advantage of this offer: the deal is only available from midnight to midnight (24 hours) Monday, using PST as the timezone. So starting in just under 4 hours.
Why not watch the video? He connects a mouse to show how it works on a big monitor via HDMI.
I think web designs can fit into 1 of 3 categories:

- Designs that immediately make you cringe

- Designs that make you analyze for areas of improvement

- Designs that are so elegant you simply admire

I think these mockups fall into the "areas of improvement" category. They aren't bad by any means, but I immediately saw myself saying "that shade of blue contrasts with the rest of the color scheme" and "that is an inappropriate use of whitespace" and "the padding for that navigation looks unbalanced."

I think with some iterations and a "designers eye for the developer guy" these could jump to the elegant category. I think you're past the chasm; designs that make you cringe can't be iterated upon.
Yeah you can write a "note". But it sucks, closed to people who don't have FB accounts, and, depending on your settings, possibly closed to people who aren't your friend.
You see the touch functionality at the start of the video. It looks like it doesn't drive the onboard display and the TV at the same time, which explains the need for another input method (though emulating a trackpad on the screen, if possible, would be nicer).
I have to disagree with you here. Just because someone writes poor code doesn't necessarily mean that they have the business sense of a rock. If someone writes crappy code but can market it better than the other guys, they'll probably win. I think Tumblr and WordPress both excel at blogging depending on the end user's needs. While they both essentially do the same things, each has its own merits. People who are looking to get into blogging or networking of any sort should definitely consider both. If they've only heard of one or the other and decide to go with it without researching, whatever they choose will probably work best for them.

Having waded through WordPress's code base for a few years, I agree with you to some extent. However, most people aren't going to care. Do you think half of the people who use MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, etc care what it's written in or what it looks like inside? Facebook and Yahoo even use PHP and seem to do alright (though I admit they've modified it and have money to throw at problems to get them fixed). While I'm sure WordPress's code base drives some people away, people who don't know any better simply won't care.
I know its a matter of opinion, but I suggest doing these in HTML/CSS. I could tell these were done in Photoshop. I think HTMl/CSS will let you fine-tune these to make them very presentable.
I agree that they work really well, the problem is they are disgusting looking after a year or so. They collect water in the bottom, the paint chips, and the yellow piece of rubber often have mildew. The XLERATOR dryers are just a quick, and all the water is blown on the floor which makes more sense.
While I wish him the best of luck, I'm not sure of the timing of his decision. After all, it's not as if people won't need help learning new things next year. Plus, he's got great traction so it's unlikely he'll be friendstered before he graduates.
The only answer you've gotten so far is garbled nonsense ... and I don't want to make similar mistakes. So I'll stay very simple:

1. You don't need general relativity to talk about this. Special relativity (that's special as in "special case") suffices.

2. It's true that in general, you can't talk sense about the idea that two events happened at the same time; in this case, say, that you looking at your watch two weeks ago and the explosion "really" happening were simultaneous.

I defer to a more effortful write-up for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
The "obscurity" is the idea that an attacker would not know that you were generating your passwords by SHA-1 hashing a passphrase.

If the attacker did not know that, they could only brute-force your account by trying every possible string of characters, which is fine, because there are a lot of those. If, however, they knew what you were doing, then they could generate a list of likely-seeming passphrases, hash those, and try those hashes as passwords. If there are fewer likely passphrases than there are strings of characters, this shrinks their search space. Also, once they know you're using passphrases, they might also know that some phrases are much more likely than others, so they could try those first. This would give them a good chance of finding your password even more quickly.
Since you don't specify whether you mean 'more' in an absolute or relative since, I'm assuming you mean that people who earn more should be taxed more aggressively.

As has already been pointed out, a flat percentage tax does a good job of 'taxing the rich more', but many seem to prefer a progressive taxation, which is to say, almost the opposite of what we have now.

As it stands, income taxes inflate as your income rises, which seems to be progressive taxation. For the life of me, I don't understand how this seems fair to its advocates, but so be it.

That the top 1% benefit from greater tax loopholes makes sense (doesn't necessarily mean fair) in a lot of ways, but aside from the fact that they've bought a lot of legislation, the nation depends on the top 1% as much as they depend on it.
I have a fair few less tech savvy Facebook friends who do indeed use FB Notes as a "blog" - one that people not logged into FB can't even see.
I understand perfectly well.

Complaining to an antitrust regulator is analogous to making a police complaint. The police may or may not do anything, in which case you can always file a civil lawsuit.

