skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, but unfortunately, time is inherently non-metric. As long as we mainly operate on this planet, we have two basic units of time: the day and the year.

Now unfortunately, the latter is roughly 365.24 days, so whatever unit X you choose such that 1 day = 10^n X, one year will be 3.65 10^{n+2} X. Again, there are two choices (as outlined before for the case 86400s = 1d): Either divide the year into some arbitrary months (365 has the ugly property of being 5 × 73) or have stupid stuff at the end (apparently some cultures have 12 months of 30 days each and five special ones). So is it possible to implement a much better way of counting time? Certainly, yes. Is SUT such a way? Probably. Is it worth it? I don’t think so.

(And, again: The matter of timezones is orthogonal to the matter of how you divide a day, you can easily abolish timezones and still use 246060 – you can even do so slowly by using UTC as an implicit timezone with your social circle.)

((As hinted at above, this whole matter will get even more ugly when there are humans on the Mars and Earth – clearly a second (basic SI unit) should be the same length on both planets, but what about hours? Days? Years?))
Public transport in London is anything but cheap. It is simply the most expensive urban public transport system I know of in terms of cost of monthly passes (or travelcards). Currently a monthly travelcard in zones 1-2 is £116.80 ($177.30). In comparison, a similar monthly pass in New York costs $112, $74 in San Francisco, $167 in Tokyo, $84.50 in Paris, $99.95 in Berlin, $100 in Chicago, $67.96 in Melbourne and so on.
The second sentence of pg's post is:

> The shortage is of really good programmers.

From your quote:

"... individuals with the skills needed"

Compatible statements, no?
Using unsanitized $_GET is the least of their problems considering mysql_* is deprecated.
Kosmos - A 3D universe in your web browser
elbii.com | Mountain View | Part & Full time

Elbii is a young, tiny, garage-based web consulting shop in downtown Mountain View. We're completely swamped with work. We're looking for impressively-focused full-stack engineers and designers to help take on contracts. You will earn more than a typical, tenured position at other companies. You'll also get hands-on experience with a ton of open source technologies -- our stack varies depending on the project.

That said, we currently prefer folks who grok one or more of the following:

- Rails

- Node & Express

- Backbone

- RequireJS

- Single-Page Web App architecture

- HTML5 / CSS3

- Postgres / MongoDB / Redis

- TDD

- BBQ (hey, we have a grill)

Shoot us a note to jobs at elbii if interested. Please include some code, designs, or a link to your github if appropriate.

Have a great weekend. :-)
Seeking Work - location remote (bay area for now, Europe longer term ) I'm a fullstack engineer strongest on backend, scaling, security, and web services. Language neutral - most recent projects include python, php, c++, java and JavaScript/nodejs. Platform - server (Linux, FreeBSD, AWS), desktop (OSX, windows), mobile. Good ops experience as well. Versed in agile/scrum.

I've been an early engineer at a number of startups over the years - from cloud storage to photo sharing to consumer devices.
Depends what you consider programming, but if it includes getting a job at Microsoft Research or the more interesting jobs at Google, definitely.
It's also about perspective.

If you have to wake up every morning at 5:15 am to catch a 1.5 hr bus ride, arrive at work at 8 am, work for 9 hrs until 6 pm (1 hr lunch in between). Then catch another 1.5 hr ride back home. Arrive after 8pm, eat something, go sleep.

Now rinse and repeat, every week day for 9 years.

Does this even qualify as a balanced work-life?

Compare that to wake up at 8 am, have coffee, read hackernews, shower, arrive at work at 9 am, work through 5 pm, arrive back home at 5:30, 5 hrs for dinner, leisure, sports, go gym, play with kids, etc, go sleep.

Edit: the top example is my brother's typical workday in Chile, bottom one is mine here in the US.
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That's specifically about H1-Bs, as opposed to a hypothetical "no limits" visa.

