skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It is never more important to be kind than clever. Never.

You're arguing for a world without empathy .. which would in effect, displace humanity as we know it.
well.. not mentioning that had a nice effect on me.

I was like WTF and then the truth kicked in.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Change update frequency in Mountain Lion
The most memorable part of the movie for me was when the interviewer asked Jiro what it takes to be a master of your craft. He started off mumbling standard old-man stuff about hard work, and then he mentioned something I've never heard before, that you should never complain about your job.

I was thinking about this in the context of my teaching. In general teachers complain about their students three times as much as students complain about their teachers. Here's an example, take a look at the Chronicle of Higher Education's forum on teaching:

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php?board=25.0

The overwhelming majority of the activity there consists of complaints about students, with "the thread of teaching despair" currently at 447 pages. There are even entire websites devoted to the practice, like College Misery.

It's not like I've never vented about my job, but I've also always been a bit uneasy with the practice. After reflecting a bit, I think it's because time focused on what other people are doing wrong isn't spent figuring out what you should be doing right.

So as an experiment I'm going to force myself not to complain about any aspect of my job during the coming semester. If I'm happier and better at my craft by the end I'll adopt it as a long-term practice.
Nokia unveils first "Universal" font
Do you hold a short position?
Third Hobbit film name: The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Right now, there aren't any barriers for regular people to raise their meat - if you have some space you can have some chickens there... I don't think changing to a centralized false-meat production and forbidding the free range chicken is the way forward...
Grammatically? Being delibetately misleading is not quite right ethically.
Just FYI, it's a holiday weekend in the U.S. this month, so upvoting the story to help keep it around for a larger audience would be a nice gesture.
San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists.

What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise.

Just kidding.

We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've all built web scale products and scaled them to millions of daily active users with zero marketing spend.

The world is becoming a different place: everyone is going to be carrying around a network connected super computer with ambient sensors in their pockets. We can see the future that is enabled by these devices. We are making that future happen.

Real talk: We've been running our prototype for 3 months now and we all use it multiple times a day, every day. Every person we've showed it to has asked us if they can have it. Every single person who's had it installed has gotten mad when our testflights expire.

We are well funded by a long list of top tier investors: http://angel.co/herelabs

We're looking for a select few product generalists (designer hackers with mobile expertise) and systems generalists (systems automation, machine learning, distributed computing) who can come in and contribute at speed on day one, and who are world class at more than one thing.

Ideal candidates are brilliant, fearless, and passionate individuals who are uncompromising in their pursuit of building an incredible product that will positively affect the lives of every human being every day.

As teammates we value commitment and accountability; honing our craft; building tools to create leverage; and seeking to learn from and understand each other.

We are offering founding team equity and competitive salaries. Retina Macbook Pro (or Air) & 30 inch monitor are standard issue. Office space in the heart of the SoMa district in beautiful San Francisco. Willing to relocate. Willing to fly you in for interviews. Willing to tell you our stealthy secrets.

We are not your typical San Francisco stealth startup. We are NOT another me-too-social-local-sharing app. We DON'T sell condoms by subscription. We are NOT the place to share photos of your dog taking a leak. There will be NO gamification.

Life is short. Build stuff that matters.

Email siqi at herelabs.com. Interns and H1Bs welcome.
Madrid, Spain

Back End Developer / Full time

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Guildda wants to empower companies and individuals to transact in a new way, by disrupting an archaic industry. As Guildda’s Back End Engineer you will be responsible for delivering an amazing, secure, stable, fast experience to our users.

==Attributes of successful candidates will include==

- You are a full-stack developer

- Understands the entire LAMP stack and can contribute to any part of it

- Expert knowledge of server-side languages Python, Ruby, Java or C/C++

- Excellent knowledge of RDBMS systems; ideally MySQL

- Security obsessed

- Love your version control (Git)

- Likes getting hands dirty with 3rd party APIs

- Enjoys prototyping and iterating stuff

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field Back End Engineer

- Accountability, honesty, responsibility, flexibility… and a sense of fun and playfulness

==Responsibilities of the position will include==

- Build from scratch the entire technology architecture

- Be efficient writing code: less is more

- Design and implement Guildda’s core service

- Build a fault tolerant platform

- Work with frontend engineers to plan and implement new ideas and features

- Find and fix performance and reliability issues

You should aim to make working on Guildda just as fun and simple as using it. Few things make you happier than disrupting industries with as few lines of code as possible.

