skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Due to its nature terrorism does not scale well, it's akin to a parasite/host relationship.

It could escalate into civil war though, or even regular war between nation states (especially if one nation selects random nation states to attack as a counterstrike).

Interesting reading on the subject:

http://reliefweb.int/report/world/2012-global-terrorism-inde...
If you fail to pay taxes that you owe (and I have not heard you dispute owing them), then you are in violation of the law that you agree to when you remain in your country of residence.

If you ignore liens, you have forfeited the right to live in that home by not paying your financial obligations.

Your arguments imply that the men with guns are the cause of the use of force. In reality, the men with guns are the consequence for disobeying the rules of a civil society.
The agency (FLLU) seem really small. Too small in fact, because most companies would engage a substantially larger firm and have account managers and would handle all of this stuff coherently from one place rather than use potentially hundreds of firms this size (3 people).

Before everyone jumps to conclusions... could it not be the case that someone with just a very small bit of budget said "Wouldn't it be great if..." and then hired this little company "I know a few guys who could..." to help promote it, failing to understand what form that promotion would take.

Of course, it can and should be argued that Samsung (and their many departments and entities) had a tighter leash for their managers and such "little" projects and initiatives... but I wouldn't argue that not having a tight enough leash is tantamount to Samsung consciously trying to bribe users.

This is where I long for journalists over bloggers... perhaps someone could find out who hired FLLU? Then perhaps someone could ask that someone the basis for the campaign and whether it was authorised by Samsung.
The Ticktock of the Death Clock
New York, NY -- Visual Designer -- Quartz -- http://qz.com

Quartz is a global business news media startup working out of Soho. We're less than a year old and hit 5MM unique users a month (I believe that puts us up with the likes of the Economist and FT). We're small and nimble - and no legacy hurdles to hold us back.

We like side hack projects:
http://open.qz.com/

We release code all the time:
http://app.qz.com

And generally a nice place to work:
http://blog.qz.com/

I am looking for a Visual Designer to work with me (dev/product), my dev team, and editorial, to build out a reader-friendly experience across web, mobile, and new applications.

The job description is for a senior position, but I would encourage any sufficiently motivate designer with the right background to apply.

Official job description is here:

bit.ly/17kDlS2

but feel free to reach me directly:

md@qz.com
looks like a significant overvaluation to me:

$2 is about right (http://www.thepricegeek.com/results/my+integrity?country=us)
He may be a US citizen, but he writes for the Guardian which is a UK newspaper. He is a foreign journalist.
SEEKING WORK: London UK or remote

I'm a backend-focused full stack web developer, who particularly enjoys working with startups. I'm happy building systems from scratch, extending existing systems, refactoring projects that have become unmaintainable, or scaling systems that have been pushed beyond their capacity.

I've got very limited availability for the next 2-3 months so can only take on small implementations or work as an advisor, but I'm more free from October so if you're planning ahead then it'd be good to hear from you.

There's a summary of my skills & experience here: http://alexpounds.com/cv
You are right. :( I do scan remote links daily looking for non-200s, but that's obviously not robust enough.
Actually I like this law, and I know most Russians like too... And it is a matter of survival to them.
The LISP 1.5 manual [1] is quite old, fairly straightforward, but still seems 'fresh' to me.

The Arxiv [2] seems to always have to newest ideas, and CiteSeerX [3] has many, many popular (old) ideas.

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

[2] http://arxiv.org/list/cs/recent

[3] http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles
Living in Brazil, working with the Guardian, a UK Newspaper. Not saying that OP was right, just saying that there isn't much reason to split hairs here.
Little Bridge World - Hammersmith, London, UK

Little Bridge mixes video game sensibilities with language learning. We teach English to millions of children in more than 30 countries across the world. We've got a unique mix of social networking with learning, where kids can make friends all over the world to practice their English, with enough help along the way that they'll never get stuck. Children can walk around a 3D village, meeting characters and playing games. The company is currently expanding from web clients onto tablet and mobile and is extending it's products to better fit how kids learn today.

