skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't talking about price, I was talking about how much you need to carry. Having 2 pieces (tablet + keyboard) is worse than having a single notebook (also, don't you need a tablet stand too?). And yes you can leave the keyboard at home, but if you know you'll need a keyboard, carrying your notebook instead is more efficient. I view them as complementary devices, being designed for different use-cases.

And by my argument Androids are indeed PCs, at least for now, because excluding the availability of third-party sources, all other distinctions will get blurred within the next 2-3 years.
I currently work in finance in London and have experienced very different! I was nervous, expecting to be working with MIT gods who would make me feel like an embarrassment of a human being. The reality is I am working with borderline retards from Utah who do no work whatsoever and when I explain in detail, they don't listen one bit. I'm the one left working 50-60hours to cover their lack of work.
And in the latter case logic engines are a common tools (not even hand-written tests).
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SEEKING FREELANCERS: I'm on the lookout for freelancers in Front-End, and Server-Side Development, and server admins.

I'm in digital marketing and part of the often involves delivering web development projects, so I need to have people that i can sub-contract to since i work in a project management capacity for my clients.

Remote is absolutely fine, and any part of the world is fine, as long as your rates are reasonable, and you are dependable and reliable.
I've had some interactions with a few people off the HN freelancing posts that seemed to have increased their prices after listening to Patio11's podcast but havent thought about how they're going to add value - I dont wish to speak to any of those people please - Polite request.

email me at: khurammalik.me@gmail.com

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A tablet running Linux...so maybe any of the Android tablets that you can root?
Hands off delegation

So basically figure out how to get other people to do the work for you. Sounds like the way lots of startups try and get "the crowds" to provide content and stickiness.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Ann Arbor, MI

Interface designer/front-end developer.

I specialize in: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Wordpress, and Tumblr development.

Proficient in responsive web design (both simple sites and fully responsive web applications).

Good with copywriting and developing personable experiences (e.g. has a voice and personality like Mailchimp).
Fully comfortable with Rails integration and Git.

Recent work:
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Rocket Lease - http://rglv.me/PLvpOu (Responsive Application Design)

Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/rglover
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At least it's not a floppy!
The reflective layer is still made of metal and the two layers are glued together. You have to take the maker's words on how durable those actually are.
I say it's time for the notion of things "being over" to be over. The PC is absolutely going to diminish in mass-market relevance in favor of devices, but there will always be a PC market for hobbyists and power users (though the economic factors may shift, potentially turning commodity parts into luxury items).

There's plenty of room in the computing ecosystem for both web sites and apps, for both closed and open platforms, for both PCs and devices, and whatever other divisions you can think of. Even if one thing "wins", it doesn't mean the other is automatically erased from existence.
New York, NY. 1010data -- Full Stack Engineers / Front End Developers / Security Devs / Analysts

1010data is a database specializing in big data analytics. We build a trillion-row spreadsheet, served over the browser, capable of analyzing that amount of data in seconds, not hours.

We're in need of front end devs and full stack engineers working on the front end to develop a better product to help customers analyze their data, visualize it, and make sense of it all. Other teams around the company are hiring as well, so if you're an interested, please see: http://www.1010data.com/about-us/careers. I work on the UI team now, feel free to email me at george@1010data.com if you've got any questions.

As for me, I've been working here for two years now. My favorite thing about the company is that it's a culture that encourages you to figure out the best place to use and develop your talents and to wear different hats. A few of the things I've worked on below:

* Building a grid capable of serving to a browser a virtually infinite amount of data.

* Building tools to help visualize that data.

* Learning to manage client relationships.

* Figuring out ways to classify and understand customers based on their shopping patterns and habits.

* Attending trade shows and conferences to demo our product and generate leads.

* Enjoying Scotch-o-clock with teammates and friends.

It's a fun and awesome place to work. We sponsor H1B, and interns in their Junior+ year are welcome to apply.
I was inspired by the same guy and use an iPad with the Logitech ultra-thin keyboard (with a Linux desktop at home).

The advantages, for me, are:

* battery life

* in-built 3G

* the fact that iOS is almost single-tasking means I get distracted significantly less often

* when I do stop typing, I pick the tablet up and move around; on a "computer" I tend to stay in the same position, even when not working

The major disadvantages:

* not much good when doing web-UI work (task switching, no web-inspector)

* iOS really needs the "open in" button available everywhere, or something like Android intents/OSX Services/Windows 8 contracts.

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SEEKING WORK - Remote or Berlin

We're offering consulting/contract work around Digia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing other work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile and iOS.

