skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must be a luck-signularity around where I live. I know several people saved by bike helmets, from small crashes of 2 bikes or bike vs immovable object. One happened last Saturday on an asphalt bike trail with no obstruction - the young man just went down and landed on his head. Busted his helmet all to hell. Got up and got back on his bike.

Lots of statistics thrown around here, and my anecdotes are not statistics, but they are a heck of a lot closer to actionable information that hot air. As for me, I don't regard a helmet as making bicycling seem dangerous, any more than wearing a raincoat makes walking outside seem dangerous. Its just part of my equipment, like the water bottle.
The Yandex browser has been developed based on Chromium open source code.
© The Chromium Authors, 2006—2012. All rights reserved.
I just tested it with my own extension, you can install Chrome extension from the Chrome webstore onto Yandex Browser.
I've got an Amazon credit card (in the UK) and it's a Mastercard run by MBNA.

I would guess Amazon have looked at replacing as much of the payment chain as they can and done the parts that are profitable to replace. But they have a long way to go before the enormous hassle of becoming a bank is going to be attractive and possible.
I make my own modular synthesizers, for fun and creativity.

For me, 3D printing represents a chance to build a synth panel of my absolute dreams. Not just knobs, but levers, dials, and so on. The recent revelation that Teenage Engineering were giving away the 3D models of their synth knob accessories was really interesting, to me at least.

So, there's that.

Also, I make model airplanes, RC stuff. I have a small list of about 12 things I want to be able to 3d print myself, instead of purchasing - engine mounts, aileron/rudder assemblies, custom frames for mounting a camera, and so on.

So I'm just waiting to get the space (and a bit more $$$) before I set up with a 3D printer in my workshop somewhere, and start making my own parts and things. In the meantime, a local hackershop provides access to this wonderful tech ..
Training a duplicate classifier using Elasticsearch as the store
CSS is a waste of space and JS is rather unfortunate (though modern web frameworks are pretty good at abstracting it), but 15 years ago you'd still have wanted a declarative form language (though whether you could spare the resources for it is another question), a separate datastore, and a language for actual programming logic.
iOS, Rails, Erlang freelancer + devs. I have numerous apps in the store. We work remotely from Buenos Aires. About half of the time, we work on projects until we can handoff to a local team. The other half we'll put someone on the project long term. I'm currently looking to pick up another project.

I was formerly a VP of Engineering for Good Technology, based in Seattle and Redwood Shores. I have worked with Palm, all flavors of MS Windows mobile platforms, Symbian S60, etc.

I built:

MTV WatchWith - MTV's flagship socia media app - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mtv-watchwith/id422366403?mt=...

VH1 Co-Star - Also built (and host) the server for both of these)

Whisper - anonymous social media app (we wrote the server and admin as well)

NCM's MovieNightOut (iOS and Android)

Campus Sentinel (iOS and Android)

http://github.com/inaka/edis - open source Erlang redis server clone I and a developer wrote.

chad@inaka.net, skype cdepue
What would Gandhi do, if he were you?
I tend to agree - $25K is only about the cost of a very average new vehicle. Don't ruin your 20's obsessing on that amount of money. (I'm aware that "new" cars provide less utility for your money than 3-5 y/o cars.) Bottom line is that keeping your overhead low gives you more freedom. Generally speaking your overhead will probably never again be as low as it is in your 20's and you may have a lot more people who need your time later too.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Milano, Italy - (remote possible)

Looking for someone with experience with marmalade (as in http://www.madewithmarmalade.com) to integrate our API with that platform. info+marmalade@beintoo.com
To understand the command line...
Having watched the video my first thoughts were why can't (for eg) the child's grandma reply using her email client. Why does grandma have to login to the website?
Headlands Technologies - San Francisco, CA - Full time, H1B possible

Headlands Technologies is a world-class quantitative trading firm based in San Francisco. We are aggressively hiring researchers to join our team developing low-latency strategies across a wide range of global asset classes. You would be working with our high quality normalized data to develop new strategies to add to our system, which already accounts for a significant amount of daily trading volumes. We have a collaborative and non-bureaucratic work environment that values original, creative thinking.

