skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the case you Mongo you go to sharding etc and things get complicated in your app handling."

Can you elaborate on this?
That and existing H1B transfers from one employer to another are not affected by the cap.
Trends for 2012: Mobile pay, tablets, ultrabooks, Siri-clones, hactivism…
London:

Mobile Interactive Group [http://migcan.com] is looking for iOS and Android developers to join our growing team. We develop mobile apps for big brands across the world, and I'd love to talk to you if you've got existing native app development experience and can demonstrate your work with confidence.

We're not hiring remotely for full-time positions, but have some potential remote work for freelancers (see 'Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer' for this month).

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I use DDG as my main search engine and I'm a native Icelandic speaker. I search for Icelandic content every now and then and rarely have problems with DDG results.

The biggest difference stems, not from a limit on the language, but a simple limit of the number of search results (I have no idea whether it's the search algo, or the index that's smaller or some other reason).. Icelandic websites generally have fewer results so it's more common for me to see 'nothing here, try google' in DDG.
Here is what I use:

"Google Tracking B-Gone" userscript -
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47300

as well as "Restore the Google Cached Link" - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nhihjhedaljdlpkcpf...

(There's also scroogle.org which scrapes google to get results, but doesn't provide cached links. SCRATCH that. Scroogle doesn't work well at all.)
Since Facebook has only given money to 81 people so far, I'm going to guess this is a very manual procedure. There's probably only one guy somewhere that can authorise these things. It's not like they have (or can have) an automated 'bug bounty software'.
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Ideally you'll be able to come into our London office for occasional on-site days. I'm also interested in hearing from freelancers with the skills above located in the Los Angeles area.

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{most of this post is for the future people who happen to find it. You sound as if you have most of this knowledge already.}

Yes. Get a breadboard and powersupply and some jumper leads and some LEDs and start building stuff.

Then get some books; Code (the petzold book) and Art of Electronics are both good examples to start really building stuff, and understanding what's going on.

When you've got beyond the initial introduction you want to start using an oscilloscope to start seeing things like leading edge or falling edge, and measuring the times, and seeing how timing issues come in to play when you have a long chain of slow logic gates.

Fun (as in puzzles and stuff) things to do include building one type of logic gate using a different set of gates; use Karnaugh maps etc.

This is a really good way to get used to logic states and timing and using a scope to trace a signal path and compare what you're getting with what you think you should be getting.

Don't forget with real world builds to include de-coupling capacitors.

I was taught to create a memory map from a circuit diagram, which I guess is handy if you're into that kind of low level stuff. (Probably embedded stuff now.)

EDIT: Thanks to Shabble for the correction!
> Our 0-click is largely in English, but you should be able to type in non-English searches and get non-English results.

Yes, in fact the 0-click is the best part of DDG that's why it's a pity :) Thanks for the tips.
Spectre VR was the business back in the day. Not sure how many hours I lost playing that game.

We also used to play that and Bolo all of the time back in school (92-93'ish).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(video_game)

But, to your point, Spectre is way different than Battlezone. IIRC, you collected flags and other stuff, with some RPG stat leveling business.

God, now I'm all nostalgic.
Ask HN: How to efficiently update passwords for a 36+ accounts
My colleague sitting next to me was stuck today with the task of updating passwords on all employee accounts at 3rd party websites that we use (around 3 main sites that we use).
Its going to take him just about about an entire day's work to change the passwords for each employee at each of the 3rd party sites.

We have passwords changed either every quarter, or when an employee leaves the company, whichever comes first.

Is there a faster, more simple way to do this that we have overlooked?
The problem is that many projects are high-profile (and therefore will have many developers). I want to taret something that could use some help but doesn't necessarily have good developer coverage.
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As a counter-example, there were some great sci fi novels written in the 80s and 90s which I'm only just discovering & I fully believe the author still deserves money for them.

How about 14 years from the date at which the author transfers the copyright to another party, or lifetime of the author if they don't transfer it?
That said, I totally agree that authors lifetime + 70 years is too long. Take off the extra 70 years & I think you've got a fairer figure.
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There are a few similar approaches out there, which perhaps go even further towards allowing change to happen (or not happen) through self awareness. I especially like hakomi therapy which takes a fundamental stance that the therapist should first of all support the person in being exactly who he or she is in this moment.

I also very much like "The Work" of Byron Katie, an extremely simple technique for becoming more aware of my expectations of how people should be which helps me become more accepting of how they actually are.

I've no idea whether these approaches are useful or appropriate for Asperger's but I like how they treat the 'current state' with respect rather than as a pathology.
Wow. finally XDA's tutorial on How to Compile Android from Source Code..
We are certainly aware of this issue :). On a related note we have a new translation platform for the interface. It is not the zero click yet but on the right track!
Is making your own demo platform going to be the new hipster coder equivalent of rolling your own framework? I hope so. I like ibniz and mako- I like the ideas here. The javascript ibniz does some extremely silly things though that are hurting its performance by a significant amount. I've tinkered with it a bit and was able to squeeze a couple more FPS out of the rotozoomer, but the problem is really with the way the interpreter is structured- Evaluating a huge switch statement per pixel is not going to be very fast in javascript no matter what you do. I would perhaps consider instead compiling the ibniz script into a GLSL shader.
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I like most of the people I've come into contact with at Apress ever since they acquired my first book from Wrox after a giant debacle.