He also said "There is no doubt that free and open immigration is the right policy in a libertarian state". Compared to "free and open immigration", yes, H1-Bs are a subsidy.
New York, NY (full-time)

Mobile Engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.
Try out the free copy (it's just a tweet). I'd love your feedback!!
Product Engineers

We spent the first 18 months of our life scaling the heck out of our platform. We were growing at 1m MAU month over month. Now we're growing even faster, but we're better at the scaling side of things so we're able to focus on building out the product. You'll be involved in helping us execute on our product roadmap. We're highly analytics focused and love to kill ideas as much as have them succeed. We're building aspects to our product which will engage users _even more_ than they're currently engaged.
Yes, see here: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2269520/Best-paid...

Some people seem dissapointed that developers are not being paid more than airline pilots: it's just not realistic outside of a boom economy (see: bay area).
@ home an old single core Pentium 4 2.1GHz Compaq Evo D500 Small Form Factor box w/ 3GB RAM from the late 90's.

On the go, a Dell Inspiron 1120 netbook from 2010.

Before too long I hope to install OpenStack to a dual quad core Xeon 3GHz server I've got w/ 32GB RAM & rdp to a Windows 7 VM from the old Compaq box & finally have some decent speed at home.
Custom built gaming desktop. No laptop/tablet. HTC Sensation.
Revenue Engineers

As per above, we're now focused on our product - are large part of that is focusing on bringing in more money. Right now our users subscribe to broadcasters, we take a cut and we pass on the lions share to the broadcaster. Users love this, they like knowing that they're supporting their favourite broadcasters. We're finding new ways to have users support their broadcasters and we need engineers to help with that! If you've integrated various payment providers, integrated ad servers, etc, you're definitely the type of person we want to chat with!
Please do note that I said 'similar term', I didn't say it was a direct equivalent. I was just providing an example that someone from the US might immediately understand.

It's a phrase that someone from the associated region of the world can generally go "Oh, you attended a <terminology> school?" and immediately have certain stereotypes and assumptions (accurate or not) come to mind.
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COMPLAINT OF HUMAN FDA CASINOS - DEA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpesNs8VMrhOX3l9BuibDS08...

COMPLAINT OF HUMAN FCPA CASINOS

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t5Oq7BI9jeytb95gKwc4iqww...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRUgMsxa1I1ljMApbrE6AoFi...

EUROPOL REPORT HUMAN CASINO

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpesns8vmrhox3l9buibds08...

LIBERENLOSYA CHECKED IN FORUMS BUTTON.

COMPLAINTS SENT TO THE FBI.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19NC-OxxLykGVTTWzelrZRu0E...

COMPLAINTS SENT TO MINISTRY CHILEAN.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13EVQk0hibEi1x9bvLzABb1QG...

LIBERENLOSYA CHECKED IN FORUMS BUTTON.

EXPERIMENTAL HYPOTHESIS.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14bAndrRymAuCCDDXqYhTjjIw...

NANO PARTICLES THAT ARE MANUFACTURED IN BUSINESS WATCH THE VIDEOS ON THE OTHER PUBLICATIONS, AS SHOWN RADIATE, cauterized. THESE SENSORS THAT HAVE EVERY CAPTAN NANO DOWNLOAD IN NEURONS. FULLY TESTED.

Notice how buried they expire PURCHASED FOR PRODUCTS AND THEN HIDE THESE CONTAINERS TO PREVENT SOME ARE SEEN.

MANY OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE NOT TO BE VOTED BY VENEZOELANOS, STATE LOST MONEY.

AND WHETHER PEOPLE DIE WITH NO DRUGS OR PRODUCE THEM DIFFERENT GENETIC DAMAGE.
EARN MONEY WHEN BUYING AND THEN LET THE BEAT, HAVE THIS LOGIC.

CRIMINALISTICAMENTE, CAN SEE WHY THE NADIA Ball Crimes ACT, HANDLING WILL ALGUNTIPO.

LIBERENLOSYA CHECKED IN FORUMS BUTTON.

EVIDENCE DEALING DISAPPEAR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrYwsKCncKE
July 2013.

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=6c64135360c2
Backend Engineers

At twitch we've a range of work to do on the backend. With the "easy" scaling challenges behind us we're now working out how to go from ~40m MAU to about 10x that. You'll be working with people working on the worlds largest live video streaming platform. Interest in gaming not required in this case! (though it doesn't hurt ;)).

