skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we really need grape peelers.

How about we figure out how to have a space program that can fuel on the go?
New York, NY

Lot18 is revolutionizing the way Americans buy wine. We provide a highly curated marketplace for wineries and epicurean product producers to sell direct to consumers.

We are hiring software engineers to join our small but growing 10 person dev team. You can apply by sending your resume and a link to your github profile to jobs@lot18.com.

Why you should work here:

- We work with a ton of awesome technologies (Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Tornado, Chef, git, Vagrant, MySQL, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, jQuery and more)

- Well funded. We’ve raised $14.5M from tier one investors.

- People actually use our product. Over 500k users have joined since we launched in Nov 2010.

- It’s not social media. We have a real business model and do 7 figures a month in transactions.

- Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental paid in full, unlimited vacation, plenty of wine, lots of challenges and interesting business/tech problems to solve.
Good luck: in the UK the worst train accidents with the largest number of fatalities have been due to poor track maintenance. The accidents have tended to occur on commuter trains with high passenger numbers and many people standing. Not sure what the French have seen as history on their much faster trains.
"OK, so the bug never trigged in 16,000+ Linux kernel merges."

If your team is avoiding a tool with a 1 in 16,000 chance of failure then they'd probably also want to avoid flying (1 in 20,000 chance of death by failure), large bodies of water (1 in 8,942) and run terrified from cars (1 in 100) (source: http://www.livescience.com/3780-odds-dying.html.

The car stat seems rather high, and git won't kill you, but the general point is that a 1 in 16,000+ chance of losing a few hours of work is "s--t happens, find a workaround and get over it" odds.
Do you have a resume/portfolio?
Aurora 9 introduces the CSS 'font-stretch' property, first suggested back in 1999(!): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 - Notably, only IE has implemented it so far.
Seriously, I have been wondering for months now why websites no longer display their RSS feeds in the address bar.
... or, "why I can't stand nmap, and more often than not end up writing a trivial port scanner with EventMachine every time I need to do this."
What's the metaphysical distractions? Haven't you ever looked into someone's eyes as they're attacking you and seen that they're just trying to hurt you out of base malevolence? You've never just woken up and just felt like destroying something? It's pretty simple.
He is a noted mathematician- but also has driven the computer science community through this sort of thing before: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/what-if-peano-is-in... http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/what-will-happen-wh...
Wait until next month. :-)
Tagged.com allows authentication through most of the emails they send to you. Frightening from a security perspective.
Please also see... http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3060222

That should be s/edit/item/.
Cologne, Germany

At Adcloud we do some awesome high performance web work with our adservers and we need help from great software developers: http://adcloud.com/de/dev/

Ping me for more info.
Cool, but why is there no setting to change the length/radius of the gradient? The "radius" slider only changes the contrast (but curiously only in radial mode), not the size.

Bug report: The color up/down thingies become stuck so that any mouse movement will change the value. (Chrome 15 on Lion.)
As an airliner, lobbying for tightened RR regulation seems like a handsome roi.

/takes off conspiracy hat
New York, NY

Bookish is hiring Scala and Rails engineers to work on a project that puts Reading Rainbow to shame.

Lots of interesting work around recommendations, big big data, ereading, and everything in between.

http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Software_Engineers_Scala_Ruby_...
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There have actually been a few academic studies on this topic by Vivek Wadwha and the Kauffman foundation:

"An Ivy League degree may get you a job as an investment banker or VC, but it won’t increase your odds of becoming a successful entrepreneur."

"In other words, 81% of the tech company founders came from “regular” schools. To make my colleagues at Harvard feel better (and to keep my job), I’ll acknowledge that the Ivies represented 8% of the sample even though those schools only graduate 1.6% of American students."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/got-degree-envy-no-worries-...
Show HN: Web App For Realtime Photo Filtering (Weekend Project)
Eugene, Oregon, internship possible, noremote

On Time Systems is a small company (about 22 employees) that develops AI applications for scheduling and routing. 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, the flight planning system used by the US Air Force for routing non-combat flights. We're looking especially for people with a strong algorithmic background.

We have some really nice benefits, including (in addition to the usual ones like medical) sabbaticals, massages, your own office with a window, and 100% tuition reimbursement (including flight school if you work on our flight planning software). We used to be a research lab at the University of Oregon, and the atmosphere maintains some of the academic feel.

See http://www.otsys.com/employment.php for more details. Send your resume to jobs+hackernews@otsys.com
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Track has been an issue in the US, as has losing track of trains and having collisions. The vast majority of fatalities are exactly what these laws won't help with: people swerving the gates, or walking on the tracks.
Forio Online Simulations (San Francisco, South Beach area)
http://forio.com/about-forio/careers-at-forio/

If you're interested in developing rich internet applications and data visualizations around simulations and games for us in San Francisco, I would love to hear from you. We are hiring across the entire stack and looking for client-side and server-side developers.