==What we offer==

- Pick your own gear (Mac/PC, OS, editor, etc.)

- Flat organisational structure and no bs

- Competitive salary + bonus

==Want to apply?==

To apply, please send an email with your resume (all in PDF, no LinkedIn URLs please) to the following address jobs@guildda.com with the job’s title as the subject line. Bonus points if you included a link to your Github repository and/or web applications.
Also check out Maxima [1], the GPL'ed version of the venerable computer algebra system DOE Macsyyma, which made the jump to PCs rather late and was therefore overtaken by Maple and Mathematica. Maxima is still under active development, has an community around it, and is available on Linux, Windows and Macs.

[1] http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Bringing knowledge from Haskell to Java
There's a well known technique used by cops (relayed to me by a handful of retired NYC cops that worked security at a former job): you let the small time offenders go, so that they are more willing to help you with the big problems down the line.

One cop explained it like this: "We'd find guys smoking dope on their stoop, say hello, and just keep walking," he told me. "But we'd remember their names and faces. Then, when there was a murder or rape in the neighborhood, we would drive around, pick them up, and say 'Remember when you were smoking dope and we didn't say anything? Well, now we need you to repay the favor. Give me some names...'"

In one sense, it was a way to coerce inside intelligence contacts. In another sense, it was cops recognizing that in a city like NYC, there are bigger problems than someone smoking pot on their doorstep.

Now the internet is the city, and these cops are arresting every jaywalker and litterer they can find. Somehow, I doubt it will turn out well in the long run...
Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600
Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?

You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments.
At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight — a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you!

Dave Hahn dave.hahn@twosigma.com http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
FWIW, looks like FB still has a P/E of 62. That's high, but could be much higher. For reference, however, Google is at 20.

P/E is certainly not the only number that matters, but I think the two companies have a lot in common re: their major profit sources, and it suggests FB has quite a bit of room to go down more if they don't turn things around with eg an especially good quarter.
So, another pretty graph for Heroku, yet no comparison to alternatives due to the total architecture change. The numbers are useless for comparison purpose.
So, three members of Congress did the right thing, and the rest probably don't know what a domain name is.

Seriously, though, this is a step in the right direction and the three authors of that letter are to be commended. Our country seems to have forgotten the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.
I don't think this is the awareness that Apple's competitors want. What Joe SixPack heard this week in the news is that Samsung got its ass kicked by Apple for copying. J6P doesn't understand prior art, voir dire, trade dress, etc. They just know that Samsung is currently on the hook for $1 billion. This makes Samsung look bad, and Apple look good.

Thinking that even 1% of the populace understands patent law, much less how the US legal system functions is going to leave you disappointed. No matter how Samsung tries to spin this, no matter how many articles appear on Groklaw or HN, this is a bad PR scene for Samsung.
But now the people who worked at the small town grocer are out of a job, so you are left with more poor people.
Congrats on re-launching! Could you tell us a little about the tech? I think some folks would be interested in hearing about the node crawler and maybe a little about how it distinguishes indie music from the rest of the content out there.
No, I'm not, and the reason you think I am is because you're not looking at the whole picture. Apple invests it's shareholder dollars in R&D on the promise that they will return on that investment. Apple spent years getting it right, and then Samsung copies the work and spits out a competing product in a fraction of the time. Apple is suing because Samsung stole ideas, and Samsung is leveraging it's business on Apples R&D.

Now, I don't think ideas or design should have a monetary value. But if you live in a world where ideas have currency, then stealing ideas is theft. We need to change the laws so ideas are free to all men. Apple isn't the problem, it's simply the best at navigating the problem.
SEEKING WORK - Brisbane, Australia - Remote/Local

Game/Web developer specialising in:

* node.js

* MongoDB / Redis

* JavaScript / CoffeeScript

* HTML / CSS

* WebGL

* WebSocket

http://github.com/feisty
Accelerate Startup Growth by Looking Outside the Box
Nginx and Lua
IOS 6 now opens iTunes Store links in Context menu
I prefer Friday launches. If crap hits the fan I would rather fix on Sat/Sun vs the Monday morning rush.
Meteor 0.4.0 released with new page update engine
Firehose.io, Realtime application gem for Rails
Samsung is considered one of the most corrupt companies in Korea. Google "samsung corruption" for enlightenment.

And thinking that this isn't exactly what Steve Jobs wanted to do had he lived is ignoring his explicit statements on the subject.

