skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distrust of the stock market is mostly a retail investor phenomenon. If you look across the board at the increase in prices of just about everything in the past five years, especially yield-generating instruments (dividend stocks, REITs, MLPs, preferred shares, high-yield debt, etc.), I think it's hard to argue that investors have shunned public markets. Assets simply can't increase that much in value if there are no net buyers.

Granted, the low interest rate environment has essentially forced some of these investments and the money fueling them is cheaper than ever, but I don't see any evidence that there's a large contingent of professional investors fearful of public markets who are plowing their cash into illiquid startup stock instead.

If anything, the growth of markets like Second Market suggests that investors are increasingly eager to buy shares of private companies likely to go public in the not too distant future. Recall that there were investors snapping up Facebook shares before the IPO (the latest to the party hoping for a double-digit IPO pop lost a lot of money) and somewhat amazingly, there were even funds dedicated entirely to accumulating pre-IPO shares.

Even if you're not banking on an IPO as a startup investor, the other liquidity event you're looking for (acquisition) typically comes at the hands of a publicly-traded company, particularly if it's big, so you have stock market exposure there too. It's usually a lot easier for a public company to make a big acquisition when its stock is flying high.
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Wow, great. Stackoverflow and Newegg.

Amazon? Linux. Google? Linux. Apple? Linux. Large Hadron Collider? All. Linux.

Using Microsoft server in a production environment? Gonna have a bad time. There's a reason most sane people don't use it in important places.

I don't hate on Microsoft server products because its in fashion. Its because I like to sleep at night.
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Experienced Python/Django/Flask developer seeks part-time freelance work.

I'm a full-stack developer with Python and Java experience in a variety of environments, including the startup world. I'm active on HN with a different account and am using a anonymous account for my freelance work.

Some highlights:

- Well versed in Python and Java.
- Works well with Agile.
- Familiar with a variety of other technologies: Git/jQuery/C++/etc.
- Lead a team to be finalists in TechStars - Boulder
- Mentioned in TechCrunch

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It was very lucrative and easy to enter for a while. Now all the easy gold has been dug up yet there are more prospectors than ever before.

Getting into the paid mobile app market was never a viable long-term strategy, but it was certainly capable of making someone extremely wealthy for a while.
San Francisco, CA. Full-time.

We're looking for a lead engineer to drive construction of the latest and greatest Twilio API. We just raised $70 million to help scale as demand for Twilio products grows.

Our team is generally on the bleeding edge, for internal tools and trying new things inside the company. HTTP nerds highly welcome.

Contact me at kevin at twilio dot com.

If API engineering isn't your cup of tea, a ton of other positions are open, see if anything catches your eye here: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/
> "Eclipse is a slow, bloated, feature-laking pile of crap."

You should try Kepler. Some amazing performance improvements out of the box.
If you're going to make high value apps, your marketing can NOT be app-store dependent which is tough. I would employ highly targeted paid download advertisements either through Facebook or other methods, as well as an excellent web and PR presence.

I do not agree they're not profitable, but they're NOT going to be "set it and forget it" style successes.
Timehop – http://timehop.com/jobs - NYC

Lead iOS Engineer - We're looking for a super technical iOS engineer who knows the ins, outs, and annoyances of the iOS platform.

We're a venture backed startup (Spark + OATV) that is making reminiscing online fun by taking your digital exhaust (ditial photos, tweets, checkins, etc) and showing you the most interesting things you've done on this day in history.

In an age where we're creating more digital data than ever before, we're trying to take the 90% of stuff that isn't real time and searching for the important signals and making it useful again.

Our stack is mostly Rails with PG (and decommissioning Mongo). As of late, we're adding more and more Go into our stack.

As the lead iOS programming, you'd be leading the iOS efforts on all fronts: making major decisions about how the codebase progresses (libraries, code conventions, etc), major part in hiring, and managing the iOS team. Since we're a small startup, you'd also have a huge amount of input into the product.

We're also looking for junior iOS folks as well!

Shoot me and email, I'd love to hear from you! benny@timehop.com (tech cofounder)
Do you really have a say? Austria was not allowed to join any global police (NATO or Warsaw Pact). I.e. it got in independence in 1955 only after promises of neutrality.
This may be cheaper up-front, but scales terribly which will increase costs exponentially whenever there is a need for growth.

Additionally, like others have mentioned, a simple memory leak from one app will affect every other app on this box. Also, it doesn't sound like there's any redundancy. What happens when the HD blows up?

If they fired these app up as separate VMs, they could at least scale each to what their needs are and only pay for what they are using.

