skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modilabs, Columbia University -- New York City -- Full time

https://github.com/modilabs/jobs

We are a university lab under The Earth Institute at Columbia University. We are building open source softwares to help developments in various countries in the world with a kick of technology.

Currently we are involved in a data collection / analysis project in Nigeria, an infrastructure planner project for remote islands in Indonesia and many more. We also have a team in Narobi, Kenya with whom the New York team work very closely. Our stacks includes but not limited to python, javascript, django, nodejs and we are always looking forward for new technology.

We are looking for hackers who are passionate about the stuff that helps the world sucks a little less. If you are interested in hacking with us, traveling to the developing world, please go to the afromentioned github job repo to contact us.
>B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline required

No exceptions?
That sounds kind of like the skycrane landing on Mars.
Dogmatic Cartoon
Feathered dinosaurs had 'flight-ready' brains
The sound of sorting Algorithms
Oh they burn it? I though they were doing that bacteria to methane idea?
RMS emails in restaurants, cars, trains, etc., in Europe and the United States but also frequently in SE Asia and South America. There are pictures of him responding to email in the mountains in Nepal.

It's easy to get Internet access on the go in most of the places I've been to, but I've been to a tiny fraction of the places RMS has been to.
I thought we didn't have to worry if we had nothing to hide.
Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) is hiring in Mountain View, CA

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We are hiring for all the positions listed at https://www.coursera.org/about/jobs, including:

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How many android devices have barometers inside? I wasn't aware that any did! Cool project by the way.
A nice story to remember...especially when you're next in a meeting or someone's talking directly to you and you simply can't resist averting your gaze to glance at your smartphone.
You sure have a lot of trust in 'sometimes as little as $9 for half a gallon' vodka that you planned to serve to other people.It shows how young you are, and not in a good light. Unfortunately while this move might've been regarded as a success for your company, it could've very well damaged your personal brand.
The way you implement it will be subject to a myriad of application-specific statistical analysis. To my mind, the best way to look at it is like a jigsaw puzzle.

If you just took out or added a couple pieces, the whole of the jigsaw remains the same, and it can be trivial to determine what the image is. But shuffle all the pieces into random positions each time and the picture is impossible to decipher.

Consider an HTML text that was 500KB, and included a social security number. You add some random padding in a couple places, but not much. There's still 499KB that the attacker probably already knows; he can probably filter out this familiar ciphertext until he's down to the ~1KB of ciphertext he's not positive about, and start drilling down from there. Don't put it past a clever hacker to find more techniques to discover the secret.

Randomize the whole thing as much as you can, and pray. (Or disable gzip compression for sensitive content)
I'm actually curious now, was your (or whoever became the victim of this code) "Japanese name" not in the system in katakana or something?
This kind of juvenile behavior is not a "nice thing". At least not in the context of running a business.
Back before Warcraft 3, multiplayer usually meant LAN. Neglecting the single player campaign would have been just stupid.
Our government is sending gangs of armed men to perfectly innocent citizens' doors to interrogate them, simply because the authorities don't like what the people are looking at online. Chilling. Now that PRISM and XKeyscore are being reported on in the main stream media, I hope we'll hear many more stories like this and that this will cause folks to realize that it could easily be their door next time.
In the long run, such misguided stereotypes will intrinsically hurt and marginalize those who hold them.

One of the joys of having worked and gone to school with diverse and often distributed sets of people is that I've been honored to know extraordinarily bright and productive individuals who are dissimilar along many irrelevant dimensions. I'm thankful for the perspective and wish it were so universal that no one would wonder such questions.

I agree that it is sad that we're not there yet.
I didn't see the photo, was it something like this [1]? If so, then I do see why some might think it is NSFW but, IMO that is a juvenile, silly, absurd, mindset, and even a bit insulting.

The only part of an image such as that which is NSFW is that it is IMO not suitable to spend time gawking at it while at work; but it is only slightly less suitable than wasting time on most any of the other news articles.

>What do you consider as NSFW

In general, the mere presence of an image, even a fully nude one isn't NSFW until some person's reaction to it negatively affects themselves or their co-workers, and even then, it isn't really the image that is to blame. But still, gross and or gratuitous pornography are out [2], as are most images of penises, vaginas, and anuses.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2295906/Lara-St...

