skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Only current employees at the bay areas top tech companies are invited to look at our positions. "

So unless the HN readership is largely made up of employees of Google and Apple, why exactly should they care? There seems to be an implied equivalence of "works at big company" with "is a high quality engineer", which is a little dubious when you include companies like IBM and Adobe.Any startup that restricts recruiting efforts to "big companies" must be really really dumb. Why would good engineers want to work for them in the first place?

Adobe? IBM? Does anyone think focusing on these companies gives you a better chance of finding better engineers?

"The startups you'll find at LoftJobs are the next Googles and Facebooks "

Oh please. If you know that with any degree of confidence, you should be investing every dollar you can get your hands on in them vs asking people to fill your databases for free. The first thing to learn about talking to good engineers is to avoid easily dismantled exaggerations and keep it factual.

I'm sure calling yourself "The Ashley Madison of Job sites" inspires confidence in your target population ;)

I suspect really good engineers at the big companies in the Bay Area are fairly informed about the startup scene (or can ask friends who are plugged in) and can get a job in a startup of their choice fairly trivially without a middleman.

In any case, How do we know that loftjobs actually has some kind of exclusive job listings from these interesting startups that aren't available elsewhere? What makes your claims credible? Is this some kind of recruiter spam trying to get HN readers to do their work of populating their database for them?
You're disagreeing with something I didn't say. A professor should not "breeze through" anything. I just said they shouldn't set up students with preconceptions of difficulty.
Ask HN: good tools to talk to your users?
I'm looking for something to manage conversations online. In other words: I want it to tell me when/where people are talking about our product (twitter, blogs, ...), easily let me talk to them, easily let me manage incoming emails from users, etc. Suggestions?
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>Now others can go back and see my posts.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "now" here, but this isn't a recent change - for as long as I can remember, Facebook has let you see past posts by your friends. If anything, the Timeline feature limits the visibility of past posts, because, if I understand it, it lets you choose what stuff is emphasized on your timeline.
The orbit of Neptune takes it ~ 164 yrs and 9 months and indeed, earlier this year Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/12/ha...

This simultaneously puts into perspective how recent our knowledge of the solar system is and how large the orbits of the outer planets are.
That is not true. Arch, Fedora, Debian are all capable of supporting the hardware specs of a 3 year old MBP.

It depends a lot more on the experience you want with your system. Do you want KDE or Gnome? Or something more sleek like openbox? (openbox with Cairo-dock can almost be used as a drop in mac clone) With KDE out of the box it usually will setup basic two finger scrolling and mouse gestures for the track pad.

I would just put linux mint on your mac book and call it done. It will support your hardware and you'll appreciate the form factor more.
This includes also my 10 proof-of-concept test apps. And I bet I'm not the only one.
Just for due dilligence, here are the clickable links:

Forum: http://www.saasaholics.com
Contest: http://www.saasaholics.com/thread-let-s-kick-this-place-into...
Been watching what may be the server side of this hack for the last week or so...it's not very subtle and retries obnoxiously enough to stand out/get itself blacklisted.

It may also be possible that some developers' apps aren't catching duplicates or thresholding these calls and are checking receipts with each hit--that'd put a lot more load on Apple's servers, too (though I'd think the app developers would notice this change in traffic as well on their side?)?
Senate Committee Agrees That Violating Terms of Service Shouldn't Be a Crime
I like the "only emails from X companies can join". Reminds me of how Facebook started :)

Why not focus on 1 company? Illegal?
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I think even with brand awareness, you still have to measure that, there still has to be a ROI, even if the return is just increase awareness.
Here are some numbers from last month https://gist.github.com/1166690
Hey, achompas,

Good advice. I've already done this with one company, but I will be more proactive about this in the future. After all, as you say, what's to lose?

Now the only rub is finding interesting companies! Especially when the smaller ones, who tend to be more flexible, I'm likely to have never heard of.
The crazy thing is that when people say that to me, I kinda roll my eyes but try it so that I'm not dismissive... and sometimes it works!
Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits
I don't think he's saying Facebook is like water. I think he's saying facebook is NOT like a stable utility like water or power.
So Mongrel2 sits in front of Brubeck and proxies requests back?

I've been playing with ZeroMQ quite a bit the last few weeks because I needed a fast way to pump data from a Python app into the Neo4j Batch Loader, which runs on the JVM. I wrote a lightweight ZeroMQ server in Jython called Lightsocket and a Python client that (with multiple clients) was pushing about 10,000 inserts per second into Neo4j on my dev system.

