skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not selling Applecare plus in my EU home country yet, and it's not available for laptops anyway. Regular Applecare does not cover accidental damage.
New York, NY / Colombia (South America) - Stack Builders

FULLTIME

Stack Builders is a consulting company primarily focused on building large applications for our clients in Ruby on Rails. We're also experimenting with languages like Clojure for future projects. We have teams in both New York and Colombia and are looking for top developers in both areas.

We're looking for engineers who can not only build applications in frameworks like Rails, but who can dig in and extend and troubleshoot those frameworks when necessary.

See http://stackbuilders.com/careers for more, or write me directly with your CV / code samples or questions - justin@stackbuilders.com.
Found via http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2012/04/yet-another-waterfal... where the Waterfall methodology seems to be blamed for the failure of the project, although I can't quite find evidence that the methodology would be the core problem with this project (might be coincidental)
Wow I didn't see that coming
Ask HN: Programmers who seriously damage their hands?
I'm young, but I have to say one of my biggest fears is somehow losing the function of my hands. How could a programmer cope with this? Are there any stories about something like this?
San Francisco and Sydney, Australia

Atlassian is looking for kickass JavaScript developers http://bit.ly/jsconf2012
It might be more interesting if it was a new discovery, but it's known as infant-directed speech, and has been well researched.
San Francisco, CA

Attachments.me is an email software company based out of the Mission in San Francisco. We are currently 5 people and looking to add a few more this year. We've built some incredible technology that lets us do great things with email.

See https://attachments.me/pages/join for the available positions and feel free to email me directly (jesse@attachments.me) for more info.
um I and those with any HR background would call it "bringing the company into disrepute" and "Gross Misconduct"
I wish I could. I have a whole load of broken C that divides by zero that will now start actually doing things. I'm worried people might confuse me with a competent programmer after a while ;)
Read_wharf explains it well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783906
Gamifying One Of The Toughest Jobs On Earth
U.S. Ambassador claim to be hacked by Russians
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Node.js, Socket.io, JavaScript, Python, Django and related technologies

More about me / my work --> http://srirangan.net/about
I like SQL, not for the english-ish keywords, but for the strong mathematical underpinnings.

You left out a notable example of Cobol - Which would you rather read: "Add 1 to someValue Giving someValue", or "someValue++" ?
SEEKING WORK - Remote or occasional travel around Europe fine.
Native British developer based in Warsaw, Poland.

Back-end jack-of-all-trades, concentrating on PHP/C#/MySQL, experienced with Apache/nginx/IIS, and general Linux admin.

A few sample projects I work on in my spare time, using PHP/Kohana/MySQL/jQuery:

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http://campaignbar.com

http://interactwive.com

I'm very good at finding solutions to complex problems, enjoy rescuing projects in trouble, and like working with technology in general. I always chatting about requirements, feel free to drop me a line at tom@tbbuck.com
Wow, Google made at least 8 or 9 April Fools jokes this year. I know these are all just for fun, but doesn't this seem a bit excessive? It makes me feel like Google is focusing harder on portraying themselves as a place with a cool culture than focusing on making cool things (like they used to). It would be much cooler if Google really released half the things they facetiously made for today. I can only hope they have something earth-shattering up their sleeves with their autonomous car program.
SEEKING WORK (Montreal, Remote)

Scientific programming / data crunching

http://cjauvin.github.com
It's rare that you can have all the problems with something so well summed up in a single statement, but there it is ; all the problems with law enforcement agencies summed up in one statement.
I think it's not that bad he didn't use the data very much himself, as the research could probably not be considered very objective. Didn't he mention he shared the data at least with his research group? Hopefully they'll develop some method to preserve this family's privacy and share the data further.
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http://www.gamesozo.com/2012/04/cars-games-2012.html
Not related to his project, but I feel very proud in a distant way. My last startup's office (in Kolkata, India) was at his father's house.
Don't know why I wrote that, just felt...
In terms of the error page, you can modify the CSRF error page by setting CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:sett...

Update: I noticed that later in the thread you mention that you already provide a custom error page. I'll leave this for others who might not be familiar with custom CSRF error pages.
Why can't the 'message' be: "I respect your intelligence enough that I won't assume you'll judge me based on what I wear, so I'll just wear what's comfortable for me."
The benefits of having an on-your-person radiolocation beacon are somewhat muted by the possibility of having the government use that same technology to undermine your Constitutionally protected privacy.

If there is anything that history can teach us, it's that law enforcement agencies will work hard to keep us from knowing that this is going on and they will fight to keep this tool because it makes it easier for them to do their job. Ask any cop and they will tell you that they often view our "rights" as a complete hinderance to their effectiveness.

