skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sift Science
San Francisco, CA - FULLTIME or INTERN

Sift Science fights fraud with machine learning, recently raised a series A, and launched two weeks ago:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/siftscience/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/19/ex-googlers-launch-sift-sci...

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That's a great response - thanks!
I have been using it for sometime and while initially jarring at first, I found that I like it better mostly because:

- Its small but not tiny.

- It allows me to reference previous emails while composing a new email. I think this helps a lot.

They could have had a tab-based solution too where the new email would be in a separate tab. But this one keeps the new email in view which is better.
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Skills includes Django, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and Linux. Would like to pick up some cool Django projects while I'm bootstraping my own product. More info and contact: http://anderspetersson.se
Charlie Stross goes into movie production

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/press-re...
I would love such a provision in US law for patents if it does not yet exist. I'd hate to see someone patent linked lists where the "previous" node pointers are at the top of the data structure and the "next" node pointers are at the end. Or some other silly re-structuring.
Lots of online retailers have implemented accepting Bitcoin. For everywhere else, Amazon and eBay included, there's BitSpend- which allows anyone to buy anything with Bitcoin from anywhere for as little as 0.5%
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That's not funny, man
It's one company's business. I didn't cite any other businesses such as silk road, transactions on bitmit, and businesses that's outside bitpay's sphere of influence.
European production in June, and deliveries in July:

http://www.teslamotors.com/fr_FR/about/press/releases/tesla-...
Out of curiosity, did you see any uptake on that option? A lot of places seem to be adding the BTC option lately, but I haven't managed to find any good sources on how much use there is once the option is provided.
My problem with Nielsen, despite his huge and valuable impact, is his approach of more or less declaring the Commandments of web UI. UI is always a custom solution to a specific problem, a way of responding to user intent through web functionality. There may be expectations that people become accustomed to (such as the way links appear), but the technology underlying the web is constantly changing (see: HTML 5, touch interfaces, etc.) and so expectations need to evolve as well.

Focusing so much on the UI elements rather than overall goal always seemed like a lost opportunity to educate people, and ultimately feels like "oh, this is much too hard to understand, just follow these rules and you'll be OK." It's an easy solution for people to get behind, but not very effective for improving UI on the web.
Some decent packaging, too bad about them using a wall wart, otherwise it looks pretty nice.
I know some lisp programmers who uses this[1] to code.
The left foot pedal open a parenthesis, the right one close all parenthesis.
I find that's quite clever, though, considering the use of theses two characters.

[1]: http://img2.generation-nt.com/xbox-360-pedalier_090320025800...
tymr (Maia, Portugal) https://tymr.com/contacts
revolutionaries!
i got through about 15 pages without finding a thesis or a point being made.
MtGox verification cue for people who want to buy more than $50k USD in a month is almost 10,000 long right now. You do the math.

I'm going to go with something closer to $300 to $150 at least. If there's a pop coming, it is a long ways off.
I don't have iOS available at the moment, so can't comment on the actual app. The screen shots on the bottom are off to the right of main web page for me in Firefox, though. The buttons to scroll through the screenshot still work, but I have to move inside my browser window to actually see them.

I do like you have lots of screen shots, lots of apps I see have 2 or 3 for some reason.
Give a developer a Ruby-based web framework, and they can run for a day without patching, but give them anything else - even Prolog on Punchcards - and they run for so much longer!

Stop today, and help recovering Ruby developers onto a better path!
It may not be true for the elite schools, but getting into those schools is winning a lottery, even for kids from rich families. Consider that in 2011, 6.2% of the applicants were admitted into Harvard (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/31/percent-class-st...). There were certainly lots of extremely bright, hard working, likely-to-be-successful kids in the 93.8% who were rejected.

The article's point is interesting, but looked at through this light, it's basically saying "I did not realize I could enter this lottery."

The parent commenter is pointing out that most kids from rural areas will end up at public state schools which do not have the resources of these elite private schools.
Yep, US-international works better for me than the french azerty layout for typing french: the latter has no dedicated key for characters like Ç or É.
I agree with the literary analogy. This mostly seems to disagree with a classification that barely exists, or is still being worked on.
What's a good way to short bitcoin?
from the link:
"In Postgres 9.2, this improvement automatically becomes available without any further configuration."

