skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're in Sydney Australia we're looking for PHP developers at various skill levels. Send a mail to shawn at casid dot net if you're currently looking and we can setup a chat.
What about if I am from the Philippines? :-/
Thanks, that was helpful :)
Facebook is always looking for good engineers: PHP/Frontend stuff; Python/C/C++/Java for backend stuff; data science and machine learning. Start on their jobs page, do a couple of puzzles, demonstrate exceptional ability.
Faulty connections responsible for inherited face-blindness
"The ideal candidate is... posses a computer science degree"

That's unfortunate, since computer science has almost zero relevance to what you do.
the same business model as new economy v1?

The same, but now with AJAX and Rails.
Observe the following lookup table, which is a 5x5 matrix.

12345
67123
45671
23456
7RRRR

R means "reroll".

Constant time execution in average case. Mathematically provable that it is as unbiased as your rand5() function. Technically not guaranteed to terminate but if you dock me points for that you're technically not guaranteed to survive to the end of the interview, are you.
Try Prolog. It'll at first please you and later either make you a code genius or drive you insane. But the ride is fun!
My employer isn't a start-up anymore (still privately funded though) and we're hiring in the Pittsburgh area.

http://www.invivodata.com/aboutus/careers/clinical-systems-s...

We also have a small development center in Scotts Valley, CA that isn't actively hiring, but is often looking for good engineers, especially those with Windows Mobile experience.

bjanaszek AT invivodata.com
Anonymous webpage versus Google. Hmm. Tell me, how many Diggs do you think that one is going to get before it gets buried?

I suppose you could possibly craft a less likely to succeed story but it would take some work: [Scientology: Why George Bush's plan to install Vista on your iPod is a good idea]
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yeah, you're right. no way developers are in the majority at google, it's 90% management spread out into 25 layers.

Seriously, if something was really wrong at Google you would hear about it. It doesn't take much to leak information anonymously and the chances of getting caught are virtually zero.
I've been annoyed that people don't know what a wiki is. Some use "wiki" when they mean "widget." Now Google comes and muddies up the language even more. boooo
It's advised solving a puzzle first isn't it. i'd love to apply otherwise.
Another thing to think about is the main goal of Startup Weekend is not to create companies, but to build community.
And test out potential cofounders. That is the real value.
Thanks for the article because I was beginning to feel lonely.

I moved to the Philippines from Silicon Valley in 2003 (during dotcom bust) to check out high-tech scene back in my homeland.

Was supposed to stay only for a couple of years but turns out there are more than a few dreamy-eyed hackers (which I hooked up with) turning their backs on Microsoft, HP and the BPO industry. The bureaucracy is numbing and the corruption sucks but generally happens to businesses that don't want to pay taxes (personal, corp, custom, etc.).

I have since setup operations for Friendster and am working on my startup.

The PH gov has setup a special economic zone (5 year corp tax holiday) if your product serves a mostly (50%+) foreign customer (great for startups).

With so much local talent, a modified YC model would contribute greatly to innovation and more startups. If you're interested, ping me.
That was a similar event, but was not Startup Weekend.
I have(/had) a project in this area as well, and I kept stumbling over the monetization problem-- job seekers are a population that has a strong disincentive to parting with their money.

NotchUp has an interesting play on this problem, though hard to say if they're getting any traction.

Obviously the employers and recruiters are the ones holding the money, so most solutions tend to cater to their dealflow needs.

Any other stakeholders with money that are part of this ecosystem? Or other monetization ideas?

Are there any affliate players in the job space? E.g. capitalizing on bounties/etc for successful hires/interviews?
Proposal: Something to make everything better. 
My idea for a site is one based on design, and more specifically, the constant retooling of objects that we interact with on a daily basis.

