skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this may be great (I haven't looked) the comments that appear here look really suspicious. Of the four accounts who have commented, three (cursivedgreat, darkyen, and theanirudh) were each created within a day of each other, just after Pixtr (previous app from this developer) was announced on HN [0].

The only one of those which has had any other activity then this post (theanirudh) was used to discuss Pixtr (eg [1]).

I'd be glad to be wrong on this, the comments just seemed really suspicious (all talking about how 'clean' the app is) so I had a look at the posters, and was not too surprised.

[EDIT]

A fourth account created at the same time as the others (eshwarramesh) has weighed in, also without any other contributions to HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791675

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791929
For clarification, Note 3 means Samsung Galaxy Note 3, not the name of a company that produces a benchmark (which was my first thought).

Samsung is at it again. Doesn't matter if it's already a fantastic device, they still pull this kind of stuff.
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading strategies and infrastructure. We are a very small team (I am the only employee) and want to add one or two engineers who will focus on strategy and/or on infrastructure. No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

An example of an infrastructure project is designing and building a system for logging to non-volatile memory. We generate large logs that cover everything from prices to transaction data. NVDIMMs are a form of RAM that survives power loss, and such hardware has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters. Writes to NVDIMMs will be nearly instantaneous and immediately durable. This project will be to develop an NVDIMM-based system that simultaneously functions as a log, an IPC mechanism, and a searchable database for analysis. Making this work will involve a number of pieces: kernel drivers, CPU cache control, lock-free synchronization, a daemon to write everything back to long-term (i.e. less expensive) storage, and more. If this works well, we plan to open-source all the pieces.

Please visit http://amacapital.net/careers.html to learn more, and, if interested, apply to careers@amacapital.net.
I did an experiment when I was in my early twenties: I went to bed when tired and got up when I woke up. My time awake shifted an hour or two every day, soon moving my sleep time to fall squarely during day time. I functioned just fine with this schedule but the bad thing about it was it shifted me out of my social life - hard to keep that going when you are asleep when your friends are awake and vice versa.
Ask HN: Startup School — is it worth it?
I've been invited to Startup School. However, given I'm in the UK, it will likely cost a total of about £1000 to attend (if frugal). That is to say, flights; AirBnb; travel when there; sustenance. Also as a freelancer (building a product on the side), I will miss out on ~4 days paid work. Incidentally, I also have a weekend trip booked for those dates that would have to be discarded (flights are booked and non-refundable so that's an extra £200 down).

Is Startup School worth the cost? I would love to see the speakers and meet like-minded folk, as well as seeing Cupertino and hopefully spending a day or two in SF. But it's a lot of expense.

Thanks.
I first thought It was some kind of map of open governments around the world...nope, just a meme. Isn't The Facebook the place for this type of material? (maybe the code was written using Butterflies, so that would be interesting).
They are legal. Dextro-amphetamine and mixed amphetamine salts are widely prescribed for ADD.
Your birth certificate isn't proof of citizenship. You can have your citizenship revoked, or you can be born to traveling parents in a country that doesn't automatically recognise such births as citizens.

I wouldn't really say that passports are a very recent thing in the history of travel, since passports predate mass travel. The expansion of rail in 19th century Europe made enforcing passport requirements much more difficult. But even before passports, people would travel with letters of recommendation or other such papers to indicate who they were. While the document called a 'passport' has only been with us for a couple of centuries, the concept has been around for ages.

And while you can theoretically travel without a passport, don't expect an expedient process on arrival. Lack of a passport is not a trivial thing.
JavaScript Allongé is free
'I reported major Yahoo security vulnerability and all I got was lousy T-shirt'
Are You Watching This?!
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I'm the mirror image of your father. I take my CentOS laptop into work where we have a Windows 7 network. I use a remote desktop session to access all the 'business applications' and I can have my own 'stuff' running behind the remote desktop window.

IT support don't want to put LibreOffice on the desktops in case it confuses users being similar but different to MS Office.
I hope you figure out a way to ensure that service doesn't also shutdown. Just because you pay for it, doesn't make it invincible.

I think you're mad at SaaS, not Google. I don't see the shutting down a CORE offering anytime soon.
Eponym (New York, NY, USA)
http://www.eponymous.co

We're an eyewear company looking for engineers to help architect and build our API, which powers eyeglass orders for fashion brands.

