skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is Bill Gates as a Borg - see first image here: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/borg

A pun on the Borg motto "resistance is futile" with regard to Microsofts dominance in pc space at the time.
> This is bad, because it means that the difference between a master and a beginner is almost nothing.

Wonderful!

Special thanks for explaining the genesis of thos tools names.
Stanford bioengineers introduce 'Bi-Fi' -- The biological internet
A six-step framework to make strategic decisions
This is how I build it on Ubuntu 12.04 on VirtualBox for Windows. I gave up compiling it on Windows using Cygwin or Ming. The Windows dll is outdated. I had issues compiling it on openSUSE, Fedora and Mac OS X 10.8 using Fink.

https://gist.github.com/3812114
Open source is going nowhere. I do most of my work on the server, and that's a form factor and ecosystem which isn't being affected by all this tablet / smart phone silliness. ;)
Xkcd 1110 as an iPad app
My point is that you sould have the choice to be trapped inside a bubble. Not forced.
Counterpoint Consulting - Vienna, VA (Washington DC area)

Associate Consultant

About us:
* Founded in 2006, self-funded and always profitable
* Laid-back, collegial workplace
* Dedicated to making business applications suck a little less

About you:
* You have a passion for creating software to solve complex business problems
* You have strong communication skills, and are able to work hand-in-hand with business people to translate business requirements into cutting-edge web applications at premier government and private industry clients

Check out our current listing(s) at:
http://www.c20g.com/site/join

We'd love to get some HN folks on the team!
I don't like the title. I realise it hasn't been editorialised, I don't like the original. There is nothing wrong about doing a u-turn.
Goedkoop en comfortabel genieten, skiën en snowboarden in Zwitsers Graubünden
if your a hacker why would you need that?
1. Go to your HN profile page.

2. Set noprocrast = yes

3. Set maxvisit and minaway to your personal (dis)liking

HN will now stop you procrastinating.
Yelp

INTERN OR FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

I'm a full-stack web developer at Yelp, and I definitely recommend the hell out of working here. We've still got the startup environment (kegs, dog, etc); we're located in downtown San Francisco, half a block from MoMa; we are in a unique position to do great stuff and solve hard problems while helping people find great local businesses.

I built our "Hot New Businesses" feature - http://yelp.com/openings/sf , for instance, you can find it on the homepage and in our mobile apps too - which crunches through our data nightly and generates a list of the most recently opened bars and restaurants in your city, complete with predictions of the day they opened on. It's a really useful feature, and we have so much data that I was able to build it without knowing anything about machine learning, data-mining, etc; imagine the crazy-useful stuff you could do here, if a knucklehead like me could make a feature like this.

For more info about what it's like to work here as an engineer, see a Q&A with me at http://officialblog.yelp.com/2011/07/day-in-the-life-of-a-ye.... , or feel free to contact me at jrheard at yelp dot com.

Here's a list of our open engineering positions:

Web Developer

☆ Develop cool and useful features for our 61M+ monthly visitors

☆ Expertise in JavaScript, HTTP, HTML/DOM, and CSS, as well as server-side chops in a language like Python, Ruby, Java, C++, etc. We're on Python, but we're just looking for people who are really good at programming, so no worries if you don't have much Python experience.

Search and Data-Mining Engineer

☆ Tackle machine learning and information retrieval problems from our database of 22M+ Yelp reviews

☆ Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures; expertise in Python, Java, or C++
Back-end Engineer

☆ Build whole systems that are simple and scalable

☆ Expertise in your favorite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Java, Objective-C, or C++ Mobile Developer

☆ Create fun and useful mobile applications for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry platforms and beyond

☆ Expertise in C++, Java and other mobile languages

To apply, head to http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oyXeVfwo&s=Hacker_News
HN only stops it for a few months, that post was from more than a year ago.
Seeking work - Remote

Software developer focusing on iOS development but also game development for multi platforms in C/C++ or Unity. Specialty is A.I. and gameplay.