My goal would be to provide an environment, not a forum, for designers and ideamakers alike to interact on the idea of reinventing our natural and synthetic surroundings.
Equity is divided by the people involved in creating it, no requirements or rules.
I think your tag line should read "a naturally zesty enterprise" as opposed to "a natural zesty enterprise". And what is it, exactly, that makes you "zesty?"
dude, relax a bit.

first, disqus has shown very impressive growth in the past year for a company of their size (not to mention they've raised money from fred wilson et al).

second, judging a post by one word is a bit pretentious.
I think a little of both goes a long way. Often articles with 'what I did' don't admit the luck that it somewhat takes.
I nominate this for thread of the year.
http://tipjoy.com/jobs
That's no excuse :p You can use something like http://slinkset.com/
I noticed this network-effect with one of my Facebook apps, also. It really took off in Toronto, ON and after that I'd estimate that 10% of my users were from Toronto and at least 50% or so were from Canada in general. Google Analytics always indicated Canada as the most popular country of origin.

No matter what I did I couldn't seem to level the metrics back to the US, and this was on an app that now has ~1m users.
The previous era's coke and hookers were far more exciting.

(If you think I am joking, please see: Pseudo.com)
Thanks to all for your suggestions.
How about stock market quotes? I've heard of hedge funds relocating their offices so that they can shave a few microseconds off the latency on their stock market trade data.

Road traffic data also comes to mind -- there's no point hearing about a traffic jam after you're already stuck in it, or hearing about an traffic accident after the offending vehicles have already been towed away.

And on a more catastrophic note, there are some systems which provide a few seconds of warning of earthquakes... obviously, having an alarm go off in time for you to climb underneath your desk is much better than having the alarm go off after the earthquake has started.
Works, but not as efficient as possible. Look at patio11's solution; you only need to throw it away and repeat if it's >= 21. Otherwise you can just take n mod 7.
Solving a puzzle is a good way of getting attention for your resume. It allows engineers to evaluate your coding skills much better than they would in a phone interview, it demonstrates interest and ability and geek cred. You can definitely apply without a puzzle, but there's obviously a large number of applicants that do so (and a corresponding signal-to-noise problem).
thanks so much for the in depth response...really helped.
You're basically right. LLVM performs optimizations that mxmlc doesn't, and you don't lose those optimizations during the as3 compilation step because Alchemy ships with a modified as3 compiler that lets you inline opcodes (output by Adobe's LLVM backend).

You've actually always been able to optimize your AS to this degree, but you have to deal with the esoteric details of AVM2 bytecode, which, obviously, is not alot of fun.
patio11's solution is about twice as efficient as mine, and is a much simpler way to think about it.
4+ years, wow. Lenny I see you guys have upgraded since last I worked there. ;)
Oh thankyou thankyou thankyou. I was looking for this earlier.
Have a look at the distributions for each sum here: http://brianpmearns.com/ext/dice/dice.html

edit: Oops bad addition on my part, could be uniform, but you'd have to work out the actual number exactly.
mixergy's been mentioned previously, but there's a bunch of other la events..barcamp, cocoaheads (for mac/iphone devs)..

you can usually find a good list of them on mixergy, upcoming, meetup..there's also a couple facebook groups like "I'm a SoCal Tech Geek" where events are often mentioned and there's some related groups to that you can find on facebook as well.
Instapaper primarily targets the mobile market with it's main feature being the reformatting of pages for offline viewing. (And damn is it a cool, and extremely well done feature.)

My focus is on making a lean, cross browser, bookmarking site with a focus on short-term storage. If you don't opt-out of the feature you can get a reminder the day before any links expire in case you forget to read one.

This app grew out of the habit I had of emailing articles to myself several times a week so I could go back and read them after work, or at lunch, or whenever. I realized there had to be a better way. Looked at a few of the other sites around at that time, didn't really like any of them, so I wrote my own.

One of the big reasons I wrote my own was that I'm addicted to interfaces like Hacker News and Reddit. Simple, concise, and almost exclusively text only. I modeled the link-list on that idea. The one twist being, thanks to some nifty JS code, that the longer a link hangs out on your list the more faded it becomes. To me this makes it a much quicker and easier interface to get in, find what I need, and get out. I carried the same idea through to the bookmarklet in that it doesn't redirect you to the MarkitForLater site when adding a link. Instead it adds it in the background and notifies you once it's done, this way you can continue reading, or move on with minimal interruption.