I manage an app architecture that consists of several Heroku apps along with a couple DBs at mongoHQ for under $100/month. Heroku definitely isn't the cheapest solution, but it allows me to scale horizontally and takes the massive load of sysadmin tasks off my back so I can focus on development.
Harlan for GPU Computing
Linux has nothing to do with whatever reasons they had for such expensive server costs.

It might do. The point is that Node/Ruby etc aren't particularly efficient compared to C# and the CLR, so you need more Server power for a given application.

For example StackOverflow ran from a single windows server in the early days, they didn't add a second one till Oct 2008 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/adde-a-second-server/
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Chicago

Designer/Front-End Developer.

Best suited working with developers who know they need better design but don't know how to get from A to B. Also good working with design/dev/consulting agencies (experience with everything from two man shops to bigger firms like McKinsey and Edelman).

All work is done in the browser, meaning no time is wasted on Photoshop back-and-forth. Iteration is quick and actionable for everyone involved.

Specific skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Can develop in: Meteor, WordPress.
Familiar with: Ruby on Rails (asset pipeline) and Django.

All work is vc'd with Git. Comfortable working in an existing repo or starting from scratch.

I work on a day rate @ $600/day (8 hours). Also willing to bid on projects flat if the scope is both reasonable/fixed.

Take a peek at recent work:

WhatWhen (developed with Meteor) - http://whatwhenapp.com
Churchill Downs - http://themansion.churchilldowns.com
Portfolio - http://wellroundedgent.com
Dribbble - http://dribbble.com/rglover
Egyptian military gives 48 hour ultimatum to Brotherhood, political forces
Yes. That is what I am saying. It is not only the data about europeans flying to the US. The US also knows almost every bank transaction made via SWIFT...
There is nothing wrong with the previews I read, but I did accidentally paste the wrong link. Here it is:

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/geeksphone-keon/4505-645...

Hard as it is for me to admit, MS did an amazing job with Windows Mobile 8. For low-end hardware it gives a silky smooth OS performance. On the apps side though, I wasn't too impressed with the Nova 3 and Asphalt 7 on the phone I tested. I'm not sure if this is a fault of the OS, hardware, or just that iOS developers have more experience optimizing for that platform. Given the same hardware, I'd put money on iOS, Win8, and even Android (w/ NDK) outperforming Firefox OS.
A small error, in section 8, input must be input1

Also in order to use ghci with this examples, multiples lines must be separated with semicolon.
It's difficult to get a marketing campaign cheap and effective enough to offset 79c to 3$ profit margins per unit.
(disclaimer: I work for Artsy where this is hosted )

Agreed, I loved reading the smaller copy on the schematics! I don't understand the electrics but I certainly appreciate the well laid out design of the hardware.
Thanks, but I don't want your money
>Troll? Not.

If you had said IntelliJ I might have believed it.
The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War
Spying on Allies
I am a Windows Phone 8 user, and I love it. But I fail to see how a press release about the iHeartRadio app for Windows Phone provides proof that "Windows 8" is a viable competitor to Apple and Google.

I do hope that Microsoft can compete, but this press release does nothing to convince me of that.
SSD Caching Using dm-cache Tutorial
The tutorial covers the basic steps to setup dm-cache on a Ubuntu 13.04 machine.
Super +1 for that, the dual-field advantage can easily compensate the belated entry into a new market. For an easy example, if your current career is in anything related to finance / banking, there's a ton of jobs for developers who also have deep understanding of this business. Indeed, you can find yourself in advantage over younger, better-trained hackers whose single expertise is with programming.
Quick recap of last week's disruption
David Sheff has a really great story about the night Steve Jobs met Andy Warhol:

"Andy took Sean’s spot in front of the computer and Steve showed him how to maneuver and click the mouse. Warhol didn’t get it; he lifted and waved the mouse, as if it were a conductor’s baton. Jobs gently explained that the mouse worked when it was pushed along a surface. Warhol kept lifting it until Steve placed his hand on Warhol’s and guided it along the floor. Finally Warhol began drawing, staring at the “pencil” as it drew on the screen."

"Warhol was mesmerized–people who knew him know the way he tuned out everything extraneous when he was entranced by whatever it was–gliding the mouse, eyes affixed to the monitor. Haring was bent over watching. Andy, his eyes wide, looked up, stared at Haring, and said, “Look! Keith! I drew a circle!”"

http://davidsheff.com/article/the-night-steve-jobs-met-andy-...
"Becoming a member of their "BizSpark" program literally provides you with all the software free of charge. Entering BizSpark is easy and costs nothing"

Not true. After year 3 you start paying.
Dishcrawl
http://www.dishcrawl.com/
San Jose, CA

Looking for first engineering hire to work on Python/Django. Dishcrawl is about creating cool food experiences. Candidate should have experience with JS/CSS and background in web development.

