skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the bit where he shows the person deleting his profile?
I would have kept the ", insider claims" from the article but HN wouldn't let me
Completely agree!!
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Riverbed Technology is hiring for Cloud Storage, Data Deduplication, performance and networking.

You'll find detailed descriptions here:

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Feel free to message me if you are interested or have any questions.
Flickr - San Francisco, on-site

If you're a smart developer who can get things done, I'd like to talk you. We've got lots of interesting problems to solve on a site that is used and loved by millions of people daily.

My contact info is in my profile.
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Actual feed link is here:
http://hnbest.heroku.com/rss
If you type “the ladders ” into Google, the first autocomplete suggestion is “the ladders scam.”
That's not a nitpick, that's a big fucking deal.
Hmm that is very interesting! I had an "internship" a while ago. They never set any fixed length. After a week goes by they tell me that I do not fit the position. I thought "what position"?

According to that pdf if the internship was just a trial for a job then I was considered an employee. At least that is my understanding of what I read. I'm going to contact the department of labor and see if I am owed anything.
Just to add, well-treated ADHD has much a much lower incidence of substance abuse, but still slightly higher than the average joe. This may be related to the impulsivity and novelty-seeking elements of the diagnosis.
perhaps see it from the interns point of view:
you work your ass of and get....reputation?, some contacts if you´re lucky...

a former teacher at university once told us students to only do interships if we get something out of it. (money, reputation fame, whatever)

maybe you can offer them something they´d be excited about?
martin
I really believe in paying interns if they are doing meaningful productive work (programing, engineering, design, finance). I made good money in college as an intern and would never even contemplate working for free.
What about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD?

The point isn't that Linux isn't useful -- it's just that the claim that Linux is so important it should be included as a mandatory suffix any time anyone mentions "GNU" in a context that is not kernel exclusive is grating and silly.

On a more serious note, Android is a great example of a non-GNU Linux(or not-as-much-GNU Linux).
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As thin as this article is, it's something that wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out is true. MS practically bought out Nokia with the Elopoclypse, after all.
Code reviews.

Saying "Awesome job!" is not cheesy.

Don't pit them against each other, give them a shared goal.

Set them up for quick wins as a team.
"I believe that software patents should not exist. They are a tax on innovation. And software is closer to media than it is to hardware. Patenting software is like patenting music."

This is what I fear. I worry this idea will take hold and we'll get copyright protection for software 'design' instead of patent protection, and then that happens, the Lodsys crap will have a lifetime of 85 years not 20.

We need to be able to protect someone's innovation so that they aren't screwed over by some larger competitor taking their idea and running with it. That need is real and continues to exist, we need patents.

Let's argue for the real problem here, we also need a better system for dumping things that should not have been patented in the first place because they fail the 'novel' test. We need jurists that understand the technology they are being asked to evaluate, and we need to require at least three people 'skilled in the art' to sit in on juries in patent hearings. I might even go so far as to create special patent juries for these cases. We need a better way of reviewing a patent and validating it against the state of the art.

What we don't need is to convince policy makers that software is like 'music.' And we don't need people believing that we don't need any protection for people's work should they choose to take advantage of those protections.
Might be worth throwing a "rumored to" or "maybe" into the headline if you can.
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Battleships, far from being a ridiculous idea, were a logical and necessary step for any navy wishing to project power at sea. They were so heavily armoured and gunned that for a long time, from the late 19th Century to just before WWII, the only realistic defence against a battleship was another battleship.

Or, playing the "wolf card" amidst the fog of war and a resourcefully laid smokescreen with a bunch of smaller ships. (Causing the enemy commander to think, "They must have larger ships back there." This was destroyers vs. cruisers, not battleships, though.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar

I suspect that the future belongs to drones. Autonomous Air Independent Propulsion submersible drones would be far less expensive than an aircraft carrier, but very likely to be able to lie in wait for a carrier and torpedo it.

EDIT: Correction -- one could actually say those American destroyers engaged the Yamato, which was the biggest, baddest battleship ever.
I'd work for free immediately if I could be Steve Job's intern (for example). I'm over 40.
Seriously, asking a question gets down voted? No. Asking a simple question seeking confirmation of something, is merely that, a question. It's spurs conversation. Downvotes are not for things you disagree with. They are for comments that detract from the quality of HN. The answers in response answered the question.

Seriously. There should be a way to flag down vote abuse.
>"The relevant part (to us hackers) is the use of maneuver warfare vs "phalanx" fighting."