If you're interested contact us via http://woboq.com/
This is only a superficial difference. On a relatively big economy like France, the difference between state-based pension and capital-based ones are very minor: in both cases, you're hoping that people who work when you retire will be able to pay for your retirement. Private funds in UK are severely underfunded by the way (although I can't find a reference on the exact number, which is supposed to be around 250 billions pounds), in the same that state-based systems are underfunded.

The main factor for retirement is the 'working people'/retired people ratio (ration de dependence in French, not sure about the proper English translation), much more than how it is funded.

Governments can easily change tax benefits/incentives on those funds, so the taxation aspect is not that different either.
There's an error with the 676,625 millions I think, the correct total is 366,000 millions

If you look at this one from 2011 :
http://www.performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr/fileadmin/med...

you can see that 23.6% went to education in 2011
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SEEKING WORK - Berlin (Remote)

Full stack web-developer specialized in complex enterprise systems (esp. Salesforce) seeks projects on short or long term basis. Send me the problems your in-house developers can't solve.

Available for work with any of the following: Java, Apex, Javascript, Ruby, Kittens

https://github.com/fractastical
Didn't they try this and have it fail already?
Would .UK not serve the same purpose from your POV?
It's the no-context UK domain, just like .com is the no context internet domain.
SEEKING WORK

Remote or some travelling inside EU possible (Currently based in Finland)

PHP Developer at heart, but nowadays mainly focusing on Drupal. Also experience on frontend, jQuery, CSS etc.

PHP: working with CodeIgniter- and Kohana-frameworks
Drupal: 6&7, theming, custom modules

Portfolio & contact: http://polso.info/
Cambridge, MA

Dimagi

Role: Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder

At Dimagi, your work can take you literally anywhere. We're looking for talented, adventurous coders to dive in to one of our core mobile health platforms already affecting hundreds of the world's poor and underserved. Our team of top-notch coders has on-site experience in over 20 countries covering East Africa, Central Asia, South America, and the Indian subcontinent, and travel is an important part of every developer's experience. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction over the bottom line makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, and keeps us all honest about what we're in it for.

http://www.dimagi.com/careers

You can also read about our company's recent month in Brazil here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/adam-bluestein/letting-em... (HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589978)
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SEEKING WORK - Australia (Remote)

Friendly, experienced and hardworking iOS designer/ engineer, available full or part time for interesting and well-funded projects:

http://thoughtfulpixel.com

ben at thoughtfulpixel dot com
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HTML5 JS tech demos: 3D + 2D physics, particles, post effects, animation
This article makes me wonder if, for power users, someday there will be an iphone sized device that devotes its entire form factor to performance. That is, it goes without a screen, packs a ton of ram and cpu power for "general purpose" computing, and you can put it in your pocket and carry it around. When you get to work you can just plop it in your "workstation" and it will use monitors, keyboard, whatever as interface devices. I guess anything's possible. Now that I write this, I feel like it's sorta already happened, though I can't fit a Mac Mini in my biggest of cargo short pockets.
Hi -

I think the first thing to note is that: there is no 'right way' to start a start-up, though there are probably some wrong ways and things to avoid. To that end, you probably only need to do a minimal amount of reading, and then it is very much all about doing. Only once you start the process will you begin to see specific gaps in your knowledge or a bump in the road you need to get over. This where specific reading and resources will be 10x more valuable than general roadmaps.

However, these are good resources:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/on-entrepeneurship/ - Mark Suster's blog is excellent, and his indexed start-up advice is an amazing resource to being with.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step... - this book is very much in vogue at the moment. I have it, and it makes a lot of sense, and takes you one step at a time down the most important path of all - product development
http://www.quora.com - this should be one of your best friends, as it has a huge amount of start-up related advice

Hope this helps.
But GV gives you a number and handles forwarding... for free. Is porting worth $120/year?
Site is having difficulties indeed :)
Demo video can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/40147990
Download here: http://goo.gl/umkig
Thanks!
Pixfizz.com - London, UK - Full Time: Javascript Engineer

Pixfizz is looking for a junior to mid level javascript engineer to help push the boundaries in the browser. We develop the most advanced HTML5 WYSIWYG tool for designing printed products online. Targetting desktop as well as tablet/mobile, you'll help advance the tool and refine an API to create custom applications.
Receive satisfaction from seeing your work result in large volumes of unique printed pages.

Our stack is mainly composed of mysql, cassandra, ruby, node.js and a large client-side app in javascript which will be your focus to start with. Opportunities exist to extend to the backend and help shape the server-side API.

