skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome)

Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're making real money in the local services marketplace.

The team is full of down-to-earth, practical, and intelligent people. Everyday for lunch we all sit down to a meal cooked by our in-house chef. On Wednesday nights, we stay late for a hot dinner, some wine, guests, and great conversation. Sometimes we drink beer that we've been brewing in the back closet.

Ping me (chris @) if you want to chat. Happy to meet up for coffee if you're in SF. I'll also be in Boston/Pittsburgh in the coming weeks.

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Easy to check on:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&zoomToPost...

My initial scan says $2990 is a little low.
Except RSA is not available to everyone (many people are not eligible), not guaranteed (it's tied to searching for a job, for instance), and not an actual income that provides you the bare minimum (in some places it doesn't even get you housing).
Do the main target audience for action films want to watch and listen to a female character who sports a typical "female personality" as written by a woman, though?
I don't know if I want Monica from FRIENDS shooting nazis in WW2, I should think that'd kind of ruin the movie for me.
The homeless struggle to survive in Silicon Valley
Interestingly, the "ultimate" example in that page fails to parse with the web cdecl.
Thanks for posting this. For reference, paste is a standard UNIX utility, whose purpose is to do all sorts of useful things not limited to 2-tuples:

$ seq 1 9 | paste - - -
1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9
Quebec hotel sues former guest over online review
Well put, the relationship trends more and more asymmetric. Add in rhetoric designed to convince workers to buy into a system that exploits them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240495

In general, employers have far more leverage over employee's lives than the individual employee has over the corporation's well being even though we sometimes pretend that it is symmetric and that the market is fair.

Employers optimize for maximum profit for "the shareholders." Somewhere along the line, morality is tossed out, and shortly afterward even legitimate long-term sustainability is also out (cultivating a strong workforce, valued for their talent rather than purely for their labor).

Add in the feedback loop of political apparatuses being appropriated for profit (lobbying) and the political arena is just another exploitable lever for amassing more resources by those with the resources to do so.
4000 Years of World History Distilled Into a Single Chart
I fail to see how "imperialism" applies to U.S. border restrictions. I have found those annoying too (brown + permanent resident) but the word imperialism is incorrectly being applied here, I think.
Transitive Trust in SaaS
> Which, yes, includes being unable to believe that women might be undercover cops, might be notorious gangsters, might be bank robbers.

Really, are there many prototypes in real life? I suspect there may be enough to inspire a handful of movies, but after that it will become obvious that it's a niche film.
Wow.

>Building

>Constructed:	1300

>Address:	Keizer Karelplein 6
6211TC
Maastricht

>Area:	3,306 m²

>Function:	Public

Here is the street view:

http://goo.gl/maps/On8Dw
In case anyone is interested, pg wrote the SpamBayes Outlook add-in in Python about 10 years ago: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Beyond Going Mobile, Responsive Web Design is Here to Stay
I get the feeling if you're going to "innovate" RV living, you'll do it in North Dakota and not SF. Lot of people with a lot of money now and a housing market that hasn't caught up.
That's right, at least as far as technology goes; by design, all tech that increases productivity will produce fewer new jobs than the ones it displaces. They will be better/more desirable jobs, but fewer. The previous workers aren't always well-suited to be retrained from box-packer to SCADA programmer, their kids, maybe so, but you've still got the ones who were originally displaced left to euthanize.
I also had a K1000 and it was a blast from the past to see it in the corner of the catalog.

They made them unchanged from the mid 70s to the turn of the century, a good quarter century run.

The prices in wikipedia are ridiculous. 40% off, yeah whatever. My K1000 body was barely over $100 new in the very early 90s. I bought lenses on sale and they generally set me back $50 or so each, roughly a high school kids weekly part time job paycheck.

The differences between my K1000 and my father's old spotmatic were the spotmatic used a threaded lens and the K1000 used a bayonet mount (like a BNC connector, kinda) Also the spotmatic required a now unobtainium mercury based battery. Not mercury added to lower internal resistance like modern alkalines, but mercury itself was an electrode.