[2] Unless you are a pornographer, of course.
SSL Certificate Transparency Project
Span vs Median for Response Time Monitors
Synack raises $1.5M To Crowdsource Vulnerability And Security Testing
You're picturing the organization as a single mind and mentality when it's composed of many thousands of people with many motivations and levels of competence. The agents on the ground aren't the same as those who build the fancy technology (and in this case the agents who visited the author of the blog post were from a completely different organization).

This is how spying works in general--find one of the inevitably many people in a secret organization who will, in the right compromised situation (alcohol, a romantic affair, etc.), brag about their knowledge of state secrets.

Or look at Bradley Manning, who among other things exposed the fact that low level operatives have access to far more secret data than one would have imagined. His motivation (which led him to release all the data) differed from the organization's overall motivation in an extreme way.
Just took a few minutes to look into it. Found a gnarly bug in the AS 3.5 XMLEncoder class[1]. Type coercion strikes again!

1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18000768/203705
Stock Simulation in Clojure
You could do this more easily if the page included data from the GET query, something like a name or a search query or something like that, which gets echoed in the response.
No, Apple's compiler group moves very fast. They cut from LLVM/Clang ToT for each new release.
It needn't be illegal to be disallowed. Apple provides this service at will, and can set the terms in which you use it. There are, of course, legal boundaries within which every company must operate, but I'm not familiar with Chinese consumer protection law, so I have no idea if this is inside or outside the law.

Also, it's not that brilliant, IMO. It is not unusual for secondary markets to spring up when the commodity is fungible and there is a supply constraint. See also: scalping sporting event and concert tickets; a practice that is also seen as a shiesty thing to do.
Salt Lake City, UT - Lucidchart

Lucidchart is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. We're rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) -
Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucidchart your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Building large products / applications
* Scala or Java
* MySQL or other relational database
* NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially desirable)
* Opscode Chef or Puppet
* Cloud computing (AWS)

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) -
Lucidchart is powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet, optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Building large products / applications
* Javascript
* Google Closure compiler/library
* CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation
* jQuery
* node.js
* Native app development on Android and/or iOS

All applicants email resumes to jobs@lucidchart.com.
If we ignore the fact that they are "trading in-kind" the vodka for services, they are still distributing it.

There are a multitude of laws governing alcohol. I had a friend host a party with a cover. He was giving away the alcohol. The local alcohol control board showed up and listed the numerous laws he was violating.

Don't forget that anyone who distributes alcohol has to be permitted. They need to comply with laws that govern access to the underaged, tracking of alcohol taxes, etc.

Here is an example from Missouri law:

When is a liquor license required?
It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, distribute or sell intoxicating liquor without a state license issued by the state supervisor of the Division Alcohol and Tobacco Control. However, Section 311.055 is an exception, which allows 200 gallons to be manufactured per household, per calendar year if there are two or more persons over 21 years of age in the household, or 100 gallons per calendar year if there is one person over the age of 21 in the household. The products manufactured under the Section 311.055 exception are only for personal and family use.
NightUp launches app for New York nightlife
I suspect the testing grandparent is thinking of would show that price does not correlate with quality

Correct. Of course there was a difference in taste, but it was clearly within statistics that there was no correlation between favorite to least favorite and most expensive to least expensive (top-self vs bottom-shelf).

That said, I am not a Vodka drinker although my wife is. She has tried them all and prefers Svedka currently for it's taste and price.
Quick question: What if News corp was fed the details of voicemails that they "hacked" through government agencies in an effort to keep the public placated through meaningless news stories?

I know it's not on topic, but with everything coming to light, it would not surprise me. Was it ever discovered how News Corp got the private voicemails for their stories?
The ones who come over here beat out all the ones back home for it. I've worked with many developers from India, and the ones over here tend to run rings around the ones over there.

IMHO, and I'm certainly no expert, but it seems that in india more people see IT work as a path to middle class wealth and this consequently attracts more people to the field, in the same way that people become doctors who have no interest in medicine, and people become lawyers without an underlying interest in law.

There are certainly good doctors and lawyers who aren't 'passionate' about their profession, but for the most part, interest is the path to competence, and so as more people enter the field for financial and social reasons, you end up with a overall lower quality of candidate.
Change it to Mapcock.
Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance this Sunday
I bet his first name is dev.
Creative people need to say "No"
Sounds an awful lot like: http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-art...
I upvoted you for this - I think it's a really interesting idea.

