skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they wrote the game to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty or Halo or anything of that sort.

Tic-tac-toe fits every definition of a "game" and the matches are real short.
Ask HN: Options for foreign hackers looking to work in the US?
Using a throwaway because I don't want the discussion to be centered around me personally (although my account is 1k+ days old)

I'm sure I'm not alone in being frustrated seeing all of these posts and discussions on how hot the job market is for software developers in the US.

Rather than suffer in silence, I figured we could have a real discussion about what the practical options are for those of us who are non-US citizens.

If the market is as crazy as everyone seems to be saying lately, why aren't more US startups looking to hire people from abroad?

Is it impossible for a startup to sponsor an employment visa?

For those of you who are not native US citizens but are currently working in the US, how did you get there?

What is a realistic way for a skilled software developer to come to the US?
Dear startup world, chill the fuck out.
I found the female pronoun use, including the "separate the women from the girls" line, to be delightfully distracting. In a perfect world, I'd say pick a singular gender and go with it for the sake of consistent grammar. However, from my experience, women still deal with unfair perceptions in the work place. This is an easy, subtle way to combat that. I think it's completely worth the distraction. (Note, many writers have done this for the past few years, not just Ben, but it really stands out in the context of a tech startup CEO).
We already have algorithms for all NP problems, by Levin. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Polynomial-...

No one knows whether it runs in polynomial time though! It runs in polytime if P=NP.
Last time I asked (3 or 4 years ago), the smallest installation was ~$100k, and it was a multi-core installation.

IIRC in 2006 they mentioned that they were willing to entertain other financing models (such as equity) if it makes sense, although I have no idea how common that was, or if they are still considering it.

Regardless, the claim that "you can't afford to run it on your home computer" is preposterous - k itself is free for noncommercial use, and kona and J are free, both libre and gratis.
That's mean.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

UI, Web Designer

Can design your website, blog or give you a brand identity. Mostly been doing design consultation for startups lately. But anything short-term will do.

Though I am not really looking for it, but if you have a web-app you need a UI for, do ping me - if things are interesting I'd like to get along.

Unfinished Portfolio: http://design.64notes.com

Forrst: http://forrst.com/people/kingsidharth
I think you forgot to post a url.
Intro to and Programming Augmented Reality
From the beginning of the article:
"We know which students are compatible with each other and we want to put them in compatible groups of two. We could search all possible pairings but even for 40 students we would have more than 300 billion trillion possible pairings."

Can someone explain why there are 300 billion trillion pairings instead of 40^2 pairings - 40 repeat pairings - incompatible pairings ?
PhotonInfoTech.com, I assume they don't say it for legal reasons? PhotonInfoTech.com could claim the claims are fake, libel etc?

It's easy enough to locate who they mean, just google for the quotes they use.
Given a long enough timeline all software is abandonware.
Next on the horizon: peril-sensitive sunglasses!
Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?
Blog + github == resume.
Analyst: iPhone bested by HTC Thunderbolt in Verizon sales
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I agree with your assertation - specifically with regards to having enough money.

How do you define "enough"? I've adopted the outlook that "less is more." I have a ridiculously low cost of living compared to many of my peers. Some of it is circumstantial and I'm thankful for being in the situation I'm in, but I also think you set yourself up to take advantage of circumstances that arise.

Just an example: my total monthly cost of living without spending on entertainment or extras - ie., food, rent, all my bills, transportation, etc. is 79% of my buddy's rent alone. This affords me the opportunity to find work I like. I can easily go for 2-3 years without any work and it would have no effect on my lifestyle whatsoever. Sure, I don't have an SUV or own a fancy house, but I have time to pursue my own interests and I'm deeply passionate about the work I do (after thinking I had no interest in doing it anymore and trying to "pivot" a couple of years ago).
Web Pages Have Gotten 88KB Heavier in the Last 6 Months
Correction: streams are files. Everything are files.
Show HN: our take on share the air
Kontagent (San Francisco, CA)

We are looking for sales and engineers! http://jobvite.com/m?3rJ72fw3

Kontagent measures people, not pages, and is a leading analytics platform for social application developers. The platform has been built to provide deep social behavior analysis and visualization that provides actionable insights via a hosted, on-demand service. It works with many of the world’s largest developers and brands, tracking thousands of social applications and games with over 100 million monthly active users and over 15 billion messages per month.

