skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going out on a limb and calling this price peanuts. The rise is due to Cyprus, and if bankers keep stealing people's money (and printing it) ... which they sure will because they compete amongst themselves about who has the most multi-millions (regardless of how they got it)... a portion will move their wealth into bitcoin. Also, as fiat currencies lose value, bitcoin will rise. Bitcoin is a hedge against fiat.

add: in fact the ideology of bitcoin is steeped in disempowering central banks. So you are buying into an ideology, and so long as the tech can keep up with the ideology, and there's nothing with better tech, and central banks keep ripping people off, then bitcoin will rise. It's far from perfect, but I think the web itself was about unlocking information to empower people (as created by hippies), something like the advent of literacy to empower people to read the bible when it was limited to priestly classes. Bitcoin is like grade 1 spelling and grammar, or the first web browsers: sure is better than not having either.
If it's anything like other visa problems the academic experience is probably a little flexible. I was involved in getting a visa for someone from Microsoft who didn't have official "academic experience" however his position and history with MS was considering sufficient to justify it.

That said, I completely agree it's a stupid requirement to place on this.
If you want to be a software engineer, UCB probably has the most renowned CS program of all the schools you mentioned.

At Cal the only differences between L&S CS and EECS are lower division classes. L&S CS and EECS students at Cal take the same upper div classes, and most of the same lower div classes (only differences are the non CS GenEd's and eecs has to take ee20n and ee40 but L&S doesn't).

I think the perceived value between a UCB CS degree and another school's CS degree (regardless of BS or BA) will be much greater than the perceived difference between a BS or a BA. And if you ever run into anyone who claims there's a major difference between a BA and a BS @ Cal, just point out that a Berkeley physics degree is only a BA as well.

EDIT: just realized I didn't give you an opinion. Here it is: Go to the most difficult program where you are reasonably sure that you can still get at least a 3.5 GPA. No, GPA isn't everything, but it is a lot, because people tend to use it to weed people out when there are too many applicants for something, especially right after undergrad or for grad school. Some schools have grade inflation. Others, like berkeley, have an active policy against grade inflation: [1]. Yes, you can still get a good job with a 2.1x GPA from one of those schools (or, at least, I managed to), but it's much harder than if you have a GPA > 3.

[1]: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/ugrad.grading.shtml
Apple Inc: Cupertino, CA - Web Developer (PHP, Node.js, Ember.js) - Sorry, no remote!! Relocation offered. (I know, I know...) We're rebuilding an internal app from scratch and it needs to be blazing fast and real-time.

Here's our tech stack (right now).

* PHP 5.4 (we might go 5.5 once stable)

* Symfony 2

* Git, no SVN allowed!

* MySQL

* Redis

* Node.js

* Ember.js

If you're interested at all, even just chatting about the position, email me at jnettles@apple.com.
Just fyi, your links are formatted for Markdown but won't parse b/c HN doesn't use any kind of Markdown, it's almost pure raw text [1].

Best way is just include them inline, or with a footnote marker [2] and the actual link at the end.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[2]: http://www.example.com/
Meet the Future of Decision-Making
This would be very cool as an interactive thing where you can select your own center. Hell, it'd be great for apartment hunters who can just select wherever their work is and go from there.
One minor problem with Berkun's otherwise good essay is around paragraph five, his description of no-UI as a desire for simplicity, perpetuating the idea that complex interactions with machines are undesirable and a symptom of insanity. Then declares everyone's goal is simplicity, its just no-UI is doing simple "wrong". I could not disagree more. They are not linked or in any way related, complexity and desirability are orthogonal. I greatly enjoy highly complex, desirable interactions. Why must we only be capable of simple, boring actions? Highly complex action for little reward like his ridiculous example of a door opening UI shows the orthogonality of the two concepts, not that granting the user the ability to do complex things if they want to is somehow "wrong".

