skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York, NY - Two internships: General programming or electrical engineer intern. $12/hr, ~20 hours week.

www.tractechsystems.com
www.colormerchants.com

Job Description: Join our team if you're looking to learn a lot and make a difference in a very fast growing start-up. We're the industry leader in jewelry RFID, and believe we've only just begun to crack this market. We need bright technical people to handle a variety of programming tasks, work with our RFID technology, and support our business customers.

Qualifications:	We're looking for an ambitious intern with programming knowledge. We feel that if you're pretty comfortable with one language, it's not too hard to work around the others. Knowledge and enthusiasm for RFID is a huge bonus!

*Application Instructions: Send your resume and cover letter to kevin.barry@tractechsystems.com.
It's a followup to an article I wrote a month ago about the state of my first passive income website. Several people asked me whether I would share more details about what my SEO strategy was, so here they are :-)

You can check out the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770510
And? It's not Facebook's job to make people like each other, and I'm sure you won't have to share your donor status if you don't want to. There are plenty of things that people can judge you about on Facebook (sex, race, attractiveness, religious views).
this is a sweet library
Correct - I am an Emacs user and have always found working in projects hard in emacs.

textmate.el is really nice (though with emacs-starter-kit there is a built in find-file-in-project - a "project" being your git repo by default) - But it doesn't solve the problem I am having - that is, being able to see the whole project at the same time within a nested tree structure.
SEEKING WORK, Chicago, IL. Can work remotely.

UX
Website design from ground-up

Front-end
HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery

Online Portfolio
http://www.imadkhan.me
You can choose which bookmarks you want to make public as soon as you install the extension. It's also kind of nice to have all of your bookmarks in briarpatch because you will always have a backup copy of them, and won't lose them if you get a new computer, etc...
Why No One Responds to Your Best Job Posts (And What To Do About It)
Well that's just dumb. They should've made ARM a first citizen for ChromeOS from day one. I saw a rumor about a future Samsung Chromebook that will use a dual core 2 Ghz Cortex A15 chip, so maybe it's coming soon.
You might say I'm in the HN bubble (I am, after all, reading it), but I work at a midsize corp growing towards megacorp, and github is a bonus to your resume here, especially with the more outward looking engineers.
I started learning D3 by recreating Tufte's epic "2004 MLB Baseball Season" graph.

http://crismannoble.github.com/Tufte-in-D3
Good to remember. There is the parable of the rich man and the poor man, when the rich man shops he cannot decide but the poor man knows exactly what he can buy. The root of the issue of course is too many choices. Without some way to crystallize your choice you often don't get past making the choice.

So good advice to founders is to have a process where you come up with 10 ideas, then you execute on one of those 10, no other choices.
The VPN is the routing around the damaged network.
Omniauth authentications with Rails
How do you mean? There is a shortage of organs for transplants. If you don't donate, another person will die. That's pretty direct.
No Man is an iLand
I kind of read it as "look at this, chrome book was designed for the most casual of casual users in mind and it's still more useful to programmers than gnome3"

I agree that applications are good at abstracting away the filesystem which is why I would argue for a lighter weight OS (which I presume chrome OS is).
I found this article pretty light on substance, but I agree with the <tl;dr>:

Dynamic languages: faster to write something, less code, no time wasted waiting for compilation, but harder to maintain and a bitch to refactor. Need more unit tests.

Static languages: more boilerplate, slower write time, but man it's nice to get compile-time vs. run-time errors...
I had a similar experience with them in 2009. I went through the same first interview plus the problems plus another technical interview. The did, however, call me back and invite me for an on-site interview. While awaiting the details, I was informed by the HR rep that the on-site interview would not take place because his boss nixed my application due to my GPA* being too low. Why didn't they say so in the first place before wasting all that time?

* I had graduated 4 years earlier. Many companies don't care about GPA at that point.
Aha! This might actually solve my problem [1] - Thanks!

