skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We (RescueTime, YC08) have a lot in common with Mint.

Having experimented with it a fair bit, I can safely say that if it's not a content site with CRAP-TONS of page views, it's really hard to make PPC ads work. Stuff like Gmail is not a big win in terms of CTR because users quickly learn to ignore the ads-- and neither is Mint or RescueTime (our baby). Mint can play the leadgen game (sending people to different banks) but bank changes and new mortgages are rare decisions and I'd imagine that Mint users often ignore the lead gen links and focus on their own content.

I also imagine that they have a similar problem that we do-- giving people data visualization isn't inherently sticky and people drift away from data like this. It gets boring. And because it's self-improvement/awareness focused, it's like a gym that doesn't have a membership fee and has no cancellation cost-- few people are disciplined enough to stick with it.

On the data asset front, we have the same type of asset. But it only really has value (beyond linkbait/PR) if it's a representative population. I'd wager Mint's userbase decidedly doesn't NOT represent a cross-section of America.

I think Mint has a lot of promise, but I think they have some tough problems to solve. And by taking $14m (presumably on a $50m valuation), they've just signed up for a very very long road.
My startup, LightSail Energy, Inc. is an exciting, well-funded startup in the $100 billion field of green tech energy storage. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are seeking to fill several Mechanical Engineering positions. Applicants should have at least 5 years experience in product design of mechanical components.

Please be familiar with at least some of the following:

design of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid power, pistons and seals, and multiphase phenomena.

Candidates should be comfortable with 100 kilowatt to multi-megawatt systems. Our needs range from mathematical modeling and design of experimental apparatus during the Research and Development phase, to designing for manufacturability and reliability. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on design engineer who possesses a high level of creativity and innovation required to be a valuable asset to the company.

Interested? Please send your resume to jobs@lightsailenergy.com.
We're hiring here at Graffiti in San Francisco for a new project (unrelated to Graffiti) called Interests. It's a huge endeavor that's challenging and rewarding to work on.

We're looking for an extremely talented software engineer. We're a three person team and you would be our first full-time employee.

Email us at hn.jobs.tmt@gmail.com for more information and/or to send your resume.
You don't need a degree to be a tech wiz...
Time is my answer.
Tr.im, bit.ly and Twitter - The REAL Story
Afaik the iPhone is simulated not emulated, the binary is built for x86. So I doubt it would be too slow -- certainly not slower than the device itself.
Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com) is hiring for a wide variety of technical positions. We have a rapidly growing revenue stream and interesting technical problems to work on (building a distributed commerce platform which can absorb 100x request rate spikes, peaking at Amazon levels). Most of our systems are in Ruby or Java, but if you have the right experience using any language, we want to talk to you.
Now that I think about it, currently each time my bot starts(every few mins), it logs in and gets a new sessionID which I then use to retrieve the data. I'm going to take the error message to heart and save the session ID between bot runs. Not getting a new sessionID should technically mean that I am not logging in many times.

Will try and report back soon as they unblock me!
Values reported as percentages should generally be values between 0 and 100. So when the real conversion rate goes from 0.002% to 10%, the reported number should not be 499900%.

I expect hackers to use metrics that are at least defined over the range they are supposed to be used. Imagine that the conversion rate goes from 0% to 1%. I report 1% improvement, the value I measured. You? (1-0)/0 = what percent?
How do I fool this sucker?

Don't. Attempting to circumvent access control measures could not get you thrown in jail.
Aspies are often outgoing, but they have a lot of trouble socializing. That is what I am like, and it is pretty tough. How is it not a disorder to be unable to do something that is necessary for your happiness?
$1100 is still a pittance for this type of SDK on a proprietary platform.
Sorry -- I didn't mean to imply that Google Voice was a competitor, rather to say that a Google Voice-like service (with many tweaks) would work perfectly for this goal.
There are some jobs at Yahoo! e.g. (http://careers.yahoo.com/jsearchresults.php?key=&jcat=8&...)

I've seen some awesome positions recently such as front-end developers for Flickr and engineering in our cloud teams.