Jython was the bottleneck, and I could have rewritten it in Java or Scala, but the data was already loaded. However, I went looking around to see if there was a ZeroMQ-based container or if anyone had modified Tomcat or Jetty to run as a ZeroMQ server, but I couldn't find much on it. Does anyone know of a ZeroMQ server/container for the JVM?
Ask HN: Does becoming a successful startup depend on having maintainable code?
According to their site/docs, Startup Chile's aim is for startups to ideally use Chile as a springboard to global business, and in the process rub off some entrepreneurial spirit on Chileans. Since you applied, I assume you must have read their materials closely, so how/where did you get the impression that their local market is the main focus?

Since you haven't been accepted into YC as of now, I'd say this is one hell of a good bird in hand... You should probably accept now and if you get into YC, then withdraw your Chile acceptance. This is assuming that:
You've already applied to YC and can find out if you got in within the next couple weeks.
There's sufficient time lag between now and when you're expected to report in Chile.

You can also just do Chile for now then plan for YC after *if you would still need it then.
So a neutrino runs into a tachyon in a bar….
I'm not sure this is great visualization.

Firstly, trace ingredients are often what's important to the consumer. Fine, I know my peanut butter is mostly peanuts, but how much salt is there?

Secondly, these are simple examples. What do you do with, say, a can of chicken and vegetable and noodle soup, which could easily have thirty ingredients before you even start counting the potentially-nasty additives down in a tiny box in the corner.

Thirdly, apparently labellers aren't obliged to split up certain categories (eg broccoli, sugar snap peas, green beans and carrots are all in a single green square). So presumably this doesn't even solve the specified problem of not knowing how much white vs whole wheat is in your food -- why would you split up white and whole wheat into separate categories when beans and carrots are the same?
HTML5 physics demo in Construct 2 game maker
Interesting article and definitely a good read. But I find it interesting that it has broken the top 20 most upvoted articles of all time on HN and is threatening the top 10. This probably has to do with f8 and whatever amount of "upvote inflation" that may be taking place as a result of more users being on HN (6 of the top 10 all-time most upvoted links are from this year. Only one in the top 20 comes before 2010). Timing is everything I guess.

1	1638	Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple	[2011-08-24]

2	1324	Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.	[2011-05-17]

3	1262	Introducing Word Lens	[2010-12-17]

4	1232	Today you, tomorrow me	[2010-12-14]

5	1196	Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion	[2011-08-15]

6	1129	A new approach to China	[2010-01-12]

7	1100	Ooops.	[2011-06-16]

8	1083	So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…	[2010-09-21]

9	1004	Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight	[2011-07-29]

10	994	Twitter Bootstrap	[2011-08-19]

11	940	Thoughts on Flash	[2010-04-29]

12	929	Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned	[2011-07-27]

13	906	Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.	[2011-07-22]

14	859	I was once a Facebook fool	[2011-09-23]

15	856	Osama bin Laden Is Dead	[2011-05-02]

16	850	I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count	[2011-04-28]

17	832	How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)	[2009-06-03]

18	827	Bored People Quit	[2011-07-12]

19	822	33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto	[2011-07-21]

20	808	A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects	[2011-07-13]
Why software "maintenance" fails, and how to fix it.
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I've been on SaaSaholics for a few weeks and it has potential.
But behind every congressman, every senator, and of course the President, is a group of experts. Every policy paper is written by a staffer. Nearly every political decision is made by a staffer.

And yet numerous bone-headed, ill-conceived, laws are written and passed.

While politicians may have smart technical people on their team it appears that, in the end, they choose what laws are written (and passed) based on political expediency, not, technical merit.

I have to wonder then if politicians are willfully ignoring their experts, or if they discount their experts because they themselves still can't grasp what they are being told. Or they pick experts who agree with their foregone conclusions.

At the end of the day this country would be better served with more politicians with proper economic and scientific educations. (That would eliminate a good number of so-called Tea Party candidates for one thing.)
No way man, I totally know what I'm
Hackers are like painters, didn't you get the memo.
Yes, it does. Bad architectural and engineering practices will start to burn you at a couple thousand lines of code. "Maintainability" isn't some far-off property that begins to matter when you're at hundreds of thousands of lines.

For the record, the best way to learn software architecture (what works, what doesn't) is to maintain your own code. Only when you support a project from inception to maturity do you get a sense of how much architecture matters and why it is so important.
It's a bit hard to call any statement of the form "X could happen" a lie unless there's some physical law preventing X from happening.
If it brings the issue anywhere near DC, it's a good thing.
US Military purchasing unlimited access to Google Earth for $27 Million 
US Military purchasing unlimited access to Google Earth for $27 Million
Show HN: simple file transfer PC to Android
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Pretty impressive. Just keeps pounding the 10,000 hrs rule into my head. I need to make a program a day for 9 years.
Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham:
http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Well, we all know it takes 10,000 hours of conscious practice to become an expert.