One man's "civil rights and due process" is another man's "got off on a technicality."
Ask NH: why is the air gaseous?
TUNZ TUNZ TUNZ
Just came to say I'm pretty pissed someone has done this, I don't want to click on your website. I'm not interested. I want them to appear on HN, so I can glimpse on the front-page.

Edit: just clicked the link and I'm even more annoyed! I don't care what the internet is doing on Apr 1st, I care what startups and other HN related entities are doing on Apr 1st. Something I cant do on that other site.

Might seem like a pointless rant, I just don't see the point of people fragmenting my experience.
Why do you put a summary on your résumé as opposed to having it in a separate cover letter?

Have you gotten better responses after putting that summary there?

I ask because I've never seen it done and my first impression was to not want to read the résumé because of the wall of text. (I wasn't trying to hire you so my first reaction is probably biased, though)
Ask HN: Why and what do you use PostgreSQL for?
How do you use it in your web apps? Do you use it as a KV store? What PostgreSQL specific feature do you use? How have you tuned it for your specific case? How have you scaled it? I would love to hear how PostgreSQL's features are used in a variety of scenarios.
I don't know anything about Dan Porter. I have to admit my first thought reading this was that he's another 20-something CEO who hasn't developed the communication and political skills an good executive needs. But this guy is a seasoned executive (http://danporter.org/?page_id=4). Astounding.
Leaked: Microsoft Office 2013 For Linux Screenshot
What about the cost of not having any clients at all because your competitor lapped you while you were busy writing tests?
Why wouldn't you start off with sensible defaults and then customize to achieve your vision? That's not the realm of newbies, it's just common sense. This post reads to me like a back-handed compliment. Given that only dummies use stuff like this, he admits that at times we are all dummies, so let's take it easier on the dummies. It's a false premise.
Atlassian Software - Support Engineer & SaaS Support Engineer

San Francisco, CA (On site only) - Full Time

Atlassian is the makers of JIRA and Confluence, an enterprise bug-tracker and wiki tool that helps teams turn ideas into reality. We're looking for Support Engineers to come join us in San Francisco and be part of a growing team that has one goal: Making our customers awesome!

This isn't your typical Support gig. At Atlassian, Support Engineers have the responsibility of working with our broad range of small to large customers and have the opportunity to think like owners. SE's commonly work with development on bug fixes, provide fixes themselves and are able to influence product direction. We're a growing company so there's a lot of opportunity to work with a broad range of technologies and products.

You'll be working out of our brand-spankin' new office in SOMA. Beer on tap, massage chairs, fully stocked kitchen, etc. Most of all you'll get to work with our kick-ass suite of developer tools and help customers from Twitter to NASA help get the most out of our products. We're also a global company with offices in Sydney and Amsterdam and engineers often travel for training and work opportunities.

A great candidate can hit that sweet spot between a technical and a customer facing role. They have a lust to learn new technologies and are responsible for owning customer issues until resolution. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, check out the page below for a full job description and to apply. If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly - dhansen at atlassian dot com.

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Dragging the box in the tiny thumbnail is a drag (it's a tiny input area for panning around a huge surface). Panning the main image is broken since when the cursor leaves the element, panning stops. Why am I looking at little spinning animations when I've been on the page for five minutes and could have had those loaded in the background? The above combination yields a "meh" from me.
I said no such thing. What I did do is question whether it was a good idea for the ant to throw the pebble at the elephant. The pebble did little to harm the elephant and might have earned the ant a reputation for being a pebble-thrower.
We don't need USPS to disappear. We just need it to be legally allowed to undercut the post office. So long as it is illegal for FedEx to deliver envelopes to your home slowly (because that would indicate it's not "urgent") or for less than a price of "$3 or twice the First Class Mail rate, whichever is larger", it's not fair to criticize them for specializing in the sort of quick, expensive service which is the only type of service they're allowed to engage in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes

The last time a private firm was allowed to freely compete on regular mail delivery was 1844, but at that time the post office charged 12 cents for a stamp and the new firm was able to make a profit charging 5 cents for delivery anywhere in the country while providing free local delivery as a bonus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
My friend managed his hands/arms pretty badly by rock climbing. He couldn't use a mouse/keyboard for more than 5 minutes for a long time. Basically the conclusion was don't damage your hands :). It is difficult to cope and the alternative input methods aren't very good.
I think it's damning that the police go out of their way to hide they are performing this kind of surveillance. It's as if they know it's wrong!
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Chicago, or on-site project spin up. Experienced iOS (Native) Developer. Android as well for the right project.