The best literature analogy I can make is something like the ideal love story is probably a lot more like a 200 page romance novel than like a 2 minute pr0n video.
And roughly every zoomable view on iOS supports that, so this doesn't add anything more.
You're mixing up contract law and IRS regulations. The $1 sale is a valid contract, but somebody will likely pay taxes on it, probably the recipient since he received a house at below fair value, which can be considered income.
It's not really the copyright law that was silly, but the precedent case Cablevision that created this silly loophole to something being considered a "public performance."
Central banks and average people have vastly different goals. Also, large investment banks don't seem to keep their immense wealth in gold.
Good parody is one where you can't tell if it's real or fake.

On this day of days, I'm undecided. Otherwise I'd believe it.
Science Exchange: Multiple engineers, front end and back end.

Palo Alto, CA

Were scaling our rails application from strictly rails to a service based application using APIs to power separate interfaces that are both public facing and internal.

Looking for experienced ruby engineers and JavaScript ninjas.

A great opportunity to join a small team and build new functionality from the ground up!

Sweet buzzwords include Rails, backbone, node, api, dashboards and SQL.

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CosmoCosmos (Applicant for YC S13) looking for tech co-founder
Business-skills heavy team is looking for a tech co-founder to build in-house dev team. Currently working on MVP for "Tripadvisor" for beauty/cosmetics products. Please contact me at katrin.buckenmaier@gmail.com for further info. Equity of course part of the package.
Actually in the next update, I'll add direct results from youtube for searches that doesn't return anything from Spotify. I just have to figure out how to get the song metadata in a meaningful way for those.
That's an interesting perspective. I honestly think it's Windows people desperately trying to make Microsoft seem relevant. Here's why:

Their tablet OS hardly runs on any tablets. Desktops are no longer the primary computer device and there Windows 8 isn't well loved.

Personally I use Windows 8 on my TV. The first time I set it up I looked for the screen resolution change thing in the Windows 8 style control panel equivalent. It wasn't there, and I ended up having to find it in the ancient and bloated Old School Windows Control Panel. I use Media Center, and that's not Windows 8-ized either. I also hear MS Office doesn't have a Windows 8 version. None of these things, to me, make Windows 8 seem like a massive success.

Microsoft made kick ass phones, desktop OS and tablets in the early 2000s. But that period is over. We have Google and Apple now, Windows is that crappy thing you use at work.
How do you solve authentication considering it's run against a backend on a different domain?
We're in #openrecipes on Freenode if anyone would like to join us.
Contract law DOES require "consideration" to form a contract, but consideration indicates dickering (negotiation) more than it indicates a set amount of money. (Yes, I am a lawyer too.) The dollar amount needed to distinguish a real estate conveyance that is a bona fide sale from one that is a gift is a separate issue from contract law, so I empathize with your disagreement with the grandparent comment.
I love the amount of creative lawyering that happened here.
They are forcing businesses to treat digital bits as if they are physical objects... unless of course I'm a consumer who pays for the digital bits, in which case I'm now just licensing it. How convenient... for their profits.
Emails and the World's Largest Lollipop
You can make Shamir's secret sharing redundant if you are worried about that.

You could make say, 6 USB drives, any 3 which can recovery your wallet. As long as no more than -half- fail you would then be fine. And you can set either number as high or low as you like, of course.

And it's not like wear leveling should come in to play if you aren't actually writing to them.
>This is censorship! I have the right to say whatever I want!

You do -- in your space. If you'd like to hang out in our spaces (as clarified above), we have some simple guidelines to follow. If you want to, for example, form a group where Django is discussed using language inappropriate for general channels then nobody's stopping you. We respect your right to establish whatever codes of conduct you want in the spaces that belong to you. Please honor this Code of Conduct in our spaces.

