skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's perfectly acceptable language to say that a cause is the "reason" for an effect, even if it's not possible to assign intent

Sure, but that's not the case here. While existing traits are selected for based on fitness (which has absolutely no meaning outside of environment, another rant), new traits (whether wrinkly fingers in one leap or in several small ones) are evolved by chance.

Evolution has no intent, no direction. Each individual trait has no reason other than, "Hey, I'll try this out!"

In a society where a good chunk doesn't even believe evolution is an accurate model, I think it's helpful to be precise with the language to minimize misunderstanding which further inhibits the idea's acceptance.
Cambridge, MA

Percipio Media

Company:

Percipio Media applies state of the art predictive modeling and optimization technology to online media activities. Through both life-pathing membership sites and broader media services, Percipio improves online user experience while simultaneously increasing ROI for partners.

We spend a seven figure budget each month on SEM traffic, so you'll be in charge of buying a lot of clicks

We're a well funded startup, currently 8 people. You'll get smart coworkers, a private office with a door, health and dental.

Job:

Online Media Manager for SEM

We run some very high traffic web sites, and need someone to manage our Google and Bing search engine marketing. We take a very quantitative, data driven approach to driving traffic. We don't just plan campaigns in a spreadsheet. As such we are looking for:

* fluency in a scripting language such as Python, Ruby, or Perl
* a degree in a quantitative field such as CS, math, engineering, etc.
* a good knowledge of SQL

Experience in running SEM traffic is obviously a big bonus, but is not required.

Please respond to the email in my profile.
No, you couldn't. Nothing prevents malicious client from "letting itself in", no matter whether password was correct or not.
San Mateo, CA (no telecommute)

The Playforge is hiring software engineers!

We make mobile social freemium games currently focused on the iOS platform. Our first game, Zombie Farm, was Apple's top grossing freemium game of 2010 and continues to remain on the top grossing charts to this day.

In this role you will help us design and develop the server infrastructure and game APIs to support the over 15 million players on our social games.

Candidates should feel comfortable with PHP, MySQL, and some javascript/css. We will be integrating Redis into our stack soon.

http://theplayforge.com/jobs.html
contact: jobs@theplayforge.com
But Stripe.com is not even available publicly yet ?
Atlanta, GA
Emcien
http://emcien.com/
http://gabacus.com/

Rails Engineers. Work with mathematicians using discrete algebra to recognize patterns in everything from manufacturing data to Twitter.

emcienjobs@emcien.com
Oracle buys CEO Ellison's company
johnhaley81
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 a few weeks ago 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
* - Has a better URL bar search function *

For me, it's the opposite. Chrome's search bar does what I want predictably (run a Google search) where the awesome bar sends me all sorts of crazy places. It's that feature alone that keeps me on chrome.
I think if Google+ has a decent set of APIs and doesn't go on a "kill the client" spree, it might be a fairly interesting fight.
Study: Age-old understanding of static electricity is incorrect
Anything tablet-centric?
I really like the approach to standards of different vendors contributing tests to a constantly-growing test suite. It seems much more robust and less game-able than the existing standards & performance tests, like Acid and Sunspider. It's a shame that both this, and the WC3 HTML5 tests, seem to be dominated by Microsoft, but I think Microsoft is making the right decision by contributing a ton of tests and I can't fault them for other vendors not doing the same.

The reason I like this competitive, evolving style of tests is simple: it's much harder to design a browser to the test, rather than the standard. With, say, the Acid test, browsers build in the specific functionality that it tests, which results is very un-even standards compliance and altogether mis-representative test results. If it's not on the test, vendors drag their feet on implementing. With this new style, if there's any part of the standard that browsers haven't implemented, one vendor can implement it, and contribute tests around it. Now they can show how they're more standards-compliant, and everyone else will catch up because they're being tested on it. This competition encourages all the vendors to a) implement the full breadth of the standard b) contribute tests cover the full breadth of the standard. Win-win for users.
Mohammed amayreh
author is wrong..

Google Search right now has more users than FB and twitter and linkedin combined..its a direct threat to all not just one and those Google Search users have a network effect as we saw in several past search engines just absolutely just die off due to competition from Google
While I realize it mentioned it in the article, and that it's forthcoming, I'll withhold my opinion of the "threat" to Twitter and Facebook until I see what kind of API they're going to roll out for Google+.

One of the reasons I like the older services is that I can access them via SMS - in fact, Twitter is just about perfect for that use case.
I've never really used or liked Google News interface. But they said Google News is just a part of it, since they also show blogs, videos, etc
I'm pretty sure that Khan will add some pure comp-sci videos later; there's no problem starting with plain programming and describing how programs run, is there?

