skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paydici in Portland, Oregon (Chinatown) needs Mostly Daytime DevOps (Chef) and a couple strong Ruby on Rails engineers: one with a focus on front-end and another with a focus on scalable backend processing. Key technologies: Rails, Backbone.js, SASS, Hadoop, EC2, Keurig.

If you've got lots of customers to bill, then Paydici will handle it for you: mailing paper bills, processing paper checks, electronic billing and electronic payment. We handle everything and deposit $$ in your account.

Deets on positions here: https://paydici.com/jobs

Sampling of bennies:

- competitive blended salary (cash + equity) based on your experience—we’re open to working out the right mix for you

- 9 paid holidays per year

- annual TriMet pass

- vacation: unlimited, after you’ve met your commitments

- bike and dog friendly

- Powell’s Books 1-1 matching—we’ll reimburse you for one book purchased at Powell’s each month

We want team mates with a good sense of humor, masterful self-direction, and of course, technical chops. Life’s too short to work with boring people, so we ask that you bring at least one non-work-related super-power as well.
The threat model for SSL is flawed (2003)
Apple passes Samsung with 34% US mobile market share
>If the FBI supplied this guy with a fake bomb, what crime did the guy commit?

If you get behind the wheel of a car drunk but get home safely, what crime did you commit?

You needn't actually cause damage to break the law.

>I don't even think you can claim he /attempted/ to commit such an act since the FBI gave him a fake.

Whether the bomb or not was real doesn't change the fact that he has the mens rea to blow up a building, and considering he thought the bomb was real and took positive steps to set it up, the reus actus as well.
Coming from WebOS I love swipe gestures and am more sad more OS's don't utilize them.

I didn't know about that setting. Thanks, I'll have to check that out!

One other thing that I do like is the ability to show more than one app on the screen at the same time as appropriate. So you can see your music app in the left 25% of the screen while you type up a document or surf the web. Really underrated.
It basically broadsides all the major player personality types as well as being a textbook case for psychological flow.

For those who want to create, it offers virtually uninhibited creation. The world is a box of lego for you to play with. For those who want to explore, it offers infinite exploration, but there is no pressure to explore if you don't want to. For those who want to socialize, it offers multiplayer (and pets as allies), or you can enjoy the solitude. For those who want to kill or fight there are monsters, and for those who don't there is an option to switch them off. For those who want to collect, there are rare minerals. If you don't want to collect or build or grind, cheats are accepted by the creators and the community as a valid way to play.

In terms of flow, the day-night cycle changes the play context often. In standard play it offers a sense of pressure (for those who want it), while ensuring that the player never becomes too overwhelmed for too long, or becomes bored by a lack of action. The desirability of items that you can craft in the game is usually proportional to their usefulness, but also requires proportionally more effort to obtain. Crucially, most of the tools and items are non-essential or it's easy to craft basic versions that will make do. The free-form nature of the game and lack of extrinsic rewards makes it perfect for self-directed goals, which are essential for flow.

Its blocky art style is based on programmer art and technical limitations but has a functional purpose and carries a certain style. It's stylistic, not so cartoony as to put off adults, but so unrealistic that the zombies, spiders and skeletons are not scary enough to put off children (or the even the arachnophobic).

In terms of accessibility or usability it's awful. Crafting is virtually impossible without the wiki open, for example. Not even the basic mechanics are explained. There's no in-game help. There must be a significant number of people who have played the game only once because of that. Still, if you manage to persevere for an hour or so, you'll have a solid grasp of the concepts of the game. The difficulty is mostly self-directed, as per flow theory.

My question is, was all this deliberate? Does Notch have an calculating eye for game design, is it instinctual, or did he manage to hit on an excellent formula by chance? Can he repeat it?
Your exclamation point to word ratio exceeds safe parameters.
(The REAL problem, of course, is the suffering of children being shelved, but who really cares what children feel? Not many.)
Although not expressly in the linked content, I believe the change apropos beyond healthcare providers is the change for cloud providers (SaaS, storage, etc.) Now, companies which store Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud are considered business associates of the healthcare provider. In turn, the companies are now regulated entities & will be required to meet the security & privacy standards of patient data. No longer is a storage provider considered an unassociated 'conduit.' This is a significant change for healthcare providers and all their (remote) technology partners. Ideally, this will create the regulatory impetus sufficient to prevent your healthcare providers from transitioning over to relatively insecure services such as Gmail for sensitive patient data.
> If native mobile apps end up de facto replacing the open internet

Mobile is just hyped. Once companies realize that people who access to the internet solely through their phone can hardly be monteized, well be back pre-iphone in the hype department.
It was submitted with the title "Minecraft brought in $92 million net in 2012". The linked URL is the original source and when it was submitted, there were no translations available.
Sorry, I was a victim of the translation, I think. I see the clarification now. Sorry, I tried to delete before replies, but a couple of you got in beforehand, apparently.
Yikes. Making it legal to prey on children online is not a great solution.
"... and looks a bit like scotch tape, only infinitely thinner."