Why can't my editor tokenize my code and then show it in the format I want? Why do I, as the programmer, have to worry about whether one whitespace convention works for you versus me, when you could just come up with whatever scheme you like and view code that way?
I thought only technology-illiterate people made that error. Very surprised to see that.
I don't know about the Swedish one but the Norwegian one in the other linked article says:

Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage — household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests — has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn.

So it seems so, yeah :-(
That's your backtrack? That we don't know enough?

How is it OK that the local PD (acting as part of DoJ's Joint Terrorism Task Force) knows any factors that would reasonably lead them to investigate this family?
StormPulse is awesome and I would highly recommend working with Matt, Brad & co.
Tptacek, when we have our government admitting that it's established a global complete electronic dragnet why are you surprised that it will be used?

I do not really understand HN's skepticism in reaction to this story. The surveillance apparatus is real, well funded and the large number of people employed by it take their jobs very seriously.
Because there are some of the harshest/confusing laws around alcohol (for anything legally sold) in the United States? Its easier to legally sell a handgun to a friend than sell a bottle of wine.

So we can't have nice things because people want to obey laws that tend to be extremely strictly enforced?
Yeah, DataWrangler is an awesome project. There are actually a few great companies coming out with products based around it. We may just integrate with one of those.
I think the hard part is identifying/normalizing the merchant based on the 20 character billing name + phone. Each McDonalds and Starbucks have wildly different text. Large purchases are immediately flagged for sure, purchases outside the local area. There is a lot of low hanging fruit. Crowd sourcing helps too. Interesting idea.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

8 years of experience in programming and sysadminning. I focus on backend — databases, server structure, etc.

I'm experienced with Ruby, Java, C, Python, PHP, and Javascript. I'm on a FIRST Robotics Team, and have worked in a small startup.

Resume: http://bernsteinbear.com/resume
Github: http://github.com/tekknolagi
Email: max@bernsteinbear.com
San Francisco, CA - Full-time, permanent - MuleSoft

Sr. Javascript UI Engineer

Why should you join MuleSoft?

Every major company is adopting more and more cloud services, AND building lots of apps themselves, AND publishing their own APIs. We're talking hundreds to thousands of integration points for a single reasonably-large enterprise to glue together. In fact, increasingly the heart of a company's applications is in the glue itself. And that makes for an exponentially-big problem for enterprises: how do you assemble numerous services into coherent business flows, efficiently and effectively, then operate them for months and years, and keep them up to date as all these APIs evolve? How do you even know all the integration endpoints and flows you have at any given time?
At MuleSoft, we're already solving this for thousands of companies, but now we're taking it to the next level, with CloudHub: a cloud-based environment which pairs with the widely-adopted on-premise Mule "bus" to be the nexus of an entire enterprise's integrations. In short, CloudHub is where modern enterprises run their integration glue.
And that's why MuleSoft has incredible momentum with some of the biggest companies in the world.

Where do you come in?

First, MuleSoft is investing heavily in our CloudHub platform. Since it's a new product, there's very little legacy; and since we're still a startup, you get to be a big part of a small team with a very broad impact. This is not a place to rest on your laurels: this is a place to make your mark on the world.

Second, you get to work on great technologies: single-page Ajax apps; client-side MVC using backbone.js building on RESTful back-end APIs; Twitter bootstrap and jQuery; LESS; grunt; node.js, of course; perhaps you'll bring in some other new technology to the stack.

Finally, and maybe the coolest part: since Mule already has the world's biggest companies on board, CloudHub will have the backing of the biggest customers to drive adoption of standards, technologies, coding paradigms, etc. So this stuff is poised to make a huge impact.

And you? You already know you can create killer UI's based on the work of designers and your own creativity; and it's a given that you're a master of all things HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript. But isn't it time you turned your attention to a really, really big problem?

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In an ideal world, yes. Homeless people are frequently preyed upon though, particularly in less developed parts of the world.

At a much different scale, consider warlords that sell intercepted donated food to the people it was meant to go to for free. They aren't geniuses, just massive assholes.
AppMyDay (http://appmyday.co.il). We make people happy.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Full time, permanent, local only at this point

Recently seed funded, looking for first employees

Who we're looking for:

We're looking for a senior iOS engineer to lead our mobile efforts (both Android and iOS apps). We've got a lot of really cool stuff in the pipeline and we want the right people to take us to the next level.

