skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, basic income does not encourage laziness (that's a common misconception based on our personal opinions which make sense from a certain point of view and from a confirmation bias). I'm currently researching basic income and the criticism that BI increases laziness is the most frequently repeated criticism for which I argue that it's invalid because it is based on personal opinion and not on fact.

Actual data and field experiments on basic income prove that people work more hours, that their income increases, that they visit hospitals on fewer occasions and that they spend money responsibly.

Sources:
1) http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100 -> Dauphin Canada, 1974-1978 experiment -> only mothers with newborns and teenagers worked less.

2) http://www.usbig.net/bigblog/2013/08/important-study-finds-t... -> BI receivers worked 17% more hours and their annual income after two and a half years was 50% higher (they invested mental resources into building their own businesses or looking for better paying jobs).

Also, allow me to argue that the system would work even if most people did not actually contribute anything. How many Linux users are there, vs. how many developers contributed source to the Linux project? Only a tiny, tiniest fragment of the world developer population actually got off their butts and did something for Linux, and the rest of the world sat by and "leeched" off their work. And yet, Linux thrives. My argument is that we still don't have real data about how many people in % need to be productive for the society to be sustainable and progressive. I believe we grossly overestimate the % of people who need to be productive.
and RESTLess

https://github.com/endlessinc/ember-restless
Blogging is not a good litmus test for your ideas
Vreasy - http://www.vreasy.com

Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain)

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We are looking for a backend developer

Vreasy develops and markets disruptive technology in the property and travel market. US style tech startups are a rare breed here in Europe and with Vreasy, you will feel like you are back in San Francisco working on new technology for a very novel product. We're growing rapidly and want more people to join us in our office that is two minutes from the beach here in Barcelona!

The position:

* We are looking for a backend developer who is versatile in both backend and frontend webprogramming, but specialised in one of the them, preferable in backend

* Knowledge and experience of OOP in PHP and how to use it in larger codebases

* Knows Git from inside out

* Comfortable with Test Driven Development - we are doing continuous deployment with CircleCI

* Works well in a agile environment

* Good team player - we work hard but also really enjoy each other’s company

If you also like to play tabletennis and would like to spend some lunches on the beach, that would be a plus.
So, please send a message to jobs@vreasy.com with an application or send an email to victor@vreasy.com (me) if you have any questions.
Since when did Backbone not count as a major framework?
We're looking for a Python hacker in a personalization & analytics startup Filmaster.TV. We're based in Warsaw, Poland. It shouldn't be a problem getting a work permit. We're already hiring an American guy and we've been through the procedure. Read about the job and the company here: http://filmaster.tv/jobs.html and if you're interested, happy to talk on hangout.
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 12 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)

I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have just under 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we're just about to pass 1 million users (any day now). We are expecting even faster growth as we focus on Buffer for business.

We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

* Backend/DevOps Engineer

* Front-end Engineer

Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.

- we have over 150k monthly active users.
- 6000+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper
- we release changes several times a day
- we have an entirely data-driven process, with Einstein and Buffer-Metrics, our custom built a/b testing and metrics tracking framework.
- Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.

More stats and stack details here: http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2...

We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.

If you're interested in coming on board, you will:

- work closely myself on technical architecture and Joel on product.
- ship to thousands of users and iterate quickly
- work with our metrics team to make smart changes
- be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers on issues and features
- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing with others
- be a Buffer user
- be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you have help and support from us to move to where you want to be
- have experience working with another startup or building side projects before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)

Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:

- we are totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have 1 million users and generate $160k/mo. Ask me anything else!
- within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we have a formula for the distribution.
- we're all very focused on self improvement - we have daily standups where we discuss our current improvements. This could be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging, exercise, learning a language, etc.
- here's our culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03

Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency)

Equity: 0.5-1%

If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background):
http://jobs.bufferapp.com

- Sunil (CTO)
thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
This was a talk at PyconIndia 2013
Potato - London, Bristol, Mountain View.

