skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely if Scotland chose to leave Great Britain, it would still remain Great Britain?
Yes, it has Flash, according to this picture: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6400/120186.3c/0_a7271_80287e...
Never make such claims without providing sources.
The problem is that what Notch is saying is terribly unclear. Is he talking about the desktop game or about Windows RT? The two tweets are pretty ambiguous, and so it may seem to some that Notch is trying to cash in on the publicity with this while happily contributing to the death of the PC by selling the iPad version.

Here's an excellent series of articles about the confusion that Notch needs to clear up.

http://www.withinwindows.com/2012/09/28/notch-doesnt-hate-wi...
1. A Lovecraft anthology
2. Programming Clojure (Stuart Halloway)

Both books make me dream.
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The Dutch think-of-the-children 1970's campaign resulted in the great cycling infrastructure we have now.... A far cry from such a here's-some-body-armour-if-you-want-to-commit-suicide law.

My kids are 8 and 10 and cycle 1km to school each day without me or my wife riding along. And that's a mix of regular streets, cycle paths and residential areas. I feel pretty thankful to the ones campaigning in the 70s!
Not to draw attention away from their servers which are damn nice. This is what I call server porn:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_sy...

40TB of data in RAM, 220TB on Flash. 1.5 million IOPS.
Did they have training in place to fill the knowledge gap or (as I fear may be the case) was it considered your problem? What areas did you lack knowledge? I did an EEE degree too so interested to know as I went straight into launching a startup/company
Thanks, that was hilarious.

>We're a kitsune-velociraptor otherkin median system.[...]

Pure comedy gold!
Apologies. Didn't realise it was previously posted. I was under the impression HN prevents you from linking the same article twice.
Also they licensed Opera Store (http://apps.opera.com ) for Yandex Store for Android (http://store.yandex.com ).
Hi,

I'm not 100% on the encryption scheme BBM uses, but currently all communications for Flip, between the client and the server, are done over https (which was a pain in the arse to get approval for in the App Store).

Also, every request from the client is authenticated with a key generated on the client side, and both key, phone numbers, are encrypted and salted on the server side.

From what I understood, for a long time whatsapp was plain text communications, and I remember there being a debacle where whatsapp passwords were just device UUIDs, which weren't encrypted or salted (so I made sure both these weren't the case with Flip).

As for Flip not being on Android, yes unfortunately I haven't had time to implement an Android version. I work full time, so it's taken me close to 9 months just to get the iPhone version released, so I'm hesitant to spend more time unless the iPhone version does well (and besides, Instagram was iPhone only for a long time :) )

Thanks
Jerrold
It will be interesting to see what happens when/if things like this become more widespread.

How will the internet backbone cope if 90% of the traffic is being routed via China/Russia?
Then what are they complaining about ? If you don't care about France, just leave
Great Britain is the island. Scotland would find it very hard to leave it.
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Developer (frontend + backend) & Interface Designer

I consider myself both a coder and designer, but I don't half-ass know things -- I'm pretty experienced in both realms. I've done everything from designing the UX/UI for brand new products to building distributed systems on Amazon EC2/SQS/SMS.

A few projects (happy to discuss details via email):

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- Self project: http://photobattle.me/ (Rails + front-end + design)

- Self project: http://craftingtype.com/ (Designed site, copywriting/newsletter, co-organized event)

- I've worked on Carbonmade (http://carbonmade.com/), TestFlight (https://testflightapp.com/), Yardstick (http://getyardstick.com/), and many projects with Lift (http://www.liftinteractive.com/)

Experience with:

- Python, Django

- Ruby, Rails, Sinatra

- JavaScript (including large apps, jQuery, some Backbone, etc)

- HTML / CSS (including responsive design)

- Interface Design

- Some iOS development (the Carbonmade app I worked on just launched! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carbonmade/id551454081?mt=8)

- Totally comfy with git, command line, and sysadmin stuff

I've dabbled in a bunch of other languages and am pretty quick to pickup & be productive in new tech.

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No that's plain wrong. Microsoft is demanding that only for Windows RT tablets. The same manufacturer is free to make tablets that run Android or Ubuntu or whatever.
HN readers who dont know the person? I really dont think so. It hardly qualifies as news anyways.
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Full stack developer, mainly looking for front end work for desktop and mobile. A lot of work in Javascript.