That said, they've made some very strange strategic decisions about their book line that basically involved my co-author and I taking future editions of our books in directions that we completely disagreed with.

Tech book authoring really isn't a very good way to make money, so I wouldn't really worry about a thousand dollar advance - after all, it's an advance against royalties, so you should get paid either way.
London (UK) and Boston (US).

We're a 100-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development.

We use Java, Scala, and some Groovy; we always write tests first and pair on most coding tasks. Developers have Linux workstations with at least two monitors. We have weekly lightning talks that cover finance and technical topics.

Some of you may know us from our sponsorship of Hacker News meetups in London. See http://devblog.timgroup.com and http://www.timgroup.com/careers for more about us.

Note we recently changed our name from youDevise to TIMGroup but we're still the same folks!
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New York or Remote (only if living in US/Canada)

Full-time and Intern

H1B

CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com) looking for:

- Front-end web developer
- Machine learning / NLP engineer

We are using data to assess the health of private companies. We're National Science Foundation backed and have very large companies paying us real money today for our data, i.e., we have a real business / business model.

If you're humble, happy and hungry, please reach out to me directly at asanwal@cbinsights.com or career@cbinsights.com.

Happy new year.
nitpick: you probably mean Karnaugh Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
Writing a quick script that will log in, change password, logout may be quicker than doing this manually... And even if it turns out not to be quicker this time, you will have it ready for the next quarter.
"In Citibank’s case, writing messages in that second-person conversational style forced the engineers to put themselves in the mind-set of real humans. You can’t write an 'I' statement for your ATM without also considering the logic, the terminology and the clarity of those messages. Someone writing in that frame of mind would never come up with 'The activation server determined that the specified product key has exceeded its activation count.'"

1. 'I' is first-person style, not second-person.

2. Citi having output in first-person is not worthy of this much praise. It wasn't that difficult.

3. The author is comparing apples to oranges. Error messages have a different intent than other normal user communication. The goal in an error message is to get the necessary info to the support person.

Finally, Siri is not impressive because of the way it talks, and it is only moderately impressive because it does an ok job of voice recognition- not even a great job- and it does this using an external service, which is much, much less impressive than it would have been if it were to be part of iOS without requiring an external service. But, voice recognition in devices is a positive trend, even if not novel, so hats off to Siri.
Twitter. San Francisco and a few other places.

According to many people I work with, Twitter is the best place they've ever worked. The perks are great, the challenges exceptional, and the culture inspiring.

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A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you. I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

Some specific areas where we're looking to hire:
Frontend engineer - Splunk is doing some awesome frontend development, so if you're interested in the intersection of presenting big data in a human-usable manner, this is a great position. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=okO3VfwQ
Sys Admin: we recently launched Storm, our Splunk in the Cloud offering. We're looking for a sysadmin to help us manage that undertaking. This is a product that just launched, so you could have a big impact here. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=ou6XVfwc
Sr Developer for Hadoop: Splunk is doing more and more work with Hadoop, and it's a completely new offering for the company and product. We're looking to add more people to the team who are excited about the space and want to improve the Hadoop landscape. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=o792VfwX

Also, check out our new dev portal which we launched recently: http://dev.splunk.com
Pinterest is hiring engineers and product designers in Palo Alto, CA. (http://pinterest.com/about/careers/)

We are a very small team with a lot of interesting and creative challenges ahead of us! Pinterest already does billions of pageviews, has terabytes of interesting data to analyze, and is growing at 50% each month.

There are fascinating problems ahead of us, including search and recommendation algorithms, a developer api, internationalization, and a monetization platform will make using Pinterest better, not worse.

We care about creating a great place for people to do their very best work. We look for folks who are creative, humble, talented, and hard-working.
Anyone can apply for a B-1 visa to work in Israel. The process is a bit tedious but nonetheless, possible.

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I love how they started with "Don't panic!". Many guides should do that...
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Glad to see someone looking at the macro picture, instead of pretending they can use charts to predict the future. I largely agree on the bullish outlook, but think that we're due for some more short term volatility.
With devs split between local and remote workers, it depends a lot on the office setup, unfortunately.

A previous office I've worked at had rows of benches (a common setup, at least for us over here in Australia). It wouldn't have been feasible for a local guy to talk to a remote dev with a headset with that setup. We had local guys working on a project pre-book and crowd into conference rooms to talk with the remote guys in India. Definitely a little sub-optimal.

(The place was Yahoo!, which may explain a few things.)
I can also recommend Micropendous, it's really well-designed. Teensy is also great for slave-only applications.

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
Whether modern technology is advanced or not has more to do with theoretical limits rather than the current rate of change.
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I've learnt everything about programming and building products from hands-on experience. I am very good at picking up new technologies and like working with other people.

