skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London/Cambridge UK
Disruptive B2B start-up is looking for Technical Co-Founder

I developed a concept of a web-based platform that puts the 21st century into market research by utilising smartphone applications and their developer communities.

Since pitching to industry experts I have received great interest and been asked to apply to an incubator who would like to support me and a small team to develop the concept further.

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I'm looking for a hands-on technical co-founder who can help me turn my mock-ups into an MVP over the next three months and then on to launch and beyond. Suitable frameworks exist in open-source format, which can be built upon (up to you).

If you are a self-motivated developer who likes the idea of disrupting a large market then please get in contact for more information! Experience and track record of bringing a customer focused product to market and start-up experience is a huge bonus.

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With my science background (PhD), I'm somewhat technical but I won't be an idiot and list the different technologies I think you will need. This is of course up to you and you alone will decide on the stack and direction that it takes.

As your partner I will be charge of product design, business development, sales and marketing. I am driven by my vision, I work extremely hard and I will do whatever it takes to take us to the next level. I also see our partnership as a great opportunity to learn more programming and to eventually contribute some code myself.

I can offer co-founder equity as well as a negotiable salary (based on us getting into the incubator). I am not expecting you to rush into this partnership head-on. If you are also doing some freelance work on the side (etc.), I am flexible enough to work around that until we have pocketed the incubator funding.

If you are a cool dude and you want to know more then contact me at dapgutmann@gmail.com
I do think it's possible G+ will end up having farmville (google has done business IIRC with Zynga before).

However, if it shows up like on Facebook, I (and others) will likely leave G+ for that reason alone.

Google shouldn't try to "beat" Facebook (and I don't think they are trying to). Differentiation is key, since Google really makes it's money elsewhere.
Barnes and Noble expanding affiliate network?
Why was crb's really useful post marked as dead?
The same scoring data is used for the "Sort by Relevance" option on the Circles page.
Developer productivity estimates shouldn't be measured in time, they should be measured in focus.

I find out when they really need it by and tell them they can have it by then. Unless it's impossible, which it almost never is.

The part I like to negotiate is how much focus I'll be given and which are the features that might have to be compromised because they'd add a disproportionate amount of time or complexity relative to their value.

By "focus," I mean that a "month" is meaningless because it might mean that I truly have a full month or it might mean that 3-5 times a week I'll be expected to stop and fix, maintain, or sit in meetings for other projects.

So I'd rather not tell someone that I can do something in a day. Then they expect they can have it in a calendar day, which I can't promise because any given calendar day might be full of interruptions. I'd rather tell them they can have it in a week (unless they need it sooner) and I'll worry about finding which day over the next week is the one that's most likely to be productive.

If they really need it in a day, it's more important that no one bother me for the next 8 business hours than whether the work is "objectively" 7 hours or 8 hours or 9 hours.
It's also very difficult to determine how effective they are since, to a first approximation, terrorists attacks don't happen even with lowered security.

This is also a problem with TSA. And we can calculate - roughly - the cost of TSA in delays, wages, missed flights.

A good argument just popped into my brain: we used to run security at airports with either local cops or private companies. This worked, pretty well, except for 9/11.

But everyone was taken by surprise, then.
Excellent question! I work on the data team here, and we work on a variety of projects. Some of our features rely on data from our applications, and so we help develop those features by building our data models. On the other hand, some other projects, like our recent infographic[1], are open-ended - you have the freedom to come up with your own hypotheses and test them against our data.

If you have a good background in data munging and analysis, it's incredibly fun work - a nice mix between the creativity of investigating problems that interest you and the rigor of data science.

[1] http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/06/20/holysmokes10millionpeo...
It seems like B&N might be planning on aggressively going after former Amazon affiliates in states like California?

They were one of the beg retailers lobbying for the CA sales tax law.
Very cool site, I've been thinking about something like this for a while now. It might be helpful to view the events on a calendar so you can plan things out or easily check out what's going on over a few weekends.
why don't you make it free, have lot's of happy non-paying users where the objective is to convert a percentage of them to paying tweetmachine users?
Estimating MMF in Beers Consumed
The issue is: Whenever you do a buy like this, all the customers of the service get to jump ship if they want to.

So you don't necessarily get the network contracts by buying them.
i knew i should have googled for this...

thanks, time to lose another 10 hours of my life to xkcd (hooray for 3 day weekend)
When I last worked on a Java project, I ended up going back and forth between Sublime Text and Eclipse.

