skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe it's quite usual to refuse business when you're busy. A lot of small businesses never grow larger than 10/20 people; after that the owners are satisfied and have enough money for a comfortable lifestyle. Companies don't fail catastrophically fail here, they just peter out.

The entrepreneur that "dreams big" is the exception. And people with entrepreneurial aspirations are themselves exceptions. I think I read an article in the NY Times a while back that over 70% of MIT students are interested in business, and that 30% or so take a stab at it.

Over here in Europe many college kids subscribe to the "profit is evil" philosophy and starting a business is "something they maybe want to do some day".
My wrists disagree vigorously with you, sir, on that. Standard laptops have terrible ergonomics not only related to key spacing issues (frequently too tight) but also the abruptness with which the keys stop (being as it is almost entirely rigid instead of the progressive resistance a good, say, Model M has).

Ergonomics isn't all key layout.
In general, the rule about getting what you pay for stands true. Of course there are always exceptions to this rule, but I'd say they're few and far between.

If I was in your position (which I have been) I would do the following. 99designs for a logo (great suggestion by tptacek), cssmania for design/concept direction, adobe kuler for color palette, then use CSSEdit for Mac and learn to lay out your design.

If, at the end of the day you really have no design skills you can always consider using something like templatemonster or just hire a company/designer that is good. It will cost you, but you can probably negotiate a lot of things. Just be honest and let them know your budget, but plan to have the design (psd likely) converted by psdtohtml or a like service (depending on what you're doing will cost ~$200-300 for a basic conversion) because in most cases it's cheaper to have a service do this rather than a designer.

If you're comfortable with it, I would post up the url and maybe there's someone here who'd be willing to work with you. You never know. Good luck and have a great weekend!
neustar is hiring (better known brands are ultradns and webmetrics) - we have around 70 open positions, most of them technical (support, ops, dev etc.)

http://neustar.biz/careers/index.cfm
i would agree with you. stallman is a better fit for a nobel. he's such an inspiration. torvalds just works hard, which is so trivial and boring.
I also wonder if there's any way to build some lightweight features on top of these job postings (sort by location, skills, etc) without it becoming YAJS (yet another job site).
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I could believe that claim if by "classic touch typist" we meant "people who learned to type on a manual typewriter and as a result hammer the keys to within an inch of their life" (known to cause stiffness in finger joints, for example), but I doubt that's what OP was referring to.
We sort of have a Nobel Prize for CS -- the Turing Award. This could also be compared to the Fields Medal for mathematics.
Rounded corners are supported in Webkit Gecko and Presto, and not in Trident of course.

Variables are provided by SASS, a CSS pre-processor language/framework.
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You could check a port of a Pratt parser done by Crockford some years back, can save you a bit of hassle.

http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html

John Resig's port of processing is also well looking into.

Both the above are not python but can give you an indication of how people attacked similar problems in terms of parsing.

let us know when you finished:)
Nice. But even the non-profane Perl-related posts seem to get killed with increasing regularity. Apparently people are so upset that Perl still exists that they feel the need to click the "flag" button.
Go to the next HN meetup. Last time there were a few local startups looking for people.

Off the top of my head:

http://www.windycitizen.com/

http://www.craftedfun.com/
Does anyone have a theory on what makes this game so successful? I went through a phase where I was addicted to it myself - and yet it's so mind-numbingly simple!
I touch type about 100-120 wpm (with lots of caffeine and a tail wind a bit more...), but when i am trying to write code I spend as little time typing as possible.
I'll sit there and think about it or write the code down on paper or draw a little diagram or something, then I'll run it in my head. (Sometimes I just do all of it in my head).

From my perspective, typing is the busywork section of programming, the faster I can get it done, the more fun I'm going to have writing code.

However, I think that overall, having your IDE set up properly would be more advantageous that being a ridiculously fast typist.

Fast typing, however, does make you really good at writing documentation.

A lot of the time documentation is poor because the programmer is a bad typist (maybe just mediocre) and doesn't want to spend the time inputting the full length description of functionality.

If you are a pretty good typist, writing out the full description is as easy as thinking about it.
Google did make some improvements to the market in 1.6, so I'm hoping that effort is ongoing. Really frustrating how secretive they are about everything though.
Lotsa Python stuff, and located in downtown SF
RealClimate responds to the CRU hack
Ask HN: Dirty tricks for faster mysql alter table ?
Mysql is a great program, countless websites wouldn't exist if it weren't for this really neat open source package.

One thing I can't get around though is that every time I have to do an 'alter table' on something that has been in production for a while the whole thing stops dead cold as long as it takes it to do its job. And that can be quite long if the table is large enough.

