skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>although I imagine trying to walk the average user through "booting from USB"

How is that any worse than the current status quo of every Windows product ever sold? I'd say it would be harder to walk mom through deleting the restore files when she calls and says her tablet won't hold all her movies and music.

Let's just face it, MS made a very stupid decision. I could see this happening during the Vista era, but SSDs have been mainstream for YEARS now. Windows should have a smaller footprint and holy hell, should not have a 12-18gb cab file to restore from on limited storage.

Enthusiasts spend way too much time making Windows SSD friendly. We need to delete superseded update from winsxs, shrink the default massive page file, delete the hibernate file on machines that don't need it, manually stop superfetch/defrag even though windows is supposed to do this on its own, etc.

>And the "purpose of the surface pro"?

In the age of affordable ultrabooks, who knows. Essentially you're buying an ultrabook without a keyboard and with a super tiny screen.

That said, I love the RT product and if the RT tablet was $299 it would sell like hotcakes. Especially if the 'desktop mode' didn't exist. MS should never have bothered with the Pro line and instead should have made a proper android and ios competitor.
A quote: "Both Michael Feathers and Rachel Davies recently recently [sic] wrote about ..."

Does "recently recently" mean very recently? Second question: what happened to proofreading?
Some quick web searching suggests that the 16GB iPad has closer to 13.5GB free.

My guess is that iOS reserves more space on the larger devices for its own internal use.
True, although they do have the advantage of being somewhat more niche in that they aren't developing an entire platform from the ground up with all the costs that entails.

For example if MS loses enough ground with Windows in the consumer / small business space and begin to cede the enterprise desktop too does it make sense for them to continue development of Windows as a pure server platform?

Or will we start to see ports of stuff like Exchange,Active Directory,VS,SQL Server to other platforms?
The value of EC2 depends a lot on your use case.

I frequently want quick and easy access to a bunch of instances, but I don't expect to use any single instance for very long. For example, I might partition my data into 30 pieces, and I want to simultaneously operate on each partition for five minutes.) Since Amazon charges a 1 hr minimum for each instance you set up, I'd pay for 30 hours.

I'm experimenting with a switch to PiCloud. PiCloud charges twice as much per hour, but they only charge for the time I use (150 minutes in this example).

PiCloud has the additional advantage of being vastly easier to use than ec2.

There are use cases for ec2 (and elastic map-reduce)...
You are incorrect. The policy is that users get locked out after 3 attempts... until attackers get smart enough to bruit force through the usernames, 3 wrong passwords each.

80% of the customers getting locked out of their bank accounts at 5 PM on a Friday only happens once before the bank changes policies to something that allows the attackers to perform a rate-limited attack on the 5-character passwords. The new lockout policy goes into effect before the bank can force everyone to upgrade their passwords.

GAME OVER
Thanks, that was a real RTFM moment.
Things clients say to Irish graphic designers
Marco, Paolo or Carlo are even easier.
I actually thick the Surface Pro, or something like it, will be the future of home computing. It is exactly what everyone with an iPad, including myself, wishes the iPad would actually do. It is a tablet form factor with a the guts of a true computer and support for multiple peripherals. Dock it wherever and have a real computer system or take it on the go like any other tablet.
So it sounds like I'm mistaken then, hmm in that case I wonder what I was reading on this topic.
Yeah, when I see these comparisons about "percentage" of free space, I find them pretty ridiculous, because they compare the iPhone or the iPad at 16 GB, and say it's like 80%, and then the Surface at 64 GB.

If you're going to compare it like that then compare it with the 64 GB iPad, and then you get the free space to be almost 3x larger than on the 64 GB Surface (95% vs ~35%).
Hubbub - London or surroundings - Full time

Hubbub is saving independent food shops by letting people order online when they can't get to the shops themselves. We mask the complexity of ordering from lots of separate shops and allow customers to place a single order online and receive all their weekly shopping in one go. It's good for the shops because it lets them reach a wider audience, and it's good for our busy customers because it allows them to support their local community.

We're looking for two developers, who will double the size of our current team, to work on our Rails based website and supporting applications. Ruby experience is a plus, but we're very happy to take on people without direct experience if they know how to learn - our second developer hadn't written any Ruby before starting with us.
More details, including how to apply, are at http://developers.hubbub.co.uk/
Bangalore - Fullstack software engineers @promptcloud

http://promptcloud.com/careers.php
Unless you do warrantless wiretapping in the US.
For econ PhDs, there is http://cber.uark.edu/2011-12_New_PhD_Labor_Market_Survey_Rep...
I'm a bit tired but your calculations make no sense to me. What are you getting at?
New Relic - Portland OR/Seattle WA/San Francisco CA (http://newrelic.com/jobs)

We make the best application performance monitoring solution, and deliver the only serious SaaS APM. >30K users can't be wrong. It gives deep visibility in production apps running on Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, and .NET (with more platforms on the way). Making it easy for our users, however, is hard work for us. Our answer is to hire top notch people, give them whatever they need, and turn them loose to solve tough problems.