Worked in various industries, mostly in games. for the last ten years, I'm a published author of a tech book and co-author of other.

Rate = 300 USD a day (6 billable hours) or 1250 USD a week.

Contact: brunosousa@ensodev.com
Skype: Bruno.Sousa.Enso
Alexandria, VA at the King Street metro station: full-time software developer.

Do you dream in code? Are you a pragmatic programmer scared of mythical man-months? Do you dive into code horrors and polish it into clean code? Do you believe in a motley group of individuals running lean and improving their peopleware?

Help the world invest better with The Motley Fool here: https://tbe.taleo.net/NA6/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TM....
Sure it's totally doable. But contractors have the drawback to be able to leave very quickly on the other side full-timers once their trial period ended (up to 3 month renewable, so 6 month) have a 3 month period before quiting.

French entrepreneurs can already have flexibility. They only want it to be one way.
> How can you compare reading Slashdot at +5 to reading the mostly unfiltered comments here?

Because Slashdot actually provides the facilities to do so. If I could browse +5 HN comments then believe me I would.

> the populism, trolling, and general lack of real-world experience of other posters made participating in the discussions pointless and even counter-productive.

I could make the same argument about HN.
OUYA -- Bay Area, CA
Android OS knowers and seekers

OUYA's making a game console, built on Android. http://ouya.tv

Hardware ships in March (with developer kits going out in December). OUYA's building a small team that will create a new game platform: discovery of new games, a TV UI, eventually working on the Android NDK to improve game performance, a social layer, and... other stuff.

No titles environment, everyone works directly with the CEO. Other engineers from EA, Amazon, Pivotal, Motorola, etc. Almost everything we write could be open sourced.

You work independently, love to be wrong when a better idea comes along, play games, and maybe even backed our Kickstarter so we know you were in from the get-go. You know where the bodies are buried in Android, or can figure it out quick.

No time to write more. If you're interested, help us get to know you better with this every-question-optional get to know you...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdkcmF...
Why iterative design does not always work: an engineering story
To me /. feels like it's been around forever. Partly that's because I was on it when I was a kid, but it felt old even then, I think possibly because its great rival (adequacy) had already died (since when K5 and Plastic are also basically dead).

I get a weird feeling when I think that it's less than twice the age of 4chan, which still feels new and exciting (possibly because I was there in its first year and have watched it grow).
SEEKING WORK
Location: NYC, USA; Warwickshire, UK; Remote (I split my time)

Citizenship (for working rights): US and EU (Italy)

Can work Remote: Yes

Full stack developer accepting web developer, iOS development, design and marketing contract work.

I have 8 years of web development and design experience, and 4 years of sales/marketing experience. My steady clients use my services for web tech consulting, web development, web design work, direct sales consulting and metrics analysis. My most recent web clients include the Dow Chemical Corporation. My most recent direct sales client includes Ripple (www.rppl.com).

My bread and butter is churning out Wordpress websites very quickly.

For web development, I also specialize in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python on Django, jQuery and Backbone.js.

My design work is all done in Balsamiq mockups and Photoshop. I manage my projects through Git.

A subset of my work is on my portfolio with testimonials can be found here: http://www.swiftarcher.com/portfolio

You can contact me most easily through email (chris at swiftarcher dot com) or on twitter @SalvatoChris
litl, LLC: Boston, MA (remote OK)

litl's Woven is looking for a talented, practical Python developer for its image research team. We're a creative engineering team looking for new ways to visualize and organize photographs.

Skills & Requirements

Solid proficiency in Python. Experience in one or more of: machine learning, photographic image processing, or the Python scientific computing stack. You're eager to learn the others as you go.

