skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. You need $380,000 in income, i.e., PROFIT, from a small business to be considered part of the 1%.

A "successful" small business owner could take in $2-3M in receipts and still only clear $150k a year after expenses. Or less. Some businesses don't have much of a margin. And most don't have more than a few hundred k a year of receipts.

That's what I find crazy about all of the "you'll hurt small business!" anti-tax rhetoric. If it's only targeting more than $380k in PROFIT (for a sole proprietorship, or that much per owner for a partnership/jointly owned business), then raising the MARGINAL tax to 50% or higher would only encourage the business owner(s) to spend the money on expanding their business instead of buying a second yacht.
That's how the system works. Buy a node for 1 month, and delete the node 2 weeks in? Prorated and credited on your account. Pretty good deal.
How does Obama/Biden side with "big content"? Everyone has their preference to repub or dems, but this seems unfounded to me...
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I know this isn't exactly answering your question, but if you deploy on an Amazon EC2 instance, you can use MongoHQ's shared hosting in conjunction to your pre-existing Node provider. MongoHQ runs on the AWS infrastructure, so the latency between your Node server and MongoHQ is insignificant (we use EngineYard with MongoHQ and the latency for a simple small read is anywhere between 1-5ms).

Make sure that the regions match up though! :D
That's often true of tests that were only used to check the validity of code, not its design.

In many uses of TDD, you will use somewhat broader specifications to test things. "The login system accepts any user with a valid name by returning '1' and returns '0' if the password isn't the right one". You can have a test to verify that without using special corner cases, and a test such as this one will likely look like any other normal use of your library or function.

If you develop all your requirements using TDD, then both the corner cases and the standard cases should be sitting in the test suite. The standard cases can act as documentation and a design tool while corner cases are really more there to insure things work absolutely right.
Seattle, WA (or anywhere)
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We're venture-backed, still small but growing fast.

Positions:

* Full-stack web developer: Python, Django, JavaScript.

* Devops: Linux, Apache, MySQL.

* MySQL DBA with AWS experience.

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http://www.bigdoor.com/about-us/careers/
I'm not sure what word you meant to use, but you typed 'intellectuals' by mistake.
I'm running it on both (personal and aws).
Hard, but true.
> When hiring someone to solve our problems we desperately need to know whether or not we're getting a hacker, or a technician.

So you base this on whether someone calls themselves a programmer or not?
UK - London - Software Developer

We're looking to get some people in here at Revector. We work with mobile phone operators and run distributed systems that test out their networks. We have existing (profitable!) products and there are some new products on the drawing board as I speak, so this is a great time to join us.

There's plenty to get involved in: Hardware interfaces (VoIP, SMS etc); Intelligent scheduling; Data storage and processing; Front-end presentation. We're very small, so you can get stuck in and make a big impression.

Experience with Python, Shell, MySQL and Redis would be great, but if you're good then you'll have no trouble picking these up. The positions are listed as graduate ones, but we'd be really happy to hear from people with more experience.

The website has a load more info: http://www.revector.com/careers
Do you scrape wikipedia as questions are asked or are you working from a static data set?
Facebook pages becoming useless
Recently I posted a new calendar and wanted to send a 'marketing update' to all my page fans about the availability of the new calendar for download. I couldn't find the 'update fans' button. I thought maybe I was looking in the wrong place. I kept searching for sometime and then googled it. Lo and behold! Facebook has canned that feature.

Facebook canned "update fans of my page" feature.

And the workaround they give is:

>>post content on your page wall (duh! dont we know that!)
>>consider facebook ads

#EpicFail

Facebook ads... for what? to communicate with my own customer? How stupid is that!

This is really a cheap way for driving up the revenue.

To be able to keep in touch with my customer base was one of the key reasons I have a fb page. I don't see that advantage anymore.
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We are a small, agile team of developers, committed to shipping quality code in regular iterations. Expect to spend your time writing code, talking about new technology, learning new skills and techniques, and producing systems that you are proud of. If you have ideas about new ways of doing things the likelihood is that you will be able to explore those ideas.

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Mad props for the Alfred E Neumann pic.
Stack Overflow is also a business and also trying to make money doing the same thing, but it does it in a way that’s much better for the site user. I’m not surprised that it’s doing better than EE in the search results these days.
I don't think it has anything to do with Googles algorithm. Over the years, I've had various browser plugins to hide EE results from my searches. Various upgrades meant I had to find new plugins every 10 months or so.

Now it's easy for everyone. I hit the 'remove Experts Exchange from search results' button the first time I saw it.

I hope Google is using remove from search results as a signal in their ranking. I think it's a fair way to weight.
Even inside YC. I remember at the YC NYC meetup, the guy on stage in red sweater (forgot his name) was saying "I was so lucky to be born as white male in a middle class family"; I was like, WTH, so born as non-white or female is unlucky?!
I think your best bet is to have the tech companies acquire the media companies and be done with it. Tech in general dwarfs the content industries that propagate this by several orders of magnitude. Media also drives a large proportion of sales in the tech industry.

