skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friends & Family (F&F) is the quickest and easiest. Spread it out over several people and spread it out in 3 month payments. Make sure you set very specific milestones and a very concrete go-no-go milestone, so you fail as quick as possible.

I'm assuming you're a smart person who can make $100k+ in a real job. If so, add a guarantee that you'll pay back the full borrowed amount within one-two years if you don't make the go-no-go milestone. This option opens up more funding sources. For example, an older relative with savings in the bank near retirement will need that money, but not for a few years. If it were a typical investment scenario where the money was borrowed and if the company failed, the money was not repaid, that person could not invest because they need the money.

The other option is to get a loan from a local business development department. I don't know what ON looks like, but most cities in the US have these types of BD programs that have a goal of creating jobs in the community. Relatively easy to get, just have to jump through a few hurdles. The requirement in my town is the "get rejected by a traditional funding source." Haha...that's a pretty easy thing to do!

I would be very hesitant to receive any money from a professional investor at this point in your startup. You'll have to give away too much of the company and you'll have a boss that has your balls in a vice for the rest of your time at the startup.

Wait for professional investment until your profitable and then it makes way more sense.

Keep us posted!
If you'll look into WebOS and the app catalog a bit more you'll find answers to several of those:

1. Youtube: Try out Leanback, the TV interface: http://www.youtube.com/leanback

3. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4620273157

4. Skype: Native support in synergy (system accounts) and messaging app. Review: http://www.webosroundup.com/2011/06/hp-touchpad-video-callin...

6. Yahoo Messenger: Native support in synergy (system accounts) and messaging app.

8. DropBox - native support in synergy (system accounts) also: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.dogood...
I think FB's root in a campus atmosphere encouraged the use of names as Mr. Blakley points out. The trend was set early on.

FB has not been as strict on this policy either.

Google is different with wide reach. What happens here may very well set the trend if not addressed early on.
Brilliant article: AT&T was lucky that they could go on that buying spree from 1907-1932. My bet is that if a Google, Apple or Microsoft were to do that they'd be stopped before they'd get started.
I like the copy on your homepage. Last year I built a prototype of a similar service and used it for a couple of months with friends, but it turned out that not having immediate feedback takes a lot of fun out of sharing. Posting a link to Skype and having a conversation about it in real time feels much more rewarding. It's something psychological, hard to explain.

Having said that, I still want to explore this idea some time in the future and see how it works out.

You might want to check out a similar service created by other HN user: http://www.yourpane.com/
It doesn't exonerate WL. It simply shows the Gaurdian to be foolish and/or complicit in WL's agenda to distribute the data.
$80 Android phones are available: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892031

This article is pointing out that cheap high-end Androids (superphones?) are also becoming available.
Optimizing Google AppEngine for the new pricing changes
San Francisco, CA Downtown - Trulia

Looking for a few experienced search engineers and some distributed data processing folk. Java, python, hadoop, solr and lots of other stuff.

http://www.trulia.com/jobs (front end and other positions also available)
A first as Google Offers deal hits browser's homepage
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Geek Desk is the standing desk I own, and you can lower or raise it.
I've been loving my adjustable desk. I spent the majority of my time standing, but sometimes it's great to sit down.

I purchased a (relatively) inexpensive hand-cranked base from http://www.kitchensource.com/table-bases/gb-1000-1001.htm. I also got a cheap ($30) 48" x 24" x 2" wooden tabletop which I was able to sand, finish, and easily mount to the base. I added a desk-mounted monitor arm (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IWOBGI). The price for all of this compares extremely favorably to most other adjustable desks I've found.

This setup has been a huge help for my back issues. If I were to try to quantify the cost of having a sore back that renders me unable to be active, it'd be vastly higher than what I payed for this setup. If I am offered a position where I need to go into an office, I would make offering me a similar setup a precondition of me accepting the offer.
I agree, I would use this thing if it supported coffeescript.
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Schooltraq is an academic planner by students for students
I think the screenshot should use a bit higher-contrast color scheme for the map. I was slouching in my chair a bit and couldn't really see what it was at first :)
I like the email part because it removes the "burden" for some people to think about checking my profile on either G+ or FB or twitter on which I do not always post the same things.
But I did not understand how I can select which links to send to whom (for example if I have general CS links for everyone and JAVA specific ones for 10 people and C/C++ for others, etc.)