Some of our current projects:

- a venture-back tech game/sim for MIT

- simulating game-theory style price moves between two competitors for a beverage company in North America

- national health simulations with the CDC

- several business simulations and games for Harvard Business School Publishing

- on-going data visualization, ui and compiler work for our core platform, Forio Simulate http://forio.com/simulate

Benefits:

- job security, market salaries - we've been cash flow positive for years

- collaborate, share, and learn from other talented developers in a pleasant work place

- reasonable work hours - working late nights and weekends is unusual

- good software development practices - QA, unit testing, usability testing, git, bug tracking, etc.

If you're interested or have questions, email mbean@forio.com and I can direct you to the right people.
My ears perked up when I heard that it involved renames on OSX. I don't know about the exact issue he had, but I recently found out the hard way that OSX's HFS+ is a case-insensitive* filesystem. You can get subtle issues by importing multiple files with the same case (such as "README.txt" and "ReadMe.txt") into the same repository; this isn't specific to git.

I had a similar issue with Perforce on Windows - Perforce was case sensitive, Windows wasn't, and thanks to CamelCase, there were two files that had the same letters but different casing. (I don't remember the names.)

* Technically, "case-insensitive but case-preserving", which in practice seems to mean, "case-sensitive, except when you need it to be".
I could be wrong, but I think Saturday is a great day for these threads. The work week is mainly relevant to people in 9-to-5 jobs. If I were looking for a job (I'm not) I would generally avoid doing the search during the week. Why? At least on Wall Street, people get fired if their bosses figure out that they're looking for jobs. Once you start searching, you've effectively quit as they see it.

That said, I'm coming to the conclusion that one should always be looking for jobs at least in a limited sense (networking, skill building). It's not disloyal. It's just smart. Jobs end, sometimes suddenly and involuntarily. It's a fact of life and people need to be prepared.
It's becoming frighteningly obvious in recent years that hardcore innovation is being stifled in the names of 'too risky', 'not enough ROI', 'politically incorrect', and $current_political_battleground. It's also frighteningly obvious that the status quo of new-flavor-of-entertainment-as-innovation has ardent defenders.

As a society, almost nothing in the scope of the Big Ideas of the 1900s-1950 era has come to pass in the last 30 years.
Our science fiction writers write of hideous futures we don't want to live in. Our movies present soap operas in space, in the name of science fiction. The education system of the pre-50s, maligned as it is, produced better innovators and more good ideas than what is alllowed today.

Wake up and smell the tomatoes. Things are bad, and not getting better. Drop the entertainment ideas, and work on something good for the world.

A few weeks ago, Khan Academy was hiring.
SEEKING WORK

Frontend / PHP developer. Lots of lots of front end stuff, several very large CMS/e-commerce projects completed. Also mobile. I'm from the UK. Prefer remote but willing to do on-site if it's interesting enough :)

Email in profile. Happy to supply past work on request.
It's all starting to make sense now.

Carol Bartz and Jack Ma did not get along at all. She chewed him out in front of his underlings in Sunnyvale when they first met; and he never forgave her for that. Getting insulted in front of your underlings is a huge deal in many cultures.

If Bartz was still the CEO, she would have torpedoed any possible deal like this. So she had to go. The Board fired her to pave the way for Ma to put together a deal.

Ma says he'll be spending the next year in the US, "studying the market". Why the heck would he be wasting time here, when he already has a huge company to run in China, if he didn't intend on making a massive acquisition?

The next few months should be "interesting", if you're a Yahoo.
1. Once a bureaucracy is created, its 1st act is to perpetuate itself. It has no allowance for self-destruction someday.

2. When one coalition of governments and bureaucracies don't work to one's advantage or agenda, create a new one.

3. If threatened w/ abolition, bureaucracy's main defense is counting d no. of bureaucrats who'll lose job, social tension.

4. Before the main mandate is accomplished, create new functions, prgrams and "needs" to perpetuate itself forever.

5. Create one admin or regulations order, monitor how ineffective it is, create a revised regulations order, monitor...

http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2011/07/rules-of-burea...
How GHC and LLVM work together, and how they can improve
Fun probability problem from 6.041 at MIT
The Unreal Thing: What’s wrong with the Matrix? (2003)
REMOTE! Castfire is hiring!

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/13663/senior-php-lamp-...
Indeed, but you do need to be able to store and display that information in the right places.

As you say, technically invoices are supposed to record the VAT against each line item, because the rates can be different for different types of product/service.

