skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> History tells us that the US dollar is much
> more volatile than bitcoin can be.

There have been at least a couple of recent periods where there was a bitcoin 'bubble.' I'm questioning how he as a merchant, would deal with that (if bitcoin was his main transactional currency)? His customers likely are all using a different currency locally, and would have to exchange that currency for bitcoins.

For example:

Let's say a month of service costs 3 bitcoins, and currently a bitcoins cost 8 rupees (24 rupees/month for service). What happens when the price of the bitcoin rises to 20 rupees / bitcoin? Does the price (in bitcoins) drop? What happens if this significant rise only happens in one market, but not another? What if one 50% of his customer-base experience significant exchange increases, but the other 50% doesn't?

It's a curious thing, because almost no one is being paid (salary/wages) in bitcoins, so they all need to exchange the local currency to pay for service.

> Plus I do not think that Kim will want to
> have anything to do with that currency.

I was using the USD as an example. The same comments could apply to whatever the local currency is of his potential customers.

[ Also chances are that if the bitcoin is volatile against one currency it's not not necessary stable against all others. ]
how about this?

1. touch layer with finger
2. hold
3. the UI zooms in at the point of touch. pixels are now 1cm wide.
4. move to desired pixel (or row/column)

If you move outside of zoomed area, UI zooms back, allowing you to drag the element anywhere on the screen, then zooms back when you stop dragging.

Looks doable, right?
> * Great, fresh fruit and vegetables sent to me every one or two weeks.

Like a CSA?
Twin Falls, ID or Remote [about 90 minutes from Boise, Idaho] (full-time, contract and internships available)

KickBack Rewards Systems manages a national coalition loyalty program and white-label loyalty programs for convenience stores and grocers. We bootstrapped, self capitalized, and are a profitable and well managed stable company. We have several fortune 500's on-board and we've maintained a start-up attitude.

Hiring:

- Data scientists ("Big Data", Hadoop mostly)
- DevOps (Chef, Debian 6)
- Development (C, PHP, Python, Ruby)

Contact me directly:

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REMOTE or NYC - Developers and designers (mixture of both, even better!)

SquareMill.com - We're a development and design group based out of NYC. We're looking for talented developers and designers who are looking for interesting challenges. We take on all types of work from small startup work (generally in Ruby on Rails), to large scale server development (one of our current projects is to develop a large scale server in Go). Our clients include Kleiner Perkins and pg was a fan of our work there - https://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/202819543217868802. Also when we say remote, we really mean remote, we don't care where you work from. Come join us and help us expand our company!
Did you notice that the css class that controls the link size on the uk home page is called 'sosumi'?
I found myself doing the same thing. I find "labels on the left" to be a more natural pattern.
The UK is not a republic at all.
Websecurify Launches New (HTML5-based) Security Product: Recon
Take equity if you think they are a promising startup. If you don't think they are promising, then you're effectively doing charity work.
A black hole may exist in the Sword of Orion
Only reason it's controlled with media queries is because it was an entry for this months Mozilla dev derby (which is based around media queries).

I could pretty easily modify and release as a straight up animation though with no media query control.
I hate to pull this card on you, but what have you done?

A legitimate question. However, I've known incredibly smart developers who get shit done, and often they like to hobble themselves. They tend to hobble themselves out of a somewhat irrational love of hardship. But often they'll justify it with some other very elaborate explanation that sounds very smart but is pure b.s.
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/ erik@elfga.com
London, UK, Full Time.

Harris and Hoole is a Tesco backed coffee start-up looking for a "Technology Guru" to help with internal IT needs. In other words, you get to work with the Operations Director to help decide and implement both traditional IT and "new" SaaS solutions. Ideal candidate is someone with a tech background (2+ years) looking to go into more of a business/strategy type role.

Website: http://www.harrisandhoole.co.uk/

Contact: If interested and want to get more details, please send communication to myself: mbesto AT gmail.com.
You've been able to build your own hardware from 74xx series chips for decades now, infact about half a century! Infact, that was the only option you had back in the day. This is retro rather than new, like making a ham radio out of thermionic valves, say. Nothing new, but kinda cool and certainly educational if you're new to the field.

I think that's why the GP took objection to your rather statesmanly proclamation that this was heralding some kind of revolution in open hardware. It isn't, it's just a rather neat project.

However, in your followup comment I definitely agree with you in that as soon as I can fab my own silicon in my garage, the world will be my mollusc. But we're pretty close nowadays with a $20 FPGA from digikey.
I live in the Netherlands where we too have a high tax rate. If you make an average income, 1.5x would suffice. Anything above that, 1.5x falls short. The reality is that the vast majority of freelancers stay well below 100k per year. I've adjusted the calculation to 2x to account for higher incomes and to be on the "safe" side. Thanks for your feedback!
BSD Perimeter (the company behind pfSense) has an immediate full-time, permanent position for a web developer and designer in our north central Austin office.

