skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to get over yourself. The author of those clearly awful comments has a mental illness. For you to take those comments at face value and hold the author completely accountable is something I literally can't understand as an empathetic human being. You are simply being self-righteous at the expense of someone with a mental illness. That is a level of selfishness, obtuseness, and ignorance I can't understand.
Skype took off because they were masters of evading firewalls and corporate network blocks. People used it because it worked when nothing else would.

That it was P2P was always an implementation detail, not a selling point.
Pathgather (http://pathgather.com) - New York, NY

We're a promising ed tech startup in NYC looking to make our first engineering hire. We're completely bootstrapped (and intend to stay that way) and currently a team of 2.5, but already with a Fortune 200 company on board as a paying customer.

Our stack consists of Postgres, Rails, Redis, and lots o' Angular. We're looking for a quick learner who has experience with any of the above, however how minimal that may be. API development experience a huge plus.

If interested, ping me at jamie@pathgather.com. Check out our Angelist page (https://angel.co/pathgather) for info on salary and equity.

Thanks!
Facebook, Twitter and Google monitor web links, Swiss security firm warns
It's odd to me that people look at Windows' continuing dominance and claim people don't know any better. Assuming users of Windows PCs are ignorant is as reasonable as claiming users of Apple PCs are arrogant jerks. Hopefully that kind of logic is a holdover from when Windows wasn't all that good and will go away soon.
Shopular - Menlo Park, CA. Series A funded startup hiring early team (first 5). No Remote. H1B ok.

Shopular (shopular.com) is creating the most user friendly and novel mechanisms for mobile to disrupt physical retail. See the intro video at shopular.com and app reviews on Android and iOS. Shopular is the highest rated app in the space with almost 1M downloads. So far the team is just 4 people and we have raised a series A from a tier 1 VC.

We are looking for:
* experienced iOS engineer
* experienced Android engineer
* senior backend/systems/data engineer (our stack is python-django-postgresql-nginx).

You should be very consumer oriented, have strong passion for creating experiences that add value to users' lives, thrive in a small, tightly-knit team and show a lot of initiative, ability to handle responsibility and be a quick learner.

Email join@shopular.com
They won't get any significant number of paid signups from either closing free accounts or from appearing on the HN front page.
The "Law for Registration of Addresses and Buildings" ("wet basisregistraties adressen en gebouwen") was accepted by the Senate ("Eerste Kamer") on 22 January 2008, and went into effect on 1 July 2009. The dataset was created by forcing municipalities to put all of their their data on addresses and buildings into one central database, the BAG ("Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen").

Source: Dutch Wikipedia http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basisregistraties_Adressen_en_G...
If you're a libertarian, then you should realize that these money would come out of other people's pockets without their actual approval. Have a fund for poor financed voluntarily. Don't force people to pay for things they disagree with.
You can also get rid of this overhead by using an editor with an integrated repl (emacs+nrepl.el/slime/inferior-lisp-mode, vim+slimv/fireplace, LightTable all do this). I can type ,e to send an updated function to my repl for instance. ,b to evaluate an entire buffer.

That said, you can also develop your test suite like this as well (which is a sublime experience, particularly with a generative test tool).
Paraphrasing Bjarne Stroustrup.
I miss the feature of Novell Netware that used to let you type

cd ...

to go up two levels, or analogously for as many dots as you needed. It was incredibly useful and fast. Thanks for the tip, and I'm using these aliases from now on.
It allows you to make your repo one-click-clone in people's VM on Koding.

It creates a Markdown snippet to add your README.md file. And it creates a link button that opens Koding and allows you to clone the repo.

A few usage examples:

https://github.com/f/omelette
https://github.com/f/kapi
https://github.com/f/qvimrc
https://github.com/f/GitHubDashboard.kdapp
Not to mention the fact that peasants typically worked from dawn to dusk.
Haha yes I'm aware that it's a seperate project but it also seems like a tightly bound seperate project. I'd not be surprised to see some changes in Ember for the sake of ED's convenience for example. Ember Data is destined to be the dominant solution when it goes stable. That makes me want to use Ember Data, you know, it feels like "the whole stack". But I can't now :)

Angular has nothing like ED. There is $resource, which is basically a wrapper around $http to provide some sugar. Not really extensible. But it works. The thing with angular is that the change tracking is transparent, so any simple javascript object / array is fine as a model. That makes it bearable to work with an inferior data library.
SEEKING WORK - New York City / USA

A decent amount of info is on my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=20084&trk=tab_pro

email on LinkedIn: lawrence@krubner.com

Short summary:

In the mid 90s, helped with Mac office automation with Applescript, then got into Perl, then PHP. Starting in 2000, worked with PHP/MySql/Javascript for several years, created a CMS, and with 2 friends, started a business to commercialize CMS/blog software, competing with TypePad. Closed down in 2006, but continued to work with same friends, built video sites such as http://www.ihanuman.com/store.php . Lead team including Flash programmer, designer, QA, sysadmin, etc.