Our stack is Python (Flask) and MongoDB. Including bits of Celery, nginx, and uwsgi. We do a lot of integration with the UPS (in fact, we maintain an open-source UPS library [1]).

We're building our API and internal dashboards (which we use heavily to process orders, eyewear prescriptions, customer information, gift cards, etc.)

We white-label eyewear for other fashion brands; Classic Specs and Steven Alan are some of our brands. Email me! jay@classicspecs.com

[1] https://github.com/classicspecs/ClassicUPS
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I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx.

I have considerable experience with Ruby and Javascript, years of experience with Rails, and extensive knowledge of client-side MVC. I've made contributions to Ember.js, and have written multiple 10k+ LOC apps - starting with 0.9 up to the latest 1.0 (one was recently featured on Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/uniiverse-releases-direct-...). I am acutely aware of the challenges/strategies associated with migrating server side architecture into the browser, leaning down views, and fattening up controllers.

I am the author of an open source project called Quantify (https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify) - a Rails API to track "quantified self" data from every manufacturer willing to give it up. My work here was featured on The Verge alongside a similar project by the founder of Foursquare (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4392996/fitness-tracker-dat...)

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Frontend: Javascript, Coffeescript, Sass, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3

Other tools in the box: Git, Zsh

Design: Pencils, pens, paper, Photoshop

Contact is in my profile.
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Ideally someone who is studying a business related career and wants to put a few hours in a month to talk with existing customers, interview prospective customers and sell.

Please let me know at sebastian <dot> wain <at> the first domain in my HN profile.
I can't understand the issue here. If you are using a benchmarking app or a game that's heavy on the cpu, these same optimizations would kick in. So you will cry for the speed of the device while crying for the battery juice draining.

What is the issue here?
This is an awesome company with a great product.
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> because most well-written software will allocate large chunks of memory.

The average string length in most programs is about 5 to 10 bytes. Plenty of well written software works with strings like that.
I think they are suspicious just because they are positive comments, and this is HN.
Their site says 105 First Street, so East Cambridge (MIT end)
and the only thing they could come up with was that the system flagged me because I was travelling to England with no onward ticket

This is quite likely the issue. The UK are an extreme stickler in this regard.

When you fly from Zurich, you need to show your passport to leave the Schengen part of the airport and in addition there are strict controls at the gates for UK bound flights, where your id is checked again.

Contrast this to flights within the Schengen room, where you scan your boarding pass (mobile, home printed, or airline issued) at a couple of automatic gates and you're in the plane. No id at all required.

From what I've read it's more and more the case that countries use airlines as cops to deny entry at the point of origin. If somebody with invalid travel documents, or missing visa gets onto the flight the airline can be heavily fined.
Would they actually, though? If these optimizations would kick in, why does Samsung feel the need to force the optimizations to kick in for specific apps, rather than via CPU usage like any other game/app?
Falcon 9 v1.1 Sepetember 29 Flight Footage
> Waterloo station in London and our HQ is in Windsor

I caught this phrase out of the corner of my eye, and for a second thought that it was in southern Ontario.
At least for one simple question, I found that classic google search gives straight forward answers that Baraza.

The question I asked was: What is Tamil? (Tamil is a dravidian language spoken in the south of India).

Google search gives the right answer right on the top of the stack: http://tinyurl.com/pzyk3lx

Baraza does not: http://goo.gl/JJJMf6
Paper by 53 now lets you print books
Screenshot Plugin for Pivotal Tracker Released
Quantcast puts us at #54 in the US (haven’t managed to find the global rankings on their site). https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc
Microsoft Comic Chat Paper (August 4-9 1996)
SEEKING WORK

Ryan Toronto - New York City and Remote

I'm a consultant from NYC interested solving business problems with the right technologies and processes. I have 15 years of experience in a large number of spaces. I enjoy ideas and practices from Agile and Lean Startup. In the past I've co-founded a successful startup and lead small development teams.

Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node, PHP

Front End: Ember.JS, Backbone, jQuery, Bootstrap, Foundation, SCSS

Ops: AWS/EC2, Heroku, Apache, Nginx, Postgres, MySQL, Redis

Architecture: Full stack, API design, SOA

I'm available for both development and training.