Excellently written answer to deal with the torrent of complaints spewed by man-children at the requirement they be considerate of others. "My free speeches!" and "How dare you censor me?" and "But what about my get-back-in-the-kitchen and make-me-a-sandwich jokes?! You've killed comedy!"
His style might not invalidate the criticisms, but it can certainly obscure and blunt them.
That came up in one of the court cases, I think the 'in the cloud DVR' service a small cable company made.

I think it was ruled to be fair to keep it de-duplicated, but I'm not sure.
"Applicant for YC S13"? Really? You announce that you sent in an application for YC? That looks really deceptive, and with the 80 bytes that the title allows you already display one bad signal!
Because today (and every day between now and next year) you can use that smartphone to do things that you can't do without a smartphone. So yes, the smartphone has lost money value, but you as a person and in your life, have gained.

Not so with bitcoin.
Something like this? http://statsheet.com/mcb/index/stats
I'm not aware of how to implement such a check. Any ideas?
Collage.js: A framework for live, dynamic, and interactive collages
That's all true. It's also the only way anyone is going to trust an online bitcoin wallet. Why is it surprising that it would be expensive?
I'm curious as to why you'd rate UT Arlington ahead of UT Dallas on technology, since I'd put them the other way around.
There aren't express trains, but it would still be useful to have some weekend service posted, especially for the green line (of which there are 5 once you get west enough!).
Cool. I hope they do it separately for winter and summer so as to give an idea of typical snow/ice cover.
I'm not worried about it, no.

There's a purity vs pragmatism argument, and I have tried the purity approach several times without success. This time I'm just going for pragmatism... giving developers an easy to use interface that is predictable and consistent.

I just didn't find it constructive to continue pursuing purity when the developers trying to implement the APIs just wanted to get the job done as simply as possible, with all the info at hand, and for them to return to what they were trying to do (usually solve some problem for a user).
What Makes Data Pros “Sick of Big Data”?
Its not on a different domain. Everything's on youfm.org which is hosted on heroku.
What's the latest in database dev? Path versus mySQL?
Currently evaluating different proposals by freelancers for the database design for cosmoCosmos (applicant for YC S13). Any thoughts on what the best one is? I have experience with mySQL, etc. in previous project and it worked fine. Aim is to build the "Tripadvisor" for beauty/cosmetics. All help appreciated.
Regarding the last statistic mentioned I found myself in a bit of a pickle myself. Maybe the question "Would you keep trying to have sex if your date says no?" is a rather complicated one.

It seems to me that the default answer is no. So if you ask someone you haven't gone that far yet after just a bit of kissing you would most likely get a no (which probably highly depends on the women and how she feels judged if she openly admits to her desires), but minutes later you might get a yes. A tug of war, a game. There is certainly a difference between a women laughingly saying "no", then taking her bra off anyway, and a women pushing herself in the corner screaming "no!", but what comes to mind if these men are asked? Really the latter?

I've had the former happen rather often, although my experience is limited to younger women. I would probably answer yes without hesitation, adding myself to the group of people this articles writer is dumbfounded by.

Reflecting on that I'm rather confused.
It's finally coming - Minecraft 2.0
Kodable: iPad app teaching programming concepts to kids 5 and up
I live in Waterloo and know a large handful of startups that have gone to the valley and then came back (bufferbox, vidyard, thalmic, to name a few). Waterloo is a specific case, but I'm not sure it's as bad as you're presenting it to be.
Right, I'm saying that as long as they were going to redefine NULL as part of the C++ standard anyway, they should have redefined it as ((void *) 0). That would be portable, at the expense of breaking code that used NULL in integer comparisons.
Los Angeles, CA (Glendale)

Disney

We are Disney.com and we like JavaScript, Ruby, and Search/Machine Learning: Backbone, jQuery, <canvas>, WebGL, Sinatra, Rails, Solr, Hadoop

We're seeking multidisciplinary developers with a passion for building unique, creative experiences across the web and mobile devices. Join us as we collaborate with product, design, and UX to create Disney's next generation of web and mobile experiences.

