skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made some new graphs, taking data from all the history I kept (since September 2006):

http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Oct2008_weekly.png

http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Oct2008_monthly.png

But bear in mind, I kept adding new job boards during these 2+ years, so more recent dates have jobs from more boards than at the beginning.
Really? I'm not so sure. I think it would be a big mistake and would open themselves up to competition. However, it doesn't -seem- evil to omit search results.

I don't know. These are shark-infested waters, so I won't venture further.
Searching for the Mobile Web
I've read that book, and a bunch of others. There is a method for picking winning stocks. Buy low, wait, sell higher. If you are disciplined, it is not gambling, unless you believe in the efficient market theory. Looking at how certain stocks are valued today, I don't see how anyone could believe that.

Of course, a stock that is valued below book could still drop further. And that is why you stage your buys, and must be ready to hold for the longer term.

Right now, we have a bunch of stocks with historic lows. I stand by my assertion that now is a great time to pick stocks if you meet the above provisions.

As with all things, there is no reward without risk - but you can manage your risk in various ways (staging buys is just one).
professional?

professionals wear suits.

I'm running a company, but I still work days as a contractor to pay for it.
Slide 17 has a great definition of founder:

A Founder...
* Works before the money is available
* Will do ANY job
* Won't give up
* Doesn't need to be managed
* Intelligence; Drive; Integrity
* Vests!
Pft. Web development involves solving a very different set of problems, but it's no less a profession. Web development is more concerned with usability and business needs than desktop development, so while the code challenges are less extreme, you often are working under the watch of far more direct users. Information architecture is also more of a focus in web applications.
SSL is built into MySQL replication. If it's enabled on both ends, you can switch it on and get end-to-end encryption.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-solutions...
A lame blog entry on a very old blog post by Scott Adams. Where's the HN-worthy angle?
They could work the irony by having "Whisper" in large font and then "... don't shout" in 75% or 50% font next to it.

Would work better as a metaphor because (I guess) this statement/site is implying that "Whisper" is the more effective communication approach.
Full-time school + part-time work (not at a startup)
Depends... is it profitable yet?
if Red Bull can own one, why not Google?
New business models for news
Why Are There No Decent note-taking applications for the iPhone?
Actually, I'd say that democracies should be able to but should decide not to.

I really wish people could draw a distinction between shouldn't be (or I don't want this to be) & should be illegal.
Karlheinz Brandenburg: Father of the MP3 teaches machines to parse music
10 Impressive Rails Apps Built in 48 Hours or Less
In addition to the supply of capital (which is quite significant!), tax rates also affect the likelihood that the startup is successful. The higher the tax rate, the higher the company's burn rate, and the less time the company has to gain traction / positive cashflow.
I love my iPhone, but I still yearn for a device that will let me take notes as fast as pen and paper. By the time a note-taking application opens, I'd already have my note written down. (Application launch times already take iPhone apps out of the race.)

Though that's a little orthogonal to what you might have been trying to ask.
Bah, just the week I'm out of town.
I think you guys are right...an important part of my answer was the "yet." We haven't seen too much weakness yet at Startuply, but it's sure coming.

We still expect startups to be better insulated from macroeconomic weakness than many (or most) other industries/niches.
This is a genuine nit-pick, but I don't like the light green ivy leaves on the blue background (top left)... Maybe I had "blue and green should never been seen" drummed into me too much...
I Think I Broke Google
Bizarre page discussing Microsoft's support for PHP
Linus' Blog - So I got one of the new Intel SSDs
To an extent, this is a manifestation of a general trend. "Globalisation" continues. States are not really independent entities any more in the sense that economies are inter tied in more granular ways. Trade is one thing, but small businesses (like 10 people) are located across three countries with occasional outsourcing to a fourth & clients in several too. This is not as clear cut as it wad when companies made clear desicions to market to new markets. Clients are incidentally incidentally acquired across different states.

Then you have things like climate issues: carbon trading carbon capturing etc. that require some sort of joint framework. But there is no mechanism for governing the world. If climate change was confined to a single state (depending on the state), it may have already been solved.

This is just another example. For regulation to be coherent, manageable & not too restrictive it needs to be global really. We aren't operating as independent states anymore

Maybe it's even time for a global safety net welfare system.
Be a man an do a startup

Best of Luck
"Buy low and wait until you can sell high" is not a method for picking winning stocks. If you buy a stock, then wait until its increase has exceeded inflation, you may find yourself waiting forever.
I don't see the 'Another Pattern Language' presentation as any sort of serious critique of Alexander's oeuvre. It's just a bit of humor generated by the contrast between Alexander's professional image and personal circumstances.