The team's responsibilities include:

* development and analysis of machine learning and information retrieval methods

* novel clustering methods for photo contents

* supporting our server team with quick-to-production, highly maintainable code

Experience working in a small team of developers with strict code review policies is appreciated. Code samples are most welcome.

jobs@litl.com
We can all agree that France isn't entrepreneur friendly but it's easy to say "don't tax us" and it's a lot harder to find places where money can be saved.

Right now if you want to tax the high middle class and higher (that includes entrepreneurs who can leave France), they threaten to leave, I don't see how starting negotiations by making threats is a good thing.
SEEKING WORK - Austin, TX

I'm a broadly experienced full stack senior developer, with a recent focus on Drupal, Wordpress, and Node.js. I'm quite comfortable building entire projects from servers to front end, and dragging old legacy code into the modern era is a specialty.

For more details, see: http://www.exratione.com/
Relaunch of morguefile.com
Just relaunched a new version of morguefile.com
Telecommute, US :: TrackAbout :: Full Time

.NET Web and Mobile, 6 open positions

http://www.trackabout.com

Apply Here: http://trackabout.theresumator.com/apply/LLlGPw

TrackAbout is a small (<40) but successful SaaS company providing tracking and rental services for durable, returnable assets. Our customers use a variety of mobile devices to scan assets (RFID and barcodes) every time they touch or move them. We have customers around the globe.

We are experiencing high demand for our services and we are growing. We need great people who are interested in playing pivotal roles in the growth of a small company. Our customer base is very dependable and we are doing well despite the economy.

Our headquarters is just outside the Pittsburgh International Airport in Pennsylvania, but our entire development staff is work-from-home.

We are seeking exceptional developers who are truly passionate about technology and the craft of software development. All members of our development team are dedicated to keeping up with the latest technologies, practices, patterns and tools related to software development. We do peer programming and collaboration on a regular basis. We take time out to share our knowledge with one another and improve both our skills and our distributed development environment. We often experiment with and integrate new tools into our environment.

Stuff we use includes: .NET 4.0, jQuery, Backbone.js, MonoTouch for iOS, Mono for Android (Xamarin tools), ReSharper, Mecurial (Hg) and Subversion, MassTransit Lean Service Bus, Jenkins CI, VersionOne, Trello, MediaWiki, WCF/Web API and RESTful web services, RhinoMocks, Ninject, NHibernate.

TrackAbout has a Developer Free Time policy intended to promote creative thinking and innovation by providing developers an opportunity to contribute new ideas and technologies for the benefit of the company.

We host an annual Dev Con where all the remote developers are brought together for a week to strategize, tackle tough issues, bug bash, socialize and have fun.

We promote continuous improvement in every aspect of our work. After each release we hold a retrospective and discuss how we can do better.

Our published core values are:

* Believe in the Power of Storytelling
* Work with Great Passion and Enthusiasm
* Celebrate Problem Solving
* Foster a Fun and Friendly Atmosphere
* No Egos & No Yelling

Apply Here: http://trackabout.theresumator.com/apply/LLlGPw
It's a "borg gates" picture, and I remember the post where they talked about getting rid of it - basically, there's no longer any fear of MS assimilating all computing diversity.
Not to get political, meta, or both, but it always intrigues me when people talk about "trust" in the context of third parties, most especially government. Government is made up of people, not unlike yourself, and those people are suceptible to the same personal pressures as anyone else. To imply that "government" should be trusted on its face also implies that the individuals that make up government should be similarly trusted. I don't think you'd agree with the later, so I don't understand why you're astonished that the former turns out to be untrue.

People, and the entities they comprise, earn trust by virtue of what they do. No more, no less.
New York, NY. Full time.

We're looking for an Assistant Project Manager, which is a grab bag title for some to work on with game design, producing, and community management for online and mobile games. See InfinityRing.com for our latest project.

Contact gbrown@scholastic.com for more info.
I find it bizarre that Slashdot still exists. It was essentially founded on the principles that:

- Technology can make society a better place

- Open source is the best way to make good technology

Yet when was the last time that the general public was genuinely excited about some open source project? Firefox? Wikipedia? It's been almost ten years.