Questions? E-mail me directly - jeff.tchang@dishcrawl.com
Binpress, Mountain View, CA, Full-Time

We are the marketplace for commercial open-source, connecting open-source developers with businesses and enterprises through commercial licensing, support, customization and integration services.

http://www.binpress.com

We are in the 500startups accelerator program batch #6 (ending August 1st), and have already raised half of our seed round. We're generating significant revenue and are trying to change the way software is being developed.

We are looking to fill out a few positions:

* Growth hacker - paid / organic acquisition person (PPC, SEO, SEM, Content marketing) with creative, out-of-the-box thinking for acquiring new customers and publishers.

* Developer evangelist / community manager - an outgoing developer who loves to attend meetups, hackathons and engage people on social media and offline. You will be doing all of that as well as active outreach to find our next top developers on the marketplace.

We're a small and extremely agile team. You'll be one of our first hires, and you can expect significant equity in addition to a competitive salary if you produce results.

We'll be in the 500startups offices in Mountain View until the end of August, and then move to an office in the bay area. If you join before the end of the program, you'll have access to all the program events and network.

Please apply via AngelList at https://angel.co/jobs?startup_id=2506
I still don't understand why people do this. They get so frustrated (or defensive or something else) that they refuse to tell you what is on the screen and/or make something up.

My guess is that they dismiss error boxes too quickly, or work ahead of you and are afraid that you'll figure it out if they tell you what their error box actually says, and they'll get an F on the test and will have to go to summer school.
They haven't actually published the design/source files for the coprocessor itself, have they?
How can you implement a static typing system in a language that is dynamically typed?
Yes algorithms courses are a bit of a grab bag. Really, whether you enjoy them just comes down to your interests. I loved learning algorithms because the important ideas can be conveyed without getting bogged down in applications. On top of that a lot of what I learned in CS will be useless in 20 years, but algorithms have lasting value.
When I visit, I get "not available on Windows RT", no sign of "yet". Perhaps someone from Google saw this discussion and updated it.

http://i.imgur.com/zILTywr.png
Excuse me sir or ma'am, do you have a moment to talk about the Good News that is IntelliJ? :)
Firefox OS is painting Twitter blue
You do realize that the "too poor" bucket is most of the world, right?
As long as you're realistic with yourself and a client the app store is still fertile ground, as much as any platform. Yes, there's a lot of apps and there has been a race to the bottom in terms of pricing, but there's still a reasonably strong market. XCOM was released at a reasonably high price, to a niche set of gamers and is seemingly making sales as it was (possibly still is) in the top grossing.

I don't know whether the title is fair. The article doesn't say 'we're not profitable', it just says it's a risky market to make high value, premium products, but making that kind of product in any market is inherently risky.

It's a shame, their apps are nice, but I think it's more a developer wants to develop, not chase down the next contract to keep the wages going so hopefully we'll see more work appearing.
I agree that it is tough being a small agency building apps, but I don't think high value apps are in themselves unprofitable. I think whoever submitted this has perhaps misjudged the title a little.

The problem is that as time has gone on, more traditional agency suppliers have entered into the marketplace. This makes it really difficult for small players to compete. All the big digital agencies are doing app dev in house, and even the big consultancies are getting in on the action (Accenture, Deloitte, etc). I don't think Agant were helped by the fact they weren't based in London either.

Hypothetically, let's say you're a large retailer looking to get an app built. Who do you go with: the small player with great creds, or the well established agency that you already used to build your eCom site? I can tell you which one your procurement department will recommend you go with.

This isn't really an app specific issue, but one that occurs generally in the agency space (be it traditional print, digital, etc): mid-tier agencies find it very hard to compete. On the one hand they're getting their toes snapped at by one and two man shops who can undercut them, on the other they're not big enough to command attention at RFP stages against vast agency conglomerates.
"absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I don't know where that quote is from -- I grew up hearing it from my father.
http://norvig.com/jscheme-design.html

"I decided I didn't want to spend more than 20 hours on this exercise of learning Java, learning the IDE I was using, and producing a Lisp interpreter."
Are you in a large city like Toronto, San Francisco or Barcelona that has accelerators and incubators around?
Do you plan on doing all of this remotely?
Niches for creating your own apps? Or making niche apps for a client?

Since I was advocating client work in my previous post, I'll go with the latter. Start with what you love. As an example I love aviation. There's a lot of money in aviation (as well as a lot of debt). Companies and FBOs sometimes have very specific needs that could be solved with an app: scheduling, customer loyalty, logging, etc. Reach out, talk to them, tell that you love what they love, just see what happens.