Feel free to email me ryanto@gmail.com or visit my website for more information: http://codingvalue.com/
Luzern, Switzerland, on site
We are working on an exciting application for the sports industry.
We are looking for Computer Vision Developers as well as experienced C++ Developers to join our growing team. No remote work possible.
Requirements Computer Vision Developers:
•	Extensive C++ and OO design and development.
•	Knowledge of computer vision and computer graphics (e.g. camera calibration, tracking, segmentation, image processing, shader languages).
•	Ability to work constructively as part of a team, as well as autonomously without constant direction.
•	Fluency (oral and written) in English. No German required!!!
Experience with the following is a plus:
•	CUDA, openCV, Qt, Ffmpeg, SQL
•	Broadcast communication protocols, e.g. SDI

Requirements C++ developers:
•	Extensive C++ and OO design and development.
•	Experience with the Qt library
•	Ability to work constructively as part of a team, as well as autonomously without constant direction.
•	Fluency (oral and written) in English. No German required!!!
Experience with the following is a plus:
•	CUDA, Ffmpeg, SQL
•	Broadcast communication protocols, e.g. SDI

If you are located in Europe and are interested in a full time, open ended position in a fast developing company with a global offering for the sports industry please send your CV to lichtner1@hotmail.com.
Direct link: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
It appears, from the extracted code, to be the case that a 'special' (read: hardcoded) set of optimisations is being enabled solely for benchmarking apps.

Whilst 'smart' behaviour might enable the phone to switch on some such functionality when the SoC/CPU is put under heavy load (by something such as a game), the effect of such automated switching is unlikely to have anything like the effect of a hardcoded force-to-high-power-mode as shown here.
Parts of usenet were full of assholes. But parts of any ecosystem will be full of assholes.

Also, Wikipedia does not exist in a void. I would posit that more than half of Wikipedia's traffic comes from Google, the poster child for ad driven business in the Internet age.
Doah. For the record, I DID read the page, and even checked the foot notes.

I blame a restless puppy in bed last night and insufficient coffee this morning. ;-)
most people don't really think logically or quantitatively. whatever math people learned in high school and college was forgotten when trying to make adult decisions. and they didn't even get to the good stuff.

data science is successful now because they are applying quantitative methods to the social sciences -- problems most people think about. the average educated person can understand by using the magic of "machine learning" we can solve problems in politics, health, social issues, etc.

Nate Silver's lack of a math background works to his advantage. he realizes the bar for quantitative understanding in the public sphere is very low. whatever little bit he does, he has to explain to a room full of drunk people in 30 seconds or less. he is very good at this.

neither employers nor the public want to admit that at the end of the day SOMEONE has to be responsible for these calculations. i have a master's degree in math -- which nobody gave a hoot about (see item 5 in this article http://gigaom.com/2013/04/16/how-to-hire-data-scientists-and... ) we weren't taught how to communicate our ideas and results to the public -- in fact we were discouraged from it. that is difficult to unlearn.

i've heard of attempts to "democratize" machine learning.
http://blog.bigml.com/2013/03/06/democratizing-machine-learn...
articles like these are usually written by companies with a product or book to sell or distribute. what needs to be democratized is engineering based problem solving - using the powerful computers we hold in our pockets, our phones.
Banyan is seeking a full stack programmer to join our team. Were building the future of writing + git, and were doing it with ember.js, rails, and whatever else we need to get the job done. We're looking for a versatile engineer who wants to join the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges. We are based in Chattanooga, TN, but you can be anywhere.

You:

* Your excited about the future of Javascript, and you want to write lots of it (we use ember)

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize writing.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.
I can think of worse bands. Chumbawumba have a great reputation for stirring things up in a comedy fashion.

Oh and no twirking or whatever it is.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or NYC

DevOps engineer (Puppet, Chef, Ansible in particular) with over 10 years of full-stack experience (from bare metal provisioning to debugging Scala code). Scaling web applications, automation and config management are my main interests, along with the holy trinity of monitoring/backups/security.

Check out www.namecast.net for my own startup and ping me if you're looking for a consultant or a freelancer in the NYC area or to work remotely.
Manchester, UK. Skylab: http://www.studioskylab.com/ - Senior Developer & developers.

We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.