Also worked at catalog company and used the new Adobe API to use Javascript to automate Photoshop/InDesign workflow. Wrote a short book about the API: http://www.cafepress.com/adobescripting . For awhile taught classes to aspiring designers about the API.

Used Ruby/Rails for projects in 2006 and 2011 and 2013.

Used PHP/Symfony framework for most projects from 2008 to 2011.

Launched http://www.wpquestions.com/ .

Have mostly worked with Clojure for the last year.

I am devoting this autumn to working on my own website, so I am not available for full time work. If you have a specific project you'd like me to tackle, I'd be happy to help, especially if it will likely take less than a month.
PageHub - London UK. Local only right now.

Hiring for 2 positions...

Lead Django Engineer & Frontend backbone/d3.js dev - We are looking for devs to join us working on a totally new product displaying real time customer insights. We have recently been funded and will be making a lot of hires over the coming months so you will be joining early in our history!

More details on StackOverflow http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/employer/jobs/49125/list... or drop me a email at james@pagehub.co.uk if you're interested!
"Long scale planning certainly is a strength of a government, because in theory in means funding can be coerced from citizens and invested into projects that they wouldn't normally choose of their free will via the marketplace -- but they often simply don't invest in good long term projects."

As we human beings live in a complex system such as country. The old fashioned "long term planning and executing accordingly" in the long run actually does way more harm. Misallocating resources, killing the possibilities each individual could bring to the system, killing the necessary environment for more diversified individuals to grow up from infants... If taking the similarity to animals' as a spectrum (no offense). A low level trait means things like food needs, shelter to live. A high level trait means the things people created such as art, tech... What I believe may be wrong, but I think as humans, the high level traits are the ultimate things we are looking for. Bringing in more possibilities and catalyze some of them might be a good way.
I would really like to see this for a city like NYC or SF.
Thats really not true - its quite possible to build an editor for MOAI .. in fact, I would wager that it'll be easier to build an editor for MOAI now, than it was to build the environment for Unity...
This comparison is probably nonsensical. Still, I think the part of the zeitgeist it's coming from is interesting.

No matter how rich we get as a society, very little of that wealth seems to be expressed as more leisure time. This is true comparing different decades (We got richer, still work lots) and its true comparing professions/socio economic classes (highly paid engineers & lawyers work just as much as call centre employees).

It is IMO, a failure. Its also very hard for an individual near the median to break out of it without being somewhat of an extremist.
The "state" also has access to FAR more assets than any single company ever will. The "state" can very easily define what IS the economy itself unlike a business which is dependent on whatever the economic architecture of the "state" is.

The reason why a lot of shit is invented by the "state" is because they can very easily justify doing whatever they want either via big budgets or big guns. Various "states" have chosen various justification routes in history.

When you look at the "state" as the largest and most powerful business in the land you will realize why they try to hog up "innovation" or at least control it.
Couldn't help thinking about this:

﻿﻿http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging
The K1000... the workhorse entry level SLR. Popular in High School photojournalism classes everywhere at that time. Also my first "real" camera. Entirely manual but also brilliantly simple... to set the aperture you simply center the needle in the viewfinder, feedback on over/underexposure was instant and intuitive.
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It always amazes me how these people are always ready to extract money out of other people's pockets by force, essentially, to finance their equality and poverty elimination ideas. Why at least one of them wouldn't just commit to making a billion dollar himself by building some useful business and then give it all away to prove his point? Why does it always have to be somebody else, who's paying?
SEEKING WORK - Jacksonville, FL / Remote

Web Developer / Consultant

I'm an avid reader and I love reading about startups. I understand that you're hiring me to generate business results and all of my decisions are made with your business goals in mind. I can build your MVP or build upon it if you're past that stage (congratulations!).

Email me and we can figure out how I can help your business succeed.