Cloud services are essential to what we do, and we're looking for server-side developers and sys-ops wanting a challenge, who are comfortable leading a team to build a scalable solution with us which includes messaging, scoring mechanisms, achievements and a whole lot more. We're developing layered services using PHP and Zend Framework, MySQL, noSQL and message queuing among others. Essential skills also should include developing applications for HA and scalability in cloud environments (clustering, replication, load balancing), Linux admin, Apache/Nginx, IP networking, network/application security, unit testing and release management. An interest in educational products is a must!

You can find out more about the company at http://www.littlebridge.com

Send an email to jobs@littlebridge.com, with a CV and a little about yourself and let's talk!
DEFCON is back Hotels hosting the conference are bracing themselves
Automatic analysis of Mario Kart 64 video for statistics
Lesser evil principle.
London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion)

AccountsPortal (http://www.accountsportal.com) is hiring PHP engineers for our London office. We are in the process of building some new products, so this is an opportunity to get in on the ground level. We have a very relaxed working environment, flexible working hours (work when you want) and a super friendly team.

Requirements
You don't need any formal work experience or training, but you must have knowledge in the following areas:

- Laravel 4

- MySQL

- HTML5, CSS, Jquery, Git

Some experience in the following areas would be great, but not essential:

- Some CodeIgniter experience

- UNIX server administration

- Backbone, Angular or Ember JS frameworks

Send applications to hn-20130801@accountsportal.com

No recruiters please.
Rap Genius - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com

jobs@rapgenius.com

Building the "Internet Talmud" to annotate and explain the world's primary source text

* Front-end developer with an eye for design (UI/UX/CSS/jQuery)
* iOS Developer (you know, iOS)
* Full stack software engineer (Rails)

Over the past few years, Rap Genius has gone from tiny side-project to one of the biggest music sites on the internet. We’ve raised 15 mil from some pretty dope investors and grown to employ some of the most talented devs this world has ever seen. We’re expanding from explaining rap into ALL OF TEXT, starting with poetry, rock, and news. Now were looking for genius full-stack web and iOS developers to help build the “Internet Talmud”, the one platform for explaining the world’s primary source texts.

Why would you want to work for us?

* One of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, SERIOUSLY THIS IS BASED ON
ACTUAL NUMBERS.
* Tiny, quick-shipping team with a ton of autonomy – so you never think to yourself:
“what did i accomplish this year/month/30 seconds ago?”
* A development and design agenda that is led by developers and designers –
so no marketing or product people telling you how the image carousel should work.
* Gym in building, free food, sweet benefits, whatever computer you want, more
money than your last job, equity, etc.
* Live in New York, where a new restaurant is born every 1.5 seconds!

A little about the dev team:

* Seven people total: five backend, one front-end/design, and one TOTALLY
SICK intern.
* Independently led projects.
* We iterate quickly and push code to production constantly.
We're not afraid to put the "first draft" of a feature in production
to see how it behaves in the wild before perfecting it.
* Projects and priorities are determined communally (usually over burritos).
* Ruby on Rails via Heroku + Sass, Compass, jQuery, Git, and more!

More about the positions:

Are you a boss front-end developer with an eye for design? Hit us up. A bomb iOS developer who wants to build the Rap Genius iPhone app from the ground up? An experienced and creative full-stack Rails engineer? We’ve been waiting for you. Send us your deets.

Interested? Hit us up at jobs@rapgenius.com with:

* Your name and online identity – i.e., your Twitter, Github, blog,
Stack Overflow account, personal website, etc.
The more info the better.
* Location – you can’t get the true RG cult effect working remotely, so only apply
if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate.
Our office is in Williamsburg.
* Educational background and/or most recent job
* A little bit about your technical background,
including something brief about what you like
and dislike about the technologies you’ve used.
* If you come in for an interview, you’ll start by making a short
technical presentation to the team and taking their questions.
What will you present?
* THE MOST IMPORTANT: What have you built online that you’re proud of?
SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in the Brighton in the UK. I can travel to London but I usually prefer to work remotely.
I love working on MVPs and prototypes. I'd love to help you turn your idea into reality.

