skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dallas, TX

Operations Engineer - OrgSync, Inc.

We’re looking for a log-hugging performance enthusiast to take charge of the OrgSync cloud-based infrastructure. You will have a great degree of freedom in designing an architecture that will facilitate rapid growth and reliability while improving performance every step of the way. You should be comfortable working with Ruby application code. This is a full-time position is at our headquarters in Dallas, TX.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of Linux systems administration

• Strong understanding of the Ruby programming language

• Experience identifying and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks

• Experience with relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL) including complex queries and optimization

• Familiarity with web proxies, servers and caching tools (HAProxy, Nginx, etc)

• Familiarity with authentication systems (CAS, SAML, Shibboleth, LDAP a plus)

• Familiarity with cloud services (Amazon EC2, S3, EBS, CloudFront a plus)

• Familiarity with cache and key-value stores (Redis and Memcached a plus)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Contact me directly if interested at clifton[at]orgsync[dot]com
I think the key aim in such environment is to facilitate information exchange, not to structure & store the conversation as there is no time really - that makes notepad, post-its and just on-going verbal conversation ideal as everything is due to change many times during these 54 hours.

The only technical tools that can help might be google docs to polish marketing docs on sales and strategy, and dropbox/github to exchange files. Everything else is just you and them - staying focused on getting things done, working together hard.

Good luck!
Can anyone comment on how it's built? I presume that the images are loaded in place-holders in the video, but I would love to know more about it.
SEEKING FREELANCER - New York City preferred, would consider remote.

We need an iOS developer with experience building games or picture book apps. We'd love to talk to someone who has also done Android development or used cross platform tools like phonegap or titanium, but that's not required.

Please send a link to an app I can install, a video of an app, or something else that demonstrates how great you are. gbrown@scholastic.com
Life360: San Francisco, CA

We turning smartphones into the next generation of safety devices for over 3 million families.

We need a Head of Geolocation to lead our geolcation efforts. At peak, we are receiving over 2,000 locations / second and need someone to create the framework to handle and process these locations and provide value to the users.

You can see the job posting here: http://life360.jobscore.com/list. Or, email me at: alex@life360.com

Cheers,
Alex
If you can pass judgement on the living then you can do the same to someone who has died. While putting the dead on a pedestal may comfort our own feelings about death, it doesn't escape the reality of their actions.
Fully agree, I never look at the event stream at GitHub. It would become useful if I could select just forks, new repos, comments, and bug-related events.
Is anyone else concerned that the number of Bitcoins in circulation could be an issue?

I'm fully aware of the explanation that it doesn't matter when Bitcoins are lost because they are divisible to 0.00000001, but I'm not convinced that it makes sense to be doing business on that scale.

Official explanation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Lost_coins_can_t_be_replace...

I see this as a psychological problem. It's hard for most people to really conceptualize value of very small numbers. Yes, people will just be converting to "real" currency to get an idea of what the value is, but shouldn't a successful currency stand on its own? Shouldn't we be able to understand the numbers we're dealing with?
Those darn elephants trying to eat. That'll learn 'em!
According to Google Maps: Frisco, TX, Frisco, NC, Frisco, AL but no Frisco, CA.

You have a reference for that one?
Acer Iconia Tab A500
I'm confused here too. Isn't elephant population control a problem in Africa?
Acer W4
Intel's Atom N435 CPU to Lower Netbook Prices
to play devils advocate: Elephants are far more endangered than humans. Does something have to propagate the human species to be meaningful, or can non-physical aspirations not be considered meaningful too?
Without neg votes/thumbs down, how do we get rid of this stuff
I sort of have an issue with the name. I can understand that the average user would understand Facebook's Like and Twitters follow but I see that +1 is sort of technical jargon...
How would you feel about a Myst / Riven clone for touch devices?
UBS Bumps AAPL Price Target to $510 on iCloud Potential
What do you mean, "classified as a commodity tax-wise"?
His family clearly supported him (based on a few other news outlets that actually interviewed them).
In my admittedly ignorant opinion, he uses the terms "maneuver warfare" and "phalanx warfare" so broadly as to make them almost meaningless.
Another way:

1. Buy $81,000 in bitcoins

2. Wait.

Seriously, did this actually happen to someone? Are people actually buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins?
I have heard this kind of storytelling before, where the outcome of the WW2 is attributed to the failure of the German army on the eastern front and the discussion is focused on finding factors for that failure.

