skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really grateful that I had great friends who were able to notice when I was totally burning out.

They talked me into taking some time off to go on a road trip with them and pulled me out of a dark and ugly hole. I had to deal with the wrath of the boss when I returned, but getting out of the hole gave me the right perspective to look for something much better. I was out of there within a few weeks.

Cheers to great friends! And, please don't forget to be one.
After 30 seconds of googling, I can get the "LG GT540 Optimus" unlocked for $129, and it can be updated to Android 2.3.

This phone certainly isn't the cheapest android phone, so I'm not sure what it's selling point is.
The biggest problem I see is that they charge per datastore operation, and last I saw they were defining each entity returned as an operation.

If you were building a social network or twitter clone using the techniques they recommend in this talk:
http://www.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/BuildingScalab...

...you could easily pull back a hundred entities each time you pull someone's feed. It'd cost you a buck for every hundred pageviews or so.
PGP Password to decrypt cablegate wikileaks available on Amazon
I definitely prefer startups. But let's try to be realistic about what working for a startup is like.

You don't see many dumb people at small companies, mainly because there is no place to hide. In a small company you need to carry your own weight, and if you don't it is pretty obvious. In a large company it isn't as obvious to find the slacker.

I'm going to assume the author just doesn't have enough experience to realize just how naive this is. Startups employ dummies all the time, and you can't tell because everyone is too busy to pay attention, they're good at playing politics, they're friends with one of the founders, or they are one of the founders. And yes, sometimes these startups are successful in spite of that one or two idiots.

Working for a big company has a different feel to it, and you normally have to worry about office politics and other things that you don't have to worry about in a small company.

Well, if "small" is two people or less, this is correct. But politics comes into play whenever you have 3 or more people. Granted, the politics may be easier to understand and manage, but they're much more ugly than in a big company.

In short, it sounds like the author found a good startup to work for, which is usually better than most BigCos. But it's all downhill from there. If the author stays in the startup game for long enough, I guarantee he'll work for a company that will make him miss BigCos and their rules (some of which benefit the employee).
Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.wishpond.com/

Wishpond is the leading local product search engine creating the next chapter in online and social shopping. Wishpond empowers shoppers to find products from nearby retailers, and opens new marketing realms for local and independent retailers.

We're looking for passionate developers who take pride in their work and deliver high-quality results.

Requirements:
- Experience building and deploying Ruby on Rails applications
- Front end experience with jQuery, Javascript, CSS, and HTML
- Excellent problem solvers
- Good communication skills and a team player

Nice to Have:
- Experience with scaling web applications
- Familiarity with administration and manipulation of MySQL relational databases
- Proficiency Competence working with *nix operating systems

Sounds interesting? We use the shiniest technologies to power our vision:
- Highly scalable cloud based infrastructure
- Rails, Python
- Mobile App Development
- Creating new industry API's for other developers to leverage and productize our offering
- Large scale content ingestion engine

- Sound interesting? Apply to careers@wishpond.com
I'm not sure, but if you want to build a world class team you need to pay more than market rate + excellent team/work environment + more responsibility + more impact on world + give equity. There is no free lunch. Really.

Did Facebook become successfully because they went cheap with hiring VP of engineering early in their game? (answer not: they recruited the top)

Yes, you can get lucky and build a successful company by hiring people which are fresh from college for less than market and dream about being rich.

The point is the following: DONT HIRE BAD DEVELOPERS.

Unfortunately, good developers are good in math and they were around so they will not go with salary cut + questionable equity stake. Yes you can get lucky but there are so many other unknowns when you run a business and you should limit unknowns to the minimum.
>No startup is giving away a 20% equity slice to their first employee after they've already raised a round

Then pay your first employee a market wage. On the other hand if you want him to take a 50% haircut you better compensate him.
Doing Object Oriented JavaScript
This article is plain non sequitur.

The argument stated is that intelligence is multidimensional (stated as fact with caricature testimony) and therefore there exists a job aligned with one of those dimensions. Arguing that designers should code states that today optimal design is done by someone who has skill on multiple axes.