And if you buy the Hackers & Painters analogy, you'll see programming, marketing, bizdev, etc as arts.

It can be hard to observe improvement in these areas; however in the link it's very easy to track the author's improvement.

It's a quite visceral manifestation of improvement - you see the results of daily practice at a glance. It's a reminder to practice, to be better.
private enterprise is about competition. It's about getting somewhere first. It may inspire a generation of entrepreneurs, but, alone, it doesn't have the power to unite people like a huge project the scope of Apollo had. At that moment, it wasn't an American walking on the Moon - it was a human being and that made all the difference for the rest of mankind. That was a precious moment when the message "we can set aside our differences and work together" would be heard.

Still, private enterprise does not exclude projects like those - quite the contrary - most of Apollo was built by private enterprises. It doesn't make them less extraordinary.
Linux in Exile: Dual-boot joy
"+/- 0.002%"

How did you derive a negative bound? A negative bound suggests that arrival times could be slower than c.

The paper indicates that arrival times are always faster than c.

From the paper:

"An early arrival time of CNGS muon neutrinos with respect to the one computed assuming the speed of
light in vacuum of (60.7 ± 6.9 (stat.) ± 7.4 (sys.)) ns was measured."
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This little app is a beta that my co-founder and I built. Please give it a spin and let me know your thoughts.
Mind and Brain Research May Depend on Flawed Statistics
Hi, cofounder of Loftjobs here. Our target user isn't "plugged-in" into the startup world like most HN readers. He/she probably has a vague interest in startups but doesn't know where to start.

We put together the developer positions at some exciting startups - this is a great place to start.

I promise this isn't recruiter spam :-) We're hoping the savvy readers at HN could give us some feedback on both the site and the idea.

Cheers,

Ted
I have a Samsung qx410 which is somewhat similarly built and has a great keyboard but absolutely sucks for linux in the touchpad department.

I think you should look at thinkpads, even though they might not meet your specifications they usually work much better with linux than other brands and are usually well built.
What are you going to do if Apple block all emails from your website, or monitor employees who receive emails from your website? It could hurt them in their current job?
Indeed. It's all too easy (for me) to fall off the horse and all too hard to get back on.
Exempt vs non-exempt
No, absolutely not. With free products, you are the customer. I don't like this idea either. Also, HockeyApp is far superior to TestFlight. They had In-App-Updates at launch day.
A more interesting metric is: # of votes up / (# of times viewed or # of users viewed)

(to normalize against changing userbase size)
Real Time Face Substitution on a Video Stream
I created an app just to test the process with Heroku as I'm sure countless others did.
This is just a start. We have some other ways to sign up in the pipeline.
Please, make it a bit shorter! I started filling it but stopped after 15-20 questions.. I thought it would never end! My guess is that only hardcore git users will fill it up to the end which would make the results invalid, no?
It has never been easy for me to see status updates and wall posts from 2006 without clicking back hundreds of times.

Perhaps I'm overlooking something though. I'd love to know if this is the case.
I try to avoid contracts because they're a huge timesuck and potentially expensive to get reviewed, not because I intend to screw you. If it's a really big deal in terms of potential monetary damages, though, then you're probably right.
I didn't think the #1 entry was very practical either, but the full list of entries is worth a look. There are some good ideas and more realistically usable designs in there. GOOD just isnt likely imo to choose winners based on usefulness over beauty.
I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments:

"Because n people voted it so.

'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"
I was in the exact same situation in last April, but it wasn't YC.

Actually we had been accepted and made final ten of two of well known incubators in US. I got my US visa but my co-founder wasn't available to get a quick visa in that time.

Now, I've been living in Chile almost three months and thrilled with what Start-Up Child is offering to us. Our story will probably continue with follow-up accelerator in US which we've a good track record on getting in to programs like that.

I highly recommend you to participate Start-Up Chile anyway. Let me know if you have any questions.
In entrepreneurial circles, MVP commonly stands for Minimum Viable Product. This is the smallest set of features your product needs to be viable as a business.
Perhaps not for you and your colleagues, but for the folks at the state department charged with enforcement, it often seems to depend on their personal interpretation on a given day.
Yeah, that too. I was thinking a ways out – if they can establish a community that occasionally springs up a sizable company, then they'll not only have the increased tax revenue, but will also be able to have multiple companies doing that.
New Net Neutrality Rules Become Official
Carbon nanotubes with the current capacity of copper
It could perhaps be both cultural and genetic. Women are genetically predisposed to prefer one sort of profession to another, and over the years as programming has changed it has increasingly become one sort of profession rather than the other.

