skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES! We are a team!
The high-karma users there seem to get their karma by spending their entire day not working. I don't know how this would look good on your resume. (Jon Skeet, for example; does that guy do any programming anymore, or does he just tell people who can't read the manual how to do addition in C#?)

Also, a lot of questions are of the form, "What's the most awesome word to describe how awesome programming is?". Before these were forced to be community wiki, people really racked up the reputation points on these.

I only answer questions there because if I don't, someone else will. And their answer will be wrong. (Like, "you can't access databases from Perl." WTF.)
Oh so that's what that tube thing was in the Simpsons. And all this time I thought it was fake... ha ha ha. me so stupid.
He's famous, and programmers love their celebrities.
The content wasn't of interest to me.
Do it. Love your itinerary.

Obligations and responsibilities aside, you'll regret not doing it. The cost may exceed your budget but the payoff in experential value may be well worth it. Even if you don't tax yourself by trying to produce a viral video. And, I'm going to make the presumption you have an itch to be a filmmaker.

As for the viral video, think along the lines of "Where the hell is Matt?" - e.g. do something common in each different city - like go visit all the Indian buffets in the local area and get everyone there to do a Bollywood dance number. Or visit all the local coffee shops and interview their owners. Or interview people about how the economy has affected them. Or interview the people of a certain type of scene in each city. Or visit people in senior centers and ask them about the one most important thing in life they've learned/their signature story. Or whatever. Something that sincerely interests you. If you're passionate about startups, connect with the startup scene in each city. It depends on what your lifelong interests are. Watch/listen to "This American Life" for inspiration.

Visiting fourteen different cities in 30 days. Wow. You could get a lot of raw footage for a documentary festival entry. Or even stock footage.
If someone does make a viral video out of this, I'm interested to see how many days will be lost due to delays :)
IIRC Amtrak has the same deal but by train for half price.
Thanks. That was really helpful advice.
If planned correctly this could be a pretty awesome roadtrip for 2. Napping at the airport , keeping your luggage at the airport while you discover a new city. Sponsorship would be a great idea.
Sub Ask HN: Where's the best place to view these in Chicago?
The quality of this program will be inversely related to its popularity. How quickly will all the seats be gone?
Yodlee has dozens more features than Mint does, yet Mint has so many more users. Why is this?

Because personal finance is intimidating, and nobody wants to do it. By having virtually nothing to do in Mint, it lowers the intimidation factor that people have when thinking about managing their money. It's a way to get people in the door, and getting that far has always been the struggle behind personal finance sites.
Lolapps is hiring! We're looking for developers, PMs, QA, and more. Check out http://www.lolapps.com/ . If you like python and lolcats, you'll probably like us.
Completely agree. I've tried working at a Panera. I ended up getting a little work done and eating 2 sandwiches. If you are serious about getting thing done, try it one day and compare your productivity.
yes! check out http://www.lolapps.com/jobs.html
I disagree that the institution becomes the enemy: what is really happening is that a portion of the fee Mint earns from a referral is being given the consumer, in the form of higher interest or some other perk.

By grouping multiple customers together, Mint is further reducing transaction costs for the bank, so that it may become economic for Mint to give some of the rewards to the consumers, in the form of higher interest (Mint earns less because the bank will have to pay Mint less to make up for the better deal to the consumers).

If this allows Mint to generate enough leads, the smaller fee may be made up by an increase in volume.
Introversion is a personality trait. Introverts can socialize, but we prefer one-on-one environments or small groups to crowds, we prefer spending more time with intimates to meeting new people, and in general, we see social life as a cost rather than a benefit.

Asperger's, from what I've read of the subject, is a cognitive issue; Aspies don't read social cues that neurotypicals (including introverted neurotypicals) pick up on without even thinking about it, and therefore have trouble socializing even when they want to.