Ideally, you should have a degree in computer science, math, physics or another quantitative discipline emphasizing signal processing, prediction, pattern recognition, or machine learning. The ability to express ideas in code is critical so you also need to be proficient in C++ and comfortable working in a Linux environment.

Please send resumes to careers@headlandstech.com
Did you make an account and name it after this browser just to post this?
And much more useful than Hitachis. What is HItachi's storage capacity/density? Read rate? Any useful information at all? Vaporware.
I submitted a few "interesting" questions from StackOverflow last year (by interesting I mean they had interesting subjects, but weren't link-baity; my poor memory has forgotten what they were though!). IIRC, both of them got about 200-250 votes (on HN) and about 20-30 thousand visits. How do I know? I submitted using the share link StackOverflow gives you (it's something like stackoverflow.com/question/1000/2000, which means that user 2000 (me) has linked to question 1000), and about the time they reached 100-120 votes, SO awarded me a badge along the lines of "you shared a link that 10,000 unique IPs have visited".

So, based on my very limited experience: unique visits are about 100 times the number of votes on HN.
The Future of Printing - 3D
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers for Product Development and Professional Services

Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our development and proserv teams in Frederick, MD. Our flagship product is JobTraQ, a task management and workflow system that offers vastly more flexibility and power than any other product in our market segment, and is significantly less expensive and easier to configure than big "BPM" suites like MetaStorm and Lombardi. These advantages are allowing us to disrupt both markets.

Product developers will create new features in JobTraQ and enhance existing functionality. You’ll help us build advanced visual design and administration tools, augment the product’s business intelligence capabilities, improve performance and scalability, and use customer feedback to enhance all parts of the system.

Proserv developers will work with our mid-market and enterprise customers and our business analysts to design and implement software solutions that build on JobTraQ's capabilities. Our implementation and customization projects are usually one week to two months long, so you’ll enjoy a wide range of work on interesting problems for clients in many regions and industries. Recent projects have included a touchscreen system for warehouse tracking, integration with accounting systems, complex custom finance and billing reports, and automatic data synchronization.

Both teams have an enjoyable and collaborative culture in a creative environment. We interact positively and openly and emphasize learning and professional development. These attributes have enabled us to produce an industry-leading product with a globally recognizable and satisfied client base. Our environment is relaxed and fun, we play everything from Total Annihilation to Alien Swarm at our game nights, and we equip everyone with new quad-core Thinkpads with SSDs and dual monitors. Our policies and benefits are family-friendly, with generous vacation time, good health insurance options, and flexible work schedules.

For more information about these positions, see the links below. If you are interested in either one, email your resume to resumes@swiftsoftware.com.

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se227-software-engineer-product-...

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se152-software-engineer-professi...
How to use interfaces in Go
Tracking and selling aggregated info. Every single page you visit.
Barcelona -- Teambox

Positions: Frontend, Backend, DevOps

email: pau@teambox.com
I agree about the CDN, even though for us performance is not so critical we need to use a CDN (yet). I didn't know node-http-proxy but it sounds interesting I'll check it out.
Oh, wow. PUA scum on HN. Now I have seen everything.

Fuck off.
Here you go: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22ui+developer%22&l=new+yo...

good luck!
I fall asleep every night watching starcraft2 games on my ipad1 (Mostly from sc2casts.com for the interested).
Yandex browser imported my Safari history and bookmarks without asking me. Looks weird!
Tutorspree (YC W11) is looking for Python developers in the NYC area who are interested in full-time or contract work. Reach out to me if interested - ryan@tutorspree.com
Anyone want to give a summary for lazy readers?
SEEKING WORK - remote

Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, data mining/analytics and algorithms at scale. Worked on a wide variety of real world systems, such as ML for predicting and optimising for user growth and company revenue.