I know the creator of the presentation, and do not see him as someone who tears down the famous for cheap notoriety, as you accuse. He truly lives not far from Alexander; his professional reputation as an author/consultant/educator is secure; he hasn't promoted his wry little parody widely.

I suspect neighbors did resent the 'curb appeal' of Alexander's property (and still do if circumstances remain similar). The Berkeley hills are fairly upscale real estate.
There is a big difference between working AT a startup (an employee) and working ON a startup (a founder), IMO. Any chance we can get an update to reflect that?

Anyways, I chose 'Working at a startup', though I'd like to someday work ON a startup (as well as become a student again and finish school).
But according to that same law, shouldn't your skill at predictions be much greater than that of a future-predictor living in the year 1900?

You can't just map the whole world onto a linear scale and expect resulting metrics to be consistent.
Maybe there should be another poll: 'What is your startup experience?' Work at one, have worked at one, Will start one soon, will start one in the distant future.....
Thrift seems to have a fair amount of activity:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/thrift/trunk/

What I would fault them for is poor documentation. Google does a much better job on this front.
Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"....
People weren't made to be computer programmers either ;-) Imagine seeing a bit of bad syntax and suffering involuntary convulsions....
a single global government is even more dangerous than a divided internet. If a global government gets it wrong (that never happens), there are no other governments to bail it out. It becomes a single global point of failure. Other than that, we will have no other government to compare it against and therefore demand change. Scary scary thought.
Yes. And the LEGO one is made of LEGO. Neither omni-drive nor mecanum wheels are new.
I think it's a cool idea for a product. The Journalism / PR space can use some innovation. The struggle, perhaps, will be getting people to start using it. I'd recommend getting to know people / users at places like OJR.org, MediaBistro, etc.
That's the definition of the word "marginal" here. It is axiomatic that the tax rate is the deciding factor for the marginal entrepreneur.

If you think it has some meaning dependent on the tax rate, then you're not understanding what marginal means.
It seems like this is a great idea, especially since RSS advertising is not particularly profitable. But it also might be especially smart on Guardian's part since they're the first ones to jump to full text feeds, inviting a bunch of rss readers to take an interest in their content. But I wonder how are they supposed to monetize their news online, if they can't keep their users in their webspace...
FF3 still runs at 700 MB of RAM on my system. I've switched to Camino for daily browsing and FF for development only. Until they fix this ridiculous memory usage, I'm not switching back.
One day I was having a discussion with a cashier in my neighborhoord. A kind woman in her fifties, who started this job before I was born. She used to be always cheerful and serviable, but not on that particular day. The conversation went like this :

"- What's going on ?"

"- I had an awful streak of horrible clients today, it really got me down"

"- Ah... Yes, I know what you're talking about, I used to be a cashier myself at X last year and some clients were just unbearable, I understand your pain."

"- Sure, but I'm not quitting my job in 6 months."

"- ..."

I just read your bio on a poker site. I saw that The Big Lebowski is your favorite movie. As someone a bit younger than you and who had his fair share of dirty jobs as well, I suggest you to rewatch another Cohen brothers classic : Barton Fink. Hell is not Hell when you're only a guest.
So?

Tax rates are determined (well, should be) by what works. If some double taxation is good for the nation, more power to it.
Poll: Release Web Application Framework Or Not?
We are trying to decide whether or not to make public our web application framework leveraging the power of J2EE.

Would you care for a new framework?
What would you expect from a new framework in order to deploy a real service based on it?
Yes, the world needs another one.
Sure, I'd give it a shot but not deploy a real service using it.
Show me some perfomance graphs, then ask me again.
I am already happy with the one I'm using.
Who has time to learn another framework?
Also this could have been cherry-picked from a universe of predictions of the future by 14-year-olds. So it's even less impressive.
1. East->West traffic is horrible around 7pm. West->East is much better. Fewer geek-hours spent in traffic when meeting on eastside.

2. Parking on east side is usually less of a problem
They might be out there, just not in the app store.
American Idol:Jennifer Hudson Biography and Photos
My Facebook friends .. let me show you them, My Facebook friends.
I'd like to come, but I'm under drinking age I couldn't do it in a bar proper.
There have been some (like X) that were too small to cause large change due to much larger numbers of the previous generation still being in the work force.
Surprisingly (to me), that sounds like a good description of what I'm working on. It's more of a scratch-an-itch, and has no funding (or chance of it in the near future) and no customers. I'm not even thinking of it as "a startup".

I'm doing it now because I'm out of a job, and don't feel like finding another right away. This has been bouncing around my head for months, and I finally have a chance to implement it.

I must have forgotten pg://newthings, because I've read it but I apparently hadn't internalized it.
Working at a startup as a founder
You have to send out reminders essentially every day the preceding week, duh.
good point. added it, although i think it might be a bit late =)
I was born in April '82, and I have several friends that are 18-19. Not too many younger, but that's just because I don't hang out where you'd meet kids still in high school.