Sounds like they just stuck this in because they heard the words scotch tape and graphine mentioned together.

Graphine was first made using a the scotch tape technique by pulling graphene layers from graphite and transferred them onto thin SiO2 on a silicon wafer.

Also it's not infinitely thinner.
Here's the v3 roadmap http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/10/bootstrap-3-plans/
| the difficulty of financing peer-reviewed publishing if subscriptions are free

note, though, that scientists are not paid to edit journals nor peer-review articles in them; the publishers collect their cut simply for hosting the article on a website (and printing physical copies, but basically nobody uses them anymore.)

If the publishers were more honest, and allowed people to download papers for the cost of the bandwidth plus a small contribution towards a sysadmin's salary, say 20 cents, and charged the full $10 wack for physical subscriptions/prints, we would have app-store economics and much, much less of a problem.

Of course, people with a monopoly don't tend to reduce their prices voluntarily (apart from Amazon..) and full, free, open access (at least for publicly funded research) is a very reasonable demand.
One thing that I like that the Nest (http://www.nest.com/) has done is they give you a green leaf if you set the temperature at an energy saving level. Then each month or so they email you how many green leaves you've accumulated and how you are doing compared to the average in your area. While this is not a full blown "game" it definitely triggered my competitive side and I've tried to turn down the thermostat to get as many green leaves as possible.
I love that link example xD I never thought of doing that!
Yeah I would love to buy one $250.00 bucks for a map? Am i paying for the cable or just the map?
Ochre - New York City

Software Engineer

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Ochre (www.theochre.com) is an NYC-based media startup. We are a new,
growing company building an online video network giving content makers the
ability to create interactive videos where viewers can make decisions on the
outcome of the story - seamlessly and in real-time. We partner with ad networks,
agencies and IT resellers to release this content.

Founded by Grammy-winning producer Devo Springsteen, Ochre is not just
about 0s and 1s. It’s about embracing technology to allow our partners tell stories
in meaningful ways never before possible. It’s about changing the video medium
from a 1-way presentation to a 2-way conversation. It’s about changing culture
and our expectations of content.

We are a seed-funded startup (including celebrity investors) currently closing a
round with top tier institutional investors.

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About our Software Engineer Position

We’ve developed an API-based video platform which stitches together videos
during playback. As one of the first full-time engineers you will be responsible for
helping scale the system to meet with our fast-climbing demand. You’ll do things
on a high level such as:

- Integrate our playback system with partners (Aol, Youtube, Spotify, etc.)

- Help scale our video consumption and playback system

- Further develop robust HTML5 playback protocol to stitch videos together on iOS/Android

- Integrate the interactive technology with relevant e-Commerce and social network backends

- Integrate user data with our analytics platform

- Assist with hiring additional team members and help develop processes for iteration and
release

- Help make our product more fun and valuable

We offer competitive compensation packages including generous equity options.

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Requirements

- 3+ years experience building products for fast growing web or mobile products

- Minimum 3+ years of experience with Ruby/Rails

- Bonus points for experience with Flash/ActionScript3 and/or HTML5 video

- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field preferred

- Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment

- Passion for media & fun!

If interested, contact info@theochre.com with resume and any other relevant
details and we’ll connect from there!
Jordan vs. Kenya: What Sets the Two Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Apart
Not really. We actually run into the "Lua as in moon in Portuguese" namespace conflict more often.
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| Redwood City, CA - UI Engineer |
+--------------------------------+

Tidemark Systems (http://www.tidemark.net, note ".net") is hiring.

Like everybody else in the industry, we're finding hiring to be a difficult problem. For those of us on the UI team it's been an extra challenge -- there are lots of people out there who have experience with toolkits like jQuery, Ext, Sencha Touch, and a whole bunch of other ones, some of which we've never heard of. But we're not simply using frameworks, we're pushing them well beyond what they were intended to do. So if you've got relevant framework experience, that's great. But we really need engineers that are good at the basics: JavaScript, DOM, HTML, and CSS. You'll also need to be decent at UI design and user experience. If you're not just good but great at either of these things (or both!), that's awesome, but we also need you to be able to write code. This isn't just a run of the mill web dev job. This is actual, hard core software engineering, it just happens that the stuff we're (the UI team) doing is all running in the browser.

Tidemark is building a hosted business analytics system, which is way more interesting than it might sound. The company is well-funded and we have people with decades of experience in the field.

