skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We shall see how Google Play affects this. I expect a lift, at least in the short term. Whether GOOG can become an entertainment platform in people's hearts and minds remains to be seen.
>If it runs in the browser, it's not an operating system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

How so?
Wrong (morally) isn't the problem. It's that it's illegal, and they know that. Law enforcement operating above the law is not law enforcement.
Sharing is optional. The choice of license is not.
Bypass Any Website Survey With Javascript
can we call that pure and functional?
Twilio (twilio.com) — San Francisco, CA (no REMOTE)

Business Development Manager (2 openings) - ISV & Mobile App Ecosystem

Looking for 2 technically savvy business folks who have a track record of creating win-win partnerships, and want to drive the next phase of growth for a company that already has 75,000 businesses and developers relying on our service.

Details here:

http://twilio.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/business-development-...
Full Time / Part Time / Contract To Hire

San Diego, CA

Backend Node.js Developer (or proficient in Javascript - we can train)

Tiny Factory (tinyfactory.co) is looking for a Node.js developer to work on some large scale client and internal projects. Open to full time / part time in house (Downtown San Diego). email hello@tinyfactory.co if interested.
Berkeley, CA

GovHub is looking for a full-stack web developer to join our team in Berkeley, CA.

GovHub is a nonpartisan, web-based citizens' forum that provides a personalized platform for political engagement. We give citizens the tools and information to interact with their elected officials in new, innovative ways.

We’re just two weeks past our public beta launch, but we’re rapidly expanding and know that we’ll need to expand the team if we want to challenge the notion that as a citizen in the United States, your influence ends at the ballot box. We have some great support from people both in the technology and political sectors, and the consensus is that this is the perfect time to be digitizing politics.

We’re currently a team of 2.5 developers and we’re looking for someone to join us full-time. We have a bunch of ideas and projects that we think you'll be excited to work on, but you will have just as much say as we do in determining our direction.

Our current stack is Symfony + Doctrine ORM + Saas + jQuery + PagodaBox (PHP PaaS). No need for familiarity with these, but experience with a MVC framework is necessary. We're also doing mobile development with Sencha Touch 2, so that might be a place where you'd need to lend a hand.

We can offer a competitive salary, equity, sandwiches, & a chance to be part of a company that revolutionizes modern democracy.

Email me at abecker (at) mygovhub (dot) org.
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While I don't agree with how Dan Porter came across on Twitter I think I can understand the frustration. You are having one of the best days of your life and then out of left field someone you know does an article that sideswipes it.

I read the Shay Pierce article when it was published and it was very respectful of his former employers...but it didn't have to happen now. Why did he write that article NOW? There is already a well deserved Anti Zynga sentiment and that article made his fellow employees look as if they were traitors to the forces of good. He admits that he has done work for Zynga in the past but then drops lines like "Not everyone shares my values, and not everyone is in a position to pick and choose job offers.". While true I can see how it can rub the people who choose to move forward with the Zynga acquisition the wrong way.

I don't agree how Dan Porter dealt with it, but I can understand being upset by that article being published right at this moment.
they just got lucky

That's what unsuccessful people say when someone becomes successful.

I think there are two reasons for the typical "he just got lucky" insult.

1) When you tear down a successful person, you get to transfer a little of their success to you. (aka "player hatin'")

2) Level playing field. It's nice to imagine that everyone has the same amount of "luck," and therefore the same chance of being successful. It's disheartening to accept that some people might work harder or have more natural talent than you. Chalking it up to "luck" gives you hope that it could just as easily happen to you one day.

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear" - Hunger Games

Btw, I think what the OMGPOP guy wrote on Twitter was mean and dumb. He shouldn't have written it. And I don't know these guys.

And I actually believe that most success is rooted in luck (or chance or circumstance). But everything I've read about OMGPOP says that they struggled for 6+ years and finally made it big with Draw Something.

"The harder I worked, the luckier I got." - Samuel Goldwyn
Out of curiosity, what did you find so unfunny about it? It seemed clever.
Ah, so all that was needed was for the school board to sit at the shoulder of the complaining parent, as the complaining parent voluntarily showed the school board the parent's Facebook, and the offending post that the parent saw via the parent's Facebook.

I don't believe the school board should have been involved in that either, but that would have been somewhat "better" than firing the teacher.