* My email (let's talk about your project): mail@robert.io

* My blog (read about my projects): http://robert.io

* My Twitter (less productive tidbits from me): https://twitter.com/__rlp

I've been developing for the web for five years. I'm currently writing a book on web development with Python's Flask framework [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1223051718/practical-fla...].
Also, record keeping from that era isn't perfect - Reddit found that many old churches from ~ 1300 are labeled as 1600 or 1950, that being the date of the last extension or modification.
Obviously the suggestion is stupid as both the rebels and the Syrian forces have mutual enemies that they both would use chemical weapons on.

I don't think Israel will allow an enemy guerrilla army from being armed with chemical weapons.

The real issue here is that Russia has vowed to protecting the Assad regime. This conflict is ultimately a proxy war.

The real question I have is why Russia is protecting Assad? Is it just a question of support what in their eyes is the lesser of two evils or is it a case of RDF?
You can't just assume that a valid database connection will remain valid the entire time you're using it. The network or server is free to go down at any time. In practice, this rarely happens, it's an exceptional condition. Exceptions are the best way to model these kind of errors.
Enigma.io - New York, NY

Looking for candidates with especially strong Graph database/theory/processing experience.

jobs@enigma.io
Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Wrong about the IC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_cir...

Wrong about the television, both black/white and color.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electroni...

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevisi...

Wrong about radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#Start_of_the_2...

And you're just being disingenuous about the assembly line. it's widely known that Henry Ford modernized the assembly line for manufacturing purposes. And while we're talking about inventions, let's not forget to mention the automobile, which, like most other inventions (including all of the ones in this post), was incrementally invented by many people with very little or no help or influence from the government.

Finally, for being disingenuous and outright lying as well as for insulting me unprovoked, I declare you to be a first-class asshole.
> a) no country has ever tried it, really, so there isn't a real-world experience case to look at yet,

Brazil is trying, it's called "Bolsa Família". It's an attempt to assure a minimum base income, stop child labor and develop the economy on places far away from the big centers. It works by putting money directly into the hands of poor families and letting they decide how to use it, as opposed to more specific welfare programs.

I guess that's as close as you can get to socialism, and there's a lot of controversy surrounding it, since brazilian government is provenly corrupt.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia
Because oil isn't valuable to society while internet advertising is very valuable.
You realize that most of the time, when you're hiring someone to clean houses, that most of the money is going to an agency that has overhead, right? Who is answering the calls to set up the appointments? Who is paying for the cleaning materials?

That cleaner is likely making close to 15-20 an hour.
Me 'learning to use my vote' seems a rather long term solution to the very immediate problem that is at subject here.
* SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits

* SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME

* SF - Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits

I mentioned a couple months ago that we have a couple engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235860

We're looking to hire a couple more engineers who are interested in being part of a team but would prefer to work 24-40 hours per week instead of the usual 50+. We're also looking to hire someone full-time (40ish hours per week). If this sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

=========

About us:

The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps colleges and universities transform themselves so that they a) embrace the power of transparency and the internet, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make approximately the same profit margin from course material sales.

About 300 colleges and universities use our applications to acquire low-cost inventory and price textbooks competitively. Then millions of students visit our white-labeled sites to transparently compare the bookstore's offers against online competitors, and around 80% of students choose to buy from their local bookstore.

We're looking for people familiar with some of Ruby, Rails, Clojure, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We have a great team, embrace new technologies (we just switched to Puma, we're moving to the JVM so we can use Netflix's Hystrix project to reduce API-related downtime), but also care a lot about producing and maintaining a stable, solid product for our customers.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end. Additional pluses are a stats background, experience with Hadoop and knowledge of scheduling algorithms.

You can check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) to read about our current products and hear people say nice things about us. :)
There are debug pins exposed on the standard iOS connector, yes - they may not be 'full JTAG' but they are there for manufacturing and testing purposes, and accomplish pretty much the same thing as you would normally use JTAG.

And yes, you can do a full block copy - with the cooperation of the OS - if you know the back door. A lot of these Border Patrol devices depend on it.
Thanks for attacking my character rather than my argument.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=living+on+%2430+per+week+food+budget

That's 1.6 million hits. Obviously not all of them are about a precise $30/week food budget but plenty are. The idea that "one wing nut posts a web page about it" is blatantly false.

Did you even read the article? The lady espouses savings and thrift and the notion of building up a budget buffer so that when good deals come along that you can afford to take advantage of them. That means getting more than $30 worth of food per week while still only spending $30 on average.

