skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's likely that women will continue to recognize the needs of their children (and parents, and spouses) differently than men do."

Why?

Apart from that, sure, it is nicer to work part time on your own schedule. I don't think it is feasible for every kind of job, though. If you want to take care of your children, pick a suitable job.
MokaFive - Redwood City, CA (between San Francisco and Palo Alto), interns welcome, H1Bs probably welcome but I'm just an engineer so don't ask me.

MokaFive makes life easier for large corporate IT departments who have too many computers to manage, and life better for end-users who would otherwise have to deal with a corporate IT department that's enforcing ridiculously restrictive policies for their own sanity. Our primary product, MokaFive Player, delivers you a VM image of a corporate system that you can run on your own computer (Windows or Mac). You can install whatever software you want, and we automatically split new files into "layers", so IT can push a new base layer that takes effect as soon as you reboot, and you can press a button and wipe all locally-installed software including IE toolbars and other nonsense, but keep IT-provided software and non-application files like documents. Since it's running locally, you can get work done offline (unlike Citrix, VMware View, etc.), and not hate your life if you're not on the LAN. There's a bunch of security stuff like full disk encryption and so forth.

I'm specifically looking for coworkers on my team, which works on experimental / future products. One product that's been seeing lots of growth is MokaFive BareMetal, a stripped-down Ubuntu derivative that boots directly into MokaFive Player. By providing our usual management capabilities on an underlying OS you don't have to think about, you get the benefits of our product (easier updates, layering, single image, etc.) on corporate-owned hardware. We're also doing some work with MokaFive for iOS to allow you to remotely access files on your desktop from your mobile device, and doing some work with remote filesystems as an outgrowth of that.

We're not per se a virtualization company: we don't write the hypervisor, since other people already do a great job of that. We do write a lot of things just above and just below the hypervisor layer, and in general a lot of computer systems work. If you enjoy operating systems / virtualization, come talk to us. Our core product is in C++; there is also a fair amount of open source work to be done in various languages, and we try to be good citizens and work with upstream. (If you're interested in making 2013 the year of Linux on the desktop, helping Windows shops continue to use Windows as a desktop but use Linux for drivers is an oddly great way to help bring that about -- we regularly work to improve Linux's hardware compatibility, since we have customers wanting to use a wide range of machines.)

See mokafive.com for more info, or send me an email (gthomas at that domain name).
True, but to determine a net benefit wouldn't we need the environmental impact of server farms to compare against? Server production/recycling/disposal isn't that environmentally friendly either, although it does happen on longer cycles than for the typical paper document.

That said, the cloud version of digitizing is probably among the better cases, because you can aggregate even low-usage users. Home electronics like ebooks readers are probably a better skeptical case: my guess is that the disposal cycle for ebook readers is fast enough to negate the environmental benefits of less ink/paper use.
most require a desktop client to be installed on the other machine - in instances where you have only user permissions on the other machine (work) this becomes troublesome.
Mountain View, CA
HackerRank (http://hackerrank.com) - we're building an active community of problem solvers across different domains of Computer Science starting with AI.

Hypothesis: Every hacker loves a particular type of challenge in a certain difficulty level. We're building a large collection of challenges in different domains of CS with real world data sets to emphasize learning along with contests, leaderboard for fun.

We're hiring for multiple positions. Checkout hackerrank.com/careers

Btw, if any of the companies here are interested to meet university students from hackerrank.com/backtoschool, let us know.
What's your source for saying that the average office worker uses 10k pages a year (~40 every working day)?
No, it does not. India had asked UK to stop giving it aid. UK's response was that it reflects badly on domestic politics. India has pledged $10 billion to IMF as aid to EU

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-05/uk/31...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/19/g2o-brics-statement...
Globaldev - London, UK: Ruby Engineers & Ruby on Rails Developers - Permanent & Contract

http://globaldev.co.uk/jobs

With a portfolio of over 7,500 sites, we’re the largest social network you’ve probably never heard of. One of the world’s leading social discovery and dating companies, we’re the Facebook for people who haven’t met yet – enabling people to find new friends and partners online for fun and adventure in real life.

