skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notting Hill, London, England.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux, Windows, and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. We expect developers to be generalising specialists, ready at the drop of a hat to refine an algorithm, write a tricky integration test, tune a SQL query, or discuss feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles including front- and back-end devs, sysadmin, and IT admin.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homewares and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 65 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.
San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time

Stealth, not your typical X-for-Y-type startup - consumer web / mobile

# Designers
# Engineers (Full-stack / Frontend or Backend)
# Mobile Developers
# Data Scientists (Search / NLP)

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We are a funded startup fundamentally changing how people interact with online services. We combine UX/UI innovation with data algorithms to allow users to accomplish tasks in a more usable, efficient, and social manner. If you're interested in making a product that people will use everyday, then you should check us out!

We work mainly with JS (jquery and node.js) and HTML5. Mobile developers should be familiar with iOS/Android.

Curious? Contact [my username] at alum.mit.edu. Please including your portfolio!
I don't see any harm in having a little fun on ridiculous pull requests/issues. On legitimate issues it could be annoying.
It should be noted that the Android Tools get better with every release, and that it can display and edit XML you have created. I recommend watching this video about recently shipped and upcoming functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erd2k6EKxCQ - if you only have a few seconds then watch 30 seconds starting at 22 minutes in.

Out of curiousity how do you handle "pixel perfect" layouts on iOS in the face of diversity (screen sizes, orientation, languages)? As a simple example German text is typically 25% larger than the equivalent English text.

One thing that amuses me while doing Android (Java) development is just how much of the code Eclipse writes for me. You just put in what you really want to type and then the various tools come in and "fix" it for you. This of course is an indication of just how much boilerplate there is.
There are a number of sites that have historically shown simple counters for downloads etc, and Mendeley is one of them, but Academia.edu has led the way in terms of building a powerful analytics product that shows analytics for a scientist's research at a relatively deep level - traffic by country, search engine, and a variety of other dimensions.

Mendeley's Institutional Edition is completely different. It's an analytics tool for libraries, not for individual scientists.
Any risk of a repeat of the Khmer Rouge?
This application is very, very simple; it's a practically the starting skeleton of a modern Rails/Devise application.

One useful reason to bookmark it: it's a pretty good how-to for "any web application whose purpose is to spit out PDF files that need to follow a specific format". There are a LOT of business processes that work like that.
The first link on the Yahoo Finance page for FB:

"It’s Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook’s IPO Prospectus or Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Shareholders": http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/becoming-clear-n...
Still a CS student, WP was just a "funny or die" adventure for last summer. For now, I do client work and sharpen my axe with Haskell.

I wish I had an interesting idea for a web product.
A nice feature of Inbox Pause is that it will actually prevent messages from being sent to your phone or mobile device. So, its truly a break from email. Additionally, if you have a huge pile of email you need to work through without the distractions of new incoming mail, closing Gmail isn't really an option.
Is causing accidents in self-driving cars going to be any more a target than causing accidents in human-driven cars? Seems you could already wreak a lot of havoc with rush-hour traffic if you really wanted to. Blinding/distracting drivers, obstacles, maybe little bombs?
Bit off topic but you might want to 301 redirect to the right page instead of just disallowing search engines on your subdomains. This way if someone links to the wrong page you will still get the link juice.

I might have misunderstood that first bit though, since it looks like you do redirect anyway.
It's nice to see how tight the lua integration into nginx is. It reminds me of Apache and mod_perl.
Unfortunately, being in Germany and using desktop-grade hardware means high latency and (comparatively) high failure rates. That's why it's cheap.
Generally when I'm doing symbolic math, it's as a supplement to computation, not as a replacement. In such cases, speed doesn't matter so much.

To take a specific example, think about solving a set of differential equations. The Sundials suite provides an excellent, fast numerical implementation of the popular BDF algorithm. So why would you ever want to do a slower symbolic manipulation of the problem?

First, to get insight into how the BDF solver works when applied to a class of problems, you might express the problem symbolically, apply the algorithm symbolically, and play around with the resulting expressions. This might help you choose tolerances, decide how to express your problem (e.g., to avoid catastrophic roundoff errors), or design a new algorithm geared to your particular problem.