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Email me waiyip.tung at kontagent.com if you need more information.
This is like the RIAA asking LimeWire for $75 Trillion.
Redundancy - by definition - cannot be supplied by a single company.

Yes, your vendor may have their own redundant systems in place so that their internal problems don't become your problems. And that's nice. They should. But you always have a Plan B. And you always keep a local copy.
Mountain View, CA (INTERN and FULLTIME)

Bump Technologies (YC S09) is changing the way people connect and share using their mobile devices. There are huge opportunities ahead, and we are looking for talented hackers.

We are currently hiring for both FT and INTERN positions:

• mobile developers (iOS, Android, Blackberry, HTML5)

• server (beckend engineer, server ops)

• designers (visual, interaction)

Our team includes some of the smartest and most talented developers and designers in Silicon Valley, and we all share a common goal: to build something people want and have fun doing it.

We offer a workplace that will both challenge and fulfill you, by giving you the freedom and flexibility to develop your own solutions in a creative team environment where your contributions will be immediately felt and recognized.

Bump was born as a simple iPhone app for swapping contact information, but as our user base grew, so did our vision.

We now have more than 30 million downloads (7th most downloaded free iOS app ever), and a vision of changing the way people use their mobile devices.

We are backed by major investors including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Interested? We'd love to talk to you.

Apply here:

http://bump.theresumator.com/apply?source=HN0401
I'm a little confused... You describe a small team, interesting projects, wide technical leeway but the specific job your advertising here is one in QA... that person won't actually be able to exercise 'from scratch' development other than a test bed for QA...?
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Good chance for everyone to try http://hellofax.com/

And upmod the psychobox

http://www.faxins.com/item/6/

http://dropbox.com/404
Wow. Went right over my head. Is San Fernando known for pr0n? The Detroit equivalent would be 8 Mile.
I don't mind them, I just wish they were tagged as such in the headline.
Personally I like the Apple Fool's submissions. I've even been tricked by a few. It's all in good fun and puts some heart in the cold machine that is technology news.
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My HN id @ gmail.com

Will fix the profile when I'm not on the iphone. Thanks.
There's no denying that there's a difference between this and (something like) Civilization. It won't hurt anyone to recognize that this is a completely different sort of game, so long as we don't jump to the conclusion that that's a bad thing.

There's certainly room for this sort of thing, just as there's room for horror flicks in a world with Citizen Kane. There absolutely is: they are entirely different products. I'm not going to play this when I want a thinking sort of game, and I'm not going to play Civilization when I only have fifteen minutes.
Heh, /. was cool once, and maybe it even still is in some sort of bizarre sense of "cool." But they wandered away from their original focus years ago, and seem to embrace the AFD thing whole-heartedly, so...
Doh! I started checking them off as I went down the list and didn't realize there was a compound answer until the end.

The same thing used to kill me on multiple choice questions in high school.
I completely agree with you, it does feel like an insult, even if it is April 1st.

One thing to notice is that the date is April 1st, 2014 on that blog post ...
I can't wait for anonymous to make this idiot's life miserable.
My HN id @ gmail.com
Also:

* Realize that answers to questions like "what is abstraction" might vary from one text book to the next.

* Establish context for your interview questions. I was once asked "What is Application?" (too vague). In response I said, "In what context?" The interviewer smugly said, "What comes to mind?" . . . He did not like my answer. Hum?
I sent something and it didn't appear so I thought the joke was that it is static content and you did this to privately see what people send. My second submission was posted quickly. I'm pretty sure I sent them to the same number.