We’re looking for 2-3 expert Ruby engineers & RoR Developers to help us build a series of major enhancements to our dating platform and infrastructure over the next 12 months. It's a fantastic place to work where you'll be surrounded by incredibly talented developers working on big data problems and we are working hard to ensure we provide the best environment for Ruby/RoR Devs in London.

For more info or to apply email me - sbuckley@globaldev.co.uk
VC Fred Wilson Just Said "No"
Wow. Never thought I'd see a HN post with a title that is, essentially, lyrics from a Harvey Danger song.
Not joining.

I like paper, and I don't care if some think it is wasteful.

I like reading without a screen.

I like the feel in my hands.

It does not require batteries or electricity.

I can doodle and jot in the margins.

It spreads out on my work table as a kind of personal caching system.

It degrades gracefully, unlike a most digital file formats.

I would encourage anyone interested to find a copy of "The Myth of the Paperless office" by Abagail Sellen and Richard Harper [1] (No affiliate link below)

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/d...
Another Thompson has worked on it with others: It's the Plan 9 project, and later Inferno. Currently efforts are headed right in that direction both at OS and language level.

What you describe is already under way for devices of the same brand/manufacturer is already happening (I'm a afraid make it happen between vendors is going to be a much longer story). It seems to me like a strong selling argument and I don't understand that some big consumer electronics vendor like Sony or LG didn't make it happen already. Maybe the technology isn't cost effective yet.

I think that the next major step is to make these technoknowlegies both user-friendly and programmer-friendly in order to make them mainstream. The innovation the author wishes for already happened 20 years ago. What really needs to happen is that someone take it out of the cupboard and use it.
The parent asked why he should go paperless, not what technologies would enable him to do so. What makes it a worthwhile thing to do ?
Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013
There was a post about his operating system on Metafilter and he showed up and answered questions (in addition to some rambling). Really fascinating read: http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son...
How did you find the entropy of these passwords? By my calculations 8 random characters from a set of 62 is 47.6 bits, not 36. (log(2,62)* 8 = 47.6) On a logarithmic scale, this is a huge difference.

For the passphrase, 30 characters chosen from 73 is 185.7 bits (log(2,73)* 30). Even this isn't correct though, because the characters aren't randomly chosen. As the author says: "Not so for human-created passwords, where a sea of associations and language rules greatly reduces the search space." In other words, knowing that the first word is "I" limits the possibilities for the next word, and so on.
Yeah, don't use it:

pik = Math.random(); // random number [0,1]
So I've always wondered, why is myname@mydomain.com only an email address, why isn't it just an everything address related to an specific user?
My experience with it has been positive. I'd say a way to improve it would be to open a third thread for people looking for new full-time jobs (no freelancers or contractors). Like a reverse who is hiring thread. Programmers post their info in it, and companies get in touch. That way, companies can quickly get a good pool of people to interview.

Try it out for this month.
I whish I could go paperless.
I'm in high school, and let's admit it: my notebooks are a complete mess, and it's kind of annoying.

We get free netbooks in school, that we carry every day, and I though "Great, this year I'll take notes with the notebook and store them in the cloud".

But... nope, teachers don't allow you to do that, mainly because they think you are in Facebook (Duh, we don't even have internet!).

Seriously, my life would be much easier.
I think you miss the point. It is us.
It's interesting to me how different the opinions are of people who are interested in research and advancing technology vs. business people and consumers who, ultimately, are the ones using that technology.

I love seeing new progress but I have to admit that my job would be a lot easier if there was one operating system and one browser!
Is this just a thinly veiled advertisement for HelloFax?