So the article really just dodges the issue by defining situations alternative to arguments made by Frank Chimero[1] makes and then pretending like that's a rebuttal.

He, of course, steps away from this ridiculous position toward the end by agreeing that designers could learn to code. Even suggesting it might not be a terrible idea, but this again misses the brunt of the pro argument:

Designers with strong understanding of implementation are better than those without.

I don't really want to argue that point in this comment—I'm not qualified. I just wanted to state that he never actually says anything concerning it.

[1]http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/9594863189
The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher (John Taylor Gatto, 1992)
It's about half what it's nearest competitor costs without a contract.

I'm currently shopping for a new phone, as my Nexus One keeps shutting off at random and a new battery didn't fix it. Since I don't want a contract, I'll be paying full price...I would love to buy this phone instead of a Nexus S or Galaxy S or other recent HTC phones. I'm limiting myself to phones that are easily rooted, since I like a stock Android OS rather than the ones that carriers have screwed up (I also rely on the WiFi hotspot feature occasionally, and I'm not paying $20/mo extra for it on trop of the already outrageous data rates). If this phone were available in the US today for $310, I would buy it today, without a bit of hesitation. There's nothing even close to that price point with those kind of specs.
I assume that the $310 pricetag is before any sort of carrier subsidy, which would make this $200-300 cheaper than some of today's top-end devices. This could be a $10 phone on contract, or even free.
JQuery is a sink
The Chinese want to capture an asteroid into earth's orbit and mine it.
Appharbor & DangDeal
In my view they should be paid market rate. That's the real issue here. Even with that magical "first hire" you're now a company who is hiring employees. It's PRECISELY this problem that angel investing is designed to solve (and why pure boot-strapping is so incredibly difficult).

Equity for an employee should be viewed as a bonus and nothing more. Equity is a powerful tool for a company, and it shouldn't be parted with so easily. What if you need to raise some (non-dilution) bridge financing? You've limited your options if you've already committed huge equity to employees. It just doesn't make a ton of sense.

Pay market rate and benefits. Hold on to your equity for dear life.
Yes, a good designer should be able to do more than draw things in photoshop. A good designer should be able to make things aesthetically pleasing, but more importantly functional. If they haven't even a basic grasp of HTML/CSS, for example, how can they pretend to design functional interfaces in HTML/CSS? A designer who can only mock things up in photoshop is not a designer, but an artist, and probably a poor artist at that.

> Knowing what is very different by knowing how. This takes us to the usual questions: do architects need to know how to build a skyscraper? Do car designers need to know how to build an engine? Do a movie director need to know how to act? Do a surgeon need to know how to build a peacemaker? Of course not.

Yes, architects take some structural engineering classes. They aren't engineers, but they certainly have an overlapping knowledge base. If all they could do is draw fancy buildings, then they would not be architects, but artists. Yes, car designers should know how to build an engine, not to the level of an engine designer/engineer, but to the point that they truly understand how the engine works, and not just what it does. Yes, a director needs to know how to act. They might not be the best actor, but they should know the craft, or they can't get good performances out of their actors. Yes, a surgeon who installs pacemakers should understand how they work. Do you want some guy attaching electrodes to your heart when he doesn't really understand how they work?

Good architects understand engineering. Good car designers understand engines. Good directors understand acting. Good heart surgeons understand pacemakers. And yes, good designers understand coding. When something is so closely tied to your effectiveness, you should should understand it, and that means you should understand the how as well as the what. Otherwise you will not be good at your core competencies, because you have too many gaping holes in your knowledge.

Relying on teamwork to fill the gaps in your knowledge is crap, too. If you don't have a shared vocabulary and a basic understanding of coding, how are you going to work with developers? You're going to hand them a pretty picture and tell them to implement it, and they're going to dismiss you as incompetent, because you are.

