skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brightwork (http://brightwork.io) | Chicago, Il. | Full-Stack Developer (contract/on-site)

Brightwork is a platform that cuts the back end application development time in half by providing a robust and reliable API to enable developers to build fast and scale. They can also switch APIs on the fly without having to recode or redeploy their application.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/job/full-stack-javascript-engi...

We are currently in Techstars and need a full-stack dev resource to help with some heavy lifting while we focus on the program. There is a possibility you could be hired fulltime if you're willing to relocate to Portland, OR. when we're finished in the fall.
The Streisand effect is strong and I suspect that it will make someone very unhappy in short order. It doesn't look good for the judge, but of course it's one newspaper reporting on another so it might be a little biased.
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I have a ton of unanswered questions about this software, and the website is of no help.

- is this a GUI application? If so, what does it look like?

- can I manage any relational database, or only DBs internal to this application?

- what does this offer over SQlite3?

- can I leverage Rel in an application, or is it only a learning tool?

I don't understand why this showed up on HN's first page.
How does it compare to *BSD?
I was interested in a product job in Barcelona, then I saw that it pays almost 70% less than I'm making now...
I am replying to your other comment here since it is not possible to reply to that comment for some reason.

I do not think that is a valid comparison. The author did not go out of her way to point out that the server was located in China. There is no mention of China in the title, and the only place where the author mentions China is several paragraphs in explaining how and where the data is transmitted. There are more mentions of China in this comment than in the entire article.

Finally, for the record, I do not have a verified email associated with this account and thus do not have the ability to downvote.
It's the opposite. As a US citizen you have to be afraid of DC while Chinese citizens need to make sure they don't get on Beijing's radar and so on for each nation. It's a matter of under which jurisdiction you are and therefore which governing body has the most freedom-limiting power over you.

These devices are developed in China and hence have Chinese IPs for some call-home feature. As much as I want to be skeptical, I wonder what the HN community would say if it'd be a US or French IP.
Simple. Kissinger and the New World Order globalists let china become economically powerful to utilize their vast slave labor army. Unfortunately the Chinese are using that economic success to militarize.
It'll be interesting to see how they progress on this front in the near term. I recall just a few years ago that Ford was extremely closed off with their developer toolkit on their SYNC systems; slowly, as they realize that collaborative development can take place with no impact to central functions of the vehicle's operation, they can open up the ecosystem a little bit.

That's all an ideal state, of course; reality is wrought with questions over who owns what, etc. but I'm optimistic.
Allowed, sure. Practical in the current environment is another question.
You may want to consider contacting the innocence project: http://www.innocenceproject.org
This is false if Android is an open platform. Because then it's "viable" by the very nature that tons of apps exist for it.

The problem is that Google is creating a walled garden, to prevent competing app stores. Apps developed on Android could be easily listed, downloaded, and installed on any flavor of Android. Samsung, Amazon, etc. could all have their app stores, and developers could script a simple command to update their apps everywhere.

However, by creating a proprietary layer like Play Services, Google has effectively made a proprietary fork of Android the dominant one, requiring different levels of effort to support non-Google phones.
Why is piracy not a good option yet for sports? I'm surprised considering most shows are available in high quality within minutes of broadcasting.
Unfortunately, you cannot. Unless you're searching for a known product or brand, it's the review scores that will affect what results you'll get.
Sounds like the classic excuses you get from chinese sellers, they say their boss will punish them if you've left a bad review, aliexpress will punish their store, company will close etc.

It's no problem though, they can just keep sending out free review units to get their 4 and 5 star reviews. 2 verified purchases from 11 reviews, and one of those got it for free or heavily discounted "The AuYou Power Socket arrived very fast & was packaged well. I received it for an honest & unbiased review"

That is what's really killing Amazon reviews, free products in exchange for 5-star reviews.
Linux Desktop Marketshare Just Passed 2 Percent
Because "within minutes" isn't the same thing as "concurrently with". There are pirates who attempt to provide that, but generally fail in terms of reliability, quality, etc.
Simplicity (not to be confused with ease of use) and stability. Slackware's one of the easiest to understand distros around, from the boot sequence to service and user management.

Not much is done for you, but nothing is hidden from you. As such, it takes work, but it rewards the user with the feeling of knowing the full system.
Or just you know, an abusive person.
I agree, this reminds me of the iPhone replacement program they have going on. It's a incentive subscription model to update your phone model each year.
Georgia publisher jailed over FOIA request
No winking is necessary.