Whois information for paperless2013.org:

Admin Name:Neal OMara
Admin Organization:HelloFax
Admin City:San Francisco
Admin State/Province:CA
Admin Postal Code:94109
Admin Country:US
Admin Email:founders@hellofax.com
Ironic given that pkzip copied arc's source code
You can get one from startssl.com for free.
It's all fun and games until you misjudge the height of an oncoming vehicle and slam it through the windscreen.
Would you mind sending me an email (in profile). I'm working on a product aimed at people like you and would like to give you a test run.
In order to transcend the modern operating system we need to transcend the modern programming language paradigms.
'Save money.' is the first reason on the page...
Secure Boot does not implement DRM or help in any way for DRM, as it turns out. Secure Boot is about the hardware trusting the OS it's about to boot, not about the OS trusting the hardware it's running on. Once the OS has booted, it has no way to figure out if the "you were secure-booted" flag is trustworthy or not -- a trojan bootloader can easily set that flag and then chainload to the normal OS.

If you want the OS to trust the hardware it's on, you need a TPM, and you probably need the machine to be installed by someone who can communicate with the content provider. The entire point of Secure Boot is that it can be implemented just in existing UEFI code, _without_ the additional hardware of a TPM.

I develop an OS product that has no browser installed on it at all -- there's one small client application that just interacts with our one server product, and then boots everything else you might want to do in a VM. The biggest threat to the security of our outer layer is, in fact, an evil maid attack. It's certainly worth being aware of that threat, even if there are other, bigger threats. (Nobody says that we should stop worrying about buffer overflows while there are still cross-site scripting attacks, etc.)
SEEKING WORK - Based in Columbus, Ohio but willing to travel. My specialties are Ruby, Rails, and javascript/Coffeescript/jQuery/Backbone, but I also have a great deal of experience with Chrome Extensions, Asp.net MVC, iOS, and UX Design. I also have a partner that I often team up who has similar skills.

Email: adam [at] jetcode.io

http://jetcode.io/

http://github.com/adamalbrecht

https://twitter.com/adam_albrecht
The site I used was
http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php

Other tools also...
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
http://www.passwordmeter.com/
I should add: the value proposition for mono is a bit bizarre.

On the server, typically mono is chosen because mono on linux is much cheaper than azure, or windows hosting (AWS, etc) therefore you trading slightly more development and setup effort for cheaper run-time costs.

For the phone/tablet market, you are doing the opposite trading money (monotouch licenses) to save development time and learning a new platform.

On the desktop, I think the value proposition is much less well defined. It depends alot of the mix of clients you are supporting.
Xmonad 0.11 was released
Made me think of a Flipper song, You Nought Me, from their Gone Fishin' album.
How about a giant donut balloon that inflates once in space? NASA could fill it with balls and charge admission while waiting for the expedition's supplies to reach Mars.
Ebooks are helping to rip apart traditional publishing, but the biggest thing tearing publishing apart is the disintermediation of their traditional Brick and Mortar channel partners by online bookselling. Further exasperating things one retailer, Amazon, has captured the majority of the online book business.

Publishing companies are all B2B companies with most publisher brands meaning very little to readers, but a lot to their retailer partners. Unlike most consumer goods, books are returnable to the publishers for a full refund if not sold which has been the glue keeping publishers and booksellers workign together since the 1930's.

Publishers were tied to their partners and couldn't walk away from them to go after new opportunities. Further, the "culture" of the industry is such that everyone leading it grew up in publishing so many players never even saw what was happening because they knew how the world worked.
Prezi - http://prezi.com/ - San Francisco, CA (full-time, but we're open for interns as well)

We are looking for a backend and a frontend engineer. We have just started to build our engineering team focusing on growth, marketing and business development efforts in our San Francisco office (product development is in our other office in Budapest, Hungary with about 40 engineers).

Some exciting tasks ahead: build quick prototypes that drive growth; high performance web development (both from a backend and frontend perspective); backend systems for marketing campaigns (and their respective frontend work of course); content management system on our main website; integration with 3rd party providers (e.g. Salesforce).

