skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical Project Manager
Location - Guelph, Ontario
http://zsw.ca

Overview/Qualifications
Project management, development monitoring, outsourcing
Comfortable in a casual, hands-on, be-yourself environment
Enjoy working in a small group
Familiar with the Linux environment (eg cli, vim, git)
Familiarity with any of python, php, javascript, css, magento or web2py is a plus
Willingness to take ownership and responsibility of projects and tasks
Possess exceptional organizational skills
A bit of an extrovert
A generalist/jack of all trades
The Secret Rule of Changing Anything
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The node doesn't matter all that much. It gives a 30% boost or so. That doesn't change the fact that ARM has been improving in performance about 2x-2.5x every 12 months. Have you seen Atom improve that fast in either performance or energy consumption lately?
AT&T issues scathing response to FCC letter
Don't buy anything! What did I tell you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glSN4qvjt2E
It's a tech/UX/product demo. Consumers outside of startup Valley aren't going to understand the concept or remember the silly name. If Dwolla succeeds, it will be getting bought and helping deploy the next iteration of online bill pay, which is exactly what dwolla is.
London or Cambridge (UK) - Arachnys, fresh from angel funding, is looking for our first employee - a backend hacker for machine learning and multilingual nlp on big data sets. We're building multilingual search tools for business research in emerging markets - http://bit.ly/rvdXeu. You'll get a lot of freedom, good salary, options and any kit you want.

See http://www.arachnys.com/jobs/ for a fuller description. Applications to founders@arachnys.com.
agreed. I'd go further on the resume though: get it up somewhere on the web. either on your own personal website, or on something like LinkedIn.

without a solid recommendation from someone there is very little incentive for me to cross the barrier of downloading and opening a file, as opposed to just popping your resume up in a new tab. you want to keep those kind of barriers as low as possible (which is why simonsarris recommends making your resume much shorter).
Wow they really need to redesign the layout on that page. It took me about a minute and a half to realize that this was more than just a blog post about echelon.

The actual files are on the left, in that ~100px wide container.

Here are some brochures from companies that do this stuff:

http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/list/document-type/brochure.ht...

(The 3G thing is the only part of this that is really surprising. Intercepting wifi isn't really that impressive)

Here is a pricelist of some tech that is, I guess, being sold in Europe:

http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/files/0/204_GRIFFCOMM-200802-P...

(Honestly none of this seems very...leaky. Isn't most of this fairly common knowledge to anybody who even reads about hacker conferences?)
I think younger generations are getting more and more used to a digital-only workflow. I see also a shift in working habits from nine-to-five-office-work to asynchronical world-distributed work, which demands a such a workflow.
Just a heads up to those thinking of giving it a spin, there is no way to delete your account once its been made unless I missed something...
Does anyone else find Firefox hideous from an aesthetic perspective? I believe in the work Mozilla does, but I can't use Firefox without being distracted by it. Chrome is gorgeous and gets out of my way, allowing me to focus on what I'm doing. I did see some Firefox beta sketches a while back on HN, and they looked similar to Chrome, so hopefully they go that way.
I saw something great in some Seth Godin piece. If your boss (or team) doesn't yet trust you to do big, impactful things, take on other projects to earn their trust. The breakthrough idea was that they don't have to be product projects. Just organizing lunch, a team build, software purchase, etc. can be enough. As a coder, those seem trivial but to a non-coder they're just as big and important a task.
Yup. Further complicating things, ACH isn't truly settled for a 6 months!
ACH's can be charged back for 180 days and there is no adjudication process, like with credit cards. If an ACH gets charged back, you lose the money, that's it.

The other major complication with ACH is that most Americans use credit cards for the credit (70% hold a balance). That is something that won't be solved. Others like the benefit of rewards (miles, dollars, whatever). To get payers on board, you need credit, rewards, and exclusivity (i.e. is this the only payment method available at somewhere where I want to shop). The last 2 meaningful companies were paypal and discover card. PayPal had millions of Ebay sellers using PayPal AND they initially paid people to become members. Discover card started the cashback movement and was the only electronic payment option at Sears (largest retailer in the world at the time).

More details and discussion in a previous article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238880

ACH's are essentially free - there are some costs but Dwolla is part-owned by a credit union which probably helps lower the costs. They have major fraud-related costs, but given that fraud under $10 should be very small, their costs aren't much
Poll results roughly correlate with my web app visitors ("When is good time to post on HN?"):

California + New York 2,516

Rest of U.S. 3,661

United Kingdom 797

Canada 618

India 364

Germany 293

France 233

Australia 221

Netherlands 133

Sweden 131

Italy 96
I just started at my first startup job a few months ago, and agree with a lot of the sentiment in this post.