There are a few dirty tricks out there to speed things up a bit, the most frequently used one builds an empty 'shell' table with the right structure but without the indexes and then uses the repair facility to recreate them. It's a little faster, but even that is too long in all but the simplest cases.

Is there a better way to do this ?

I'm about to 'do it again' on a production table with 50M rows in it and I really am not looking forward to taking things down while doing this.
What's wrong with developping for ms platforms ?
Have you tried the latest versions of visual studio ?
Sure. http://biblekin.com

Disclaimers: Heavily in Alpha stages. Should be ready for full beta in about a month. The concept is a Christian social network with an extremely heavy emphasis on daily Bible reading.
Also: Try Rope and Fly, I found it to be fairly similar and also quite addicting.
SASS compiles to CSS.
I need to order this book. Perelman has got to be one of the most intriguing characters of mankind ever. Those social "outcasts" have probably done a lot more for the advancement of mankind than a huge bunch of those we celebrate regularly.
Why Google Chrome OS has already won
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The company I interned for this summer, Panjiva, is hiring a web app developer in Cambridge, MA (http://panjiva.com/jobs). Their app uses Ruby on Rails, but experience with it isn't a necessity. It's a good place to work for if you like it when your development work immediately affects your company's revenue.

Right now the 3 person development team includes an MIT PhD candidate, an MIT grad who founded a startup with a successful exit to VMWare, and a CMU/Stanford alum who recently quit Powerset/Microsoft.
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clever little app. good luck!
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We're hiring a Ruby/Rails engineer to build up an innovative and large scale mobile service focusing on the iPhone now. We're an Alphalab summer 09 company.

You will be employee #1. Preferably someone from the Pittsburgh area or East Coast. Will definitely consider telecommute if you're the right candidate.

Email's in my profile.
Plus, don't you have a product which may benefit from developers, even if they don't start working on that project?
Voicemail transcription is one of the things I'm looking forward to in Exchange 2010.

Then I can dump emailing from a smartphone and send voice recordings instead - without the listener having to listen to my voice recording. Best of both worlds.

Also - there's a link to "robotic voicemail woman wastes our time" which is an article with a clickable audio link in it. But it's not an embedded player, it's a popup window which loads another page which has an embedded player which starts by playing an advert for ... the site it's on!

Followed by a rant about how it's unneccesary for a voicemail system to tell us it's a voicemail system. Well maybe it's no easier for people to change their company voicemail system than it is for you to change your podcast introduction to remove the redundant message that we're listening to your podcast system!
And there's a ton of color math going on.
I've noticed that by being a good typist the keyboard is almost like an extension of my mind. I simply don't notice it at all. When combined with a powerful editor like vim, it's almost magical how well integrated I feel with the code that I am writing.

I also experience what it's like to not be in this state whenever I switch to a keyboard with a slightly different layout than I am used to. My movements feel clunkier and I spend time context switching between being 'in the code' and being focused on where my fingers are on the keyboard.

For anyone who hasn't experienced this state due to poor typing skills, try to learn, it's worth it!
Nice example of false dichotomy ;0)>

Excellent idea though, I imagine the output data could be worth quite a lot. Are you pitching it at the Cheezburger people?
From RealClimate (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=953454):

> Scientists often use the term "trick" to refer to a "a good way to deal with a problem", rather than something that is "secret", and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. As for the ‘decline’, it is well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the "divergence problem" - see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while ‘hiding’ is probably a poor choice of words (since it is ‘hidden’ in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.
Waiting to do something drastic until we're forty or fifty years richer and more technologically capable seems like an easy answer, assuming you're willing to agree that we're getting more capable of solving the problem faster than the problem is worsening. And assuming that the recent plateau doesn't signal the beginning of the end of the interglacial, which, I'm sure you'll agree, would be a far worse problem than global warming...
I think everyone would agree that Apple produces very good quality (if expensive) hardware and that a useable and productive terminal environment is the bread and butter of the dedicated programmer.
I've got a problem with ideas such as this. How dare we judge productivity through typing proficiency - while we still haven't managed to properly define programmer productivity?
Large Hadron Collider restarted after 14 month hiatus
Drinking alcohol every day cuts risk of heart disease in men by more than third
I used odesk to find a designer, to get a look that was a bit more polished for patch-tag.

It still looks less polished than I want, but better than I could have done on my own.