About our technology stack: we primarily use Python/Django in the backend, but we also have Scala and Haskell in production. Frontend is LESS (built on top of Bootstrap), and JavaScript (jQuery) with some CoffeeScript.

Why Prezi? We are a profitable (but also well-funded) company that's been around for more than 4 years now, with more than 18 million registered users. We have 100 employees, but the SF office is still pretty small (20 people). We don't track holidays, benefits include health, dental and vision. You get to travel to Budapest, Hungary at least twice a year, a city well-known for its baths and ruin pubs. You have extra budget for personal improvement (books, conferences, etc.)

Application form: https://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Apply.aspx?b=nu7Ahjwg&j...

See http://prezi.com/jobs/ for more info and other open positions.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me: szilveszter@prezi.com
It surely is freedom from stupidity and narrow-mindedness of government officials. I don't hold the government accountable for the values of rapists. But I do hold it accountable for its own actions (and inaction).
What is the point of having more OS if even Linux isn't well supported by driver suppliers or software developers? Just to have more fragmentation?

Sure, I love the idea of Plan9, I love small OS like MINIX and revolutionary UI ideas... but let's face the hard truth, most of this projects are destined to live in the research field.
Like Twitter, but Anonymous
"So close you can almost touch it." Probably Ubuntu for Tablet (officially)?
I don't know how easy or hard would be to do that for Windows, but I think most x86 Linux programs work on ARM machines by default.
S3 is one of Amazon's most stable cloud offerings. It's been years since they had a major outage. It's possibly even more stable than hosting yourself.
Code breaking for patches and security enhancements is widely viewed as unacceptable, but this is the first occasion I've seen someone accept to breaking changes in a major release. Neither Rails 2 nor Rails 3 were fundamentally broken, and there's nothing stopping you from keeping an application on those releases.
Something Hacker News has taught me is that no matter what, someone's opinion will surprise me.
It's happened on occasion, but for the most part by looking at reviews I get a decent opinion of whether I would like the movie. I can think of only 3 movies in the last couple years that I regretted seeing, 2 of which I went to mostly because other people were looking for something to do. With an unmade movie, reviews of the finished movie don't exist. In addition, the movie may not even be finished.
Wello - San Francisco (https://www.sortbox.co/z/4k)

Wello is looking to hire a software engineer with a passion for designing beautiful web applications. Using 2-way video technology, Wello enables users to workout from the comfort of their home or office with a live, professional trainer.

As the third engineer of a highly motivated team, you will be responsible for delivering product features that will delight customers. You will have a huge influence in shaping our product as an early member of the team. If you are someone that loves to build software and work in small teams, we’d love to tell you more about the opportunity.

What makes Wello special:

Our vision is to build a recognized health and wellness platform for learning and doing
We are a small and hungry team
We care deeply about great design
We are funded, generating revenue and successfully launched.
Learn more about us at http://www.wello.co/about/

Responsibilities:

Develop new features (backend, data analysis) while working side by side with the rest of the team
As an early employee, be a generalist and shape the company and its culture
Prototype experimental features quickly
Test your own code and deploy to production quickly and often

Requirements:

A passion for building intuitive software that delight users
3-5 years of prior experience building consumer software
Practical knowledge of building scalable web applications
Knowledge of design patterns
Drive to take initiative and ownership
(Passion for health and fitness solutions trumps any specific requirement).

Plus:

General knowledge of Django and MySQL
Knowledge of a good A/B testing framework
Experience building small mobile applications on the side

A Little about the Leadership Team:

Co- founder Ann Scott Plante worked at Bain & Company. BA Dartmouth, MBA Stanford. Fellow co-­founder, Leslie Silverglide, previously founded and sold Mixt Greens, a quick-­service restaurant group. BA Johns Hopkins, MSc Oxford, MBA Stanford. Amol Kher, Wello’s CTO, led teams at Netflix, Google and Microsoft. Hands-­on Technical Advisor, Marc Haverland, led MapQuest’s technical team as well as that of MXLogic (acquired by MacAfee).
"In other news---A Microsoft store was broken into and several thousand dollars worth of merchandise was reported to have been returned."