The biggest difference I have noticed: at most companies, a new employee is a body to get done the same work, in the same way, as somebody else. You are defined by how well you execute an already-constructed set of tasks and goals.

At a startup, you are valuable if you add a whole new set of opinions and skills to the team. If you come in and just do what you're asked, even if you do it well, you probably aren't doing very well. You should notice things about the business that are not optimal, blind-spots that the previous employees hadn't thought about, easy ways to save or make lots of money, even though these things aren't part of your formal job description.
I very much agree, as a DC front-end dev who has worked both for gov't contractors and now for a legitimate b2b startup.

Want to know why the federal government hasn't made much of a dent in the recession? Visit the DC exurbs and then visit the exurbs of any other city in the US. If you never left fifty miles of DC you would be forced to assume there was an economic boom going on.
Yeah! You can use dnode on the browser. You'd then be calling functions in your code, which would get executed on the server side. All transparently. No more explicit ajax calls.

Just write a server.js:

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
app.use(express.static(__dirname));

app.listen(8080);
console.log('http://localhost:8080/');

// then just pass the server app handle to .listen()!

var dnode = require('dnode');
var server = dnode({
zing : function (n, cb) { cb(n * 100) }
});
server.listen(app);

And whip up an index.html:

<html>
<head>
<script src="/dnode.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {

DNode.connect(function (remote) {
remote.zing(66, function (n) {
document.getElementById('result').innerHTML = n;
});
});

};
</script>
</head>
<body>

n = <span id="result">?</span>

</body>
</html>

Then just run the server.js:

$ node server.js

And navigate to http://localhost:8080!
Reflections of an Integration Veteran: Inflexible Integration of the 90s 
Part 3 of a series on data integration
The White Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Will Hit AT&T Shelves December 4
I think that's way too cynical. Yes, that's what the manufacturers and carriers want. No, they don't "have" to get it. They don't get it in other consumer product areas.

We can roll over or we can complain and fix it. This fight is winnable and worth having.
That drilling down within the US doesn't stem to metro area!

SFBay: 12% (8.6% SF + 2% MV + 1.4% PA)

NYC: 8.8%

Chicago: 4.6%

BOS: 2.8% (1.5% Bos + 1.3% Camb)

Seattle: 2.5%

Austin: 2%

LA: 2%

Portland: 1.3%
Magical Genius (thoughts please)
Here's a map of over 5,000 IP's referred from Hacker News: http://jmarbach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hacker-News-M...
> I suggest it's an error.

So we'd have to give up:

array
.map (x) ->
f x
.reduce (a, b) ->
g a, b
I've been dealing with the flip side: I'm a highly technical MBA, started as a coder and got my MBA because I knew I needed it. I'd love to find serious minded technical co-founders, or even moderately experienced non-technical co-founders. I had good technical co-founders originally, but not good enough in that they drifted off when the startup took longer then they they wanted. Today, I'd love to find a strong technical set of partners, but no one I'm meeting has the skills. People seem to be only interested with Ruby/Node/WebGL/Flavor-of-the-day projects.

In an effort to meet more like minded technical entrepreneurs, I've started a free co-working space in Downtown Los Angeles. It's called Droplabs, www.droplabs.net.

Anyone is welcome. The original founders, I'm 1 of 7, all work with the Drupal CMS, but also work in other systems. There's other independent creative consultants there too doing Ruby, Node.js, C/C++, various client projects and about 4-5 startups.

I'm still looking for the right people. I'm ambitious: http://about.me/blakes
In a week or two I have a project for Show HN...
San Francisco - Wanelo.com

Developers, designers (UX, visual design), full time, part time, interns

details (updated as we go): http://bit.ly/vQghbH

We're looking for humans who have the special capacity, drive, patience, curiosity and tenacity to build crazy awesome stuff on the interwebs. Our goal is to have you be our partner in crime/work/play - we like to combine these as much as possible!

You will have autonomy and freedom. You will be the driver (not the passenger) of your own destiny and your goals for our startup. You will be passionate about what we're building. You will choose when and how you will get your work done. We will all pretend that you are an adult and do our best to treat you as such.

We are an awesomely-sexy mass-reach consumer web social startup with a product that users already love! That's right, when you tell your mom about what you build/design- she'll not only be able to understand it - she'll probably use it herself! We’ve crossed 1M monthly uniques, 140k users, and have hugely ambitious plans to keep creating an experience that users love and to build a business that defines the next generation of ecommerce.

email deenav@wanelo.com
What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little.

Though that's why I invest on Kiva, ...

Do you feel like you're not making enough of a difference? You're already helping more people than most people out there.
What is Déjà vu?
AT&T, Deutsche Telekom Considering Joint Venture in T-Mobile Deal
Los Angeles or Bay Area or Shanghai preferred, but remote work is possible for exceptional candidates. Full-time only. If you're interested in working remotely, you must live in the U.S. H1B is okay. We also have some summer internship opportunities.

