skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addepar is Hiring - Security Engineer - Mountain View, Ca

We are engineers rebuilding the infrastructure that powers global finance. The current technology in the space is broken and opaque; it empowers scandals like Bernie Madoff to go on for a decade while $64 billion vanishes from the economy, affecting endowments, institutions, and notable individuals. Our platform provides increased transparency, allowing for better decisions and furthering meritocracy in the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry. We free data from disparate silos and build tools for advanced analysis and decision-making.

We are looking for a Security Engineer to focus on improving our engineering from a security perspective. If you enjoy breaking stuff and have a passion for building with a security bent, we’d love to tell you more!

Smart peers, great perks, building and breaking software to ensure transparency and security. Join us at https://addepar.com/careers/ or careers [at] addepar [dot] com.
Sticky Kit: A jquery plugin for making smart sticky elements
I usually consider any nudity in a picture NSFW. Not sure why this is strange.

Living in the US.

Downvoters: Rebutal?
Software patents are so clearly harmful that "no patents on digital anything" might well be a price worth paying to get rid of them.
What is the problem with space handling that makes it sub-par?
The World is Digital (2009)
Not to pick on you, but this meme is so grating to read over and over. "Government is incompetent" is an easy, lazy narrative that distracts from the immense complexity that is government (especially the US government).

Government is neither competent nor incompetent. It is a vast collection of organizations composed of humans that vary from grossly negligent paycheck collectors to shockingly effective strategic geniuses. Bureaucracy is the friction inherent in the system; different people clog and lubricate its workings to different aims, which range from the purest altruism to the most cynical abuse.
50onRed in Philadelphia, PA is looking for Python and Java Engineers. (Open to Relo)

To Apply: Follow this link http://bit.ly/10usP95 OR send your resume to wwu@50onRed.com

50onRed operates a premium ad network and serves over billions of online ad impressions each month. We work with large advertisers such as Groupon and eHarmony, and develop innovative products to monetize many of the web's largest shopping, dating, and social websites.

As a Software Engineer, you will join our extremely talented engineering team comprised of some of the sharpest developers in the area. The core development team is the beating heart of the company as a whole, creating highly scalable, innovative products used by some of the largest advertisers on the web and seen by millions of people each day. The core development team works closely with the business lines and the Network Ops team to deliver cutting edge software that revolutionizes the way our clients can monetize the web. Our products are built using the latest and greatest open-source tools and technologies. We identify the solution and implement it using whichever language is best for the job.

What you'll do everyday:
Design, Develop and Test new software in an Agile environment Build custom software from ground up—from Database to front-end Javascript

Technologies we use include (but not limited to):
-Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript
-MySQL, Redis as well as other datastores to fit the current problem we’re trying to solve
-Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy
-EC2, Cloudfront and Opscode Chef, Git
-Effectively manage products at any point of their life-cycle -Work closely with the core dev team and Director of Engineering to prioritize work flow on a daily basis

Qualifications/Experience Required:
-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
-Strong experience working with a variety of languages to solve complex problems involving high availability and highly scalable applications. (Must be able to code something in the interview)
-Solid understanding of persistence databases and no-SQL datastores
-Experience working with HTML, jQuery as well as raw JavaScript, without libraries, on large-scale, customer-facing websites
-Knowledge of Source Control and best practices
-Experience with Unit Testing
-Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux and an interest in devops
-Must have excellent inter-personal communication skills and can work effectively within a team in an open-air environment

Desired:
-Experience scaling web apps
-Experience building browser extensions is a bonus

50onRed is a great place to work. We have a high energy, creative and smart team. We’re located in the Cira Center next to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and we’re a short walk from Center City and easily accessible by public transportation. Employees enjoy competitive salaries & benefits, a casual work environment, Friday Summer Hours, Gym Membership, free subscription to Spotify, catered lunch, 401(k) program and flexible hours.
There's also plenty of (negative) correlation between the number of pirates at sea and worldwide temperatures, which is why the Pastafarians are preaching their gospel in full pirate regalia to try and stop global warming.
Futuristic Opener Lets You Drink Wine Without Uncorking the Bottle
Stand in front of the soup kitchen with a bat, declare the kitchen to be "yours", and demand people pay you tribute for admission.

That doesn't make you a genius, just an asshole.
seeking awesome freelancer.

2 projects:

- a necklace constructor (with customized options by user) with a paypal shopping cart at end of process

- a bitcoin confirmations alert app: see here for my discussion: http://bit.ly/13yyicN

I can and will work on front-end. Would prefer you had some personal connection with projects. Could end up as startup.
You're suggesting that the FBI always does the optimal thing. This may not be the case. To put it mildly. I refer you to Hanlon's razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
I confess to pondering: Is your reply sarcasm? Raw stupidity? An attempt at being clever? Sorry, but you fail miserably at all of those.