> There’s still a good point in suggesting that designers should code

This is really lame. Don't write a dozen paragraphs claiming that it's "bullshit" to say that designers should learn to code and then end by stating that it's a good idea for designers to learn to code. That makes it obvious that you're just a trolling ass. If you believe in the stance you're taking, then stick to it. Otherwise don't rant about something you don't even believe.
Chrome has some script-control features built in that I use heavily. What would I gain from a chrome extension?
Has it been 3 years already?

Seems like just the other day.
I generally hate ads, but I see some educational value in this. Hope to see it in action. Are you going to put it on Facebook?
Guide to creating viral linkbait and infographics
Desktop computers are changing, not dying
Fix Recruiting
So writing something in word is programming too?
Ralph lauren
Los Gatos, CA - Netflix

I'm looking for a frontend developer for my team. Your main job would be to help develop a very interactive infrastructure monitoring system. We have lots and lots of metrics about our systems. We'd like to be able to present them in a useful format, make it easy to troubleshoot production issues, aggregate on different dimensions, slice and dice them, zoom in on interesting events, expand clusters into individual nodes, save your work into your custom dashboard, etc.

I'm mostly looking for a strong developer who knows javascript well (or a language that compiles to javascript) and is familiar with tools or frameworks that will make your job easier (think Backbone, Knockoutjs, Spine, JavascriptMVC, etc.).

Netflix is a great environment for engineers where the emphasis is on agility and there are no rules about what tools or technologies you use to get your job done. You know what's best and we trust you.

If this sounds interesting to you please email me at dmuino @ netflix.com
The Optimus is 3G (no 4G), has a 600MHz processor, 156MB of RAM, and a cheap low res screen. You get what you pay for. I looked into it as an option to replace my dying Nexus One, but it'd be a big downgrade.

A phone closer to these specs (though I'm unaware of any available phones with specs this good) will cost $600+.
Startup - Looking for Advice - Moving Forward
Hi,

I just started a site called www.Potpage.com. We are looking for advice on how to grow our subscriber base and if anyone had suggestions on interesting features.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
"He started programming when he was 6"
Thanks for the comment, it sounds like you've seen very much the same thing.

The encouraging thing of course is that there is huge talent here, it isn't the people, it is the institutions that are failing them. But we've hired two who are super bright and which we've helped along and are doing awesome. So ya, of course that is fun and is why we are here.

One thing that has come out of this discussion is one of the asides I put in about the MIT courses. And I think we might actually try to facilitate getting a group together to work through it, at a reasonable pace. (say one class a week) We'll see.

Would love to hear more about your experience in India if you ever have the time. My gmail is the same as my user account.
Or so you think - as the parent says, it just takes a DNS entry to make somebody else's server appear to be yours.
3 Part Series on Mobile Marketing
Two Go Talks: "Lexical Scanning in Go" and "Cuddle: an App Engine Demo"
The OLPC XO-1 was designed for third-world markets: the only way you could acquire one in the US (and possibly other countries?) was by paying $200, which both got you one and sponsored one for a third-world child. (My cousins actually have one, so I know they exist.) They stopped this deal a year or two ago, though.

The India PC was never $10 outright, IIRC: it was $10 after some rather massive subsidies.

The Raspberry Pi literally went into alpha production a week ago, and software support is in its very early stages. Expecting to be able to buy it right now is a little silly.
I used Facebook and Starbucks as arbitrary examples. I would love to have Facebook as a publisher, but I don't think they'd abandon their own ad platform and integrate a third-party one.
> The real shame is that there are probably people going to be killed because of the irresponsible ego tripping of a couple of journalists, deluded 'transparency advocates' and other mentally unstable individuals.

That's what people were saying about the Afghanistan and Iraq log leaks.
look into mongoDB's geospatial indexing, don't reinvent the wheel.
This is an excellent post, and I'll use it as a guideline when it comes time to hunt for jobs. That said, I'd like to disagree with a few of your assumptions:

1. You've overvalued overtime, as 30% is probably too high for overtime relative to a bigco job, which is what he would arguably take instead of this.