"Essentially, it accomplishes this by reducing the lock contention surrounding an internal lock called WALWriteLock. When an individual backend/connection holds this lock, it is empowered to write WAL into wal_buffers, an area of shared memory that temporarily holds WAL until it is written, and ultimately flushed to persistent storage."

"With this patch, we don’t have the backends queue up for the WALWriteLock to write their WAL as before. Rather, they either immediately obtain the WALWriteLock, or else queue up for it. However, when the lock becomes available, no waiting backend actually immediately acquires the lock. Rather, each backend once again checks if WAL has been flushed up to the LSN that the transaction being committed needs to be flushed up to. Oftentimes, they will find that this has happened, and will be able to simply fastpath out of the function that ensures that WAL is flushed (a call to that function is required to honour transactional semantics). In fact, it is expected that only a small minority of backends (one at a time, dubbed “the leader”) will actually ever go through with flushing WAL. In this manner, we batch commits, resulting in a really large increase in throughput..."

I am sorry to cut and paste so much of the article, but I hope this is helpful?
> By the time the P5 came along, they stopped playing these games all together and started rating by clock speed alone.

Weren't the original Celerons P-II chips with half the L2 cache disabled or something? I also seem to remember they were arbitrarily limited to uni-processor functionality, and some modders found you could drill a portion of the chip to make them work on dual and quad CPU mainboards.

If that's correct, I think it's overly generous to say they stopped playing these games (although maybe they took a small break).
> it gives us a way to avoid Paypal and other online processors

How do you buy and cash out your BTC? You still have to make all those real money transactions, just with the exchange rather than directly with the merchant. Seems a bit pointless to me.
Happy April's fools day!
"A new domain name has been 10 USD from Namecheap for the last decade. A new domain name in BTC however, has varied between 1 BTC and 0.1 BTC in just the past two months."

I agree that the value of bitcoins changes faster than other currencies. However, the fact remains that the prices for all currencies change. Domain names are the exception, but inflation adjusts prices upwards of almost all commodities.

"BTC as a proxy for USD is still useful IMO, it gives us a way to avoid Paypal and other online processors. But for it to be a USD replacement, it needs to first settle down and stabilize."

I disagree with your definition of "proxy". Bitcoin fits the definition of currency, not "proxy-currency" in my opinion. It's true that the currency will benefit when it's value will stabilize, as the currency is currently being adopted.
What computer scientists or programmers are or will be immortal?
Talking about the "literary immortality" of being remembered for decades and centuries past his or her death.

Feel free to qualify with "weak" immortality for remembrance within the field (simplest and most crowded) and "strong" immortality for becoming a household name known/remembered even outside the field.

A few names are obvious for "weak" immortals: Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, John McCarthy, Donald Knuth or Alan Kay probably won't be forgotten any time soon by CS and developers.

Alan Turing will probably be "strongly" immortal, although I am not sure computer science can claim him over mathematics and logic.

Who are your picks for immortality?
All of this complaining about the difference between 40 kWh and 60 kWh ignores the fact that most people rarely take trips of that length anyway. I've always had to explain this to people who do not understand why range anxiety is not very important.

If I need to take a long road trip, I will rent a car. The 2013 Nissan Leaf is the second cheapest car in America after five years of ownership and it has a great feature set that similar price point cars lack.

If a Tesla owner needs to rent a car for a road trip off the beaten path, she can likely afford it. If a Nissan Leaf owner needs to rent a car, he's saving enough money on his purchase to rent a car several times per year and still pay less than someone who bought a similarly-equipped, new car.

