skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTDI discovered a way to detect fakes. Obviously, this does them no good to keep it to themselves, because they know that all the chips they make are, by definition, genuine.

Logically, the proper thing to do would be to develop a counterfeit detector and distribute it to all reputable intermediaries in the supply chain between them and the customers. That way, distributors could test the chips before accepting a shipment, and before paying for knockoffs.

Instead, FTDI gave the tester to end-users, all the way down at the other end of the supply chain. Many of these people will not even know what a FTDI is. And the tester actually works by making all detected counterfeit chips non-functional, which basically means someone ordered a package and it blew up in their face after they already paid for it.

The responsibility for protecting and enforcement of trademarks rests entirely upon the owner of the mark, not upon the customer.
Anything for more GDP growth! I wonder if the insane over-provisioning is a genius scheme to monopolise worldwide manufacturing for a century (even at massive cost to their population) or just a drive to keep up unsustainable growth statistics. Either way the game will be up eventually...
Right, but do you schedule a meeting to talk to your manager about it? And when they schedule a series of follow-ups to evaluate the effectiveness of meetings and establish a committee... And oh where's that feature you're working on?
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I don't really understand why Morozov is singling out Uber here, aside from clickbait. The situation would be exactly the same if all the legacy taxi firms were bought up by a multinational corporation.

The issue is that governments are bad at raising revenues in the face of an increasingly globalized economic system. That's all there is to this. It's not a problem that is uniquely associated with Uber, successful startups, or even the tech industry in general. When governments don't rigorously enforce their own taxation requirements, and fail to eliminate gaping loopholes that are exploited with impunity, of course there is going to be an issue with government revenue streams.

Though the concern about tax revenues here is legitimate, this article is more or less just more of Morozov's typical approach of finding a way to blame technology for deeper sociopolitical issues.
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I'm a published front-end developer with plenty of backend chops. I'm currently looking for React and React Native opportunities.

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Junction: Concurrent data structures in C++
Metova | http://metova.com/ | Nashville, TN | Fayetteville, AR | Conway, AR | Pensacola, FL | Remote

Metova builds apps for any size company, from Fortune 500 to start-ups. We enjoy helping start-ups become brand names and corporations launch new products.

We've got an awesome culture, great benefits, unlimited flex days, interesting work, and beer on tap.

We are looking to hire multiple full-time on-site developers in any of our offices.

Current Open Position:
C# Developers: https://metova.com/jobs/csharpdeveloper/

Some other positions we normally hire for, we just don't have any open at the moment. If you want to apply, we can still take you through our process and put you on our shortlist for when we are hiring again (which is often):

iOS Developers: http://metova.com/jobs/ios-developer/

Android Developers: http://metova.com/jobs/androiddeveloper/

Rails Developers: https://metova.com/jobs/rails-developer/

You can apply to jobs@metova.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009729
You may have better luck posting this to the Freelancer thread when it's posted (surprised it's not up yet)
Contentful - https://www.contentful.com - Berlin, Germany (VISA)

We are hiring for the following full time positions:

1. Senior Rails/Ruby Developer -
https://contentful.workable.com/jobs/193878

2. Marketing Designer - https://contentful.workable.com/jobs/151891

3. Head of Technical support -
https://www.contentful.com/careers/
Just an FYI, the link for the Apps & API Developer position takes you to the Ruby Hacker application page.
Why I don't read the comments
Remote, full time.

CSS/SASS wizard with BEM skills (or other paradigms that result in maintainable codebases).

https://codeable.io

Please only apply if you're European, we are all remote, but some overlap in working hours is needed.
Show HN: Database monitoring with Ruxit SaaS
I'm skeptical on looking for radio waves. How could interstellar intelligence use radio waves to communicate anyway, they're traveling at C and are still too slow
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https://www.kentik.com/careers/

Our top hiring priorities:

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We are a close knit team of data scientists, software architects, and software developers who are building advanced marketing analytics platform. We leverage proven streaming, machine learning, visualization, and big data technologies to process billions of records in real-time resulting in actionable intelligence that improves acquisition, conversion, and retention. This provides a unique opportunity to be a part of a growing team in a fast-paced and evolving environment that delivers business impacts from data driven recommendations.