Co-started http://cdnjs.com
Started http://backbonetutorials.com

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http://thomasdavis.github.com
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This looks like a good idea. I could certainly see myself using this. It isn't clear from the presentation, but it would be a real annoyance if it only works with ios, as this puts a limit on who my son can mail with this app.
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Cute idea. Checked out the video linked in the comments, looks like a fun app for kids.
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Almighty is looking for a web developer. We love generalist but execute most of our client work in PHP.

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UK-based Full-stack consultant engineer; PHP/MySQL, capable HTML/JS (medium-level design skills). 2-4 years expereicne in consultancy, ~10 years programming experience.

Experience in building websites for SME's all the way up to enterprise development projects.

Rates charged on a per-project basis; I offer a premium service based on competence, reliablity and experience. Email me to discuss your requirements and I will figure out how much value I can deliver! Hourly/Daily rates also available for small projects.

References and examples of work available on request.

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AdGear - Montreal, Canada - full-time

We're looking for a ruby/ror dev to work on adgear's admin consoles.

We're also looking for a product designer/front-end developer.

Details for both can be found here: http://www.adgear.com/jobs/

Please submit applications (code/github, portfolio/samples, etc.) to jobs@adgear.com
Knewton (Union Square, NYC, full-time) is hiring for the following:

-> Software Engineer (platform team)

-> Infrastructure Software Engineer (systems team)

-> Data Scientist (data science team)

-> Adaptive Instruction Analyst (data science team)

http://www.knewton.com/jobs/

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Knewton is building the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine, with the goal of making personalized and engaging education available to all. Knewton has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work with and learn from the world's best engineers and data scientists.

Our software engineers have:

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Not required but highly desired are:

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Perks include:

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To increase your dollars per conversion:
You need to add other travel related services that pay an affiliate commission. Some examples are:

Taxi/Limo services
Concierge Services
Meal vouchers/deals
Airline tickets
Tour packages
etc.

To increase your conversion rate:
Get a valid SSL certificate and redirect all visitors to SSL via .htaccess
Remove or minimize everything on the homepage not related to conversion (with the exception of the G+ and FB buttons). Use Groupon as an an extreme example of this.
Start a Adwords remarketing campaign to follow your unconverted visitors as thet browse other sites in the Google Content network.

Those are the things that immediately come to mind.
So in a million year, people will still have "a computer with the right software" ?

This is useless until they find an "intuitive" way to store
the process to decode the binary data into something readable.
The countries that show the most hits are the ones that have the most honeypots. Thus showing the attacks geographically, while cool-looking, doesn't provide a lot of value.

Maybe they could normalize the regions by including the ratio of honeypots to Interent-connected computers.
I'm not sure that's an apples to apples (so to speak) comparison. How is it any different with Apple not only locking down the software but also locking out any competing hardware versus Microsoft letting multiple partners make hardware with locked down software? It patently is Microsoft's business to demand hardware makers follow the rules of their software agreement. If hardware makers don't like it, they can make Android tablets. Microsoft isn't the only player in the game, and in fact they are the least successful player in the game. This isn't the 90s, and Microsoft doesn't control the world anymore. There's choice.

Let's not forget that Apple's locked down hardware and software combination is what started this whole craze.
Some ideas:

1. Charge the hotel for each lead generated
After the initial search, ask for the user email and phone number. Sell this number to the hotels.
But probably your users will not like that...

2. How much do you make on commissions (on %)?
Lets say a hotel room would cost $1000 and you make 10% on commissions.
Then, instead of quoting the price as $1000, you show the price as $990. You book the room for $900 (1000 minus your commission) and make $90 on commissions (instead of $100)
On your site you can charge for accommodations only and all other expenses (drinks, food, etc) would be paid on the hotel.
Helmets better than no helmets is not necessarily true, strangely. Perhaps on an individual right-now level, but not long term. The reason: the biggest protection you can have as a cyclist is lots of cyclists on the road. Helmets lower bike use, so in the end you'll be a lone, vulnerable road warrior...