Better still, the school board should have said "It's Facebook, nothing to do with us."
"This type of coding would be much easier to do in JavaScript."

You could do this in JavaScript by manipulating the DOM directly - that's what libraries such as jQuery offer, but having easing functions for transitions belongs as part of the styling[1], unless you're saying that CSS should only be for static layouts?

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/#transition-timing-fun...
I love my Macbook Pro 13". I really like the form factor: it's not too big and not too small. I would really like to have a Macbook Air, but unfortunately the small HD space and lack of an optical drive and firewire port are dealbreakers to me.
mDialog - Toronto, ON

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We're a startup looking for talented people who are excited about working with leading edge technology in a nascent space: video streaming and advertising to connected devices. As a member of our downtown Toronto team, you will contribute to the core product, be involved with product strategy, contribute to prioritizing our product roadmap and own the development of features.

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Value the same way as in case of copyright infringement. One song worth $1000 or some other absurd amount.
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"And in Arizona, even small police departments found cell surveillance so valuable that they acquired their own tracking equipment to avoid the time and expense of having the phone companies carry out the operations for them. The police in the town of Gilbert, for one, spent $244,000 on such equipment."

Anyone fancy taking a guess at what this might be?
When you're nobody, nobody listens. If I say one of my co-workers is useless, the only people who are going to care about it are people who need to know that information - the other members of my team, and the boss. It's a private matter

When the CEO of a recently acquired company says it, it's not a private criticism anymore, it's a public shaming. He could have found a way of being honest to the developer without mocking him on twitter

The other celebrities you mention don't get criticized Because they have a limit. They say stupid things, but stop short of direct, public, unprovoked personal attacks.
I think it shows disrespect because they will most likely be dressed up and you won't. And I'm talking about the situation when you need something from them, like a job offer or investment. It doesn't take any more effort to throw a polo on as it does a t-shirt, so the fact that you chose the t-shirt, I believe that's disrespect.

Just tradition? Yes. But traditions exist for a reason. Sure some people in Silicon Valley may be cool and just care about your brain, but the rest of the world doesn't work that way. Try going to an interview wearing a Simpsons t-shirt and shorts and just try to get treated the same way as if you were in a suit.
Think of it as a heuristic tool to analyze and evaluate human behavior when you need it. And if you find it useful, try learning the basics of a few other frameworks and/or theories too: social capital (and social network analysis in general), labeling theory, diffusion of innovation, etc. In particular, technologists (and particularly entrepreneurs) that don't have some sort of exposure to sociotechnical research are missing out on a tremendous resource, imo.
This isn't an extension of the one-year warranty. It's a clarification of the consumer complaint period and an acknowledgement of it. While EU mandates a minimum of 2 years, in some countries, this time period can be longer, like in Sweden where it's 3 years. However, there is a big difference between warranty and a consumer complaint case: Apple's warranty covers things that break after the customer has received the product - essentially a guarantee that the customer will be able to enjoy 12 months of fault-free goods - while a consumer complaint case covers defects and flaws (including false or erroneous marketing) that were present in the product before the customer received it. Examples of this can be a manufacturer claiming that an LCD screen is a 24-bit truecolor display while it is in fact an 18-bit dithering display, or claiming a certain resolution for a digital camera higher than the camera's sensor can actually provide.

If something in the product that was working ok and as advertised for 1 year suddenly breaks, you're not covered by Apple's warranty, and you're not covered by the consumer protection laws of the EU. If you within the established consumer complaint time period find that something about the product isn't as it should or isn't as advertised, you have a legal right to a full refund providing that you can prove that the problem in question accompanied the product when you received it.

The bottom line: you still just have 1 year of warranty, but now Apple also lets you know that you have another type of consumer right that extends beyond the warranty period.
I look at Slashdot, and all I see is organization.

I look at HN, and all I see is information.
I've been using this viewer:

https://github.com/can3p/iviewer
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This part of the CV looks like a cross between a covering letter and a profile/summary to me. It seems too long and it repeats information that is present elsewhere in the CV.

