skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can send you a letter that says you have to give me a million dollars or I'll sue you. You can decide whether or not to do as I've asked.

That is a long way from my actually suing you.
Fleaflicker is hiring--looking for software engineers with large-scale webapp experience.

http://www.fleaflicker.com/jobs.do
Oh yeah, we are always looking for developers. Especially smart ones.

Another cool thing about being a developer/designer at FB is that they encourage side projects.
Proof?
http://www.guestlistapp.com/about/
http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php

And here is head of dev tweeting about them:
http://twitter.com/barsoomcore/statuses/3224450516

Here is VP of Marketing tweeting about them:
http://twitter.com/MitchSolway/statuses/3210081160

Our very own "Queen of Hearts" (social media++ girl):
http://twitter.com/rlangdon/statuses/3178658450

They totally understand that if you are going to get great developers you should expect that they will have side projects. Side projects hone skills and expand horizons.
Augmented Reality: A Human Interface for Ambient Intelligence
I consider myself pretty open minded but I honestly can't even see where you're coming from here. The question here was "Did the man have the degree he claimed to?" and that story involved 2, only TWO, facts. The University he claimed the degree is from and the type of degree.

Of those 2 facts, Dvorak failed to correctly verify one of them and then drew a false conclusion based on that and screwed up the second one. That would be journalistic negligence from anyone. But when you add Dvorak having admitted to writing stories just to generate traffic (http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9838/) you get a picture of a dishonest man.
Okay, I can see if from this perspective.

The way I originally understood it was more from an aggregation of power into the hands of the consumer. By banding together they would be able to leverage a better rate. In that sense I would see the bank as becoming a common enemy (probably a poor choice of wording too).

This is an interesting model in that Mint becomes the preferred provider or discount broker or something along those lines.
I would go with clojure because the documentation is more developed but it really depends on what kind of project(s) you work on.
Academia.edu is hiring:

http://www.academia.edu/jobs

Academia.edu helps academics answer the question ‘who’s researching what?’ We have a very engineer-driven culture, and we are looking for an ambitious and product-obsessed software engineer to join the founding team. We describe more of the qualities we are looking for on http://www.academia.edu/jobs
That would be me.

For some reason, I would rather watch Simpsons reruns than some movie I've never seen.

(I returned one disk today that has been on my coffee table for two months. I just couldn't get excited enough to watch the movie, and I was tired of looking at the disk.)
Google Helped Twitter Fend Off Attack
By comparison, that is less than 1/50000 of the $5,300,000,000 spent on the US presidential race.
Jeez, you guys. Dvorak is just promoting his podcast, "No Agenda." If you've never listened to it, it's the most bizarre combination of kooky conspiracy theories from former MTV VJ Adam Curry, mostly of the "9-11 never actually happened" variety, and typical right-wing radio yammering about how Obama is selling the country down the tubes. I get the feeling neither of them really believes a thing they're saying (they refer to themselves as "crankpot" (Adam) and "buzzkill" (Dvorak)) but they have hit upon a formula that attracts a lot of listeners so they're running with it.
That's for a new Mac Mini. Find an Intel Mini on eBay or Craigslist and you'll save even more.
What the Bubble Did to Technology
Why exclude slicehost and linode? they have APIs for starting/stopping slices.
Super Rewards is hiring in the SF area. We monetize social gaming through virtual currency. It's an amazing experience to see this market from the inside.

We're very profitable and growing like crazy. In fact, we were recently acquired by Adknowledge: http://bit.ly/yNr0h. The bulk of our work is PHP, though you're free to work in your own language when not developing in the MVC stack. I do a lot of Ruby hacking personally.

Being a board gamer is a plus. We like to game in our downtime!

E-mail me if interested: joshuaxls@gmail.com
I was specifically referring to proprietary (closed) platforms and to SDKs with the relative level of scope/clarity/consistency we're seeing on iPhone.

Note that people mention iPhone/iPod, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP in the same breath, and on this list clearly the former has the lowest barrier to entry.