In summary, I think MarkitForLater provides a minimal impact on the way you browse, while still providing a useful service.

I think Instapaper is one hell of a cool application and has definitely earned it's place in the market. I won't tell you which is better for you, but I know which one I use ;)
I'd be really interested to see that presentation. link?
It's actually an out of context quote from the film "The Big Lebowski". A copy of the quote can be found on this page.

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.20733/M...

As for what makes me zesty, well, you should follow the link for a bit more of an explanation.
I did a radio show for two years, and all the recommendations on this page are a great way of finding music, but by no means are they better than just reading interviews and articles on your favourite artists, find out what makes them tick. Heck, go to a concert at your local (smaller) venue and chat with the band if you liked what they did.

That was always the best way I found music, lots and lots and lots of research and discussion with like minded people, mostly at shows.

... at least until www.last.fm came about. :) This, in my opinion, is the best way to find music that's in line with what you listen to. It takes what you listen to and finds people who listen to the same thing. It then finds out what they're listening to that you're not. Yes, you have to feed it your listening record, but once you've done that, your life won't be the same. I don't know why it's so neglected.

In fact, I always thought this would be the best way to run HN. Take all the articles I've upvoted, find people who've upvoted the same articles, look at what they've upvoted that I haven't and show me THAT on the main page.

The main problem with a HN for music is that music is too subjective and immeasurable. In hacking, you can argue stats, performance, visitors, etc. Music is different. More people listen to Brittany Spears than North of America, she also made more money, but there's no fully logical way to argue why she sucks. It's all a matter of perception and emotions. You can't wrap a webapp around that, nor can you get a group of people to agree on what's good and what's not because tastes vary so greatly.
I bet this audience has awesome demographics though. If PG wanted to monetize with some ads, I bet he'd be able to get a high CPM, especially if he had a survey done.

Average income here has to be pretty solid.
No, the study was flawed. It turns out that there were very few actual monkeys on usenet. It was mostly just humans pretending to be monkeys. The delicate monkey sensitivities were too easily offended by all of the asshatery.
Is Success Killing HN?
Can you realistically crack an 18 character random string, even if you know the character set? I mean, I realize that technically increasing the character set would make it harder, but for any web-based service cracking something with 62^18 (or more if other characters are used) possible combinations is impossible in the real world.
And that is why I love this community. Thanks for that suggestion.
I can't believe this post made it to the first page with 4 points.
Amid Layoff Speculation, Google Ramps GMail Advertising
Twitter acquires 'Stikkit ' & 'I Want Sandy'
half right, little bit right, sort of.. :) But agreed yours is better than the rest. But your predictions were also pretty broad.
[On #3 - we all know OpenID hasn't taken off. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375011]

I found dcurtis predictions then a lot better. Except for #7 which was a total give away.

1. Semantic web searching will not even dent Google.

2. EVDO/UMTS/WiMAX will finally make the internet as ubiquitous as cellular phone technology. 2008 is the year of connected portable devices. Kindle, iPhone, and Dash are its origins.

3. The iPhone will gain a huge chunk of the mobile device market, and after the 3G version is introduced with a spiffy sdk, it will engulf Windows Mobile like a bear eating an ant.

4. This election will have the most informed voters in history due to the ease of research through Wikipedia. (Though the actual voting will be just as aimless.)

5. OpenID-based login systems will grow in popularity.

6. Michael Arrington will be punched repeatedly.

7. Ron Paul Graham will be elected president

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92635]
Thoughtworks uses a (very simple) coding problem as the first step of the interview process. When I interviewed there, I found the problem too simple and was doubtful as to its value till I saw how it worked from the inside (after joining Thoughtworks).

Vast hordes of candidates with err "augmented" resumes get filtered out, as do "experienced" programmers (sometimes calling themselves "architects" and such) who haven't coded in (literally) years.