We work with technologies such as:

- HTML 5
- CSS 3 and SASS
- Responsive design
- Amazon Web Services
- Git
- Symfony 2
- Puppet
- Auto-scaling server infrastructures

Why you might want to work here:

Training — Dedicated time set aside to training; whether that’s self-teaching, online courses or attending conferences.
Collaboration — Fortnightly get-togethers to discuss new technologies and how we can push things forward; everyone’s opinion is important.
Money — We offer competitive salaries.
Apples — Everyone gets an iMac or MacBook Pro.
Apples — We provide free fruit for the team.

Roles available:

--- Senior developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects, mentoring the team, code reviews, helping set standards and getting involved in writing technical documents and proposals.

What we're looking for:

Experience -

- Development of commercial projects
- Mentoring and training of other team members
- Use of development patterns and processes such as MVC, dependency injection and TDD - Writing client-friendly technical documents

Technical skills -

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction:

PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, LAMP server administration, Continuous integration (Jenkins or similar), Automated deployments (Puppet or similar), Architecting scalable web infrastructures, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

--- Developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects.

What we're looking for:

Experience: Development of commercial projects

Technical skills:

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction - PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.
Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

We would love to hear from you so please contact us at careers[at]studioskylab.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred, onsite possible, based in Cologne, Germany

I do custom electronics (including firmware and control software), robotics, and mechanics, using 3d printing for rapid iterative hardware development. I can take an idea to a prototype in record time, and help you turn the prototype into a product or custom automation solution.

I also do custom workshops to teach you to build and use a 3d printer, and to do iterative mechanical design using one. I'll also happily teach electronic design and prototyping.

I have a very strong preference for open source work, and that is reflected in my rates. If you want to contact me, I can be reached on freenode IRC (name is Kliment, I am usually to be found in the #reprap channel) and by email using klimentat 0xfb.com (yes, that's a zero)
Why Homer Simpson doesn’t run product
Actually, I don't think the process of going from abstract to reality is that odd. The reason I say that is because I think understanding the abstract prepares you to be flexible. In terms of data science, the way I see this is that by experimenting without having a grounding in the algorithms, technologies etc. means that you can only really ever get good at the specific implementations you're working with. The abstract understanding is precisely what allows you to be versatile in adopting new technologies and seeing the implementation for what it is: one concrete version of the underlying abstract ideas.

There's nothing that says that formal education only prepares you to work with well-structured data. In fact, I think that in grad school you are challenged to work at the cutting edge almost all the time. Granted, a lot of classroom examples at the undergrad level are perhaps trivial, but my experience is that grad school doesn't by definition only serve to prep you with pointless examples.

> It's about finding meaningful information through experimentation with data and for that all you really need is a lot of experimentation, a creative mindset and the ability to extrapolate meaning and correlation out of seemingly uncorrelated data.

I totally agree, and I believe that school is not at odds with this. I'm working in the fields of planetary science and space engineering at the moment, and I am constantly stimulated to experiment with data, be creative and understand correlations.

Maybe for some reason my experience is just not a good 3-sigma example ...
Succinct explanation for why giving up liberty to fight is the wrong way
Luzern, Switzerland, on site
We are working on an exciting application for the sports industry. We are looking for Computer Vision Developers as well as experienced C++ Developers to join our growing team. No remote work possible.
Requirements computer vision developers:
•	Extensive C++ and OO design and development.
•	Knowledge of computer vision and computer graphics (e.g. camera calibration, tracking, segmentation, image processing, shader languages).
•	Ability to work constructively as part of a team, as well as autonomously without constant direction.
•	Fluency (oral and written) in English. No German required!!!
Experience with the following is a plus:
•	CUDA, openCV, Qt, Ffmpeg, SQL
•	Broadcast communication protocols, e.g. SDI

Requirements C++ developers:
•	Extensive C++ and OO design and development.
•	Experience with the Qt library
•	Ability to work constructively as part of a team, as well as autonomously without constant direction.
•	Fluency (oral and written) in English. No German required!!!
Experience with the following is a plus:
•	CUDA, Ffmpeg, SQL
•	Broadcast communication protocols, e.g. SDI

If you are located in Europe and are interested in a full time, open ended position in a fast developing company with a global offering for the sports industry please send your CV to lichtner1@hotmail.com.