skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
37signals is hiring a UI designer:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2925-hiring-were-looking-for-...
Failing that, try linkbait. Ever notice how many of his engagements seems to end with something that HN just loves? Appealing to the people who'll give you links is valuable, even if you're not going to be selling anything to those people.

You should have some amount of interesting data that you can have someone turn into articles; for a massive flamewar, try plotting costs and ratings per country of both freelancer and client.
Evernote Developer Competition
It really shouldn't shock anyone that very few people follow the rules.
Blunt and necessary review of programming language books.
Fremont, CA - Engineers of all sorts, Interns and Full-Time

Redwood Systems is building a web-enabled platform for powering and controlling LED lights in commercial spaces and datacenters. Our system collects a large amount of very granular sensor data and we use this information to save energy and increase our clients' productivity. Our engineers work closely with big-name clients to deliver solutions and shape the direction of our product. It's an awesome time to be working here.

We're about 50 people now and are hiring engineers for backend development, sales support, application development, manufacturing, and power systems development. See our full list of openings here: http://redwoodsystems.com/about-us/careers Interns are being hired in many of the same fields. Feel free to get in touch with me directly -- mball -at- redwoodsys.com
Pricing diamond futures?
Bay Area, CA

Cake Health is building tools to make the health insurance industry more transparent. We help people and companies make more informed decisions about their health care.

We're built on Rails, mySQL, HAML, SASS, and jQuery, and we use Git and Rspec to keep us sane. We're looking for people who can speak the language fluently in at least a few of those areas and can order dinner in all of them (or could at least ask for directions and figure something out).

More at http://cakehealth.com/jobs
Mahonia: a character-set conversion library for Golang
San Francisco (fulltime, intern)

Causes - http://www.causes.com/jobs

Looking for developers who want to Save the World! with Ruby. We're a well-funded start up with a top-notch engineering team -- we just need more engineers! Back end, front end, sys ops, or all three. The mission of Causes is to be the best giving experience online. To date, we've raised over $30m for non-profits. It's easy to lose yourself in the programming anywhere, but when you come up for air at Causes, you see that the project you worked on helped send girls to school in Malawi. It's a very rewarding experience. Sound interesting? Try out our coding puzzle on causes.com/jobs or send in your resume!

adam@causes.com if you have any specific questions!
It amazes me that this sort of behavior still hasn't been standardized and agreed upon by all PC and component manufacturers.
OK, that was an aspect I was unfamiliar with. So after the mining phase ends, transactions become zero-sum BTC games, where the biggest 'miners' accrue their proportional share of the total fees of transactions validated.
the fine folks writing the Twisted Python library solved this problem years ago with the Deferred abstraction and the @inlineCallback decorator. there's a little bit of a performance penalty but an enormously huge increase in code readability.
Burlington, MA - C++ software development of engineering desktop products.

Exa Corp (www.exa.com) is a CAE software company (primarily used for automotive design). We have a variety of positions open on our website, but I'm particularly focused on filling a couple of spots in my group. Here's the posting:

http://exa.com/pages/company/job_postings/11_Swe_Engr_CAE_MA.html

I manage a team of three (including me) and I'm looking to add two developers to support our rapid growth (including a couple of big upcoming projects). Note that the job description lists 5-7 years experience, but because I have two open spots, I'll likely hire one more junior candidate as well.

Shoot me an e-mail if you have any interest or want more details -- the e-mail in the posting (swppjobs@exa.com), will come to me.
> The real economy must not become a monopoly game.

So says the banker with the monacle.
I found Erlang hard to understand at first but I was a victim of my own ignorance. I knew instantly that it's pattern matching feature was incredibly useful but it wasn't until I read "The Little Schemer" http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02... that I was able "get" Erlang.
WHO Finds Tentative Link Between Cell Phones, Cancer
For those without a Facebook account, can someone do something like a TL;DR?
What about sending an email like this a few days before the trial expires:

Hey <name>, You signed up for our trial, but you've
almost never used it. Click HERE to extend your trial
for another month if you feel you need some more time.
I've been looking for a post like this for a while, thanks. It's definitely something I'd want to do upon graduation.

The only thing is, I'd say you have to be pretty lucky to join a startup that instantly becomes the latest sh^t hot thing going around. A large majority will join startups that don't go far, but then again, the experience of failing or 'wearing many hats' and actually being in that situation is probably where the value comes from anyway.
It can only be a net win for society if the total price everyone pays to license a patent is less than the total cost of making each user reinvent it for themselves for the next twenty years. That's why obvious software patents are so bad—the basics of the young field weren't already claimed decades ago, the cost of "reinvention" is so low (one-click requires what, a napkin, a crayon, and half a beer?), and the licensing prices devolve to pure rent-seeking based on the necessity of the obvious idea.