I also have friends that are retired old folks, so I guess I relate well across generations :)
How NY Times can save itself
Like Everything else- It depends..

Does it fulfill a new and unique roll or is it mostly a similar implementation as existing frameworks?

For example- GWT and Cappuccino bring something new and interesting to the space- Program in either Java, or an Obj-C like language.. There are a lot of decent ways to write web code using Java- Spring is very popular for plumbing..

So the question comes down to.. What do you offer that no one else does?

The second question is, How much effort do you want to put into supporting this? It sounds like you've developed an application, and then pulled the framework out from it.. (Not a bad policy at all. Look at 37Signals and Rails)

If it's not your core product, and you'd be giving it away, how much time and effort do you want to invest in writing documentation, test cases, examples, etc?

How much time do you want to spend ensuring that a stable version remains consistent for years, rather than being able to upgrade the framework when necessary?

It could certainly gain publicity and popularity if it 'took off', but that goes back to the first two questions.

I think your poll questions are the wrong ones, to be honest.. How can anyone answer if they'd use it, before they know the unique selling points, and what it brings to a table.

How long is a piece of string?

On the other hand,
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Government is dangerous.

But there are also things that only it can do. Having many seperate governments whose jurisdictions you cross daily can be very inefficient.

On the basic level we can have reduced problems hiring & selling to people across several countries. On higher levels we can actually deal with things like climate change or internet regulations (or avoiding regulations) in a better way.

Climate change is (i think) a strong example of this need. There is general acceptance of a need to do something but a very weak decision making & execution body.
I wouldn't be surprised if one or more of them is planning to fly it. I believe this plane is the default choice among individuals who want to learn to fly jet fighters.
It was a joke. That's what the ":)" was for.
Haven't the X'ers been the ones to create the technologies and found the companies you folks are so eager to emulate?
There seems to be much more to it than just that though. From Krugman:

"Second, again like Reagan, Bush has used the government's power to make it harder for workers to organize. The National Labor Relations Board, founded to protect the ability of workers to organize, has become for all practical purposes an agent of employers trying to prevent unionization. A spectacular example of this anti-union bias came just a few months ago. Under U.S. labor law, legal protections for union organizing do not extend to supervisors. But the Republican majority on the NLRB ruled that otherwise ordinary line workers who occasionally tell others what to do -- such as charge nurses, who primarily care for patients but also give instructions to other nurses on the same shift -- will now be considered supervisors. In a single administrative stroke, the Bush administration stripped as many as 8 million workers of their right to unionize."

You can't simply explain the death of unions by saying manufacturing has gone overseas. Those jobs were replaced by retail and service industry ones which, in the 70s, were also largely unionized. Now they're not. Why?
8. Stop making visitors register.
Will certainly take a look at this in more detail when I'm on my laptop, as I'm on BlackBerry now, but I find the concept interesting.

I work at a PR agency and a tool such as this to help "push" the advancement of new and relevant technology/services is really welcomed. This can cut into territory like Cision's for media database lists considering users of the site actively generate content.

A few questions/tips;

1.Can I cull some of my other SNS information and port it to your site? Maybe even just an OpenID or Clickpass account?

2.Have you done any self-marketing yet, perhaps even reaching out to the larger agencies for a live demo? May be a nice idea to generate interest at a target market.

I'd be happy to have you guys demo something in the future.

Oh, one other thing in terms of an idea: Set private networks based on agency email address.

So, as I said above, take my comments for what they are worth on a BB, but I'll check the site out in more detail. Just wanted to add here that this is a very good niche for something like this. Good luck!
I wasn't saying tax rates do not have an impact on investment. I was saying that is irrelevant to Cuban's argument

"You dont need to raise money. You need to be smart and be focused."

If you are not raising money, then tax rates do not affect you via investors.
The comment you're replying to did make this distinction.

It's impossible for any form of government to legislate that gravity should only pull with half of its current force. Likewise, as technology progress, it will be equally impossible and laughable for a government to attempt to control any online speech.
A flight over cupertino is in order though, for the interests of the android platform.
I'd love to come, but I'm in the same boat- if only by a smidge.

Possible to meet at a coffee shop instead?
Actually, it has been stable for the last 4 years and used to deliver a number of applications.

However, these are good points. And defenetely it needs effort and time.

The questions were mostly targeted to measure people willingness to try a new one.
PHP isn't like nationalism - you aren't unpatriotic to criticize. If you are enlightened, all languages must have either some utility, or some feature that teaches you something. Keep exploring.