Regarding the serialised invoice numbers, if you as the merchant are having to keep track of such things then you're still doing some of the tedious work so the value of outsourcing the billing process is lessened. I agree that it might be viable to record the extra information in a separate field for one-off transactions, if the billing service allows that kind of annotation on transactions and your systems can generate the appropriate number taking into account any other sales channels you're also using.

Even then, for subscription services that renew automatically, there would need to be some robust mechanism for the billing service to "claim" the next invoice number when they collect a scheduled payment. Perhaps some of these services could cope with this, but I have yet to see one personally whose documentation explains how to set it up using their APIs and callbacks. And if you get to the point where you have to handle scheduling regular subscription payments on your in-house system to account for this, again you're defeating the point of outsourcing the billing in the first place.

IME, it doesn't take long before you have to do so much in-house anyway that you might as well do the lot and save yourself a signficant overhead and the additional risk/dependency of involving another organisation in your billing process. This sort of processing is tedious but not rocket science, so if you can't just wrap everything up and shove it out to a specialist service, avoiding having to go near that sort of stuff in-house at all, I just don't see how the cost/benefit of these services is going to make them attractive to a business here in the UK. YMMV, of course.
You missed the much more important OB post: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/06/revised-growth-claim.h...

Anyway, the unanswered, and currently unanswerable question, is what happens in China's future? (For the above post - does the increased variance continue even at higher wealth levels or is there a soft ceiling which means the authoritarian countries will not come to dominate?)

I've seen this game played before, and I'm skeptical China will be the exception: http://www.gwern.net/Notes#chinese-kremlinology

China, Russia, Japan, Singapore - all these countries had relatively low-hanging fruit by simply industrializing. But they aren't a 'poster-boy' until they equal or surpass the Western countries!

Take Japan, which was the China-before-China, and look at its per capita GDP: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_count... No matter which of the 3 charts you look at, the USA is still 5-10+ countries higher than Japan. South Korea is even further down the list. Singapore doesn't do too bad, but if you know anything about the place, you know that that 'success' is not possible to replicate on larger scales.

> Now they're the second-largest economy in the world.

Which isn't very impressive on a per capita basis, when one is trying to make the claim that 'Chinese styles are likely similarly efficient'. If China reached a USA level per capita, its economy would be something like $61.1 trillion. As opposed to the current $5 trillion.
How is Scala working for you guys? I am learning the language and trying to get it to catch on at my company (which uses a lot of Java but has really smart people who could pick up Scala easily IME).

Having almost finished Odersky's book, I've reached the conclusion that Scala is somewhere between (a) the best language out there, and (b) at risk of getting into over-complex C++ territory. I'd have to take it to 25,000 lines at least before I could have a reasonably useful opinion on it. It looks fun, though.

MongoDB: what are the advantages of it? How does that work out for you? "NoSQL" is interesting to me because I've never used any of those products. I worked at a company that tried to use sharded MySQL, which is pure hell if you want (a) anything more than a key-value store (because you're multi-sharding and have to keep consistency) and (b) performance at the same time.
Cloud Hosting: Platform, Infrastructure, and the Software.
A combination of the two can be quite nice ;)
This is very interesting. I have 4 kids, ages 3, 5, 6 and 17. Finding good iPad apps and games for the 3 youngest is HARD.

I'll take a closer look later today but this is definitely a pain point for me and (I'm guessing) other parents.
Thanks for the link. I am only happy to have accepted the job offer from Europe and to have moved here instead of staying in the States.
What happened to this woman is a shame, not for the agents, not for the government, but for the society... where were the other passengers? Nobody had nothing to say??
SEEKING FREELANCER(S)

Drupal developer & Drupal themer for a number of e-commerce projects this year for high-profile clients. If you have any experience with Drupal Commerce, get in touch: marcus AT wcforever.com
SEEKING WORK / HERMAN MILLER MIRRA CHAIR

No, seriously — my current chair is awful but I can't stomach spending so much on a new fully loaded Mirra chair that I've been lusting for.

Stuff I can do in exchange for said chair:

* Native iOS development

* Native Android development

* Take your mobile site/app and make it native(ish) using PhoneGap

Take a look at my porfolio if you're interested: http://endlesswhileloop.com/portfolio/

Also, a native iOS app I just released: http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/dial/

This offer would be good for small, one-off projects (think 10-15 hours).

Remote work only.