Or tech can start lobbying in proportion to their size, they could put them to shame in no time flat.

If they actually acquire media although, would they do the right thing? I doubt it.
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I used to care more about beautiful... but now it's all about functional for me - and its important to consider that sometimes beautiful gets in the way of functional. It shouldn't, but it can without proper design.

I say "used to care" because I earn my income from using a computer, and anything that gets in the way of my efficient use of said computer is a problem. I've found problems with both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, Gnome with and without Unity) that impeded my work; not always to do with the 'beauty' nearly as much as with the 'design' and workflow.

It should be as easy possible to accomplish tasks, not as beautiful as possible to accomplish tasks.

Keyboard shortcuts rock, mouse only sucks.

Design with usability in mind, but above all... design first!
Do you think CNC operators give a damn whether most people know what a CNC operator does?

This "make people understand what exactly I do and how much value I provide and how precious I am" is yet another manifestation of insecurity of software developers.
That's not really fair. At one time, cloaking data was a good way to get found and still put up a pay wall. They built a business around being able to do this. Shady folks turned this practice into a method of deception.

Experts exchange was only hiding from view REAL data that they were selling access to, and to let us know they had the data we needed, they found a way to show it to google.

At least they didn't fill pages with bogus questions without answers and a ton of keywords.

The only part of EE I don't care for is that they want us to pay for data they didn't create, however, the experts are probably aware they will not get paid when answering.
Does it work when you're offline? Or does it require a connection to grab data from Wikipedia?
As others have said, unless you're only changing one element in the hardware/software stack, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. However, A5 is reported to use out-of-order execution, whereas A4 and earlier iPhone CPUs are purely in-order. Integer ALU pipeline length has reportedly also been reduced. The memory bus clock has also been doubled. All else being equal, a single A5 core should therefore beat the A4 on identical code. With a different JS engine on a different browser running on a different OS, I doubt these architectural effects will be noticeable.
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* Web developers (we're a Django shop)

How often do you get a chance to work at a tech startup where eating out can be written off as a tax-refundable business expense? Well not here, because our CEO would go to jail (and he's never going back to the big house), but we do work in an awesome intersection of technology and fine dining.

We offer a very competitive salary, benefits, moving costs and equity options for all full-time employees.

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it caches questions for when you're offline o/\o
I’m not sure what handwriting recognition gets you. I don’t know if you noticed but handwriting is slow. Much, much, much slower than any touch keyboard, especially a huge one like on the iPad.
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Sad outcomes occur when some people get their education about the world from tv and hearsay.

When anyone takes a minute to turn a stranger into a person they fight racism, or any -ism by delivering social proof of how to behave.
That was cool, but couldn't figure out how to move around other than tilt even after reading all the controls explanation.
Ah yes, that's an institutional difference in how engineering sign-off works. In the U.S., you do usually need engineers with P.E. certifications to sign off on a project, and in small firms it works like you describe. But in large corporations, there are typically very few people who do official sign-offs, often only the VP of Engineering or head of a project, who signs the final designs, and anything legally deposited with a government. And they usually don't do it purely on their own professional judgment, but only after consultation with the legal department.

As a result, very few engineers actually have jobs with sign-off authority/responsibility. Even if you do have a P.E. certification, unless you're very senior you'll probably never be officially signing off on anything as a regular employee. Below the top levels, almost all engineering jobs are structured as someone doing internal technical work for the corporation that gets passed upwards for eventual sign-off. That's part of what makes the engineering/technician boundary fuzzy, because nearly everyone is a technician by the classification you describe, in the sense of someone who doesn't independently sign off on engineering work (I do agree that engineering involving more design work is a common differentiator, though).
While you're asserting that it's not so useful to you, at the same time you're hinting at why others may appreciate it (if they use it frequently).
My favourite bit from the (as always, impressive) changelog:

For additional security, security(8) was rewritten in Perl.
I think the correct term is 'race conditions'.
Burligame, CA - Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) (https://www.collaborativedrug.com)

CDD is growing and financially stable. Our software helps scientists manage, analyze and collaborate around their drug discovery data (chemistry and biology). We are are in a great position to support the evolution towards more collaboration, specialization and distribution in a market that has been historically closed and secretive. The model has been successful with academic labs, small biotech startups and very large collaborations (like the Gates foundation TB initiative or MM4TB in Europe). We are now gaining some traction with government agencies and the big pharmaceuticals.

I am hiring a full-stack software developer (https://www.collaborativedrug.com/pages/employment#h-1). As one of three developers, you need to be comfortable working or interested in building expertise at every level of the stack. Experience or interest in system administration and operations is nice to have though not required. We have many projects involving data visualization, data processing, scaling, security, privacy and other software challenges to make our scientific application collaborative, engaging and rewarding.

It is perfectly OK if you do not have experience with any of the languages or technologies we currently use (Rails/Ruby/JS/MySQL/Solr...) as long as you can learn those quickly.
CDD is a great place if you want to have a lot of impact and like to take on projects and responsibilities.