Please send an email to daniel@pixfizz.com with your experience, availability and core interests.
Any government agency, extraterrestrial, wizard, or mutant professor that wants to read my thoughts can have at it. The joke's on them. Have fun sorting through all the chaff to get to the wheat, guys.
I know that. But your comment was like answering a question about optimizing a Python snippet with a recommendation to use C++. If you don't like hybrid apps (or Python, or whatever), that's fine, but it doesn't mean that bringing it up aids the discussion. Trust the developer to understand the tradeoffs of their tools and stack.
SEEKING WORK — Zurich, Switzerland & Remote

Interested in anything web, mobile or E-Commerce. Experience using various PHP CMS & E-Commerce systems. Also fluent in most things JavaScript and have worked with different DB systems. Currently working on some smaller client projects so I have free capacity.

Find out more at: http://mobweb.ch/cv/en or contact me directly: info@mobweb.ch
As always, obviously the answer is "use the right tools for the job at hand".

But there is a little more to it.

The more assumptions your framework makes, the less free your are to implement what you have in mind. Meaning: you'll not be able to deliver exactly what your clients want.

I prefer an environment with a good balance between assumptions and turnkey-solutions. So that I don't have to write all that silly HTTP, database and template handling from scratch, everytime, but at the same time makes no assumptions about the implementation.

Rails (or Django, or YII, or any more such frameworks) have been architectured around that notion.

The notion to keep out of your way when it comes to how things should look (sidenote: I remember the Drupal-days where you had sidebar-right and sidebar-left hardcoded into the core!), or how they should behave.
Drupal does not offer that freedom. Not even with 20+ modules is it possible to have exactly that login/invitation-workflow that many clients demand. Simply because it makes a lot of assumptions about the login-workflow.

This is why I (and I have been eating grass on both sides of the fence for over 5 years) know, for sure, that for me and my projects, Rails is the best choice.

Had I not invested so much in learning Ruby, Rails and its community, I would have gone for Python/Django, as that community and filosophy fits even better with my workflow.

But, Rails is great. Not as a fanboy, but as someone who has developed Rails, Symfony, Cake, fromscratch, Wordpress, and lots, lots of Drupal-systems over the year.

There really are lots of good cases where Drupal is the best choice, certainly. But these are not my (favorite) cases.
> When hardware is faster and (resource intensive) IDE's and frameworks do more for you, if you don't deliver more for less, you're competition will.

My "IDE" today is, as it was 17 years ago, Emacs. It hasn't gotten that much more resource intensive. My browser has gotten more resource intensive, but still runs ok on a device like that.

> How does the convenient form factor help you beat the competition? Working off hours? No thanks.

It helps me not having to drag a laptop around and/or rush to find a full size computer when server I have responsibility for go down. It gives peace of mind. And yes, I am very well compensated for being the one who gets the calls if something breaks, as well as the freedom to put in the resources to minimize how often it does.

It's also extremely convenient when travelling, such as when I'm heading out to one of our data centres.
Social - adj. 1. Of or relating to society. 2. (internet) Relating to social media or social networks.

Hack - noun. 1. Use of a resource for something other than its intended purpose. 2. An appropriate application of ingenuity.

Social hack - noun. 1. A hack whose underlying resource or intended purpose is social in nature.

The parent poster's hack is doubly social. First, the underlying medium is a social network. Second, the purpose is to reveal hidden information during socializing.
SEEKING WORK: England, UK, (Remote)

I'm looking for freelance digital marketing work. I'm very good at helping clients to strategise an action plan, and have previous experience in Conversion Optimisation, Community Engagement and building marketing into the product.

I'm also very good at helping startups bring their idea to fruition as well as take appropriate measures to qualify the market.

I have testimonials to back my work, and am happy to provide verbal case studies to prospective clients.

Please see my virtual business card: http://krmmalik.com/me

or email me at: khurammalik.me@gmail.com

Note: my "seeking freelancers" post is separate to this one and is for sub-contracting posts.
You said it's yours in the submission title.
5 minutes and counting...
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San Francisco, CA - JavaScript Engineers, PHP/MongoDB Engineers, Devops

We're looking for awesome engineers at Buffer (http://bufferapp.com). We're a team of 7, about to open an office in SF. We have strong growth and revenues and amazing investors/advisors on board. We also have a unique culture of helping each other every day with improvements such as sleep, exercise, blogging (anything!).