Factual aims to be the place where people meet to share, improve, and mash-up data. Our vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that big companies, startups, and developers can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition.

We have a terrific team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). Last year we raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers and partners include Facebook, Loopt, SimpleGeo, and Newsweek. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.

We currently have about half a dozen job openings, from data engineering to software engineering to system administration. For the software engineering position, you would ideally know Java, Clojure, and/or Ruby, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NoSQL, algorithms, infrastructure, and/or Hadoop.

If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it just opened last weekend, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews
Funny, the url bar is the biggest reason I want to go back to Firefox. Chrome is frustratingly bad at completing URLs from my history. I can only assume that it's somewhat intentional since Google wants you to search rather than navigate directly, but it's the single biggest pain point in Chrome for me.
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
Please see this month's canonical post @ http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3300290
Google doesn't include Bing in its flagship devices. That doesn't mean somebody can't install it later if they want to.
Analyst: Q1 iPhone Sales to Hit 28 Million
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How long can they offer free micro- and mini-payments? (or should that be midi-payments?)

Well the clue appears to be:

"Dwolla is not a feature, it’s a network… And on Dec 15th… Nothing will be more obvious." (from http://blog.dwolla.com/on-december-15th-dwolla-will-change-a...).

So "it's a network" is your clue to working out how they're being 'acquired' and by whom. I'm going to go with integration in to Facebook because I have absolutely no clue ...

Also, ACH transfer fees are presumably set by the bank at the terminal ends of the transactions and so are likely, IMO, to be varied if the bank thinks that they're being exploited to avoid other types of payment fees.
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New York Not Happy with Apple’s Grand Central Store Lease
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2011)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Echo JS : a social news site dedicated to JavaScript and related topics
good, then question is, will they ever make it by default?
It also violates some of your expectations: the majority is not in the US

My tentatively expressed expectation was written in my post (grandparent to this post) as "So it wouldn't be any surprise if a plurality of participants on Hacker News live in the United States, and a majority live in countries where English is a routine language learned in secondary education." The word "plurality" does not mean the same thing as the word "majority." So far the poll results (which, for reasons I mentioned in the grandparent post, should not be taken as the last word on this issue) show the sum of "United States - NYC and SF area" and "(Rest of the) United States" comfortably outscoring any single country mentioned in the poll, which fits the definition of "plurality" for these purposes. But, yes, we have no idea where most HN participants live, and we have no idea who comes forward to answer yet another HN poll as contrasted with HN participants who use their HN time to discuss more verifiable factual issues.
Agreed. With git (and I suspect this is probably inherent to dvcs) branching is very basic functionality, not an advanced feature.
Online journalism: don’t give the public "what they want"
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks &#8211; Stem Cell Therapy for Pets
Software Engineer, San Francisco CA

OcuSpec is a venture backed start-up developing motion control technology that is radically more powerful and affordable than anything currently available. We're seeking smart, passionate people interested in challenging problems and changing the way people interact with machines.

Desired Skills/Experience: Software architecture, cross-platform APIs, C/C++, parallel processing (GPU/CPU), computer graphics (openGL/DirectX), real-time systems
.
This is a great opportunity to work on and take ownership of bleeding edge technology at a early stage. We offer very competitive compensation, great benefits and an office near the Caltrain.

http://www.ocuspec.com/
New York NYC Brooklyn, Etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/careers/
Tons of positions in Engineering, Product and more. I am an Engineer there (as are a bunch of other HNers) it is awesome. Contact info in profile if you have any questions.
Also http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/11/25/in-2015-wil...
Path released a dramatically new version of their app on Tuesday: http://blog.path.com/post/13533662902/introducing-path-2-the...
For more detail (and to correct my previous post a bit), in materials with low electron mobility (aka insulators), what happens isn't so much the movement of charge carriers, but rather the orientation of each atom's electron field. Basically, by imposing a strong gradient, it will cause each individual atom's electron cloud to reorient/shift, which causes each atom to set up it's own little gradient which points in the opposite direction.

You sum up those little reorientations amongst all particles in the material, and you end up with a net electric field that points in the opposite direction, which then becomes attractive.

The above is a bit more accurate description of what happens in insulators (which accurately models some parts of our skin), while a-priori's description fits the conductor parts (most of the wet bits) of the human finger better. And obviously, this is just an approximation/model of what's going on.
I assume you never buy anything from a company

You can certainly do business with companies, while showing preference for an organization that shares your values whenever such an organization exists.

but thinking Mozilla values privacy because it is a non profit is not a great reason.

