skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Availability heuristic and confirmation bias. It's not big news when someone who's 51 strikes it rich, but it's unusual when someone 21 does. So that what gets reported and that's what comes to mind when you think of starting a company. If you looked at the news you'd think everyone who's rich got there by starting a hot startup in college (or got a big Wall Street bonus), but it ain't necessarily so. Take a look at books like "Millionaire Next Door" for some more balanced info on the kinds of companies people start and what age they become wealthy.
A lot of things about IE6 are not standards compliant, so it's either programs for both or program for just IE6 and there is never enough time/resources to develop for both.
Xoopit (now part of Yahoo Mail) is hiring Javascript ninjas. Send me an email (carlosb at yahoo-inc) with HN in the title.
How do you manage your finances ?
Which webapp do you use to manage your finances ? Is anyone concerned about privacy if you use mint.com.
Why can't Microsoft simply take the IE6 codebase and refactor it into a static, standalone "Legacy Intranet Browser" that, similar to Mozilla Prism, will generate a locked-in "site launcher" for each site it must be used on?
I thought the later IE's had special rendering compatibility modes that do the same as IE6.
From one photo, we know there are at least one hundred billion galaxies
I believe the author is idealizing the pre-bubble era a little too much, but he is right about the destructive effects the bubble has had on the technology industry.

For more on this, see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726174

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=727396

and especially http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652562
What about the jobs button on the menu bar?
Quicken for personal, Quickbooks for business, and the bank's website. Also checking out Indinero.com for business version of Mint.
Why doesn't somebody just write a goddamn dedicated IE6 emulator and be done with it...
Ignore this idiot. His summary is wrong, In his haste to make a snarky comment he missed the entire point of the transcript.
We're using AWS EC2 mostly because they're the only hosting provider we were able to find that offered high-speed connections between their data centers. We use this capability to synchronously replicate every transaction to at least two data centers. The plan is that we should be able to cut over to another data center without losing any committed transactions.
JamLegend.com is hiring our first two team members (engineers) to join our gang of three in San Francisco.

If you love changing the way people experience music and games on the web, send us an e-mail at jobs@jamlegend.com .

More info here: http://www.jamlegend.com/jobs
The product that I'm working on is designed to improve how we communicate and access information. It's based on a system that I had designed and implemented for a very large software company where errors and missteps tend to have a cascading affect.

It was fairly easy for people to not know what was going on around them due to the complexity of the software. The problem was also exasperated by people having different skill sets and social skills. You'll be surprised or maybe not, but people will waste time trying to find an alternate way to get an answer, if they know the person who can answer it is not sociable.

What I'm hoping to better understand is how we spend our time answering questions like, "what did you do?", which requires e-mail and/or meetings and/or reports. And if these types of question could have been self answered if the person asking could have figured this out themselves.

The main selling point of my product is I make it very easy for non developers like managers, seniors managers, verification, etc. to understand what is changing. It also makes it easy for developers who have to deal with a very large code base.

In order for me to show customer value, I'll need to quantify how buying my tool, will help their bottom line.

I do understand that lying would be an issue but I also think if I can come up with a good set of questions. That those frustrated will be more than glad to provide honest feedback.

The challenges that I'm faced with is defining all the questions, which is something I can work on. But in order for me show customer value, I'll need to quantify time wasted, with real world metrics. Time is money. And in this market, if you can't save somebody money, they probably won't listen.
SoftLayer's bare server API (http://softlayer.com/resources_api.html) and monthly pricing have suited our needs nicely. We've seen seen two problems (a porn site in the same datacenter sometimes gets DDOSed and the firewall in one data center is remarkably flaky), and they've been remarkably quick to respond to each.

The amount of tooling around the Amazon ecosystem is nice, but we mostly just use it for automating builds.
I haven't launched publicly yet, and I was wondering if I should totally ditch the advertising, which was why I conducted the poll.
This isn't revolution. It's the same old failed nonsense. More taxpayer money. More failure. Just a larger pile of horse crap.
So I guess I'm blessed that my workplace's intranet is coded to Firefox, and we dropped support for IE6 for our customer-facing sites a year ago?
I use mint.com and I while I am sort of concerned about privacy, I trust them at least as much others who have my financial information.

Plus, AFAIK, if you're in the US you're only responsible for $50 worth of fraudulent transactions; for credit cards at least.
Agreed. Every time I hit CPAN, I marvel at how much I don't have to do these days.
Tufte's other books :)
Neither sound great for your proposed project. If you are stuck on that type of project, look at something like Griffon instead.

Otherwise, if you are more interested in expanding your mind and thinking differently, Clojure for sure. Scala is nice and a great Java replacement language, but it is quite a bit like Java and looks like Java and can be programmed like Java.