Btw, would you also wear your cycling helmet while walking on the pavement as a pedestrian? At least in the Netherlands there are more head injuries for pedestrians that fall or hit something than cycling-related head injuries. :-)
There is no cut for Microsoft for desktop apps while Apple takes a cut for OS X apps sold from the app store. But for desktop apps in the Windows Store, it will be only linked to the dev's website. Downloads and updates are handled by the developer.
As good as it may be, I have a hard time seeing this grow beyond Mozilla browsers, what with their reliance on browserid
Prezi.com hires hardcoders for multiplatform
Whilst not a topic that I'd normally post on, but are the people in these images aware that they're being recorded? I don't really care but someone might.
There's a Coursera course by Martin Odersky going on at the moment (https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index).
MarkLogic is looking for consultants and engineers

http://www.marklogic.com/company/career-opportunities/

knowing bigdata tech (hadoop) a big plus
Are You Delusional | Socyberty
Existing pedestrian facilities are simply unsuitable for cyclists.

My regular 3km ride to the shops takes me about five minutes by bicycle. If I had to ride in the footway with pedestrians, I would be faced with two choices - either to recklessly continue at each junction and cross the road at speed, or to stop and start like a pedestrian. Doing the former would quickly prove fatal, the latter would increase my journey time fourfold.

Most footways are far too narrow, too tightly radiused and contain substantial amounts of furniture like lighting and mailboxes, which pose no danger to pedestrians but are a potentially fatal hazard to cyclists.

It also bears pointing out that European roads were built for cyclists, not motorcars. The invention of the safety bicycle prompted the widespread development of smoothly surfaced roads. Motorcar traffic represented a minority of journeys in most of Europe until long after the Second World War. Bicycles are perfectly well suited to the narrow streets of old towns, it is the motorcar that is out of place; Many enlightened local authorities are making the sensible decision to prohibit non-essential motor vehicles from town centres, improving conditions for both cyclists and pedestrians.

There is no infrastructure problem. There are many cities with substantial amounts of cycling infrastructure but low rates of cycling and poor safety; There are many cities with practically no infrastructure but huge numbers of cyclists and very good safety.
That's what the Javascript shim is for.
In a fire there is little difference.
> ...but you require that libraries you contribute to are well documented.

You misread me. I almost never read the docs because they suck more often than not. I start from example and test source code and almost always end up reading parts or most of the source code.
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Our team is 30 software engineers and 10 test engineers powering a 800 person, $100MM company that serves over 30K small businesses today. You will make a large impact on the success of Yodle and our clients. You will have the full context of the strategic business problems and goals, and be challenged with figuring out how to solve them.
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They are it's not something to rejoice about...
"“Seen from abroad, France is the last country where an entrepreneur wants to go,” Marc Simoncini, the founder of French dating site Meetic. com, said in an interview on BFM TV last week.

“I don’t know of any British person who’s come to set up a business in France. But I know plenty of young French people who’ve gone to London to do that.”"
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/14/french-entrepre...
Constant Contact is hiring full time (remote possible) for the following:

Waltham MA or Bay Area -- Principal Software Engineer and Sr Software Engineer (java, ruby, javascript, iOS, android, etc)

Waltham MA or Bay Area -- Software Architect

Many more on the website, it's actually a very cool place to work.
http://jobs.constantcontact.com/careers/software-development...
I recall slashdot back in the early days, very shortly afterwards a small company called google was also formed. Even though I'm approaching 50 years myself it is stories like this that makes me feel old.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. MillMobile is about to launch a unique mobile audience targeting platform and is seeking developers to help us scale up. We have international customers and an international ambition. Want to be part of a fast growing startup, with a hands on mentality and working with innovative technology? Mail us at info@millmobile.com

We are looking for (fulltime) front end developers, iOS, and Android developers and two :

Software engineer - systems
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain high-performance, scalable systems
Improve the reliability and efficiency of our core systems
Support our internal APIs and user-facing products
Develop elegant solutions to complex problems
Code using Clojure, Ruby

Requirements:
Extensive experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance
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Experience with databases like Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, Postgres, or Ruby on Rails
Contributions to the open-source community
You can subscribe to http://hackernewsletter.com. I hear that it helps some folks with the HN addiction.
Show HN: We finally launched our site/sweet WebGL Particles
Last week we (Type/Code) finally launched a site, and with it, an updated particles demo - this time in WebGL!

