skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, you can't fight battles like this on only one front.

Ignoring bad, overreaching legislation but finding a technological way to fight back will result in law enforcement going to congress later saying, "You gave us the authority to take these broad measures, but technology prevents us from doing our jobs. We now need new laws that outlaw those technologies or give us new authority to circumvent them. Perhaps we need a law that forces hardware manufacturers to include our backdoors so we can track users hiding behind anonymizing technologies. We'll also need more funding to increase our manpower and research to stay ahead of the subversive technologies out there."
Quirky.com - Full Time - NYC

Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We just moved into a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (might be the coolest office you'll find in NYC). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year.

We're looking to hire rockstar rails, front end and back end developers.

More details here: http://quirky.theresumator.com/apply/

If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com.

Relocation is available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
Do maps, folds and filters become as natural as for-loops in time? (If you have already been exposed to more traditional techniques). They strike me as similar to regular expressions, in the sense that however long I spend using them I will always have to think it through carefully when I encounter a new use.

By contrast, a for-loop is spelled out for me. They are certainly longer, but I guess they match my thought process more closely. I suppose the question is, do I think this way because of my prior exposure to for-loops, or would it be the same if I was exposed to functional programming first? I'm really not sure.
Metro is a very primitive tiling window manager. There are many people (developers mostly) who love tiling WMs and find them to be the most productive. Metro isn't nearly as good as dwm or xmonad yet, but if they continue in this direction it could be a good system on desktop.
Too true. He did write about suits or other methods that appeal to the other senses. That seems much farther off. Though, once environments have been created for this headset, I would imagine quite a few people spending a large portion of time "plugged in".

I also think a controller gives a bit of touch sense to the experience. Using your hands and feet for full controls of a plane stick and rudder or car wheel and pedals lacks only the feedback from acceleration and weather. Looking down to see the pedals and "feeling" your vehicle react to your foot pressing could be more psychosomatic than we really know yet.
No, the screen resolutions is a serious problem.

Design your slides on a big desktop, and half the slide will be invisible on iPad.

This is a problem with projectors, where I have given talks from 640x480 to 1024x768 and beyond. What size do I design my slides at?

Why bother converting a powerpoint presentation? Is this really that much better than putting a PDF on your website?
I really, really don't like this. It reminds me of the 'social reader' apps on Facebook, except at least those have opt-out capabilities.

I admired Quora for it's very Wikipedia-esque goal of promoting knowledge at a level of personal discourse. This seems ... alien to that goal, and I don't understand how it enhances the core experience of Quora -- reading interesting questions, writing interesting answers.
Microsoft is building your robot boss
Nope, most people have both a laptop and desktop. But they only get to keep the laptop :)
Google Maps Has NYC Subway Alerts
To each his own. I found the presentation pretty well done and the soundtrack was a nice touch. Perhaps that's exactly why it could be seen as a problem; it is too appealing and thus "unprofessional" (i.e. not boring enough to cause one hit the back button midway through).
Would you guys consider taking on interns for engineering positions in the future?
Boston, MA

Ember was recently acquired by Silicon Labs, and now we're hiring to build even more cool stuff.

We're not ninjas, rockstars, pirates, or egomaniacs; we're just a bunch of smart people who genuinely like working together. Ember/Silicon Labs is the most technically and socially healthy place I've ever worked - you should check us out!

The Boston office of Silicon Labs develops low power wireless networking chips and software. We do it all: the IC, PCBs, firmware, networking stacks, testing and deployment tools... and everything else I've left out.

We use C, Java, assembly (mostly ARM), Python, Perl, and common sense.

We need 4 more people to help in our Boston office:

- Embedded software engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

- Network engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

- QA engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

- Tools engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

And a bunch more in Austin: http://www.silabs.com/about/careers/Pages/search.aspx

Please email me if you'd like more info about any Silicon Labs jobs: hnJobsAug2012@saidsvec.com
This makes a lot of sense. A hacker's computer is a very personal item. Most hackers will be in a situation where there is little distinction between the tools they use at work and those they use at home. There's also likely to be many hours of customization spent on a machine in the form of shell startup scripts, defaults tweaks, browser extensions with userscripts, software licenses, text editor plugins, and a bunch of hand-compiled (or Homebrew) software.

I take my personal MacBook Pro to work and back every day, despite it being a pain in the ass to lug around, because I can't imagine doing all the same tweaks, installs and settings on two machines. And I wouldn't feel comfortable with having my personal stuff on a machine owned by my employer either. So this seems like a great solution.