30 minutes is a fantasy though, you are buying hours, maybe days, of someone's time.
Excellent timing. It sure appears that Android has hit its tipping point (I have family members who are now proud owners of Android phones). Now is definitely the time to scale things back.
I prefer to just have people comment and possibly post links/email addresses. If feels more organic that way.
I'm Italian, currently living in Paris. I have worked in small and large companies (even startup) all over Europe and I hear what the British VC says. I totally feel that in Europe personal life is way more important that the professional one and most of the people doing tech work are not passionate about it. Europe working culture is very much about "how many days of holidays I have left", bittered employees and clueless managers.
I prefer to develop for wider audiences. I know it's just a little more people (Windows has 90+%, after all), but a monoplatform world is incredibly boring. Having a x86 inside all our computers is monoplaformity enough for me.

And I think people failed to notice my attempted humour, even with the ";-)" at the end of the message...

sigh...

As for Visual Studio, the last version I used was the 2005. I was finding the Visual Studio series increasingly more complicated and not particularly elegant. I am much happier with Emacs, dynamic languages and uncomplicated web frameworks. Not to say OSs people can actually understand.
"It will only take about 30 minutes" seriously undervalues the work.
Quora (Palo Alto) would hire someone if we found the right person.

Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers. We're a startup based in Palo Alto, CA founded by Adam D'Angelo, who was previously CTO and VP of engineering at Facebook, and Charlie Cheever, who led Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.

http://www.quora.com/about/index

http://www.quora.com/about/jobs

http://www.quora.com/about/challenges

Some of the challenges are highly algorithmic, such as coming up with ways to organize and categorize the information effectively so that users can efficiently find what they need; others are very technical, such as working to make a web application that is complex while still being very fast; and many of the challenges are in product design, such as figuring out a way to set up and grow a healthy community and constructing intuitive interfaces for users.

We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology company that develops software the right way and is a place where engineers love to work. Some of the tools we are using include Python, Pylons, nginx, memcached, Thrift, and git. We're using continuous deployment and EC2, so all code you write will go live to production within minutes no matter what time it is. Both founders are developers. We want to build a fantastically strong engineering team and the first engineers that join us should set the tone for that.
Not to nitpick, but Canvas is not part of HTML5 thanks to Microsoft.
If I recall correctly, Pascal's argument was that if the Christian God is truly the one and only god, then if you follow him, you go to heaven and have infinite pleasure. Nothing else gives you guaranteed infinite pleasure, therefore the expectation value for being a follower of the Christian God is the highest.
See http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cr... for the other side of the story.

The oft-made claim about the non-availability of the climate model data can be proven false by visiting:

http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/about_ipcc.php - contains all the models used in the IPCC AR4

http://tamino.wordpress.com/climate-data-links/ - contains a huge amount of climate data.

Of course, all this data is extremely complex, but it cannot be claimed that it is unavailable.
which one is the false dichotomy ? :)
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100,000, actually: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/11/04appstore.html
In defense of the Roku boxes, they do have their place. I dropped Dish a few months back for 100% Roku based tv viewing. The box just works. Yeah, it is a bit limited, and with a queue of 250 movies it becomes difficult to find things.

But my 7yo can operate it with no problems. It doesn't (hasn't) crash, and I don't have to screw around with it like I would a MythTV system.
I don't know of any but this is ,IMO , a very good idea.

(Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me Amichail,and it turns out,that by reading HN , I have subscribed to your newsletter. :) )
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Why I love working at IMVU:

I get to write C++, Python, SQL, and PHP in the same day, if they're the right tools for the task at hand.

My changes are available to customers 30 minutes after finishing them.

An active and excited community of users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=imvu

We're a large and growing virtual goods economy and virtual world.
The random procedural map must be a factor; it's like gambling.
Google working on JIT compiler for Android
Not surprising. The cost of developing for the Android platform is rising: (Multiple screen resolutions, buggy SDK implementations) and the money to be made in this area isn't rising to match. As the platform fragments more (it will) revenue (or people willing to pay for applications) has to rise as well or more than just Gameloft is going to exit the android marketplace.
From pg's guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Global warming - not exactly sure; climate change, undeniable; human-induced climate change, undoubtedly IMO

That's the issue. (I upvoted you btw) That the climate is going through a short period of less than stable behaviour is certainly evident. It's also evident that it's gone through such behavior in the past, with both more and less variance. There have been ice ages FFS, and that had nothing to do with man.

It seems like we are having an influence in our current whether patterns, but we simply have nowhere near the amount of data to know this beyond theory.