Rising gas prices will only improve the buying thesis for electric cars. The Bakken reserves are gushing oil yet prices on the world market have only increased.
Appreciate hearing this feedback. I think I'm going to make some augmentations as I continue to get more customers and responses. It was GREAT to learn about Gittip and a pleasure to offer counsel on something I really believe is a great product. Not something I always got to do on the agency side.
Well - I was making the point that not being used as a currency of exchange does not hurt it's chances at serving as a store of value. In fact, volatility isn't necessarily bad either if you are using it to store wealth only and you take the long view. What would hurt its ability as a store of value would be a sustained and systemic trend downward in value (i.e. inflation). Short of complete collapse of the currency - this is unlikely given bitcoin's inherent deflationary nature.

Complete collapse is entirely possible. If governments crack down on exchange sites that allow for convertibility - that'll pretty much be it. I'd be very surprised this hasn't happened. I think they are waiting for all the major players to be massively invested in bitcoin so that when they pull the plug it'll take a very long time for an alternative to rise from the ashes.

I hope this doesn't happen. But what world do we think we're living in really?
Bravo india Bravo. hope USA learn something from you
Watch a ‘Codebender’ Play Super Mario Bros.’ RAM Like a Musical Instrument
I'm looking for devops and computer vision people in Atlanta. Drop me a line at vinny@touchoflogic.com and I'll buy you a beer.
Internet engineers punk'd
Introducing Tokkr
So you never get around to releasing your code either, eh?
I'm not all that surprised. Steam carries bleeding-edge games, sure, but it also has a large catalog of older and indie games that don't require much hardware horsepower. Newer indie games like Faster than Light or Dungeons of Dredmor could easily run on an old machine.
Right, I got that, I just think his example is somewhat contrived. To me it sounded one step away from "If I had $20 and a time machine".
If you would not control the market (i.e. obtain a patent) after inventing a drug, competition would drive down the price to marginal costs. /Marginal/ costs do not reflect development costs, so you would never earn back your development costs.
I'd like to see a lisp that allows all the kinds of different brackets. ( 〖〗〘〙〚〛〈〉() [] <> and maybe more.) I think i can make the code easier to read. All we would need was a emacs script. When the cursor is on the closing bracket there could be a drop down menu. But aside from Haskell Language creators seem to be god dammed afraid of unicode in the language.
April Fool's ruins the internet for a day.
An Easter egg with curl at Artsy
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Remind101 is building a powerful mobile communication platform that is already used by millions of teachers, students and parents and growing massively each week. We think one of the greatest ways to impact education is to improve how teachers, students and parents interact, communicate and share and are on our way to become the de-facto platform that enables a more useful model for education worldwide.

We are looking for:
People who code for fun and want to work on a large scale web application. As backend engineer number three, maintain our streak of pushing production code on day one!

Tech environment:
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No Shock: Chinese Tablets Don’t Sell In China
In before brogramming Clochure programmers are referred to as Brochures.
Enjoying your crusade?
Or just make things uncomfortable for the people changing coins for other currencies.

It's sort of interesting how the liquid dollar market for bitcoins makes it impossible to judge whether someone accepting bitcoins as payment trusts it much.
Is there a problem/drawback with "iw phy phy0 interface add mon0 type monitor" besides using the airmon tool to create a monitor interface? It works nicely with the iw command.
Joined Pivotal Tracker and started dumping my project info on it until I found out that there is no story/task dependency!! That left out feature completely ruins the whole system. How can they not have it? Do you know any similar applications that you can build dependencies into?

i.e. for B to be in the "Current" queue, A must be complete
Show HN: water - A native TUN/TAP Library for Go
They would have to define it to ban it. Bitcoin would just evolve to no longer fit the ban. There are already dozens of other cryptocurrencies brooding- just waiting for a scenario where Bitcoin is pushed out to make more room for them.

A ban on bitcoin will work about as well as a ban on piracy.
"settle down and stabilize."

Depends how you look at it. From BTC point of view it is the USD that's highly unstable and dropping in value... It's all relative.
What should we be mad at him for? There are well listed and reasonable pros to maintaining the smaller price point and artificially limiting the battery capacity. The only half decent con anyone can list is dead weight. Which, and I haven't done the math myself but, the consensus seems to be that it's very much negligible (Anyone got some math to back me up by chance, I seem to have forgotten my capacity + weight = range formulas.)