Back when I was among the Top Amazon Reviewers, I'd regularly be asked to review products and (especially) books (primarily those that were self published). I rarely said yes, but when I did I treated them exactly the same as I would for a product I'd bought myself. That included 1- and 2-star reviews... though usually I tried to weed out the crap before saying Yes to such an offer.

The cost really never influenced me. I can afford a $10 novel that I'm interested in. So if you give me that book for free, it's no big deal.

In point of fact I learned to say No to most such offers. Usually novels are self-published only when the author cannot find a traditional publisher. And the traditional publishers usually refuse the book for a good reason. I don't want to waste my time reading crap.... not when there are so many good books to read instead.

Also, the self-published authors really didn't like it when I gave their books less than 5 stars, and magically the review would be downvoted -- as well as the last three unrelated items I'd reviewed. Presumably those neginators were from the author's friends and family. So I just said No, and moved on to books from authors I was sure I'd like.
The TFA case concerns 4th amendment rights against self-incrimination. Snowden's case isn't a 4th amendment case. Therefor, precedent, if any (and Reilly seems to specifically trump the judge's decision) wouldn't apply.

Snowden's various NSA oaths are supersceded by his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Which he did.
> I am replying to your other comment here since it is not possible to reply to that comment for some reason.

I think HN applies a rate limiter to comment threads, to help reduce flame wars.

> Finally, for the record, I do not have a verified email associated with this account and thus do not have the ability to downvote.

Accounts get the downvote when they reach a karma threshold. I think that's currently 500, or maybe 750.
From the article:

"Pimentel’s client asked him for list of candidates trained in “Agile” project management techniques for helping companies boost their productivity by using more I.T. systems. The client was offering as much as 200,000 euros ($220,000) a year -- almost 10 times the average salary in Spain."

So they're willing to pay ten times the going rate, but they're not willing to take the time to train anyone?

But wait; there's more!

"But such people are thin on the ground in Spain. It takes at least eight months for an experienced software developer to earn an Agile qualification and they also need the ability to deal with senior executives, limiting the pool of people who could potentially fill the roles."

Again, note that they're willing to pay ten times the going rate, so training them for eight months and then paying them the regular wage would pay for itself after a few months on the job; but they still won't train. More importantly, look at the part which I italicized. Dealing with senior executives takes special skill? I am but a lowly suburban nerd, and the ways of my betters intimidate me, so could someone enlighten me as to what that journalist is talking about? I have a sneaking suspicion that Clay Shirky knows.

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-...

"Back in the mid-1990s, I did a lot of web work for traditional media. That often meant figuring out what the client was already doing on the web, and how it was going, so I’d find the techies in the company, and ask them what they were doing, and how it was going. Then I’d tell management what I’d learned. This always struck me as a waste of my time and their money; I was like an overpaid bike messenger, moving information from one part of the firm to another. I didn’t understand the job I was doing until one meeting at a magazine company.

"The thing that made this meeting unusual was that one of their programmers had been invited to attend, so management could outline their web strategy to him. After the executives thanked me for explaining what I’d learned from log files given me by their own employees just days before, the programmer leaned forward and said “You know, we have all that information downstairs, but nobody’s ever asked us for it.”

"I remember thinking “Oh, finally!” I figured the executives would be relieved this information was in-house, delighted that their own people were on it, maybe even mad at me for charging an exorbitant markup on local knowledge. Then I saw the look on their faces as they considered the programmer’s offer. The look wasn’t delight, or even relief, but contempt. The situation suddenly came clear: I was getting paid to save management from the distasteful act of listening to their own employees."

EDIT: formatting
well he didnt wait until he died to sue his estate did he.
awesome. Love to know more.
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I don't doubt you, but not everything is like this. Newark sent me a few free items (a BeagleBone and a CodeBug) a few months ago, so that I would review them, but on my condition that the review be honest.

I ended up publishing a glowing review of the CodeBug anyway (https://www.stavros.io/posts/codebug-review/), but that's because I sincerely enjoyed it. I didn't get around to doing anything with the BeagleBone, sadly. Maybe that's why they didn't send me anything else, though :P
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"Bad faith" means something different than you think it does. It's a willful intent to deceive. It does not cover negligence or carelessness.