It's like the difference between people who don't read a lot of books because they prefer to spend their free time watching TV, and people who don't read a lot of books because they're dyslexic.
CrowdVine is hiring a sales rep for the conference side of our business to process inbound requests. We're four people and have been profitable for two years without anyone dedicated in this role. I'm the founder and owner and can be reached at tony at crowdvine dot com.

I think it's interesting how few companies on this list have non-technical roles. I know there are people on the business side on this site and that they have a lot to offer.
Does Google even hire people who care any more? Does it only hire people who interview really well? From what I've gathered, most people who get through the HR disaster there these days (old times are exempt; decentralizing hiring is the first sign of impending disaster) really aren't that smart; maybe they've merely perfected a sort of slimy smooth-talking (literally speaking), typical of most salesmen.

As much as I want to still love Google, it's getting harder every day. Even my original suggestion regarding pixel space amounts on the search results page template seems to have been implemented recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498660.

Yeah, I'm a wee bit irked; I think I deserved a bit more than the lie-wielding form rejection email from my application somewhere back in early 2005 or so. And don't even get me started on the fact that Google went and doubled the limit of receiving pay on my AdSense account sometime last year; so I've still not even seen anything from that.

So as much as I still want to love Google, it is getting harder every day. Your comment regarding "Nooglers" is actually pretty funny considering how many of them, like me, have probably been really diligent in their quest to get hired just about anywhere.
Europe, France?
Read Tim Burks' talk about ObjC. ObjC is what C++ should have been. It's just too bad other great fast languages like D and ObjC aren't used often.
Peek Inc., mobile email device company in NYC, is hiring:

http://www.geekypeek.com/?p=368
Send me an email akshay@mugasha.com. Also check out http://mugasha.com if it interests you.
Haven't seen this site yet, very cool.
Linking to a .js file and asking/expecting us to install without reviewing the source is optimistic at best. . . .

And WTF hasn't anyone said this in the past 3 hrs already?

You were too hasty with the WTF.

Unless he or she is extremely sleep-deprived or something, any programmer can figure out how to review the source code in the .js file before installing.
You know... Today I was listening to a podcast that quoted someone at Microsoft that said Windows 7 was going to make 64-bit computer common.

Heck. I had a 64-bit computer on my desk before the end of the 20th century, running a 64-bit OS, with 64-bit applications...

This insane, stupid even, requirement of Windows compatibility has been holding back a whole lot of technological advances. That's why we were stuck with x86 uniprocessors until about a couple years back.
Ask HN: How to get started in data visualization?
Seeing that a few posts recommend having data visualization experience I was wondering how someone could get started in the field assuming that they already have a data-mining/statistics background.

I personally know that a top recommendation would be reading the classic by Tufte "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

What else is there on bookshelves and on the web?
We are looking for junior people in SF. It is not a start up - it's consulting work for existing and new clients at a small shop. Your CS degree from CMU or whatever means nothing here if you can't talk to people. The lead guy is really good and you would learn a lot. Email in profile - would be happy pass info along. All the beer you can drink at the office.
Or find a free place to sleep at http://www.couchsurfing.org. I haven't done this but know folks who have had great experiences with couch surfing.

The OP might also include profiling his hosts as part of his video project. Sort of a Tour of America And It's People... or something like that.
Meebo's hiring all sorts of engineers: server-side, front-end, ops, data geeks.

Check out the openings here: http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/
Google Privacy Invasion alert! Google uses GeoIP to serve location-based content to you!
Thanks! It says:

"Though much has been made of the system of peonage that kept sharecroppers in perpetual debt, tying workers to the same plantation year after year, there is significant evidence that Georgia croppers moved rather fluidly from place to place and from one form of labor to another. Certainly the reality of life as a sharecropper was a factor in the out-migration of rural Georgians in the 1910s and after. The sociologist Arthur F. Raper found in his study of Macon and Greene counties that of those Georgians fleeing the rural part of the state in the 1920s, the greatest numbers came from the ranks of sharecroppers."