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999
Inverting web search
Interesting fact, TIL.
The Skype Brand Book
The implication that Apple didn't make this tradeoff is false.

Apple charges a high price relative to its cohort but not its customers' aggregate spending - recent times see it it pushing towards r-strategist behaviour (lots of lower paying customers, e.g. iPad).

If Apple were pursuing a k-strategist mentality (few, high paying customers) I would not have to wait an hour to get serviced in New York, I'd have small batches of product with bleeding edge technology, and I'd have a personal support rep and probably custom app developer.
Preferred Linux distribution for startup servers
Is there a preferred linux distribution that is used by startup companies to host their applications? If yes what is it and why? trying to decide between Debian (for stability) and Mint (for cutting edge). Please share your thoughts.
Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA - Thumbtack

We're looking for full time software engineers, mobile engineers, and interaction designers.

Our delicious company food culture has been featured on Inc.com and inspires many Bay-area startups. We eat family style meals everyday cooked in-house by our gourmet chef.

We recently raised a Series A and are growing rapidly. Over 250,000 small businesses have already signed up.

We can offer visas if you live abroad and are willing to relocate.

thumbtack.com/jobs or email chris at thumbtack.
The video in the link is awesome. So that's how Google figures out roads and stuff!
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Spain/US)

Common Lisp, Python, models, data analysis, image processing. Please check out my resumé and some of my work at http://juanreyero.com/.

Contact writing at joanmg's gmail address.
ARGH! PATCH is for partial updates, not PUT!
I didn't have them initially reach out to me, but I did have a similar experience in that after initially talking to them they sort of tailed off communication until I pressed it a little further. I think perhaps they get incentivized for bringing in leads, but then when it comes time to actually put a Google engineer on the phone or in the room with you for an interview, there is a waiting list where you get pushed to the back. I have no idea, but I agree it is weird.
India niggers.
I remember once upon a time WAAAAY back in the mid-90s I think, when I was having a problem with my Voodoo2 graphics driver and Quake.

I posted the problem on one of the Newsgroups at the time and got my reply back from John Carmack himself (which naturally fixed the problem pretty quickly.)

I remember being extremely excited then, as I'm sure the questioner is now on SO.
Blackberry's New OS Met With Resounding 'Meh'
Sense - http://www.senseplatform.com

- Quantitatively Oriented Developer - Summer Intern

- New York City / Cambridge, MA / San Francisco.

We're pre-launch startup building a next-generation platform for data and statistics. We're solving some of the most challenging problems in statistics and big data in a way that will delight both PhD statisticians and business analysts.

Position:

We're looking for a quantitatively oriented developer to join our small (3) team. We're open to summer interns. Strong knowledge of C/C++ and Javascript required. Masters/PhD in a quantitative field and strong opinions about data analysis software such as R, Stata, SAS, or SPSS is a major plus.

Sound interesting, drop me a line: tristan@senseplatform.com
They do pay for them: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pira...

Don't buy into the RIAA/MPAA lies. Piracy is not just about getting stuff for free.
Oh that sounds ok. Thanks for clarifying.
Sure, but I've the right to think someone who doesn't opt to donate them is something of a dick for indirectly causing needless deaths/suffering.
I've been an organ donor since I turned 18. I have increasing concerns about the financial incentives within the industry.

For more detail see Science Journalist Dick Teresi on Book TV discussing "The Undead."

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305225-1
Hulu to require Cable TV subscription
Pirates pay for media as well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pira...
Job Sharing Would Ease the Pain of Recessions
Every time I read about this book I really want to buy it, but I hesitate because I'm not a designer; how designer-specific is it? Like, the drama involved in getting clients to accept a creative brief is interesting, but it's not very relevant to what I do.
Neal Stephenson's reply to a Slashdot QA [1] is definitely one of the better things I've read on the internet.