Potato is a 70-person developer-lead agency based in London, UK with offices in Bristol, Sydney & San Francisco. Our clients include Google, PayPal, a number of startups and other agencies such as BBH & Mother. We're hiring for a variety of positions in a variety of locations, freelance & full time, including Django developers, and senior UX designers in London, Mountain View & Bristol UK.

http://p.ota.to/jobs/
I don't think it's illegal, just doing so opens you up to legal challenges from the person. And you may be 100% provably correct, but no one wants to go through the legal wranglings to deal with it, so the typical corporate response is to just provide the quantifiable facts - dates of employment.
Versus - Berlin/Germany - Node.js

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun. In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension (when working as an employee).

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

Infos on the Node position => http://urge.io/jobs#Node.js%20Growth%20Hacker%20for%20High%2...

All job offers => http://urge.io/jobs

Mail addresse => career <at> urge <dot> io
From Itertools Recipes [6]:

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
"Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
# grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
args = [iter(iterable)] * n
return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)

- What is the most “pythonic” way to iterate over a list in chunks? [1]

- Idiomatic way to take groups of n items from a list in Python? [2]

- Python “Every Other Element” Idiom [3]

- Iterate an iterator by chunks (of n) in Python? [4]

- How do you split a list into evenly sized chunks in Python? [5]

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434287/what-is-the-most-p...

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2461484/idiomatic-way-to-...

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2631189/python-every-othe...

[4]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8991506/iterate-an-iterat...

[5]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a...

[6]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools-re...
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Do you use or rely on PostgreSQL? I'm an experienced Postgres hacker looking for new projects to work on. I can diagnose performance issues, optimize SQL queries, implement custom datatypes, develop PL/pgsql procedures, and code up C-language extensions. Also have plenty of experience with Python bindings, including psycopg2 and SqlAlchemy.

No issue or feature request is too small, and I offer reasonable fixed-price quotes. If I don't solve your problem, get your money back! Immediate availability.

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Shopify (Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Canada). http://www.shopify.com/careers

If you're interested in ecommerce, physical retail (point of sale), or payments product management, talk to me directly. We have many positions I haven't posted yet.
At least it doesn't look actively harmful to what we already have.
please don't pretend you know me, whom i have worked with, or what i believe.
That will result in two things: you will be detained further, and they will seize your device.
The US justifying a war with "moral values".
reading through http://xkcd.com/radiation/ really makes it clear (to me) how much 1800 milliseverts/hour is. The Maximum yearly dose for a US Radiation worker is 50 milliseverts. And Radiation over a year does much less damage than all at once. You really, really don't want to be anywhere near those storage tanks without a LOT of protective gear. No idea how they are going to clean up all that spilled water...
I really like this since the source code is well documented and explains everything right in the code.

Not like todomvc which is supposed to be for beginners yet have almost no comments...

https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/architectur...
In a society that runs out of physical labor to do, you might just as well call them "disabled", and pay them a cheque out of that pool. But Basic Income (or a negative income tax) is cleaner in its economic predictability than special-casing things like that.
It depends on the type of DOS attack being used by the attackers. If they are using a SYN attack you can change the source ip as you don't care to hear back. But a SYN attack can be mitigated a bit easier once you know about it.

If you are doing a more application specific attack, you need to establish a connection (assuming it is TCP), so you can't hide you IP in that case.
I was very familiar with references #1 and #2, those are good papers. Three minor issues:

1) Both this article and reference #3 make claims about not using or needing adders to avoid self modifying code, although both implement indexed addressing where you take a base address and a offset and er... um... argh... ADD them together. So you're using an adder but playing word games. Only reference #2 actually "does it" without an adder. If you're doing it for "fun" then self modifying code is plenty of "fun".

2) The claim the compiler is going to be the icky part is not accurate. To a crude approximation a compiler would do something about as hard as a FPGA synth of a microcode decoder for a soft CPU. Not as simple as implementing a HTML BLINK tag but its just no big deal breaker. The icky part is going to be performance. Just adding a little cache isn't going to help if your code stalls it inherently and you're going to be pretty well memory starved. Good luck doing a fast floating point multiply-add for a DSP with this architecture.

3) A minor issue but it should be possible to get instantaneous power very low with this design. No one writes about this interesting issue (unless its in reference 3 which I don't have access to) Of course "power per FLOP" type of metrics are (Probably? Inevitably?) going to suck, unless I'm wrong.