I work in a range of languages but I usually choose Python when I have a choice. I also do a lot of work in JavaScript. I have a range of skills from web development to computer vision. I can help with Rich JavaScript Applications and RESTful API design (see a talk I gave on the subjects here[1]). I've been enjoying AngularJS recently, it makes some things very easy and is a nice contrast with Backbone.JS (which I also still use for other things).

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, JavaScript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV.

Some stuff I've made

- I recently added Generator support to the CoffeeScript compiler: http://almostobsolete.net/coffeescript-generators.html

- A location based app I wrote last weekend: http://head2.me

- An open source JavaScript library I wrote: https://github.com/dharmafly/jsonpatch.js

- The Amazon Glacier support I contributed to Boto (popular Python library): https://github.com/almost/boto/tree/glacier/boto/glacier

Please do get in touch!

Web: http://almostobsolete.net/

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@almostobsolete.net

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

[1] http://asyncjs.com/hypermedia/
I just remembered reading an article [1] mentioning indirect impact of combination of fear of flying caused by 9/11 and annoyance caused by TSA (which one has bigger impact?) that pushed more people to travel by cars. That is less secure than flying and number of fatalities on roads increased by hundreds a month because of that.

The way I see it this is one example of how war on terrorism can kill more people than terrorism itself. I am beginning to believe that the best strategy to win the war on terror would be to basically just ignore terrorism and do only the most basic and least intrusive things to avoid terrorist attacks.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-18/how-airport-...
The Department of Homeland Security has 240,000 employees and a budget of over $60 billion. There have been 5,000 terrorist deaths in the last 148 years.

We invest billions to reduce driving accidents

The National Transportation Safety Board has 400 employees and a budget of $100 million. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has an annual budget of $815 million. There are approximately 30,000 deaths per year from vehicle accidents alone.

We also invest billions in cancer research and prevention.

The National Institute of Health has an annual budget of $30 billion. This covers every type of infection and disease, but approximately 550,000 people per year die of cancer alone. Approximately 600,000 people die of heart disease per year.

Can you see how these things are totally out of whack?

DISCLAIMER: This is a comment on a message board. This is not a PhD thesis. There are plenty of additional nits to pick and I'm sure there are plenty of comments nit witty enough to be posted in response. The bottom line is that terrorism is given resources far beyond the scale of the problem and that is indisputable.
Open Source heterogeneous cloud management dashboard
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boston | Washington D.C. local. Willing to travel.

You have a vision, a plan, or a project that needs to get done. You want someone who gets it. You need someone who gets it. Someone who won't waste your time. Someone who can talk to you, understand where you're coming from, and execute. We are willing to do that for you. To go that distance for you. Why? Because we understand what it's like to run a business. Big or small.

If you would like to talk about what we can do for you, then drop us a line at anna@amplete.com or (734) 315-0115. I promise that you won't be disappointed.

---

Back-End

Django, Twisted, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, ASP.NET MVC 4, BackBone.js, Node.js, and Ember.js

Front-end

Bootstrap, Less.js, JQuery, Skeleton, Foundation, Cappuccino, Knockout, and Spine

Mobile Development

We have worked with iOS, Android, and Win Phone 8, developing 4 to 5 star applications that have 1 to 5 million downloads.

Examples

-> Re-designed a front-end as well as a back-end for a property management entity that has ~3 billion in assets.

-> Re-worked a ticket-reselling site that does $150MM in revenue in Rails (again front-end and back-end)

-> Developed an Android and iOS application that has ~4.5 stars and more than 5 million downloads combined for a start-up that had an idea but no technical staff at hand.

-> Developed an iOS Daily Deals app, again for someone who had an idea but no technical staff at hand. This app was acquired by a Chinese company for their locals for the low 8 figures.