For me, somehow Android just doesn't quite fit in this categorization. (Neither does BlackBerry or the Palm SDKs of yore which also have low price tags).

But even if you want to just compare directly "phone to phone", it seems to me there is a cost that exceeds the "free" price tag on these other SDKs.

For example, I happen to be quite familiar with the openembedded toolset used to build eg the OpenMoko phones; and I have little doubt that the value of the additional time that must go into the learning curve to get going, and the effort required to produce something comparable, will easily exceed $1k for many people.

Basically, if I ask the question: to leverage $1k + time1 into $x; vs to leverage $0 + time2 into the same $x, it just always seems the $1k is a really minor barrier to entry here compared to the additional time in dealing with things like device variations.

I am inclined to think Android might change that equation somewhere down the line, but at the moment I'm just not quite seeing that picture.
You may not know this, but it's worth asking: What are the Canadian immigration laws like regarding non-Canadian citizens coming to work there?
IE6 is not going away for a long time because of corporate nightmares like these
Zenbe is hiring Java and Rails developers for our Tribeca NYC office.

http://www.zenbe.com/jobs
College Students: Pass Up That "Free" iPod
I don't know. Dvorak's an idiot but O'Reilly's belief that you can determine how qualified someone is for the highest technology post in the U.S. after "a few minutes" seems just as foolish.
I tried a test. Can I guess what any of these graphs are graphing without reading the article? The answer was a resounding no.
Are there any companies out there looking for 3d graphics programmers, most likely for powering games?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759667

We're looking for an intern who could help out with the front end of an Android, iPhone, or Web App (we have all three, and an intern could choose the area that most appeals to them). It would be nice if you have experience in the area you'd like to work in; but it isn't necessary if you're a smart, well rounded, guy-or-gal.

If you're interested, we can also teach you some Lisp and machine learning stuff a bit down the line.

Our team is half in NYC and half in Cambridge, although geography isn't a deal breaker.

Email me (address in profile) if you're interested.
For my mISV I wrote PhotoNote to clean up whiteboard images. I wrote it to scratch a personal itch, but I think it's useful and competitive in the market.

http://www.southwedgesw.com/photonote
How to Create Your Own Official Website | Fit For Lit
http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/index.php?page=observin...
I honestly don't understand when people say a credit card is expensive. Most credit cards are free. Interest is expensive, but interest is optional. The issue is not about credit cards; it's about buying things you can't afford. That's a bad idea no matter how you do it. Even with cash.
There are unfortunately ALOT of corporate programs that will only run on IE6. At work, our main app is optimized for IE6 but we are trying to ween our customers off of it and onto IE7... but all IE7 bugs are P2s at worst because IE6 is what our customers are using.
Can't edit my original post but just to update you guys: bought the passes. Going to do something great with this. Thanks guys, stay tuned!
The Little App Factory is hiring a cocoa/objective-c programmer. Check us out at tlaf.com!
Seth Godin:how entrepreneurs are reacting to the changing economy
This has nothing to do with IE6's rendering engine, and everything to do with ActiveX.
It was $300 for the month last time I checked. Thanks for the fact-check.

/me updates mental notes
I think this settles my decision to consider only Android when deciding whether to get a smart phone. If Android is doing something I don't like, well, I'll just change it and recompile. I've said before that if there is any DRM, you don't own it. I think now it may be time to say what GNU and the FSF have been saying all along: if you can't control it, you don't own it. If you can't take it apart and put it back together however you like, you don't own it.
No worries, it's a pretty valid question.

AFAIK, the only development on YUI2 is to fix "significant" (ie, new and/or awful) bugs, and to remove forks and special code that was in place for deprecated browsers (ie, safari 1.0 stuff, mostly.)

All the new development is happening on YUI3.

I'm not an authority on the matter, of course, since I've only been on the team for -1 week ;)
And I'm coming along, too!
SlideShare is hiring a senior software engineer (I've been interviewing people for the position all day).
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1309674762.html

Someone with a serious Ruby background would be perfect, but we're open-minded ... if you've built cool stuff in other interpreted languages that's also OK.