However such a storytelling tends to discard or fade the importance of Russian endevaours, ingeniuity and sacrifice. Another kind of storytelling would focus in finding factors which made Russia the ultimate victor. Such a discussion would prove far more interesting in my opinion. Then one could touch on questions such as how to withstand a strong inital attack, regroup, learn from your enemy and prevail.
Nokia has a non-phone business?
Static type annotation vs. the entire world of contemporary web development
Also - always wait for your wallet to show at least five (5) confirmations before being (reasonably) certain that your transaction has committed.

General rule of thumb is it takes about 60-90 minutes to be guaranteed that your bitcoins have transferred.
I like to think of "risk" and "work" as being orthogonal dimensions. Risk is uncertainty, when you don't know how what you're doing will turn out. Work is putting in the hours, being able to concentrate on a goal for long stretches of time.

We get paid for doing things that other people don't want to do. It turns out that most people would rather work hard than take on additional risk; they at least know what to do when they work hard, and what they'll get for it. That means that taking on risk can be very professionally lucrative, but the problem is then you have to deal with uncertainty constantly.
Ok this is kind of ridiculous. Really? Really? No I'm quite sure in this case it's definitely selfish, independent of what his wife thinks. And not passing judgement on the dead? Cmon man you have to be trolling.
coughmongodbiswebscalecough but seriously, some of the commercial vendors in the space are having a difficult time admitting their faults. I feel as if the best way to warm up to engineers is to announce your limitations first. Any engineer worth his or her salt looks for the limitations of any product before attempting use.
It depends on the context. In the last two years I've worked on apps where undo would mean incurring liability or potentially losing money immediately following a change. In the first example where liability would be incurred allowing the user to undo a change would actually mean that two changes were made and both have to be tracked, with full audit trail etc. By prompting users for confirmation you have an opportunity to ensure that the user understands the consequences of their decisions. That may not matter for adding a contributor to a github project but it does when changing a federal form or legal document for example.
They used to make all kinds of stuff, like re-badged F5 product, software, and servers. Also: Boots.
+1 button for your websites
Unfortunately with a lot of these fan graphical enhancement mods and addons, the content creators lack sufficient knowledge of visual/art styles and experience applying them.

This deep understanding of game art is necessary to successfully translate a particular 2d art style into 3d, or suitably reimagine it in a more 3d compatible style.
Google Translate will bring World Peace
It'll be good to test this feature; it sounds like it could be a useful addition to the other social-esque 'like this' type buttons.

One thing though, the 'add +1 to your website' page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html) is broken for me.

I see the following in vanilla Firefox 4.0.1, Windows 7 64-bit:

http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/GoogleSite.jpg

Changing the settings doesn't fix the fact that the preview doesn't appear (and that its bounding box is overflowing)

Just an FYI.
Open vs. Closed APIs
If you believe it to be spam click the flag link. If enough people flag something it gets marked as dead. Things that get marked as dead will not be shown unless you have the show dead bit turned on in your profile. After enough of a users posts have been killed an anti spam feature will turn on and auto dead all new content by that user.
You might consider tweaking the RSS feed a little.

For permalinks:
<guid isPermaLink="true"></guid>

Add dc:creator for the submitter of the article:
<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>;

And:
<dc:creator></dc:creator>

Also, make sure you site sends the headers Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 with this feed because it is currently sent as text/plain.
What about this is unique to software patents?