I would shorten it and use it to get your main message across to the person scanning it at high speed. Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread, but for ease of reference, this is what I mean:
http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf

My profile there splits into two parts:

1. I am ...
2. I want ...

So: "Strong software engineer with substantial OpenGL and OpenGL ES and general 3D graphics and GPU programming experience, a background in R&D, and currently developing for Android [1]. Looking for challenging short-term contracts that leverage these strengths[2]." That's it.
NYC - Spotify - Full-time

Backend: SRE, Software Engineer (Infrastructure), Software Engineer (Backend)

Primarily Python & Java, also C/C++, deployed on Debian with Puppet. Looking for dev and ops (and devops?) with experience working at scale.

http://spotify.com/jobs/
No prob. I thought it was a great deal for everyone. :)
SBCL is still the best open source CL(on linux at least), but ABCL is definitely getting better and better, its worth a look at the very least. I've been meaning to try it out for a while now, it looks very promising. I would also like to know if anybody has done anything interesting with it.
I agree. Being too clever for your own good is a trap that even experienced developers walk into sometimes by creating very clever yet incredibly stupid solutions to non-existing problems. This aprils fools joke is a satire of that.
Fulltime - Kansas City, MO

Cerner - Web Developer

Web developer for our community health teams. Cerner is a healthcare IT company, but our team is dedicated at building websites for patients, physicians, and consumers.
Our current products include:
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https://cernerhealthwins.com
https://cernerclinic.com

We currently use Python/Django, javascript/jquery, less/css, html, oracle, mongodb, celery, git, but would entertain anyone with good web skills anywhere on the stack and can learn quickly OR can make convincing arguments with code.

I'm one of the devs so feel free to contact me: sambao21 at gmail dot com.
My first Android "app" (actually, a runtime for HTML5 apps call Blossom[1]) only will run on ICS because its requires hardware-accelerated graphics and surfaces.

On iOS, I could support all the way back to the original iPhone, but I'm actually requiring iOS 5 (that includes all three iPad generations, and the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S) mainly so I can use ARC and because people in the iOS ecosystem update so fast anyway.

[1] https://github.com/fohr/blossom
Any Canadians?
I wonder whether there's a convention over configuration syntax for 4/1.
Considering these april fools jokes aren't supposed to be on the front page, this is forgivable
Or they can just sell them at a higher price. Which they do.
Wordnik is looking for a Machine Learning expert, especially those with an interest and with skills in large text processing, to join the team working on both acquisition of lexical information as well as classification and ranking problems. You can write me directly at will@wordnik.com.
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AppHero (apphero.com) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AppHero is looking for an engineer to join our team and help us revolutionize the way people discover mobile apps.

About you:

- Passionate about building disruptive products that solve big problems

- Excited by the opportunity to learn new things and question norms

- Self starter who enjoys thinking outside the box

- Entrepreneurial spirit and are interesting in taking an active role in growing AppHero

- Experience using Java to build applications

- Interested in working on the backend for web and mobile apps

More info here: http://apphero.com/careers
Great point.

I'm not sure I'd agree the design is great, especially along the axes I mentioned, but it's certainly solid, and adequate for the purpose and audience. Either way, though, I think we agree that one does not need to have Jonathan Ive as a co-founder to build something like this, which was my main point.
I can recommend Lenovo Thinkpad X and T series if you are using GNU/Linux.
Not that I have control over who upvotes this, but did I miss a memo or something?
Fog Creek Software, for one (that's me in the second picture)
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/29.html
Are the new Macbooks being released in the summer?
That's an individual response to an organizational problem, and the organizational problem remains. The company has created an environment that is actively hostile to productivity, and you are cleverly finding a way around it.

That's great for you. But I find headphones uncomfortable to some degree. I find music distracting much of the time. I've tried, believe me. I think I'm not alone in this, so expensive headphones are not a total answer. But the larger issue remains: why should individual employees have to find ways around a productivity-killing environment created by the employer? It's absurd.

Note: some time ago on another HN thread I wrote a similar comment. I feel it's worth repeating my sentiments here. On that thread, amusingly, people responded to me with suggestions for nicer headphones and types of music. Don't bother for two reasons: 1) I've explored the options already, and 2) you're missing my point entirely.
"If constructs: if, assuming, given, when, supposing, whenever, wherever"

I need this ahaha!
I've had a 15" MacBook Pro for about three years and I absoloutely love it. Its trackpad is far, far better than any other laptop's, its keyboard is very easy to type on, its display is gorgeous, its pretty, runs OS X and Linux (and on OS X, you can run most unix tools and a huge number of great development tools and editors that run only on OS X - like TextMate).