* We are looking for a full stack developer. Our platform is based on MEAN Stack (Mongodb, Express, AngularJS, Nodejs) but are open to developers who may not have had MEAN stack experience but have MVC + heavy javascript background.

If you're interested please email me at sergey.cherman at syntasa dot com
My life as a coder – Or what is it that I do
I would just like labels for all the colors-of-the-rainbow in pickles.
Show HN: Deb-simple, a no fuss/frills apt repo server
The collaboration excuse is a red herring. I'm sure some of the managers believe it, but it's not really the point.

Office space is leased by the square foot. $/sf/ year. Building a new building is usually budgeted in terms of $/sf. (Aside from some base unavoidable costs, it more or less scales linearly with floor area in terms of square feet.)

The fewer square feet you need, the less your lease is, which immediately and directly decreases your overhead and increases your profit margin.

Open offices fit more people in fewer square feet. There's a specific dollar amount a manager can point to and say "I'm saving that much money".

Maybe the productivity gains of private offices would more than offset the extra cost of needing more space, maybe not. It's not as easily quantifiable. Keep in mind that office leases are often signed for 10+ years and if you're building your own building you're stuck with it for even longer. Plus once you sign a lease you have to pay to build out the office. This can easily cost several million dollars in itself.

If you're a manager making this mutli-million dollar decision, are you going to go with the guaranteed overhead savings of minimizing square footage or are you going to risk millions of dollars on a vague promise of maybe increased productivity? Unless your company has the money to spare I don't see any rational person opting for the latter, much as I would rather have a private office myself.
It’s kinda interesting that when people ponder React, they sometimes think of complex ideas and cite math-related terms like Immutability, Isomorphism, or as in this article, examples from circuit design. When I look at it, the first thing I think is that it’s like server-​side rendering. It’s not necessarily some mind-bending JavaScript phenomenon; it’s exactly what you’d do when making a WordPress template.
Dell didn't intentionally create that issue. They simply should have been performing better HALT to ensure they had coverage for bad caps. That's the qa escape.

In this case, there is no way to test for this as ftdi doesn't provide any way to do so. They simply break stuff after the fact. The only way to prevent this from happening is to not use ftdi branded parts.
Manhattan distance is because Manhattan is a grid, and that's how taxis drive or how people walk.
Organisms don't evolve; evolution is a statical process of species. The organism's metacognition about this behavior doesn't affect its evolutionary fitness, regardless of whether the spider is lonely, or thinking strategically, or perhaps just acting on instinct without any anthropomorphic higher level thought process. Whyever they think they're doing it, apparently it works.
Thank you for pointing out the fact that software compensation peaks early, and you pretty much hit a ceiling unless you win the startup lottery. A lot of people see the early money and forget this. As a software developer, 20 years into your career, your buddies that majored in finance, marketing or anything else, really, will likely have eclipsed you in terms of compensation, as they'll be senior directors of this or vice presidents of that.
Could the same technique have been employed in Greek so that it would occur in the Septuagint? I don't think so.
OpenSSL advisory: hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime
Show HN: Reworked taskdiag interface in Linux kernel
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Innovation == Talking about what we did that weekend? :)

This was cruel and there is no excuse why in 2016 this arrangement couldn't work for a week or two.

As a remote member of a mostly onsite team there is some validity that you miss out on the SOCIAL aspects of work (grabbing lunch, hanging out after work from time to time, etc) but the "innovation" on our team is just fine.
There's a (fair) book on this very subject: "Shop Class as Soulcraft" by Matheww Crawford. He earned a PhD in economics and after working briefly in a Washington think tank he quit and opened a shop repairing antique motorcycles. (That was the plan anyway. I think he really makes his living writing.)

I can totally relate to the need to have a life outside the virtual world. I've been programming for 30 years (data analysis in R&D mostly), and while I love the intellectual stimulation from writing code to do something new, I also crave physical contact with the world. But it's still not clear to me how best to make that work. Can I do this as part of a job, or must this happen only after hours?

I considered working in robotics, since that seemed an ideal mix of the two realms, but I'd rather not feed the military maw, which is where 95% of the work is. Maybe I should just reorg my garage to add room for a workbench and join the ranks of shadetree mechs. Lord knows I have enough machinery that need wrenching...
I've seen this one used on 4chan a lot https://i.imgur.com/mqLdyzE.jpg
If you have 3+ hour meetings that sounds like a bug. Maybe figure out why they take so long or why there are so many and address that.