Update: latency seems to vary but both posts went up
San Francisco, CA

Songbird is hiring full time developers for Android, desktop (C++), web services, and build/release. We're also looking for a good technical product manager.

Open positions are at http://getsongbird.com/jobs/, and feel free to contact me directly via the email in my profile with any questions.

We're currently shipping media players on Windows, Mac, and Android, and we're looking for people who want to help build out a seamless media experience across platforms and devices.

The positions are in SF, but we'll definitely figure out how to help get you here if you're looking to relocate.
Looks like a lot of Java. Java for .Net, Java Web Client dev, Java DB connectors.
This is our quick demo inspired by "share the air pitch" video. Done in 2 days, built on Google Appengine, Java and Stripes framework (excellent lightweight Java web framework).

Very simple app just lets you point your location on map and write some nice things about the air you are willing to share with other people. When you are logged in (currently using GMail account) you can send message to published air offers.
Im actually in a bit of a similar situation. I have a niece who reads at a similar level. She reads mostly fantasy books so im not sure about science. Ill try to look some up and leave them here.
You feel this way, others don't agree. Can't you just roll with it?
Look at the URL: Maccromates. The rest of the links redirect back to the real site, sans the second c.
I am a data mining engineer at polyvore and we are looking for frontend/backend/generalist/data mining engineers.

Below is our official pitch :), I am regular lurker here at HN, you can email me at bhaskar@polyvore.com if you want to know more, or just apply to the jobs link below.

Cheers!

Polyvore is looking for stellar software engineers to join our team. If you're at all interested, I'd love to grab coffee or have you stop by our office to meet the team.

A little background on the company -- Polyvore is a social shopping platform. Our user community curates and merchandises products from all over the web in the form of digital collages that we call "sets". We have about 6.5M unique visitors per month, which makes us one of the largest fashion sites on the web. Our eventual goal is to expand to other product categories.

We're a team of 18 people, including a lot of folks from Google and Yahoo. Our founders are all engineers or have computer science backgrounds, so we're very technical and eng/product-driven. You can see the profiles of our team members here. It's also a really fun working environment. Our Happy Hours activities range from board games to taco trucks to book club (with beer and other equally attractive drinks!).

Polyvore has a lot of interesting product challenges and neat technology under the hood. For example:

The Editor -- Our virtual styling tool features pretty nifty JavaScript.

Style Analytics -- Our users interact with tons of products on a daily basis (50K clips/day, 35K sets/day), which makes for really interesting data mining opportunities.

Monetization -- Think of Polyvore sets as user-generated ads. There are lots of resonant monetization opportunities.

We've also been getting great buzz lately:

Polyvore Goes Sky High with Times Square Billboard (about our billboard in Times Square, which we got for free)

Fast Company - An Army of Anna Wintours (about our recent partnerships from Fashion Week)

TheNextWeb - The Rise of Polyvore: Trendsetting Goes Social (testimonials from our advertisers)

The New Yorker - Fashion Democracy (an older article that focuses on our awesome user community)
Why is this getting down voted? tibbon is asking an honest question...
Ha ha...you almost had me there. I get it: your april fool's joke is that you're imagining that the community has a history of dealing with these things without going meta.

Good one!
It's a hoax, folks:

http://blog.macromates.com/

There's an extra 'c' in the submitter's URL.
Thanks for the answer. I'm not sure why I was downvoted, because I have looked it up before but just didn't understand. Not everyone gets everything the first time or went to school for CS so I highly appreciate you taking the time to explain.

I'm curious also why this problem is so near and dear to many people. I'm not sure I understand the implications.
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It's because the Honey Badger don't give a F@CK!
Funnier and more tactful jokes would have been:

TextMate 2 Delayed until Q[REDACTED] 20[REDACTED]

TextMate 2 to be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever

TextMate 2 part of Honeycomb

Textmate 2 part of the FaceTime Protocol

TextMate and Emacs projects merging due to threats from Kod

TextMate 2 adds new "insert mode" functionality

TextMate 2 to only ship on iOS devices

Just a few suggestions.
Notice that this is not the TextMate developers site, there is an extra c in the domain name.
I don't know if this was a joke but it's funny.
Meta-discussions can be tiresome, but communities die if content is chosen strictly by popularity. Some moderation must be applied, and the most important things to moderate are the things that are popular but subtly undermine the site's purpose.