[1] http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-r...
Looks like nothing more than a rumor, flagged.
Usability observeration:

The auto-load feature effectively makes the footer impossible to read. Perhaps move the important footer information to the top or sidebar?
Zuckerberg Launches New Tool for Organ Donation
SimplyHired - Sunnyvale, CA - Full-time - http://www.simplyhired.com

We're looking for DevOps engineers to round out our operations team. Help automate, scale and make more reliable the largest job search engine.

Open source / Nginx / Varnish / HAProxy / MySQL / N+1 / N+N / Configuration management

There are no assigned roles. You'll cross-train on everything, getting your hands in site reliability in all its breadth: networks, provisioning, performance & scaling, deployment, big data / Hadoop, monitoring, etc. Both datacenter & cloud.

We automate relentlessly in a mix of Python and Ruby. Think like a developer: learn something, code it up, learn some more, refine. Over time, we want this stuff to sing.

Email jeremy-at-simplyhired.com or see http://www.simplyhired.com/a/our-company/careers.
I'm not talking about scene ripping, where things are pretty much already perfect for that sort of thing - I'm talking about all of the other rips or original content that tend to start as personal use and come from (16mm, VHS or Laserdisk -> Various equipment ->) Numerous DVD editions -> Any number of programs -> Any number of formats.

Maybe a half-automated/half-manual registration of files and statistics into a somehow curated distributed database? Maybe magnet links could double as file fingerprints?
I figured you'd say something like this; just to make my bias clear, I'm pretty close to thinking "use of automated time tracking or paying for web services to manage time tracking is a symptom of a broken business model". Harvest is a lovely web application, but something would have to have gone wrong with my consulting practice for us to want to use it.
Pazimzadeh:

""The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Facebook to start advertising their donor status on their pages, along with their birth dates and schools""

When facebook has 'a plan' to get you to share this, it gets to a level above simply putting your religious views et al on your FB page.
We have launched Wifi Protector - www.wifiprotector.com , super-easy to use VPN service to protect you on unsecured networks. Any feedback?
I would always, always

— always —

prefer a higher margin and fewer customers.
<snark> Adds a whole new layer of meaning to "You are the product. </snark>
I really want to give a talk about using libuv. It isn't a perfect library, but it is really one of the first to build a portable API for high performance event loops. (libev is great, and on *nix libuv uses it internally, but on Windows it doesn't use IO Completion ports)

https://github.com/joyent/libuv
This is a key component of Street View. We're really happy to have released this. When we started writing Ceres, there was nothing available like it. It's state of the art; a real contribution to computer vision and other fields which need large scale nonlinear least squares.

Part of the reason I worked on this in my spare time (my real job at Google is something else) was to get it integrated in libmv (http://code.google.com/p/libmv) and subsequently integrated into Blender. This opens the door to many sophisticated tracking features, like autocalibration, rolling shutter, multi-shot solves, tripod solves, planar tracking, and more.

EDIT: Changed link title to make it more provocative
Streaming has always struck me as nothing more than a compromise with limited bandwidth and storage. If you can download a two-hour movie in two seconds, and it takes .001 percent of your storage device, why wouldn't you download?

Unless you're trying to appease the entertainment industry, of course.
SEEKING WORK - Austin, TX

Web developer mainly. Doing PHP for living and Perl for passion. Looking to dive into some RoR project to get practical experience.

Besides software development, have experience in devops.

GitHub: https://github.com/hippich

Email: pavelkaroukin@gmail.com
$1,000/mo. is fine except if it becomes a mainstream need, then competition turns up with it's $100/mo. product (or even free) and you can't drop the price because the sales cycle costs too much, product requires individual integrations etc.
Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted?
It's definitely different strokes for different folks on this one, but as long as the goal is noble, I think it's fine for people who get off on metrics to use them. Not all people are motivated that way.. (luckily!)

Years ago, I had a goal of getting on the now-hidden /leaders page on HN so worked hard at writing good comments, submitting good links, etc, every single day and I made it. Did I add value to the site? Yes. Did the borderline-useless ego boost keep me contributing? Sure.