University Medal from University of Sydney for working in NLP

Previous experience in start-ups + tech companies (ZeroMail, Google [intern], Freelancer.com) including launching a full stack application for a promotional competition under time and resource pressure.

Reside in Sydney, Australia -- prefer remote but happy to come in / travel as appropriate

I most commonly use Python for personal projects but I'm language agnostic

Email, LinkedIn and website in profile

http://smerity.com/media/files/resume.pdf
My 8yo son is obsessed, as are two of his friends.

I am really impressed that a system with simple graphics has been so successful. A more traditional games shop would have screwed it up by trying to make things look pretty.

[Java still remains a poor gaming platform. I had to fiddle with the VM settings for a while before it would even run.]
London, UK - full time.

Universal Pictures International - Junior Data Scientist, International Research

We're certainly not a startup, but our department acts like one as much as possible.

We're building tools to forecast, simulate, and model the box office market. We're developing simulations and models to give us estimates on how the market responds to social media, weather, video games, et cetera, and we're building web apps and ipad apps to present this information to key people in a way they can use and understand. We need your help taking the project to the next level.

Initially, we need help with our existing html5/javascript apps as more offices around the world start using our tools. Later on, we'll need your help experimenting with new simulations, and new ways for people to interact with those simulations. In particular, you will be:

* Maintaining, debugging, and adding features to our existing apps (browser and ipad) that help people configure and use our simulations.

* Helping to maintain our Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure.

* Helping us build new tools to allow people to interface with our newer models.

* Helping us develop new models and simulations that can give us deeper insight into how the market behaves and that can respond to historical and live data.

What we use:

We have code running in Racket (Lisp) and have written experimental code in Haskell. We're not shy about experimenting with your favourite toolset. We also use:

* A lot of python (web.py) and javascript (jquery, jqtouch).

* Amazon EC2 for running the simulations and occasional number crunching.

* Whatever gets the job done.

Who we're looking for:

This is a junior programming position with a very small and experimental team. We're looking for someone that likes learning new languages and technologies for fun, wants to try new things out, and is comfortable with functional programming. We're also developing statistical models, so we'd like to work with someone who is comfortable with mathematics, statistics, and machine learning methods.

Interested? My contact details are in my profile, or visit upi-labs.co.uk/jobs. If you've contacted me before and didn't hear back, please feel free to do so again. I'm afraid we aren't able to sponsor visas.
Not true. Today morning "We appologize bla bla", last Saturday evening "We appologize bla bla aprox. delay 60 min". In the end it was about 120 min. In Germany trains do have delays a way TOO OFTEN.
Wingspan Technology - Whitpain, PA (Philadelphia Suburb)
Postgres/Oracle DBAs, Devops, Java/Scala Software Engineers

We're a small but quickly growing company specializing in software for the pharma and energy industry. We have a suite of mature products- but you can get in on the ground floor of building new product.
Fair point, there are many Webkits, but IME deviations are an order of magnitude more likely when moving from Webkit to something else.
Hi, I am a Brazilian with a Italian citizenship and waiting for my Italian passport to arrive, can I apply for the job?
Big difference with motorbike helmets: those are integral helmets, protecting your entire head. Cycle helmets only help against direct hits on the top of your head. Crashing head-first into a car or tree (or getting a tree branch on your head).

German consumer organization tests showed that lots (60% or so) of the helmets for sale in Germany didn't even meet the head-on-collision tests as the testing isn't done by an official institute...

Wearing a cycling helmet makes sense when you've got a good chance of hitting something straight on. Like mountainbiking and hitting a tree or speed cycling at 50km/h, bend over your handlebars.

Kids? Regular cyclists? Mum with groceries? No way. Or at least: other things are more effective. Like wearing a cycling helmet as a pedestrian (who apparently hit things with their head more often!).
Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps. Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam.