If you are interested, contact work@collaborativedrug.com, you will get an answer from one of the developers (we do not have recruiters or HRs).
There is cache manifest support, so after initially loading the game it will save a bunch of questions and you can play offline. When you reconnect to the net it will sync your score and maze progress.
I agree with you to some extent but you missed out the last bit of his sentence "in terms of content creation". I do think the original iPad was poor for content creation, thats fine as it was a brilliant device but I do think there was a chance the Courier could have been better in that regard.
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Technical blog : https://grepular.com/
Github : https://github.com/mikecardwell
Signed this petition, just like I filled out the EFF form a while back. If you want to be heard it is better to call your representatives as that way at least one of their staffers has to spend a couple of minutes getting you off the phone.
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I wonder how much he charges for design work? Cause if it's $4/hour I've got some stuff he can do.
SEEKING WORK. India. Remote
Django.Jquery. PHP

Contact in my profile.
"prejudices against Indians and Chinese are, I think, a bit different" - Please explain.
The questions are pulled live, but I save old q's so I don't have to crawl the same page twice.
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This position is for developer employee #1 at a web/mobile consumer internet startup in Winston-Salem (not corporate/B2B - we work for the masses!). We are http://dittit.com (checkout staging.dittit.com also which shows our upcoming beta).

Being employee number one means you will wear many hats: coding, going to events, coding, feature planning, coding, etc, etc. You will work daily with the two founders.

We are looking for all the normal things: intelligence, quick learner, etc, but even more important is fit. Since you will be working with us every day, we want to make sure that you have the same values and likes as us and that you are passionate about creating an awesome product that will change people’s lives and raise mountains of money for charities!

Responsibilities
* Coding!! (front end/backend/mobile/??)
* A/B testing
* Unit/TDD/BDD testing
* Scripting: continuous testing and deployment
* Ping pong!
* Other startup stuff

Requirements:
* Code and be able to pick up new languages/libraries/tools fast
* Decent knowledge of either Mac/Linux/Unix command line (We are a RoR shop which means no windows!). We can teach you RoR but we don’t want to teach bash.
* A good fit with the founding team
* Believe in the project

Bonus Points
* RoR, Javascript, CSS, HTML
* Other MVC frameworks, Node.js, AWS
* GIT
* IOS, Android development
Maybe, brown / "arab" are the new blacks to get stares and all that.
Ask HN:  Do you use itunes university to get business/coding courses.
ITunes university has a lot of great podcast's out there on business education, entrepreneurship and even coding.

My question is, do you guys use that resource to find courses on technology or topics that you are trying to pick up.

If so, how is it working for you?
"Visual Studio Express is nonfree."
Well, no, it's quite free

Try developing a plugin for it. That's lack of freedom right there.

Here, let me define freedom for you:

the state of being free or at liberty rather
than in confinement or under physical restraint

Or here's another one:

exemption from external control, interference,
regulation

Both definitions do not apply to Visual Studio Express, no matter how much wishful thinking you're trying to push ;)

ALSO, VS Express is not free as in cost either, as long as it only works on Windows, you do have to buy Windows Licenses. It's basically a complementary product. With GCC on the other hand you don't give a crap what platform you're using or what platform you're targeting. Well, actually you do give a crap because that's an extra benefit. Depends on your perspective.
Great suggestion! Will add that in the next version
Depends if you're giving or receiving it, I guess.
"At one time, cloaking data was a good way to get found and still put up a pay wall."

It was good for the business maybe, but never -- not then and not now -- good for the user.
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The developer experience for BB's is beyond painful. Add an unpopular device with a unique SDK and the result is fewer apps for end users
Whoa, when did whitehouse.gov start doing petitions? That's pretty nice. And they have their own URL shortener? They've come a long way.
> Software cannot be engineered like a bridge.

It can be, as in the world of formal proofs and languages like Ada which facilitate them. It just typically isn't, as such formal procedures are far more costly and slower than than just dealing with bugs as they happen. For critical software systems like say avionics where a failure case is extremely costly (in both money and casualties), there do exist certification programs and rigorous methods as you describe for structural engineering.

It could be argued that avionics behaves more as engineering than as programming. Then we have a self-fulfilling definition: if we define fields with rigorous procedures as engineering, and fields without as software development, then of course software development doesn't have formalized methodology.

You're also comparing the largest scope of structural engineering - a massive bridge - with the entire spectrum of software. Engineering does happen on a smaller informalized scale too, like a homeowner building a shed or a Boy Scout troop building a rope obstacle course. That's still engineering, applying skills in carpentry or knot-tying to build something.
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> I don't believe that the same rigor _can_ be applied to building software.

Check out aerospace software development processes.

edit: also embedded automotive software
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I'm actually one of these brown / "arab" new blacks you speak of incidentally (I'm from Algeria) and I haven't had this problem. But I do not have an accent and I've sort of "integrated" well within American culture. I can see where someone who is not so well-integrated and comes with an accent might see some trouble, but if they can code with quality and work in teams well, all that goes out the window.