Challenges that we're undertaking in this regard are varied, here is a sample of things we're doing, or are planning on doing:

* scale out our new HLS video platform

* build the new tools we need to support many more engineers pushing code constantly

* scale our database

* design a "task" system which permits us to deploy code to arbitrary machines and route requests to these processes

* monitoring everything and working to keep all requests as snappy as possible
You could also put the LCARS panels from Star Trek: The Next Generation into this category.
When interviewing candidates, staying under 6 months makes me slightly concerned. But only slightly; there are many good reasons a good developer might only stay somewhere briefly.
Thanks for the feedback! We will spin up some copy on why the classic BMC for a SaaS model
Programmers evenly distributed among the world's population? That's almost certainly untrue. I can't imagine that Africa or South America or Central Asia have nearly as many programmers per capita as the U.S. or Europe. I doubt that even China or India (where about a third of the world's population resides) have as many programmers per capita as the U.S. or Europe, since large parts of those countries are still engaged in subsistence-level agriculture.
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In addition to $_GET searching for $_POST and $_REQUEST are bad too. Could even through in $_COOKIE and $_SERVER for that matter.
Lenovo X220 with 16Gb RAM, the long-life battery, and a few docking stations (for work and mobile); IBM-era X60s Thinkpad moored to a docking station for home.
jergosh is right too, but I think the real reason is that academic computer scientists want models they can mathematically reason about. Real neurons are fine and dandy, and can obviously do fantastic things like drive muscles in certain ways to post semantically meaningful content to Hacker News, but we still don't have a general model that can explain how they work in concert at scale. Perceptron's popularity arises not from their accuracy... I'm pretty sure everybody knew they were inaccurate models, though the hope was (falsely) that the inaccuracies wouldn't matter. Their popularity derives from the discovery of the backpropagation algorithm. In fact, if one were to take a mathematical view of the situation, arguably backpropagation is what was really discovered, and perceptrons are incidentally the moving parts in the backpropagation algorithm.

It is not generally useful in AI to have some horrifically complicated algorithm that is based on something vaguely realistic, but that nobody know how to make do anything, or update based on new input, or figure out what's wrong when it doesn't work.
Yeah, that would be the threshold for me to begin to consider commuting to central London (I'm in Cambridge).
And yet, the post you are replying to shows 2 people living on ~£1.1k Net monthly income in London, and already shows rent isn't as extravagant as people think.

You can support someone else, on a single £40k wage, in London, in an 1-bed place (assumes you're supporting a partner).

Maybe you can't afford a car, or to eat out several times a week, or to take lots of holidays... but £40k goes pretty far and providing money isn't being spent frivolously it easily supports 2 people in 1 flat in London.

When ~£13k per annum can support 2 people, £40k is a very high standard of living for 2 people.
I don't think Japan was interested in destroying our entire military capacity, just enough to get us out of the Pacific. It wasn't a radically dissimilar aim than Al Qaeda's goal to get us out of the Islamic world, though just about everything else about the two events was different.

As for a terrorist attack being "a prelude to ... nothing much", you know there was a first World Trade Center bombing, right?
I find the crux of the issue is employer expectation. If it was lowered to 'have you used a console before?', there would be no shortage. If it was raised higher to say (junior level, mandatory 10 year experience), it would be exasperated.

So the real question is, are employers current expectations reasonable or not? I would guess that hiring a less than best engineer that can produce you wealth would be better than hiring no one and thus produce no wealth. It's a simplistic model, granted, and a less than best engineer may end up decimating your wealth with crap code but...who knows?
It does have to do with they way they are trained. If you have a culture that highers starting at $30k with no experience that has to affect overall salaries. Why pay for experience when you can just take next years cheap graduates? In fact Japan even goes so far as to not hire programmers over 35. Programmers are considered jobs for people 21 to 35. Just go read some jobs ads in Japanese.
> It's really not hard to make $300k/yr