Trying to present making a complaint as some kind of innocent move is misleading at best.
There are so many minor design improvements and "don't dos" that I'd love to share. If you are interested, I'd be up for skyping and rapidly spouting out all my feedback instead of typing it. Email is in my profile.
Rather than build a site where users go to, I think Google should do for the Internet what Microsoft did for desktops and focus on helping developers to 1) easily build sites that users love and 2) make money. Google already does this with app engine, adsense, oauth, maps, youtube, checkout, android, site search, etc, but it can do more.
Show HN: Anonymous Mode, an experiment with anonymity on Facebook
We're looking for interns to work on MongoDB-related projects
http://www.10gen.com/jobs
I would like to clarify something: We're not exactly (or pretty much exactly) like anything. Some small parts may have been taken from other frameworks but the whole application flow (Request, Response), autoloader and most of the classes were written from scratch. Being (partially) responsible for classes like Validation, Form, Cache, ViewModel and packages Auth & Orm I can be very clear that while inspiration may have been drawn from many sources they were build specificly & uniquely for Fuel without being ported/rewritten/copied from anything.

We do use slightly modified versions of Kohana's querybuilder & View classes (something we're very upfront about, and from Ko3 btw not Ko2.3) but the framework by and large was build by us originally. And if parts were taken from other frameworks it is mentioned explicitly in the code, but those are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Company Name: NowJS

Company Size: 3 founders

Company URL: nowjs.com

Position: Software Engineering Intern (+full time/part time positions avail), working on core development on NowJS and distributed web architectures

Contact Email: team@nowjs.com

Skills Needed/Wanted: JavaScript experience

Benefits:

- Cool project

- Experienced, fun founders

- Great pay (free lunch/dinner/swag/monitors etc.)

- Weekly team events (kayaking, gokart, paintball etc)

- Beautiful office in SF

- Rewarding, enjoyable summer

This is one of the best paying and most rewarding internships you'll get at a startup. If you're interested in starting your own startup, this is a great way to get started. Seriously just chat with us if you're remotely interested. Or even call me...
I do not understand why successful technology companies, seeing another different but also successful technology, realize "we can do that too" and immediately assume "and therefore we should".

Is it really that hard to understand? Most corporations, almost by definition, must grow...often in multiple directions. They must expand market share in markets they already exist in and enter new markets they previously shrugged off.

I wouldn't say companies do this "immediately." In fact, quite the opposite. Microsoft joked about the search market for years before realizing its more than a joke. Ditto for google and social networking...social was seen as a joke at google circa 2006 as facebook was on the verge of exploding.
Performance is not the same as scalability and trying to solve performance issues with more HW can quickly become vary costly in terms of manpower not just equipment and energy costs.
Ah, great - thanks.
Just launched today, built it over the last few weekends. Sorry for the fb login requirement, as I know HN isn't the target demo of this app. But I thought you all might appreciate an effort to get away from the never-anonymous aspects of Facebook.

Besides http://www.anonymousmode.com, you can also access the app at http://apps.facebook.com/anonymousmode

Would appreciate feedback, particularly on how long you think it will take FB to complain about how closely I've mimicked their UI. :)
it's ok. i'm excited that they are going to open the source up.
Unless said news is titled "Ron Paul Proves P ≠ NP" or "Ron Paul's New Haskell Book: 'Legislature Isn't The Only Place Where Side-Effects Are Evil' Review", I'm not particularly worried.
I'm not aware of very much in the genetic material 23andme processes that is indicative of a 100% chance of having some future disease. Here's a screenshot of my 23andme dashboard with some of the information removed: http://i.imgur.com/9ViAf.jpg . As you can see, everything here is based on how much more likely you may be to develop a disease than the average person. Within the page details the specific studies that have given them the information being used in the calculation are cited with links and additional technical information. You can also see that the highest risk factor they've calculated for me is 11.3% or 1.61x the average (in this case, it's Age-related Macular Degeneration).

Obviously, it's possible that a person could be given a more significant percentage of a serious condition which raises additional questions. If you are both A) objective enough to firmly grasp that a chance is simply a chance, not a sure outcome and B) not someone who worries a great deal about possible future situations, you might benefit from using 23andme. Otherwise, it may be wise not to purchase the program.

For me, I've had an interesting effect of using some of the increased negative risks to help me stop bad habits while at the same time, not using any of the decreased risks as a license to go ahead and live more recklessly in those areas. Hopefully this give you some additional perspective on whether something like this would be right for you.
Chinese Android tablets have actually been around for quite a while now - google 'Apad'. They're all really quite awful - awful battery life, bad touch screens, and really poor build quality have been the rule.