As the author points out, the battleship was the fastest thing afloat which makes it more akin to Stonewall Jackson's foot cavalry and the first principal of maneuver doctrine - "get there fastest with the mostest." It is only in hindsight and perhaps anachronistically that one classifies battleships as the phalanx rather than the mongol horde - or perhaps more appropriately Viking Longship. I will add that the scale and costs of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines dwarf those of the battleship - there is some evidence that pouring money into holes in the water such as the Alpha and Typhoon classes played a significant role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[edit] All this to point out, that the distinction between maneuver and phalanx isn't always obvious and neither is the choice as a matter of tactics - when the enemy masses on your front, digging in and calling for aircover is may be the preferred alternative - even for highly mobile force.
They're patenting a specific control system, possibly including protocols, circuits, and/or specialized hardware. It's not like they're patenting EL wire or something :)
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However, they are extremely expensive to build and keep running, and (perhaps) even more vurnerable than battleships which atleast had armour. And modern silent submarines, for instance those of the Swedish, German, and Norwegian navies reportedly often "sink" modern US and UK carriers in war games.
Actually a pretty good article, despite the inaccuracies noted here in other comments. The author uses some hyperbole and makes some errors, but still an interesting discussion regarding phalanx vs. maneuver warfare.

While we're picking on individual parts, though -

> For missile silos, just target the enemy’s silos with lots of missiles and you can duke it out and win (just like the phalanx). If he puts his missiles on rail cars, you haven’t got a chance of hitting them all.

Technically that's true, but I think the reason countries use missile silos and stationary bases is actually for ability to protect key installations and arms during domestic unrest and rioting, which is a statistically much more likely problem for a world power than getting hit with a first strike from another major world power without any warning or preparation time.

Still, even with some errors and exaggerations, it was quite an interesting read.
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- a (java) developer

- a devops engineer

msg me if you are interested in a fulltime position in zurich switzerland.

- international team/company running one of switzerlands biggest websites
If it gets to the point you can do a significant number of transactions in bitcoin, it should hopefully be to a stable exchange rate.
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HN Team,

I have been trying to do something like this for a while, where, a crowdsourced model is used to help startups get easy access to "targeted" beta users and thorough feedback for their website or apps. Through various measures, I have been signing users for the past month and a half and I believe I am ready to accept clients now. The business model is simple: you specify target user demographics for your website or app and assign tasks to the users; we notify our users that match your demographics; the users sign up, complete assigned tasks and provide you a thorough feedback. Since we are still new, might might not be able to cater to certain demographics - if that is the case, we will let you know.

Thanks for your input!

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The App Store is very momentum driven. If you can get your app into the Top 25 Paid with a high star rating, via social media, emails, etc., you are golden. There are lots of users like me that will download almost anything that is highly rated, popular, and $1.

Paid downloads work for the same reason, although usually the star ratings drop quickly once the natural downloads exceed the paid-for ones, so they drop out of the list fast. You still do need a quality app at the end of the day.

(I also wonder how many downloads are driven by some of the unusual uses of the iPhone hardware that I think people would talk about to friends.)
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I was thinking exactly this. As I recall modern tactics call for suppressing fire to pin the enemy down while friendlies maneuver. It would seem that static and maneuver warfare are intertwined. Additionally, I believe the rule of thumb is that it takes five times as many people to capture a position as it does to defend a position. Like many things, there is probably an element of balance here.
There are so many people out there looking for work, sometimes I think I could just be the middle man and take on 4-5x as many projects and just pass them on to these freelancers and make money that way...
But does calling it GNU\Linux add any specificity over calling it Linux? I can't think of a major distro that doesn't use the GNU components. Therefore calling it GNU\Linux is rather like calling it Cocoa\Mac OS X. The GNU adds no additional information.
"Audience of HN and webmasterworld are not very different by standards." cough
There's a fundamental difference between building a product that doesn't depend on others for its functioning, and a marketplace, where the core function is access to other users.

It is about impossible to get a marketplace going from a standing start. I've commented on it before elsewhere: picking off Craigslist users was always critical for Airbnb to get going. There are dozens of startups trying to build companies off the back of what Craigslist doesn't provide.

I'm sure the Airbnb guys probably started with the honest approach, realized it got them nothing but cease and desist notes, so switched to the craftier fake emails from girls interested in the well-being of vacation renters everywhere. I bet it felt icky at the time, but here they are. And "you know what's cool....?"
You and others which may have been trolled before and did not "make a fuss". I see many here with a bully mentality, saying that one should just keep their head down and endure the trolls crap and they will go away. Except they won't.
You misunderstand.