And yeah, let's face it, we do like the shiny. You'd be none too pleased if you joined a new company and they gave you a scuffed old machine with the previous users sandwich still living under the keycaps, would you?
Then why is secure boot an issue for you?
=Real-Time Engine Software Developer=

Want to work on challenging, core technology with a smart team for a well-funded company in San Francisco?

We're PubNub, the real-time engine in the cloud that developers use to build massively scalable real-time apps. We've got hundreds of customers, and process billions of real-time messages each month. We develop software close to the bare iron and measure performance in microseconds. We are an all-star technical team who have been part of successful acquisitions in middleware, enterprise, and consumer software companies. We are looking for an exceptional developer to help lead our "core" engine development and future technology strategy.

Our ideal person is someone who lives and breathes code, and understands the difference between C, Python, and Javascript. You are someone who isn't a primadonna about a specific framework or tech. Someone cool to work with who's comfortable helping grow a business and works well with others.

=Responsibilities=

As a member of the PubNub "Core" team, you'll:

* Build enhancements to our platform that help prepare us for trillions of monthly transactions
* Design migration strategies that provide zero downtime for users
* Help build the architecture that meets the needs of our product roadmap beyond our core current feature set
* Enhance our load testing methodologies to generate "world-of-warcraft" sized load on our system
* Explore various hardware & software strategies for milking the best performance out of various system configurations.

=Qualifications=

Great candidates will have:

5+ years of experience developing software on core technology frameworks in a high scale environment
Expertise with C, Javascript, Python, Erlang, and other programming languages
Real-time systems background, knowledge/experience with Node JS, Tornado, and other similar servers.
B.S or M.S. in Computer Science

Learn More: www.pubnub.com/jobs
You have some typos on this page http://theformspider.com/product.php?descid=5
Rdio

San Francisco, CA

http://www.rdio.com/careers/
It's one of this silly social traps where you are expected to lie - just like the "greatest weakness" question during the entry interview or your aunt asking how you like the salad.
This site showed me nothing about the bill in question. I would have liked at least a few references to sections of the bill that are considered bad.

Anyway, a link to the bill is here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2105pcs
SEEKING WORK - Android/iPhone

A team of two Polish mobile developers. We mostly do cross-platform native development (Titanium Certified App Developers), as well as backends in PHP/Python.

check our apps: http://www.azac.pl
contact us: azac@azac.pl
Forbes List of America's Top Colleges
=Full Stack Software Developer=

Interested in working on huge multiplayer real-time systems?

We're PubNub, the real-time engine in the cloud that developers use to build massively scalable real-time apps. We've got hundreds of customers, and process billions of real-time messages each month. We develop software close to the bare iron and measure performance in microseconds. We are an all-star technical team who have been part of successful acquisitions in middleware, enterprise, and consumer software companies. We are looking for an exceptional developer to use creative thinking and some raw innovation to drive the development of multiple aspects of the PubNub platform and tools.

Our ideal person is someone who can jump easily from a Javascript-based UI to the back-end server code that powers it. Someone that can build a clean interface that is quick and hides unneeded complexity, and is equally comfortable building the server-side code to support it. You are someone who isn't a primadonna about a specific framework or tech. Someone cool to work with who's comfortable helping grow a business and works well with others.

=Responsibilities=

As a PubNub full stack developer, you'll be driving the architecture and design of various next-gen elements of PubNub.

Come talk to us and we'll tell you more...

=Qualifications=

Great candidates will have:

* 3+ years of experience developing software that is end-user facing (enterprise or consumer)
* Expertise with Javascript, Python, PHP, and other programming languages
* Experience with web, mobile, and server-side development
* B.S or M.S. in Computer Science...or just impress us by nailing our programming challenge below:

Learn More: www.pubnub.com/jobs

Apply by sending us some code that uses PubNub to create a creative "Hello World" real-time application. A resume would be nice too. We promise that everyone who applies and includes working code will get a response.
Kickstarter is also a great way to validate that customers are interested in an idea. Even if the bulk of your project is funded traditionally, a nice showing on kickstarter will be convincing to investors as well as developers.
It's validating a niche market to jumpstart the investment from a bigger corp.
Anybody here use both IFTTT and Zapier? Been loving IFTTT for being texted filtered road traffic info from Twitter feeds.
Helsinki, Finland. Full time.
http://www.mobilebackstage.com

Looking for a front-end developer, ideally with some knowledge of Java.

jobs@mobilebackstage.com
Bullshit.