Second, you might use symbolic algebra to derive the Jacobian matrix of derivatives for your problem, then code that Jacobian up for Sundials to use during numerical solution. This would speed up the numerics by giving it a faster, more accurate way to find the Jacobian than doing so numerically.

In both cases, symbolic algebra is not used to find a particular numerical result, but to improve the use of numerical code for solving particular problems.
You mean beyond the ambient risk of violent revolutions in non-industrialized companies? Probably not, no.
Wait even better, we could put some kind of border around the screen that isn't responsive!
> Would you, for example, feel the same way about publishing a book if you had no right to keep other people from putting their name on it and claiming it as their own? Or would you rather not have that choice at all?

I'd like to point out here that in most countries, copyrights and moral rights are legally entirely separate.

Moral rights (the right to be recognized as the creator of a work, and in certain circumstances the right to dis-avow your involvement with a work, if it has been modified in certain ways for example) are generally non-transferable, for example.

Trying to conflate the two to argue against someone's belief that reproduction / copying a work is ok is thus rather meaningless - we can easily enough have one without the other.
Instincts are all well and good. The problems arise when they get out of control: whether it's the instinct for food, the instinct for sex, the instinct for more, the instinct for curiosity. When you are in control of your instincts, things work. When your instincts run you, you're headed for trouble.

Greed, under control, can be valuable. Greed uber alles, leads to parasites like Romney getting filthily richer by doing things like bankrupting KP Toys.
Works nice on my Nexus7
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We have a number of engineering positions opened.

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I'm a fulltime freelancer specializing in Rails and iOS development. I also have extensive experience with Android, Python and PHP.

I've been responsible for an entire stack before: system administration, database, as well as client-side development.

My resume contains examples of my work: http://clvr.im/Qpy4Tk

I am available immediately for short as well as long term projects.
No, that's good info, thanks for writing it up.

Speaking for myself, I did city college then transferred to UC. The difference in the quality of education was minimal, but the difference in the quality of the students was pretty significant. Even then, there were many very intelligent people who could get good grades but seemed to be going through the motions and learning at a pretty superficial level.

I think there are a few things that benefit a society as a whole: roads/power/infrastructure, fire/police depts, arguably healthcare, arguably a standing military, others--I think education is definitely one of those. Education can mean different things to different people, but I tend to think of it as the ability to efficiently obtain the information/expertise necessary to pursue large goals.

For example, if I want to build a new kind of car, there's all kinds of stuff I need to learn. Traditionally, I might go to a university known for doing good car research and I might learn enough to get a degree. The knowledge I've acquired in the pursuit of this degree does not necessarily represent the optimal knowledge mix for achieving my goals. Therefore, I've always viewed 'school' in general as a subpar use of my time--probably why I did so crappy in school. Instead, I've been interested in the minimum viable education needed to achieve my specific goals. This doesn't mean a superficial study of the topics, it means narrowing the focus to the areas that are key for accomplishing specific goals.

MOOCs seem to be a great way to do this--a happy medium between a linear education and random internet research. An additional benefit is that it can bring high quality education to the whole world for little to no marginal cost. Like I said, I think education lifts all boats, and this applies to educating the world as a whole also. The world will still need teachers, but it will be less of them, as you suggest.
Hacks like this are commonly available. Back when I was working with Wordpress more, I saw them a few times. What's kind of cool when you see them is that they're often obfuscated several layers deep, so getting to the code is kind of like a puzzle.
The Dog and the Frisbee
I did some AI consulting work with Forward last year along with Evgeny - lovely crowd, fast growing company, lots of projects. They've got a super-nice work environment too. Worth contacting if you're around North London.
> This news about the lack of bezel is the first sign that Google might be willing to use Motorola as a test lab for weird innovation.

I think this is more about avoiding Apple's design patents. I'm pretty sure that a rectangular bezel was one of them.
Everyone is moving back to the city. In Vancouver there was a long gap where there was no commercial building development in the downtown core, and there was even a short period where they were converting commercial buildings to residential, but there is a significant amount of commercial construction now.