All of this garment rending and teeth gnashing seems to be due to people getting far too emotionally invested in the companies involved. Apple is just a company, its products won't fill the hole in your life. Samsung too is just a company, not some Quixote tilting at windmills.
I realize this is likely a tongue-in-cheek response, but I wouldn't have touched (and didn't) the FB IPO from either a long or short position. Too much emotion and too much hype.

Even if I believed the stock was grossly over priced it would have been silly to take a short position because the stock was and is quite capable of spiking hugely. In this case you might be correct about the value of the stock but can still be taken out the market due to "irrational" movements in the price.

The "real" value of FB starts becoming "realistic" somewhere below 10 and unless FB announce some major improvement in revenue generation I just cannot see FB going anywhere but south in the short term.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web interface designer currently in Tokyo. I work with companies around the world on visual design, application design and usability.

HTML5 / CSS3 (Sass, Stylus, Less, Bootstrap) / Photoshop

http://nylira.com
I get exceptions when trying it with both my regular Gmail account and my Google Apps for Domains account:

GET http://inboxpause.baydin.com/createlabel?guser=xxx@gmail.com 403 (FORBIDDEN)

GET http://inboxpause.baydin.com/createlabel?guser=xxx@gmail.com 403 (FORBIDDEN)

Uncaught ReferenceError: show_authentication_error is not defined

Any ideas?
The Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Arrested in Cambodia
"Samsung is leveraging its business on Apple's R&D."

Samsung is leveraging its business on Google's R&D. With Google's consent. Fixed that for you.
Provo, UT - Remote, Full-time

SpinGo - Front End Software Engineer

Who We Are: The SpinGo Event Platform is the optimal ecosystem for events in the digital age. It is comprised of a comprehensive and dynamic database of events, calendar applications rich with features, and an ever-expanding partner network. We we work closely with closely with venues to obtain event information directly from the source, and to help them promote their events.

Who You Are: The Front End Software Engineer will develop high quality user interfaces to meet the needs of our users. You will help improve our main calendar product to help users find events and build tools to help users submit and promote events and manage calendars. You have the skills to build pixel-perfect cross-browser interfaces that provide the best user experience. You will work with other engineers and team members to build scalable web applications. You are self-motivated, give accurate estimates and deliver quality code on-time.

Required Qualifications

- BS in a Software Development Field or Equivalent Work Experience

- Ability to use critical thinking skills to solve front-end development problems

- Several years experience developing cross-browser web applications

- Expert in JavaScript, HTML and CSS (experience with SASS a plus)

- Advanced skills in a server-side interpreted language (PHP, Python, Ruby, NodeJS, etc)

- Advanced knowledge of MVC-based architecture and frameworks

- Intermediate experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL

Compensation: $60K-$80K/year, flexible schedule with benefits

More details at http://www.spingo.com/jobs. To apply email devjobs@spingo.com
Again, that may be an act of war, but since it's not against it's own people, it's not Orwellian.
SEEKING WORK - New York - Remote/Local

Python, Django, Javascript, Backbone, HTML/CSS

Have been working on Gigsmash (https://www.gigsmash.com) for about a year. Haven't gotten a lot of traction on that yet, so also looking to freelance.

These pages would probably be best to check out as examples, since most search locations on site don't have much data yet.

https://www.gigsmash.com/vt/burlington
https://www.gigsmash.com/vt/burlington/map
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics...

...

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

...

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
I had mistakenly activated the mobile ad option in my company's google ads account. We had about 5-10 calls a day coming from mobile ads, and 100% were accidental. In fact, we had to track down the source for all these calls for weeks, because it didn't make any sense to anyone (neither us or the callers).

After that I carefully digged through all of our google ads activity. I finally deactivated absolutely all automatic placement and authorized only the main search page and a few selected sites, because none of the placements made any sense. Most of the clicks came from video pirating site and the likes.

My impression now is that 80% of all web ads are slightly disguised scam, and completely useless unless you're selling stuff targeted to the most clueless, naive consumers (ringtones, phone games and the like).
SEEKING WORK - China - Remote

Backend developer:

* C/C++

* Python

* node.js

* JS / Coffee

http://zdwalter.info
> but it's not like the western cultures treat women well

It doesn't make any difference - at all. If I am a wife beater, that doesn't validate your wife beating.

> and if a TV show just focuses on FGM

I missed the part where anyone mentioned media exclusively focused on FGM.

> neat excuse to bash certain races,

Say I start a TV show whose sole purpose is to bash a certain race which does FGM. I have no altruistic motives. I am driven by hate.