And to the extent that most people are optimistic about technology in general today, it's a very cynical sort of optimism. I think these things are probably cyclical, but at least for right now how many people would actually want to live in a world where every morning the latest Eric S. Raymond essay was splashed across their homepage?

Slashdot was great in the late 90s, and pretty good in the early 2000s. But right now it just seems like an anachronistic holdout from a different time, a place where people still define their lives by the Columbine shooting and the year of Linux on the desktop is forever just around the corner.
That's one of the great things about this industry.

What other everyday profession is so interesting to pick up as a teenager and so amenable to learning professional-level skills without ever leaving your house?

Sure, you could start studying medicine or the law at an early age, but no one will let you practice those things without a degree. You can't get experience operating on a cadaver when you're 12 like you can putting together some arduino circuits or a Node.js web site.

I always found it amusing how much emphasis recruiters placed on where I went to school in my first couple of jobs after college when so little of what I felt I brought to the job I actually learned at the University level.
A Bloomberg Terminal For DNA Sequencing
How To Efficiently Open Your eBay Store With eBay Management Software
Best introductory text:
http://horstmann.com/scala/

Best IDE:
IntelliJ community edition (free) + Free Scala plugin
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
Http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19767014
Nominet proposes new .uk TLD with 'added security features.'
1. Ulysses
2. The Dilbert Principle
Nope. And I still get my news from multiple source before 8am. BBC world news on the tv in the morning as I'm getting ready for work, and NPR on the drive in to the office. After I'm at the office, a quick check of the tech news sites while the coffee is brewing. That's all before 7, 7:30 if traffic was bad.

My tablet lives on the coffee table.
Powder Keg Conference Expands Speaker Lineup
LaterPay in Munich, Germany is hiring (local, possibly remote).

We're a Python-based cloud company, looking for experienced operations/sysadmins and programmers. We love to hire internationally and are good at helping you relocate to Germany, as long as you have a work permit for the EU. We're also looking into remote workers, if you have experience with that, let us know, you might be able to convince us.

We work with Django, Tornado, nginx, Cassandra, PostgreSQL and Redis. We're building a highly-scalable payment platform based on these tools. We're Angel-funded and have already lined up multiple international customers.

Find out more here:
http://laterpay.net/jobs.7.1.html

We'd love to hear from you.
They have those doors in many places in Asia also, but most of the trains people are jumping in front of in Japan are above ground and the stations are literally just platforms with a roof.
I don't see a compelling reason, especially since I'm in the EU and don't want my e-mail address, password and website usage statistics transferred to Mozilla's servers in the US, where they can be accessed and possibly misused by authorities.
I stopped trying to participate on Slashdot in 2000, but never stopped reading the site entirely.

My issue was that while the place was great for informative posts on fairly objective topics like tech or science, it was pure groupthink for anything social or political. I felt completely unwelcome and alien to the clearly dominant demographic of the place.
Example of how to read your home screen app layout data using Python.

# Fix for subfolders in icon_state for iOS >= 4
# line 48 : libimobiledevice\cython\sbservices.pxi
# err = sbservices_get_icon_state(self._c_client, &c_node, "2")

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
import imobiledevice

idevice = imobiledevice.iDevice()
ld = imobiledevice.LockdownClient(idevice,"sb")
sbport = ld.start_service(imobiledevice.SpringboardServicesClient)
sbc = imobiledevice.SpringboardServicesClient(idevice, sbport)
icon_state = sbc.icon_state