If this position sounds interesting, my email is on my profile page.
Lessons Learned From Previous SSL/TLS Attacks
Tutorspree (YC W11) is hiring Web Engineers in New York, NY. (Tribeca)

+ Our web stack uses Python/Flask/postgres/nginx.
+ Competitive salary + stock options.
+ Live in New York!

Please reach out to me directly if interested - ryan@tutorspree.com
Preemptively "anti-fanboying" doesn't really raise the level of discourse.
Yet another example of mods removing context from a title
Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
Making things you can't control illegal is not a solution at all.
OK, I'm curious now. Wikipedia says[1] the reference implementation is open-source and cross-platform, which is great, but I never hear of anyone talking about F# outside the Microsoft world.

The compiler has to be compiled from source[2] on Ubuntu, which seems to suggest hardly anyone is using it.

Would there be any compelling reason to use F# if you're not working in a primarily Microsoft environment? What does the language itself offer over Ocaml or Haskell?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_%28programming_languag...

[2]: https://fsxplat.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FSharpLinux
Aren't the nordic countries the countries with the highest "happiness" level per citizen, because of the way their societies have worked so far? Are they sure they want to mess with all of that?
This is a great synopsis. There are so many examples of how companies have handles sexist snafus well, compounding the gaffe like this is inexcusable.
By price reaction I meant deviation from the path without the information. I was qualitatively representing the ensemble, i.e. parametric space, of possible price movements on (-∞, ∞) by mapping them to up <- (-∞,0), down <- (0,∞), and flat <- 0.

Let Px(t) be the price at time t. Px(t+δ) given Px(t), i.e. P[Px(t+δ)|Px(t)] is D = Gaussian(Px[t], vol) in an efficient market. We know relevant information is going to be added to the market at t+δ, but we do not precisely know its content until t+δ. The market can, however, make an educated guess. This information is a kernel with a central tendency* and an entropy, i.e. second moment, H. The price at t+δ is now D' = Gaussian(Px[t], vol + Hω), where ω is the weight of the information. Since H and ω are both positive we can see that D' is platykurtic with regards to D. D'-D, the impact of knowing that salient information will hit the market at a certain time, looks like a short butterfly P&L.

Thanks for the book recommendation; I enjoy Kahneman's work.

*If ω were very low or H very high, e.g. a unitary distributed kernel would have infinite Shannon's entropy, you are correct in assuming that it would have no impact on D', i.e. D'-D would be zero.
Yeah, but that doesn't explain why even after 2 years - which is almost the same as backbone, it has had such a low adaption.

PS: wary of sounding negative - I am just trying to get someone help me convince them next week.
Google to pay 60 million euros into French media fund
>First of all, the reviewers and editors of journals often work as volunteers -- so the notion of cost here is somewhat dubious.

The reviewers and Editors (in the editorial sense of the word) are not the largest contributors to the costs associated with publishing an academic paper -- that's why they can be done for free (in the cases they are). When they are done for free they offer some other career-enhancing benefit.

Most of the cost relates to making the sausage, if you will. The manuscripts must be wrestled into a form that can be printed. That is boring and tedious work that you have to pay someone to do. There's the cost of the infrastructure required for these folks to do their work. Then there's the continuing cost of hosting the digital version(s) of the article.

I believe preparing an article for publication and distribution can be reduced to a fixed cost -- provided all parties involved cooperate.

It would be helpful to think about _why_ academic publishers exist in the first place before tossing them aside. Otherwise we'll just end up with the same situation we have now.
For a while I had "trolling" listed on my profile, then one day it just disappeared.
DirectX is fine. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-01-microsoft-w...
Using Guiders.js at Wikipedia
I agree. Low or lack of mobile visitors was the only good reason for not using responsive design. Regarding time, it's all experience. Personally I don't think it takes too much extra effort to implement. Constraining the design is more of knowing how to design responsively. I'd much rather read an optimized representation of the site's content than having to zoom in and out of the "static" site. I think the question is more "do we want to support mobile at all?" If you do, then support it!
.NET Team Lead (New York, NY)

The Exchange Traded Funds Technology Team of Bank of New York Mellon is seeking a team lead.
In this role, the individual will be responsible for working as part of a team to update a fast-growing application.

We're switching over our architecture to DDD so it's soon going to be a fun time. You'll have a chance to update our software infrastructure, our development policies, and of course, have input into the architecture itself.

Detailed responsibilities include: working within the software development life cycle to bring an application from concept/workflow to production; creating the logic, performing the coding, testing and debugging of applications; modifying existing applications/programs as a result of changes in system/user requirements; providing technical assistance in the use of systems software or utilities.

We're an ASP.NET/C#/SQL Server shop. We're currently on .NET Framework 3.5 but moving over to 4.5 soon.