Email me at jobs@slideshare.com (that goes direct to my inbox)

-Jonathan Boutelle
CTO, SlideShare
Your comment confuses me. I installed the "HN Toolkit", but it doesn't "show 5 new items at bottom of main page"; it shows the last 30 new links to the right of the normal homepage content.

Anyway, you might want to try installing again. I updated the script to play nicely. (I didn't test any of the other features that the Toolkit provides, however.)
Cisco is looking for a variety of positions for a SaaS email solution.

This is a VERY unique system we are working on involving email, reverse engineering, bit-twiddling and byte hacking, productivity/collaborative software, Active Directory and NEVER giving up the good fight.

All positions are listed as Senior Engineers

* Email Protocol Experts
* MAPI experience
* A senior QA Engineer
* SaaS Migration and/or Synchronization Experts
* User Interface Experts
* Frontend programmers -- Ajax/Javascript

Email a resume and a nice letter to
specialsaas@hushmail.com
Ah, good point. Didn't think about that.
I'm glad to see some people going through with it! Do you and dcurtis have a website or an actual plan for this in the works?
Intent Media is hiring in NYC: http://www.intentmedia.com/im-jobs

Small team right now. Ruby. Java. Agile. Well funded.

Hit me up directly (kurt@intentmedia.com) or work@intentmedia.com if you're interested.
well, why do you think they call it a tax on the stupid? credit card companies don't stay in business because of prudent fiscal practices. the exist to enable your bad habits.
You guys provide an excellent service! We use you guys to host our git repo for http://ridewithgps.com/ -- excited to see what else comes out of your team.
You are already starting with two preconceived notions. First that you need to quantify how time is wasted in software development. Second that you need to do a survey. I don't know what you're trying to achieve, but those may not be necessities (well unless of course what you're trying to achieve is exactly and only raw data on how time is wasted in software development as would be obtained by a survey).

The use of a survey especially seems more apt to be flexible. Especially when you consider the simple fact that all survey answers are lies to some extent whether the responder intends for them to be or not. Is there perhaps an opportunity for direct observation? Can you perhaps check how time is spent by looking at commit logs of open source projects? Can you track stock values over time to see which period of time was least utilized? The list goes on.

I'm not saying a survey is necessarily a bad idea, but they have lots of flaws (such as lying and not providing the right answers (or questions)).
Tr.im, bit.ly, Twitter and The Ugly Truth
I would suggest we could start a thread like this once a year, maybe at the beginning of the summer or whatnot. The reason I say this is that I am extremely interested in the offers listed here, but I probably won't have time 'til next summer to actually apply for any of them. If I knew at the beginning of the summer (or earlier) what offers were out there, I would be able to apply to a lot more of these offers. Just a thought :).
Virtual desktops.
Yeah the Amtrak passes suffer from the problem of too much complexity, which makes them risky for the buyer. The restriction to only 4 trips on any given segment is especially killer. Their own example shows that going from DC->NY and back would use up 2 trips, then DC to Philadelphia would count as trips 3 and 4 because it happens to travel the same segment of track for a while as the DC->NY route. That is way too hard for the buyer to figure out on his own.

I wish they still offered the unlimited riding for 30 days passes that they had several years back. Eurail passes are immensely popular, partly because they are easy to understand.
New life goal: Visit an artificial island.
I'm sure the deal isn't everlasting... The content producers are the ones with leverage here, not the people who deliver the content (cable, satellite, etc)
I've never heard of an all you can eat buffet charging for uneaten food. Example?
Absolutely. Now if you're a small vendor, you have no choice but to downgrade all your computers to IE6 in order to enable your employees to access business critical information. Because of how complex the configuration is, running IE6 in parallel with IE7/8 with hacks will not work. And there is no other way to access this data. So now even though other browsers might be installed, most users will use IE6 for regular browsing. I want IE6 to die but I'm afraid it'll be a while.
I started on Amazon grew to something like 30 servers on there doing a variety of tasks in a few groupings(Server group A has 5 servers all the same + load balancer for example). Used scalr.net to manage it and thought it was great.