This also seems a lot like Subjot cf http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946547
SEEKING WORK (Remote). Location: Porto, Portugal, EU

Backend/Frontend Javascript Developer

* Python: Django, Tipfy, Google App Engine [, virtualenv, pip]

* Javascript: Dojo Toolkit, JQuery, Node.js

* PHP: Zend Framework, Propel, ZetaComponents (formerly known as ezComponents)

* Java: Struts, Hibernate, Jboss Seam, Groovy/Grails, Solr; (many beers ago)

* Tooling: svn, git, mercurial, IRC (:-)

* General: Good learner, passionate about the work, freelancing experience with multi-cultural/timezone/skilled teams

References on http://pt.linkedin.com/in/josemoreira
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One of our upcoming field trips is an all-day visit to MIT's Media Lab.

The lab started in February of this year, and now has five awesome developers (hailing from Columbia, ITP, NYC Resistor, and more). We're looking to fill positions #6 and #7.

Show us your projects: we love to see an entrepreneurial streak and a diversity of experience.

Our one steadfast requirement is that we definitely need you to know Rails.

Email me at rw@rwinslow.com if this appeals to you!
I dislike these articles. And it's not because I like PHP or its development processes, but because the author is avoiding responsibility.

"As a PHP user, it is not my responsibility to contribute to PHP. That's not how open source works, and it never will be how open source works. But as a user of the software, I can be upset when it doesn't work."

If the author has a vested interested in the stability of the language he develops in, then he should be devoting a portion of his time to the project. And instead of writing code and trying to get the build to pass more of those acceptance tests, he writes a boring, scathing article and contributes nothing but vitriol.

Changing the behavior of the PHP core devs by writing a blog post is as effective as changing fashion by merely talking about it.
Which means clicking on the maximize button in the Windows 3.1 screenshots.
> You may be able to build something similarly productive, but Rails cannot be replicated in part or in full in any statically-typed programming language, especially one that doesn't allow runtime introspection.

Can you be more specific? There's not much to Rails that couldn't be easily done in c#. Monorail for example was pretty close to Rails' experience except for the horrible templating engine (replacing it wasn't hard). The parts that deviated weren't really about difficulty, more just idiomatic differences. (It's not difficult for example to code-gen in c#, even back on 1.0, so the manual registration of Controllers classes wasn't because of a technical limitation.)

Considering how many alternative frameworks have grown up out of "The Big Two" VMs, I feel like I must have completely missed the intent in your comment.
Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders
Roseville, CA (near Sacramento). Full Time Mobile Game Developer.

Company:

5th Planet Games is a company built on a core of hardworking, knowledgeable and dedicated professionals that know what it takes to get the job done. Having launched several successful Facebook games over the last year with over half a million users worldwide, 5th Planet is poised to move into an era of growth and profitability, unmatched in today’s market. With an entrepreneurial spirit, 5th Planet provides a fast paced and competitive environment in which strong developers flourish while given the opportunity to grow their own skills. At 5th Planet, we are gamers that build games that we love to play!

Job Summary:

The Mobile Game Developer plays a crucial role in day to day success, market position and overall atmosphere of 5th Planet Games. This position assists in the creation, development, maintenance and improvements of multi-layered, custom, dynamically driven mobile games and web solutions.

Full job posting: http://bit.ly/nmp6Yj
So, how did you find out that the person talking to you was in UK, "Mr french staying in Germany"
Yes, I have and it worked great! You have to enable the labs feature called "Pre-Cache Map Area" and it's a bit annoying that it will only let you grab a few (10) chunks at a time, but I used it last month while traveling 100 miles from "civilization" and it worked great.
Scott Adams could have written this line (and probably has):

"Outsider, non-founder CEOs are often overvalued because many corporate boards think the answer to their problems is a superstar CEO with an outsized reputation. This leads them to overpay for people who are good at creating outsized reputations through networking, interviewing, and taking credit for other peoples' achievements--all bad indicators of future success."

Lots more that's good, most especially pointing out that the outsider CEO's loyalty is to the board that placed him there and in startups the majority investors' interests aren't necessarily aligned with the company's.
I can see how you got that. My argument was somewhat unclear, but the point I was trying to make was that celebrating the age at which people started programming makes it seem less accessible to those who don't program. And I think that's counterproductive to the goal of encouraging more people to program at all ages (which is a goal you may or may not agree with).

The discussions below about sports are interesting, though. Lots of kids seem to play basketball even though (or arguably because) the stars are put on pedestals. But not everyone plays basketball.
Google Activates DDoS Defense In Chrome
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Mine's 0 until they rescind that name policy.
I recently got a standing desk and quite enjoy it. They are definitely viral; once a few people get them in an office, everybody wants one.

I even wrote a set of Perl scripts to keep track of how much time I spend sitting vs. standing, and how it changes over time.