ST makes navigating the code more quick and smooth - the minimap takes away the feeling of looking at code through tunnel vision, you can preview files much more quickly, and view more code at once with minimalist full-screen mode settings and multi-column layout. The regex search with active highlighting in both the minimap and the file is also nice, and multi-select is pretty helpful for refactoring repetitive code.

That said, ST is just a text editor, not an IDE - while some features, like autocomplete, are partially compensated for, it doesn't do type checking or follow references across files, so other features that stem from those will be missed; e.g. refactoring across multiple files is usually faster in Eclipse. I would usually do most of my editing in ST, and then type-check, compile, and debug in Eclipse.
Sorry I misunderstood. Web2py has not API for it but it should be easy to add. If you open a ticket on google code, it will done sooner than later. ;-)
They already have the three major networks. NBC/Universal (Comcast) is obligated to provide the same thing as the other partners due to the Justice Dept's rules regarding the takeover.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/18/comcast-nbc-merger-the-hulu...
Except without nested/threaded discussions. I don't know why the social web loves flat comments so much.
So by adding someone to one of my circles, I'm automatically added to their "Following" circle? It seems like you mean the opposite, that I would put someone I don't know really well into my "Following" circle, but that still means that I don't get a feed of their postings, right?

Unless, as someone else mentioned, they set their post to "public", does that post then show up for everyone who has the poster in their circle, regardless of wether the follower is in a poster's circle?
Boston, MA.

Ember is hiring embedded software engineers and QA engineers in Boston: http://www.ember.com/company_careers.html

We develop the chips, software, and tools for wireless sensor networks, and we have a ton of fun doing it.

We were just voted one of the top places to work in Boston: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/05/03/bbj-announ...

Email me if you’re interested: hnjuly2011@saidsvec.com
> they need to make sure they won't get screwed by the networks later, when they won't care what happens to Hulu

EXACTLY. To make this work Google would need to tie an incentive scheme into the sales contract. Perhaps the combined momentum of TV over IP and an earn-out or overly-generous ad revenue deal would persuade the TV networks?

Alas, these same broadcasters still rely heavily on fees received from the cable operators (e.g. News Corp, et. al. threaten Time Warner Cable for higher fees before the Superbowl), but one can hope.

P.S. For some history on the Hulu IPO-turned-sale, this comment has some numbers/references: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685965
Powerpoint for the bulleted nonsense I see. It's everywhere and the short sentences take away more than convey. You end up confused.
Yep. That's exactly the kind of diasterous shadow system I'm talking about and a good example of how the issue is cultural as much as technical. It'd be tremendously difficult to keep all those spreadsheets telling the truth all the time. You're almost lucky nobody reads them because who knows what kind of poor decisions would get made from such a mess.
If this is executed properly it will be huge. A very big problem to tackle, but a sorely needed one as well.
> I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla?

The game isn't browsers. Google makes no money from Chrome.

Google makes a ton of money from online ads. For that, it doesn't need to have the top browser. Having a great browser is very useful, but winning the browser war would be self-defeating.

Compare to Microsoft, which also makes no money from IE. But Microsoft actually does want to win the browser war, since marginalizing other browsers is good for Windows (like opposing anything cross-platform is).

Google's game is to make money. Not supporting Mozilla, while Mozilla is useful to it, would be counterproductive. Stopping to support Mozilla would help Chrome's marketshare, but hurt Google's income. I expect Google to continue to do the rational thing here as it always has.
"Most likely RIM will be absorbed by a larger competitor (and the current RIM top brass removed) before anything like real business failure can occur."

I think the most likely outcome is RIM stockholders will force some big changes after a few more quarters of getting drilled by Android and Apple's holiday lineup. Then 6-8 months later we'll see RIM starting to ship consumer Android devices with a Blackberry security/messaging ui layer alongside their other products. It will stabilize their fortunes and they could go on to be the leading Android vendor with their strong brand and messaging focus.

edit: you could even argue that they can't really do that now and couldn't do it last year. Everyone would say they're crazy to kill the golden egg and go make lower margin phones. They needed to have disaster quarters, failed products and tanking market share in order to make these decisions.
Which means we can finally change from text/html to application/xhtml+xml. This way IE8 and earlier users will get a download message, and you won't have to worry about polyglot/Appendix C anymore.
Grandparent might have been saying that while that is close enough for now, as you pointed out with your allusion to Facebook, that won't be enough to keep it excursive for long (ie. its not exclusive because of a core feature, but rather because most people haven't heard of it and can't be bothered).