Maybe get fewer people in the meeting? Push as much discussion as possible out of the meeting so it only involves the people who care? More delegation and indirection?

Managers and leadership should be showing up to more smaller meetings not front line people showing up to fewer longer meetings.

I think a reasonable scheduled meeting budget is averaging 1-1.5 hours per week and that is an upper limit not a target. Unscheduled (as in does not repeat every week at the same time) are something to be avoided for a product development team.
I'm about finished with the book:

http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

I have already tuned off my email client, only checking it in the morning and after lunch. Contemplating moving me workstation (computer) into my lab where I can get away from the open (short cubical wall) floor plan.

Of course, I am reading HN now, but only because it's taking quite a while to generate Gerbers for a PCB.
I am sorry, I didn't mean any legal accusation - it just feels a little odd that the description of the app sounds as if you invented the technology without ever referring to the original work.
> However, effective community leadership/stewardship is part of the job description for someone like Poettering.

If this is true, then this is exactly _why_ the criticism should be directed towards Redhat. Because in his arrogant world view, he can do no wrong, so he will not report to his bosses that he has ineffective community leadership/stewardship. The only way his bosses will know of his ineffective leadership/stewardship is if the criticism is directed towards Redhet, and therefore, his bosses.

I.e., the criticism has to go around the roadblock, Poettering being that roadblock.
Chinese people have amassed a lot of wealth but their investment options are very limited. Hence the Chinese stock market bubble, property-building bubble and Ponzi schemes.
Hi, I think you want to repost on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044
BASIC.!
Zika-Microcephaly Link Questioned
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Sources - https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag
Elation (http://elationemr.com) - SF, CA (Remote considered)
Software & Site Reliability Engineers, Product Designer, and a number of other positions (see http://elationemr.com/jobs)

We build really great clinical tools for doctors and their patients. We've built a product-driven company around asking and answering questions in this space very differently from the way the rest of the market has approached these problems. We value empathy, pragmatism, and reasoning from first principles. Founded in 2010, we've raised money from some really incredible folks and spent the past five years doing lots of the challenging/messy early pathfinding - now we're looking to really grow the team and start taking on some really innovative challenges.

The tech stack is currently Python/Django/Javascript/ReactJS/MySQL/Redis/ElasticSearch/AWS/Java

Here are a couple of links to give you some idea about what we do and how we think:

This Quora post was written by one of our engineers explaining what we're building:
https://www.quora.com/What-product-is-ElationEMR-building

Here's a blog post I wrote about one of the ways we stay close to our users:
https://blog.elationemr.com/shadowing-a-physician-a-first-pe...

Here's an overview of how the company got started, from our co-founders Kyna and Conan:
https://www.elationemr.com/philosophy/

My contact information is in my profile. I was the first engineering hire in 2010, now head the product org for Elation and I'm available in real time if you'd like to hit me up on skype/email/twitter with any questions about Elation or the Healthcare IT industry in general!
Rocketmiles - Chicago IL.

Rocketmiles, recently acquired by Priceline, helps frequent travelers vacation faster by earning huge rewards for booking hotels.

We're looking for a front-end developer (Angular or React), backend developers (Java/Grails) and a QA engineer to round out our development team here in Chicago.

You'll work with our CTO and head of product at a small, but growing, company solving interesting challenges while having fun with a very solid and experienced team. Email me (head of product) at jordan@rocketmiles.com
Is there any demo of adding hint to <a href....>..</a>?
In desktop browser, I can see the hover events can trigger the hints.

How to make it work on touch browser? Touch should trigger the <a href>, but I also like to see hints shows up somehow.
Major League Baseball Advanced Media (http://www.mlbam.com), San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite

I work for MLBAM where we handle the live video streams for MLB, NHL, HBO, WWE, Sony Vue and several other partners. We're looking to add another engineer to our team that handles much of the live streaming process.