We're looking for a number of technical positions (check out the Jobs page), including engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1-Bs welcome.

We also take our company culture seriously -- Best Place to Work and all that, of course. But we also provide an unusual and exciting development environment, one where managers are working to enable developers, not the other way around.

More about us:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZL7mMI-CKU
http://newrelic.com/nerdlife

Come take a look at our jobs. http://newrelic.com/jobs
Having seen animated gifs, I can assure you that mngs (pronounced as mings) would be likewise huge. It's better to just have a 1-line JS script do this, and a standard for sandboxing nonthreatening JS.
Bitcoin truly fascinates me, I love its potential, if it is widely adopted how long before you can spend bitcoins via a 'bank card' or probably more impressive if a bank adopts it.
Yes, I had the same thing due to failing to file any kind of form when I first moved to Denmark— they withheld at the top tax rate by default, but then gave me the money back at the end of the year. I didn't have to go through any sort of process to request a refund; it was just automatically deposited in my bank account. They even tacked on 0.5% interest onto the over-withheld amount.
If you don't have fixed demand, you may want to consider spot instances. The upside is that they can be much cheaper, but the downside is that they can disappear at any second. If you design your app around high availability, it may work for you.

This HNer runs core services on spot instances and claims at least a 70% savings:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4662442
Here is a partial screen capture:
http://i.imgur.com/R5gs8HC.png

Unfortunately, it's missing some of the newer (and frankly, ignorant and cavalier) replies from the tech support guy.
One other feedback item that could make it worth the money is visually creating the sales funnel (e.g. http://blogs.forrester.com/laura_ramos/09-06-03-silverpop_se...) as well as showing who is where in the process (https://mixpanel.com/activity-feed/)

So if I am going to a meeting and know that John Doe is in my funnel and I know he is on day 9 - I could make a reference to something about it in the meeting and connect on a better level.
ViClone's "Siri"-ish Customer Service for Movistar
Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

Did you know there's a company based in New York City that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?

You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight — a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you!

Dave Hahn
dave.hahn@twosigma.com

For a full list of current openings, please visit: http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
Comparing sales between a phone you find in every shopping mall and could buy without knowing the differentiators, and a new class of device? That doesn't sound like an unbiased argument.
The problem with Javascript came when it started to be used server side. Suddenly, comparing with other languages that one can use instead is fair game.

Sure, Javascript may not be as bad as perl or php, but it's got plenty of warts. On the server, why use javascript when you can use a language without warts?

As fast as C? Not remotely close:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...

Usual disclaimer about micro-benchmarks applies, but I suspect the real picture is even worse. Speaking of compiling down to Javascript, languages like Coffeescript came about because of Javascripts warts, not because it's such a great language.

Again, you can program in straight Javascript, but why? Because it's all you know? I need to forget better solutions exist to like it?

Thanks, but I'll pass.
Excelerate Labs to Become TechStars Chicago
The article doesn't mention it, but HNers may be interested to know that a lot of the materials research behind batteries is done computationally. Numerical models are used to vet materials for desired properties, before having to physically test them.

The "Ceder Group" mentioned in the article has a cleverly-chosen name. While Dr. Ceder runs the group, its name also is an acronym for "Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research".
Smallest Magnetic Field Sensors to Measure Nanometer-Scale Atomic Sizes
StudyHall.com is hiring.

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. EdTech gurus.
Hiring designers and front-end experts.

http://bit.ly/XM68cN
I think most gmail overhauls have been significantly less major than Windows->Metro. The complaints against Metro don't seem to be so much that people haven't warmed to it yet so much as that it doesn't gel with the way they want to work on a desktop/laptop computer at all.
>I say interesting because I'm not sure if it's better than Windows 7--it's bizarre, for example, that they turned the useful Aero snap into a toy, but I digress

What? Aero snap on W8's desktop works in the same way as in W7.
These guys were at Øredev in Sweden back in November - there's a video of their talk here - https://vimeo.com/53073656

Had a play with a Parrot at the same time and the CrazyFlie was much more nimble but relies on user control.

Felix Geisendörfer did a talk on hacking a Parrot AR at Øredev - https://vimeo.com/41836614 and it was great fun too.
When someone dumps a large Python codebase on you, it is significantly harder to figure out how it works than with a statically typed program, since it is harder to figure out what types to use and are returned by any given function call.
2600hz is hiring in San Francisco (and remote). Accepting H1B candidates who meet the requirements below.