To say that we are - without doubt - causing the earth's climate to change when we can't predict the "change" accurately is scientifically irresponsible.
Yes, trust your entire (cyber) life to Google Inc. They do no evil, haven't you heard? Platforms like Chrome OS are the enablers of (very possible) future police states.
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Here's a sketch of a design: iPhone 5 (or Android 4.0), with a picoprojector, and a multi-touch Dasher on steroids.
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You're right. This was an extreme exaggeration. But honestly I'm mostly just looking for advice and a few suggestions. I really am only looking for about 30 minutes of someones time. Didn't mean to imply that anyone's design work should only take 30 minutes.
Two points I was surprised weren't mentioned in this article:

1. Open source - this could be Androids greatest strength against he iPhone and the key to making developers switch.

2. The killer app for Android could definitely be free phone calls! VOIP seamlessly integrated, not as an after thought.

I think Android will give iPhone a serious run for it's money, and put pressure on Apple to change some of these things. Great topic, Apple needs to wake up on this one!
Being able to speak about workplace legislation of taxation in the EU would have been a topic of interest on founding a startup. However the author chose to squander the article on meaningless speculation.
The oars move more than a little through the water. It isn't the immutability of the water that allows for traction, it is the drag, or perhaps resistance is a more appropriate term, that gives bite to the oars in the water.
Digg is hiring!

We're looking for an Integration Developer to work with content publishers and API clients to support integration of buttons and tools and development of external apps. Ideally a brilliant junior developer with lots of interesting side projects and experience working with clients.

We're also looking for Senior Infrastructure Engineers with experience in non-relational databases, message queues, service-oriented architectures... we're a major contributor to Cassandra and other open source projects and we're doing lots of interesting things in the name of scalability and performance.

Both jobs are in San Francisco (Potrero Hill). More info and more jobs here: http://digg.com/jobs
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Hm.

no evidence of the falsifying of data

That suggests that they got a different set of emails than examiner.com did, assuming the best of them.
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Off-topic but I just want to give kudos on Uncharted 2. People talk about the Xbox360 and PS3 as the next generation of video game consoles; I think Uncharted 2 is the first real next generation video game. It's truly amazing.

Congrats and Thanks!
Interesting, even if you where accused in front of the star chamber (abolished 1640 because it took away too many rights) you couldn't be put to death.

So in some way, this legislation is actually worse.
Why? How could you possibly know this? Are you ignoring the potential jobs green legislation could create in the area of green technology?

Have you not noticed how dependent we are on fossil fuels at all?
Dead-simple gameplay, retro 8-bit style graphics, nice grey-scale visuals, awesome music. There are no instructions (on the iPhone version), so the discovery of how to play is also fun (helps that this phase doesn't last long, only one thing to figure out).
We do, and we have a full time dev team on it, but I don't like promising people a product development role when I'm looking for app security people. We're hiring on the product too!
Here is a good resource for Ruby on Rails Jobs: http://www.RoRJobs.com
Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety may be good for you
Yodle is hiring: http://www.yodle.com/careers

We use Java, Spring, Hibernate... and Rhino
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"involves Windows-only software".

Fine. You have an excuse. And you also use OSX when you ar nor working. That's a plus ;-)

My main computer is a Linux netbook, but I also have to run XP from time to time (inside a VM, obviously). My bank requires an ActiveX control for the business accounts.

I think it's incredibly ironic they found a way to require Windows for security reasons.
I don't know about the rest of the article, but chlorine (used in swimming pools), hydrogen peroxide (also used to clean wounds), sucrose (a sugar), talc (as in powder), etc... as hazardous substances. Chlorine is highly toxic in concentrated form. and both sucrose and talc are dangerous in powdered form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion. See: http://www.osha.gov/as/opa/foia/hot_6.html.

PS: If you want to be frighted ask a fire department what they would do if a pool supply store caught on fire.
It seems to me like treating QA as developers who are not allowed to write code, but can criticize it, would tend to result in a situation exactly like the one described.

Indeed QA is not a step after development, but I'd argue that encouraging developers to become better at QA themselves is a more effective approach than having non-coders inspecting sources after the fact.
Their users care!
Ask HN: Review my w2.0 site for network apps
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this type of study should be headlined thusly: strong correlation found between alcohol consumption and decreased risk of heart disease. but I'm not naive enough to not understand why science has been sensationalized with inaccurate headlines for centuries.
Meanwhile you where to download whatever you wanted through google you be able to do everything you wanted with no problems.
Come work at Twitter, we're hiring!

http://jobs.twitter.com/
That makes me think of the purpose of dice in many boardgames. In particular, Settlers of Catan - which is a great blend of skill and chance.
The next step for Google - OS just the first