In this particular case the poster is being very reasonable: no lame submissions. "Joel on Coal" is a good example. That might have been funny as h*ll back when Joel was blogging. Now that he's no longer blogging, it doesn't work nearly as well as a satire. But it is funny, and perhaps worth an upvote nearly any other day of the year.

But on this day? No. It isn't actually going to "fool" anyone. April first isn't a generalized satire day, it's about pranks. And "Joel on Coal" isn't a prank, nobody is going to read that and wonder if Joel Spolsky is writing about Coal.

p.s. If you pranked me by pretending that HN has a good track record for dealing with OT submissions, I say "well-played" and redouble my argument in favour of moderating April 1st submissions: Your comment is funnier than most of the so-called prank posts I've seen.
that would be a pretty cool idea
Here is a frequently updated page from the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering department: they're reporting test results from air, rainwater, tap water, and milk.

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling

The detected amounts are tiny, and the site places them in context of other kinds of exposure.
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion After Not Removing A Page Fast Enough
Frivolity makes me sooooo angry…
This felt demeaning and mean to me.

I was very uncomfortable watching it. It looks like one of the company's employees showed up... possibly one of the people you claim may already be getting mistreated?

Now what happens to this person after they come back to work having wasted an hour with you?

If it had been the CEO, then I would see some humor possibly.

Where's the line? The CEO of GoDaddy kills an elephant in Africa to feed a village and save its crops and the world shits bricks. Another company goes out of their way to trick and be mean to another fellow human being and it's funny?

What the hell am I missing?
Why not plain old Javascript?
Redirects to http://www.photon.in/
I'm a little embarrassed that it took me until the paragraph about uniforms to realize what was going on.
I think you'll be happier if you just unplug today.
Poll: Do you want to see SQLite in Firefox as a hedge against IndexedDB?
Chrome, Safari and Opera provide an embedding of SQLite, possibly the world's most widely deployed database. Mozilla resisted for various reasons, suggesting they could come up with something better in IndexedDB through a formal specification process. Yet, IndexedDB provides no support for schema-less operation (without being an order of magnitude slower), nor application-managed indices (object array values cannot be indexed). Do you want to see SQLite in Firefox as a hedge against IndexedDB limitations?
Yes, Mozilla must step up and embed SQLite. Let the better API win.
No, IndexedDB is all anyone would need.
Another project worth mentioning (although "as a service") is http://www.graylog2.org/ The web interface is not there yet (no complicated queries, or easy drilldown), but it definitely performs well and has an interesting design.
Exactly. The magic of radioisotopes is that they decay at characteristic energies. With high resolution detectors, it's easy to identify the presence of the element even if the total background is much, much higher.
This assumes though that you only have a single log. Often times I find breaking up logs based on concerns/packages/names or even level to be useful, which you could not do without reinventing the wheel of output filtering.

This also assumes that anyone is actually really reinventing the appenders as most frameworks already have a library of common appenders.
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Just seeing a job ad that mentions CoffeeScript is fascinating. It's really a fun tool to work with.
Where is it located in India?
The fact that you don't understand why it's dear to so many makes me completely sure that you don't understand the implications. I say that with respect and joviality.

Much of what we do - particularly much of our security - is based on the idea that P != NP, and that those "really hard" problems actually are really hard. For instance, cryptography is based on the fact that prime factorization is NP-hard, so if you use big primes it takes a long time to crack our encrypted information. If P = NP, and someone solves any NP-complete problem, all the NP-complete problems crumble and our security is a thing of the past.