I don't care whether or not there is an outage. I care that people are professional in their work. Passing the buck is unprofessional. Accepting the responsibility is what matters, and if they decide not to fix it, then say so and own that choice.

Service providers are responsible for their service only. Not the products you layer on top of them.

Doing free favors doesn't mean you should drop your level of professionalism.
I had plenty of unpaid internships (college credit was my payment) but motivated me the most was one on one time with my bosses- take them out to lunch, have weekly 1 on 1s with them where they get to ask you questions. An internship isn't about money- a smart intern will use it to figure out where they want to go after college, build connections and learn from their experienced bosses.
RG Labs is hiring engineers, designers and data scientists for full-time positions in San Francisco. Here is information about us and the positions:

http://www.rglabsinc.com/jobs

PS Although we're funded we're also still very small so if having a big equity slice is an important factor to you in your next role, what we can offer is very compelling.
Project Idea: Rating our 'experts' and their predictions
On the radio this morning, I heard that a group of politicians are meeting with the President in the White House. They are bringing with them a statement, signed by 125 economists, stating an assertion regarding a particular economic issue.

Our society has a singular fascination with the opinions of 'experts'. They are rolled out, opinions in hand, during any significant politicking, reporting or discussion. The criteria for being an expert, however, is rather loose.

Economists, for instance, make a living through attempting to predict the future. Their predictions are notoriously unreliable. You would have no trouble finding an economist who agrees with either side of any particularly contentious topic; obviously, at least one of them is often wrong. Some of them are wrong more frequently than others.

I suggest that it would be beneficial for discourse to keep track of the performance of these 'experts', in any field. There will no doubt be some whose predictions are uncannily accurate. There will be others who consistently perform worse than if they had made assertions at random. There is no current way for the thoughtful but uneducated observer to discern between the two.

Figuring out a fair way to do this is not a trivial issue. It is, however, a fascinating one. I think it would make a great - and invaluable - project for someone with an interest in data, statistics and community design. How do you allow user submission of information without being vulnerable to manipulation? What kind of hilarious correlations can you draw between the predictions of those with opposing viewpoints? How can we use historical predictive accuracy to weight future predictions?

The core of the idea - If I'm walking into the White House with the signatures of 125 idiots, the President should know.
Ignoring for the moment that streaming is the future of movie rentals, I recently came across a DVD in a movie rental outlet that had a QR code that was a link to the trailer for the movie. I don't think I'd have watched the trailer if it meant typing in a URL. On the other hand, having watched the trailer, I didn't rent the movie!
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Silk is looking for software engineers. Silk is trying to do some really disruptive stuff with structured content and we have a long term vision to really bring the semantic web to masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on very interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and with a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The company is in early-stages, so you'll be able to make a large impact. We have just closed a seed funding round with Atomico (the VC fund of the Skype founders) and some prominent Dutch angels and recently won The Next Web's Startup Rally.

E-mail: jobs (at) silkapp.com.
Do yourself a favor and pick up, "The little schemer".
Comcast does business connections as well. This isn't hard to find: for example, if you visit comcast.com, its under "products".

Comcast does all sorts of business Internet connections including web hosting. I suspect they do in your area too, but you've probably never noticed (where do small businesses in your area get Internet access from?). Their cable business connections are delivered over similar (or maybe the same) infrastructure as the residential ones.
SEEKING FREELANCER

I'm looking for a freelance Rails dev to help me with Talkbee (http://talkb.ee). It's a knowledge marketplace where you can book sessions with experts.

I'm in Paris, France but remote work is no problem. I'm looking for someone who's motivated by the project, but unlike most of the "join my startup so we can become the next Facebook" things I'm definitely willing to pay you for your time.

If interested, email me at hello[at]talkb.ee
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Eugene, Oregon - fulltime - H1B applicants welcome

On Time Systems is a small company that specializes in solving
large-scale search and optimization problems. We used to be a
research lab at the University of Oregon, but we are now more focused
on writing software than writing grant proposals. We're currently
looking for software engineers to work on Green Driver (a smartphone
app that uses real-time data from traffic signals to help drivers find
the fastest route (http://imagreendriver.com)) and ACFP (Advanced
Computer Flight Planning), the flight planning system used by the US
Air Force for routing cargo planes and tankers worldwide.

Although our core IP is in optimization, bringing these
solutions to market requires complex
client-server applications with challenging network, user interface,
and database components. We have code written in Python, Java, C,
C++, Objective-C, and other languages.
An ideal candidate will have a strong background in algorithms and
will be comfortable writing both high-level and low-level code.