I've recently started moving everything over to GoGrid(20+ servers there now) since I needed to be on the west coast for latency issues. I'm not as big of a fan of their services but it's ok for what it is. I still have a number of complaints though not as many as last time I wrote about it.

I also have a hand full of servers with rackspace cloud for redundancy but they get very little use at the moment.

Also our whole external infrastructure is now in the cloud. We have one server with softlayer and a mail server that are separate. In house we have another 15 or so servers for log processing.

We use autoscaling or rather did when with amazon using scalr and once I get my puppet setup running fully on GoGrid I'll be developing one there too. The problems I face can entirely be solved just by adding more hardware since all my systems are modular so it works well for me but your mileage may very.

Scalr support autoscaling by things like load/ram/bandwidth as well which is nice since a lot of times you need to scale out for different reasons.
hi Olihb,

Thanks a lot for your thoughts. We will officially launch next week. So, all of the beta request and login will be eliminated. I agree with you about logo and button. I will change them.
Depends where you are coming from. Basically, the way I understand it is like this:

Platinum: From Great Britain, automatic acceptance, some sort of old law that is still on the books.
Gold: From United States w/ BSc, BASc, BEng, BMath, CS, etc... If you have a white collar job offer it is basically a shoe in.
Silver: A whole host of countries (New Zealand, AUS, Israel, Germany, China, Korea) w/ a family member or a job offer.
Bronze: A refugee. Or from a country like South Africa. Harder to get in. Get on a waiting list, wait for years till something gets triggered.
Denied: Palestine, Iran (except to study, or unless you are Bahia)

Check with a lawyer though. I'm certainly no expert, I just repeat the experiences of my friends.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/tool/index.as...
Is the Canadian "eligibility tool"

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp
Is the "who should apply" link

-Quote-
If you meet these minimum requirements, your application will then be processed according to the six selection factors in the skilled worker points grid. The six selection factors are:

your education
your abilities in English and/or French, Canada’s two official languages
your work experience
your age
whether you have arranged employment in Canada, and
your adaptability.
-End Quote-
Pattern Insight is hiring

We are a startup based in Mountain View, CA building next generation semi-structured analysis and search platform

http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.php
No they wouldn't. Jet Blue doesn't overbook their flights. If fact, they pay you $1000 if you ever get bumped. See their passenger's bill of rights:

http://www.jetblue.com/p/about/ourcompany/promise/Bill_Of_Ri...

I think it's reasonable for them to ask you to make a three day commitment or pay $100. Think of it as a guaranteed reservation.
Organic SEO
Through organic SEO services, we can increase the search engine rankings of your site. The process by which we work is quite different from pay per click advertising.
Is The Bing Adoption Trend Holding?
Enjoy your trip, but social-hacking attention-currency without having to actually build anything is so 90s cyberpunk-and-Wired blasé.

Anyone can board an airplane and sleep in a bed -- see if you can't gain attention by doing some good (of any variety) in the places you visit.
You can share straight to Hacker News, under "Send To" click on Create a custom link and enter this:

name: Hacker News
URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=${url}&t=${title}
Icon URL: http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico
Huh? How is two days earlier Friday?
I don't really think that article contributes much, and it sounds like sour grapes. People still actively share and work on hard cool things.

In fact, I think the more people involved in technology whatever their personal reasons is a good thing. The more technology developed by others the less I have to develop myself.
If anyone is in the so cal area, we've started hiring as fast as we can in the Irvine office.
Aparently Atlassian http://www.atlassian.com/32/ are hiring...
I just applied myself, I'll see how I go.
If you believe my recruiter, it was previous startup experience, strong CS fundamentals, and good JavaScript knowledge. In other words, I had a skill set that they needed and seemed like a person who could get things done. Pretty standard stuff.