The western Canadian telecom Telus is building[1] a new HQ downtown and is moving there from their current building in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. The Telus Garden complex will have a residential component as well, and their employees were offered priority and a bit of a deal on units in it. It sold out pretty much instantly.[2]

[1]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-n...
[2]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/teluss-...
Harvard Students in Cheating Scandal Say Collaboration Was Accepted
A real piece of work. I hadn't seen his wiki article before I watched him debate Peter Thiel on "Accelerating or Decelerating? Prospects for technology and economic growth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc
Because if you don't show up they could send you to jail anyway without you having had a chance to make full defense?
Mountain View, CA

drchrono: Improving Healthcare via our iPad/iPhone certified EHR for private practice doctors and patients.

1) FTE: Graphic Designer with strong product focus

2) FTE: Server side Python/Django engineers: Junior and Senior level

3) FTE: iOS Developers: Join the best of the best in the healthcare space.

4) Sales: Hiring entry level sales evangelists.

Read more at: https://drchrono.com/jobs

Take our 1 hour hacker test here: http://goo.gl/3oVVo
If you get a good score on the test you'll get a call from us.
What would be interesting is a follow-up 15 years later. Would be really cool if she turned out to be a programming monster.
The job page says what we're looking for pretty well: interesting side projects are a huge plus, as is being an expert at whatever tools you've used in the past.
Don't. Write it in Javascript and serve it around the store with no ristrictions. That way you can later wrap it in phonegab and ship it to both platforms.
San Jose: software engineers, storage experience a plus

Nimble Storage, the fastest-growing storage start-up in history. Located in San Jose, CA, Nimble has developed breakthrough architecture that combines flash memory with high-capacity disk to converge storage, backup, and disaster recovery for the first time.

Nimble was founded by storage industry veterans from NetApp and Data Domain, and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Lightspeed Ventures, three of the most successful and respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
Most countries separate moral rights (to be recognized as the creator of the work) from duplication rights in various ways. Moral rights are usually not transferable for example.

There's no reason why we can not enforce the two differently.

Especially seeing as there seem to be much less interest in violating authors moral rights - most pirated works retain the original credits. I would hazard a guess that most people would in fact be far more opposed to violations of a creators moral rights than of duplication rights.
> I just moved to NYC from California a year ago. In many ways my quality of life has shot way up. You can't beat the transportation, food, culture, and intelligent, diverse population.

I concede that NYC has the best public transportation in the country, but you must have been living in the sticks in California if you think that you can't find "food, culture, and intelligent, diverse population" there.
Unnecessarily snarky :) You've just opened up your entire "comments" section to attack by the grammar police. Be warned...
You can still get H1 transfers anytime
Are you recruiting for the team in India?
I like that idea, I could definitely see it being helpful. I've type cd.. too many times when I meant to say cd ..
"Like honestly, If you aren’t all about it, don’t do it."

Bad advice.
And send movie playback, which doesn't need touch, back to postage stamp territory!
The thing that shocks me the most about this whole situation is how hackers also bought into the hype about potential revenues. Any forum administrator could tell you that running an ad-supported social network is a not such a great business plan.
I don't think Facebook is doomed to die, but I believe it(along with other free social networks) will soon be found out as very poor businesses.
Laugh now, but someone will pull it off one day.
OP, your piece begs the question:
"What are you going to do about it?"
San Francisco, Barcelona, Tokyo - Midokura

Distributed systems, and networking developers / Front-End Developers / Integration Engineers / Sales Engineers

What we do: Distributed, de-centralized, software-defined virtual networks as a service for infrastructure as a service clouds. (SDN, Network Virtualization)

That's a lot of words, basically we're building scalable virtual networking for public and private clouds based on OpenStack and CloudStack. We're a team of 22 spread across 3 offices (Tokyo, Barcelona, and SF). We're venture backed, and hoping to grow our team to ~50 by the end of next year.

We are offering competitive salaries, great benefits, and pre-IPO stock options. Since we're located in three great cities, you'll get to travel the world to work with teammates from the other offices.

We are challenging ourselves and learning things everyday, and want to find members who enjoy these challenges to join our great team.

Email adam at midokura.com. Interns and H1Bs welcome.
Uncompiled source code is available here: https://github.com/shaunew/Pac-Man/
Selecting a Programming Environment
We only have resources of one planet to share among the entire population, so I think it's safe to say that it is a zero-sum game.