I would have thought more people would look up the solution online , but apparently even that effort is too much.

So, overall I would say a coding problem is an excellent idea. I am not sure how valid is the "tell me your program letter by letter over the phone" approach yahoo, google etc seem to take in their phone screens.
This discussion is moot since Authlogic easily supports BCrypt:

http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/22/storing-nuclear-launch...
Scale: How Large Quantities of Information Change Everything
The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
QUICK STATS

HUBSPOT has over 700, my guess is close to 800 and they charge like $200 per month (~$140-160k per month)

LEADS360 was doing like $400k in rev per month in late 2007.

37SIGNALS obviously, is doing well, I'm guesstimating $10 mill, at least.

ZOHO is doing like $40 million a year.

CONSTANTCONTACT is doing $50+mill a year.

Then of course, there is SALESFORCE.
Official google.org Blog: Eric Schmidt speaks about solutions for energy security
Xobni is hiring developers - send resumes to jobs@xobni.com!
I'm going to be slightly contrarian and suggest two languages that are widely considered boring and old hat.

All too many developers think they know what there is to know about both of them, and most of them are wrong.

These are languages that will be useful to you in any shop in the industry; in fact you've probably had occasion to use them both already.

SQL and Javascript. You may think you know them already. But they both reward in-depth study.
Anybody know if schools are a good target?
So he's not on call when he's on vacation and on a ski hill. Ask him about getting late night calls while with family during regular workdays!

When you work for a big company and you're getting paid a corporate salary, being on call just plain sucks. Period. I worked one job like that and hated it. I'd never do it again. If you work for your self or your own startup, well... then that's different :).
I can give you the summary online: "pretty darn cool". For the complete dish, feel free to contact me.
The Bilski Decision Is In: Buh-Bye [Most] Business Methods Patents
Hi Brian. We should chat more in this comment section, because going down the hall to converse in meatspace is so time consuming.
Taleo.com - fantastic recruiting SAAS business, something like 300k paying users. Bought by individuals and corporations
Most Consider The Web Most Reliable Source of News
Funny but we talk about that around here after one to many as well.

What if "the algorithm" is vast underground matrix-like hives of third world sweat-shop workers relentlessly ranking pages?

cut to the 30 second zoom-scene with the spooky techno music
This is one hell of a (shameless) plug, I almost didn't notice it and I did sign up.
Personally I'd be worried about giving a brand new startup my OnePass creds, considering I have a stored credit card there and you could use them to book flights.

I like the idea a lot though. I used to travel quite a bit, and mainly stuck to one airline due to the mileage.
Playlist.com is hiring developers. If your a talented PHP, Python or ActionScript programmer get in touch with me at gabe {at} playlist.com.

Take a look at our new website here: http://www.playlist.com/?home=a
Even with solid organic growth it might be a good idea. You won't need to, but you'd be paying a relatively small amount to jump start the product. If word of mouth is bringing you in x% new customers per month (the way it tends to do) you'd rather start off getting that on 500 customers than 20. You'll achieve high market share quickly that way.

Obviously you may not want to scale that fast though.
The comment thread on that post is the motherlode of resentful schadenfreude. And considering the ratio of links per comment, I'm guessing that most of the posters have 'professional' reasons for hating google.
"... Working on a slide deck and looking for other examples of the rapidly decaying value of information ..."

News from Bloomberg fits this description and the Bloomberg box ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal generated 90% revenue, 95% of Bloombergs profits (2001 fig.) ~ http://archive.salon.com/tech/inside/2001/04/10/bloomberg/in...
How Fortran Was Developed
I assigned myself the title of UFO - Ultra-Freaky Officer - at one company.
Sounds like if one email ends up in a spam folder, the whole thing fails to work.
"... Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I really fail to understand new economy 2.0. Companies that have no revenue buying other companies that have no revenue ..."

Because Twitter is not buying the company.