The only problem is that I don't know of any good studies on what stand / sit ratio is medically recommended. Too low and you get back and other muscle problems; too high and you get joint problems.
I know! That's part of the intrigue :)
how, exactly is windows not developer-friendly? I'm a win dev by choice, so i wonder what makes you say that. I prefer VS over vim, TortoiseGit over remembering command line switches by heart, explorer over cp and F5 over 'make && ./myprog'. This is all just taste. But how is what i just described not developer friendly?
Wow, a video with an ad I can't even pause or stop. That is absolutely evil.
Steve Jobs on netbooks
The p prints the randomly chosen line -- wc -l is the number of lines in the file, (random % lines-in-file) picks a random one, 'sed -n 30p' prints the 30th line.
Wow, awesome. Just what I was hoping for and impressive, thanks for sharing the link.
I would use the term Burnout after intensive 2 years of work with no holidays, 3 months would be too short to use that term. 3 months of hard work sounds more like getting warmed up.
I was taught BASIC when I was around 8 and "helped" my dad with homework when he was in college for a CS degree, but I never did anything with it. I started taking CS courses as a continuing student at William and Mary in 2005 and found I really liked it and was, in fact good at it. My parents had told me that I would be great with computers for years, but I "knew better" and fought them until I wised up.

6 years later, and I've got my M.S., good work experience, job offers when I'm not even looking and enough difficult programs under my belt that I know I measure up well to the stack of people with my level of experience.
I disagree with this on so many levels.

"My biggest problem with celebrating the young age at which some people started programming is that it sends the wrong message. It says: 'Programming is so hard that in order to be good at it, you should've started when you were young.'"

In what way is this the "wrong message?" I think it's perfectly fair. Yes, programming (well) is difficult, and yes, starting at a young age will have more of a transformative effect on the way you think.

As the son of a computer programmer and a math professor, I was exposed to large amounts of math at a young age, and learned a little calculus before finishing elementary school. High school didn't have anything more advanced than calculus to teach me, so my peers (the math majors among them, at least) have more or less caught up to me in how much math they've been exposed to. But - in my opinion, at least, and maybe I'm just a narcissist - I'm fundamentally more of a quantitative thinker than they are.

"Were you programming non-trivial apps soon after you wrote your first line of code? Did you immediately proceed to program lots of apps, even complex ones, all by yourself, and collect payment for your work?"

Most people who start programming young make games, because that's what kids think computers are for. As a kid, I made scores of computer games. Games are complex and, when done well, independently developing games can be extremely stimulating. Before I turned 10 I was tackling things like I/O, creating intuitive user interfaces, sound, 2D graphics, and rudimentary AI. In each instance I had few resources and no training so I had to come up with ad hoc solutions myself. That I went through this process, and that I did it young, has been a huge benefit to me throughout the rest of my life.

And, side note: payment makes absolutely zero difference to your ability to do something well.

Disclaimer: I started when I was 7, so I may be biased. Not to brag or anything.

Edit: if you disagree, a comment is more helpful than a downvote.
'Smart' startup founders would then let these 12% coders go by the end of their vesting period. Problem solved...

Early hires should rather be focusing on career perspectives given the chance of the growth of the company they're working for.
A problem might be that as soon as you discover that number, you can't tell anyone on the web about it. This for example has no results as of now: http://google.com/search?q=813115181452319
The deal may get blocked, but your argument and thinking are completely wrong.

Just like in any criminal or civil trial in the United States both sides can settle and the plaintiff (i.e. the DOJ) can drop the suit. Once the plaintiff drops the suit the trial is done. The judge and court are immediately removed from the equation.

Also, the DOJ just filed the suit. A lot of preparation needs to happen before a judge even decides if the court will hear the case. Much less actually go to trial and reach a decision.

While the trial moves forward AT&T will desperately try to reach a settlement with the DOJ to get them to drop the suit. Taking a case all the way to a judge or jury decision is the least desirable for both sides. It costs way more in legal fees, mountains more at this level, and the trial could drag on for months or years. Then there is the appeals process. Horrifyingly expensive and time consuming and in the end AT&T could still end up losing.

The DOJ has AT&T by the balls so if it wants something there's a good chance AT&T will agree to it now that the suit is in motion. And the only reason the DOJ got AT&T in this position is because it initiated this lawsuit. Without the lawsuit the DOJ had zero leverage. AT&T has enough skin in the game it might try to fight to the end, but it could be almost as bad as giving up and paying the fee if it won and twice as bad if it ended up losing.