What we need is some counter-balancing force that ensures patent license prices remain reasonable. Normally that's done by the threat of substitution or inventing-around, which doesn't work when USPTO screws up and allows claiming the whole problem space. The price especially needs to be reasonable for non-profit use, which is a software-specific issue made possible because our unit costs are also basically zero. It would also help if they tested patent claims for obviousness by giving someone the problem statement and seeing if they produce a solution off the cuff covered by the same claims.
I already wrote some proof of concept code that steals a user's balance if they're using the Windows client. You'd just have to distill it down to shellcode and include it as a payload in a 100% silent driveby browser exploit.

POC code for Linux/BSD would be trivial, too. I'm not sure about Mac, but there's probably a way to do it via automator or regular message passing.

As I've been saying for a while on the BTC forums, the wallets will be the main target, not the crypto.
I see your point, but there's a significance that shouldn't be entirely overlooked.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is Lodsys not just a collector of intellectual property? There's something to say about the difference between a corporation buying intellectual property rights related to its business and a corporation seeking only to sponge off others labor, profits and wit, contributing neither economic activity nor social involvement.
James Pearce on Hashbangs
Threshold is one problem. Duration is another. Here's a little story to illustrate why patent trolling is so evil.

I used to work at a software company that has an incentive program for developers that come up with patentable ideas, e.g. algorithms. You get a token prize when "your" patent gets submitted -- a pencil or something like that, I don't remember anymore. Then, if "your" patent gets accepted by USPTO, you get a more substantial prize, along the lines of a week at some comfy resort. A lot of my co-workers asked the same question: "Yeah, okay, that's nice, but there's a good chance that the company is going to make shitloads of money off a successful patent. A week at some resort doesn't really compare to that. Why don't you guys offer something that does?"

The guy who was explaining the incentive program responded: "Because you patent an idea and that's worth exactly nothing until you implement that idea in a product and sell that product to customers. You had the idea, but it's the company that has the means to implement it and market it and sell it." When you think about it, it's reasonable. Not precisely fair, but then again, things rarely are.

The point of this story is that software patents, just like all patents, are there to give the inventor a chance to implement the invention and make money from it, as a reward for the inventor's genius and hard work that went into coming up with an invention. That's obviously a good thing, because it gives you an incentive to invent something without having to fear that someone will simply steal your invention and make money off it.

Like every regulation with good intentions, it gets abused. What you said about trivial patents is just one way it gets abused. But another thing that makes it easy to abuse software patents is the duration of the patent. Twenty years is a hell of a long time in software. It practically invites patent trolling.
Shanghai INTERN

We are a startup doing consulting on the side to finance our product.

We mostly work with Ruby on Rails but also have a new project in Node.js. When something is a better tool for the job, we use it and if you come and convince us that it's the case for a part of your project, we will listen to you.
So if you're interested, send an email at intern@webagecorp.com
Expect backlash about the "...unpaid interns" thing, especially when you're located in San Francisco, CA, USA of all places.
If you want to expose Amazon or PayPal to your customers, anyone with an account on either respective site could use their previously-stored credentials to make a payment, which would get you halfway there. I'm not sure if either offer what you're looking for, but having someone create a PayPal account could be an easy way to get your service running cheaply and quickly.
Rotterdam, NL (fulltime)

KenTyde - http://kentyde.com/ (come help us out with that...)

We're looking for a 5th employee, with tech skills. We work with Python, CouchDB, ZeroMQ, Redis and a bunch of other cool open source stuff, building an asset management firm. We're currently building a track record and seek to open our first fund sometime later this year.
San Francisco, SA, USA: Yelp is hiring for a number of positions:

* MySQL Administrator: http://job4dev.com/jobs/15641/yelp-mysql-database-administra...

* Backend Engineer: http://job4dev.com/jobs/15666/yelp-back-end-software-enginee...
Just type SYS 64738.
Free trials aren't free to the company. It's a promise given to customers that they will be able to make use of company's assets without payment. Company normally has to pay for both the actual usage that occurs and the option of usage it has granted to it's customers so far.

This depends upon the type of service offered. If the are significant user-based storage or bandwidth costs, the analysis you offer is correct. If, on the other hand, the usage does not increase costs-- oh, let's say an online bingo-card creation program-- you've got a completely different segmentation picture.
Menlo Park, CA

Nearbuy Systems is looking for a great software engineer.

We're a well funded, year-old startup working on indoor location-based systems. You're a generalist engineer who is a pro at C++, CUDA, Ruby or JavaScript, loves learning new things, working with a small team and shipping code.