If it does become popular, everyone's mom will be on it, because she will have heard of it, and someone will take the time to explain it.
San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Apartmentlist.com

We are a small very profitable startup building the first apartment recommender. We are looking for Rails engineers and Hadoop/Hive machine learning experts to join our team.

Send me an email if you are interested kyle@apartmentlist.com
You make a good point. However we do not know what is happening in the negotiations.

This is what I would do if I were Google. I would say to the media companies, that I need license deals for at least one or two more years in order to buy Hulu. The media companies would probably give those in order to be able to book a nice profit on Hulu. Then during those one or two years, I would work to cut the media companies out. I.e., I would make deals directly with producers to bring new TV shows to Hulu before they even get on TV.

Every year there are dozens or maybe even hundreds of shows that get pitched to the TV companies and most of them get rejected. I am sure there are plenty of good ones among them. Google has enough money to pick up some of those shows and to keep Hulu interesting.

Hulu is valuable not only because of their content deals (which are about to expire) but because it has trained millions of people to go there to watch TV. Google can take advantage of this and swoop in and cut out the middle man by making deals directly with the content producers. This is somewhat similar to what CD baby did for music.
Mountain View (intern, full-time, remote): Khan Academy

Help us change the world of education.

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qd69Vfw7&...

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qd69Vfw7&...
Yes, Opera has a default search engine. In fact Opera is very good at monetizing that, they basically get all search engines to bid for it.

With much smaller market share than Firefox, Opera still makes a lot of money from the default search engine.
Looks de la boda de Kate Moss
The rules of the game don't apply in the same way when you're the game-master :-)
Likewise for Dallas
The big "Play Angry Birds NOW" button in Chrome seems to be evidence to the contrary.
Earth Aid - Boston, MA - Full-time Data & Rails Engineers

Earth Aid ( http://earthaid.net ) was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're newly venture-backed by Point Judith Capital as well as strategic and angel investors who have built and scaled some of the most successful businesses today. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. We have offices in San Francisco and DC, and we're now consolidating our dev team and HQ into an awesome brand new headquarters in Boston.

We empower households to track & contextualize their electric, natural gas, and water utility usage. We value data, clarity, focus and beauty. We are looking for people who do too --- people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. We want the best and the brightest. People who work hard and play hard. People who want to make an impact. This is an opportunity to not only work with a dynamic group of people, but also the opportunity to build a platform that's revolutionizing the way we look at energy consumption.

To learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fun company culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones, check out: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net

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Two Highlighted Opportunities in the Boston Office ->

Data Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change & the future of energy.
Analytics: Use tools like mapreduce, hadoop, and AWS to drive insight into energy usage.
Performance: Store the world's energy data in a way that makes it easy for web engineers to create experiences on top of it.
Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups.
Reliability: Build tools that make it easy to know what is happening throughout the system and that allow Earth Aid to be constantly available for our users.
Security: Create an infrastructure that both allows us to be certain that our user data is safe while at the same time allow the flexibility to perform analytics and quickly iterate.

Ruby on Rails Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change and the future of energy.
User Growth: Create a clear and impactful experience that drives us toward many millions of users.
Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups.
Product design: Envision and execution on product features and entirely new products.
Visualization: Create beautiful and meaningful visualizations that impact consumer energy usage.
San Francisco, CA

Localmind

Funded, early startup building awesome realtime, location-based Q&A, with lots of fun stuff in the pipeline.

http://www.localmind.com/jobs

1) UI/UX Design Lead
2) Android Developer
3) Community Development Director

I personally guarantee that you will love working with us. How's that for a benefit?
I think I figured it out. Make your Drop Box a public album, then go into the album settings and check the box to make the album date the date of the latest upload. Now you have a place to put random photos that will bump to the front whenever there's something new in it!
Any possibilities for telecommuting with NPR? I've checked the careers page a few times, but the locations on the postings never seem flexible.
Minority? Sure, if compared to every other browser. But in that respect, surely every browser is a minority browser?
There is one thing I love about +1: It's a lot more neutral than Like or Follow. I can +1 a story about, say, someone getting shot and it won't look as if I like that someone was shot.
They announced Lion would only be available via the Mac App Store. Did that trigger backlash? After all, most people will need to enter their Apple ID on every machine on which they wish to install Lion.

What you describe sounds like an extension of that very process. Enter your Apple ID to validate purchase, so you can legitimately download the bits. Or, if you purchased a computer that already had Lion installed, as determined by the machine's serial number, you can get the bits without your Apple ID.