Clojure is different. Clojure is lisp but if it was written today instead of 50 years ago. Clojure is as close to pure CS as we have today on a modern platform.

I encourage every developer to learn a Lisp at somepoint, but today there is no excuse not to as Clojure works on the JVM so easily. Clojure will change your way of thinking and get you exposed to functional programming (FP) and that is a great thing!
OT: I didn't know about Mozilla Prism. It looks very useful!

Thank you.
I bet we can find a similar place to get some work done later then 6-8pm. I'm in the same boat as you, and I'll start searching for a viable late-night quiet spot.
I've seen signage to that effect at buffets before. At least one of the Chinese buffets in Houston (of which there are about a billion) has such a sign, though I don't remember which one. I don't know that it's enforced...just a not-so-subtle way to say, "Don't waste food!"
I like how you ignored the part about lying to illiterate people about their debt, that was awesome.
The same as IE7.
Well, yes and no - I think that becoming a millionaire at 20 is much more common now than it was 100 or even 50 years ago - especially since the advent of the www.
The article was very interesting. Looking at the issue of the relationship between Microsoft and Adobe from a new point of view. I agree with the core concept that silverlight and flash are in one front against fully open standards like HTML 5. But I think both Microsoft and Adobe are in both sides of the battle between RIAs using open standards and proprietary plugins. They know they should contribute to open standards.
Any design jobs in San Diego?
It's too late for this summer, but if you are still a student next year, then Google's Summer of Code is a great option. Mentoring organizations are usually announced by mid-March (see timeline for this year here http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc...). For almost any interest, there is probably a mentoring organization that is doing something you would be interested in (and if not, google also allows applications for independent projects through their open-source programs office). I've definitely learned as much, if not more, working on a project through SoC as I did at an internship I had at a small software development shop a couple of years ago. The pay is better too. The only downside is that you might spend a lot of time alone, only contacting people through a mailing list and/or irc channel.
I've made use of Yodlee so much so that over the years, I've told it to anyone within earshot. The most common excuse I get from even the tech savvy programming crowd is "I do not want to have all my account information in one place, it's a single point of failure".

While true, the same holds for all information that we have online that is important to us. But it's a big mental block that both these sites need to overcome. Yodlee kinda shifted that burden by selling software to financial providers whom we already trust by opening accounts.
Even if you didn't care about learning business through film, I would recommend these. Most are classics and highly enjoyable. I left out the great ones already mentioned.

Risky Business - going from idea to execution in a very short time

High Fidelity - small business, vertical expansion, labor relations

There Will Be Blood - "I have a competition in me."

Office Space - process reengineering, efficiency, employee motivation

It's A Wonderful Life - customer service, community building, ethics

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit - work life balance

The Player - handling office and industry politics

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room - ethics (and the catastrophe that befalls those without them)
They're not "taking advantage" of IE6 any more than the financial industry and the Social Security Administration are taking advantage of COBOL. It's simply that the software exists and has been coded and tested against IE6. For a company as large as Sprint (and many other like them), the cost to refactor or rewrite huge swaths of their codebase are extremely prohibitive.

The benefit of the upgrade does not outweigh the detriment. This is why companies like Citrix exist. Virtualization is a good market to be in right now.
These are great points.

Facebook's (stated?) goal is to represent real world human relationships and connections online in some way. That is complex and messy as humans are complex and messy. Facebook should not get rid of its myriad of privacy options as it's already built-in and necessary for way Facebook took off and grew (the whole point of Facebook was that it was private for college kids). It does certainly face very difficult UI and user training challenges that need to be solved sooner rather than later, if it can be solved at all.

Twitter took another POV and just threw the complexity out. Definitely hippie ("can't we all just get along") and definitely simpler and easier from a UI and back-end perspective. Not as useful, but you know what you're going to get.
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word in US
Tesla

The sports car, not the video card (I had one of those once, not as useful as you'd think).
another vote for mint, but i also keep track of things in a spreadsheet, because as good as mint is, it can't do everything.

not concerned with privacy.
Looking for a Sr. Manager of Engineering, to manage the entire engineering department in San Diego:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/sad/1315679159.html
While I agree with some of the ideas (in spirit), I find most of the positions advocated to be hard to stomach.

On a practical note, it hard to see how any sort of "national educational reform" could survive the kind of political backlash it would have in smaller communities. At best, you will end up with some kind of watered down nonsense, and at worst there's the specter of "No Child Left Behind". Is that the kind of mistake you want to make again?