What is interesting is that AT&T is saying the DOJ didn't ask for concessions before filing the suit. Or maybe it did and AT&T didn't think the negotiations were going this badly. Either way, the DOJ probably wants more than it thought it would get with or without more leverage.
I hope that's an exaggeration. I'm just starting to look into scala as a directional language for our team (new projects), but if real-life scala code tends toward that sort of ugliness we'll stay with java.
Irish startup. Paypal don't even offer payments pro here even though their euro hq is in North Dublin.

For my MVP I did the following: I was reading HN, similar thread to this and one of the Stripe boys was giving his tuppence ha'penny - having read his contribution I emailed him for a beta invite (I have a US SSN and bank account). I was able to get payments running with active merchant in a very short time despite the fact I'm very inexperienced. No dealing with the disaster zone that is the Irish banking system, no paypal worries. For someone hacking together an MVP (me) it was a massive hurdle overcome with relative ease. Sadly I think Stripe require the ssn (it is/was possible to open a us bank account without), perhaps one of their reps could confirm this?

Agree with the UK poster it isn't easy doing startup stuff in this part of the old world, it certainly pays to have one foot in the States if you can manage it.
If all someone knows is "how a web page functions (from a UX perspective)", then they don't actually know anything meaningful. If all they understand is that a link is clickable and that a web page is sent over the Internet, then they don't understand nearly enough to be telling someone else what to implement. HTML and CSS are relatively simple. A decent web designer should be able to build a mockup using them.
Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA.

deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists.

One exception to all that: there's an Infrastructure Engineer position which is located in Vancouver. It's C++/Java focused, and involves developing backend services used by the rest of the site.

We post information about our development process here sometimes: http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/
Apply here: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply?source=hn
What happened to the world’s most famous hackers?
Perhaps, Destiny.

Edit:
I mean, Is that goal what you want.. Really want to do?.
If you were to die in 1 week, would you feel that you missed out on accomplishing your goal?
That's what I thought, until we took the acquisition exit.
So at this pace, version 30 in 3 more years? The end of minor version numbers, oh well.
Why pay for this experience, when you can get the same, with much better financial situation, by actually starting a company?
It was a fairly devious route from Achnashellach to Ullapool stopping for a few nights at the utterly gorgeous Lochan Fada so I could climb the surrounding mountains then up to Ullapool.

It was early April, bitterly cold and very deep snow. Usually those mountains are pretty busy - but I had the whole area to myself.
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You get 6.5 CPU hours free with the current model, you'll get 24 instance hours free with the new model.
As someone who has seen scala, but never really wrote anything in it, what in heaven's name does that statement do?
Learning C the Hard Way - stable version
Millennial Media has some awesome development jobs available in Baltimore, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Check us out at
http://www.millennialmedia.com/about-millennialmedia/careers...

Cutting edge Mobile technology!!
San Francisco Bay Area, CA - Gumroad

We want to make selling stuff online as easy as sharing a link. Kind of like Square, but for digital goods.

Probably the earliest stage startup on here. It's just me. You'll be super involved, have a ton of impact, and will have a sizable chunk of the company. You'll also have face-time with all of our awesome investors. I'll help you start your next company when you're ready to take the leap for yourself.

Contact me using the email in my profile if you're interested.
Ask HN: Programming to Game Programming?
I'm a programmer with moderate experience. I believe I have the skills necessary to become a game programmer, but I don't know where to start. I've searched around. Just finished Andy Gavin's "So you want to be a video game programmer?" series, and I still don't know where to start.

I've looked into various javascript game libraries. I've run through the demos and tutorials. I even took a 3D modeling and animation class in high school, where I proceeded to make 3Ds Max my bitch, but now I'm out of high school and can't afford 3Ds Max. Now I mess around with Blender occasionally.

So here's my question. Where do I really start? Have I started? If so, where do I go from here?
You can read here about Henry Ford and the 40 hour work week - http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/ford.htm

For knowledge work though, the studies I've come across seem to suggest that a work week of 30 hours would be ideal. You can read this article about how Kellogg's actually had productivity go up when moving to a 30 hour work week - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1093/is_1_42/ai_53697...

Financially independent authors have also been known to just work 4 hours a day on their writing and then use the rest of the day for leisure and re-cooperation.
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Really incredible work. Is there anything we can do to speed up exporting, short of manually parallelizing across multiple computers? Distributed export might be a nice feature.
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla linked to closed beach
Opera just updated (to 11.51). I opened up the cert management dialog in it and was impressed at the, by comparison, relatively limited number of root certificates and the apparent -- based on associated names -- nature of these.

(And no, DigiNotar is not currently in their set.)