Frankly, it sounds like a system of unjustly exploiting ignorant poor people that was roughly on par with the one described in Chicago in "The Jungle" at the same time. But that's pretty much what I thought before I read your link, too.

Maybe you could describe what sense you think it fails to 'meet the standard of "completely voluntary"' in?
Indinero.com brought on two interns for the summer, one who we found from HN. (he was awesome!) If you're a passionate coder, feel free to contact me. Email address is in my profile.
Using the same logic, think of how many potential computers that Apple have 'crushed' by not allowing OS X on non-Apple hardware.
Preferably games, but I'm looking everywhere. C#\C++.
Yeah, fair enough. I'm sure your European friends wouldn't have stuck around if there was nothing in it for them. And I'm sure the women you met through your European friends also would not have stuck around if there was nothing it it for them.

I'm a big believer in free will. The idea of moral absolutes have always seemed quite odd to me. In my experience the world is very rarely black and white, usually more shades of grey. Only those who can't handle the complexity introduced by ambiguity seem to need moral absolutes.
What agency?
http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-Explaining-Processing...

beautiful book by http://benfry.com/

http://infosthetics.com/

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://processing.org
Also network engineers of all levels :)
All the Hobbits running around.
Little hands, hairy feet.
Perfect for startups.
http://www.presencetelecare.com/ is looking for a lead engineer (first technical employee).

Details at http://presencetelecare.com/careers#1226ffb63eb89022_OLE_LIN...

I'm not affiliated with them, but I know the founders are looking high and low for the right person.
Is anyone hiring in the Milwaukee area?
Getting to and from airports is an expensive PITA, but if you take part in Hospitality Club or CouchSurfing, you may be able to get some help with that. Which also would cut your lodging expenses. If you have a bike in a shippable box, that could help a lot. (Although it's almost certain to get lost or destroyed by the end of your trip.)

If you have a place to cook (Camping stove? but you can't take that on an airplane with fuel. Maybe the penny stove?) you can eat very cheaply.
I agree with you that the institution does not become the enemy. I had always envisioned in my head as by bringing in customers to a bank that bank gains leverage too. So say you bring an extra 1 mil in savings accounts to a small bank, that bank now has X times as much to lend out as credit/leverage. Same goes for mortgages.
Mozilla is hiring! http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

Firefox engineers, IT, Marketing and QA!
That's awesome! I had no idea! What's it called?

Edit: the rail pass, naturally. But it's a lot more restricted: "Passes are available in three travel durations and travel segments (15 days/8 segments, 30 days/12 segments and 45 days/18 segments) through out the entire United States. Travel must begin within 180 days of the date the pass purchased." ...and there are some other restrictions.

It also isn't noticeably cheaper: US$389 for the 15-day pass, US$549 for the 30-day pass, and US$749 for the 45-day pass.
The Mini 9 was available with both.

I got a cheap refurb with XP for my girlfriend and just upgraded the RAM and hard drive myself. It's one screw -- they made it real easy.
Small consulting firm in SF. Good Network Engineers and Junior devs right now. Email in profile.
No, actually, I'm quite serious. Dvorak is a hack. Has been a long time. But the White House retort is worth about the same. A big battle for what, exactly? Dvorak won't even put a scratch in Kundra's reputation. And the White House, for their part, will put whatever blah-blah spin on it they wish, just like they always do. It's PR management, and you are kidding yourself if you think it is anything else.

In other words: A whole lot of to-do about absolutely nothing, that doesn't matter in the slightest.
Amazon Web Services is hiring!

There's a job listing at http://aws.amazon.com/jobs (as I write this there are 48 listings). We need hard-core developers, testers, product managers, marketing managers, support engineers, sales folks, and business developers.

If you know me and vice-versa (sitting in the audience at a conference and hearing me speak is generally not sufficient to establish this condition), track me down and send me a resume so that I can do a personal referral.