I agree the UI on the K1000 kicked butt. Trivial to adjust while shooting, fast, simple. No modern camera app comes close because of hardware limitations. Also image quality was vastly superior especially with lower ASA films and even a cheap high school student lens.
San Francisco uses bus cameras to catch loading zone violators
Cdecl is quite useful, but it does not work if you have declared your own types.

"Foo a" declares a of type Foo (whatever that is), but cdecl says Syntax Error.

It does not even work with C99 types. "bool a", "_Bool a", "int32_t a" all give Syntax Error.
Smart idea. Good job! Could you extend bd to jump to bookmarked directories. I often jump between /data... and ~/dir/containing/code/ -- would be useful to have one command help with both scenarios.
Uhh...the guys who did 9/11 had already crossed the border. Look, if you are legitimately entering the country, there is a several multi-stage process that involves extensive vetting of the person at the visa issuance stage. I am confused why on earth harassment needs to occur on U.S. territory by a rent-a-cop. Why not simply reject the person at the embassy/consulate?
I agree, and I'm really not trying to "trick" people into admitting a communist philosophy as some sort of way to invalidate the idea. I'm just trying to get at the heart of the matter. If it's communism as Karl Marx outlined in his writings, let's call it that, because that's what it is. Communism is not an invention of Soviet Russia or China - they're certainly examples of it failing spectacularly, but my intent is to say "If we're advocating for a system like Marx described, can we admit that it's what Marx wrote about?" - I'm not trying to equate people who advocate for BI with Lenin or anything. If someone believe that communism is the right economic model, then great, argue from that position. Just be straightforward about what the position is.
There's not opinion in the piece. Just numbers. Perhaps you meant to tag your comment "don't agree".
As already mentioned, there is a startup called yapp: https://www.yapp.us/. I am not affiliated with them but I will suggest you change the name to something else.
JavaScript. I was thinking it would be neat to have some sort of library that hashes (for lack of a better term) keys into colors. That way you don't have to pick the colors or store them, but they are stable. For a given key, you'll always get back the same color.

Generating colors is not hard; the hard part, as evidenced by this article, is getting them to look decent and getting them to appear distinct.
Introducing Color Palettes
Some would ask why we keep using electricity and fossil fuels, when we know we're running out of energy.

The answer is that we think we'll arrive at a solution for energy before we run out of oil. And the reason we keep using cellphones is because we believe we'll fix the privacy issues before we become enslaved.

Boycotting cellphones would just be boycotting a symptom anyways. Governments have always been corrupted to spy on citizens, every government ever, through any means necessary.
This kind of stuff has been around since 2005: http://difrwear.com/

If you want to turn off your cellphone... turn off your cellphone. It has an off switch and airplane mode. This kind of protective casing is really only needed for the type of things you can't turn "off" like all the RFID chips embedded in credits card you own (and probably don't even realize you have).

Also, this is pretty lol: "Mr. Harvey said that he could not afford to hire an outside firm to extensively test the effectiveness of his products, but that he tested them himself with most of the popular smartphones and major wireless carriers." If you haven't tested it, I doubt it works at all. http://difrwear.com/pages/certifications
Squirrels stole a chunk of fiber we had between two buildings years ago. They used it to make nests with. We even had a video of them hanging upside down going along the supporting cable. Cost us 3 days of downtime though (this was internal office network).

mitigation was simply rubbing vaseline (petroleum jelly) all over it once a quarter so they just fell off.

Wildlife is incredibly destructive :)
Boltian (http://boltian.com/), Bratislava, Slovakia - JavaScript, HTML5 and Frontend Guru. REMOTE possible for exceptional candidates (timezone is CET).

This is a rare opportunity in Central/Eastern Europe for a frontend UI designer and developer to join an exciting new project in the early stages of development. We are building a product that will empower small businesses to secure their networks, without needing to hire expensive outside expertise or digest thick manuals.