Edit: Already (on his second day of making videos) he is starting to branch into algorithms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCzQvQr8Utw
Droid X2 easily reaches 110 degrees
[OT] One of the things which struck me when I reread Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago a few years ago was how several prisoners were convicted of terrorism and the apparent use of terrorism charges as a catchall for a variety of behaviors which were contrary to the interests of the ruling political circle.
Thank you for pointing that out. It appears that the author of the article subscribes to the atrocious concept of C/C++, rather than realizing that they're two separate languages.
FIPLAB - London (Full time) and Remote (Part time)

Join a fast growing startup with several successful iPhone and Mac apps (millions of downloads).

Requirements:

* Strong knowledge of Objective-C, Cocoa and the iOS SDK

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* Ability to quickly work out solutions to roadblocks encountered during development

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Oh, I was gunning for only CSS3/JavaScript/HTML -- I assume the WebGL version linked here ported a lot of the OGL code from the mobile version to WebGL right? (I could be wrong)
google+ isn't a jump-ship kind of product. It's a creep into your life while you weren't looking and never let you go kind of product.

People will use it slowly at first and it will just snowball.
Facebook is just a client. Users, content, and data are all portable. If a user can access his or her Farmville world in 1 of 5 places, I don't think it's such a big deal that 1 of those places goes away, which itself is unlikely for now.
It's a further resource out to the central bank information in various country which further goes towards information on legal definitions of a bank in each country (at least many of the links provide such information). If you have a better site for international banking law definitions separated by country, it'd be awesome to suggest it.
Navigating the Sales Tax "Minefield" of "Cloud Computing"
Web FWD, the new Innovation Accelerator from Mozilla
I just gave it a try and absolutely love the minimap feature. Definitely helps with browsing through my code quickly. Once it had code-folding, I will hit 'Purchase'. Until then it's TextWrangler for me.
Practically Green - Cambridge, MA

We built Practically Green to provide tools, knowledge and motivation to help people make healthy, green changes in their life.

The first product we've built is the Practically Green website, launched in closed beta in May 2010, with an open beta last September. The site gives you an assessment quiz, helps you build an action plan to improve and gives you the tools and information to execute the change.

We bring in social proof (and social norms) through connections with Facebook friends, neighbors and real-life groups. Our science is rock-solid and our content is compelling. We've incorporated gamification and other behavior-change techniques gently throughout the application. We have an email component, and we're developing a mobile complement.

We're looking for:

* Director of UX
* Senior Rails Engineers
* Entry-Level Rails Engineers.

More information here: http://practicallygreen.com/jobs
Code Soloist: Stop Spending Money
... and it's a whale of a risk.

Of course, for right now, Facebook and Zynga work well together. But what happens to Zynga when Facebook decides to get into games?
A molecular fossil of the RNA world
Amateur, not unlicensed:

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

While the 40M band beats the curvature of the earth quite reliably, I would expect that they are doing something in the UHF band if they plan on deploying this in licensed cell-phone frequencies.

Also the amateur band lets them transmit at much higher power than the ISM bands:

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2010/octqtr/47cfr15.245.ht...
I was just about to say that. Google needs to make sure they get the API's right from the start, and not have a huge change of hard later, and say, like Twitter, that they want to improve the UX or whatever, when they really just wanted to be able to send you their ads.

Google should make sure they're not giving functionality that they're going to take away later on and piss off a lot of developers.
Vehicle Transport facts
These are the only things I've ever heard from people who swear by their BB's:

1. Keyboard

2. BBM

3. E-mail

I'm surprised RIM hasn't figured this out by now and put on their advertisements "BlackBerry XXXX whatever - types easier, instantly communicate better, and e-mail faster" (btw - whether or not these are really true is up to debate, but IMO they are the only selling points)

I see ads all of the time for BB's that talk about Facebook/Twitter. I haven't heard a single good thing about the facebook/twitter apps for BB or any BB app for that matter.
I'm going to be honest here and say that I think it looks horrible. The ALL-CAPS on buttons looks amateurish, and I want my separators and selected-mail-box background highlighting back.

The non-dense theme also is too sparse.

I suppose this is just because I'm used to how it looks, but hopefully they'll keep the old themes around.
Adzerk - Raleigh/Durham, NC

We are building the next generation of ad serving - fast, adaptable, extensible, and comprehensive. We are looking for super smart engineers who are ready to learn and grow - we don't care what you know now, we care about what you can learn and how quickly.

Flexible Hours, Good Pay, Options, Unlimited Vacation, fun technology.