Disagree. If you have an easy recipe feel free to share :). You have to be a front office VP to be guaranteed this kind of money. Aleynikov made 400k as a senior VP working on HFT infrastructure at Goldman.
Motorola Plans to Make Smartphone in Texas
Bitcoin sentiment analysis
I picked that as a simple example. Yes, I suppose I should have used a fold, or any of the other "everything else" functions that don't have syntax support. My point still stands.
does the X220 really take 16gb of RAM? crucial.com says it only takes 8, how did you do that? The x230 takes 16gb...
It's hard to say without knowing the exact circumstances. Personally I think it would help. If you see a car on the road headed your way as you're crossing the street it's pretty easy to tell how fast it's going, especially 5 mph vs 15 vs 30 vs 60. And if it's going fast your inclination should be to keep a sharp eye on it and maybe try to run out of the way if it appears as though it's not slowing down at a point when it should. But then again there are some intersections where you just can't see or keep track of all the traffic that could be dangerous to you, but on the whole I'd say it's smarter to do so than not, it takes little effort.
@Home Acer Aspire S7
@Work Macbook Pro 15" retina
@Both Chromebook Pixel
Thinkpad W520 w/ RAID.

It must be a laptop. Can't really take a desktop on a vacation, can I now? :)
Macbook Air 13" (2012). Powerful enough for webdev and easy to transport.
I use a custom-built PC (AMD Phenom II X4 955, 8GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti) for working (and gaming) at home and a Google Nexus 10 for working on-the-go.
Not everyone on HN works for a doomed startup.
I don't know much about PHP but I happened to rewrite some old forms a couple of years ago. The original author had relied on a technique called "magic quotes" (http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php) which automatically sanitized user input. When we upgraded our version of PHP "magic quotes" had been deprecated and dropped.

It would be interesting to know if some of these developers are relying on "magic quotes" or something similar... and also to know how large share of the total number of projects these projects represent.
Where did you find a T430 in a store? I haven't seen ThinkPads in any of the retailers in my area.
It's just that the way the current system works, you could have the best job offer in the world and still have a 50:50 chance of not getting a visa in the lottery.

Although I believe a bill raising the H-1B limit significantly has just passed or is close to being so, so it might get a bit easier in 2014! :-)
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San Francisco / Mountain View

Full Time

EasyPost

RoR experience helpful. Passion for dev services. Eager to ride the rocket ship.

work at easypost dot com
While we are at it.. XSS search:
https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aphp+%3C%3F%3D%24_GET...
I was afraid I wouldn't like it, but after using it for a couple of weeks I am very pleased with it. I think the island style mainly was implemented to allow for the keyboard backlight. That's a bonus for me since I work in low light from time to time. Backlight really helps then.
Also, the six rows things is no issue for me. I rarely se the extra keys anyways. The PrtSc placement perplexes me though.
It's not a necessary or sufficient condition, but it's a good signal that you're at least above average if you're at a top 30 grad program. I'd say the majority (but not all) of those foreign students would at least escape the 'low-middling' categorization.

P.S. We may be coming from different perspectives since I'm a mechanical engineer. A grad degree does make a significant difference there. Also, I was talking about both MS and PhD students.

P.P.S. I may have gone overboard in saying 'best' in the field. I merely meant good.
NVIDIA's ARM platform isn't a secret. They announced Project Denver years ago. Their latest roadmap has it scheduled for 2015. The only unknown is how wide a range of power+performance they will be targeting. Will they start by going after phones, tablets, workstations, servers, HPC?
Does lein droid support Proguard or does one need to use Ant for that?
Bellevue, WA - ArenaNet

ArenaNet is the video game developer behind Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

We're looking for intelligent software engineers to join our Server Programming Team. You might be more familiar with the phrase "platform engineer" or "backend developer." Whatever you want to call it, we build distributed services in C++ that scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users across hundreds of servers in mulitple datacenters. Also, our game is pretty cool.

If you're interested, e-mail cmFtc2V5QGFyZW5hLm5ldA== or check out http://www.arena.net/ (we're hiring for other development positions, too!)
Just for reference, I don't think I've seen a rate of under £400 per day for Ruby/Rails developers, and I used to get £400/450 several years ago when I was still doing that, even outside of London.
Yes, absolutely. The article's main purpose is to make the native argument, but there are still many benefits of the web approach, and fast iteration is one of them.