We are looking for developers with experience in JavaScript, HTML5, UI development and design to help us build our product's UI from the ground up as a modern client-side “single page application” using YUI* and HTML5.

You will be joining a small team where everyone wears multiple hats and actively participates in all parts of the product's development - we are not looking for people who are “just coders”.

Experience and/or an active interest in any of the following is a plus:

* UI and interaction design

* HTML5 single-page application development

* HTML5 canvas, SVG

* Network visualisation

* JavaScript visualisation libraries (eg. d3.js)

* Modern JavaScript frameworks (eg. YUI, Backbone.js, Angular.js)

* Netscape Navigator 1.1

[*] Feel free to convince us to use your framework of choice instead.

Please email me directly (address in profile) or jobs@boltian.com if interested and put [HN] in subject line. Apologies for the slightly vague job description, we are still in stealth mode on this project.
It depends on how broad your definition of luxury is.

The UK has a sales tax called 'VAT' that applies to almost everything, with a defined list of exceptions.

Most types of food are untaxed, as are books, children's clothes, college education, safety boots, gold investment coins, sport activities, tap water, most healthcare services, burials and cremations, museum entry fees, houseboat moorings, charter of military aeroplanes, and so on [1].

OK so the list of things that are exempt or 0% taxed is fairly long. But the vast majority of things are subject to VAT.

[1] http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/goods-services....
With Linux my using it imposes a cost no different on those that develop it than not using it other than the bandwidth of the person I download it from.
With COBOL as the obvious alternative (at the time) for financial applications, then I have to ask; why on earth would any sane company choose this programming language?
Nintendo in Motion
Thank you! Lots of things for me to chew on and mull over here. One thing stuck out to me, though:

> The people who would receive the BI are the in the lowest income brackets.

As I understand BI, this is not true. BI is a payment made to every citizen and/or resident of a country, irrespective of any other consideration (including income, wealth, etc). What you seem to be describing is Guaranteed Minimum Income, which is an entirely different ball of wax. I'm now wondering how much of the discussion is people talking past each other because of conflation of these two terms.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_income
Any opinion on Moai vs CoronaSDK? I know people who use Corona, but not Moai.
I think this is the classical error of false dichotomy. Useful for rhetorical purposes, but it is more just a statement of two possibilities and an assertion that they're the only two, with no backup.

I reject completely the idea that either printing money or borrowing money is a viable solution for most economies in the medium or long term. According to you, that must mean I support a Stalinist regime[1]. This is false, to say the least. Other (relative) proponents of a basic income, including such luminaries as Hayek and Milton Friedman, would likely also look at your claim with great skepticism.

A basic income is just the redistributionism practiced by current mixed market economies but implemented much more efficiently (in both the Pareto and administrative senses) than what exists now.

Price levels would be affected by a basic income, but you've got to specify what and how much. Considering supply effects, the likely first order result of a basic income is an increase in the cost of basic goods and also an overall increase in the consumption of them. Goods that are typically bought with, say, the marginal dollar at twice the basic income level will decrease in price but also be consumed less. The market would reallocate capital to more efficiently produce basic goods (defined as the goods that are typically bought with marginal dollars beneath the basic income level).

You might dislike this kind of very limited redistribution. Fair enough, and that is a great debate to have! But you've also got to be thoughtful about the full package. It's not whether you prefer no redistribution to a basic income. It's whether you prefer a basic income to a costly and heavily-administrated redistribution driven by special interest groups.

[1]Also, "Marxist communism"? I'd be curious to ask if you've got even a passing acquaintance with the structure of the Soviet economy. It's fine to criticize a basic income on inflationary grounds, but saying it's communism is so off that it qualifies as not even wrong.
I just have to say "Dank u" for choosing a colour scheme that is friendly to those with Colour Vision Deficiency of the red/green variety. A huge number of maps which use gradations of colour to represent data are useless to up to 1 in 10 men because they adopt the rainbow colour scheme with red and green representing opposite ends of the spectrum.
Is this some India-nigger's idea of how I wrote an operating system with compiler from scratch? Some fucken mocking God damn India-nigger-monkey. He's whooting and hollering, fucken monkey.