I don't understand the "destroy software patents" crusade. "Destroy all patents" makes sense, and "improve all patents" makes sense, but why are software patents any different than device or chemical patents?
Coming up with relevant criteria to determine the triviality of a software patent application doesn't seem simple at all. This means you need to hire experts in the field. This is where it gets interesting.

In most regulatory organizations where a high amount of expertise is required (like economics) you see a lot of corruption where companies hire out of and into these organizations specifically for the benefits of having representation on the inside. I.e. Henry Paulson.

So unless you have a good way of preventing these employees from ever working for Microsoft / Facebook / Apple / Google etc. then it's really not going to work out as intended.

IMO, just get rid of software patents. Sure it'll suck for some, but overall it's probably healthier for the industry. Plus it's nice and simple and doesn't employ a whole mess of lawyers.
The Mongols could defeat regular armies because they had many thousands of men who lived their lives on horseback, with bow in hand. It's not that they were smarter, it's that they had the option.
In the interest of us British people brought up with BBC Micros, you can find Chuckie Egg here:

http://www.repton3.co.uk/chuckieegg.aspx
> It's hard for most people to really conceptualize value of very small numbers.

That's why we do all the tricks to workaround the problem of long numbers. We're measuring the length in ~6.68458134 × 10-12 AU, time in 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation, etc. etc. all the time. We just call them 1 meter and 1 second instead. Once a "reasonable amount" of BTC reaches either 1k BTC or 1m BTC, someone will come up with a new, cute and short name for those - I don't think we'll have a problem with small / big numbers here.
Things “House” Can Teach You about Fixing Bugs
Will your business survive the digital revolution?
San Jose, CA

Axolotl Corp (an Ingenix company) builds health information exchange software delivered through a SaaS model. We are looking for software developers, development managers, product managers, and implementation engineers.

http://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/

http://www.axolotl.com/careers.html
Thanks for the data point re: Cape Town. That's interesting. I suppose my only point was that we like to think that things are way worse somewhere else (or perhaps someone likes us thinking that?), the State Department likes to issue warnings about how dangerous Country XYZ is, but you'll never see a travel warning w.r.t. visiting New Orleans.
Toronto, full time (no remote)
Uken Games - http://www.uken.com/jobs

We are a profitable startup (~15 full times) that makes web based games in HTML5 for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook. We are growing fast and need talented back-end web engineers to help us scale (Rails & MySQL). We are also looking for Javascript developers to help us push the edge of what browsers can do.
This is misdirection.

Everyone else is on the same page in this conversation. Open standards are the focus here, and that's exactly what hasn't shown up wrt FaceTime.
Yes, the German "Realwirtschaft" is typically understood in the same way: production and services separate from financial "products" and services.
It's more like hiding a treasure chest somewhere in the ocean (of cryptographic tokens) and then losing the map (private key) when your ship (filesystem) sinks. (Arrrr!) This is something that happens with physical objects of monetary value as well, including cash itself.

So without the knowledge of how much cash I'm hoarding in my closet, how can you accurately value USD? I don't know how much of the answer is “you can't, exactly, but there's enough other trading that it doesn't matter” (which could apply to Bitcoin as well) versus “the value is fixed by external factors such as the US government”.
GitHub Updated their SSL Cert, here's how to fix the problem.
Information is contained in transactions. That's how supply and demand determine prices in the real world.
He was the CEO of a popular company.
I'm thrilled to see this, because the work Salvatore was putting into Redis-on-disk functionality had so little perceived payoff for us. This portends Redis not trying to create an idiosyncratic replacement for SQL, and focusing instead on its unique strengths.

If you want the cost/performance characteristics of disk storage, use MySQL or Postgres. If you want them and the speed and flexibility of the Redis data structure server, use Redis + SQL as a one-two punch.

We use Redis for "live" data, and SQL for archival/report/versioned data.
I like this. A simple place to get a snapshot of what's happening with your stats across all channels.