Benefits include: medical and disability insurance, 401Ks with
matching, sabbaticals, massages, a game room (ping pong, billiards,
DDR, etc.), relocation package, pick your own hardware, your own
office with a window, tuition reimbursement (including flight
school if you work on our flight planning software), exercise
equipment and locker room, and his and hers company bikes.

The work environment is friendly, informal, and intellectual.

Contact: jobs+hackernews@otsys.com
Honestly? Bad idea. We already have a place to talk.
Would taxes be paid on generated bitcoins? or just transactions?
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Visualisation of local tweets at royal wedding
Visualisation of local tweets from the royal wedding. It’s a neat and simple visualisation which captures a remarkable amount of information – images, Foursquare check-ins, gender of tweeters.
Congrats on the new gig, and hope the (dramatic) move went well for you. You're a smart guy and I'm mildly jealous of anyone who gets to work with you. Good luck!
Distributed team, East Coast seeks Python generalists.

HiiDef, Inc is a consumer web incubator with two rapidly growing properties, http://flavors.me/ and http://goodsie.com

Help us solve the challenges that revolve around top notch user experiences. We're continually building new products and features, scaling infrastructure, and responding to our enthusiastic customers.

Team members have flexible hours, top notch hardware, and experienced, talented co-workers invested in their success. We pride ourselves on a results oriented, laid back culture and seek people who can thrive with an exceptional amount of independence.

Please contact me directly at johnwehr@hiidef.com
This would be the smartest thing MSFT could do to make themselves relevant in the phone space. They need to build their own hardware. If they don't they will never get anywhere because HTC are building Android phones as fast/faster than WP7 phones. They need to do the Xbox strategy and build a killer device with their own killer software and then have 3rd parties line up to dev for it.

It worked for Apple. It works for Nintendo and Sony. It works for Microsoft.

Why they continue to try the PC clone model when Android already has that locked up is beyond me. It made sense to do the clone thing when you were cloning IBM PCs for cheaper. Android is cloning iPhones "for cheaper".

I don't think you can have two competing "standards" in the same market for commodity platforms. See HD-DVD, Betamax, MiniDisc, real media, and windows media formats for details on how this usually works out.
IndexTank - SF.

Looking for:

- a sales person

- a marketing person

- a front-end engineer

All positions local in SF (great location, one block from th 16th St. BART).

Email me for more details: diego at indextank
I'm often struck by how many great/successful people destroyed their own families to get there.
Matasano is always hiring people who want to break other people's software in creative and horrifying ways. My contact information is in my profile.
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Atlanta, GA ----(Intern, H1B, whatever. You'll have to convince us to work remotely though.)

RideCell is hiring for the following positions:

* Ops engineer (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python + EC2, RDS)
* QA & Tools engineer
* Mobile engineer (Android, iOS)
* Enterprise Sales rep.

We are revolutionizing the way transportation and service fleets are managed and used and making this both easier and cheaper. This involves Django in the cloud (and python, obviously), mobile apps, and solving some very interesting problems. Your work will directly improve the lives of tens of thousands of people on a daily basis. What we currently do is just the first step in our world domination plan ;)

We are lean, cash flow positive and growing fast. We don't care whether you went to an ivy league school, but do care whether you are passionate about what you do and willing to learn what you don't know.

We don't do traditional (dumb) interviews. We'll chat first but I promise not to ever ask you a syntax question. It'll be more like a discussion between geeks. If it looks like we gel, we'd like to pay you to come work with us on the actual product for some time (hours, days - whatever you can). Did I mention we'll pay you, even if you work with us for just 2 hours? Because we believe, foremost, in doing the right thing.

Email aj@ridecell.com with your resume, questions or a note.
New York, New York

CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com) - Front End Developer

Full description here (or read below): http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs/Front-End%20Developer%20-%20C...

Contact career@cbinsights.com if interested.

CB Insights Front-End Developer will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing and developing web-based applications for our production platform, including product presentation, data, search, and visualization capabilities.

CB Insights is a technology-driven information services company that offers comprehensive information, intelligence and insights about high-growth private companies and their investors. The company’s Beacon software platform, which received support from the National Science Foundation, uses advanced information extraction, categorization and statistical modeling to algorithmically assess the health of private companies using strength and sentiment signals. CB Insights is powering the Forbes 2011 America’s Most Promising Companies Campaign. The company is based in New York City. For more information about CB Insights, please visit http://www.cbinsights.com/.

We also operate ChubbyBrain, an entrepreneur-focused website that aims to use data to help entrepreneurs identify investors for their ventures. For more information on ChubbyBrain, please visit http://www.chubbybrain.com/.
Front-End