Interested? email me: jay.donnell@disney.com
Ask HN:do you read other's code?
hi i'm a 17 years old guy who have started programming in my free time using the java programming language . recently i got a little curious about wenether programmers tend read code that they haven't written (open source project on the web ?) so i touht to ask the HN community.
do you read other's code ? if yes how often ? and do you apreciate that moment or is it just to get to how to make something specific?
Charlottesville, Va – WillowTree Apps

Android Developer

Are you a talented Android developer who wants to build stunning apps? Do you want to work with exceptional developers and interact with your clients instead of dealing with project managers? As an Android developer at WillowTree Apps you will work on a wide range of projects and be responsible for your work and client deliverables.

To be successful at this job you will have stellar Android development skills, a friendly personality and the ability to work in collaboration with other developers and our clients.

Do any of these apply to you as well?

Have at least a few published Android apps.
Self-starter with a passion for embracing new technologies, delivering quality code and best-in-class mobile apps.
Have an entrepreneurial attitude

The WillowTree Apps’ office is a fun, exciting place to work. Check out http://www.willowtreeapps.com/jobs/ to see some of the perks of working with us. We are one of the largest and most respected mobile development companies in the US – one of only two app development companies on the 2012 Inc. 500 list. The company has won several industry awards including being named a Top 3 Global App Development company by both Best Web Design and SourcingLine. We’ve won numerous Webby awards, and have had our apps repeatedly selected by Apple to feature as top apps in various categories. Our entire 50+ person team is located in our Charlottesville, VA headquarters. Nothing is outsourced. Our open office environment is designed to facilitate collaboration among our team. Our team members are frequent speakers at mobile design conferences. We hire the best in the industry.

The technology industry we live in is fast moving and always changing. If you are the type of person that thrives in that environment then we want to talk to you. Apply at willowtreeapps.com/jobs.
Austin TX, DevOps Engineer
AcademicWorks helps students afford college with the best scholarship management application on the market. We've helped scholarship administrators across the country process millions of applications, and have helped students get matched to financial assistance they wouldn't have otherwised received.

We are a close-knit, pragmatic group. We have fun solving hard problems by tackling them as a team, relying on open communication, and a consistent willingness to pitch in. As a member of our team, you will be given ownership over key projects and entrusted to lead them through to completion. The contributions you make will have a real impact, and will be recognized by both our customers and other team members.

We are growing. Fast. Many of our current challenges revolve around automating the tools we use to continue to support our growth, both in number of customers and products that we offer. As we grow, we want to continue increasing our application's overall throughput and reliability. If helping solve these challenges sounds like what you want to be doing, then we want to talk to you.

You will be working on a modern technology stack and tasked with ensuring that we continue to use the best tools for the job. Some highlights of our current infrastructure are:

* Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3
* Hosted on Amazon Web Services
* Chef 0.10 is used to manage over 100 servers and 150 PostgreSQL 9.1 databases
* ElasticSearch evaluates tens of millions of data points
* There are certainly other exciting technologies we use and we'd love to talk with you about them.

If these types of problems and technologies interest you, please contact us at careers@academicworks.com . Experience in one or more of the technologies mentioned is preferred. Passion (and a basic understanding of Linux) is required.
Web/JavaScript Developer

Are you a talented web developer who wants to build best-of-class web applications for mobile and desktop web? Do you want to work with talented developers and interact with your clients instead of dealing with project managers? Do you want to see the fruits of your labor out in the wild rather than working on internal, corporate projects that never launch?

Do you think JavaScript only gets a bad wrap because most developers don't understand prototypal inheritance? Or maybe you think Compass' image spriting features are the COOLEST THING EVER. Maybe you're one of the few that think they're merely AWESOME.

If you've answered yes to a few of the above questions, we'd love to talk to you. To be successful at this job you will have exceptional JavaScript skills, a friendly personality and the ability to work in collaboration with other developers and our clients.