I would personally love to hear from you if you're interested. Email me directly - joel@bufferapp.com
In the English language the word American has more than one meaning. The most prevalent is of course the gentilic, but one of the other meanings is indeed "being native or inhabitant of the American continent."

The big problem with this word is that, being USA as influential in the western culture as it is, it helps corrupting the corresponding word in the languages that do have a proper gentilic like French and Spanish. Also, it promotes ignorance among the ignorants (I've met US people thinking America is just and only the country) without a tangible benefit.

See http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/inf/american.html for a similar view.
In this case he wasn't arguing that people should give more weight to his answer because he went to law school. Rather, he was responding to someone that asked if he knew anything about the law. As a response to that specific question, giving a context for how much he understands based on his background seems valid.
Milano, Italy. Full time. Remote will be considered.

Beintoo.com, 'Le Web 2011'-award winning mobile gamification startup, is looking for:

- mobile developers (iOS or android);
- front-end (html/js) specialists;

For both positions, at least a couple of years of hands-on experience is required.

Get in touch for more info: info+hn@beintoo.com
SEEKING WORK - London/Remote

Django/Javascript developer with several years of experience in web development.

website: http://www.marcofucci.com/

github: https://github.com/marcofucci/

email: info at marcofucci dot com
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Mobile UI Engineer (Storm8)

Looking for great generalist engineers who care deeply about UX/UI to define the future of Mobile Gaming UI. We will train you on Objective-C and Java to make native mobile apps.

* A passionate UI Engineer with a unique background in design and front-end technologies

* Portfolio to show recent work or personal projects

* Strong programming skills and understanding of object oriented programming

* Experience with UI development in one of the following: iPhone, Android, or web.
A good knowledge of usability and design

Apply at Storm8.com
SEEKING WORK - Chicago / Remote

Product designer, focused on user experience, interface and visual design for web and mobile applications.

Also specializes in front end development, copywriting and branding.

Startup experience.

Dribble: http://dribbble.com/jordanful
If you're coming from Java, I recommend the Scala for Java Refugees[1] series of blog posts. If you're interested more in the functional side, there is a course by Odersky on Coursera right now.

I haven't found any Scala IDEs stable or enjoyable yet. I've been using [insert favorite editor] with sbt[2].

[1] http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/roundup-scala-for-java-...

[2] https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki
The oldest stuff NASA has out there is what, 35 years old? Hardly a "very long life". And it's floating in vacuum, which is pretty much the ideal storage environment. Making stuff last in space is much easier than on Earth (and much easier than getting it there, of course).
What about integrating group organizer tools to keep organizers hanging around and using you. Like itenerary tools, ability to send out emails to the group about changes, tools for splitting up costs evenly, that sort of thing. If they use you to organize, they might use you to book.

Also, question: you say it's difficult keeping track of commissions; if you did keep track of them well would that be enough money, or are you looking for an alternative revenue stream?
I would say the opposite. Creating audio, sketching and drawing (although I've not tried video) are all easy on a tablet.

It's the text that's an issue, which I solve by using a keyboard when I'm working (and that I leave behind when I'm not).
Haven't sub-contracted any work to Ryan as yet, but have to say I love the way he interacts with people and he definitely created a lasting impression on me when I spoke to him about sub-contracting UI work to him.
So it is 21st century digital microfiche? Clever. I do know museums will probably line up for this stuff - standard CD-ROMs start to rot after 10 years and DVDs are better but relatively untested.

I wonder how much FEC is built into them. (In other words, what is the biggest scratch you could put into it without losing data.)

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction
SEEKING WORK: Austin, TX, remote

I'm a skilled user experience and interaction designer, with broad experience across many types of companies and applications.

I don't do art and I don't do implementation; I do "how it works" and "is this really a good idea" and "here's seven studies for or against." I do strict information architecture, customer and user research, interaction design and user experience design. I work with artists and programmers if you need more than that.

Recent work examples are here: http://vitor.io/portfolio

In the past, I've founded three startups (real-time 3D visualization, developer relations/support platform as a service, seasonal consumer goods delivery), I have a development background, and I have particular strengths in the video game industry, and in emerging technologies like wearable computing and the Internet of Things.

Design resume and contact information are here: http://vitor.io/resume
Please drop the text shadow and set font colour to dark grey, otherwise it's hurting eyes.
well, not quite.

It's a "My First Email App" for kids. Not sure if the quotes were ever used, or if they were lost in the HN title process (I presume the former).

The "a" is there in the title, but it still reads confusingly without appropriate visual cues.