http://www.healthcare.gov/blog/2011/10/riskadjust10132011.ht...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implement...
Didn't Digg use rel="nofollow" on submitted stories? And if so, wouldn't that mean that links from Digg would have zero SEO value?
TwitterCLDR: Improving Internationalization Support in Ruby
that's going to be taken pretty much everywhere
Router Botnets - More of a Reality Than You Think
John Carmack runs a startup that builds rockets. So yeah.
This assumes that the company is a stupid, big corporation that can't care less what its employees feel. But a good company should take this opportunity -- the exit interview -- to improve things.
No, I don't have a secret. That isn't really what privacy is about. You don't have to have something to hide in order to not want everything you do/say and everywhere you go tracked. This makes it seem like everyone is hiding a folder full of kiddie porn or emails from their other girlfriend and therefore that is why you should care about privacy protection.
My bad. Try this
http://198.101.225.92/
or
http://3328565596/
It's backed by my roflscale http-to-gopher cloud cluster blogging platform, so it's legit.
Live streaming webcam from your bedroom please. If you're not doing anything illegal in there, you're happy to do that, I assume?
A node.js library for Mandrill...that works
Git-flow with a GUI
Hubot Deploy
What Is Ubuntu's Target Audience?
Domain Bias: Why Branding & Search Cannot Be Separated
Craigslist posts shown on a map while viewing Craigslist housing
While I agree that exceptions in very rare cases are needed, exceptions are becoming the norm and, like I said, are coupling functionality and content. This is why CSS was created, to decouple style from content, and now? We are are throwing all that work away because an entire generation of web devs are just too lazy to look it up.

By the way, a quick search for sticky page footer on Google turned up this as the first result -- no JS needed, and it didn't even look that hard (http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/using-sticky-footer-code.html).
Nashville, TN

Fresh company in eDiscovery needs an experienced MVC framework guy. Can work remotely (REMOTE).

JavaScript
JavaScript expert. Experience with DOM manipulation and MVC frameworks. We like Angular JS, but are looking for guys who have experience with frameworks such as Ember, Backbone, etc.
Experience with canvas, animation frames, RaphaelJS for pretty presentation - drawings & graphs.

HTML, CSS3
Extremely capable in HTML and CSS3, SASS/SCSS, TwitterBootstrap
Not to be overlooked is how simple they've made the process of integration as a developer. You don't need to write any code to integrate with Zapier.

I originally had a skype chat with Mike thinking that integrating with them would be a back-and-forth dealing with our APIs. Nope. We had Ronin integrated within 15 minutes via a web UI. All you have to do is drag and drop stuff around and fill out a few forms. I think this is the coolest part of what they've built.
Target's situation was a bit of a special case, however, as it has a brick and mortar store, which the court found their website was essentially a component of. If your business is completely web-based, the question of whether section 508 applies to you is, as far as I know, untested.
Sure it can.

The money left on the table builds value by:

1. Leaving very little profit margin for any potential competitor.

2. Ensuring a continued large network effect, CL's principle source of value.
What's wrong with Xcode? Seems fine for iOS / Mac OS X development. I surely prefer it above Eclipse and it is in some ways also nicer as Visual Studio.
SO physically owned all the oil-wells. Physical ownership is much, much different than network effects.
I realised how much sense this makes for BetaWorks, they have so much social data from bitly and knowledge in the space. They can make a real consumer end to bitly as well as the enterprise tools they're building.

They can make a semi-curated and semi-data driven broadsheet on any topic. It's a beautiful interface for a V1 and I think if they use all of the data from bitly it could be powerful. They can get a grasp of how many people are actually clicking on links, how many social shares and upvotes there are.

Essentially a much better version of Flipboard that is data driven.

There's nothing wrong with making a version of Digg that embraces social elements but Digg 4 was not it. It was trying to turn Digg into a Twitter clone.
Most likely because it is not a direct clone and they interpreted it as if your comment was pejorative.
That's the one fair criticism to make.

Though Craig is AFAIU a or the principle shareholder in Craigslist.
As integrated as DropBox is into major corporate technology, they really need to be careful with this type of stuff. While an employee's error is often unavoidable, security is a cloud storage company's only real asset.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4319279
Zapier front page keeps loading in latest Opera. Otherwise, can't wait to plug in my apps!
GPUs do a lot more in mobile today than probably occurs to you off the top of your head if you're not extremely familiar with them.

First of all, you have to worry about the actual act of running OpenGL ES applications. This is a non-trivial API with lots and lots of performance tuning required, and don't forget you need a GLSL compiler (which in turn is not trivial at all).

Now, you need to support video decoding. Usually GPUs accelerate this in some low-power way for common formats (H264, etc), so you need to jump through a lot of software hoops to support that for various formats and such. Also, don't forget to add support for HDCP (also not trivial) and content protection throughout your video pipeline, because if you don't, you will be flayed alive by the content cartels.