Do any of these apply to you as well?

You've built something cool using Backbone.js, AngularJS, or some other client-side MV* framework.
Know HTML(5) and CSS(3) inside and out.
You know Less, SASS or some other CSS preprocessor. Maybe you've even built your own toolkit that sits on top of your preprocessor of choice.
You've worked with at least one high-level server-side language.
You can clearly articulate why "responsive design" isn't a panacea.
You appreciate being called a hacker.
You love the web.
You really love mobile devices.

The WillowTree Apps’ office is a fun, exciting place to work. Check out http://www.willowtreeapps.com/jobs/ to see some of the perks of working with us. We are one of the largest and most respected mobile development companies in the US – one of only two app development companies on the 2012 Inc. 500 list. The company has won several industry awards including being named a Top 3 Global App Development company by both Best Web Design and SourcingLine. We’ve won numerous Webby awards, and have had our apps repeatedly selected by Apple to feature as top apps in various categories. Our entire 50+ person team is located in our Charlottesville, VA headquarters. Nothing is outsourced. Our open office environment is designed to facilitate collaboration among our team. Our team members are frequent speakers at mobile design conferences. We hire the best in the industry.

The technology industry we live in is fast moving and always changing. If you are the type of person that thrives in that environment then we want to talk to you. Apply at willowtreeapps.com/jobs.
DevOps Developer

Are you a talented server side developer who wants to build best-of-class mobile applications? Do you want to work with talented developers and interact with your clients instead of dealing with project managers? Would you like to see the fruits of your labor out in app stores rather than working on internal, corporate projects that never launch?

Do you enjoy thinking about data in general: how it gets stored, indexed, queried and represented? Want to live on the bleeding edge of the latest App technology, and continuously learn about new frameworks and patterns as they emerge.

If you've answered yes to a few of the above questions, we'd like to talk to you. To be successful at this job you will have a deep understanding of a high-level programming language (preferably Python, Ruby, Java or PHP), a friendly personality and the ability to work in collaboration with other developers and our clients.

Do any of these apply to you as well?

Expert knowledge of an MVC web-oriented framework like Django, Rails or App Engine.
Have experience with any of the following data stores: Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Mango DB.
Comfortable on UNIX-type command lines (Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, OSX).
Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure vendors (Linode, AWS, Rackspace, Slicehost).
Familiarity with Configuration Management systems like Salt, Chef or Puppet.
Front-end development experience on any platform that does HTTP calls (iOS, Android, HTML5).
Understanding of scalable and highly-available systems.
You appreciate being called a hacker.
You really love mobile devices.

The WillowTree Apps’ office is a fun, exciting place to work. Check out http://www.willowtreeapps.com/jobs/ to see some of the perks of working with us. We are one of the largest and most respected mobile development companies in the US – one of only two app development companies on the 2012 Inc. 500 list. The company has won several industry awards including being named a Top 3 Global App Development company by both Best Web Design and SourcingLine. We’ve won numerous Webby awards, and have had our apps repeatedly selected by Apple to feature as top apps in various categories. Our entire 50+ person team is located in our Charlottesville, VA headquarters. Nothing is outsourced. Our open office environment is designed to facilitate collaboration among our team. Our team members are frequent speakers at mobile design conferences. We hire the best in the industry.

The technology industry we live in is fast moving and always changing. If you are the type of person that thrives in that environment then we want to talk to you. Apply at willowtreeapps.com/jobs.
Show HN: Copy-on-write for large Python objects
"It's work," James says. "It's a lot of work. It's being in workouts, and not accomplishing your goal, and paying for it. So, if I get to a spot in a workout and want to make eight out of 10, if I don't make eight of 10, then I run. I push myself to the point of exhaustion until I make that goal. So you build up that mentality that you got to make that shot and then use that in a game situation — it's the ultimate feeling, when you're able to work on something and implement it." That's a very inspiring pharagrafh.