2. Drop career risk (which is beyond immeasurable) and opportunity cost (this is captured by his foregone market rate).

I also have a question about the expected value of the company's valuation. We've got that down at $2.5 million, and base our equity calculations off of that. However, is the valuation the expected value of all outcomes, as calculated by investors? I assume so, but if not then he will need to consider the average value of all possible scenarios (or, more simply, the likelihood that the company sells for $2.5 million).

There's a high probability the company fails or does not sell for $2.5 million, and he needs to factor that risk into equity valuation (if the company valuation does not already incorporate that risk).

EDIT: funny that I was downvoted--I don't believe I said a single disagreeable thing here (maybe the overtime?)
I actually see them being quite successful tbh. At least for a while until everyone gets used to them and starts ignoring them like it always happens.
inPulse (YCW11/Mountain View/Hardware-ish) seeks 1st full-time Android Dev [H1B, TN, Interns are good!)

http://www.getinPulse.com
Location: Mountain View, CA

Help us design and build intuitive and hackable wearable electronics. Our first product is inPulse, a $149 smartwatch. inPulse connects via Bluetooth to our smartphone (BB + Android) apps which acts as a conduit for watchapps, notifications and alerts.

We're looking for an experienced Android dev to help us improve our nascent app and spearhead integration with a cloud backend.

Almost everything is done in-house: architecture design, schematic/PCB layout, embedded drivers/firmware, Android and Blackberry app dev, industrial design...
We push updates out over the air, flinging code to watches worldwide.

You'd be our 3rd employee which comes with multi-% stock options and a competitive salary. Flex work schedules, constant BBQs and food/beer come with the territory.

To apply, please send examples of apps you've worked on and your role in those projects to eric AT getinpulse.com
Windows 8 To Support Direct Mounting Of ISO And VHD Files
I think this post is undermining the importance of both design and development. Design is not for people who are not interested in it. Surely, developers appreciate the importance of good design, but to expect developers to design it themselves is wrong. Will you ask someone who works at AMG tweaking Mercedes-Benz engines to learn how to design the next Merc ?
Pembroke Pines Realtor
You can write an article claiming that anyone doing x is probably getting screwed, if you choose numbers that make it a bad deal. In my experience (which at this point is pretty extensive) the numbers he uses here are extreme outliers.

I'd expect a startup that was only able to raise money at $2m pre to be giving the first employee way more than 1%. How much more depends on how good he is (a factor that's not even considered in this article). Someone as good as the founders could reasonably expect 15%.
SEEKING FREELANCER

Developer needed with expertise in: HTML5 Canvas, PhoneGap, MySQL familiarity, Javascript and CSS familiarity. 5 month timeframe for initial project; leading to a long term development job if successful. We're a VC backed stealth startup based out of Cincinnati, OH building a awesome consumer-facing web app leveraging mobile devices via Twilio.

We are a lean team of two + a designer + you the developer. Ton of hard work but also a ton of fun. Competitive pay + an environment with a lot of freedom to do things the best way you can implement it.

Email applications to smishra@cincytechusa.com. Thanks!
iPhone Prototype "Lost" in Bar.. again (iPhone 5 this time)
Windows Phone 7 also spies on you, according to lawsuit
Funny Questions and Answers on The Stack Exchange
Not without going through a quite extensive review process and then finally getting signed off (with a crypto signature) by several people.

It's not entirely impossible but there are far more easier ways of getting malware out there.
Refreshing? No, it is the brain-dead cached response, one that has been invoked countless times for everything to do with Wikileaks internals.

The donation list became public? 'Oh ho ho, how ironic!' One of the supporters splits and writes a book about it? 'isn't this refreshingly ironic?' The cable database goes public? 'how very ironic!' And so on.

I'm about as sick of it as I am of articles about a random bit of Wikipedia vandalism.
This, to me, is why at very least a web designer should know HTML/CSS. I think it's a feeling that web designers can relate with:

https://img.skitch.com/20110901-xwygj4ursxfk4hu461jjy8j21k.j...