Successful candidate will work on our public-facing websites, the open source front-end of pfSense, and a variety of proprietary customer and internal projects. This position will be responsible for both the design and implementation of these projects.

BSD Perimeter is the leading provider of BSD-based network security appliances, and the company behind pfSense, one of the most widely used firewalls. We’re a small, growing company, with the opportunity for one person to have a significant impact. Our websites as a whole see millions of page views every month.

Location: Austin, TX. Remote candidates will not be considered. We will consider those who can relocate quickly at their own expense.

http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=657
What version of Firefox were you using?
Any of the linode/heroku/aws services that would be hosted in Canada and follow Canadian data laws/protections.

Some services do exist; They just do not have the quality, ease of use and price points to be competitive.
Minimum wage in the UK is £6.19 if you're over 21, and £4.98 if you're 18-20. So it's quite a lot better than minimum wage, especially if they're under 21. It's probably true that they could do a lot better, assuming they're reasonably competent.
We refer the orders from circuits.io to oshpark. That's why our boards are purple ;) I thing they produce the boards in the US.
It is when your attitude is a contempt towards a court ruling.
"Obviously" ... How?
The resource cost and limited availability for a helicopter ensures proper use. Drones will have no such natural restrictions - there will be dozens per city.

Ever notice what happens when you give cops a tool - say for example a taser or pepper spray? It immediately gets put on the front line, used constantly to escalate things.

To assume drones won't be abused is just willful ignorance.
I believe the issue with using it as your primary monitor is that projectors have limited bulb life, and the bulbs are often almost as expensive as the projectors themselves.
Personal:
- a rented cooking robot (I'd pay extra for ingredients) that prepared 2 decent meals/day based on my needs, allergies ...

Work:

- a remote service that checks all our systems immediately when issues such as http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Vulnerability-in-Yaho... arise and notifies us if we're affected

- a well-maintained weekly digest of optimization/tuning suggestions for 3 technologies of our choice (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, Tomcat) where the source of information is mailiing lists and the digest contains well-written, brief articles instead of just a few e-mail threads

- a decent virus filter for Linux/Unix that doesn't have licensing costs depending on number of users, e-mail addresses, CPUs, servers (and consequently doesn't waste resources for accounting)
SEEKING WORK - Remote - Italy

I'm very good at finding solutions to difficult problems. Experienced engineer (MEng) with a good understanding of marketing.

For programming, my current favorite languages/frameworks are Ruby on Rails (7 years experience), Javascript (8 years experience)/CS(2 years experience).

To learn more:

http://danmaz74.me/consulting/

http://danmaz74.me/portfolio/

Contacts: see above links
SEEKING FREELANCER

Need a hacker with Javascript/Frontend knowledge, ideally Ruby on Rails experience and a bit of patience to rework an existing product. The product is a financial analysis package that wraps some financial analytics in an accessible UI, replete with highcharts and tables.

I'm not actually the client, just a developer on the project. I personally am flexible on qualifications and I think the client is amenable to that as well.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you think you'd be a fit.

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New Relic, Portland, OR/San Francisco, CA/Seattle, WA

New Relic is looking for several developers to work on our world-class application monitoring product. If you have experience in Ruby, C, PHP, .NET, Java, Android, or Objective-C, you should check us out.

We’re a very fast growing pre-IPO start-up and we care about our culture.

We value:

* Work/Life Balance

* Respect

* Engineer Code Ownership

* Experimentation

Check out http://newrelic.com/about/jobs for more details.
Houston, TX - funded, Tech-focused startup looking for good talent. Full time and INTERN positions available.

Work Environment:
Work environment is fun and casual. We are a small startup with adequate funding to do the market some damage. We are looking to build up a team of great developers to make great products, focusing on doing software right. All developers will be provided with whatever equipment necessary to get the job done as efficiently as possible. With a small team you will be able to take on very big projects and tasks that you can be proud of. Employees' meals are paid for, and a gym membership is included for all employees as a perk.

Looking for an ambitious, eager, gifted developer with extensive experience and knowledge regarding modern web development, including client-side technologies (ie, Javascript). We are working on a very large web application that should be a lot of fun to build - and something that as a developer, you yourself would use.

Compensation:
As always, dependent upon experience - however our salary rates are very competitive relative to the market.