No, 300bps, 9/11 brought a sense among both the populace and business that big, bad things can happen by just a few people with ill will. The response was a realization that the basic security and law and order could be so easily overridden.

But good effort, regardless.
If you read carefully, you'll see that you don't actually _need_ to align, you can always indent it further

In fact, I always found space-alignment cumbersome and sometimes ugly... always indenting with tabs was thus perfectly consistent

But that's the past, now :)
It sounds like perhaps you are referring to cuboids [1] or some other three-dimensional shape, as cubes would have equal edge lengths - so you couldn't have an 11x10x10 cube.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboid
More interesting are the directories for individual topics - for example:

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/startups/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/user-experience/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/scala/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/python/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/ruby/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/ruby-on-rails/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/scaling/

http://lanyrd.com/speakers/nodejs/
Nobody ever specifies whether or not 0x0a counts towards their limit.

http://i.imgur.com/LypKK8I.png
San Francisco/CA, New York/NY, London/UK Remote/Re-location OK, Full-time

Whitetruffle.com is a game-changing recruiting platform that matches software engineers and UX/designers to great tech jobs and we’re looking for more engineers to join our family to help refine and enchance our proprietary matching algorithm, improve our UI, and lead the development of our mobile app. We have 2500+ companies like Pebble, Asana, Path, Evernote, Optimizely, Delve News, etc. who use Whitetruffle to source talent to build out their teams. The popularity of the platform stems from the fact that candidate contact info remains anonymous until both parties agree to the match, and you're introduced directly to the in-house hiring source (founders, CTOs, HR lead) so it's fast without any spam.
We're scaling quickly and need to keep up with our growth. If you have a passion for disruptive products and like coding, fast releases, cool designs, and being part of an energetic and smart team, you’d be a good match. Our office is based in the SoMA area of San Francisco, California, close to all transportation hubs and freeways.

Work style:“work whenever, wherever”
Workflow: Weekly meeting over IRC every Monday morning. Once a week team lunch brings everyone together to talk about the product, brainstorm new ideas, or share their crazy weekend stories. On Tuesdays we have a 1 hour product meeting over Google Hangout. We're on IRC all the time.
Push Process: Push to master whenever you want, unit tests run automatically and are hooked up to IRC; push to prod whenever you want as long as unit tests pass. QA on your own. It’s OK if you break the site from time to time, we like taking risks and prefer to push code.

Whitetruffle job openings:

1. Sr. Software Engineer (Machine Learning, MySQL, Python or Ruby, API experience a plus)

2. Engineering Director/Manager (Management, Python, Ruby, Java, MySQL, API)

3. Seasoned UI Engineer (CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, Python or Ruby)

4. Mobile Engineer (iOS, Obj-C, Android, Java)
90% of our engineers were hired using our own product.

For all jobs, register (build your profile) at http://www.whitetruffle.com/company/whitetruffle. If you’re a good match, we’ll contact you.

For more details visit https://www.whitetruffle.com/candidates. Make sure to try our service so we can have a productive conversation!
Second Reality source code (demoscene)
One of the most legendary pieces of early PC demoscene. Released in 1993, Second Reality by Future Crew is a very influential production.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=63
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA
Completely agreed.

Newer versions of emacs do nice code wrapping (dynamically, to the width of the buffer, without modifying the buffer text). Xcode does nice code wrapping. I've stopped manually wrapping my code, and it's great.
the category of the blog post is "writing out loud"
described as "thoughts as essay By Michele Catalano · 16 Posts"
Fiction?
This is the kind of thinking that ruins good things for everybody.
What a Sign Up Really Means: "Contact Me, Maybe?"
More keystrokes when navigating the code

(I know, if vim was second nature to me, this point would probably be moot... but I'm still using the arrow keys a lot :) )
Thomas Roessler will leave W3C after 9 years
Did anyone catch how they can insert things in your plaintext so it passes through the compression algorithm? It sounds like it can only guess things that are in the POST request to the server, only if they can write to it but cannot read it.
Do you pay him, or is it more of a mentorship role? I've been thinking about getting an arrangement like this.
Palo Alto, CA - Angaza Design - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is building a new energy economy for the billion+ people who now live off-grid, with East Africa as our initial market. These markets are moving beyond conventional centralized grid generation, becoming the center of development for the resilient, distributed, renewable energy systems that will replace it. Robust low-cost metering, financing, and payment technologies form the key to making those systems possible.