The interview process was less difficult than I thought it would be. 1 phone screen, 4 (supposed to be 5, but one never showed up) in-person interviews over a day. I'd thought I'd flubbed it when I got out, but apparently the interview feedback was quite positive.

If I had to guess what makes most candidates bomb, it's that they don't have sufficient depth in the positions they're interviewing for. For example, at the end of one of my interview problems, the interviewer asked me "And how would you attach that event handler?" And I replied "Well, if it was IE, I'd use element.addEventListener('mouseover', fn, true). If it was a standards-compliant browser, I'd use element.attachEvent('mouseover', fn)." Note that that's wrong - it's backwards. But the interviewer didn't care. He just wanted to make sure that I was aware of those functions, because so many of the people he interviews would just say element.onmouseover = fn.

Similarly, most of the disastrous product-manager interviews I've heard of have been because the candidate would give handwavey answers and couldn't clarify what he meant or figure out how to support his opinions with data, even when prompted by the interviewer. Google culture really prizes precision, perfectionism, and strong opinions backed up with data - if you're used to finding the first Google hit on the web, implementing something by copying and modifying that, and then saying "Okay, it's done," you really won't fit in here.
I've found that just about every company out there is hiring students. In most companies eyes it's like getting cheap highly trained labor.
At the day job, legacy installations mean IE6 compatibility is a requirement and all other compatibility is a luxury. I prioritize accordingly.

Its not like I can tell my customer "Look, I know telling you to upgrade your browser is going to break that 3 million dollar CRM system you've been using for the last 8 years... but you'll get transparent PNGs!"
My favorite travel tip: Buy the $10 Zagat's iPhone app. It's the definitive source for finding good restaurants in every major city. Not necessarily expensive restaurants either--most cities have a few 27/28-rated cheaper local's favorites.

I'll start you off--hit Sushi Ota in San Diego, and Lotus of Siam in Vegas. Both 28-rated and Lotus is the best Thai in the country. Lunch should be less than $20.
Revolution in the Classroom
Glengary Glen Ross. Steak knives.
I read that as "a really nice kitten," and found myself agreeing with you. A house and a nice kitten sound pretty good.
Independent Filmmakers Distribute on Their Own
The ADWEB Agency from Melbourne, Australia is seeking a Front End Developer/Designer, proficient in HTML/CSS and Javascript, with an interest in UI/UX. We have a strong past in hiring students, as the entire design team (including myself) have begun our careers in placements.
Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books
Oh god that's depressing.
It's not. Which is the point: different contexts make the same words mean different things for me.
What is special about IE6 that doesn't work on other versions?
Let me know when you're going to be in Pittsburgh...
Nektra Advanced Computing (Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is hiring people with reverse engineering (think IDA) and windows system internals (C/C++/asm knowledge) skills for our line of products and services. If you are from Buenos Aires or want to relocate (even for some months) please send an email to: empleos at nektra.com look at our web page and blog for more information about the company: http://www.nektra.com & http://blog.nektra.com
FreshBooks is hiring developers, support, designers, a customer network manager (think group facilitator for thousands of people at once), and business development / product managers.

Yes, that's a lot. We're growing fast. And we're in Toronto, which is awesome.

http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/
CiteMine: A virtual market for scientific publications
Because of the verb. If we use "earlier" or "later," we need to use a verb related to time - such as "we rescheduled the meeting." That's cumbersome. By using a spatial metaphor, we can use the verb "move," which is simpler, but it introduces ambiguity for what direction means what time.
Getting Your Wireless Network Up to Speed
Yes, 30dayflight.com will soon have more information.
Wow, what recession?
Awesome, thank you for taking the time to provide so much detail.
Let me know when you guys are in Boston! I also have a pullout sofa you're welcome to if you're going the couch surfer route.
I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere on the site, but where are they based out of? I have a friend whose sister is autistic and whose mother became a speech pathologist because she couldn't find any "good" ones in the area (and have done some technical work there in the past). However, I'm one of those unwilling to relocate right now types.