Apply here- http://adzerk.com/jobs
TripAdvisor in Newton, MA

Hiring at all levels. You can read about how we do stuff here:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-archit...
There is no such thing as a GPU based bcrypt hasher because it woudln't be - from my understanding - any faster then a CPU based one. Not all calculations are able to be sped up through the use of a GPU.

So I'm comparing the fastest you can do bcrypt hashes (100 a sec at that work factor) vs the fastest you can do MD5 hashes (250 million per second)
San Francisco / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote

Passionate about the outdoors? AllTrails.com is hiring front-end and back-end engineers.

We're the number 1 outdoors site. Founders from Google / Facebook / Microsoft. Well funded and some really exciting things in the pipeline!

email: justin@alltrails.com
It's tiring because it's unjustified. There is a spectrum of users, not two separate sets. Scoble is saying what he is saying because it's emotionally satisfying for him to feel like he is part of some elite, while basically he is just a well known blogger. The tone in this article reinforces my prior suspicion that he is a douche. Such hubris also clouds his judgement apparently, as I disagree with him on who will adopt this. G+ currently has the potential to be a completely mainstream product.
How exactly would Google owning "several" patents on LTE translate to them being a sole owner of the technology? My understanding is that there are a couple of thousand patents on parts of LTE, with companies like Qualcomm, Nokia or Ericsson controlling hundreds of patents.
Brooklyn, NY

Main Street Connect
http://www.mainstreetconnect.us

Our Creative Tech team is looking for smart hackers to evolve our product. We're building a national community news network, so we've got a wide range of work to be done and problems to solve. We think they're interesting problems. Mostly in PHP.

creative_technology@mainstreetconnect.us
My non-techie friends are interested in it too, but they heard about it through xkcd. It's quite the positive review as I interpret it.

http://xkcd.com/918/
SEEKING WORK

(REMOTE, or local to Cleveland)

In a couple of weeks I'll be wrapping up work on http://appgravity.com an Android search engine I'm building for a client.

Java (10+ years), Wicket, Google App Engine, GWT, Hibernate, Solr/Lucene.

Most of my experience is server-side, but I've also done both iPhone and Android apps.

Contact info at http://www.armhold.com.
I agree -- the designer here is maybe not consciously referring to Modernists like Frank Lloyd Wright. He might just means that it "look more contemporary." But twentieth-century modernism had a huge influence on why our culture thinks some designs look more "modern" than others, and also helped make "modern" one of the values on which we judge aesthetics in the first place.
still WoW alone rakes in more money than Zyngas complete Revenue in 2010. Top AAA games generate more than 1 Billion in revenue (GTA Series for example).

Dont undererstimate the gaming market.
Academia.edu is hiring engineers in San Francisco. (Foreign applicants are welcome - we have obtained visas for 4 of our team members so far).

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to connect and share research. We are building a hyper-connected academic graph, so every researcher has their entire research community at their fingertips. We currently have 1.9 million unique monthly visitors, and have doubled in traffic in the last 6 months.

Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team:

- obsession with exceptional engineering

- obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience

- intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about

- fun and friendly - we enjoy each other's company a lot, and have a great deal of respect for each other.

We want to continue this atmosphere through the people we hire.

Here are some of the technologies we work with: Rails, Nginx, Node.js, Redis, Memcached. We are based in downtown San Francisco. More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here http://academia.edu/hiring
Yep. You hit CTRL+SPACE and it'll give you a drop down list of possible completions. It'll also have your previously typed variables in the list.

I'm more of a tab user myself though. So I'll type array_p and hit tab once for array_push. (for example)
Waterloo, Ontario

We would consider hiring remote developers, but ideally we want someone who can work in our office with the rest of the team.

We are a growing and profitable startup in the education space with 12 employees. Our development team is small and we're still giving very large stock options to anyone who joins (>1%.)

We're looking for a generalist - everyone on our team touches front-end, backend and database. You'll be working with javascript and all the usual suspects on the client site (including socket.io) and you'll be working in Python on Django on the server. We're not necessarily looking for someone who knows the specific tech that we use, but mainly someone who's really smart and able to learn quickly.

Apply here:
http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/job/insanely-smart-web-developer...
Chicago, IL - Braintree

We mostly work with Ruby/Rails, but we'd be interested in a person without Ruby experience who is skilled with testing, software / web dev in general, and GNU/Linux.

More about our people, practices, and software: http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/how-we-bui...
CB Insights in New York, NY

Front-End Developer (Full-time): http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs/FrontEndDeveloper-CBInsights....