Also, I dealt with this by getting _deeper_ into PHP by seeing what made it tick - writing C/C++ extensions for PHP. Not super fun, but helped me understand the value of Python/SWIG.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :)
Personally I would be interested in seeing something new. Well, we do have Maven, Jetty, Spring and Hibernate to do agile development in Java (though - it's not even close to RoR's productivity :-) -- so why not to fill this gap? And beside that one, there are a lot of empty spots in Java-around.
I wonder if they're going to put a "Beta" label on their new Alpha Jet. Also, which control in the cockpit is going to be labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky".
At first I thought "Wow. Am I the only one so far to be working on a startup as a founder?"

But then I discovered that this option was just added. Heh.
> I want an aggressive competitor to iPhone.

The iPhone. THE iPhone. Just because Steve Jobs wants you to anthropomorphize THE iPhone doesn't mean you should.
Could it be that the UK has a shortage of programmers generally?

My husband is a programmer in the games industry. He emigrated from the UK as a child, along with his father and uncle. (Who both worked as programmers in the UK) Since he still has British citizenship, we've considered spending a few years in the UK. What's stopped us (so far) is that it seems like programer salaries in Britain are extremely low compared to the cost of living there. Things like housing, food, and transport are 50-100% more expensive in the UK, but the salaries appear to be roughly the same as here in Canada. Worse, it seems like most of the software companies are clustered in the very expensive areas.
which your generation has mortgaged

Lumping me in with bandits in the same age group makes as much sense as blaming you for the shitty code I have to clean up because you happen to be a programmer.

Witty comment based on no logic whatsoever. Fail.
Charting Library (PHP)
Looking for a nice charting library that can integrate closely with PHP, prefer object oriented. Flash or Non-Flash based. I would prefer static images, but Flash offers nice eye candy. I just need the basics; line, bar, pie, with labels, keys, and coloring options.

I am looking at Open Flash Charts, but the download comes with a lot of files, and seems very bloated.

Also looking at Google Charts, but again looks a little nasty to use.

What have you all used and liked? Thanks.
Thanks for explaining it, I always wondered why dropping the articles annoyed native speakers so much.
Like pointed out elsewhere, I think the interesting thing about this story is not the prediction of the future but the fact that description looks like some kind of crazy Nostradamus quatrain predicting 911.
maybe Cassandra was mature and stable when they released it?
Umm, yeah, and unfettered capitalism does such a wonderful job of allocating resources. Government is terribly inefficient, but what other entity is going to maintain infrastructure, a social safety net, schools, and other basic services from which society benefits? I hate that so much money goes to DOD, TSA, farm subsidies, and the like, but reducing government revenues doesn't force the government to make tough choices, it simply causes it to run an even more unsustainable deficit.

By the way, if you lower taxes (and thus government revenue), it's not defense and corporate subsidies that suffer--they always get their piece--it's infrastructure and social programs. The "starve the beast" concept simply creates more suffering for those who can't afford things like private schools, expensive out-of-pocket health care, and jet time-shares.
This is just the first part of the equation, I've done news feeds and one of the most difficult thing to do is aggregate similar actions from the network (such as X people from your network changed their profile photo). I've got a working thing but would love to know how they implemented this
You'd penalize the investment gains with double taxation. The person already paid income taxes on the money that was used to generate the $25K. Why should government policy penalize savings and investment?
I jumped into the middle of this discussion, so I'm not commenting on whether the Bulverism is applicable here.

But I really wanted to thank you for pointing it out. I've recently become more aware of how easily my own thinking can get knotted up in opinions, and get distracted from the facts or the actual problem. I have a limited short-term memory, and the issue itself can get pushed out - temporarily or permanently - without me realizing it (especially when emotions engage).

Scary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
First of all it is morally wrong. And for the good of a nation? Nationalism is an ugly thing. Second of all it's not good for the nation.
Ultimately, you both can be right. It's about where you stand relative to everyone else. If the younger folks are enabling themselves via tech faster than the older, it should be possible to position yourself better.

I think it's more a testament to the improvements we've made in technology how easy it is for kids to become BIG deals quickly with good ideas.
> Umm, yeah, and unfettered capitalism does such a wonderful job of allocating resources.

True.
Perhaps it is true that people don't take invites on facebook seriously as they can see the list of people. If there are too many people invited, they might not feel obligated to respond. What if you had a dedicated invite service and you could not observe the number of people coming (say to a dinner or a party etc). Would you feel more obliged to respond?
amcharts.com is great. They have really good customizable flash charts and I believe they have PHP support as well. We code in PHP and we are very satisfied with their charting tools
Good suggestion. I'm of age, but don't plan on drinking. If we can get some more hackers & be more inclusive, I think it'd be worth it to try something like a coffee shop instead.
Presumably, the eject button.
Recently laid off. :]