And not just because of the store submission process (which only takes a few hours in Android's case anyway). HTML5 has such a rich set of resources, as well as great desktop browser environments, that it can be a super-fast way to get projects going. Thanks to Backbone, Angular, etc, and in the future Web Components, it's easier to scale the architecture too.

Notice all of these benefits are centered around developer experience. User experience is the biggest gap right now.
Unhosted web apps freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
It's not really a desktop processor; it's a laptop processor that's being reused for the desktop market. Gamers might prefer a GT0 configuration but I guess the market isn't large enough to justify it.
> managing the risk of an entity capable of bringing an economy to a halt

I am more worried about talented quants building/inventing new financial products which lead to further instability and //cause// risk.

From what I hear from friends who work in the field, they don't have much control over company policy and direction. At the risk of sounding provocative, I will say that quants are glorified code monkeys. The fact that they are really smart will not allow them to influence decisions. If it is not clearly illegal and it makes profits, it will be done halt or no halt.

The way I see it, the less "advances" in the financial sector there are, the better.
One big problem with the current system for pharmaceutical products is that the drug companies make little to no margnial profit in non-US markets, due to the monopsonistic pressures of a single-payer system driving down prices as low as they can possibly go. This means that pharmaceutical companies have to recoup their fixed costs (R&D) and generate their real profits from the US market. Without the US market, there would be no incentive to actually create the drugs.

In essence, Americans are subsidizing the socialized healthcare systems of other countries.
Their download links are numbered by episode and usually available right away even if the website isn't updated:

http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/496.mp3
I've heard that their hours were rather long. Is that true? I myself am considering getting a job in finance in London, so I'd like to know what I can expect.
You're looking at the outside of the door. From that side Lockitron looks identical. You can see the inside of Kevo here: http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-12261_7-10016926-8.html
13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2012)
Ask HN: AngelHack Free Developer Code
http://ahsp13siliconvalley.eventbrite.com/event/5909215623

Being the newbie developer that I am, this is one of the first hackathons that I will be doing and the price tag of $59 is pretty up there for an entry fee.

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Any hints on what the binary string might mean? I tried converting to ASCII characters but they seem pretty meaningless.
Ask HN: What's more important, theory or practical knowledge
As a computer engineering student the majority of my course load is theoretical and/or low level C code. My question for you is what should I be learning outside of class, more CS theory or striving to become a rockstar @ python/ruby/...etc.
Here, a 4.8.0 build for 32 and 64 bits Windows:

http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran
There's a difference between a situation where boundaries are not respected (driving on the sidewalk), and a situation where we choose not to orchestrate people's actions (lack of traffic lights).
MacBook Pro 10.1 (Retina, 2.7Ghz, 16GB RAM, 751GB SSD)
Only issue, battery life
Macbook 15 inch i7 2010. It's fast but worthless battery life. Recently got the $249 Chromebook and i'm finding that besides creating actual ipa's and apk's, I'm not touching the macbook anymore. I usually get 8+ hours out of the ultra light thing and it's fast enough to do mostly anything I want on it (including web dev, mobile dev and 2d game dev).

Manage to do quite a bit of work on an old Fuijitsu p1510, my Galaxy s2 and, when in on the move, the openpandora.
It doesn't "officially", but if you put in a pair of 8GB sticks with the specifications that Crucial gives you for the recommended RAM, it works fine (although it takes a pleasant while to come back up from full hibernation).
Desktop: i7-2600, radeon6870, 8GB 9-9-9-24, 128GB M4 SSD, 27" 1920x1200 IPS

Laptop: Acer AS1810T-8679

For actual code, though, everything happens on an EC2 instance (a medium size) that I leave running and can ssh and gnuscreen into from anywhere at any time. Probably the best perk of being a 100% curses / vim user. Also impossibly easy to back up with snapshotting.
Not significantly....

5% (interest rate plus property taxes) of 1.2M = $60K

Borrowing money is cheap recently.
MacBook Air 11" 8 gb ram plus Thunderbolt Display.
Nice example, but not all are insecure. For example, the second one here is:

$result = mysql_query('DELETE FROM saves WHERE id = '.(int)$_GET['delete']);
FYI: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/expire-data/