We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience... or ideally someone who ticks both of these boxes. As Fashiolista is growing rapidly, we are on the lookout for new team members who can help us scale the site and keep up with our growth.

Although we are in the fashion industry, a love of fashion is not required. If you love hacking open source applications and scaling high-traffic websites, you'll fit right in. We encourage our team to work on open source projects where possible, and attempt to open source many of the components we build ourselves. We are looking for "T-shaped employees" (a la Valve) who can contribute to a number of areas in the business.

Our stack consists of, among other things:

- Django

- Celery

- SOLR

- Redis

- Memcached

- PostgreSQL

- AWS (with heavy use of CloudFormation)

More information is available on our jobs page (http://www.fashiolista.com/jobs), you can also email me directly if you would like to discuss the role futher (email in profile).
So.. Now the Japanese find willing VPN providers in Russia and/or China?

Nobody can trust their own government these days. Especially if said laws concern copyright laws.
It's a pity the article wasn't able to dig deeper into the underlying causes.

I would suspect that the problem needs to be addressed much earlier on by both improving the quality of school tuition in engineering required subjects (maths, sciences etc) as well as raising the profile of engineering careers among both children and the general public.
NYC, New York - Full-time

Javascript (proficient with and without jQuery etc), JSON/APIs, CSS3, Web App, Mobile, with some PHP/similar

Quartz (http://qz.com) just launched last week. We're a global business news web site working out of Downtown NYC.

We're looking to grow the team (me + 3 devs + PM embedded with editorial). We have a lot to do - still heavy optimization on our current site (mobile first approach). We have a pretty ambitious idea of what we want to tackle and there is a lot to be done in terms of readability, user experience and ubiquity.

The job description below aims at an experienced fronte-end dev but I'd also consider fresher candidates too if they have a relevant portfolio.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=168pV4wtpaJ4Iwu1g66E...

For some more background:

"Covering the World of Business, Digital Only" by David Carr

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/business/media/with-digita...

"Quartz: The new biz-news site is a technological and structural innovator, with only a few hiccups"

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/quartz-the-new-biz-news-sit...

"The Atlantic's Quartz: interesting … but will it make a profit?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2012/oct/01/the-atlantic...

Send resumes/links-to-previous-work to md@qz.com

PDF, markdown, text preferred. Github, StackOverflow, LinkedIn profiles help.
Read the link.

Android and Ubuntu both share the underlying kernel, so nothing really is preventing most of the rest of the stack from running at the same time.

Ubuntu for Android is just that: Ubuntu "userland" running on top of an Android-compatible Linux kernel, with various "glue" to integrate the Ubuntu side with various Android features, including ability to answer calls, unify contacts and calendars etc.
I'm currently new to the finance world (6 months) and know I'm not built for it. I entered as a top student but a worse than average programmer I feel. I work in production support and though this is good for me in terms of being a person who gets things done, it has zero learning for me. The only dev work is debugging which I'm decent at. Basically I see no learning, no personal growth in this and therefore its value is limited. I suck as a programmer but I'm willing to put the work in to correct this or find something I'm interested in to get good at. So the finance world isn't for me, however now I'm a comp sci grad with worse programming skills than I left uni with....what the hell is next or how do I work that out?
This was discussed on tv in japan a few days ago and the agencies responsible for tracking people admitted their resouces were limited and they would focus only on people who multiply infrigments.
It feels like Nominet have tried to find a bunch of premium features which they can sell as premium for new domains, but which don't actually cost that much to maintain.

There's no real need for it.
Using it for a few minutes, few things i really like.

1. Someone finally put the Refresh and Stop Button where it should be. Firefox actually had it during beta testing but they somehow decide to but it at the end of the Address bar instead.

2. The Graphics, Curve, Looks more like better then the comparatively toyish Chrome.

3. The Options have always belonged to the Tab Bar and not the address bar. To me i think that is the most logical place for it.