So yeah, I can't say I see what the giant fuss is about, and for the record, you may see everyone here as Musk "lovers" incapable of seeing his selfishness and wastefulness (i think?), while some would say you seem a Musk "hater" incapable of letting reason invade your opinion of the man. But you know, to each his own.

Edit: Grammar
Copenhagen, Denmark

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I'll look into this; it hasn't happened on my phone but hopefully I'll figure it out when I get home from work tonight.
ANN: Untyped Strictly Evaluated S-Expression Haskell for the JVM
Tell HN: Insurance company just raised rates because of Hurricane Sandy costs
I live in area which was affected by Hurricane Sandy. and just found out that my car insurance rates went up by $100 for 6 month policy. No change in driving record, car record etc. at all but they just raised it claiming "to cover damages due to hurricane sandy. " So it is passed on the consumers i guess. Anyone else in similar situation ?
Isn't it just automatically extracting sentences that can be broken into 5, 7, 5 groups of syllables? I don't think anyone has made any attempt to summarise the article.

Very interesting though.
Thank you for narrowing that down for me, I'll try to fix this soon.
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We are a startup developing enterprise applications that make it faster and simpler for people to communicate.

What we need:

We’re looking for a few full stack dev interns for the summer, preferably 12 weeks, negotiable starting date. Our team is currently 4 strong, and you’ll be helping us on every part of the product lifecycle, from concept to implementation to release, and you’ll have a lot of autonomy in the work you do.

We’re a NYC company but we are relocating our office to Bangkok, Thailand for the summer. We'll fly all the interns there and cover all travel / housing / visa expenses. Additionally, you’ll be receiving a very competitive stipend.

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I guess this is using websockets - and it looks like it works rather well! Is there any way to see the websocket traffic through firebug?
As long as they used less than 10 dip switches
If you have a "mobile site" you're doing it wrong.
Danielle, you've figured it our. Sounds like the right way to go.
This is one of the better pranks I've seen today, this bit especially made me chuckle

> It compiles faster, since the compiler don't need to differentiate Java parentheses from Clojure ones.
I would like to know what traits you believe he showed that would make him a great hire for a decision-making role early in his career.
Streak - San Francisco, CA

Front end devs (javasscript), back end dev (java), iOS and Android devs.

http://www.streak.com/jobs
I wonder why the site was built with Zurb Foundation, but stripped of its ever-useful responsive grid?
Test I've previously conducted as part of product development. I've, anecdotally, have heard similar reports from others as well when we've shared data.

Are you sure your two year old didn't watch you first?
How I Would Start a New Business Today
ishiboo.com is famous hacker Danny Dulai (aka nirva)'s domain. Seems like he does whatever he wants. So the picture doesn't reflect on that post.
Microsoft's Data Explorer: Picking Up Where Bing Leaves Off
The followup is also fantastic: "11 More Things I Learned From the jQuery Source": http://paulirish.com/2011/11-more-things-i-learned-from-the-...
There was ticker on their site that must of reset this morning. They say need to get $850k per quarter in order to keep re-seller account and the low prices. They are selling 0% margin in order to promote bitcoin and get the competition, newegg and amazon to accept it as well.

They didn't make the goal but were not open the whole quarter so they may still be able to continue. I'll see if they post news or press release about it
Good effort on the mocks, all for just an April fools' day :)
Agile Methods, Roasted
Because of the auto-scroll, this was a bit out of reach:
http://haiku.nytimes.com/about
Not a world that can sustain 100% growth month-over-month :)
I'm not sure about the emphasis on commenting features on a blog. It might be for the best if blogs did not support comments at all, at least in a ideal world. Instead replies would be composed in the commenters personal blog, and some kind of trackback link system would connect the blog-posts together.
It seems disingenuous to say the service is "free forever" when after thirty days THE essential function of a bookmarking service is turned off. Compared to Pinboard's model, this is a clear loser.
I'm not sure it counts as a success just because they reached goals. Get back to us when they've shipped.
If it is ok for everyone on the team to see the passwords, a shared keepass (http://keepass.info/) database is one way to solve the problem.