Feel free to email me if you are interested. My email is on my profile and I'll make sure someone looks your resume.
Automattic runs WordPress.com, Akismet, Polldaddy, IntenseDebate, Gravatar, and more. Here are our open positions:

http://automattic.com/jobs/

And information about how we work, which is a lot like an open source project:

http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work/

If you apply mention [HN] in the subject it'll make it stand out. We typically do a paid trial project of 2-3 weeks on contract before making a full-time offer.
Sub ASK HN: Where's the best place to view these in the Bay Area?
Rah on the simplicity. Well done, but I wish there were more sources to search. I know those sources don't really exist, though, unless you're going to scrape local newspaper sites and things like that.
i used my brain
$69 million
It's sufficiently difficult to answer your question(s) so I'll offer a different perspective.

Consider this question: are you enjoying your time? If the answer is no, are you working towards something that will allow you to enjoy your time? If the answer is still no, then you may want to reconsider what it is that you want.
MIS is also a bit of a vocational/industry degree anyways; not surprising to see someone pick up an MIS at a second-tier, extra-flexible, extra-inexpensive venue.
I'm guessing lawsuits that refund the carriers' money?
Yahoo has an opening on for their application platform team.

Expert javascript a must, PHP and/or Java a plus.

It's a tough role, but rewarding. I've held the position for the last year and half, and it's been a good experience. (I'm moving over to YUI.)

Great team, lots of interesting problems to solve.
Bump Technologies is looking for Java or Mobile developers: http://bumptechnologies.com/jobs.phtml

If you don't know Bump, our technology let's two phones connect by bumping them together. Currently we let users exchange contacts and photos (but more is on the way). We are YCS09, featured in Apple's most recent TV commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giBNazD-Lm4) and currently #3 free app overall on iTunes.

In general we are just looking for really smart people that are excited about Bump and fit in with the team. Although we haven't posted a job yet we are also looking for someone to help with scaling (good at algorithms, optimizing apache2, SSL/HTTPS, and mod_python). If you think that architecting and scaling a real-time matching algorithm across geography and millions of users sounds interesting please get in touch.

We would love to hear from anyone interested: jobs@bumptechnologies.com
I didn't miss that part. That's where Jeff posts the criteria _he_ looks at.

His assumption is that those criteria are not just good for _everyone_ who uses a user-generated-content site, but for _all_ user-generated content.

Mr. Atwood thinks that users should receive more for their efforts, and backs it up by giving more at the sites he runs. I respect that.

Try running his criteria past the user of a typical MySpace user. I'd bet the answers run a lot like this:

* my friends can see it
* my name is at the top, so it is me
* I don't care (excepting serious artists, who should know better by now)
* yes, if I'm a jerk
* All I care about are my pictures, and I have copies
* are they killing children in Rwanda, or something?
True, but you can't just make a token phone call so that you can write that they didn't return your calls.

I think it's pretty irresponsible to publish a hit piece on someone with making an honest effort to get their side of it. Om Malik was able to track Kundra down and get response within hours.
So people like me, entrepreneurs who have not always filed on-time, also disqualified from office. Got it.

Help me understand you, Andy. What are you getting at? That he owed back-taxes? I agree. He was given extra money at the time he incurred the taxes to cover the taxes. Agreed completely. Tim Geithner owed back-taxes.

Lots of people owe back-taxes. Plenty of Republican businesspeople think its their moral duty not to pay taxes as long as possible.

You're a tax cheat when you reorganize yourself as a shell S-Corporation, claim that a reasonable annual salary is $5,000, and then take your entire annual income as a distribution. Thousands of people do this, most will never get caught.

I have a hard time believing that simply not paying what you owe, or even filing an incorrect tax return, makes you a "cheat". Lots of people get audited. Many of them will owe. Most of those people are not cheaters.
For the location stuff, yes.
Now that I think of it, I've tried it on a machine with an AMD processor which was 2Ghz (don't remember the exact model) but it hadn't SSE3 support. SSE3 instructions are emulated on OSX86 which makes it inherently slower. And on my 2Ghz machine with 2Gb of ram the emulator was in fact slower than the device itself.