We're building an operating system for telecom and we're looking for people that love Erlang and/or are willing to learn.

Our stack is:

* Kamailio at the border

* Freeswitch as the media engine

* our Erlang logic layer

* rabbitMQ

* couchDB

We are also very active in the hardware worlds.

Working at 2600hz will be the most fun and hopefully the biggest challenge you've faced so far. Telecom is a big problem and we're fixing it (did I mention we're open-source?).

Benefits:

health/dental/vision

competitve salary

potential equity depending on skill level

challenging work environment

dog friendly

the coolest/nicest coworkers on the planet.

If this is interesting email j[at]2600hz[dot]com.
Security red flag: passwords are "secure enough."
Dropbox Photo Upgrade Threatens Facebook’s Idea of Social
It's not every day that the top story on reddit.com/r/conspiracy is also the top story on Hacker News.
Stardock deleted the thread after it started to get some attention. Here is a partial screen capture:
http://i.imgur.com/R5gs8HC.png

Unfortunately, it's missing some of the newer (and frankly, ignorant and cavalier) replies from their tech support guy.
Kontagent
Kontagent.com/why/careers

We are hiring scientists, engineers, interns, marketing, sales ... at both downtown San Francisco and downtown Toronto locations.

DATA SCIENCE
R&D Data Scientist/Engineer	San Francisco, United States

ENGINEERING
Engineering Manager - Application Development	San Francisco, United States
Integration Engineer	Toronto, Canada
Lead Data Quality Analyst	San Francisco, United States
Lead Engineer	San Francisco, United States
Post Sales Engineer	Toronto, Canada
Senior Software Engineer - Application Development	San Francisco, United States
Senior Software Engineer – Data Store Team	San Francisco, United States
Software Engineer II - Application Development	San Francisco, United States
Technical Lead - Application Development	San Francisco, United States

MARKETING
Art Director	San Francisco, United States

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Technical Project Manager	San Francisco, United States

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Customer Insights Analyst	San Francisco, United States

SALES
Business Development Representative	San Francisco, United States
Director of Channel and Business Development	San Francisco, United States
EMEA Corporate Account Manager	London, United Kingdom
Field Sales Executive	San Francisco, United States
Sales Engineer	San Francisco, United States
Sales Training Manager	San Francisco, United States
Senior Sales Engineer	San Francisco, United States

UNIVERSITY RECRUITING
Data Science Intern	San Francisco & Toronto, United States
Integration Engineer	Toronto, Canada
Sales Associate Intern- Summer 2013	San Francisco, United States
Software Engineer	San Francisco, United States
Statistician Intern	San Francisco & Toronto, United States
> SAmsung TOSHIba NAKAmichi MOTOrola

Samsung isn't Japanese. And what the hell is Nakamichi?

But Satoshi is a common Japanese given name.
Amicus (YC S12), New York City, Full Time, H1B

We're hiring developers across the stack.

Here are some interesting things we'll be working on soon at Amicus (http://amicushq.com/):

+ A realtime collaborative community environment for supporters of nonprofits to communicate, and provide each other encouragement. This will involve realtime javascript with node.js, socket.io, and backbone.js

+ Machine learning and statistical analysis on demographics and how they relate to outreach/fundraising effectiveness

+ Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, realtime Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding

+ Realtime data visualization with D3, including D3's map projection, to create data visualizations to help nonprofitss understand the impact Amicus is having on their organization

+ And for lulz: A Minecraft mod/voxel.js project for devirtualizing virtualized servers. Basically a minecraft mod that allows you to control AWS instances by putting down/picking up blocks :-)

Sound interesting? Want to change the world for the better? Head over to http://jobs.amicushq.com/
Another big cost is replacing and fixing the ones you crash.
CB Insights - New York, NY (Full-time, intern, H1B)

NSF backed data company recently recognized as one of NYC's top emerging enterprise companies. We are generating revenues/profits, have taken no dilutive external financing, are solving hard problems, and have a great team.

Hiring page here - http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs/

Looking for
- inside sales (not yet posted on page)
- full stack developer
- product adoption manager
- tech industry analyst
- machine learning engineer

Reach out directly to me (email in profile) or to careers@cbinsights.com
Iceland seems like the only country the banks don't rule.
Get Started with Couchbase for Mobile
Hahahaha! That has to be one of the wittiest comments i've read on HN. Thanks for making me laugh aloud!???
SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time

We're a search engine for tickets and live events.