Quite experienced with the normal startup/early stage process. Bachelor's in CS, all the fun stuff, etc.

Contact: Zack (at) infinitetap.com . Will send along a profile/resume once we establish contact.
Work Market (workmarket.com) - NYC (no remote!)

Java dev (MySQL, Spring), UX, UI, Designer, Product, and Operations (EC2, Puppet).

Union Sq/Spark Capital funded.

More here: http://www.workmarket.com/jobs and you can apply via the site!
Google, April 1, and the trouble with tricks when you know they’re coming
This is what cover letters are for. Use words such as 'I am strongest in', most experience in, etc. And also remain positive with things such as 'I am also familiar, have smaller experience, am exploring'.
Love skitch but don't want to use Evernote? Why not Ruby + Sinatra then?
Personally I don't see how I could give up my privacy just because some/all politician(s) would.

A lot of people don't even mind the absence of privacy, the key point is that that is a decision they can make for themselves. Even if everybody would gladly give away everything on facebook the moment you force them to do so you cross the line.
Back my Django site, because it's one of the databases on Django's list and I hear better things about PostgeSQL than MySQL. I have not taken any of the other actions on your list (yet).

My non-expert impression from reading around is that Postgres has a better future than MySQL, and is just a better solution. Oracle's clouding of MySQL's future didn't help it when I made my decision.
Co-founder wants to leave, do I pay him back the money he invested? 
my co-founder and I have been working on a business idea, where we both invested money into getting it to a MVP stage, it hasn't been launched and does not any money. It is basically a modified wordpress site with no IP. Costs consisted of hiring developers and paying server costs. Since i had 60% equity, I therefore payed 60% of the total costs and he payed 40%. Also worth noting, he still owes money (<$400) for some unpaid costs.

Since he now wants to leave, should I pay him back all the costs he put into the business? (we have no contract/agreement stating our equity split)
SEEKING WORK - Currently in Fredonia, NY but willing to relocate within US or work remotely.

Interested in possibility of a paid summer internship.

C, C++, Java, HTML5, Python, various instruction sets, Windows and Linux system administration, Android.

Website: http://robertszkutak.com

Contact: robert@robertszkutak.com
I think either a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air is still the best option for most everything. I love my display and keyboard and OS X is truly the best for both usability and flexibility. At risk of sounding like a fangirl, I think that Mac laptops are the best on the market. It will be exciting to see what happens in June if Apple unifies their two laptop lines.
seems like UK royalty has had enough -

the controlled democracy does not work well with free internet
Arguably only Lisp Machines hold that distinction. The other common targets are C, LLVM,Arm and x86. I don't see how they can be said to be designed any more specifically for lisp. At least the LLVM and CLR have TCO.
Thanks for sharing Tracy. Your story is encouraging and reminds me of Abraham Lincoln's story: http://pinterest.com/pin/224687468879142473/.

I think it would help the entire startup ecosystem if more founders shared their challenges, failures, and triumphs.
Cool Planets and Outer Space Illustrations
Factual is hiring in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Local candidates preferred, but remote work is possible for exceptional U.S. candidates. Full-time only. H1B is okay for very strong, non-remote applicants.

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that developers, startups, and big companies can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We believe in openness and transparency rather than proprietariness and obfuscation.

We have a terrific team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). In late 2010, we raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers and partners include Facebook, Newsweek, Yelp, and Blekko. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.

We have job openings for software engineers of all levels. You would ideally know Java and/or Clojure, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it just opened in December of 2011 and is very small, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

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Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews
Ask NH: why is fire so hot? I want to know
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SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote

Rails, Django, Full-stack JS

I work mostly with startups and small companies. Email derekdahmer@gmail.com

http://github.com/ddgromit
Letters of Note: The Skills of Da Vinci
> I mean, if you disagree with a potential employer's" values", it's career suicide to...

It's not career suicide. People should talk about shitty places to work more often, and there's no way Zynga can keep another company from hiring the guy. The only time you see "you'll never work in this town again!" work is when all the companies are colluding to control the labor market. In programming that hasn't happened yet, so he can say pretty much whatever he wants and still get a job.

In fact, it was easier for me to get a job after I demolished Ruby on Rails for being the piece of shit that it is. People like honesty.
Hey, RManalan -

Does Atlassian sponsor visas into Australia?
Skillshare is hiring in NYC (FULLTIME & INTERN)

We are building an online marketplace where anyone can be a teacher and share their skills through in-person classes.