The Intel Atom has support for SSE3 instructions so it should work better but I believe the stability problems are still there.
http://mydellmini.com/forum/mac-os-x/8212-iphone-dev-kit-min...
cool. linked in the footer of hnsort.com
It's my only hope of ever learning the countries in Africa.
That is nifty but I think Mint's model looks better on paper. They want to operate in the transaction/opportunity cost of switching financial services. Banks have transaction costs (marketing fees, referral fees to other institutions, brick and mortar fees) and consumers have have opportunity costs (analysis paralysis, etc). By lowering these costs, they are creating wealth and taking a piece of it.

I think this sounds better (at least on paper) because you are both the friend of the consumer and the institution. In your model, the institution becomes more or less the enemy. Actually, since you (Mint 2.0) are trying to unite consumers against the bank, the bank will just shut your site down by not blocking access to the consumer's transactional data.
Electric is 4x as efficient as ICE. So could you get from 50mpg to 200mpg? yeah. Will Chevy? no.
Thanks for that. I go to the BPL all the time and had no idea that room existed! :0

My two complaints about Copley BPL is that they don't have nearly enough outlets for laptops, and their WiFi can be spotty in places. Of course, maybe Bates Hall will solve all those problems... ;)

They're good with the homeless too. Security guards walk all over that place constantly and wake anyone up who's sleeping. The bathrooms though, arg, across the street to Starbucks please. :)
Co-founder of a route mapping and performance analysis site, http://ridewithgps.com/ aimed at cyclists. Currently at 1100 users, 4000 user submitted routes and 1300 uploaded trips. Looking to upset the market leaders in a very lucrative industry that is void of innovation.

There are three of us, Zack and I are code/business/advertising and Cameron is graphic design. Works really well so far! We have a complete redesign launching this weekend, with an aggressive feature map after our re-launch.
Honestly, its hard for me to answer your question. I like stuff, but i don't really need any of it. But it would be nice to learn to ride a motor bike, or play the guitar, and for those activities you need a bike and a guitar, so as a means to those goals, thats what i need, but i don't need objects just because of them selfs. I don't need a computer, all i need is a tool to write code. At least thats how i view my materialism. Its my pragmatism that makes me a materialist, not some inner need to have things.
Gas is also expensive because your engine wastes 4/5 of each gallon you buy.
I got mine earlier today when I saw this posted on Twitter. I travel a fair bit for work anyway, but I plan to just go to some random cities to work for a day here and there on my pass.
I agree with the positioning of the feedback tab.
It's not so much that it is "out of place" but rather its just in a bad place at the moment. It's right between "stop sleeping through outages" and the big green sign up button.
This is your headliner content, there should not be some flat rogue turned-sideways feedback tag conspicuously thrown over it.

As for the other points. Well this is clearly a 37 signals approach. If nothing else, it is good for SEO. I think most users will click on the video first anyway. So all the content acts to complement the video, which is a good thing.
From 4 founders to a company of more than 20, so yes, we do.
Ahh if only I was a good student. That being said, trying to bone up on my skills as I am looking at some jobs doing geomatics stuff.
Second co-founder. There are three of us, Zack and I handle most of the business, code and community relations, while Cameron handles all the graphics. Cameron's work has evolved into a complete redesign of our site, which will finally get us away from the comical blocky layout we currently have.
Everyone should ditch IE6 support. Screw those who don't know how to install software. Heck, just give IE6 users a blank page with no explanation. let them suffer for their ignorance. No wait even better, redirect IE6 users to porn sites and claim it's a bug in IE6.
Naa Westport is the place to be
Ning is hiring http://about.ning.com/openings.php
More interesting: is the transmission encrypted? Secured in any way other than "it's hard to sniff cell data?"

On another note, does anyone know if it's actually hard to sniff cell data? Could a well-hacked phone go promiscuous?
XML is a specialized alphabet that can capture any kind of computer file as a regular text.