If you have an idea, we usually can take it from storyboard to implementation for < 100k. Call us at (734) 315-0115 and we'll do our best to help.
True but one has to assume he finds it easier to publish his reporting through a British newspaper otherwise why wouldn't he simply be on the NYT payroll?
> I would hope (perhaps naively), its still better than Russia in terms of human rights at least?

That depends on a lot of factors:

- are you homosexual

- ethnically caucasian

- A subscriber to Islam

- have a name that matches the name of someone on a no-fly list

- an 'enemy combatant' (ages 13 and up)

- an activist of sorts

Or anyone of a hundred other arbitrary criteria. Those could make the difference between a safe & secure life 'just' being harassed periodically by people in uniform or spending time in Gitmo or Siberia.
DuckDuckGo: 100,000,000 searches in July
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Chicago

Designer & Front-End Developer, focused on product design and marketing.

I work well with developers. Best suited designing and building from the ground up, but not afraid to dip my toes into an existing code base and clean things up. You'll hire me if you're comfortable with someone pushing back against your ideas and asking you to potentially change them.

I have experience working with solo founders, small businesses, all the way up to Fortune 500 companies. I'm very laid back and tend to adopt a project as my own (if I like the goal/people involved).

I add value by knowing my way around code while also being a solid designer. I use Git (CLI) and I can work within Rails and Django. I don't waste time and I'm hyper honest about time, scope, and cost.

Recent work:

http://whatwhenapp.com (designed and developed myself, using Meteor)

http://properapp.com (designed and developed myself, using Meteor – blog is run on WordPress)

http://themansion.churchilldowns.com (design and front-end development)

http://summit.co (long-term relationship, responsible for all design and development – WordPress based)

You can see my Dribbble at (great representation of what I can accomplish given the opportunity):

http://dribbble.com/rglover

And finally, my portfolio:

http://wellroundedgent.com

Please forward any project inquiries or questions to:

ryan@wellroundedgent.com

Have a nice day.
Dungeon guide for administrative assistant quest
Pavel Durov invites Snowden to work on security of VK.com in Petersburg
I once tried to send a brisket email.

It... did not end well.
SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote.

Senior Application Engineer. If you are a startup and need an engineer to bring your idea to life, I am your man. I recently completed TechStars with a company that is now doing 200k revenue/mo. I specialize in building AngularJS/NodeJS applications but I have 7 years experience with PHP/Rails.

www.github.com/cgarvis
www.chrisgarvis.com
I don't live in DC but it would be nice if someone could stop by the Russian embassy and put some flowers in front. It would show that American people don't necessarily agree with our government and are grateful for the Russian's support.
Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I am a web application developer with a full understanding of taking projects from idea to reality, and the full technology stack needed to make such an application come to life.

Languages I use: PHP, Java, Perl, JavaScript
Environments I've worked in: LAMP, Windows, Linux, BSD, VAX Databases I've stored data in: MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres Frameworks I've used: Zend, jQuery, Struts, Spring

Most professional experience is in the back end web development realm, with some "moonlighting" with desktop and mobile application development

Preference given for long term projects.

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/canadiancreed

If my skillset would be useful to your project or needs, please contact me at creedis at gmail dot com
It would be interesting to see the results of their model if it had included modern methods for selfish actors to create artificial scarcity, ala the copyright and patent systems that currently exist.

In fact, I wonder if they allowed for any "market" distorting (whatever that is in context) actions to take place, or if that was to complex.
Iconizer will resize your icon to all the ios required sizes.
A Command line utility for Iconizer

Iconizer will resize your icon to all the ios required sizes.

https://github.com/oitozero/iconizer
The O'Reilly Radar team are thinking about this a lot lately but I'm not sure how far they've got with sharing their ideas. A start, though: http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/the-future-of-programming.h...
It's a fairly typical case of shooting the messenger and this is the generalized fate of whistleblowers the world over, be it in corporations, governments or other institutions. The first response is to squelch the source by any means available. If there is change it usually is much later.
Actually, I don't thing being a whore compares to this. Prostitution does not involve deceiving anyone and is not unethical.