Our mission is to flip the traditional notion of education on its head and make education accessible to everyone by empowering teaching. We believe that everyone has something they want to learn and something they can teach to others. This means our communities are really the greatest universities. Our platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching, and fun.

Check out our manifesto here: http://www.skillshare.com/about/manifesto

We were named one of the 6 startups to watch in 2012 by Mashable (http://mashable.com/2012/01/08/6-startups-to-watch-in-2012/), and are backed by an incredible set of investors.

If you're passionate about changing the world and revolutionizing education, you can apply at http://www.skillshare.com/careers.

We're hiring for the following positiong:

* Back-End Engineer
* Senior Engineer / Architect
* Front-End Engineer
New York, NY

ExpandTheRoom, a boutique creative agency, is looking for full-time Mobile Developers (Windows Phone 7, iOS, Android) as well as PHP Developers and UX Designers. We have a truly excellent team of developers and designers, and a fun work environment and culture. We'd also consider internships. If you're interested, check the site - http://www.expandtheroom.com/jobs or contact us at iwannawork@expandtheroom.com.
My favorite:

...Lisp showed us the power of lambdas
but lacked the balls to enforce it everywhere.
NYC, FULLTIME
2tor (http://2tor.com) is changing higher education by building the infrastructure that brings high quality university graduate programs online. Our current partners include USC, Georgetown, and UNC, with more on the way.

Hiring: very strong Javascript developers and a DevOps/AWS engineer, but if you want to get your hands dirty with Python, MySQL, MongoDB, building REST APIs, Salesforce, or PHP we'd like to hear from you.

http://jobvite.com/m?3EC5hfwm
Most startups that succeed end up making solutions that are good, and good solutions require very little in terms of tech support.

An ideal support agent would not only address each concern, but eliminate it from showing up again by fixing the solution (such as fixing the code or improving the manual or web page to say "we're working on X, but this functionality isn't supported yet"). That requires an intimate understanding of the business model and code, and the ability to make those changes. Being a consultant usually doesn't carry that kind of latitude.

A much bigger opportunity is supporting solutions that are marginal or downright awful. Those come from big companies and governments. Unfortunately that support space is crowded, and full of unhappy people on both sides of the phone.

If you're really jazzed about being a get-the-bugs-out service provider, I'd guess one way to bring maximum value would be in the form of an limited-term quality assurance programmer, who is paid as an employee or contractor to take calls and fix code and manuals. That's hard to scale, though.

In the end, it sounds like you're proposing a consulting business that's labor-intensive, full of entrenched competitors, and can be outsourced to places that pay very little (but won't be). Your distinguishing characteristic is perhaps a higher quality and a focus on cash-starved companies.

The only way I see of making that work, and it's a longshot, is structuring a way where you get paid with equity, such as warrants (1 per e-mail, 3 per call). The trouble is that the most successful companies will probably be the ones that use your services least.
I like the CurVe latex class. It works for me:
http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf

It is worth going to the author's page about CurVe rather than relying on the ctan package. He has some nice customisations such as the thick horizontal rule that I borrowed, and gives his own CV as an example:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/latex.php#curve

Here is the archive:
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve
Show HN: Plan your social calendar.
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The big problem is one of customer expectation. End users don't really care about which version of Android is which. They care, for the most part, about being able to run their favourite apps on a device.

When a customer buys an Android device, rightly or wrongly they more or less expect it to behave in the same way as their friend's. Even if their friend has a SG SII and they've just bought a ZTE or Huawei. After all, that's how things (more or less) work for iOS.

What a lot of operators have found is that when they flood their network with cheap, low end Android devices (which are not adequately explained as such), that many get returned. Many of these returns are 'No Fault Found' - meaning that there was no technical fault with the device at all, but it didn't meet the customers expectations.

The argument that it was a feature would work if there were tighter minimum hardware specs for running Android, but too often fragmentation means the Android platform being misused by being loaded onto poorly equipped devices.
Also, after you set the weather it doesn't actually edit the weather display, there's just a "Dismiss" button.

It would have been so much cooler if it did that. Ooh! And then stored the result in a cookie so every time you go back it shows "your" weather. You could wow your friends by showing them how you can edit Google.*

Ah well.

* Actually, this could be an even better April Fool's joke: rearrange and edit the Google search results.
I use it extensively for the PostGIS extensions. I do a lot of work with geospatial data, and extensions to commercial databases get expensive.
of course it's a joke. Why write more code than we have to :) It's the oppisite of less.js
How Edtech Can Raise the Standard of the Teaching Profession
wtf did Notch gain by saying "You're an insane idiot"?!

- More of my respect.

Which of these two gaming CEO's would you now want to work for or with?