Hope I get an invite. :)
Ok come on, there was no need for them to go to war with Russia AT ALL, if Hitler had focused on Britain and waited until the West was completely defeated (a few years at the most), he would not have lost. Russia divided the Germans in a way that was unnecessary.
Nah, even my technological challenged family understands the concept of giving a website plus one point. +1 is fairly simple to understand as a positive thing both inside and outside of a computer context.
ASK: Referral bonus solutions?
I want to give referral bonus to websites who would bring in 'paid' customers to my online solution.

What are some good options available for me?

My existing solution is developed on .Net
well, lets just hope they don't just deprecate it - due to the "economic burden" - the second after we all implemented it.
Fused!
Web hosting provider. Hiring system administrators / support representatives -- telecommute. Competitive salaries / equity :)

www.fused.com/careers.php -- though the more up to date job posting is available @ http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1035470

Based in Toronto, though expanding elsewhere. ~2,000+ clients, 100% bootstrapped. In operation since Moses parted the red sea :)
The first Google Offer.
>nobody wanted to risk their big expensive battleships in such an engagement again

This is his only proof that they're useless? Sorry, I need a lot more than that. Anybody who's played Civilization will know that you keep your battleships safe due to their cost, but they're supremely powerful nonetheless.
Then could you post a diff of the OpenType file (e.g. to a pastebin)? Only those who already have the font would be able to produce your modified version. Alternatively, if creating a diff would take too much time, could you please tell me the names of the tools you used to create your own version of the font?
Widelands is an open source real-time strategy game very similar to The Settlers.

http://wl.widelands.org/
I've heard of gold prospectors doing something similar and only selling their gold nuggets when they need to make large purchases and otherwise living on the government dole because they have no regular income.
New York, NY

Intent Media is hiring developers to help us build out our platform for advertising on ecommerce web sites.

We crawl through giant data sets from some of the biggest companies out there to help decide whether or not someone is likely to buy something and, if they aren't, what ad we should serve them.

We've grown from 6 to 30 people over the last two years, and we expect to continue to grow quickly. We're looking for people with Java, Ruby, and Hadoop experience.

Email me directly at kurt@intentmedia.com if you're interested.
This misrepresents the tight interlock between client and specification.

Suppose that there is a flaw discovered in Bitcoin that requires a protocol change. In a classic software system, the worst you'd have to worry about is a backwards incompatible protocol change; Bitcoin is designed with very little wriggle room in this respect. But furthermore, with Bitcoin, you have to worry about a change which existing Bitcoin clients will reject: for example, if you wanted to increase the reward given to miners.

You can fork the protocol, but you can't fork the economy. This is true in normal projects, and doubly true for Bitcoin.
It's a rather odd sort of advertisement though. It has nothing to do with Intel's actual products which, in any case, are hardly ever directly bought by the consumer. It's a brand-building exercise, but not nearly as effective as some they've done in the past, which have focused on Intel's expertise and people. "We're not just banging rocks together here, guys, we know how to build semiconductors!"

I'm guessing that this exists only because some guy at Intel's ad agency thought it would be a cool idea, and Intel was the only client he could think of to pitch it to.
Missing the impressive reverse-engineering of Dune2 effort: http://www.opendune.org
This is an attempt at misdirection. If bitcoins take over the monetary system, they will naturally be stored in banks. No family man would walk around with his family's rainy day fund in his iPhone. For reasons of practical logistics, organized crime will use private banks that can be captured and destroyed.

What actually scares the bankers is loss of the ability to control the discount rate, which is a very legitimate concern. Human psychology being what it is, all economic systems end up running on credit and suffering from periodic crises of confidence. A fiat currency can simply print its way out of a deflationary terror, but a hard currency like bitcoin is well and truly screwed.