There're good things to come of a constructive P = NP proof, too. We'd have perfect network routing, for one thing. Shipping would be much more efficient. And that damn salesman would finally know that he's getting from New York to San Fransisco and back by way of hundreds of other cities as quickly as possible.
How to enable Google +1 - steps that worked out of pure coincidence
It's one freaking day of the year. If you insist on being a total curmudgeon, can't you just skip the internet for a day? Come back tomorrow. If you miss one real article, the world will not come to a screeching halt.
SEEKING WORK

My specialty is data visualization and technical graphic design.
I primarily use R (ggplot) and Protovis, and tie it together with LaTeX (for print/PDF) or HTML + JavaScript on the web.
For data munging I use Ruby (for hacks), R (for adv. analysis), and Clojure (for couth).
I live in Portland, Oregon, USA.

github profile:

https://github.com/lynaghk

recent algorithm + dataviz project:

http://www.dirigibleFlightcraft.com/prote.cs/
Personally I like the Apple Fool's submissions. I've even been tricked by a few.

+1 for articulating an excellent standard for April Fool's submissions: If you are tricked by a post, it's worth submitting and seeing what other people think.

But honestly, anyone looking at a post and seeing right through it, don't bother submitting it to HN. If it doesn't fool you, it isn't that interesting.
From the article...

> US Environmental Protection Agency places a limit for the amount of iodine-131 allowed in drinking water of 4 becquerels per litre

> By comparison, San Francisco's rainwater contains 16 Bq/litre.

It's four times the safety limit for drinking water! Am I missing anything?
Cs-137 has a half life of 30 years, so yes, it is the longer term risk. However, the "biological half-life" of cesium is only about 70 days [1], so it leaves the body relatively quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs-137#Health_risk_of_radioacti...
This is what I do to get around blocks on some IM services. I work for a large, well-known and presumably IT-savvy organization. Nobody has confronted me about it yet, which in itself is actually kind of worrying. I half expected an IT SWAT team to rappel through the window after starting the tunnel.
We are trying to find the balance between selling on-going support contracts vs doing as needed support later. It looks like ~90% of our customers don't believe they will need to support the technology later and choose not to pre-purchase (at a lower rate).
Portland Oregon - AboutUs.org

We're looking for an Agile Software Developer and DevOps Engineer.

AboutUs Inc. is based in Portland, Oregon. Our website, AboutUs.org, was launched in 2006 and is now one of the most visited places on the Internet. Our team handles big data like no one else, yet there are just 12 of us working behind the scenes. You might be surprised to learn that we don’t work 80-hour weeks. And you may wonder, “How do they keep such a massive ship afloat without drowning themselves in stress and sweat?” Answering, “Because this place is awesome” would be too ambiguous, so here's a summary:

Highly selective hiring
An open, relaxed office atmosphere
Emphasis on collaboration
More windows than walls
Ping pong
Beer
Laughs and more laughs
Yoga

If you want your work to be challenging and your days at the office to be enjoyable, AboutUs is the place for you. Thanks for considering us!

More info at: http://www.aboutus.org/careers
I used to have a drawer dedicated to this. It worked surprisingly well -- especially since my memory was good enough to quickly orient as I shuffled through the strata.

When you have a job that touches a boatload of miscellaneous crap, sometimes knowing what drawer to look through -- if and very occasionally when -- is all you need. (The time saved from filing the miscellany more than made up for the occasional search. Further, those searches sometimes triggered unanticipated and productive thought processes, in the process of skimming other materials.)
PLAYMOBIL introduces Apple Store Playset
Adidas France – 3D Mapping Projection
How did you get it for emacs? Perhaps I am the one being thick here ... :-/
Here's the chartbeat if you're curious http://chartbeat.com/dashboard2/?url=faxins.com&k=ee2a4f...
Finding Inspiration
Awesome new css3 selectors
PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype
Ours, while somewhat jokey, is fully functional and we think could potentially have some interesting content: http://www.faxins.com/

Is that so wrong?
Wow, downvotes for curiosity. Way to go HN.

Edit: It was at -1