Ha ha ha.
Here's another useful resource regarding posture and sitting [1] by Kelly Starrett, who's probably well-noted in strength training circles for his MobilityWOD project. He explains how to sit and provides guidance on several related topics such as shoulder/hip mobility and hydration. He also illustrates some massages and stretches you can do to take care of your junk through hours of prolonged sit-and-keyboarding.

For what its worth, I've been following along with his MobilityWOD project [2] for some time and it has immensely helped with my strength training pursuits.

[1] http://youtu.be/kfg_e6YG37U
[2] http://www.mobilitywod.com
Amazon S3 is highly secure when configured correctly. The files are encrypted and only our servers can access them from our S3 buckets (i.e. no direct links). For more information on Amazon's security practices, see here: http://aws.amazon.com/security/

- Neal, co-founder of HelloFax
Ha, that is a cool hack. It has been awhile since I had that feeling, but I remember it well. A beer puts me right to sleep now as well, but that is less convenient if the baby wakes up.
That comment should have stayed where you found it. It might be appropriate in that community, but it's just content-free noise here.
I'm Brazilian, I live a few miles from an area (Mata Atlântica) where most of the original rain forest was destroyed to grow european pineapples (it's better for paper because it grows faster, the native trees take literally centuries to grow). This is what you read about as "managed woodland". Much of the fauna and flora that existed here a few decades ago are now only found in books or zoos.

I can see the evidence to help me decide by literally looking at the window.
Yeah, password strength estimators are often wrong.
SF or REMOTE fulltime (near pacific time)
CircleCI: designers, frontend, backend engineers.

At CircleCI (https://circleci.com), we're building Heroku for Continuous Integration. We have traction and revenue. Our customers love us, because we move quickly and provide amazing support. All employees talk to customers and are on support rotation.

We eat our own dogfood, DevOps, A/B test, do Continuous Deployment and Customer Development.

We're looking for: designers that can write HTML & CSS, Frontend Engineers and Backend Engineers.

We're still a small team, so you'll have a large impact on company culture. We're highly influenced by Valve's Employee handbook. SF-local employees have catered lunch every day.

The frontend is a fat javascript client, using HamlCoffee, Less and Knockout. We have a lot of interesting design and data-visualization problems that need to be solved, as well as A/B testing, landing page creation and optimization.

The backend is written in Clojure. Backend engineers should know Clojure or another 'weird' language (Haskell, Scala, Scheme, etc), and Linux Devops (C compilation model, make, packaging).

Contact us at jobs@circleci.com. Include samples of awesome stuff you've done.
> Being a Indian I would gladly sacrifice some development for the freedom I enjoy in India.

The fact that you are fluent in English and have internet access suggests that you much more educated and wealthy than the average Indian. Ask the average Indian how they feel about sacrificing some freedom for development, and the answer will be very different from yours.

You get to have your cake and eat it as well. The poor in India do not. And they would rather eat the cake (have development, rather than freedom). Because they are not even really free.
Secure Boot cannot possibly be useful to prevent the installation of other operating systems. Microsoft has a website where they will accept other operating systems to be signed, and there are multiple non-MS operating systems in existence that will boot with no fuss on a machine with Secure Boot enabled. The claim that Secure Boot is bad because MS could decide to stop signing Linux is as ridiculous as the claim that Authenticode is bad because MS could decide to stop signing Firefox, or that HTTPS is bad because MS could replace the set of CAs in Internet Explorer with just itself.

The only way to defeat evil-maid attacks is for the early-boot code in your computer's firmware to cryptographically validate the bootloader or kernel that it's about to start, and make sure it's signed by a trusted authority, and make sure that it's possible for the computer owner to disable the ability for anyone other than him to change the set of trusted authorities. This happens to be exactly what Secure Boot does.