Sounds like I need me some of that XML alphabet. I shall use it to capture the interwebs.
I asked friends and family what problem they need solved until I got a problem that I couldn't list any software that already solves it.

So I am currently working on something, and hopefully it will pan out.
wow, it does not look like peashoot. It is a near-exact clone of the site! I'll leave my personal opinion of the matter at the door..just saying!
Righteous, gilt.com is great. Thanks for the bag!
Eliminating high school would cut the amount of taxes needed for public schooling, and would instead increase tax revenue by putting more people in the workforce. Not to mention that a more experienced (real-world experience) workforce might be more productive.
In the context of a plug-in hybrid, what does the "gallon" in "miles per gallon" mean?
As I wrote in a comment below, speed probably is not a problem.

But there are issues with hackintoshes on Xcode. For instance I had problems with breakpoints (they were simply ignored).
Not to worry ... we'll do things like we always do ... wait until disaster, THEN react
If you're someone whose username I'd recognize, you can send me a resume (my e-mail is in my HN profile) and I can refer you. That sends you to the top of the pile that HR looks at (technically, I think it's two separate queues, and they empty the referral queue before they look at the slushpile), though you still have to get through the interview process. I got in through a referral - I'm guessing it helps quite a bit. And there's a nifty bonus for me if you're accepted. :-)
$250/mo is pretty steep for your first quarter in business. Using the library until your company gets its sea legs, and then migrating to coworking spaces, sounds like a good plan to me.
Dakim, Inc. is the leading provider of brain fitness among America's senior living providers. We help seniors use rigorous cognitive exercise to prevent or slow the development of dementia. At least, that's what our marketing people say. I say it slightly differently: "We help seniors remember their grandchildren for a few months or years longer than they would otherwise."

We started in 2005, are venture-funded, and are not yet profitable. We're raising our 2nd round of venture funding right now. All employees get stock options, and we have medical, dental, and vision coverage.

We're looking for people who will work out of our Santa Monica, CA office. It's a casual office environment with really good coffee, and people often bring their dogs in to work. Today there's a Neapolitan Mastiff (http://twitpic.com/cwjfl) and a Chihuahua here.

Our touchscreen appliance (visible in the picture at the link above) runs Ubuntu Linux, and most of our infrastructure is Linux-based, with a few Windows (SQL Server) and OS X boxes. Our GUI software is written in REALbasic, and our system administration scripts are BASH and Python.

We're also in the process of developing a software-only installable product that will run on OS X and Windows.

Our desktops are OS X or Linux (your choice) with two big-ass monitors per person. We do well (but not 100%) on the Joel test, and are always looking for ways to make our work more efficient and productive.

Our biggest need right now is for someone in a combined Linux System Administration and QA Automation role. This would entail everything from installing and configuring Postfix to automating install testing for our Windows product.

We're also looking for QA Engineers for the Windows/OS X Product, and for additional support people, again, with Windows and OS X experience. Linux experience for both the QA Engineers and the support people is a huge plus.

To avoid getting put in the "Craigslist" mountain of resumes, send a cover letter and resume directly to me: schof at dakim.com
This is pretty awesome. And tempting. But I wonder how much "international fees and taxes" add up to.
I wonder why they charge a $100 no-show penalty?

Or why they charge you to cancel a booking if it's less than 3 days.

Do they want you in the seat so badly? Wouldn't they get a standby flier if you didn't show?
Scribd is hiring in SF/soma

http://www.scribd.com/jobs

or email directly to me, either way

{rails|flash} engineers
FreshBooks is hiring a ton of people right now. Some that are not even on the hiring page. I can attest that it is a very awesome place to work.

http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/

(tell 'em in the email that you found out about the opportunity from Hacker News, the founder loves ycombinator)
Agreed. They set IE8 to be a critical update to Windows. They really want you to upgrade.
Anywhere dark and clear, preferably in the mountains or on beaches away from the city. Skyline Blvd has worked well for me.
Quite untrue - I was hired about 2 weeks after the "hiring freeze" was rumored.