After that, you need to optimize for power. This turns out to be way more software intensive than you think because a lot of times software has to make the call about whether to pick super-low-power but high-latency mode X or higher-power but lower-latency mode Y. This is also probably where you handle a lot of thermal runaway style cases.

Finally, throughout this entire process, you have to be making sure that everything works. While you're writing the software to get things up and running, any bug you hit in SW could be indicative of a hardware bug. When you do hit something that looks like a hardware bug, it's not like you say, "oh hey let's break out the debugger and see what's up!" A relatively easy hardware bug at this stage of development still probably takes on the order of a few man-months, and a hard one takes well over man-years and millions of dollars (find very short repro case, root cause, investigate software workarounds, design ECO, verify ECO, kick off a new spin).

These are the bare-bones you-can-possibly-be-a-player-in-the-market requirements; how well you do optimizing these various cases will determine how well your chip can do in the market.
Can you give some examples of what you have been able to accomplish with this?
Low commitment pre-orders at that. The reasoning seems pretty simple and clear. Even if you plan on or think you might need to take a loan/investment later, since you already have the pitch ready, why not do the Kickstarter too?
I used to use "slant" in the 80s on BBS's. Once the Internet came around, that name was always already chosen.

Coming from Toronto, I added the local airport code (YYZ) to my nick.

The problem is that what I thought would be pronounced as "slant why why zed/zee" came out to others as "slanty eyes".

Fortunately, I have slanted eyes, so I guess nobody can accuse my nick of being inaccurate.
I could see reporting how many, but who steps over the line.
Directly quoting the law and citing the source of the law would not be "original research" in the context of your link. To quote your link:

The term "original research" (OR) is used on Wikipedia
to refer to material--such as facts, allegations, and
ideas--for which no reliable, published sources exist.

For example, the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_S... includes the text of the US Constitution's 1st Amendment. By your interpretation that would make it original research.

Directly quoting a bill, citing the house.gov or whichever source, provides context for the ensuing discussion (pros and cons) which in turn should consist of a set of citations.
[These positions are for our new San Francisco office in Lower Nob Hill. We're also happy to announce a $4M Series A from the likes of General Catalyst, SV Angel, Lowercase Capital and Lightbank, to name a few. http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/23/data-focused-locu-raises-4m.... -sbisker]

San Francisco, CA - Senior Full Time Software Engineers at Locu (http://locu.com)

We're looking for all sorts - front-enders, "desingineers", back-enders and full-stack all welcome for this position. As long as you enjoy hacking on cool new products and features. :D

For Back-End

Deep understanding of algorithms and complexity
Strong linux system administration experience a plus
AWS expertise a plus

For Front-End

Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills
Experience with Python / Django is a plus
Previous experience building rich, interactive websites
A good sense of design and/or an ability to work with designers
Experience in designing dashboards and user interfaces is a plus
Experience in proper UI engineering and reusable architectures a plus
(proper use of prototypes in JS, experience with Backbone, and what have you.)

For Full-Stack and Desingineers

We know you like to strike your own unique balance. So, show us what you've got.
We want you to be able to do what you love. :)

For all

Ideally 4+ years of experience
Experience leading or managing an engineering team a plus
- we'll give you a chance to mentor and grow as an leader.
Exceptional software engineering talent
Previous start-up experience is a plus

Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We are about to launch MenuPlatform <http://www.menuplatform.com>, our first product, which helps restaurants better manage their online presence.

Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@locu.com. Please specify which position you're applying for, as well as "HN", in the subject of your letter. Learn more about our open positions at http://locu.com/jobs/

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Founded less than a year ago by MIT graduates and researchers, Locu (http://www.locu.com/) has the backing and support of some of the best angel investors in the country.
We are looking for more exceptional talent to join our team and help us achieve our vision. We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology giant with a fun and challenging work environment. We have a culture optimized for learning and continuous improvement. We are 10 people with very diverse backgrounds, and growing.
Those shells still inherits genes from the terminal era where metacircularity wasn't affordable. Emacs got a free meal from lisp so it can inspect itself and suggest to the user even in command line style.

Recent shells have done good efforts to provides some kind of typing and deduction to reduce friction. It's always nice to have a listing of /etc/hosts or ssh known hosts in place. Browsers picked this since the coming of 'smart' url-bars.

I hope one day we would go all-alan-kay on this and simply have a meta-capable system that parse/cache relevant data straight from the source so you don't need to do any extra work to make the system understand a bit your additions.