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news.ycombinator.com• Aug 5, 2012• 1 min read

Remote contract opportunities for a globetrotter who knows seven languages?A well-travelled, brilliant, personable friend of mine is fluent in Russian, French, English, Italian, and Spanish with intermediate proficiency in Arabic and Danish. She's considering taking a gap year from university to travel the world one year from now, but she's worried about being able to find stable income during her travels. What kinds of opportunities should she be looking at, and what sorts of temp/contract offers (or full-time offers) should she expect to receive during this time?She does have dual US citizenship, so government employment is one option. Aside from that, I was thinking she could look into representing tech startups at international events on contract, recruiting, hosting events, teaching for short periods of time, or possibly other things.I'm pretty convinced that someone like her would be in high demand, but we don't quite have a concrete idea of where exactly to find that demand. Any tips?

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 2, 2012• 1 min read

Facebook stock drops below an arbitrary number in a popular number baseSeriously, HN, please stop submitting micro-updates to the Facebook stock price. The fact that it dropped below $20 (briefly) is terribly tedious. All it means is that (a) Facebook's stock has dropped a bit more and (b) Facebook's stock is below a small multiple of a power of ten.If Facebook stop suddenly drops by 90% then it might be worth discussing, or if Facebook suddenly submits an SEC filing that reveals that the end is nigh. Until then let's not get obsessed with its stock price.There are only 30 spaces on the front page, let's reserve them for something meaningful, not what looks almost like technical analysis and the nonsense about 'support levels'.

news.google.com• Aug 2, 2012• 1 min read

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels - ReutersObama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels Reuters

news.google.com• Jul 31, 2012• 1 min read

$1bn Rose Islandproject 'not active'for Ritz-Carlton - Tribune242$1bn Rose Islandproject 'not active'for Ritz-Carlton Tribune242

news.ycombinator.com• Jul 27, 2012• 1 min read

Show HN: Mindcast.com -- My Browser-Based Widget Engine MVPHey everyone! I am building a little browser-based widget engine that is inspired by Corning's "A Day Made of Glass" video. I was hoping to get some feedback on which of my interface decisions made sense and which do not, as this user interface goes a bit off of the beaten path for webapps.Please note that this MVP is made to work with a mouse-based devices. Touch sort-of works, but I've got a bit of work to do before I'm ready to call this MVP-ready for touch devicesHere are some features that (hopefully) makes this widget engine interesting for you:* You can drag the background to scroll the viewport, both vertically and horizontally.* When in edit mode, you can double-click the background and enter a url to embed a web panel/iframe. (... as long as the target webpage doesn't block framing.)* You can minimize/expand web panels, with automatic thumbnail generation by url2png's web service. (... there is processing delay of up to 15 seconds on the thumbnail generation.)* You can set th

bing.com• Jul 26, 2012• 1 min read

Brightcove’s Zencoder Purchase Could Be The First Step In Its Transition To A Freemium ModelBrightcove announced its first acquisition as a public company today, with plans to acquire cloud encoding startup Zencoder for $30 million. And while the purchase will add a small amount of ...

bing.com• Jul 17, 2012• 1 min read

In search of the key word: Bursts of certain words within a text are what make them keywordsHuman beings have the ability to convert complex phenomena into a one-dimensional sequence of letters and put it down in writing. In this process, keywords serve to convey the content of the text. How ...

bing.com• Jul 9, 2012• 1 min read

'Globals' Generation Focuses On ExperienceFor a growing number of U.S. college students and young adults, the idea of building an American dream is to think internationally. They are a... 'Globals' Generation Focuses On Experience Jennifer ...

bing.com• Jun 29, 2012• 1 min read

XIII: The SeriesReelz didn’t exactly set the bar terribly high with its inaugural foray into the field of original hour-long dramas—if anything, the D- Ryan McGee doled out to Steven Seagal’s True Justice may have ...