This will change, of course - but for now just don't expect that you're going to get a Xoom/iPad quality tablet for really cheap.
Site down, but I think this is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aRbgqA6mE
define: terrorism--the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

So, while it could be argued that Wikileaks uses intimidation or coercion, it most certainly can not be argued that Wikileaks uses nor threatens violence. This means that they cannot be definition be a terrorist organization.

What evidence is there that Wikileaks is anti-American? They post leaks from every- and anywhere, but they got a HUGE leak that happened to be from the U.S. Of course they're going to concentrate on it! Wikileaks is against opaque government, and the only way it can be called "anti-American" is to recognize that the U.S. government is anything but transparent. This view encompasses many other governments, though, so calling them "anti-American" is disingenuous.
WOW, I've never seen anything like that happen in my tank. I actually have moved them and got slimey stuff on my hands from them (as with all corals) and just washed my hands really well afterward. Irritating them is REALLY difficult to do though, they'll live through anything. Absolute beauties though, and well worth keeping :)
I actually do something similar but far simpler that I can do mentally.

I am still screwed by some passwords I rarely use because either

It a password that needs to be changed regularly and I forget where I am in the sequence.

The app had stupid requirements like the password has to be exactly 8 characters. Of course I truncate the generated string but never remember its truncated when I come back.
So it seems like there's an obvious omission in this story... what's the deadliest poison?
God, I literally cracked up laughing when I saw all the permissions you asked for!
What's the phone number to call?
Actually, it is essential for Facebook to have its content crawl-able by everyone - which is why there is the constant push towards downplaying privacy. A quick look at Facebook on both Compete and Alexa says that they get ~8% of their referral traffic from Google alone (the search engine is also their largest referral traffic source) and the Google properties together contribute referral traffic in double digit percentages.

"Social" itself is not a product. It is almost like gasoline - by itself either product does not give you any value, but use it as a fuel or an enabler and it takes on a different form. Facebook's enablement is primarily through connections (the gateway drug) and later it transforms itself into a tool to easily eat up plenty of your time at varying levels of interaction/engagement. As much as Google wants to tap into these primary and secondary objectives now owned by Facebook, Facebook itself would want to move beyond these two.

Facebook has to eventually become the arbiter of transactions online, which has to be a full-on solution than the teetotaler approach taken on FB credits. That would, though, expose Facebook to higher standards on privacy. But, if they manage that, Google can be easily overrun.

For Google, "social" cannot be force-fed. "+1" is such an eyesore and is such a horrible effort at branding your social interaction touchpoint for the masses.
Shoot me an email darshan@nowjs
So just use UTC and get on with your life?
If you want to learn sed, I once wrote a multi-part article explaining various sed one-liners:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o...

Personally one of my favorite article series that I have written.
If 10 was the actual number, I find that hard to believe, since we have 3 in this thread so far (triviatise, bcx, myself).
Too many? My mom taught me I won't get anything if I don't ask for it. :)
OT: This led me to the LD-50 wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose#Examples

Was very interesting to see Botox requiring 2300x a smaller dose than VX.
A bit friendlier than the title of an unauthorized biography which my friend owns: "iCon".
Steam works very good for it
He's not talking about creative people, he's talking about Normals. For most people a link from Reddit or a party photo is all the content creation they do.
Besides which, the aggregation and social filtering from what my friends' "like" or "retweet" is actually a great source for content.
I thought it was a joke... =P
This looks pretty decent for the price. Obviously it's not an iPad, and it probably has a resistive touchscreen, but if the screen is ok (some are better than others) and it really is an Cortex A9 then it might be the best of the Chinese tablets.

I think the best cheap one currently available is this: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/1080p-7-touch-screen-lcd-google... That is a Cortex A8 1GHz, with capacitive touchscreen for ~$200.

If you want cheap, and shipping now then this is ~$100: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/7-touch-screen-lcd-google-andro.... It might be fine for a single-use application (recipe browser in the kitchen, etc), but it's pretty underpowered for much else.
you would be correct. textslide is still alive and well: http://textslide.com

http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/textslide/
Even though there's no current treatment for early-onset Alzheimer's, I'd certainly want to know if I was at risk. I'd live my life much differently if I thought my brain would rot at age 50.