Android Developer -- Live event apps are where photo sharing apps were four years ago. We're looking for someone to define the live event experience on Android: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

Designer Who Can Code -- I know, such people aren't lining up at the Unemployment Office. But if you fit that description, drop me a line at jack [at] seatgeek.com
It would also mean that people who are 20-something and educated locally are less likely to have large student loans to repay too. They would pay more tax compared to the US, but need to spend less money after tax so it should even itself out.
I wish the term, "hacker", was limited to people who get unauthorized access. That's what I think of. I see it as derogatory. A kludge can be a hack, too. A hack is a unprofessional or incorrect way to do something. The enemy is busy fucking with words.

God says...
C:\Text\DARWIN.TXT

cies through the aid of insects,
and have probably been gained through natural selection. No one until
lately would have imagined that in dimorphic and trimorphic plants the
different lengths of the stamens and pistils, and their arrangement, could
have been of any service, but now we know this to be the case.

In certain whole groups of plants the ovules stand erect, and in others
they are suspended; and within the same ovarium of some few plants, one
ovule holds the former and a second ovule the

-----

Some people bitterly resent "pirate" as a term. I don't have sympathy for piracy, now that God talks. Go ahead and explain to God. He is just -- you suffer for doing it.

God says...
C:\Text\YANKEE.TXT

ed Church, but a go-as-you-please one; and
the other project was to get a decree issued by and by, commanding
that upon Arthur's death unlimited suffrage should be introduced,
and given to men and women alike--at any rate to all men, wise
or unwise, and to all mothers who at middle age should be found
to know nearly as much as their sons at twenty-one. Arthur was
good for thirty years yet, he being about my own age--that is
to say, forty--and I believed that in that time I could easily
have the ac
BERLIN/THE FACTORY - FULL TIME - NODE.JS

1. Node.js + NoSQL Growth Hacker for High Traffic Site

2. Lead Software Engineer Node.js

More info on http://urge.io/jobs and apply to career at urge dot io
Using YAML to parse JSON was obviously non-optimal, which is (presumably) why Rails stopped doing it in 3.1 (thus the vulnerability your refer to is only present in 3.0 and 2.x).

W.r.t RubyGems, I hear what you're saying, but that doesn't mean there's a bug in psych. Even the feature request of adding a safe_load option strikes me as problematic...either you're limiting the markup to json with comments, or you'd have to name the option something like sort_of_safe_load.
Here are some papers that might be useful for budding quadrotor hackers and pilots: https://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~dmel/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Pub... and a video made by that school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4
"Stallman's concern arose at MIT AI lab, not among owners of Atari 2600's or Commodore Vic 20's."

While I do not deny the unsavory side of Stallman exists, I am intrigued at how smoothly we've moved from his detractors mocking his "The Right to Read" [1], to his detractors ignoring it, to us standing on the precipice of living in it, even as the mockery continues unabated and even the HN zeitgeist seems to be that he's some sort of whacko who should be ignored... some sort of whacko who, I might add, appears to have been a great deal more correct about the future than the people labeling him such.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Can you guys help me map the right LOTR Characters to Programming Languages?
If you like this, also check out http://openpilot.org. It's an open source autopilot project.
I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project.

You're right that there is a chasm between backtesting and actual trading.

The title may be a little future thinking, we are working on adapting the event/stream-based backtesting engine to drive live trading.

Updating the description to help declare intended goals of being a wider algorithmic trading suite.
Berlin, Germany or Remote (within EU); relocation possible; no agencies

candena GmbH (http://candena.com/) - recently incorporated in Germany - is building the team-based collaboration platform for educational and training purposes. We have already been chosen as the official platform provider for the open online course that launched in January 2013 and is operated by world-known academic and business experts in US and Europe.

We are hiring for multiple full-time positions:

* Lead Developer (Ruby/Rails, Full Stack experience, Project management)

* Full stack engineer (Ruby/Rails, Coffee Script, usability, testing)

* UI/UX developer (HTML/CSS/JS/CoffeScript with Ruby/Ruby on Rails knowledge)

If you are interested, feel free to contact me directly at rmarek@candena.com together with the CV and/or Github repository, examples of your work, etc.
I find myself in a very similar situation (married/mortgage/kid) building product fulltime. I intend to go on till I get some evidence of traction before I see any investors.

It sounds like your product is some sort of a marketplace where one side (sellers/businesses) will pay and the other side will come in free. If so that's one of the oldest games in town. And showing an angel that sellers will pay to sell/promote their product on your platform is not going to generate much excitement. (Sellers ALWAYS want to sell and will pay for customers if they see a particular system/channel working).

Your challenge will be to build up the user base quickly. Identify a segment (your customer's customer's perhaps) and offer some sort of an exclusive (you will have to pay for that discount most probably unless your sellers are willing to chip in)

If you do want to go the angel route immediately some options are
> angel.co
> local tech meetups
> cofounders lab (I've found good entrepreneurs there)

Happy to compare notes, drop me a line at mayukhm@gmail.com

Cheers