Otherwise, follow the directions on the site.
preferably a female

are you even allowed to say that?
I wholeheartedly agree with every single point you made. The last one, in particular, is profound.
As you note, it's by train. I've done that once on Amtrak. It's just a very long, slow plane ride.
A lot different than most people here assumed in the discussion a couple days ago.
The beauty of the one-time pad is that one can not tell the "random" key from the payload. Clever.
Tom Mitchell's Machine Learning book (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html) is the one book from college that I go back to again and again.
Calculating with EBNF
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on a related note, who's interested in hiring an undergrad for the summer or year between completing undergrad and doing a math or cs theory phd?
My local library has taken to advertising "Free WiFi!" with a big sign on the side of the building. I find it really depressing--is that what we've come to as a society? I guess "Free Books!" counts for nothing nowadays.
I am from the Philippines. No US Visa. Willing to travel anywhere.

Do I have the slightest chance of getting hired from the HN posts?
Sorry, but for now this is not 100% self-service. Once you're logged in, just submit the feedback text field with something like 'please delete my account' and I'll be sure and know exactly which a/c to delete. It should be deleted in a few hours at most.
I second that! This documentary captures the late 90s .com boom better than anything else I've seen.
Should I learn Scala or Clojure next?
I've got lots of experience with Ruby and C++, been doing mostly Ruby for the past three years. I have experience with Scheme from school.

I want to learn something new, and something that runs on the JVM sounds interesting. My initial project would be a scientific GUI that uses Swing for the windowing toolkit.

Both Scala and Clojure sound interesting to me. But I'm having a hard time figuring out which one to use. Clojure definitely seems more of a mind-stretcher. Scala seems to have gotten more traction recently.

Thoughts from anyone who has used both? I suppose I could learn both, but it takes me a long time to really know how to properly use a new language, so I'd rather focus on one.
The Hustler - 1961 & The Color of Money - 1986

Both with Paul Newman.

Optically about pool hustling. Really about the processes through which the naive progress as they encounter the underbelly of reality.
Patents and Tacit Knowledge
my venture backed very early stage startup in cambridge is hiring students who are great coders. email address in my profile.
The only thing that has worked for me is setting the alarm for when I want to wake up, getting myself out of bed, getting ready for the day, then leaving. Get away from the bed. That's the key.

I can sleep much longer than eight hours if I can just lay in the bed. Get up, get out, get going.
Ask HN: Best way to get people to particpate in a survey
I need to quantify how time is wasted in the software development processes, so I need to do a survey. I work in the Ottawa region so there is a lot of high tech companies for me to query and I was wondering what is the best way to approach them.

I was thinking about offering each company something like a $100 gift certificate that can be given out to winning employees who participated in the survey. I figure if I buy the certificates in bulk, I should be able to work out a discount. Or would it be better to just pay a company to do the survey?

On a side and begging note, if you can explain how you are wasting time, I would greatly appreciate that as well. I'm focusing on how you are wasting your time answering questions that are related to your software changes. These can be questions from verification teams, management, senior management, executives, etc. I'm also looking for examples where a lot of time was wasted to fix something because there was poor communication with regards to not understanding what was changing.

Thanks
Noooooooooooooooo :-)
> How do I monetize on viral videos?

Not directly, but if the videos catch on it's promotion as a media personality (travel oriented) at the very least. If you have camera personality and want to take that route it's a great chance at some exposure.
Voting machine hack costs less than $100,000
Changed the styling on that message. You don't need ot provide an email address to sign up. We've tried to point that out more clearly.
we are helping on the copyright content
Typo is fixed. We'll be on launchly next week.
I wrote a very simple (but nice, in my obviously biased opinion) game which is on the App Store since november. It sold relatively well (at least in the first month) with zero marketing and without being featured.

Nonetheless, since then I've lost much of the initial motivation. So I know what you're talking about. Even though for me the reasons are more personal (and difficult to explain). I haven't had many problems with the whole publishing process though.
http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/
3banana is hiring -- we have an iPhone, Android, and web app.