4. The New Tab drop page, I like it. But i am sure i have seen it somewhere else before. Opera? I cant remember.

5. Flash - Since Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium. I am not sure if Flash inside Yandex or any other Chromium derivative are using PPAPI or the old NPAPI. Anyone?

6. No, no tabs overflow...... So i am sticking with Firefox.
Adobe Flash: I'm not dead yet
Google Users in Pakistan Suffer as ISPs Block Sites Without Reason
The fact that it is not for profit doesn't mean that it doesn't want to grow revenue. More money for salaries, more staff, more prestige for managing a big organisation. Plus their direct customers who they have relationships with are the registrars who have a profit motive in selling more domains.

It is quite possible for a not-for-profit to become a self expanding bureaucracy especially when it is gatekeeper/distributor over a resource. That said I'd take Nominet over getting Verisign to do it. The same risks apply in a commercial setting plus the push to profit.

Now I don't know the realities of Nominet or this particular proposal but I wanted to point out that in a case like this being not-for-profit is an insufficient defence against claims it is a revenue grab.
So, twitter has a nice tutorial called Scala School (http://twitter.github.com/scala_school) and of course the official site (http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/) has also some tutorials for programmers coming from other languages.

So what's the best IDE?
If you're an eclipse user, it's Scala IDE (http://scala-ide.org/). You can find a full download eclipse + Scala IDE plugins on the typesafe homepage (http://typesafe.com/stack/scala_ide_download).
If you're an IntelliJ user like myself you just need to install the Scala plugin.

Both IDE's have there drawbacks, none is perfect. I guess the easiest way to start is using the Scala IDE.

To test your new Scala skills you may want to solve some puzzles (http://scalapuzzles.org).

Have fun!
This sounds more like how it would be (and how it is in the Netherlands).
No, it basically means: get the smartest and most creative people to do the jobs that one person shouldn't try to multitask. You're right, you can get a lot of stuff done by yourself, but after a certain point the workload and efficiency of doing it all yourself plummets. So you go and get the best people to do those jobs. The best people don't want you watching over their shoulder - that's hands-off delegation.
The United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
SEEKING WORK - Melbourne, Australia, or remote.

Computer Programmer

Most experienced working in C, scheme, python, Java, C#.

Language agnostic. Happy to adapt to any programming language/technology/problem domain as required.

www: http://www.dcollins.info/

email: mail@dcollins.info - if you have any questions or just want to say hi, please feel free to use it liberally, I'm friendly.
How would you propose firemen accesing the elevators of any building of the city, or city lighting engineers accessing power panels? Every team can't lug around 10.000 physical keys.

There is always a compromise between security and usability. And for almost all systems, practical usability is mandatory, but security is nice-to-have - it's completely enough to deter nonserious attackers such as the majority of drunken vandals.
Patterns in numbers are just something he mentions on the side. I don't really read him for the predictions, but he's pretty good in that department. The headline is obnoxious, but the content is spot on.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/28/told-you-so

Show me another blogger that was warning Apple they needed to get maps right back in May. That's why he gets page views.
The 12.7% is debt payment, regions are in charge of secondary education and transportation mainly
Here's what I see when I visit that page: http://imgur.com/bwf5N (Tl;dr: a blurb of text saying it's not available for Linux, that's it, no info about what it is etc.)

Non-Linux peeps: do you get an equally uninformative landing page?
But it will kill off what people currently think of as PC's.

Nobody, as far as I can tell, is claiming it will kill of universal computing devices for personal use.
3 reasons chewing gum is better for you than swallowing supplement pills
MediaMath - New York City - full time

I'll keep it short. My team is looking to add some frontend developers: modern HTML5/Backbone.js/etc. stuff.

We are also looking for solid Perl developers to work on our Catalyst-based API.

If either or both sound like you, take a look at http://www.mediamath.com/careers/postings/ or e-mail cmasto at mediamath.com.

There are also some other postings there.