We have a Noogler starting in my department this week, so there's obviously not a hiring freeze. He's the first (in my department) since me and one other person were hired back in January, so the rate is obviously slow. I know a bunch of Nooglers that recently started on internal infrastructure projects though.
Funny, I feel that way about small companies that insist on only using free software, even if there's better commercial software out there.
You didn't mention any equity, which adds a lot to the possible upside. I was always under the impression that equity was important for early-stage startup employees.
If other students are relying on it, why not have them pass their credentials into the app, then have your app use their login to acquire the data? If you are secure about it, you should be able to avoid the uni's wrath while still keeping your service alive.
Linking to a .js file and asking/expecting us to install without reviewing the source is optimistic at best. Why not drop this at http://userscripts.org and link to that page?

And WTF hasn't anyone said this in the past 3 hrs already?
Anyone from Australia hiring?
Dropbox is hiring -- we need great Python (ideally C/C++ too) hackers. YC '07, later backed by Sequoia and Accel, growing like crazy (almost 2 million users, up from <100k this time last year)

jobs@getdropbox.com, please put "HN" in the subject
We (BackType) are looking for an engineer to join the founding team:

http://backtype.theresumator.com/apply/DNFiF7/
This might not affect the dell mini 9 since it uses an unpatched copy of mac os x. The changes are localized in the EFI (extensible firmware interface) I believe.
> Or do you really believe every single other city and state technology office is full of luddites?

They don't have to be filled with luddites to have a crappy webpage. They just need a crappy IT staff or to hire some 'lowest bidder' option to build their site that learned HTML by reading some Microsoft Press book on Frontpage.

There are some sites that have perfectly fine webpages that are screwed up because bureaucrat somewhere decides that the site needs to be 'updated' either because they feel that flash animations on the front page are 'the next big thing' or because they want to hire a friend/campaign contributor to do the job. Then they end up with a site that it worse off than the one they had in the first place, but they don't fix it because then they would be admitting that they wasted all the money that's already been sunk into the project.
Probably somewhere on skyline blvd (highway 35). There should be less ambient light up there.
No materials engineers?
Man, I was laid off 8 months too early.
Yelp iPhone V.3 Hits The AppStore
I, also, was expecting to see visualizations that were able to draw out information or truths that traditional forms wouldn't be able to do. To me that would be stunning. Instead I see data turned into art, in many cases (especially the stock data one, for example) obfuscating the data. Some of the color palettes are stunning, if that's what they were going for...
That's an option. Though asking users for their username/pass will cause significant overhead on my part in terms of security as well as turn away many of the users IMO.
If you get a crappy education in HS, despite your abilities, you're far behind your peers who got a very good one. Whether you then apply yourself in college, you remain behind those people because they keep on keepin on.

That's not so true today as it once was for kids who have access to the internet. If you've got a hunger to learn, there's plenty of fodder. My life would have been quite different if I'd had the net to learn from.

As to whether it's necessary depends on what you feel life is all about, and/or what real talents (not addressed by mainstream ed) you have. Highly self-motivated people (or who fortune smiles on) can usualy live without HS. Most of the rest of us need it to cope in an ever-more-complex world.
The "Cloud": who's really using it?
The cloud buzz has reached a fever pitch. So who is actually using cloud computing, and for what?

To clarify, I'm talking about computation (EC2), not file stores (S3). Furthermore, I am excluding traditional VPS providers (Slicehost, Linode, etc -- don't get me wrong I love both of them). So cloud services would include, but not be limited to: EC2, AppEngine, Rackspace Cloud/Mosso, Heroku type of services.

So, are you using cloud services, and for what? Your whole infrastructure or just part of it? How big are you?

I'm also curious about auto-scaling. Of course auto-scaling sounds amazing, but when I think of the hard problems that need to be solved during the scaling process, most usually aren't solved by bolting on more hardware (virtual or not).

So who's really using auto-scaling? Does it work for you?