Required Skills:
- C#
- ASP.NET
- Familiar with .NET Framework
- ASP.NET MVC Framework
- Razor View Engine Syntax
- AJAX methodology
- SQL (we will be using MS SQL)
- Javascript
- JQuery
- CSS
- HTML4+
- DOM Manipulation
- Object Oriented Design (polymorphism, inheritence, OOP design patterns, etc.)
- HTTP

Helpful but NOT required Skills:
- C# 4.0 / 3.5 (dynamic objects & DLR, anonymous methods (lambda syntax), etc)
- Lucene (or Lucene.Net)
- Database Design (Index design,
- Knockout.js
- JQuery UI
- LESS/SASS (pre-compiled CSS)
- Multithreaded / thread-safe programming
- IIS
- Distributed Hashtables (ie, NoSQL implementations)
- ORM Design
- Security, Cryptography, etc.
- Meta programming
- HTML5 specifications
- Local Storage (browser storage)
- Third Party API Integration (ie, Facebook API, LinkedIn API, Twitter API, etc.)
- Graphics Design (Photoshop, Indesign)
- WCF Web Services
- SQL Server

Feel free to contact me at leland@tech.pro with inquiries.

Note: in addition to developers, we are also highly interested in any talented designers as well.
NYT Slideshow of Sandy damage
Legal fears muffle warnings on cybersecurity threats
I remember at one point that my dad was having a hard time getting a new cellphone, because he wasn't allowed to bring cellphones with cameras into work. This was maybe 8 years ago or so at this point, but I imagine that a lot of places have had to redact those policies.
Exactly.

It's likely that many people get away without having their "skeletons in the closet" brought into the light of day.
For length, what I had was a continuous scale based on the runtime in minutes.
New York City, NY - Front-End & Mobile Web Developer - Quartz http://qz.com

Collaborate on a frontend unlike any other news site - one that places emphasis on the reading experience, seamless interaction, and values content over traditional business needs. An opportunity to shape and redefine the news reading experience.

More info: http://bit.ly/mobileWebDev

New York City, NY - Ad Product Engineer - Quartz http://qz.com

A rare opportunity to help conceive and execute a totally custom ad product from the ground up. We’re not talking banner ads, we mean making ads complementary to a great reading experience. Think in terms of “How would Instapaper implement ads?”

More info: http://bit.ly/adProdEng

You can email me direct for either of these spots - see my profile page. No recruiters or agencies plz - just people.

More info via recent press:

"The Atlantic Launches Mobile-First Business Publication, ‘Quartz’"

http://mashable.com/2012/09/24/quartz-the-atlantic/

"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...

"5 things journalists should know about Quartz, Atlantic Media’s business news startup"

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/188712/5-things...
Austin, TX

Client Project Developer

Datafiniti is the world's first search engine for data. Datafiniti's search results are complete data sets taken and aggregated from the web. You can search for information on places, people, products and pretty much any data available on the web. We are converting the entire web into a single, searchable database of knowledge.

Here's an example search: https://www.datafiniti.net/search/places?%5B%7B%22v%22:%22au...

In addition to our search engine product, we assist clients with a wide variety of custom data collection projects. We're looking to hire someone that can work on our clients team as a project developer to implement and manage these projects.

We're a small, close-knit team, so you'll have the opportunity to make a big impact on the company and its future success.

Full details are here: http://datafiniti1.theresumator.com/apply/V5pGWC/Project-Dev...

You can also email your resume to careers at datafiniti dot net.
litl, LLC. Boston, MA. Full-time, remote ok.

litl's Woven is looking for a talented, practical Python developer for its image research team. We're a creative engineering team evaluating whimsical 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
Voxeo Labs is looking for full-time DevOps team members.

We're looking for someone to work remote in, or around, the Atlanta or San Jose area. We're flexible for the right person, but a local is highly desirable.

Additional details can be found here - https://gist.github.com/3993941
ARM Launches 64-bit Cortex-A50 Architecture
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
There is a huge issue with just giving a fine. Profitable companies can choose to overlook the law if it makes financial sense for them to do so.
Sad that I had to get this far in the discussion to find that out. RTFA or not, a lot of people develop opinions based on posted comments before they read the article, ~if~ they even read the article.
I'm not sure why this is a surprise. Real 'clouds' in my opinion are all about elasticity. If you can't benefit from that then you're wasting your money and should host elsewhere.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote is fine (similar timezone preferred if possible though - we're based in NYC)

SquareMill.com - We're a development and design group based out of NYC. We have plenty of Ruby on Rails and Design work currently and we're looking for a freelancer to help us out with some of the work. Send us your info, github, or portfolio. If you live in the Americas that is a bonus (similar time zone is helpful for us).
Alternately, AWS was underpriced to start with. There is nothing wrong with charging what people will pay, and a lot of very smart people find AWS to be a huge value-add...
Apple, Apple, Apple... Samsung, as usual
It is quite possible that this is specifically why these new instance types can exist: as a lot of users don't use the ephemeral drives at all, even for swap, you can now build a new set of servers that are just CPUs and network cards, getting rid of the large disk drive; some tradeoff has to be made to increase some of the stats but not the price, and saying it is a shame that they didn't include everything seems to then miss the point.
The Death of Lucus Films Starts?
Programming is a Pop Culture
CAPCOM the company is named after that console?