We are looking to hire multiple software engineers to apply strong technical knowledge and ability to our world leading digital brand. Our software engineers are hands-on and gain professional gratification by having their efforts exposed to millions of users around the globe. Opportunities include the development of services, web applications, and APIs for the orchestration of our live streaming platform for MLB content as well as content for other partners. You will work closely with engineers across the technical organization, integrating your services and contributing heavily to the multimedia pipeline for building live and on demand video products. Software engineers can gain experience in a variety of technologies and platforms, and can transfer areas over the lifetime of their career.

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We’re looking to hire two full-stack engineers. Ideally, one would be a Python or JavaScript/Node.js Engineer. The other would be a Ruby Engineer.

Today, Underdog.io is a curated marketplace for talent. We connect amazing people with founders, hiring managers, and recruiters at top technology companies.

We’re building technology to reduce the noise of the job search and match. We started Underdog.io because we experienced the pains associated with (1) hiring while working at top startups and (2) looking for new opportunities.

Our platform is currently live in SF, NYC, and for remote companies. We work with over 200 awesome companies. Quality is key to our model -- we turn away one of every two companies that have tried to join the network. We've proudly bootstrapped and profitable.

As we scale, we’ll focus on building tools for candidates to organize, search, and discover new job opportunities. In our view of the future, job candidates don’t receive as much unsolicited outreach from recruiters. Job search is organized and talented candidates have more high-quality options.

We use Python/Flask, JavaScript/Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, AWS. We're also working on a project in Ruby/Sinatra. And we're big supporters of open source.

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/underdogio

Link to recent Medium post: https://medium.com/@cmuir/lessons-from-sixteen-months-of-boo...

Email chris@underdog.io to apply.

If you're interested in working remotely, we'd ask that you're located in the U.S. or Canada because of language and time-zone constraints. And, because we're still a small team, we're not able to accommodate recent bootcamp graduates. No recruiters or dev shops, please. =/

Keywords: NYC, Brooklyn, Developer, Dev, Engineer, Python, Flask, JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Open Source, https://underdog.io/
There was a post today about Stanley Kubrick, which got me thinking: programming is like making a movie in many ways. So you can tell your boss: "if I were a film director and you knew I'm busy at the film set making a feature film for you, with some Hollywood stars, would you be calling me out for your shitty meetings as often as you do otherwise?"

Or: "If you were Stanley Kubrick's boss, would you interrupt him as often?"
If you are concerned about Windows 10 instrumentation and Privacy I strongly advise you to not use OSX.

You can watch it send many of the same signals.

EDIT: Very confused why this post was downvoted. The post above is clearly concerned about privacy and the topic is very relevant. It's also true, and trivially verifiable.
Facebook at Work
Retresco GmbH - Berlin, Germany - ONSITE - BACKEND DEVELOPERS

We are looking for several people to join our team in Berlin. We specialize in content automation solutions, building APIs and cloud applications that solve the needs of our customers. Among our clients are well-known and distinguished publishing and media houses, retailers, e-commerce shops and non-governmental organizations.

We are looking for BACKEND DEVELOPERS with experience in Python (and/or Java) development of web service oriented software architectures, optimally including NoSQL storages and/or Elasticsearch. More information: http://www.retresco.de/backenddeveloper
Amber: a tool to keep linked content accessible
Show HN: Isolated Core – Self-updating JavaScript apps using iframes
The point is it's possible to build something that does not use USB, but which uses an almost identical protocol differing only in the meanings of the PIDs/VIDs. If it's based off USB 1.0 then any patents have expired, and if you don't call it "USB" or "FTDI" there is no trademark violation. In that case you would be doing absolutely nothing wrong, but the FTDI driver would still falsely detect it as "counterfeit".
I work in an open office, and would consider myself a knowledge worker. The easiest way to manage it is to work from home, however I also positioned my desk in a corner facing the window (so my back to the room) I also by default put wvery meeting invite to tenative and ubless its absolutely necessary i dont show up.

All that has put me at odds with management to a degree. However, im given all the hard problems and churn out solutions. Based on projects completed, im doing the work of 4 employees at the same level. I should also add that I still answer 5 - 20 questions from coworkers a day, and am the go-to guy to fix many issues (so I dont completely shut myself off). This has put me in a position where my manager has hinted that im going to get promoted if I keep it up.

Of course the company I work for has "non-management management" i.e. you can become a VP without having to manage people. This lets the anti-social hard-core workers still move up in rank and pay.