We are a technology company for an unconventional market, a market that demands unconventional technology solutions.
Angaza is looking for a talented electrical engineer to join our team in the SF Bay Area. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing hardware for intelligent solar energy generation; supporting ongoing manufacturing; assisting with firmware development; contributing to collaborative research in low-cost distributed metering, including novel digital communication systems; traveling occasionally to field sites across the world; and helping to solve any of the unforeseen and exciting challenges that emerge in a rapidly changing startup environment.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/electrical-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.
CSP is Responsive Design
Consumer dishwashers do not standardize to a commercial standard. I have a pretty nice new dishwasher at home with a "sterilization" feature but there's a warning on the control panel that says that it won't achieve commercial standards.
In particular, somebody who is used to writing checks may not be able to switch to using only a debit card.

I wish I could stop using checks, but they are still the lowest common denominator when dealing with some services.
"My Younger Brother Thinks I'm Cool Because I Gave Him A Bag of Oregano with "WEED" Written on it. Here's How."
Ask HN: India == bad devs?
Do you subconsciously assume that developers from places like India and China are "cheap" and "unskilled"?

Anecdotal evidence: I got far more replies to WhoIsHiring posts when I didn't list my location compared to when I did. Sad, really.
South Park did a great job with this:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/410876/the-jewelry-pol...
Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
That depends if they're set to task or given enough to room to build something cool.
They only hit on that in the middle of a conversation.

> My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked

I could also understand not knowing what it is based on the pronunciation (I expected kwin-oh-a, but it's more keen-wah I think).
How Hugh Jackman Taught Me to Make a Lasting Impression
In answer to this question; the phrasing could be more specific. I believe he's referencing the number of seniors who are targets for scams like these and would benefit from a card like this. In this case, the question is: how many seniors are there in America, who are living alone, with some cognitive decline, and highly susceptible to fraud and scams?

See this Bloomberg piece -- 2010 estimates that financial abuse victimizes 1 in 5 elderly; about 7.3 million senior citizens have reported being taken advantage of.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-15/financial-abuse-vic...

The scary part is that it's likely much, much higher (the number of people being taken advantage of) -- because so much of it goes undetected, or worse, unreported.
The 3-cycle latency refers to simple NEON ALU instructions (VADD.Ix, VORR, VAND, etc). Scalar ALU instructions are still single-cycle.
Note that these numbers are from Cortex-A15 and Krait which are expected to be similar to Swift, but I didn't measure Swift itself to know for sure.
Tough and Tasty: Recasting a Resilient Weed as a Wild Edible
> We sterilized them in the dishwasher and were ready to go.

Why, pray tell, must you sterilize a container before you put an ethanol solution into it? ;)
I see. I'm unaffected by this problem in my editor. Also, I am able to (and do) use a mouse most of the time.

Thanks for clarifying!
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FirefoxOS devices launch in Latin America
> but is too dumb not to tell strangers about their secret programs on random visits.

The group of people that are doing this random visits are not imbued in the same culture of secrecy as the NSA. Furthermore, the larger a program, the more and more casual a group of people are going to be about protecting it. It's the fault of our social programming -- if nearly everyone I deal with on a daily basis is in on a secret, I am far more likely to share that secret. This is probably the reason that nobody talks about their own secret projects at the NSA.

Your line of reasoning was what I used to assume about the type of NSA style data collection: "Gathering and using data information about every American would be an immense task, requiring lots of people -- if such a program existed, we probably would have found out about it now."

It turns out -- we are finding out about it for precisely that reason.
Congrats on getting downvoted hardcore. HK fascists from San Fran only like freedom of expression as long as it conforms to their idiotic delusions.
Strategy Analytics: Android smartphone shipments up to 79.5% in Q2 2013
The Backlit Pegboard Workspace
Im happy to share with you guys this new release. Also don't forget to use ' hackernews ' for $10 off!
Sometimes it's cronyism, sad to say.

One particular non-profit I've had contact with is really bad at this. It verges on pure corruption at times.

Why receive a service for free from someone you don't know when you can pay a friend to pretend really hard that they're working?
To make it worse, all alcohol labels have to be approved prior to use. The post makes no mention of whether they actually submitted their label for approval, but it may not have been approved within their time frame.

If it weren't approved, every venue their vodka was served at could face penalties, such as having their liquor license suspended or revoked.
He's been there since the early 1990s, and the first CoD, Guitar Hero, etc., properties came out under his watch. As to milking them as franchises -- hey, from a business standpoint, it's been printing insane amounts of cash. It's not creatively satisfying, and I'm not defending it as the height of entrepreneurial adventurism or innovation. But he found and perfected what became the definitive business model for the industry. Regardless of what you think of his practices, he's been successful.
Those replies simply give ideas on how Apple could prevent it if they wanted to. But that doesn't mean it violates the TOS currently. If it is not in the TOS right now, adding it would be one possible way to prevent it without causing issues for new customers.
I wonder if they were a Muslim family, would they have been treated similarly?
GNOME publishes the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2013
What's the issue? CF makes writing web services stupid easy. Just add access="remote" to a CFC's function. Instantly introspected and performs all SOAP conversion for you.