God says...
are_you_insane laziness persistence in_a_galaxy_far_far_away
clever talk_to_my_lawyer in_a_perfect_world don't_worry
Obama close_your_eyes tiffanies I'm_off_today nevada frown
later CIA you_see_the_light charity well_golly envy just_lovely
soap_opera that's_for_me_to_know Percival high_five that's_no_fun
high_five hippy mocking bickering gambling caution I'll_let_you_know
ehh_a_wise_guy other I'm_not_sure what_would_Jesus_do
my_bad study what_part_of_God_do_you_not_understand Enough
think_you_could_do_better air_head BRB I'm_off_today

Smart American kids my age had C64s and Apple IIs. We all entered 6502 machine code into DATA statements in BASIC programs. Everyone did it. It seems so fantastical and primitive to a monkey, doesn't it.

Generally, we used monitor program to disassemble and assemblers, though you had to buy an assembler. Every store had magazines with BASIC programs full of DATA statements with graphic and machine code data. People typed it in. We had xsum bytes on blocks.

For embedded systems, they have S records -- simple HEX dumps.

Only a silly retard like the guy named "cooper" at osdev programs in machine code. I have a few instructions memorized. I wrote my own assembler, after all and my compiler is chock-full of machine code. India nigger thinks machine code is hilarious. He howls that anyone could make a program out of numbers, even if its in the process of writing a compiler. Hoots and hollers.

God said someone is still an atheist. It's no fun teaching a nigger.
I don't want MS online account. That is the whole point. The only way not to link my local account to freshly minted MS Online account was to remove the network connection. And it is something useless anyway. I don't want any forced online services.

The moment I disabled driver signing the cisco VPN worked like a charm.

Also it is my OS on my pc. If I want it to commit suicide I expect it to obey not to have hard block on installing a program.

The Windows Firewall is crap because trusted installer can add exceptions so I have to clean up after every program I install. Nothing makes outgoing connections before I allow it to.
It may be all three factors, but given (C), (C) alone is reasonable justification for his situation, rendering (A) and (B) irrelevant.
SEEKING WORK - Scotland / Remote

Android, iOS app developer. Also been working on micro controller based projects in Avionics.

Proficient in:

Java, Objective-C, C#, PHP, C, CSS3, HTML5

I have an open source project on my Github, which has some Java, Objective-C and PHP https://github.com/Hey-Jimmy/

and the majority of my portfolio is on http://heyjimmy.net as is my contact details.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304752
Boltian (http://boltian.com/), Bratislava, Slovakia - Full-stack Linux Engineer / Embedded Linux Hacker. REMOTE possible for exceptional candidates (timezone is CET).

This is a rare opportunity in Central/Eastern Europe for a hard core Embedded Linux developer to join
an exciting new project in the early stages of development. We are building
a product that will empower small businesses to secure their networks,
without needing to hire expensive outside expertise or digest thick
manuals.

We are looking for generalist developers with a strong background in
systems programming in C on the Linux platform and extensive knowledge of
the entire Linux software and network stack.

You will be joining a small team where everyone wears multiple hats and
actively participates in all parts of the product's development - we are
not looking for people who are “just coders”.