Furthermore, I don't agree with the whole "e-learning" slant to the article. I tried that route myself several times and gained nothing for my efforts. A lot of the "creative tools" for e-learning are nothing more than rote memorization in disguise (think: smart.fm). Yes, it would be nice to expand the educational experience and offer a wider variety of courses and topics, but without constant PHYSICAL access to a teacher or professor, it is hard to gain a proper understanding of the subject. Putting kids behind a computer and telling them to distance learn is not the solution.
They're in SF, near south park.
Done (more or less). IE6 application compatibility virtual PC image: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21E...

I use it at work to test our sites against IE6. Boots in about 5 seconds and runs IE6 as well as can be expected.
I reblogged Alaska's tumblr update telling him same, and basically guaranteeing that you and Ed would be in for grabbing beers. Glad to be validated by your response here.
We're hiring a Quantitative Developer for the Optimization/Algorithm group at Yodle (based in NYC). Send over your resume to dangoldin @ gmail.com and I'll pass it along.

Feel free to email me if you want to know more about the job and what we do.

http://www.yodle.com/careers/job_details/quantitative_develo...
Or just install Firefox with IE tab. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Or just keep IE 6 and run Firefox in parallel for everything else.
It says that it would be nice for the applicant to have at least a few, not necessarily all of them.
How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City
Somewhere that's not Chicago. Sorry, sad but true.
I use Yodlee MoneyCenter (http://yodlee.com/). It's free and has been around for a long time. Yodlee has had more features than Mint.com for years. Also, it's the back end of Mint.com.
Alienware AllPowerful Gaming Laptop

Gulfstream G650 (it's not even in production yet)

A house on a beachfront

A Jaguar E-type in pristine condition
I also signed up for mint.com, after reading everything they wrote about security and privacy.

But Bank of America's portfolio feature (if you're a customer) is also nice for a snapshot and trending of your net worth.

For basic business accounting, I started out with MS Accounting and felt it wasn't clear enough (or I forgot too much since Accounting class). Instead, I took some time to learn Excel better, which my CPA accepted just as well when it was tax time. At my level, Excel is more than enough.
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Those both assume you still have an IE6 to use, and that your company would rather switch to Firefox than upgrade to IE8.
I still think Douglas Adams explained it best.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

In a strange way, I think it gets the point across better than a precise description like "one hundred billion galaxies" ever could.
Makes intelligent life seem quite likely
I am trying to figure this out as well.

I can understand there are problems - layout issues, popup windows blocked, activex controls denied permissions. However all these seem like things that are either totally cosmetic or could be fixed with relatively minor hacks - most of them with just registry configurations or an alternative stylesheet here and there. If people could name actual technical reasons why apps break then I'm sure a group of interested parties could quickly form an open source project to develop a compatilibity layer / plugin / something that would bridge the IE7 - IE6 gap. But nobody ever seems to get down to that level of specificity. I have to think that it's really mostly about corporate inertia and lack of desire rather than actual real technical challenges.
naa i'm from an equally depressing backwater in aussie.
Based on my (limited) understanding of cosmology, this is only the number of galaxies in the observable Universe . The number of galaxies "outside" this region is effectively unknowable. Could someone who knows better clarify?
Similarly, you could run a ThinApp version of IE6: http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/

However, both of those solutions ignore the branding aspect. You don't want to make your company use "Internet Explorer 6 for Application Compatibility", because that sounds like an acceptable, normal choice to make. You instead want them to use "WARNING BIOHAZARD ISOLATION AIRLOCK BROWSER FOR KEEPING SUCK AWAY FROM COMPUTERS," or something equally poignant. Using it, or even looking at it, should convey the "stay away" signal just as strongly as spots on frogs or stripes on snakes.
what's the big deal? looks like a nice site.
The problem is that you can't run IE6 and IE8 in parallel (though it sounds like adbachman may have a way around this). So you keep IE6 for applications in your intranet that require it and use Firefox for general web access.
Hmm. JavaFX might be a better choice for a GUI app.
These are how buffets are where I grew up. When I moved to the US, I was surprised that buffets here allowed me to leave food on the plate while I went to get another plate of food.
Maybe he'll finally get sued for libel and shut his kooky trap (hey I can dream can't I?)
I may choose spending few hours with them because I can not do the handwriting analysis myself. But you know what I will not be able to understand that person completely in those few hours. Analyzing handwriting gives much more clear idea about the personality of the person as he can not hide his inner traits in his handwriting.
AM Analytics (amanalytics.com) is seeking a talented web application developer to lead the development of our social media and market intelligence dashboard.

AM Analytics is a web startup committed to building the most comprehensive social media and market intelligence dashboard available. The AM Analytics team is a combination of individuals passionate about leveraging social media to help businesses make informed decisions. Our current team has backgrounds in internet technology, government security, financial analysis, community building, market intelligence and consumer psychology. Although our team's education and experience is diverse, our goal is to deliver a single, integrated social media analytics platform to our customers.