I contribute a lot less now that /leaders has been hidden and since getting above top 20 is crazy hard, but HN is now so busy plenty of people are picking up the slack, whereas early on, I have to wonder if the leaders page did help artificially boost engagement.
Yeah, good call. I'll make that change. You can see the footer info if you go to one of the pages that doesn't have infinite scroll. But you're right. I remember being annoyed by the same thing on facebook.
Steve Friedl's So you want to be a consultant...? ( http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html ) is also a must-read. Not only is Steve a Unix expert (and the brother of Jeff Friedl, regex legend), he's an excellent writer as well.
I hope now google do not do that...
Seeking Freelancer - (Remote) Kansas City, MO

In search of Freelancer (or team of) for ongoing work on several projects. We are a hybrid fund/accelerator that works with entrepreneurs to build next gen web/mobile apps. Our startups need talent and are willing to work with remote teams (local or willing to travel is a plus.)

The right (insert whatever adjective you want ninja, wizard, etc) Hacker is resourceful and naturally curious. Experience working with a startup is a plus.

This is intentionally vague.

contact me blake32 at gmail.com
Well-maintained? Carefully debugged?

Hardly. Backward-compatible? Ok, I'll agree to that one.

But seriously, if you want to see an example of a not-so-well-maintained or carefully-debugged standard library. I challenge you to go look at 'shutil'.

That's just one example of many in the standard library that needs some serious TLC. Want another? Go look at tarfile or subprocess.

And don't even get me started on the lack of documentation for many parts of the standard library; the source code is the only real documentation.
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I don't know how efficient it is, but here's an opensource perceptual hash library: http://www.phash.org/
When to Buy a Mac - 3 months after launch
Install Android to breath new life into your HP TouchPad
Ideas about A/B Testing Methodology
PlastronJS an MVC for Closure Tools
An MVC for people who want to start using https://developers.google.com/closure/
A quick intro and todo app tutorial can be found here: http://rhysbrettbowen.com/2012/04/plastronjs.html
and github with lots of docs, tests and a read me here: https://github.com/rhysbrettbowen/PlastronJS
I'm planning to release some videos on the blog to go over it's design as well as more information about other projects designed to make Closure Tools easier to use on every size project so stay tuned for updates.
If you're interested in the Closure Tools, why not join the meetup? http://www.meetup.com/Closure-Tools/
Aesthete file sharers frequently have access to movies and music that simply can't be purchased. In the case of movies, subtitles are made every day in a myriad of languages for movies that have never been subtitled. Things that have been lost to the mainstream due to lack of general marketability thrive in the niches that have been created by the maintenance and curation of digital files on hard drives.
Chartboost - http://chartboost.com

San Francisco. Relocation. 14 people company.

We're a young but growing advertising and cross-promotion network for mobile games. We help game developers utilize their user base to promote new titles, and make money. We're funded and profitable.

We're hiring across the entire spectrum of developers and designers. We're looking for smart and motivated people who know how to get shit done, but are also always interested in learning new things.

Stack: Objective-C / PHP / Mongo / Redis / Ruby / JS / Clojure / Storm / a little of everything else.

(Generalist) Software Engineer -- http://jobsco.re/ITMWVM

Front End Engineer -- http://jobsco.re/HOJdo5

Senior Backend Engineer -- http://jobsco.re/HOJF5v

Interaction Designe / Product Manager -- http://jobsco.re/ITM7MQ

UI Designer -- http://jobsco.re/HOJlnj

Dev Ops -- no link yet

Summer Intern -- http://jobsco.re/HOJTJY
"Apple has the distribution channels, digital content portfolio and customer base to make the move, Bluestein says, and it also has more than 250 million credit cards on file for iTunes users who could be billed directly for wireless service."