Now, I'll admit, SOAP anything is crazy, but based on the age of the application, may have been the best option at the time.
For all that is wrong with flash as a platform, I have always found Actionscript 3 to be a far better structured and easy to work with language, compared to something like javascript, which has a very 'organic' structure.

I can't speak much to ColdFusion or WSDL though.
Don't forget possible jail time for the owner.
Seek a new marketing team. You are insane.
Generally not. On the Internet, ASCII generally means ANSI_X3.4-1968, a 7-bit standard with 128 code points. (Run "man ascii" on a Unix system to see this.) There aren't any accented characters.

By contrast, there were national variants of ISO/IEC 646 (also a 7-bit character set, and essentially the internationalized version of ASCII) that included accented characters within those 128 code points. Generally these swapped out things like the at-sign (@) and the curly braces and vertical pipe character for accented vowels instead.

There were also lots of 8-bit character sets in ISO/IEC 8859 (e.g. Latin-1, or ISO/IEC 8859 part 1) that included accented characters within the "extended" set of code points 128-255.
> This intense inability to deal with nuance is both a cause of Randroid philosophy, and one of its most aggravating characteristics.

And this is, I believe, why it's so comparatively common with computeristas; it is a worldview which is much more logical and binary than the current one, with the implication that such a worldview is obviously better. No nuance is necessary but there are no nuances to perceive in this system.

This is, of course, why the system is not suitable for general implementation. It will be quickly and immediately co-opted by those who can perceive nuance where others see only black/white, who will eventually bring the whole edifice crashing back down again.
Our company is a little different these days. We had a team change and pivoted to a more professional customer segment (and from events to venues.) I thought this would be an entertaining story to share with HN from a scrappier time, though :)
CA MOOC bill dead for now
No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
This isn't from HN, but I've noticed an implicit bias against devs from South and Southeast Asia (can't speak for China). On my resume, I go by the shortened form of my first name, not "eksith" and that was a conscious decision after putting my full name resulted in very few calls and emails.

I'm not sure if that has to do with a perception of talent or simply a presumption of a language barrier, since I've also seen a fair number of devs from India post content (both on blogs and on places like Stack Overflow) that make me question their communication skills.

It may simply be a case of many people = higher number of proportional incompetence.

Edit: To add, it may be a higher number of proportional sub-par content coming from India due to greater degrees of internet access.

Full disclosure: I'm originally from Sri Lanka, now living in New York.
I worked in a security software development department where the primary security request application had to allow a request from anyone, for anyone (Approval was more stringent). I personally found several bugs in the system in my first few months, because I, personally, conflicted with the various "uniqueness" constraints in the system... like lastname + ssn-last-four, or dob + firstname, etc.

The org had 380K active entries, so it was definitely interesting being a dev on such a project, with a relatively common name, and conflicting dob and last 4-5 of my ssn.
>>I am not aware of any "extra judicial killings" by Putin.

You aren't supposed to be aware, is the idea.
History has shown that given power people abuse it, the set up of mass, warrantless, surveillance is itself evidence of this, a feared consequence of the Patriot Act. It is a completely rational fear that given increasing powers government will increasingly abuse them. Also there has been nothing in recent policy that at all demonstrates that the federal government will ever relinquish power once given it. The more power that the government takes without challenge or checks and balances, the more it can easily take in the future. It's a positive feedback system.

"Terrorism" on the other hand does not scale, especially with an adversary so technologically limited oceans away from US borders. Terrorism isn't even meant to scale, it's entire purpose to create a maximal psychological impact because the adversary does not have the resources to achieve any significant damage through force. Even if you look at Isreal's total deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks you'll see that the numbers are small [0,1]. Also, unlike increasing government powers, there is no evidence that terrorists acts on US soil are increasing.

[0] http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelsum.html
[1] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/osloterr.h...
What do you do when you view a diff, and what you see there doesn't match your editor?

Edit: I know emacs can probably view diffs. That's not the point, unless you expect every window to be the same width, and every tool to wrap everything exactly the same.
Bit off topic, just seen your CV and that you interned at TAB in 2011. Interned there in 2012, small world.
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I would not put them in the same bucket. I would put the Genius Bar thing into the same bucket as those Task Rabbit people getting paid to stand in line so someone else can show up last minute for the latest iGadget. I seem to recall people having mostly favorable thoughts about that idea. Taking food from the homeless is just jackassery.
How the AP figured out how fast a crashed train was going
This line rings so true: "Impatience is the glue that ties my generation together, and I’m no exception."