CB Insights is a National Science Foundation-backed data company working on difficult problems
focused on very large markets. Although early on in the game we are revenue generating and are
pushing the lumbering dinosaurs in our industry to the brink of extinction. Our data is frequently
featured in the media which you can see here - http://www.cbinsights.com/press.php.
That's not what I said. Some amount of secrecy might better than none. But, you should not depend on it.

If you use a "clever" scheme to store / generate your salt, you make your system more complex in an attempt to hide something that does not really need to be hidden. You might also end up introducing implementation flaws.

That's why bcrypt uses nonces for its salts, and simply appends them to the encrypted passwords.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_Principle
>As far as not telling what day it is, [...] Definitely doesn't warrant an extreme "It's Goddamn Terrible" flame [...]

// I think it's that this is indicative of poor testing or poor understanding of the needs of a calendar interface.

Being able to quickly locate the current days listings and being focussed on the pertinent info and away from the chrome (like "look at me"-style search buttons) is key in the writers opinion (and mine) to having a good calendar.

What's so terrible is that with all the money they must spend on usability experts (hopefully?) these glaring issues still make it through to the final product. I expect they did the 5s testing type UI analysis - "what day was selected" "what from the interface stood out" and would be amazed that such analysis wouldn't return answers like "didn't see the day names anywhere" and "giant blue button for something".
Because of the emotionally provocative titles they choose.
Right, except Somalia was never an anarchist system since Siad Barre bounced in 91. During the collapse of his regime, all the different tribes left fought to quickly gain control over major cities and regions. The only places I can think of that fit the term anarchist were a few big cities like Xamar and Bosaaso where there was quite literally no rule except by roving tribal gangs with AKs and checkpoints everywhere. Each gang controlled by larger war lords that eventually consolidated their own "-land" with tribal friends and family. Right now I can go to Hergeisa (actually I can't but that's for totally other reasons) and get my passport notarized and stamped by govt officials, go through customs, and get a notarized letter for my travel.

Somalia has government in the sense of different states have governments that view themselves as independent from the rest. They collect taxes, have an armed security force, and generally do all the normal things a state would do anywhere else in the world. The only difference is that the only officially recognized govt by the world is the TFG in Mogadishu, which actually has less control and actual governance than your average HOA in Podunk, Kansas. Couple this with high corruption, lack of effective governance in large swaths of the country, constant war for power everywhere, pirates with cameras shining on them on the high seas, complete enmity between the major states, and constant meddling by too many outsiders to count and you have the reason why there is no central government that rules over Somalia proper till now, more than 20 years after Barre's fall.
Something is also off with the typography; the line height (leading) makes it very difficult to scan your messages for some reason.
>"MS is probably the only one that did it specifically to hurt Google"

Exactly what is the basis for this?

As you noted Nokia with whom Microsoft shares some interest would benefit from owning those patents. In addition, Microsoft as owner of Skype now has a substantial interest in patents applying to telephony networks.
And then, when your company gets some serious press/traction/money they usually call you back again acting like best friends who always thought you had a great idea.
Free storage limits - Picasa for Google+ users
Only one in page 14, RISK FACTORS section ends in page 32.
>How about 'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors being different."

The difference between a gourmet meal and a plate of vomit is simply the way it's arranged.

Edit: and the vomit takes a few more minutes to make too.
I think it would be a very good fit with them. But they need to make sure they won't get screwed by the networks later, when they won't care what happens to Hulu once they've sold it. Their incentive might be to kill it so they keep making money from normal advertising, rather than Hulu's online advertising.

But this is also an opportunity to strengthen their relationship with them, and get them to support Google TV.

EDIT: They can also do a lot of cool stuff to it, like integrating Google+ with it, for social viewing. Imagine Hangouts with Hulu...
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My point is that patents give inventors a way to cash out early without having to go to litigation. It's this property right that they can sell to someone else who wants the use of the idea. Maybe the buyer wants to make money off lawsuits, maybe he wants to produce the product. Doesn't matter. The patent lets the inventor sell his idea to someone who can make better (more economically efficient) use of it.
I guess it depends on what you want to do. The Firefox awesome bar does a better job at guessing what bookmarked or historical site you want.

For instance, if I type in "y" or "yc" in Firefox, then it correctly guesses that I probably want "news.ycombinator.com", because it's a site I often visit and one of the very few with "y" or "yc" in the domain name.

Chrome, on the other hand, seems to only match from the start of bookmarked URLs. So "y" doesn't match, and nor does "yc". Instead it advises me to do a Google search. On the other hand, if I type "n", then it does guess that I want "news.ycombinator.com" (or "news.bbc.co.uk").
Building sophisticated apps on AWS pros/cons