What Samsung asked him to do is way worse than prostitution.
Rockton, IL / Fulltime Senior/Mid Web Developer, AccuLynx (http://www.acculynx.com)

AccuLynx is a bootstrapped and profitable startup that is growing rapidly. We need two full-time web developers to help maintain and build upon our SaaS web application. We have a small team (4.5 devs) and have some amazing challenges ahead of us. The biggest being how can we scale efficiently to accommodate our growing customer base. We have interesting problems that need smart people to solve them.

Detailed job description can be found here: http://www.acculynx.com/about/jobs/#webdev

Basically we are looking for smart people that get things done. Our team does not hire based on buzzwords or popular acronyms. We expect you to have mastered at least one language and be able to master any technology, language, or development environment in the future. If you are unfamiliar with a piece of technology we will help bring you up to speed.

We'd like to see skills in our current stack: Asp.net webforms (It is OK to shudder...), C#, jQuery, Sql Server. We are quickly moving to Asp.net MVC, Angular/, ElasticSearch, and Redis. We are building

We believe in employee happiness and strive to accommodate that. We work at a 40hr sustainable work pace, have awesome sit stand desks, and create a fun/relaxed environment. The village of Rockton offers "small-town charm" and low cost-of-living, without being far from larger metropolitan areas (Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison).

Benefits are top notch: Highly competitive salary (70k-100k), stock options, 15 days vacation, $5k/year to spend on continuing education (conferences, classes, etc), choice of computer hardware, choice of cell phone, MSDN subscription, gym membership, competitive medical, dental, vision, 401K with matching & safe harbor contributions, relocation reimbursement available.

Email me if you are interested (mention HN to get my attention), my name is Paul: dev@acculynx.com
Web App In Development Feedback Please
Hi I have just put live this web app to try and get some users testing it.If I could get any feedback on usability of the layout and of the data its showing, it would be massively helpful.The Idea of the web app is to show people new to mortgages the effects of different terms and deals. address: www.talktomort.com Thanks
I do not wish to diminish the horrors the KKK afflicted on the US, in particular the blacks. However, gun violence amongst the inner city peoples has brought death and fear beyond anything the KKK could have hope for.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=28375.0

Terrorism come in many forms, and the killing going on between gangs is just another form
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Need a solid, secure app on multiple platforms, on a tight deadline? I'm your man.

Experience (in order of importance):

- Python + Django/Flask/Web2py (http://eden.sahanafoundation.org)

- Java + Android (contributed to OI File Manager, other OI apps, http://datumdroid.com)

- Frontend Dev (HTML(5)/(S)CSS/JS/CoffeeScript/jQuery/Angular/etc.)

- C++ + Qt

- Golang

- Pentesting webapps

Contact: me[at]aviraldg.com (subject prefix: "WORK")

I also lurk on Freenode (nick: aviraldg) in case you want to catch me there for a more casual conversation.
Alternatively, if you can't be first in a category then invent a new category in which you are first.

Who was the first human in space? Who was the second?

Who was the first human to orbit the Earth? Who was the second?

Who was the first human to set foot on the moon? The second? The third?
So in the end you've chosen to advertise it on HN?
Please let us know of one equivalent using semicolons for this semicolon-less bug:

a = b + c
(d + e).print()

Which is evaluated as

a = b + c(d + e).print();

Taken straight out of http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/05/semicolons/

> Standards are useful, so if there is one, stick to it. If there is no reason to go against the standard, then don't.

Bingo. I think this is another reason to stick with the standard.
Outpost - Montreal, QC, Canada [FULL TIME OR INTERNS]
http://outpost.travel

Outpost.travel is a P2P travel aggregator helping travellers to commute with unique and affordable experiences. We're 4 months in, a team of 3, and just secured 125k yesterday. If you are interrested in having sleepless nights and eating tuna everyday, check out our job page http://outpost.travel/#!/help/jobs

We are looking language agnostic in the backend, anything goes: node.js, parse, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.