Assuming of course, we don't end up going into space.
New York, NY

Assistant Project Manager, helping build iOS and Web games for the US's biggest kids publisher. One part project management, one part game designer, one part community manager. Entry level or intern okay, but you need to be available on-site in New York.
Any chance for an intern position? I've checked the career page like 20 times with no luck.
WebAction (http://www.webaction.com) - Full time or intern in Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto). Seeking UI developers and Platform Engineers.

WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today.
We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

UI or front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and should be experienced or at least interested in using JS libraries like d3.js. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus. Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.

For the Platform Engineer position, you should have or at least be interested in learning:
Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested, email us at jobs@webaction.com. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.
Learning Android Development
Hello, I started a blog on learning Android development and plan on updating it each day. I'm fairly new to programming but have the basics down. I've made some small games in python before.

Questions and suggestions as to what tutorials to follow are very welcome, right now I'll focus on Android Training from developer.android. Thanks!
Infographic: A History Of Space Exploration
Nice post, OP. Reminded me of this:

Good umpire: I call 'em as I see 'em.
Better umpire: I call 'em as they are.
Best umpire: They aren't anything until I call 'em.

Similarly:

Good founder: I think it was a bad idea.
Better founder: I know it was a bad idea.
Best founder: It doesn't become a bad idea until I stop working on it.
SEEKING WORK or a contractor position. Remote.

I will relocate to Sweden soon, but can't speak Swedish - that is the problem. I'm system engineer with 15+ years in the field.

site: http://karma-engineering.com/lab/

contacts: schiptsov at gmail.com
I love the idea of driverless cars; it is nevertheless important to note that hacking might replace drunk driving as the #1 cause of deaths on the road.
How so? I didn't even mention the word "Apple" in my post. I just purchased a Macbook Air, I like Apple. This has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with a broken patent process.
I'm sorry. I'm actually a little dyslexic and if a wrong word slips by the spell check I can get myself in trouble. s/deference/dereference/.

Consider:
my $x = [1,2,3];
print "@$x\n";

In the second line I consider "$" dereferencing the "address" that points to an array. I don't know anything about the internals of Perl virtual machine and what that "address" really means. But to the common programmer it seems like you have to do the same work you would have do in C dereferencing pointers. Python and Ruby have no such operator, right? This unnecessary work is what I'm complaining about (and all the associated extra syntax).
Prior Knowledge (SF) [H1-B, interns ok]

Full Time, Distributed Systems Developers and Machine Learning Experts -- and anyone with a passion for posteriors.

P(K) is a small team in downtown San Francisco pushing the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning to the masses. Our first product is Veritable, a predictive database. We like to think of it as a database for things you don't (yet) know.

We're passionate about discovering the hidden causes behind data, and are currently split pretty evenly between machine learning experts, scalable systems engineers, and people used to working with horribly messy, complex, and sparse data. We're backed by Peter Thiel's group, Founders Fund, who share our commitment to long-term technical innovation.

http://priorknowledge.com/join-us describes a bit more about what we're looking for, and you can always e-mail me (jonas@priorknowledge.com) for more info! Or swing by our offices at the intersection of 3rd and Market to meet the team.
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Graphic Designer specializing in both print and web. From logo design to business cards to web sites, I can help you out. Fair rates and quick turnaround. Check out my portfolio: http://angelanoble.com/ and drop me a line: http://angelanoble.com/Contact.html
No. Sorry :(

Only for the New York headquarters at the moment.
I can imagine a scenario where we wanted a sub-domain which didn't redirect, but also wasn't crawlable. But I agree the example is a little bit contrived ;)
Since he only got 12 months of jail time, he can't get released early, and thus has to serve his full sentence.
Spoken as someone who is ignorant of the horrors of being in jail for extended periods.
The other side effect is that the driverless cars behaving like that will help reduce congestion! See the experiments and data at http://trafficwaves.org - note he does talk about "aggressive" drivers taking advantage and how effective it actually is.

And all these self driving cars have cameras and black boxes. It would be simple to prove that someone (or something) has been driving like a dick. That isn't illegal yet ...