Just because you can't imagine how it's possible to eat well on $30 per week doesn't mean it is impossible. It probably means that you've never had any reason at all to try and thus no idea about the feasibility. I can't say that I blame you for not trying; it's clearly a waste of your time. But it is doable.
I've made directionally similar statements on more occasions than I can remember, so I'd have difficulty giving you a particular link unless you had a more specific claim or anecdote that I was referencing.
subsidies of any kind won't help an already failing economy.
I was going to email you, but I feel that it would be beneficial to other job seekers if I posted here instead. This is a rather vague listing, and I don't think there's any way I would apply without a few key questions being answered.

• Can you be any more specific about the nature of your target market? If not, what prevents you from discussing it?

• How can I verify that the company is "highly experienced in its target market and ... has a proven track record of success", given the absence of a website or any discernable press?

• When you say that you're "building a flourishing and lucrative business" and that your "results driven team ... build[s] successful products", is this a reflection of the company's actual status or just its hopes?

If you actually value "clear and effective communication", you might consider a full rewrite of this job posting with honest details.
Even if it does sink quickly I still got quite a few inquiries when I put up a job a few months ago. I expect actual job seekers know the post is coming and look for it regardless of whether its on the first page or not.

[edit] Also for what its worth, the quality of the people that reached out via HackerNews was a lot better than I got else where (I even ran an add on reddit's /r/linux)
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SMSgrupp, Stockholm, Sweden, Remote/Relocate
Lead iPhone developer and Lead Android developer

SMSgrupp is a free tool for group communication that works on all mobile phones, regardless of model or age. It is used by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people sending millions and millions of messages. Increasingly, those message are being sent from smartphones, and your job will be to make sure that our messaging app competes with the very best. We are now rebuilding from the very start and want you in from the beginning. You will be the one who leads this effort in close collaboration with our backend engineers, operations team, and designers.

The main quality we’d like to see in a candidate is simply the ability to ship solid code. And enjoy doing it. If you have iPhone apps in the app store, and a proven track record of delivering quality code on tight deadlines, that counts for more than any number of impressive degrees.

Since it's a lead developer we are looking for we will expect you to want to be working full time together with us in our office Stockholm.

We look for:
Solid knowledge of tools and language (Objective-C, iPhone/iPad SDK, Cocoa etc or Java, Android SDK etc respectively)
Strong understanding of software engineering principles and object-oriented concepts.
Pride in writing simple and beautiful code.
Product sensibility and understanding of interaction design.
Solid understanding of database concepts and experience with SQLite.
Understanding of computer security (authentication, basic cryptography, networking principles).
Not scared of saying “I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll learn”.
English speaking and writing skills (Swedish is a plus but not needed).
A sense of humor and a light heart.

About us
When the 2010 edition of the Stockholm "24 Hour Business Camp" started SMSgrupp was still just an idea. A simple but innovative idea: Why not use SMS, a channel that almost everyone has access to for many-to-many communication and thereby cover the need for people to communicate in a group? Now we are expanding our operations across three continents and growing quickly. Given that we five devs in the team you will be a critical part to our operation :).

Our new offices are situated near the water in central Stockholm, at Götgatan just beside Slussen.

If this piques your interest, drop us a mail and say hi at jobs at smsgrupp dot se. We would love to hear from you!
SEEKING WORK - Brooklyn/NYC - Remote or Local - Part Time Ideally

I am a Ruby and Javascript developer. The majority of my experience has been with Rails but I've played around with or done small projects in other frameworks such as Sinatra, Backbone, Ember and Node. My Rails experience has been of the "full stack" variety which for me has meant writing Ruby code as well as front end code in JS/Coffeescript, jQuery, HAML, & CSS/SCSS. I've also handled some ops responsibilities utilizing Heroku and AWS but I don't really think of myself as a DevOps guy, more of a developer that has worked on small teams and worn many hats. In addition to the straightforward code side of things, I do my best to bring a passion for learning and good craftsmanship to the projects I work on.

What I'm reading right now: Coffeescript Ristretto by Reginald Braithwaite, An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus, Designing Design by Kenya Hara, N+1 Issue 17

https://github.com/ritchiea

http://andrewritchie.info

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-ritchie/2a/b90/968
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (Austin, Texas based) - PHP

I'm looking for a freelancer to build a long term relationship with. I often have various different projects and need a steady and reliable developer to work with.

Currently looking for a lead PHP developer to help build the backend of an initial MVP of a SAAS web application. I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has a high level of PHP knowledge (particularly interested in the symfony2 framework) and has worked on other web app / SAAS projects before.

If this sounds like you, lets chat... Email: Bryan [at] quotepress [dot] com