I've done a lot of daydreaming about actually implementing a system outta reference #1 for fun. Its about the simplest hardware "processor" you can possibly build. After all, you're going to need (memory mapped) I/O anyway and who cares if one of the memory mapped I/O is a 32 bit wide full adder, or whatever other CPU-like functional module you'd like to entertain. I have two amusing daydreams, one is a 256 bit wide move machine (why 256 bits wide? Why the heck not? Difficult, but barely inside the limit of buildability) the other strange daydream is vaguely like an old IBM1620 but why not try floating point instead of BCD? Yes I'm no noob I know all about floating point rounding issues and I consider it a huge part of the "fun". Also I'm well aware a binary adder would be a wee bit quicker for the program counter than a floating point adder... that's the whole point I think a pure float machine would be hilarious fun. I'm not talking about merely sticking a floating point copro on a chip, but literally using IEEE 754 on the address bus (obviously with a bit of rounding) Quad precision floating point should be enough digits for an address bus to have a heck of a lot of fun with some slack for rounding issues.
>>an assembly line worker who knows how to operte the tool in hand.

This is one problem imho, that stands in the way of more mature developers landing jobs and of juniors advancing.
There is a trend to use 3rd party libraries as rad tools even when they don't fully fill the needs, and a tendency to use 3rd party tools to prevent your coders from really needing to code.

Architects know they're going to hand off to code monkeys, so they force designs to fit existing 3rd party libraries and any complexity gets pushed to the design side, not the implementation side. Why hire and pay extra for experience when a grad can do it?
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I do custom electronics and robotics/automation projects, focused on going from idea to prototype quickly. I can rapidly prototype mechanics (with 3d printing), electronics, and firmware and make things work. Also happy to consult on feasibility or implementation of existing projects.

I have a very strong preference for OSHW work, and this is reflected in my rates (massive discount for OSHW projects, except for NC-licensed crap).

Contact me at kliment at 0xfb.com (yes, that is a zero)
What about the cooling effect of government spending on private sector innovation. Nobody can compete with the government, since it has unlimited pockets and the ability to legislate, so it would be irrational for any company to try. How do you account for that when you try to measure how much potential the private sector has for major innovations?
I tried Kolibri a couple of years ago while distro hopping, but I completely forgot that is was a fork of Menuet, so when I saw the above comment regarding closed source I looked on the KolibriOS site, and when I got back here I noticed your comment had beat me to it by a mile!

Haha! Cheers!
Interesting that location affects salary. If you move to a location with lower living costs, is your salary cut?
What's with the flurry of non-tech related articles?
I'm not saying the articles aren't relevant (they are), I'm just wondering why they are being voted to the first page. On one hand, I want to stay up-to-date on tech news, but on the other hand I'm one of those people that avoids other news because it just depresses me. And what I keep noticing is that this other news keeps making the front page of what should be a tech/startup news site. What's the reasoning behind this?

I get depressed every time I come here, and everywhere I go these articles just keep "following me around."
> Linus: bool is dangerous in C if you don't understand it

What in C is NOT dangerous if you don't understand it?
Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip
Why exactly does an 18-year old with a guaranteed income need 18 years' worth of savings invested for them? I don't think you really understand the concept of a guaranteed minimum income.

The idea is that you can live and eat without the rigamarole of food stamps/qualifying for a benefit program etc. Introducing complexity such as investment programs and sliding scales for families is not productive and, in my view, counter to the underlying principle.
Probably has to do with chrome cacheing
SEEKING FREELANCER - remote

Heroku, Firebase, NodeJS, javascript

Create a Heroku add-on created for our SaaS.

BromBone (http://www.brombone.com) is a service that makes client-side javascript driven websites (AngularJS, Ember.js, Backbone.js, etc) crawlable by Google. We process all the websites pages with PhantomJS and save the result. When Google crawls the page, the website just has to proxy the snapshot from our server and send the file to Google-bot.

We need to create a Heroku add-on so that people can signup for BromBone form within Heroku. This process is well documented by Heroku.

Currently BromBone does have any login/auth system for users. The project would also involve creating that system. Probably using Firebase's Auth system, although this is still up for discussion.

Willing to work with someone working nights and weekends, or with someone who wants to knock it out quicker working full days. Would prefer to per project or milestone payments rather than hourly.

The ideal candidate is someone who has previously created a Heroku add-on and/or used Firebase's Auth system. However, that is not a requirement.