They are buying the technology and the lead developer, Rael Dornfest. So recruitment & a new interesting code base are the objective ~ http://www.valuesofn.com/blog/2008/11/fork-in-road.html

I've watched 'Values of N' before Rael started on Stikkit ~ ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/2006nov08/ after getting a hint that Rael was quiting O'Reilly and I must say it's a very interesting bit of technology. If re-implemented partially at Twitter could "turbo charge" Twitter. I took the Stikkit for a test drive back in 2006 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/291957738/ and while Stikkit had a few hiccups at that time, the service matured well, but the number of users required to build a company was simply not there.
Blatant linkbait.
to be so good that another company buys your company for you, now that's good!
I use Git, and am familiar with its benefits and drawbacks, and I don't see more than incremental value for 95% of source control users. It is inherently complex and arcane, and the primary benefit from adding all that complexity (distributed version control) is simply not that useful for most situations.

I think if you're going to make a comment like this, you have to defend the decision to use the new system. Simply pointing to the "fuss" is not enough, when you're rebutting an argument that the fuss is unjustified.
If you're just replicating Subversion, why use Git at all?

(I'm not being flippant -- I hear this from people all the time, and it really makes no sense to me. If you're just going to set up a single central repository, why wouldn't you use the proven, capable tool for that workflow? Git is rather poorly documented, and works with only a tiny fraction of the professional tools that support SVN.)
If you don't mind the pay-cut, you can probably leverage your work there

Ooooh. Give up something concrete for weasel-word rewards? How can I lose?
They have a call schedule, and only get called when they're on call. The size of google makes that a more solid rule than it is at smaller companies, I think. Plus they have a more lax work schedule when they're on call, to try and compensate.

I've worked jobs where you really are on 24x7x365 call, and it does suck, and google SRE is not like that.

And hey, it could be worse! Doctors can get called any time, by their most hypochondriac patients...
Um, 37% is not "most". Over 50% is "most".

Obviously this headline wasn't written by one of the reliable parts of the web.
What alternative is there really? Ad supported won't work well for most apps. It really depends on what you're doing, but it's clear that it may work, and it's often clear that it's your only reasonable business model, often with some sort of freemium twist.
I'm learning Python/Django right now (coming from a strong Java and Perl background, plus a mish-mash of other stuff)

Liking it a lot, plus have already written an app and deployed it in the GAE, which is pretty cool in itself
Over some businesses it does have absolute power, in the Orwellian sense (absolute power == the power to kill).

Many people would argue that it's the fault of those businesses for designing their business to utterly depend on a high organic ranking or a good Adwords quality score, but like the smoker with lung cancer, knowing who to blame for the fact that an inscrutable entity has power over you is little comfort.
Facebook Wins Judgment Against Spammer
I suspect it's a bi-modal distribution. Which isn't good news for most advertisers, since the upper tier don't buy common things and the lower tier don't buy anything unless they have to...
It sounds like you didn't live through the dotcom boom, when you couldn't go to the movies without seeing several ads begging for developers.

If the bust hadn't come along, sooner or later they'd have made a deal to print the help wanted ads on individual cans of Mountain Dew.
we're looking for a lead engineer at weardrobe (details at www.weardrobe.com/joinus)
drop me a line at suzanne@weardrobe.com
Ten Thousand Googlers to Go? I Doubt It
How would you do it specifically? That's the important thing.
DHH is to blame for the economic collapse, not the housing markets.
I don't think I'm "disparaging" people who make the switch. If you want to use git (or mercurial or darcs or whatever), that's your choice; there are situations where it makes sense. But in most cases, I question the technical judgment. I use Git myself right now, and don't find that its benefits outweigh its costs for non-distributed projects.

I think that Linus Torvalds scratched a very personal itch with git, but that it needs a lot of time and polish to be a valid, general-purpose competitor to subversion. Couple that with the fact that I've seen very few rational discussions of the benefits of the environment, and lots of references to the hype, and I've become quite skeptical.
Upmodded for North of America reference. One of my favorites.
Awesome idea and clean execution. Please add international airlines. Great for the expat community which uses multiple airlines for different regional destinations.