Seriously, how would you possibly bail out a company like AIG if it had written derivative contracts on bitcoins?
San Francisco, CA

Hipster is hiring two developers (mobile and ruby) to work full time in our SOMA office: jobs.useHipster.com

(Click the link - its a pretty funny page)
Also check out the dual-screen version (just like Microsoft Courier, only real):

http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/iconia
It is a privately created fiat currency, bundled together with an anonymity scheme for transactions. The anonymity scheme means there is some reason to grant one-time seigniorage to the original currency issuers. Eventually the anonymity scheme, in some form or another, will be available without the fiat currency. At that point, or more likely before then, the fiat currency will fall to near-zero in value

Mr. Cowen is somehow overlooking the relative scarcity factor. Speaking strictly about bitcoins and dollars, we know how much bitcoins will be there in the next 100 years, and we have no idea how many dollars will be the in 2113?
It's difficult to determine the real volume of BTC transactions because of the structure of the Bitcoin Algorithm.

Bitcoin transactions have two outputs. In order to send a fragment of money, you need to create one output for the fragment, and the remaining output to put the "change" into your own wallet.

For example, if you have a wallet with 10,000 BTC, and you send 1 BTC to someone else, there will be two "outputs" - consisting of 1BTC and another with 9,999 BTC. An external observer won't (easily) be able to determine if this was a transaction of 1BTC, or 9,999 BTC.
HeyDuel: Anonymously vote on your Facebook friends
This is very similar to the way the US Treasury handles physical currency updates. If I recall correctly, in the 1990s, Iraq still had a working money press that could print perfectly legitimate US dollars as fast as possible. PC printer technology had also advanced to the point where $20s and $100s were easily counterfeited.

The US Treasury had to go through a transition period where new money with new security features were printed and the old money was taken out of circulation. I assume BTC will have to go through a similar digital verification.

The way this would work in theory is that old BTC will be converted to new BTC on a 1 to 1 basis, but first each old BTC will need to be validated against the blockchain. You could just say that any BTC with over 1,000 confirmations is valid, since it is highly unlikely that so many confirmations could be falsified.

Another way to convert from old-BTC to new-BTC would be to use the miners to validate each conversion. For example, if a sufficient number of miners verifies that yes, indeed a certain BTC appears in the blockchain, then that one is considered valid and is inserted into the new blockchain, and removed from the old blockchain. This algorithm could actually pay a new-BTC reward for validating old-BTC to the miners that validate each transaction, thus ensuring a sufficient amount of CPU power is dedicated to this process.
Well, the +1 button worked for a good 10 minutes, and then my site stops responding trying to pull the js from google. down for 2 minutes, now back up again.

Must be a frenzy.

EDIT: when it came back up, it also didn't have my saved +1. I had to redo it.

Seems pretty buggy right now.

EDIT 2: Okay, my site is down again. I'm removing the button for awhile.
Any battle tech that's an order-of-magnitude cheaper to kill than to produce is destined for obsolescence. You can see this happening now with main battle tanks, which are easily knocked out by IEDs and increasingly sophisticated man-portable missiles. It will be interesting to see what happens to the manned air superiority fighter over the next couple of decades now that unmanned drones are being deployed on a wide scale.
That's interesting -- it looks like news.arc automatically removed the "%27" from both of our URL submissions, maybe as an over-zealous anti-spam precaution.
it's all about priorities:

unimportant at google: google translate api

important at google: $3 for $10 worth of drinks, pastries and treats at Floyd’s Coffee Shop
This is definitely interesting, but what I'm missing is comparison with a single dyno running Thin.
No, not in the US, you can't.
Yea sorry I tangent-ed a bit there. Probably because I just think this is a non-issue. It's in the UI in that it's listed in your repositories you have access to, but not on your profile. I don't see what kind of UI change they could make that would make it clearer short of text or a tooltip or something, and I think that the %0.001 of users who would ever care is just not worth the time to even considering it. The reason kneath was wondering how many times he had to say it is because it's all over this thread -- including the direct parent of the asker in this case.
Ask HN: are idea people still cooking up "Facebook of X" projects?
Or have they moved on to some other cliched ideas?