If you're interested, please email chad@brombone.com
A UK Public Transport Agency Begins Testing E-Paper Technology at Bus Stops
Yes, under conditions. Mainly: stable residency, plus legal immigration papers.

Legal immigration is pretty low in France (compared to other European countries for instance), but what you mention IS a source of tensions, and the bread of extreme right parties.
Generalizing an entire population based on a single experience just doesn't work. I did it once and I turned out to be completely wrong.
Giving a bad reference is not illegal in the US, but if I lost money due to a bad reference then I would be taking that person to court where he/she can either better explain their concrete reasons for the bad reference or pay damages. Since the last thing typical FOS people want is to explain their (nonexistent) reasons, they will be paying damages or learn not to give references at all
After building some single page JS web apps small and large, I am not sure that building large JS web apps is actually a good idea.

In fact, a lot of the time they probably aren't a good idea. It is often better to just build out separate pages and on a page that requires more interactivity, use knockout or something similar.
"Lots of" compilers in common use? Can you name one besides Microsoft's?
The last thing we need is another government program. Everyone thinks he has a great idea when he can use the force and coercion of the State to extort everyone else to support his megalomaniacal master plan. If this idea is so good, let's not use to the State to implement it. Let's start locally and work our way out. But that would be too difficult and too much work. It's much easier to get politicians to point guns at people.

Instead of just handing people a BIG, maybe we need to look at what is fundamentally causing poverty. BIG is just an impersonal, "throw some money at it" non-solution. It will probably be used by the rich and powerful to keep people poor. Special interests will get involved; the State will pick winners and losers; people will be less free and more dependent on the State. Is this what we really want?
What High-Quality Revenue Looks Like
Ask HN: How to gather multi-country response to a survey?
Guys, we are running a survey to compare experiences of entrepreneurs from different countries, but now hit a wall in terms of international response. We are doing this free and will of course share the report with everyone at the end.

We have utilized our personal networks, FB, Linkedin and startup forums/groups, but the response accordingly is skewed to 1-2 countries only based on our networks. Trying Linkedin ads now, let's see if that helps.

Do you have any advice on how we can generate some responses internationally? We are speaking to entrepreneurs personally as well, but we can't rely on that for a multi-country response, hence decided to run a survey.

The survey is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1B-tLGypk5HTuw_zTnxnJLoKKqnKBHJJeoZqbKBSAzPA/viewform. In case you are or have been an entrepreneur and feel like helping out, please fill the survey too.

Thanks!
It's using a somewhat-obscure guarantee that doesn't come up in normal usage of the function - namely, that it will always get the iterator values in left-right order.
An interesting aside: I can't seem to right click that link in Safari (6.0.5). It seems to be the "../../.." in the tag content that does it, because it works if I edit it out in the inspector. Does anyone else run in to this?
Wix - Tel Aviv, Israel

Looking for Front-End hacker.
Wix is looking for you, an experienced developer with passionate for Web development; JavaScript, HTML5 ,CSS3, TDD, Angular.JS

Contact info in my profile
Why would the op be "fired" in this case being made redundant and "fired" are quite different in law.

An anonymous tip in a brown paper envelope from a "friend" to a senior manager is one traditional way of whistle blowing.
SEEKING WORK, Remote

Full stack Java developer, 10+ years. Expert in Java, Spring, Groovy, Grails, Google Appengine.
Also Clojure, MongoDB, Akka, Lucene/Solr/ElasticSearch, Coffeescript, BackboneJS, RESTful, etc.

* igor@artamonov.ru

* http://careers.stackoverflow.com/iartamonov

* https://github.com/splix/

* http://igorartamonov.com
Also governments funding space programs...
FARM Digital - full-time Lancashire/Hampshire UK or REMOTE

We're a fast-growing digital agency (Wirehive 100 "One To Watch" in 2012), we build interesting sites for brands and apps for businesses. We're primarily a Django outfit, though we are doing a lot more JS recently (Angular, Titanium etc.)

We're a very technical development team, and we focus on best practices (TDD, BDD, CI, CD), and applying them in a pretty hectic and demanding agency business.

We'd prefer remote applicants to come from within 2 hours +/- GMT. There is more information here:

http://wearefarm.com/jobs/jobs-webdeveloper.html
Here’s why we dropped our free plan