I bounced a rent check once. I had forgotten another large check I had written 3 weeks prior, and it got to my account before the rent check did. I wrote both checks in good faith, but failed to do the proper accounting in my ledger.
Software defined radio such as hackrf can use this.
Rock-solid stability. Even running the -current (development) version, I've not seen any show-stopping bugs. The bugs I do see are all upstream, and are patched quickly by Pat and the Slackware team. If you are masochistic and enjoy the sometimes daily breakage of distros like Arch and Fedora Rawhide, you won't get your jollies here. But if you want a stable, fast, sysadmin-friendly OS with no surprises or NIH nonsense, give it a shot.

Speaking of patching, Slackware tries to stay as close as possible to the upstream developer's version of a package, with minimal patching. Patches are usually security related, and sometimes a package is patched to fix a bug found in testing, but there are no exotic tweaks like what you get with Ubuntu and other "flashy" distros.

Package management is as simple as it gets; there is no dependency resolution so the user is responsible for making sure they have everything they need for a particular package. Personally I prefer this approach, it reduces bloat and puts me in control of my system. That said, it's not for everyone, and there are some third-party package managers that enhance the existing system with dependency resolution and a pretty interface. You can also build from source just about any package you want to, as Slackware includes a complete dev toolchain for the most popular languages, and you can easily install support for less popular ones.

There is no systemd, which to me is a blessing as it makes for much easier and more familiar management.

Obviously I'm a fan, but there are some downsides I'm willing to admit. It's not flashy; the various desktops that come with it (KDE, Xfce, Fluxbox, Blackbox, WindowMaker, fvwm, twm) are bone-stock with no customization like you get with other OSes. This means a ton of tweaking on the user's part if you don't care for the default themes.

GNOME support is nil. Pat dropped GNOME in the mid-2000s when he got frustrated with building it, and while there are third-party solutions, none of them work 100% in my testing.

Unless you run -current, the stable version tends to get left behind. It's been nearly three years since 14.1 was released, and it was clearly showing its age, though some would consider that a good thing (I certainly do, especially for servers, which is what I use Slackware for on two systems).

There is no systemd, and for many people that makes it a non-starter.

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I say, give it a whirl. You may be pleasantly surprised! Then again, you may run screaming back to your bells-and-whistles eye candy OS. But at least you can say you tried it. :-)
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Interesting suggestion, but no.

Snowden wasn't acting as a law enforcement officer performing a search of personal information subject to the 4th Amendement, but as a citizen and US Government employee or contractor, having sworn an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, to do so through exercise of his own 1st Amendment free speech rights.

And should be lawful under those grounds.
I mean Feynman's argument really seems to show that it should hold for sufficiently large N. I think one could reasonably argue that it's a statistical accident that FLT holds for N >= 3 as opposed to say, N >= 100. I think even Wiles' proof only works for N sufficiently large (at least N >= 5). Small N of course were handled by earlier results.
migenius | http://www.migenius.com | New York, NY | ONSITE, Full-time

migenius specialises in photorealistic 3D rendering for the cloud and web applications. Our main product, RealityServer, provides a simple web services based API to the NVIDIA Iray rendering engine. We both license software and build custom solutions for our users. We are based in Melbourne, Australia with offices in London and Tokyo and are establishing a presence in the US. We are looking for a developer to work embedded with one of our key customers. Midtown Manhattan location.

Ideally we are looking for something of a generalist since the demands of the role will evolve over time (sometimes in short spaces of time). The successful applicant should have strong software development skills and be able to quickly work through helping determine feasibility and mock up of potential ideas but will also potentially be working on production development as well.

Flexibility in working hours is important since there is a need to overlap some of the working day with the team in Australia. Initially after starting there would also be a requirement to spend 2-3 months in Australia working directly with our team to get oriented and obtain a good overview of our technologies. Good communication skills are essential as customer interaction is required. If you want to sit down and code uninterrupted from sun-up to sunset then this probably isn't the role for you.

The role will require working with high end 3D technologies both developed internally and licensed from third-parties. The visual nature of the results achieved working on our projects is extremely rewarding and there are also lots of interesting toys to play with such as servers crammed with GPUs and remote GPU clusters. We have a close partnership with NVIDIA and their advanced rendering team (our CEO, that's me, is a former NVIDIA and mental images employee).