(Is this even legal to offer?)
Northern Virginia On-Site Full Time

Simulation services company seeking C++ developers for 3D / 2D visualization, first order physics and statistical sensor modeling, UI and application integration, and distributed computing. Fast moving environment where a small group of developers are responsible for design, development, QA, and technical support. In business since 1995, with continuous growth since and a current backlog. Reach us at careers@kinex.com.
http://kottke.org/11/09/zucks-gonna-write-code

This excerpted anecdote indicates it was mainly a leadership gesture to rally the troops. Still pretty cool that he'd bother, though.
From the end of the post:

We backup our databases nightly and restore them to two different locations. One local to our NY data center for our devs to work against, and one remote in our OR data center.
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Airbnb Nerds: How We Improved Search Performance by 2x by Tobi Knaup
All about Toy Pianos
Finally Mozilla will be a modern browswer.
Your browser -- and my browser -- did not autodetect the character encoding correctly. Switch to Unicode (UTF-8), and it should look fine. I used Firefox.
The real problem here is:

... "and I was getting ready to commit a series of important changes" ... Before doing so, I want to merge in the recent changes from the remote master, so I do the familiar git pull. ... "maybe I’m going slightly crazy after 3 days straight hacking" ...

Do I interpret this correctly as that the author has not commited any changes for 3 days?

With SVN there may be an excuse for this, but with Git the right way is to commit as often as possible, and then squash your commits before pushing them. With such a workflow the problem would have been a non-problem - just use git reflog and checkout your previous version.

Of course you wouldn't use a git pull then, but just rebase your local commits on top of master.

Learn how to use your tools, instead of complaining about them!
FreeAgent (Edinburgh, UK), a startup making accounting easy and fun. We've just moved to a new office in central Edinburgh.

We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who value the work/life balance.

Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...

Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Email us at jobs@freeagentcentral.com. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).
I was waiting for that question :) I would say that he is desperately surprised!
San Francisco, CA

Rally is changing the way fundraising works online.

We are hiring full stack web developers looking to make large individual contributions to a very small team. We have a RoR stack, practice TDD heavily and push code daily.

If you want to know more contact me at andrew@rally.org
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I would say that Java was designed to be used with committees. Basically a language to use if you're in a design by committee situation. IDEs were then introduced to give individuals their own "virtual design committees".
I wouldn't be too surprised if that's part of it. In the failed early-90s project to build high-speed rail in Texas, Southwest Airlines spent a lot of money and litigation making sure that all "rail safety" rules would be interpreted as strictly as possible, opposing any streamlining or exemptions granted to the project that would've made it more sensible.

Other main players are the freight railroads and the railroad-workers' unions, neither of which cares too much about passenger rail (freight is much bigger business, on both the corporations' and the unions' side).
I didn't use any particular resource, I'm teaching myself mobile dev for 2 years now, so, so far I've been reading a lot of things across the web.
Mountain View, CA

Maginatics Inc. is hiring: http://maginatics.com/jobs.html

We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) systems. If this sounds like it's up your alley, we would love to hear from you at
jobs@maginatics.com.
Cambridge MA & Seattle WA
Brightcove - brightcove.com/careers

We're an online video platform (the second largest source of video traffic after youtube) looking to hire DevOps & QA engineers, as well as product managers.

We're large enough to face cool scaling problems but still feel like a startup.

Send me an email if you've any questions (in profile or sneubardt@brightcove), i'm a software engineer and love it!

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What you're overlooking is that with Vim, I can code in 80x24 or less and be perfectly fine. Try that with an IDE.. Of course I can also throw more space at it if I wish, and it's just that much nicer.
SEKING WORK (remote or local in Jacksonville, FL)

I mostly do backend web stuff lately, but I'm versatile. I can (and would like to) do machine learning stuff. I wrote a classifier that's 99.96% accurate on comment spam, and 99.99% if configured to present a captcha when it's close.

Tools I'm good with include Clojure, Rails, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Lua and Common Lisp. I've also written non-trivial things in Haskell, Python, Java, Scheme, C and C++. I know PHP fairly well if need be, but I'd rather not do projects that are mainly PHP unless the pay is really good. I'm interested in working with stuff not on this list as well, but can't promise expert-level performance on the first day.

edit: zak.wilson@gmail.com
Oh I think it will be huge. One of my favorite "ideas I have no time to implement" right now is a collection of games that rely on AirPlay. I'm thinking variations on games like SceneIt, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, etc.

My favorite is a "never-ending trivia" game based on Wikipedia data/info.
I wonder if they have regulatory authority over monorails or maglev?
You're browser's detecting it as ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. Do something like "View->Character Encoding->UTF-8".
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Anywhere, Remote is OK

Talkdesk is hiring: http://talkdeskapp.com

Back-end developer and front-end developer.

We are not picky but we work mostly with Node.js, Rails, Backbone.js and MongoDB.

email to tiago @ tiagop.org
yeah, or it can be sensitive. It's got various options that you can tweak depending on needs.
Stick with it, don't quit