:D

(more seriously, as adjustments need to be made those who care most about them and understand them most have the least control where they should have the most)
Madison, WI - (REMOTE possible)

Circuit - http://circuitapp.co

Github for hardware. Circuit is a social webapp for designing and building electronic projects (circuit boards), aimed at the exploding Maker/hobbyist market. We're going to disrupt hardware with a tool that makes things 10x easier & faster.

Programmer: We are looking for a passionate all-around programmer, experienced with creating advanced frontend interfaces as well as backend systems. Mainly would be doing a large amount of HTML5, Javascript, and using PHP (Cake) & MySQL on the backend. Big bonus points if you have a hardware background: microcontrollers, designing PCBs, tearing things apart, and familiarity with the Maker movement.

UI/UX Designer: You: experienced with the design of web applications with a strong emphasis on the UX to make a simple and clean interface. Also wireframe concepts, diagram workflows and create various assets needed for the application.

Interested, questions? jobs@circuitapp.co
I don't like this at all. And I wouldn't consider this fun. Where exactly is the game in this? You're just answering poll questions.
It's TechCrunch, so no.
Why Startups Need to Hire Engineers, Not “Ninjas”
This looks really, really slick. Next time I'm creating a map-based site I'm going to have a play around and see what customisations I can do. It's very difficult to match the default Google Maps style for clarity, but sometimes it would be good to have more options than their styles permit.
Palo Alto, CA
We are a small lab focused on creating the next generation of movie and TV recommendation technologies that go beyond traditional 5-star explicit rating systems. We have two engineering positions open, one for a Java developer and another with skills in scripting/Python and Linux administration. You will get an opportunity to work on the latest and greatest Machine Learning algorithms and build innovative prototypes that impact a newly created business unit. In addition, you will have opportunity to participate in conferences, CES every year.
Please send you resume (if you are awesome!). H1B OK, no remote. Email me (cybernytrix@gmail.com) for more information or see http://www.technicolor.com/en/hi/technology/research-and-inn....
SEEKING FREELANCER, Chicago, IL. Remote working OK.

We're looking for programmers for about 5K SLoC of work in each of the following :

- iOS
- Android
- .NET (C#) for a Windows Client

On the .NET stream, we'd love to talk to someone who has done production releases of Windows applications

Email: dev.cram@gmail.com
Once again, as a web developer, I do NOT want to work with a designer who has no clue how html and css work at all.

It's insulting to say that it's not important.

Do you expect an architect to not understand how the materials they're designing with work? or what the building codes are?

Not expecting a web designer to understand how html and css work is like letting a painter tell someone who knows illustrator where to put all the lines.
Using Git to upgrade Rails
Get it to a provider and they'll subsidize it into a $50 phone.
Weight Loss Camps for Teenage Girls – They Work
I also want to make it clear, that i did NOT list javascript or php in there at all. Nor did I say they should actually write the markup, just that they know how it works, and what is possible.
If anybody comes up with a way to solve the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma for humans, I'd love to hear about it.
"can be' is different from 'is'.

Since the attackers had root, what if they served up rootkitted kernels 1% of the time someone downloaded a tar ball?
Openstack v/s Eucalyptus v/s Nimbula v/s Abiquo?
Does anyone have a good idea about the various cloud computing technologies in terms of comparision of features, capabilities, advantages, drawbacks,lock-in, etc ?
Cloud9 IDE Premium Accounts available
SEEKING FREELANCER (DESIGN), Newcastle, UK, Remote working OK

We are looking for a great designer to work on our apps. Please see www.competitormonitor.com for an example of what we do. Find my email address in my profile. Look forward to hearing from you
Thanks Tzm. Can you do push notifications using Titanium framwork? Also wondering how does the updates to app work? Do we only update the server side HTML or do we need to update the app in the app store?
OpenStack Compute enters testing stage at Rackspace