Responsibilities

As the lead web application developer you will own the application design, implementation, and maintenance of the AM Analytics platform.

Requirements:

* Experience with web scripting and application languages (Python, Ruby, etc)
* Experience working in an open source development environment (Linux, Apache, SVN)
* Experience with Model-View-Controller (MVC) web frameworks (Django, Ruby on Rails)
* Experience with REST(like) API's, XML parsing / handling, JSON, etc.
* Expertise in HTML/CSS, including familiarity with good information and aesthetic design principles.
* Experience with Flash / Action Script 3.

Big Plus:

* Prior social media application development experience.
* Fun person to hang out with.
* Enjoy building an innovative web application that makes customers happy.

Interested? Please email alex@amanalytics.com for details.
Bank of America's "My Portfolio" is also driven by Yodlee.
But the point is that that's possible now, but corporations aren't doing it. As long as IE6 exists on the computer as a general web-browsing solution, and is required for something, they'll be loath to install and maintain "another, redundant" web browser for anything else. To stop this practice, we have to take IE6-the-browser away completely, and in its place give IE6-the-hardwired-intranet-client.
Heard about it for the first time. Thanks for the tip though. We have started this from February 2006. I am not sure how old is mylivesignature.com
This seems (externally) similar to the idea of drinking lots of water so that you'll have to wake up to take a piss - except here it's being hungry that's waking you up.

My problem with sleeping, though, is falling asleep - I can wake up when I need to with sufficient alarms, but getting to sleep when I need to can be tough. There is one time when I have trouble waking up, though - after flying. However, I tend to take day flights, and doing this would end up with a day of my fasting in a widebody air plane, which would take an already-unhappy me to a whole new level.
simply this: It's not possible to run IE7 or IE8 on windows 2000, which is still massively installed: many companies don't want to upgrade for a few reasons. (mostly: legacy software and cost).

Microsoft could solve this tomorrow in myriad ways- but it would appear that it's not on their radar.
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I am from Uzbekistan and I found my job at DISQUS via Hacker News.
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Facebook is. See http://www.facebook.com/careers/
I'm the owner of Reliable Response. As alexsolo said, we're an enterprise product, meaning we install on the customer's servers, behind the firewall. Pagerduty looks like a great product for smaller teams or companies which prefer a SaaS solution. Our price point is around $10k, plus yearly maintenance and support fees, so it's definitely geared towards bigger teams.

http://www.reliableresponse.net
Perhaps, but the likelihood of a sufficiently advanced civilization who could travel through space/time to interact with us becomes much smaller when you consider our civilization as a whole is only a flash in the pan.
I needed a way to advertise and discover services over the internet. I found Apple's Wide Area Bonjour (aka. DNS Service Discovery) to be a good fit except that I couldn't find a suitable DNS server to use. So I wrote one and have started work on making it available as a hosted service. If you've got a few OS X machines and you'd like to try it out head over to http://www.globalhostname.com/ and try the free beta.
You have provided some excellent information here for people interested in getting a job at Google. You seem like a friendly, bright, and helpful person. So I say this with respect for you and for your own benefit. You must never, under any circumstances, ever use the word "Noogler" ever again.
Is anyone hiring part time?

(And while this may not be the most appropriate place... Advice on finding a programming job for a 16 year old with a year+ of programming (job) experience and significant knowledge of multiple popular languages?)
Why do you think Justin.tv is buying traffic? It's patently false, so I'm curious where you'd get the impression from.
I have yet to see a web analytics report that takes into account Twitter API usage.
Sure, but saying XML is a programming language is wrong, however simplified it may seem.
In the end picking up both might be worth while (since the two languages can interact with each other in reasonably sane ways thanks to both being JVM languages) but similar to others comments I would start with Clojure as it really feels so powerful. All the advantages people have been praising Lisp for over the years but with massive block of available libraries really is a powerful thing.

I can't comment on the scala community since I don't hang there, but I can also say clojure's will certainly be glad to help, the majority are amazingly friendly on freenode for IRC as well as the google group.
Nice work both of you, going to start using both. Don't know if tablesorter has any pagination capabilities but that would be nice if hnsort included that.
Apple's iPhone is 8% of industry revenues but 32% of profits
Startups for people with lots of time
Freelancing and the Power of Partnering
Wouldn't expect it to show up on the front page if it was harmful.
Would you pay a few for high quality programming video tutorials?
Paranoia, conspiracy theorists & economic policy
i use wells fargo online banking... and just withdraw cash at the beginning of the month for petty cash expenditures and food.