So fucking what? How does any of it make FGM sacred, so much as anyone saying something against it is a racist?

> at the same time providing men with a neat way of dismissing their own sexism as "not proper sexism".

Good thing that there are more than 1 bullet points for defining sexism. Besides, I have never seen anyone come up with an excuse that a certain tribe in a different part of the world treats their wives as a commodity, hence I can ask you to make a sandwich and that won't be sexism. If there are people who make this argument, they would already be doing it. Things worse than FGM exist in different parts of world. Those things didn't give anyone excuse for their sexism - FGM won't either. Your concerns are imaginary.

> unless it's either a victim or an established feminist who was doing both this and intersectionality of gender and race oppression advocacy, I will suspect bringing up FGM is just a racist way to silence feminist.

That is ridiculous. Unless you were among the civilians bombed by the drone, I will suspect this is your excuse for bashing US. See how absurd that is? And for the third time, my dishonesty doesn't automatically make you genuine.
Thanks for your answer. The last example was really an exaggeration.

"Most false positives i've seen are culture fit or motivation issues, not technical capability ones."

Interesting. Well, "everybody wants" to work at Google, but usually the way companies work is opaque to the outside (but then again, it's supposed to be like that usually)

Even though the interview is certainly intended to remove people that may not be a great fit (because of the time it takes, for a start) maybe something could be done in that respect

I've seen it all and some technical people really aren't a fit to certain cultures. Not to mention some work environments are the opposite of Google and bringing people from those environments may be a challenge.
it sounds too low mainly the accidentals, I thought it was more around 50-60% and another 20-30% fraud. All in all 70-90% BS clicks
While I don't agree with a lot of what twitter has been doing lately, they seem like the only company out there that has a non-gimmicky way of delivering mobile ads. If they can actually tune their ad delivery to be relevant to the user--which I think they have a chance of doing better than most--they may actually pull off mobile advertising. If Google can retain the search result screen real estate they also have a chance here--but delivering at most one ad per search.

I think that expectations related to advertising revenue will undergo a big adjustment due to mobile. You simply don't have the same amount of screen real estate to display ads on mobile without resorting to gimmicks, and so the overall pie is shrinking rapidly.

Email marketing is the one type of marketing that I think still works just as well on mobile--each (opted-in) marketing offer in my email still gets 100% of the screen real estate... and my full attention for a few seconds.
And all 3 of them are very familiar names from the SOPA opposition...
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SEEKING WORK - Remote

HTML5 developer. Preferably for games using Canvas.

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

http://git.io/amaan
Boulder, CO - Full Time - http://markitondemand.com/

Markit On Demand

Markit On Demand is a design driven technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. We’re part of Markit, a global financial information company that’s headquartered in London. Here in Boulder, where the sun shines 300 days a year, we have a team of 400+ professionals dedicated to the presentation of financial content and data for our clients in the Financial Services, Media and Healthcare industries. On any given day, you might work with a colleague in New York, a retail brokerage in the US, a newspaper in Germany, a bank in Africa, or throw ideas around with an economist in our London office. And that’s before you meet up with co-workers for a foothills hike or a brewery happy hour tour. We're looking for developers and engineers up and down the stack at all levels.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web Developer { Pune, India }

- HTML5/ CSS3

- JS/Jquery

- Python/ Django

- PostgreSQL

- PHP/ MYSQL

http://github.com/bkvirendra
code with me maybe

I threw some code into Vim,
Don't ask me, can't share the source,
I looked at it was so proud,
And now I want to do some more

I'd trade my soul for a chance,
bytes and bits for a gig
I have been looking for this,
But now you're here reading

Your app is awesome',
went there, saw the source'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Gonna clone this repo, maybe?

Hey, you don't know me,
And this is crazy,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

It's hard to think right,
At your github,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

Hey, you don't know me,
And this is crazy,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

And all the companies,
Try to chase me,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

You took your time with the email,
I took no time with the code
You gave me no problem at all,
But still, you're in my github

I beg, and borrow and steal
Have foresight and it's real
I didn't know I would feel it,
But it's in my way

Your app is awesome',
went there, saw the source'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Gonna push to this repo, maybe?

Hey, you don't know me,
And this is crazy,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

It's hard to think right,
At your github,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

Hey, you don't know me,
And this is crazy,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

And all the companies,
Try to chase me,
But here's my email,
So write me, maybe?

email in profile. american citizen
remote only
php/python/js/arduino/bootstrap
$100/hr for dev work
$899/hr for growth hacking
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