Guess not, shame. http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/company/name.html
I totally agree. I think the future of pointing is something Kinect-like with accurate on-screen feedback.
Well after my comment above about scaling resolution by moving back through the z plane, thank you for the link. It's really helpful.
Not necessarily. These were the guys I was thinking about:

http://www.organic-market.info/web/Europe/Denmark/Denmark/22...

http://future-farmers.net/from-the-field/denmark/aarstiderne...
London, UK - Front-end, RoR and iOS developers

We're ramping up a new internal tech team to allow us to build our own products and tools (for internal and public use) and need great developers to help us build up and potentially lead a team of likeminded individuals.

More info: http://uk.authenticjobs.com/jobs/13719/senior-front-end-deve... http://uk.authenticjobs.com/jobs/14841/senior-ror-developer and http://uk.authenticjobs.com/jobs/14840/senior-ios-developer
SEEKING WORK, prefer remote, based in Greece.

I'm a full-stack developer, specializing mainly in Python/Django. I have a background in Machine Learning, and am passionate about working with large scale infrastructures. I've developed many products, my resume is:

http://resume.korokithakis.net/

My github:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/

I'm available for part-time to full-time work, less-than-full-time preferred. My email is in my profile, thanks!
HTML5 Mythbusting
i’d say the big differentiator here is the software. iOS isn’t optimized for keyboard input (and, as far as i know, doesn’t support mouse input at all). Windows RT however, being essentially the same as Windows 8 in this regard, is efficiently navigable via keyboard and mouse input alone. so beyond having the physical keyboard there to replace the on-screen one for typing-out long messages, it also serves as an effective navigation tool and with all the traditional Windows shortcuts available. the Surface covers also include dedicated media keys and have function keys assigned to the newly introduced charms as well as full trackpads.

an iPad with a physical keyboard tacked-on actually degrades ease of use as the addition changes the form of the device while not providing an alternative means of interacting with it suitable to that form. as a result, beyond the single action of typing, all navigation becomes less efficient as you have to reach-out and touch the screen in a less-natural way than accustomed to. i've found that even the typing experience here doesn’t feel that much better as you still get interrupted when having to make what would be otherwise minor adjustments (moving cursor, selecting text, formatting, ...) by having to reach-out to the screen.

on a Surface though, the cover provides a complete and efficient alternative means of input. this has less to do with the particular implementation of the cover/kickstand (which is great by the way) but rather, that it runs essentially the same OS as the majority of (non-touch-enabled) desktops and laptops to be sold in the coming years. regardless of particular views on Windows 8 and whether it is less efficient than previous versions, it still is a fully functional traditional OS, and interacting with it as such works very well.

using a Surface for a few days now, i really do think the form factor lives-up to the claim of no-compromises. you can navigate entirely via touch or entirely through the traditional mouse/keyboard combo and not even know that the other existed. and (the most likely option) somewhere in-between works exceptionally well. while i traditionally use the cover while in the desktop or typing-out a long message (like now), i find the input method option it affords is also great to have for when i just happen to be sitting at a desk or want to use the device standing-up on my lap. in that sense the particular implementation on the Surface’s cover/kickstand really shine as it makes switching between form factors effortless.
"Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good." - Voltaire
If one is looking at it that way: why does it have to be a hands-off donation? I'm sure there are myriad ways for such a donation to be used as PR material.
Apple needs to be a bit careful.

Patent claims are civil, and have fines or other gentle punishments attached.

Contempt of court is criminal, and people do get sent to jail for it.
I am so looking forward to this. There is so much potential in this market and smart people getting involved.

I truly believe that "hardware is the new black".
Alcorn McBride | Full-Time | Orlando, FL

Hardware/Software Design Engineer

We develop audio, video, lighting, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions.
We're looking for someone with general knowledge of Digital Video technology and Video Compression. RTOS/Embedded software experience is ideal.

It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our equipment, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing". You'll wear a lot of hats(today I'm bouncing between debugging a PC application and working on an FPGA design), but your primary focus will be on our video products.
If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile.

For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listing on our website: http://alcorn.com/alcorn-mcbride-jobs/
Me too. You have a super simple site, and now the comments to make it super easy to use. Cool tool.
It is only sloppy if you are ignorant of / choose to ignore the law that applies to it.
I'm pretty sure I'd consider Richard Stallman and Linus Torsvald to be "successful", without being business owners.