Not knowing if you'll get an untreatable disease doesn't stop you from getting an untreatable disease! It just means it'll sneak up on you and force you to make tough decisions with less preparation.
Not a saltwater aquarium owner myself, but given stories like this, I personally would not want to wear anything short of a spacesuit when the time comes to clean the tank.
This article apply to all apps, not just toddler apps. As Jack Dorsey of Twitter said not too long ago, making things that are very simple turns out to be very difficult.

Simple interfaces with big buttons, modal dialogs always fixed position in the middle of the screen, and bold colors are the future.
Ask HN: Bot Posts? Arrington - This is why we can't have nice things.
A recent post by pg stated:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2404916

> Ids are sequential, so there's a time machine at your disposal:

> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

I've been slowly working though them from the start to see how HN looked
at its earliest (before I joined, and even before I started lurking). In
the first 250 ID's there are tons of posts from usernames "Arrington"
and "M_Arrington" which simply read:

> This is why we can't have nice things.

Most of them are marked [dead] so you'd have to have "Show Dead" enabled
in your profile to see the posts. The endless number of repetitive posts
were obviously done by a bot (most likely trying to prove a point?). I
did try to search for the answer before asking, but didn't find anything
specific, so I was wondering if anyone could give me some more insight
or background about them?
This is close to what I've been looking for a long time, but still off the mark. The closest thing I've find to a dead-simple embeddable drawing program was an HTML5 MS Paint implementation..

does anybody have any recommendations for a good paint HTML5 widget with load/save?
What about HTML5, C++, REST, SQL, IOS, MS-DOS, ASM, CP/M, PDP, VAX? I think you should at least add those to the criteria to make sure you get the right person. I just wish I was qualified enough :(.
From trying the app, image transforms seem to happen locally.
Company Name: Think Computer Corporation

Company Size (number of people employed): 4

Company URL: http://www.thinkcomputer.com / https://www.facecash.com

Position: Software Author

Contact Email: jobs@thinkcomputer.com

Skills Needed: Mobile development of any kind, PHP, MySQL, UI design
"Free when you pay"
Having a website that 20% of teachers nationwide use is a pretty powerful place to build a business from. Quia started from the same place, and now does something like $40M/year in revenue with their IXL product.
Palytoxin.

EDIT: Oh, the deadliest, not the second deadliest. Botulinum toxin, of course.
Why will it change of course? Apple will move on to a better screen allowing others to actually make a tablet?
I can see how the HN crowd would be amused, but for the target demo, I'm currently under the assumption that they don't really read/care about those extended perms too closely. Suppose I could cut a couple of them and stage them in later to engaged users, but I doubt if that's going to affect conversion significantly.

Note: if you cancel the login prompt, you can still browse around the site and see most of it.
My daughter can play with an iPad when she can go to the store on her own and buy one.

iPad apps and other forms of educational software, DVDs, CD-ROMs, electronic, interactive toys are all just bullshit paraphrenalia that pile up in the garage.

Babies need interaction with humans, and real world objects. Toddler apps on the iPad are poison.
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>second deadlist in the natural world, not overall.

The deadliest "synthetic" poison with a known toxic level is polonium-210, used in the murder of Alexander Litivenko. It comes in third to palytoxin and botulinum toxin in potency.
Any specific roadblocks you'd like to comment on? Pieces of infrastructure that are still too weak or anything like that?
If you haven't seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xrO2Ch4Co

Its a great docu about wikileaks.
The interesting data in Facebook is not the creative (or lack thereof) data. It's the relationships, demographics, interests, mundane activity, etc.
They spend almost all of their time interacting with humans and physical objects. What's wrong with allowing them to enjoy discovering how smartphones work?
We are!!

Company Name: GazeHawk

Company Size: 4

Company URL: http://www.gazehawk.com/

Position: (a) Web Developer or (b) Blogger

Contact Email: jobs@gazehawk.com

Skills Needed: (a) JS/Python/PHP or (b) either statistics or UX plus writing (basically you run cool eye tracking studies and blog about them).

Both internships paid, open to possible full-time position after if you're interested.
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They were in the YC session that just ended.
Marginally related, the case of Karen Wetterhahn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

Wetterhahn, a specialist in toxic metals, was accidentally poisoned in her lab by a few drops of the toxic, colorless compound, which penetrated her protective glove... Wetterhahn recalled that she had spilled several drops of dimethylmercury from the tip of the pipette onto her latex gloved hand. Tests later showed that this can rapidly permeate different kinds of latex gloves and enter the skin within about 15 seconds