Check it out, and lemme know if find any bugs or typos!

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Lots of countries gave up bothering, like Germany where everything is top level now but used not to be. There is not even a standard for what the second level abbreviations are (eg .com.au vs .co.uk).
I don’t think you should respond to data with anecdotes. That’s not very useful.

You might be using a train connection that – for whatever reason (construction work, etc.) – is consistently late. Sucks for you, doesn’t mean train in Germany are in general late. Most are on time.
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Doubtful. It's quite sufficient that their past careers got them into the habit of thinking of strong patents as good, and their friends (who have opinions on the matter) all feel the same way.
That's a really clear explanation.

Most of the incumbents I know of in Europe are effectively paid-for directory businesses that in essence provide listings (and then booking, and all of the dull contractual stuff).

My question would be: How will you be able to get your listings inserted into their databases if the barrier to being in their database is a payment?

Is your aim to become a re-seller for the existing sites? So you'd be a one-stop-shop for getting your holiday home listed in the places most likely to convert.

Or more that you hope to encourage the incumbents to take your feed through other enticements (such as being able to take a commission on properties that would normally have been listed elsewhere)?
We bought the domain name about a year ago for an acceptable price :)
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I need to get a nice coat at one of my projects.
Code in clojure (Enlive), a little more info here ( http://sisciatech.tumblr.com/post/30881154775/looking-for-a-... ) but a lot of work is now done, I really need only the graphic part...
I don't bite (ok I do, but not via email) so => simone (at) mweb (dot) biz
I see most offers are in German, is that a requirement?
Yes, if the latency of transferring the data and results to and back from GPU memory is low compared to the speedup.
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Altera is one of the leading designers of FPGA devices in the world. I'm an engineer in the software team, developing mostly embedded design and instrumentation tools for FPGAs. We are looking for software developers experienced or with a strong desire to learn about Computer Architecture, FPGA design, Digital Logic, Embedded Systems, and more, while at the same time developing engineering design tools in high level languages.

To give you an idea of what we do, these are some of the projects that involved me at Altera:

* Designed and implemented a high performance on-chip network that's used
in thousands of routers, base stations, and switches around the world.
* Created a hardware/software instrumentation framework in a mix of Java, C++, C,
and Verilog. This is the foundation for all the debuggers at Altera.
* Modified the GCC toolchain to add support for Altera's processors, like our
NiosII soft processor.
* Implemented a GDB Server from scratch in Java.
* Defined and implemented the pieces of an ARM CoreSight debug subsystem.
* Implemented infrastructure used in a C-to-Gates compiler.
* Spent hours hacking away with the tools and many of the available
development boards.

If the above sound interesting to you, then Altera might be the place that you've been looking for. Send me an email to sbrugada at altera.com telling me why you think this would be a good match. You should attach your resume too.
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My professional background is in performance optimization of very large relational ERP databases, data warehousing, ETL and business analytics. As such I'm very good at delivering data-driven insights from large volumes of data.

I take interest in functional programming, data mining, neural networks and complex algorithms.

I have recently started to develop data-centric web applications in Sinatra (with ActiveRecord) on the side.

I'm looking for opportunities to put this knowlegde to good use.
Singularity Institute hiring remote researchers: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/bke/the_singularity_ins...
If they wanted it to be revenue neutral, they'd simply say "Any .co.uk now gets .uk free, except where there's a conflicting .org, .me or .ac", where there'd been to be some kind of conflict resolution process (possibly as simple as oldest registered version wins).

I'm happy with Nominet's administration in general, but as far as I can see this is just about increasing revenue while making a long overdue change.
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> "Android had market-share, but will you get paying customers?"

The age of direct app sales being profitable enough to float a startup are long over. iOS users are still massively outspending Android users, but overall profitability has sunk like a brick on both platforms over time.

Like you said, "companion apps" and games are pretty much the only viable routes now. Direct app sales at this point in the market's lifetime is a great way to make a modest pittance and then be committed to support forever.