Or to put it another way, many women love doing Sudoku puzzles. But if solving Sudoku puzzles suddenly became economically productive and a huge market for Sudoku-solving professionals suddenly sprung up, I bet the vast majority of jobs in the industry would suddenly be filled with young men with limited social skills but l33t Sudoku abilities.

Ada Lovelace had the good fortune to live when computer programming was a drawing room game for well-brought-up young ladies.
Most of us nowadays are well aware that you shouldn't post any information on FB that you don't want to be shared with broad range of people. We now know how flippant FB is about privacy.

However that was not the case when we just started using it years ago. Back than, many people saw FB posts as something private shareable only with a tight circle of friends. Now these old posts will be coming back into the light for all to see.
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Twilio's definitive guide to brogramming
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Actually, the genius of the coffeescript version is that it's just a use case of the general destructuring syntax. So

{ x, y } = { x : 3, y : 5, z : 3 }

is perfectly valid as well. Once you get the hang of coffeescript's destructuring, it's insanely powerful.
In case you're not aware, a patent's title isn't an indication of what is actually claimed, nor is it a unique identifier. There could be several patents titled "Method to retrieve backups from the internet", each claiming very domain-specific and non-obvious techniques.
Totally agreed with that. Let me know when you're planning to come to Chile.
If it is indeed new, then my first guess is that the leftward lean is from Reddit.
We are considering narrowing the companies down even further - we wanted to see what the reception was with this current list. You're spot on with your FB comment.

TR
There are very strong parallels with the Facebook platform and companies building their business model around free traffic from Google. Small guys get walked all over while bigger ones that reciprocate dollars back to the traffic source (such as Demand Media in Google's case, or Zynga in Facebook's) suspiciously get the red carpet.

As a business owner you should absolutely exploit every opportunity you can to get those users from wherever the traffic is flowing from. However, if you don't hedge your bets, you may find that in 3 years instead of having a nice business you have absolutely nothing.
You don't have to worry about Chilean market or focus on that, in your time here in Chile.
http://hidemyass.com/vpn/

HMA does not bill by the minute. Nice snark, though.
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I think the program could result in a little collaboration between locals and foreign startups short term, with the rub-off effect resulting in increased entrepreneurial activity by locals mid to long term.

Real question is whether the govt stays the course and fosters the right environment along the way, i.e. ensuring that the right tax/legal/political/social incentives are there to encourage Chilean entrepreneurs (the longterm target) to start and retain companies in Chile to boost its economical growth.
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Hey Donnie, thanks for poppin up here! I agree, I'm going to try and dump in a lot of content and new threads there over the next few days to keep things moving forward. Hope to see you around there soon!
Chicago Founders.com
This is a Q&A site started by my friend.
the groupon rise and implosion has been pretty spectacular
Since there are trillions of dollars worth of software patents out there, most owned by US companies, this doesn't seem like a good way to proceed even if it were legal. You might be able to stop future applications for software patents. But really there's no bright line between software and hardware anymore -- you really need to reform the entire patent system.
Scientists generally do not keep data secret. They try to publish as much as they can actually!

Publish != tell the media. Publish != share raw data.
Any good examples that is using the Open Graph rightly?
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Imagine K12′s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology
Good to hear, I've always wanted to be able to gain weight without looking fatter.
The question is more of is it required. I want to see weather there are many companies that have created hard to maintain code, but were able to become successful because of just producing a product that people wanted.
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How did you manage to confuse getting attention from the tech media with gaining customers?
It's ironic how similar the commentary from Schmidt compared to Gates from the MS investigation. There are plenty of competitors, technology moves quickly, customers can switch...yada yada yada.

To this day, I find the chief outcome of the MS anti-trust trial is this: gov't now feels it has the discretion to investigate/disrupt/control any technology firm with decent market size.

Looks like Google is going to have to start innovating in the areas of lobbying and campaign contributions.
+1, and Honestly this is much more in topic for hackers than "how to avoid to get gamed by your VC in ten rules".
nice,i was just looking for something like this. thank you.
"The chief operating officer, Margo Georgiadis, is returning to Google" ... nice way for Google to get an inside into Groupon
Facebook Pulls an Apple
Would Groupon survive for another year or would it file bankruptcy?
No, I'll wait until it's replicated in another lab before I get excited.

Failing that, I'll at least wait three years for the "Ohhh yeah, so we checked again and it turns out that [simple explanation X]".

On the offchance that this is a startlingly new breakthrough in physics, I don't lose much by waiting three more years before I believe it.
MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
So much for that spectacular business model that revolutionizes local business. The Groupon pump and dump will make a good chapter in a finance textbook someday.