I think it is more that some people (including me) think Mozilla values privacy because they flat out say they do and then they have a consistent track record of supporting privacy. The fact they are non-profit does make it slightly easier to take their statements at face value, but it is their track record that really demonstrates it.
Twitter revenue chief: 'This is going to be a massive business'
Oh. Thanks for the clarification.
Remote - GaggleAMP.com

GaggleAMP is hiring part-time software developers and UX designers to help us extend our social amplification platform. On the frontend, we use jQuery and HTML5/CSS3 via HAML templates. Our web application's backend stack is Ruby on Rails 3 with MySQL and Redis.

We'll consider hackers with any experience level, intern and up. If interested, send an email with a brief bio and one or more links to past work to jason AT gaggleamp DOT com.
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Nvidia Tegra 3 Benchmarks Just Slightly Faster Than Apple’s A5
I'm always surprised when I buy new RAM but I just bought some a few days ago and I really was shocked. Almost exactly one year ago, I bought 2GB of Mushkin for $50. This week I bought 8GB(2x4) of Kingston for $40 ($30w/rebate). Both are DDR3 1333 so maybe it's just a large overstock near the end of it's cycle but that price drop is huge.
But that's pretty much every Scala library right now. Every time I go out to find something I need it is always syntactically and documentationally complex/lacking and I wish that some of the visual simplicity that is available in things like python/ruby were available. After all, it is an incredibly versatile language right? So why is everything done in seemingly the most academically challenging way rather than in a way that allows developers to actually get shit done quick and go home for dinner. Any why do libraries get obsessed with having 2 or 3 ways to do something without documenting any one of them well enough or having any indicator of which one is better and if one is, why (Lift is particularly bad here though it is a fantastic tool once you get to grips with it).
"We" don't need a startup visa, "the USA" might. I'd prefer that Indian entrepreneurs capitalized on the excellent opportunities available at home. I support the startup visa in the spirit of supporting choice, but I resent the implication that the whole world should send its talents to the valley.
Of course I buy things from companies. I just say that corporate agenda from Google (selling ads), Apple (selling an aesthetically and technological experience) and Microsoft (simply money) is different than the Mozilla foundation objective which is the betterment of the Web. Mozilla does not value privacy because it is a non-profit but because it is an extremely open non-profit, you can have access to all the code, meeting notes, decisions and thus know for sure where it is going. Firefox might not be fashionable anymore and the cool kids might be on chrome but it still the product that value my values, and that is enough.
Values are a feature of a product just like any other. Of course a product can compete on values.
Congress authorizes imprisonment of American citizens, without charge
Facebook doesn't branch, all of their code is written against trunk.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote - GaggleAMP.com

GaggleAMP is hiring part-time software developers and UX designers to help us extend our social amplification platform. On the frontend, we use jQuery and HTML5/CSS3 via HAML templates. Our web application's backend stack is Ruby on Rails 3 with MySQL and Redis.

We'll consider hackers with any experience level, intern and up. If interested, send an email with a brief bio and one or more links to past work to jason AT gaggleamp DOT com.
I think there's a sizable audience out there that would like to use more FP but would also like to be able to integrate into their existing infrastructure. If you're already using Java it would seem much easier to sell "Hey, let's try Scala/Clojure for this, it can call our existing stuff" than it would be to sell "Let's rework substantial portions of our infrastructure so we can integrate with Haskell."
New York NYC, San Francisco SF, Berlin, Etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/careers/
Tons of positions in Engineering, Product and more. I am an Engineer there (as are a bunch of other HNers) it is awesome. Contact info in profile if you have any questions.
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores)

Engineers, artists, designers, more - http://www.rumblegames.com/careers/

Rumble was founded in the summer of 2011 by an all-star team of game industry veterans from Zynga, Activision, BioWare, Blizzard, Playdom, Electronic Arts, Turbine, FooMojo and RockYou, and backed by top investors. Check out our team: http://www.rumblegames.com/team/

We are building both high-quality titles and a publishing platform for independent developers. By combining the best of AAA game design with free-to-play accessibility, we want to change the way people play games.

Drop me a line: nethergoat@gmail.com
Anywhere - REMOTE WORK - SpiderOak.com

Looking for a PyQt hacker to join us for running the technical aspects of our partnership / whitelabel program. We are a secure cloud backup/sync provider branching out into partnerships and other deployments requiring customized desktop client builds, and need someone interested in hacking the good hack in code, minor project management, and joining in the occasional sales call (meaning you ought to be as much of an English hacker as Python).

For more information about joining us at our scenic $YOUR_OWN_CITY office, please check out:
https://spideroak.com/jobs

Or the direct job post:
https://spideroak.com/blog/20111130141238-now-hiring-white-l...