About us:

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Send your CV to omervk@appmyday.co.il and let me know you came through HN :)
There isn't such a thing as an ethical person. There are situations and [un]ethical responses. Most people have no structured guidance on how to feel out a situation to categorize possible responses as ethical or unethical. Forming that structure would be the purpose of the class.

To draw an analogy, most programmers can write code. But programming class isn't really about teaching a language's order of operations or explaining its particular grammar: the value of a programming class has to do with its explanations of modularity and data encapsulation, of structuring flow and conceptualizing objects. Then examples are provided that exercise these explanations so that you can apply them in future situations.
Becker - Posner advocating eliminating of software patents
Definitely exceptions. I was a humanities major. Listing edited. :)
Los Angeles(Culver City), CA - Full-time, permanent - eSalon.com http://www.esalon.com
Looking for a junior to senior developer. Someone who gets stuff done, all around developer.
PHP, javascript, Mysql, apache, nginx, redis, potentially some hardware programming...

We're an ecommerce site that sells custom haircolor. Doesn't sound too techy I know but there's more to it.
Short summary, someone comes to our site, fills out a profile/sends a picture. We send them custom haircolor. When I say custom, I mean really custom. We manufacture and ship everything ourselves and we've built the whole system to do it ourselves. Every bottle of haircolor has the client's name on it, instructions are personalized, it's all made one off for the client.

More details..
We're an ecommerce site that sells a completely custom product that we manufacturer ourselves.
Things that you might be working on..
Front end consumer facing website.
Back end CRM customer service site. We use zendesk and custom software. Looking to integrate twilio for phone calls and build a custom call center solution.
Helping automate our production line some more. Mix of hardware and software. We have an arduino powering some stuff, potentially more.
Data mining, we're a very data driven company, constantly A/B testing and trying to make our colorists/customer service more efficient.

It's a really small team and you'll get to work on a lot of different things and have a big say in things. If any of this sounds remotely interesting, shoot me an email. I think we're quite different from any other internet startup because we produce something tangible.

http://www.esalon.com/jobs or email me at aaron@esalon.com
They exploited the fact that people didn't change the default passwords on their voicemail (e.g. 1234) and so were able to access them remotely using the same system a legitimate user who needed to access their voicemail remotely would use.
The article mentions incinerators; I wonder how it is impacting air quality, specifically dioxin levels.

I recently saw this documentary which discusses various approaches to managing trash:
http://www.trashedfilm.com/references.php#tabair
At least he was confronted immediately. Can you imagine if this was used against him at some time in the future as a "pattern of suspicious activity"? Or worse if he was selected via data-mining when looking for suspects of a bombing? It's like finding secret messages in every eight words of the Bible.
I doubt this story is real...

(5, at least, this has been going on) * (52 weeks) * (100 a week) = 26,000 homes would have been entered, averaging 3 people per home (on the low side)

= ~78,000 people have had this happen to them and I haven't heard about it?

Not to mention, I would say no to any plain clothes government official without presenting a warrant and badges.

There are plenty of other issues with the blog post, but those two alone are enough for me to call B.S.
Just speculating again, but I bet this is the same security issue that I speculated took out the Apple Dev Center[1].

Given that the software compromised was JIRA and Confluence, my guess is they didn't heed Atlassian's notice to upgrade last week :(

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081428
"In narrowing the type of innovations that are patentable, one can start by eliminating the patenting of software. Disputes over software patents are among the most common, expensive, and counterproductive. Their exclusion from the patent system would discourage some software innovations, but the saving from litigation costs over disputed patent rights would more than compensate the economy for that cost. Moreover, some software innovations would be encouraged because the inability to patent software will eliminate uncertainty over whether someone else with a similar patent will sue and do battle in the courts."
I decided not to explain that since it wasn't useful to GGP. I had a whole paragraph written out about how "software architecture" is a metaphor. :P
But it can't even compile NetBSD http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/portable_c_compiler which is disappointing (its much easier than Linux).
Controlling drones with Glass and JavaScript
I am surprised no one has mentioned Bill Gates' omnivorous reading habits.Check out his huge reading bag in this video

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50151799n&tag=api