I know we're not in SOMA or the Dogpatch, or wherever people pay for fancy offices these days, but we are close to Caltrain and right on the SF2G Bayway route.

See http://www.nearbuysystems.com/company/engineer for more information.
I think this would be very interesting to see. I know there is Plan 9 from User Space that could provide cat, ls, grep, sed, etc, although the parameters are different so most scripts would probably break. Someone mentioned Clang as an alternative to gcc. The biggest hurdle would probably be glibc.

In reality, I think even if you came up with alternatives that had the same functionality as the GNU software, so many Linux programs have probably assumed GNU that patching everything to work would be a colossal undertaking.
Lockheed was a honeypot? Or 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'
It is funny that this feature has yet to hit google. I am wanting more and more the ability to sort my google results in chronological order. I recently got a iMac and would love to see the most resent article on how to do things and not ones from 2008!
There's also a real city in CA by that name, so people may assume you mean that, not SF.
The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 11 (Katya)
In the same category, half a century later: aircraft carriers.

Although I'm not sure this qualifies as "hacker", let alone "news".
It creates a nice animation showing your profile pictures, friends, tagged pictures, status updates, videos etc on walls in a museum with people walking around your 'exhibits'. It's a fun timewaster.
"I'm not sure if that's due to a misunderstanding on your part or a lack of clarity on my part."

These are merely two perspectives from which we can view the same phenomenon.
Besides affiliate fees, how do you guys make money?
New York City -- Frontend Dev/UI Person -- SeatGeek

We're a data-driven search engine for sports and concert tickets. We're trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to make buying event tickets a wholly better experience.

We currently have a four-person dev team, but everyone prefers to work on the backend. We're looking for someone to come in and own the frontend of the web app, which will involve creating interfaces in Photoshop, brining them to life in HTML/CSS, and (ideally, but not necessarily) doing some Javascript work.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/frontend/
This is no different than how we calculate the market cap for any company.

And nobody's paid nearly $325B for Apple. But someone just bought a bit under 1 billionth of the company for about $350, so that's what the market cap works out to be.
Nitpick: clicking on the text related to a checkbox or radio button should activate that form element (via the `label` element).
RateMySite: Mailing list for niche programming and startups
> Introducing iLuminate™, the first patent-pending wearable, wireless lighting system.

Serious question for the founding team: Why do you think what you do is patentable? It's kinda a hot topic today.
There is no bubble... everyone is just screwed
in a follow up post, i'm going to write about how i chose to work with feefighters.

I actually talked to at least 10 other startups before selecting FeeFighters. I totally agree with you, but I think there are ways to hedge the risk of a startup failing. in my situation, i joined a startup with founders who were serial entrepreneurs. both are technical, and both are brilliant. anyway, look for a follow up post :)
Startup Founders Walk a Thin Line on Delegation
DnB Nor, the largest Norwegian bank, just happened to buy a Latvian bank with customers dealing in the spam business. DnB Nor has stopped their engagement which these customers. Source: http://www.facebook.com/DnBNOR/posts/229307870419535 (in Norwegian).
Especially since "unpaid intern" is blatently illegal. If the intern performs work of any kind that benefits the employer, they need to be paid at the least, minimum wage.
The 5 Deadliest Marketing Mistakes
A kid with a background in Python/Django can easily get a paid job else where.
San Diego, CA; WhooshTraffic is hiring for a junior programming position (intern or fulltime): http://whooshtraffic.com

We use Python + Pyramid, MySQL, and Erlang. Remote will be considered but we prefer local.

Email resume & link to your BitBucket, GitHub, or other social coding profile to jobs@whooshtraffic.com
IPad Dwarfs Rivals On The Web, Surpasses Linux
Conusmer Internet traffic: Data guzzlers
httpd.conf?

"You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access to httpd main server config file...Any directive that you can include in a .htaccess file is better set in a Directory block, as it will have the same effect with better performance."

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html
Traditionally, you offer a limited time where the old currency can be exchanged for the new currency, and after that date, anyone holding the old currency is shit-out-of-luck.

Note that the same scenario may apply (in some places) when new banknotes or coins are rolled out. Here in Norway, they periodically redesign the coins (and give them new sizes), and you have a certain amount of time to exchange your old ones before they are no longer considered legal tender.
Microsoft Said to Limit Device Makers’ Chip-Partner Choices
Show HN: Ten weekend projects, bundled (feedback appreciated)
i.e.: a qr code tattoo (yes ... they are real and no ... they don't rock) http://replycam.com/65326
The cave man who invented 'wheel' was knocking on my door today.. apparently he was granted a 4k year patent for cart wheels by Unbelievably Sloppy Patent Troll Office (USPTO)...
Front End Engineer
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What do we offer?
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One significant problem is the pyramid of management. Everyone would want to be managed by the top person. But these are in very limited supply, and they're being rationed one-to-one. In a university, the lecturers are one-to-many.