No specific technologies listed here since we have flexible requirements and are more looking for the right fit with someone who is interested in what we are doing and can work on multiple ideas and projects at once. If you are interested in 3D graphics, particularly photorealistic rendering as well as web development, CAD, architecture or design we cut across all of these types of areas.

Interview if conducted prior to mid-August would be in person with me and our customer in New York, if after that interview would be remote. We don't generally do coding exercises in the interview but we will be looking for an ability to talk in detail about your previous project and experiences and ideally you should have something you can actually show of your past work. Email jobs@migenius.com if the position sounds interesting, please mention Hacker News when contacting us so we know it was from here.
Hi m00dy,

Did you have any issues with the BaseCase recruitment process? I'll try my best to answer any questions you may have.

Glancing at the logs, I think you are objecting to the fact it took ~9 business days to review your solution? I agree that this is long (and longer than usual). I can confirm that I'm restructuring how we handle our recruitment process to speed-up the review process (more people are being involved in the process).

As a courtesy, I would ask that you refrain from posting solutions to our screening tests here. It defeats their purpose, and potentially wastes multiple people's time (both mine and the applicants).

Regards,

Diarmuid / CTO of BaseCase
It's still a fact used to frame the issue in a certain way and does affect a reader's understanding of the issue. If someone with a preexisting bias against Chinese security read this, they would form a more negative opinion of the product than if the fact of where the server was physically was omitted.
People often bring up similarly misguided policies in Western countries when defending China's policies but this kind of censorship is bad no matter who practices it.
I find that it aligns very closely with OpenBSD; users familiar with one will soon be comfortable in the other. Slackware is by far the most BSD-like Linux distro.
Why do you say "70% less"?

Sorry to pick on you, but I see this usage everywhere and I'm curious. Doesn't "Pays 30% of what I make" convey what you mean much more effectively?
I agree with you, I thought they were talking about death threats or similar. What happened was more that he got hassled than threatened.
Yeah, I figured the best I would ever do was around $100k / year, and with a huge time commitment.

I would not recommend day trading either. A long time ago you could find arbitrage opportunities, but those have been essentially squashed out for quite some time. I have seen technical traders who claim to have a read on things, but to be honest I don't see it. (There are a number of long-term successful commodity traders, but there are not many day traders in stocks who last)

I actually do longer-term fundamental-based investing (my average holding period is probably around 2-3 years). Initially it was way less money than poker, but had the huge advantage that it scales up pretty well (at least to numbers people actually care about) versus poker where I would've been stuck making the same amount. It also has the advantage that I can do it anywhere.
This was a frustrating article to read. I got the sense the author missed something. Spain is part of the EU common market which numbers 500 million people - how is it that this is only a problem for Spain, and why can't they recruit fellow EU citizens to make-up the shortfall?
Readmore - http://www.readmo.re - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ONSITE

I'm a developer at Readmore in Amsterdam and we're currently looking for an on-site developer. We're a small company, so you'd need to be comfortable working with a variety of technologies. We're currently growing and refreshing our systems, so there would be a good deal of both responsibility and freedom in the position. If you'd like more information please don't hesitate to get in touch.

In case you're wondering, our back-end systems use Ruby+Rails, Go, and some PHP. On the front-end we do HTML/CSS/JS on the web, and we have native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

Thanks!

David
In Spain, we just had elections on the 26th of June, and the conservatives won. There is money, as taxes in Spain are high on wages but low on big companies and the government's budget is 10 points lower % than the EU average... but we have a conservative government.
I bet you are on to something. But I have never heard of this review-for-discount concept.

I have heard of organizations like this: http://revleap.me/ (I'm sure these guys are completely innocent, they just happened to come up in a DDG search for "get positive amazon reviews".)

If you search for "work from home" you will find lots of shady organizations paying people (pennies) to post reviews, for example on Google Maps.

It's not a huge leap to imagine a service which pays random online workers to contact negative reviewers with sob stories begging for the review to be removed. And it's not hard to imagine that a disposable worker such as that would indeed be fired (simply not offered additional work) if s/he fails to get a review removed.

The organization I linked too shows a picture of what appears to be some kind of negative review alert delivered to a smart phone.
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Check out this little gem from the article:

“Education and work exist in two alternative worlds that don’t really connect,” Gomez said. “While in other nations, like the U.S., college education is designed to get you a job, that’s not the case in Spain.”

This may be a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side of the hill."