MacBook Pro is the dream machine for a developer. But if you're not in a hurry, I suggest waiting for a while. Rumors say a 15" Air-ish MacBook Pro is on its way (with fast, quad core processors and 4-8 GB ram).
The code path for that case must be delightful.
Don't forget new Google Cloud API which allows you to manage Clouds of course. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-cloud-api...
Macbook Pro/Air FTW. I have a 15in Pro w/ SSD. It's awesome but kind of heavy to be carried around. So pick Air if you travel a lot
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10+ years of engineering from small startups (infrastructure setup, MVP developing) to big industry players (enhancing products used by millions of users) with a strong Open Source background.

Good skills in Java/J2EE (EJB, JPA, JMS)/Play Framework, C++/Qt, PostgreSQL and HTML/Jquery (but I'm not a designer, be warned!).

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I think a big bonus of this approach is that forces developers to improve their design skills. I'll never be an amazing designer, but taking these external design suggestions and adapting them to our ever-changing context has been challenging but productive. Rote copying of PSDs stunts the growth.
As a rhetorical device, I agree. I've summed it up in the past as, "You first."

I'd even be willing to argue it with respect simply to communication performed as part of their work. More and more "governance" seems to be too sensitive to allow people being governed to be aware of it.
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I do web application development and optimization, database design, system architecture, business processes automation and data processing for companies and startups in US and Europe.

I have a solid grasp of Python, Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript and many other technologies.

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apply here: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83
All the evidences point to newer 13- and 15-inch MBPs.

Looke here: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
Most companies i think provide like Lenovo / HP . My company gives out Lenovo T520. Personally i think its too bulky but sure does pack the power .

But i own a Macbook pro 13" and i'm loving it . The track pad and the keys are unmatchable IMO.
Sourcefabric in Toronto is hiring. Full-time candidates wishing to make a difference in a start-up (30 employees). Our development platform is Linux and we use open source tools for our work. Our products are also open source, but we are well-funded, and slowly becoming self sustainable.

The Toronto office is focused on creating Airtime which is a radio automation system with a Web UI, so people all over the world can work together to control a radio station. We just won the Guardian Mega Award in London last week: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/community/blog/1138/

To learn more about Airtime please visit: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/

To apply, please go to http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/about/jobs/

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Portrait of the CEO as Salesman
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/9723/are-phys...
What qualities would make a laptop particularly suitable for programming? I guess you want speed and build quality, but you probably want those whatever it's for. My T410 does me fine.
I could certainly be wrong, but I took it as different departments doing their own thing rather than some organized effort by the company as a whole.
there's nothing but a solid (aluminium), fast (SSD), brilliant (display) and coding-ready (dev. environment) like a Macbook Pro.

Thinkpads clearly are a second choice as long as price does not matter.

And yes - I've used most available hardware and OSes for several years.
Macbook Air 13". I love it. It's my first Mac and I realized I will never buy a non-mac laptop again. Yes, it's more slightly more expensive, but the quality is so much higher it's unreal.

Your $1200 buys you more than your $1000 for an "Ultrabook"
Boomers' generation had everything it wanted – and it still does
NowSpots (http://nowspots.com) - Mountain View, CA

NowSpots are hackable ads. Using our api, developers can push content from any app into a banner ad in real-time and track any number of events. Newspapers use us to build ad units for small businesses. eCommerce sites use us to build personalized product feed ads. We turn banner ads into software. It's a lot of fun. We were a finalist in the SXSW startup accelerator and have hundreds of clients.

We're looking for:

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- Frontend Developers to design and implement features in our ad builder

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Teamly is angel-funded and part of one of Silicon Valley's best known accelerators. We also have users, early revenues and tons of great press.

We're looking for a truly great full-stack developer to join us as our first hire! We're looking for someone with a computer science background who loves startups and wants to work closely with the founders to build our product and company. You will come help us shape the product and company culture from day 1.

You'll need at least 2 years of experience with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript (jQuery) plus solid knowledge of MySQL, HTML, CSS, Git, RSpec, Ajax, Chef.

We're offering a competitive salary plus meaningful equity.

More:

http://teamly.com/jobs-and-careers-at-teamly