If that sounds good, please email me at hrishi@giniji.com.
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the only comment here anywhere near representative of my own views (and yeah, I'm British, yawn) has been down voted :/
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Ashburn, VA/Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific Software Developer

http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/Jobs/

Ilastik (http://ilastik.org) is a collaborative open-source project with the aim of providing a scalable image analysis platform for the neurosciences and beyond. Current ilastik development seeks to bring the power of interactive machine learning to very large data sets.

Janelia Farm (http://www.janelia.org), one of the premier centers for biomedical research worldwide, is funding a Scientific Software Developer (Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA with visits to Heidelberg University, Germany) to reach that goal quickly. Tasks include the refinement of the architecture, the integration with existing tools and the design of a graphical user interface for handling of very large microscopic data sets using image analysis and machine learning algorithms. The software developer will also support proof-of-principle studies on pioneering applications from the neurosciences, and liaise between experts at Janelia Farm and ilastik core developers at the University of Heidelberg.

The position requires a strong background in C++, experience in software engineering applied to large projects, and the skills to integrate existing algorithms and functionality into a unifying biomedical processing framework. Experience with python, Qt, numpy, scipy and scientific parallel programming is a plus. Good communication skills are essential to make for good cooperation both with local experts and with other programmers working remotely. Salary is commensurate with prior experience and will be highly competitive for extremely well-matched candidates.

The principal work place is on the beautiful campus of Janelia Farm, with regular visits to Heidelberg. The successful candidate will be in a position to help shape a project that is becoming an enabling technology in one of the most interesting fields conceivable: the deciphering of the inner workings of the brain.

see also:

http://janelia.org/,
http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html
I've also heard of plans to from C+elispvm to Guile Scheme + elisp compatibility, but at least some Emacs people seem to be against it. Try asking in #emacs
I'm on Chrome 16 and it happens in other browsers.
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How would you deal with captcha? Could we avoid that altogether? Or make it the only action on the user's part is to enter the captchas?
As of this morning for me, the circle at https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts returns "Error Loading People" when attempting to View Circle or Add Circle.
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By putting people's names and email addresses in his post, he's going to spur people to write more to him. Not a good idea. But like'd the pretty graphs and opinion part.
i don't know about technical know how.. but this is amazing,, i liked it and i published it on my Blog.. All the best http://www.thetecnica.com/2012/01/download-entire-wikipedia-...
i was asked to be a technical reviewer on a book with apress, i felt really good about reviewing and agreed.

When i received the first few chapters i realized the book would have to be re-written. The English was bad and the code was mediocre.

Since it wasn't a paid gig i felt insulted with the experience, the book would require days if not weeks of work to complete rather than a few hours which i had thought.
There were some slides showing PostgreSQL with fsync turned off performed about the same as MongoDB. There is no MongoDB secret sauce that makes it any faster than well established relational dbs with a few configuration tweaks to make the comparison even.
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You were working without a contract.

I would suggest that is the whole reason this experienced sucked, not because of Apress.
Does Twitter have a workable business model yet? If it does, I've not seen it.
Hi pdm55,

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Thanks!
A difference is that the anti-copyright position is quite generally agreed (and also seems rationally well-supported). Disavowal is not merely a wild personal impulse.

And a/the virtue of any law is that element of general agreement, not just that it happens to be the law. So to do something agreed on but not law seems righter than to do something that is law but not so much agreed on.

Perhaps it could be put simply as: ultimately the law should follow us, not the other way around.
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Ask HN: Startups - Education background
I've been wondering about education as I continue to read more and more articles and blogs about startups. Have people finished university/collage and then go on to found or work at a startup or do they drop out to pursue the startup dream? I've also noticed that when people actually discuss their educational background, often they are doing something different, sometimes completely different, than what they are educated in.

So I want to ask those who work at or have worked at a startup the following questions:
What is your educational background? If you dropped out, maybe summarize the experience which landed you in Startupland.
What do you actually do? (Maybe include a job title, if relevant)
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Currently working with HN group for "Start up or shut up" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394844

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SEEKING FREELANCER
New York (remote ok if in US/Canada)

Front-end web developer - well-versed/experienced with designing & building slick, highly interactive data visualizations and dashboards.

CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com)

Email asanwal(at)cbinsights.com if this sounds like you.
I like how you say "as long as it's true or obviously a hilarious joke or parody".

It's like, it's not enough to be obviously a joke or parody, your standard requires actual hilarity.

I can see you in the judge's chair: "I'm sorry, it's obviously a parody but I just don't see it as all that funny." "But your honor! [explains joke]." "Oh. Hahaha, okay, I missed that. Haha, that's pretty funny. All right, counsel, case dismissed!"
Yeah - you'd have to download and display those... possible but more time consuming. I haven't seen a service which requires captcha on password change before - if that's the case then you have a problem.

Alternatively if you have 30+ paid accounts with some small company, you could ask them for whitelisting your ip. They might be interested in doing this.