•	Required:
*	7+ years of experience using Microsoft’s .NET Framework
*	7+ years of experience using SQL Server (2005/2008)
*	C#
*	Object Oriented Design
*	Strong Transact SQL
*	Strong communications (written and oral) skills

Experience in the following would be a plus:

*	Financial services experience (Securities Processing)
*	ASP.NET
*	CSLA .NET (Old architecture)
*	SQL Reporting Services
*	Domain Driven Design
*	Entity Framework
*	MQ Series
*	SQL Service Broker
*	Subversion
*	Unity
*	MSTest
*	JavaScript
*	SQL Integration Services
*	WCF
*	Web Services (native implementation)
*	Experience in standard SDLC (software development life cycle).
*	LDAP

Interested parties should reply to this post to vladrozenberg@gmail.com
I think one of the major points that sold the game is that there is (was?) a stripped-down demo of the game that ran right there on the page.

Not sure whether you want to buy? Just press that button there...
Startup Lessons from Kickboxing Class
Kabam needs Ruby Software Engineers
I do not think so: European Universities are largely State supported and afaik can patent whatever they want.

But I do not know about this grant specifically.
I like what happens when Twitter access is denied :)
I'm not convinced that there's two loops -- aren't the .css() methods chained together, and would be executed right after each other for each step through the implied loop?

In
$(".widget").css("color", "green").css("font-size", "16px");
does the color of all the widgets change, and then the fontSize, or does the color/fontSize change together for each widget?
I suspect the latter...
Couchbase Lite is native code for iOS and Android, weighing in at significantly less than 500kb.

It's part of your app runtime, so for something like an Android PhoneGap app, you'd include our library to a normal PhoneGap container and then interact with the database via Ajax calls to localhost.

For normal Dalvik apps you just do normal Java code to talk to the database. Same story on iOS, but with Objective-C.

Does that answer your question?
My wife and I play Minecraft with our two sons and their friends, and we have a blast with it. We have a family server running on an old Mac mini, a whitelist for family and friends to jump on whenever they want. Minecraft is absolutely brilliant.
Here's one reason: a lot of state schools (Berkeley, for example) charge a lower tuition rate for in-state residents. Americans can gain state residency after a year or so of living there in a PhD program, but international students are always nonresidents. So supporting an international student is significantly more expensive than supporting a domestic student from the perspective of whatever research grant or departmental fund is paying your tuition.
Somehow this seems obligatory http://i.imgur.com/p2axb.jpg
High highs, low lows
"The Nordics’ success depends on their long tradition of good government, which emphasises not only honesty and transparency but also consensus and compromise."

This is unfortunately the hard part. The big government/big corp/big law collusion makes this almost impossible in the USA. These classes are now unified into one upper class, and are working relentlessly to increase their power and reduce their responsibility. Interestingly, China is much worse than the USA in this regard, and is a good example of what happens when big government owns a nation completely: a tiny aristocracy ruling with impunity over the poor masses.
Lookout Mobile Security - San Francisco, CA

https://www.lookout.com/resources/reports/state-of-mobile-se...

We're hiring in administrative, hr, ops, bizdev, product, and engineering (Ruby/Obj-C/JavaScript/Java/C).

https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qT79VfwO...
The same.

I used to try and put forth some genuinely helpful answers, and also made some good connections from it.

For the Groups, unless they are heavily moderated by the Group owner they devolve quickly into total crap. People either post pointless spammy press releases, links to lame blogs, or respond to questions for help with a problem with horrible product suggestions.
COPPA doesn't seem that unreasonable. Protecting children from information disclosure while they're under the age of 13 seems very appropriate to me. Once kids are 13, they can begin to disclose at their own discretion, but before that, I can see the case for protecting them.
Location: Atlanta, GA

Company: Experience ( http://www.findexp.com/ )

Looking for devs of all shapes and sizes.

We are a small group of sports / music fans that believe live events should be more fun. Our product lets teams offer unused or unsold seats as in venue upgrades through a mobile device, providing an awesome experience for the fan. It's better for fans, better for teams, and both love our current product. We are a well-funded and passionate startup, looking for a few devs to help us grow and change the industry.

Some technologies we use: Groovy/Grails, PostgreSql, redis, BackboneJS, etc. Experience with any of these is not required. We believe a good dev can pick up tools as necessary. We move fast, and we love new challenges and finding the right solution for them.

Contact us: listen [at] findexp.com
Thanks for the clarification. So there is nothing inherent in the www cname itself, it was just that customers signing up and looking to mirror their entire site on a www cname were already being ddosed.
I especially liked the part where he backed this up with evidence, or even examples to back up his opinions.