Also I have absolutely no marketing training and create apps in an organization that I have no control over the clientele, which actually works out great for me.
Cool! I'm somewhat involved in some projects to make llvm backed DSL design in Haskell super easy, with my own use case being analytical computation. Would love to hear more about how you're using llvm.
It seems that this is just a structured way to formally keep more copies of your data, when what you're trying to avoid is a rack level event removing availability of your replicas.

Ceph, described here http://ceph.com/papers/weil-thesis.pdf does just that by letting you include the structure of your datacenter in the pseudorandom, deterministic placement algorithm it uses for placing reads and writes.
Expectations versus reality in science-based oncology
I rooted my girlfriend's Mini :) , and one of my coworkers has the Cyanogenmod on the Ace.

It does improve a lot of things (for example enables Flash support on the Ace), but it's still a bit annoying.

Yeah, there's a lot of support, but it's still a bit scary. I didn't back up the original firmware on the Mini and I had to scramble to get something similar when it didn't work.

Hopefully I'll buy a better one soon (my GF now has the Mini 2 and it's a HUGE improvement, guess I'll go for the Ace 2)
You can't make authentication to work safely without cookies because HTTP isn't stateful.
Interesting.

I did notice fan noise increasing steadily in the background. Hopefully those issues will be sorted out before release or are caused by the screen casting software. At the very least, its presence indicates an honest demonstration.
Anyone can get into BizSpark. It's not a special relationship. It basically just requires that you have a company of some kind formed and ostensibly are building some kind of software targeting the Microsoft ecosystem.
TCP simultaneous open is very difficult to use.

In our experience with a deployed P2P system, UDP hole punching is more successful with all the strange NAT boxes deployed. Our success rate is 95.3% now in the wild. As said above, this TCP fallback sounds like an excellent way to get to 97% connection success rate!

Note that there is an upcoming IETF Internet Standard describing UDP hole punching: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-06#...

We've implemented this as LGPL code: svn.tribler.org/libswift/branches/ppsp-03/
Chrome plugin and solarized color scheme, it even has whitelist.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-colors/jbmk...

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
I'm very curious about the VC/Angel probabilities of success. Of the 511 startups, how many bootstrap or above? How many die after the first investment?

From the post we know ~2% will grow to a ~billion usd valuation.
Apple applies to register 'iWatch' trademark in Japan
I live down in FL, so no. I can relocate for a good opportunity, or work remotely, although I think I would work better in-house in my situation.
A bad[1] workman is perfectly capable of being inefficient with any tool.

[1]this isn't passing comment on any of the people referenced in the original post
Microsoft may lose rights to the SkyDrive name as it loses trademark case
Most of us missed the gold rush. That is long gone. The real money in creating apps is in agency work for clients. I don't think that Agant wasn't profitable, I think that they just didn't like the work they were doing.

edit: I'll add too that "real money" does not mean riches. I make an adequate salary making apps and am very happy.
What's not totally clear to me, and I'm not sure if Dave would be willing to share (but worth a try!) is whether Agant was primarily financing itself through up-front development fees or through revenue share.

Because I know for a fact there are a number of agencies in the UK that have managed to build sustainable businesses off up front costs. I don't know of any (and I'd love to be proved wrong on this) that have done it through revenue share. I've definitely lost pitches to companies that proposed revenue shares though...

>I can't imagine that there wasn't enough good work out there for a talented team of proven developers+designers.

I alluded to this in another post, but the problem now is more that the companies prepared to pay top dollar for apps tend to be those that aren't going to pick a small agency, even one with good creds. They're looking for big, established players that can service all of their digital needs in a single go.
1. From your link "We conclude that ethanol was a preferred fuel preventing fat, and to lesser degrees, CHO and protein, from being oxidized." So for the few hours that alcohol is in your system, it is the preferred substance for oxidation. It's quite a leap to take that to development of a beer belly.

From mine, "Alcohol contains calories, but drinking alcohol doesn't lead to weight gain, according to extensive medical research, and some studies report a small reduction in weight for women who drink" This is about as clear as you can get that alcohol doesn't lead to weight gain. Care to directly address this?

2. That's a false dichotomy, You can eat fish and drink wine, too.

Also, you seem to be shifting goal posts. First you write that alcohol can't be considered "perfectly healthy", and now you write that it is premature to be suggest that it can be considered "perfectly healthy" and will lengthen your life.

Why does something need to extend your life to be perfectly healthy?
What causes arthrosis and what are natural treatments available? - Dr Van Snick
There's always Scala, clojure, groovy, etc.
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I saw the address in Palo Alto and was curious as to where that is now. Looks like it's the Stanford Medical Center Nephrology Clinic http://imgur.com/e2hFXOx.jpg

Also, note even the paper of the user guide and the rivets used to bind the paper. They show great care. Most people (myself included) would have just printed on normal paper and stapled them together.