Ok, and the big missing piece, oh yeah the network. You know the thing that costs 4 - 10 billion to buy the spectrum for and another 50 - 100 billion to build out the actual network stations for. Now sure, Apple to commit its entire cash pile to becoming another AT&T or Verizon but that certainly isn't going to happen.

And the other challenge I see is that the carriers all co-operate with pairing agreements and roaming agreements because they are all in the same pool. Bring in an 800 lb gorilla which is trying to 'crush' them? Do they co-operate now? Probably not.
SEEKING WORK- SF Bay Area / Remote Freelance or Full time

Great web design, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

http://www.98dollarswebdesign.com

Email: 98dollarswebdesign<at>gmail.com
Usually there's a reason that they're priced that way (market uncertainty, debt, etc), but Palm and 3Com is a good example when it works out. You may have problems shorting though.

Sell shares/buy puts on the overpriced company (in your example, Palm), buy shares/buy calls on the underpriced company (3Com). Usually implied vol is pretty high, so you'll definitely pay a premium for the long options position. Alternatively, you could sell premium, but that is quite a dangerous position for a retail trader.
Does that mean your family could also override your desire not to donate? I could imagine that being a total fuck you to people who had religious issues and family who didn't like them.
Everyone. Everyone is hiring Software Engineers.
I like how it just uses the functionality that's built into your browser, but the problem with browser bookmarks is that, for the "experts and leading thinkers" you want on your platform, those people usually have thousands of links on Delicious or Pinboard, and with that amount of bookmarks the browser's interface just doesn't cut it. Something to think about.
Special 
My son 14 year old son is one of the most gifted math whizzes in the state. Due to his rather exclusive education he has come up with a couple of mobile apps that could be marketed to private (and public) school parents. I don't write code, he wants to learn, I hope to direct his brilliant and creative brain to something special during this very special 15 to 25 year range.
That article has a lot of "what if" in order to "raise questions" but seems to mainly rely on people's lack of scientific knowledge to make its point. Just because the body moved or had hypertension after a scalpel cut does not mean it was not dead.

I'm not saying I know which one it was, but I trust a doctor more than Dick Teresi for the Wall Street Journal.
I just finished the book and while it's weighted toward designers, a lot of the lessons can apply to various industries. Namely: dealing with clients, negotiating contracts, getting paid on time, and the importance of developing a working and business process.

Go buy it.
Does that mean that you can't get a CA drivers license without giving up your right to your body?
Completely agree with the author, competition is always a great way to motivate coders, and masterbranch definitely helps this with the easy way to measure the coder skills.
I think my point is this: how is this any different from religious evangelizing? It's pushing his personal views on other people needlessly. And Zuckerberg using a platform as large as facebook to cajole people into revealing stuff like this to satisfy his personal desire to support some arbitrary cause, it displays a high degree of irresponsibility.
Show HN: 80smtv.com, non-stop 80s music vidoes
I work for a company that has only tens of clients (banks) but each pays us in the hundreds of thousands to millions range, an extreme example of B. Just one of these customers takes up to a year to acquire.

On the plus side, things can move more slowly and in a well thought out way. Also, there's no worry around your usual "web scale" issues. There's also a lot of freedom around exploring new ways to do things because of the slower pace.

On the down side, the customers sometimes put insane requirements in our contracts. Security audits, source code in escrow, huge amounts of insurance, long weekly meetings. The culture of bureaucracy bleeds if you're not careful. Also, income is lumpy and one client can end up costing more than they're paying you if you're not careful.

All in all I think it's the best kind I've experienced so far. That's probably because my employer has done a great job of insulating me from the down sides though :).
Post seems pretty enlightening, makes me wish I could find something similar regarding software development specifically.
NPR story on the ethics and changing definition of death:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/27/149463045/a-strug...

NPR Fresh Air interview with Dick Teresi, who wrote the WSJ article you linked:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/148296627/blurring-the-line-be...
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Thanks.

Google has really killed the discoverability of the internet for me. I will be experimenting with this.

Best of luck.