# set icon_state from xml using ipython
# download binary plist from http://iconstate.herokuapp.com/ with sbservice checked
# convert to xml using plutil.pl from http://scw.us/iPhone/plutil/
# new_xml = !cat IconState.text.plist
# new_icon_state = plist.from_xml(new_xml.s)
# sbc.icon_state = new_icon_state
Try it today on your iPhone, iPad, or stock Android browser. This is a cross-device, cross-browser solution.
I picked Clojure because I want to get into functional languages more, and I find the LISP-like syntax actually quite easy to get a hang of and more intuitive than Haskell. Node.js just to improve my Javascript skills and see what all the hype is about. Hopefully you read this, kind of late with the reply.
I just lost like 5 minutes of my day just testing this boring Chrome copy with a different UI.
It does, but you can always remove the team fairly easily.
London (Old Street). Full time. Front End Engineer at Lanyrd - http://lanyrd.com/

We're looking for a front-end-focused web engineer. The role includes both cutting-edge Mobile JavaScript work (our mobile web app makes extensive use of AppCache and localStorage) and building clean, responsive HTML and CSS for our main site.

http://lanyrd.com/about/jobs/front-end-engineer/ or contact jobs at lanyrd dot com.
I love this idea. I have some pre-teens that I would love to allow to send more email while having control over who they can reach.

Any plans for other than iPad?
func GetEntity(r *http.Request, v Entity) error {

Shouldn't v be a pointer here?
Ikea plans to sell only LED lighting by 2016
This doesn't really make sense.

She's complaining that at an event with 97% of attendance by men (by her own statement), they got, say, 92% of the bathroom facilities, and then throws a fit.

Not buying it.

If this is the biggest outrage in your life you should consider yourself fortunate.
I'm genuinely curious. I did my bachelor's thesis on the identity ecosystem. I was an early adopter of CardSpace, iNames, OpenID, and any other digital identity solution that came along and I watched them wither from lack of interest. I was continually told that passwords are good enough, and that nobody is interested in a digital identity solution.

Persona doesn't sound that different from solutions that came before it. It sounds really similar to CardSpace, especially with how easily you can integrate it into a site. So why would Persona have a chance at succeeding where so many others have failed? Is it just a matter of timing, coming after some major password leaks, or are they hoping the Mozilla name will buy them support from the developer community?
Tesla Motors | Stationary Storage group | Full time | Palo Alto, CA

The Stationary Storage team at Tesla Motors is growing and we’re looking for smart and versatile developers to add to the team. Our current team is very small and we’re looking for a hand-on, generalist who will get things done. You will work on a variety of subsystems, some are existing codebases (with other users and developers) that need modification for our application, while other projects are new and specific to our group. The team is small and you will be able to shape the direction of the product and a large amount of ownership of the firmware and software that is specific to this application ranging from architecture to implementation to testing.

Here are some of the projects that we see coming up soon:

* Embedded C on a microcontroller with an RTOS

* Communication over CAN, Ethernet, zigbee, and GSM networks

* Machine learning for analyzing and modeling energy systems (We’ve been using Matlab and Go, but would love to explore R, Hadoop, and AWS)

* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets (think Quant algos but controlling real hardware and moving energy instead of money).

* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources

* UI for customer facing control and data viewing

* Development of parsers/compilers/code-transformers/DSLs for templating and code generation.

While this isn’t the typical HN job, we could see many of these projects appealing to people who are excited about at least several of:

* Green Energy

* Physical hardware

* Parsers/Compilers/DSLs

* Machine learning/algos for people who don’t want to work in Finance

* A variety of languages and technology (in the last 6 months I have used C, Python, Perl, Go, Matlab/Octave, Tcl, VB, and in my small circle people are using Ruby, Java, php, R and probably others.)
We are a small team working on energy and designing physical hardware (which you will control!), so our internal conversions are more likely to touch on “watt-hours” and “tooling costs” than “closures” and “apps”.
We would love to see (but we have some positions that don't require these):

* Comfortable with embedded C

* Degree in Engineering or experience with Energy

If you are interested in this job please email tcasebolt@teslamotors.com

There are also many more positions available in other groups at Tesla Motors, which you can see here: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/careers