Experience and/or an active interest in any of the following is a plus:

- Embedded systems (MIPS, ARM)

- IPv4, IPv6, DNS, SSL/TLS

- Zero-configuration networking (mDNS/Bonjour/uPnP)

- iptables/netfilter, netlink

- IEEE 802.11 protocol stack and its Linux implementation

- Network intrusion detection systems and algorithms

- Network security, threats and attacks

- GW-BASIC

Please email me directly (address in profile) or jobs@boltian.com if interested and put [HN] in subject line. Apologies for the slightly vague job description, we are still in stealth mode on this project.
What's in your background that means we should care about your comment?
In the partial presence of rent controls, and
in a market where demand is high and supply low,
'average of rents currently being paid' !=
'average of rents for currently available rentals'.
Oh yes, it's definitely on the paranoid side. I would argue that an old fashioned feature phone with the battery removed is a much cheaper alternative, but the point of these items, I believe, is more symbolic than functional.

I mean, if you think about it, someone wearing one of those hoodies... they don't really care about the fashion statement or even the "protection" they offer. The reality is that someone wearing that would stand out like a sore thumb, and I think that's part of the point. It's more of a conspicuous protest in plain sight without being disruptive.

Maybe that's the real sales pitch all along. A bit of "I am Spartacus" with a high-tech woven mesh and face hiding.
Yeah, after I read your response to the parent, I thought about that. From an argumentative perspective, it makes sense for me to try move the conversation away from labels like "Marxist Communism" which are obviously meant to be derisory. Most of us probably avoid the word communism because of our culture's negative connotation of the word, without giving the ideas honest evaluation.
TV shows, I've noticed, tend to be better about issues than movies. I think this has to do with the lack of a 2-hour window to do everything in. If you do something well enough, you can always put off bigger events until next season. But straight up development as a movie sequel hook is much harder to sell.
I like reading about RV-living and micro-apartments in a similar way as I liked reading Into the Wild. There's lots to like, but I'd never actually do it. I just don't think I could get comfortable with the sacrifice of comfort and safety (even if it is only a perceived reduction in comfort and safety). And plus my wife would divorce me.
Yes, but only for zip, which I believe was the parent posters point. With another function this technique might not work.
> It was originally intended as generated code from a user interface-building tool [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar_programming_language
They didn't. As noted in the article, they chose a higher-level platform, found it too limiting, and gradually started just writing code directly for the intermediate language used. It's similar to putting some inline asm in your C to do things not possible in C, then eventually hitting the point that your entire application is inline asm with no C left.
Don't good engineers also 'make implements', and 'tend their own gardens' when their fieldwork is done?
SF addresses are obscenely overpriced for what you get.

Boat living definitely happens.

If you decide you prefer land, and your work is near BART, the East Bay (esp. Berkeley, Rockridge) offer much better value.

If you like the idea of taking a ferry to work every day, and work downtown, consider Marin County north of the GG Bridge.
Lifehack: Remembering What You Read
I've been living in a motorhome for nearly five years now. Mostly travelling full-time. I parked for a total of about 3 months in the Palo Alto and Mountain View areas on a couple of occasions...just on the street. I have solar power, and propane for cooking and running the fridge, and big water tanks, so I can go weeks without hooking up. Mine is quite a bit larger than Tynan's at 34.5', but I think my next rig may be smaller. There's definitely value in being able to drive/park anywhere, and my current rig does not have that quality.

I started out in Mountain View; was paying $2145/month to rent a house. The motorhome lifestyle isn't significantly cheaper, when travelling a lot, but it has a lot of other advantages. At least, for me, the advantages outweigh the negatives.
I would hardly call "basic minimum income" socialism. Socialism is top-down control of the economy by the state; this is just an (extremely) liberal (in the european sense) welfarism. You could argue that it's less socialistic than the US' welfare system, which imposes lots of behaviour controls on its recipients.
From the write-up:

"BANCStar actually came with a "screen generator" that was supposed to be used to construct applications. But the 5.1c version of the generator was so limited that experienced programmers soon began to pry off the covers and modify directly the intermediate code that the run-time module actually executed."

All of the numbers you're looking at are an object code for a VM that (apparently) allowed for user-defined screens in the BancStar product. Programmers found themselves reverse-engineering the meanings of the different numbers and began to build the text-format object-code by hand.

This doesn't appear to have ever been intended to be a programming environment in this form.