How many top-dogs are there? 1000? 10000? That doesn't put a dent in university admissions. So, to go 'wider' one would need some kind of advertising for the middle-managers who would like to mentor. But the facts of life are the middle-management is pretty boring (at least from the outside).

So, while the idea of being mentored by Steve Jobs (CEO) is compelling, the reality would come down to a family dinner-table discussion of whether Joe Schmo (middle-manager) is a rising star, or just someone who likes the idea of someone paying to pick up his dry-cleaning.
You're aware that the author is trying to point out the inhumanity of the American justicial system, more than actually defending flogging? (From your link: "Certainly In Defense of Flogging is more about the horrors of our prison-industrial complex than an ode to flogging".)

It probably is interesting, though.
Top notch UK market research tool from Google
Londsdaleite futures, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite :)

I was originally talking about trying to get currently profitable trading strategies out of the same pieces of accounting information that millions of smart competitors have access to. It's definitely a bit of a Red Queen's race ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race ) trying to find and clean up new data sources and improve our trading methods well enough just to stay current. It's also hard because even though there's lots of data available, it's hard to tell how useful the early data is and whether you can still make money with trading strategies based on it.
Whoops and hashbangs
Los Angeles. Lead developer, DeviceReady:
http://www.deviceready.com/test-android-apps-on-multiple-dev...

Must have lots of Android experience.

Los Angeles, QA Engineer, BugCam:
http://www.getbugcam.com

REMOTE ok for both.

Email me (see profile)
I flagged this.

It wasn't submitted to let people know about the feature, it was submitted to stir the pot.
Did the NYT hack Fabrice Tourre’s (of Goldman Sachs) email?
Boston, MA - Ruby/Rails Engineers

Earth Aid ( http://earthaid.net ) is newly venture-backed by Point Judith Capital as well as strategic and angel investors who have built and scaled some of the most successful businesses today. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. We have small offices in San Francisco and Washington, DC, and we're now consolidating our heretofore distributed dev team and HQ into an awesome brand new office we just opened on Liberty Square in Boston!

We are looking for people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. This is an opportunity to not only work with a dynamic group of people, but also the opportunity to build a platform that's revolutionizing the way we look at energy consumption. We want the best and the brightest. People who work hard and play hard. People who want to make an impact. Why be a cog in the wheel when you can help steer the ship?

Learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, cool culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones at: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net
SEEKING WORK

Easley, South Carolina USA (Willing to work remotely or on-site)

Can do front-end xHTML/CSS/jQuery/AJAX (expert in all) and even a little design

Can do back-end OO PHP (expert), MySQL (expert), LAMP stack (intermediate in Linux shell / Apache administration)

My site & Portfolio: http://jneal.com

Recently completed sites:
http://www.instigateclothing.com
http://www.alienantfarm.com
http://www.12stones.com
http://www.egyptcentral.net
http://www.chris-adler.com

I can take an entire project from start to finish, or fit seamlessly into your existing team of designers and developers. Use contact information from my website if interested.
New York City
UI/UX Designer
Allmenus.com + Campusfood.com

We're a Quantcast top 500 property with a sticky product and over 16 million orders placed.

Reach out to me through jshamenski@allmenus.com
More positions viewable @ http://dotmenu.catsone.com/careers/?portal
Lodsys and Apple: follow the money
Durham, NC (fulltime, remote is possible)

Bronto Software: awesome marketing & analytics web software used by companies like Trek, Armani, Roku, Etsy, Timex and tons more. Looking for engineers to work on BIG data and BIG scalability scenarios. We use Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase and MySQL to manage over 100,000,000 data transactions a day.

We're a growing company (here's a news article from last week outlining just how much we're growing... new offices, too! http://cl.ly/7Fj8) and the Engineering group is filled with smart people. I'm the User Interface Architect here, come check us out.

http://bronto.com/company/careers
There might have been advances on IUDs, but my mother had a very bad time with one (she had to be operated on to remove it).
I received some feedback that my article was disrespectful to programmers. That wasn’t my intention—rather my goal was to explain why these are such easy traps to fall into if you are thinking about the code instead of your users.
I’m a developer myself and I want to help other developers raise their UX game—in fact, I’ve built my business on training interaction design to non-designers.
If you are a developer who wants to improve your UX design skills, please check out the rest of my site.