Very different from controversial forms of online activation, like Window's, where you must enter a serial number to install and then, after the install, activate Windows so they can verify you haven't exceeded your unique machine quota and aren't using a cracked copy of Windows.

Apple's process is basically just asking for a serial number. I doubt it'll cause a shitstorm.
Budapest, Hungary

Symbler is hiring fanatic Python coders and iOS devs!

Apply here: jobs at symbler dot com
I wrote www.squarechat.com a while ago as a pet project, but it just seems like there isn't a good way to accomplish this without using flash or a plugin.
Dropped by who?
Please, please, share the long answer! (or one of them, at least...)

I would think that using bcrypt for authentication would not only consume more server CPU power, but would also open the door to denial-of-service attacks (if crackers attempted brute-force attacks on the log-in system). Clearly "use bcrypt" is just part of the answer...

I had some thoughts on a way to deal with this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2705915

(but my ideas have their own set of problems.)
The worst usability loss is showing multiple events on a day in calendar view. I like to see a calendar view to get an overview but now most of my events have been replaced with a useless '2+ more' or '3+ more'. The real sore point is that the '2+ more' takes up exactly 2 lines of space so they had just enough space to show me my 2 appointments but have decided I'd be much more interested to see this useless '2+ more' link. Outrageous!
My guess is that there will be adverts via FB, but ad-free when paying Skype directly for it.

Edit: To add that I hope Google offers a paid version without the data mining or adverts. I assume this is the monetization strategy for Google+, if someone knows differently, please let me know.
Thanks, I owe you one.
That screenshot makes it look like there's no text folding arrows for Sublime, is that true? I wouldn't even try it out if it's missing that feature because I use it in Textmate dozens of times a day.
Free-Kick Fever
Google's Closure goes way beyond the Closure Compiler:, check it out: http://code.google.com/closure/ .

In certain ways, it's similar to Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/) or YUI (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/)
I think the phrase you're looking for is "plurality browser".
CS was probably the first field where anybody with an internet connection and a lot of time could get an education on par with a decent college degree. I did exactly that around 2001-2005, thanks to high school being boring, and the resources available now make the internet of that time look horribly impoverished by comparison.

Someone who wants to learn CS can find no shortage of introductory material on programming (along with communities of people to do it with), stuff on algorithms and data structures and the relevant math, more advanced topics -- it's like being offered a free education at a really good college, for people who are willing to do the work.

I would really like for other subjects to become similarly open to interested people over the internet. CS has definitely been leading the way here. Wouldn't it be amazing if people in (say) archaeology, or botany, had a fraction of the free resources and helpful communities that hackers have had online for years?
Google also releases new products slowly and then lets them die. Gmail as a commodity product doesn't have the chicken and egg problem that a social network does - and there's no good example of Google solving a chicken and egg problem which depends on brand loyalty rather than technology (qualifications due to the possible argument that advertising revenue based search was a chicken and egg problem albeit one which was solved based on technology rather than consumer loyalty).

I don't think that Facebook/Skype is a response to Google+'s rollout. I think Google+ is a tactical response to a strategy has been developing for a long time (measured in internet years).

On the other hand, Facebook's announcement probably is a tactical response to Google's timing given the massive investment in buzz creation which has manifested itself in the last few days.
Memrise - Boston, MA (but remote could work)

We're looking for people who dream in either Django, iOS or Javascript and want to help reinvent learning - our CEO's a Grandmaster of Memory, I'm the CTO and a Princeton PhD neuroscientist, and we're busily growing the world's most creative learning community.

Yours,
Greg Detre - greg@memrise.com
Yeap. Calendar view is definitely on our list of things to do. In the mean time, you can click "This Weekend" in the filters section to get things available for this weeekend.
As I said in my comment, it's not likely -- just interesting.
Orem, Utah - Remote

ClickLock wants to put you in control of securing your data on the Internet. We have a plan to get there and funding to make it happen.

We believe strongly in customer development and in staying very lean. We are using Erlang, CouchDB, and JavaScript on the back end and lots of things on the front end, since we will need web, desktop, and mobile clients.

We are currently looking for two engineers, one for the front end and one for the back end. I'm looking for intelligent, motivated people and am not interested in buzzword bingo on a resume.

These are employees three and four in the company and include equity! If you are especially passionate about helping people secure their online lives, I am fully accepting of remote workers. Send your resume/interesting projects/GitHub page to travis -at- clicklock -dot- com.