We speak scala, Obj-C, Java, python.

Problem we are solving:

I have all these bits of information that I want to find
again, emailing them to myself is just a mess. What was
the name of the movie Ed said I should watch? That was a
really funny sign, where did I throw the photo again?

3banana makes it easy to capture and share information.

You throw it into the iPhone / Android / Web, and you
find things using hashtags.

"surf wise #movie"
"chasing ghosts #movie"

All the platforms are synced up, and you can share to
twitter/facebook with one click.

We are half a block from sunny South Park in SF.

Shoot us an email at hn@3banana.com

Danke!
Any Canadians, um, eh?
Besides a referral what got you in there? I can't imagine, from what I've read, that it is an easy task once they give you call back.
What I was in Boston last summer, I took the train a lot to visit various cities on the east coast. The train turned out to be a really great place to hack because they had power outlets, a cafe, lots of seating space (with tables), and, most importantly, no distractions.
Freshbooks is awesome. I started using it about 6 months ago and it reminds me of 37signals products in the sense that just using it you get the idea that it would be a good place to work.

Do you know if they are hiring developers?
I'm not trying to be a jackass here so I apologize if I come off that way, but what's the YUI team up to? I havn't seen a bugfix update to the 2.0 branch in a while. Is everyone focused on 3.0?
Tried the 17" MacBook? 1900x1200.
I hear there are even startups in Invercargill- believe it or not!
The "email:" text box you see is not publicly visible. You have to enter it in the "about:" section. I wish pg mentioned this fact there. This has been brought up many times. (Although, at least for HN, it is reasonable to expect users to log out and view their profile page, to know how it appears to the public)
If you think that's bad, you should really have a look at Grice's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Grice#Grice.27s_Paradox
Only if you enjoy getting sued.

http://www.eeoc.gov/types/sex.html
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759696
Off the top of my head and given enough leadtime:

1. Partners and concept: I know states/cities have pretty active tourism boards who you could tie up with to see the best of the destination in as little time as possible.

2. Costs part 1, bed and board: An idea already aired here is a tie-in to couchsurfing or airbnb. Its a perfect way to give them the visibility while snagging free/cheap stays at each stop. I'm sure couchsurfing could use the good press after that rape thing that made it on the news.

3. Costs part 2, hard cash: Part of snagging sponsorship is really about how much media mileage you can offer the client. Your best friend here believe it or not, would be local media. LA for example have quite active local news and if you get at them in advance telling them your story and goal, should be quite willing to give you a little tv time on the morning news. KTLA.com for example in LA always has Gayle Anderson running around the city covering small events, activities, and such. If you can lock down coverage even in a couple of those cities and make sure you're wearing branded gear, I'm sure that'll be worth a couple of grand to a few sponsors.

4. Accessories: Sheesh, use your imagination. Hit up Bestbuy for a Flip Mino or other small video cam, or get at them directly. What better way to show their best features than a monthlong, multi-city slog. I'd contact buy.com, Maybe Apple for a small notebook with extended bat life, the list can go on.

5. Document: Wordpress of course? Googlemaps to track you, ustream/twitter to get geo-located, geekmeets in certain cities, swing by the Jetblue headquarters for a meet&greet, can't go wrong with vegas night life (they could use positive energy), sheesh, wrangle a test drive of the chevy volt if you can lol.

Keep it going guys?
Heyzap.com (YC09) is expanding fast and we're hiring for our 4th team member (engineer) as well as interns to join us in our San Francisco office!

send us your details! - jobs@heyzap.com

More info here: http://www.heyzap.com/docs/jobs
Not at this point: we're not focussing on the design of materials, but their application. We are, however, interested in tribologists and other seal experts.
Not to nitpick, but the job description lists "expert knowledge" for 12 different technologies. Seriously?
Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain
TD Bank actually works with Mint.com (then again TD is also in America)