skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inkling Markets - Software Engineer - Chicago, IL

ABOUT US

Inkling (http://inklingmarkets.com) is changing how decision-making works inside companies and government agencies using crowdsourced forecasting tools like prediction markets, opinion polls, and crowdfunding.

We’ve helped Ford and GM develop ideas for the future of American-made cars. We enable the US Government to plan for the future by forecasting world events. We’re even trying to prevent the Zombie Apocalypse - seriously, ask us about it.

We are a small, but profitable and growing YC company. We have thrived based on demand from our clients and haven’t had to take outside investment.

THE JOB

We’ve got a lot going on here at Inkling. We’re adding a ton of exciting new features to our flagship platform that our clients are going to love. We are expanding our mobile capabilities - which means continuing to improve our iOS app, developing an Android app, and making our HTML/CSS more mobile friendly. We’re also developing a line of new products from the ground up to meet the evolving needs of our clients and to expand into new markets.

We’re looking for a well-rounded developer to join our team and help us grow. You’ll have the opportunity to work in many areas - with different technologies, on different products, and for multiple clients.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Above all else, we’re looking for smart people who have a passion for what they do and are excited about learning new things. Specifically, you’ll need:

* Real-world experience building non-trivial web applications

* Value teamwork and collaboration - we’re a small team and work very collaboratively

* You have opinions about UI/UX design

* You know your way around a Unix shell

Bonuses:

* Rails experience. If you haven’t used Rails, you’ll need a willingness and capability to learn fast

* You have experience interacting with clients

* Front-end development skills, Javascript, HTML/CSS

* Mobile (iOS or Android)

COMPENSATION

* A competitive base salary

* Revenue sharing

* Healthcare stipend if needed

* Training, tutorial, and books budget

* Attend a conference of your choice annually on us

* New laptop of your choice

* An opportunity to be a crucial member of the team. You’ll play a part in steering the direction of our products. You won’t be a cog in a wheel.

HOW TO APPLY

Send an email to jobs@inklingmarkets.com with whatever you think best represents you: your github repo, a blog you write, a resume, a portfolio, code samples, etc.
Trying to match for multiple locations might have resulted in more false positives (eg: a job listing mentioning they received funding from someone in SF). In any case, I felt it made sense to show only one data point per post.

Thanks for sharing Curated HN Hiring, it looks really good. I'll cross-verify the data sometime later today.

Edit: Wrote a quick and dirty script to match the locations. I noticed 4 wrong matches, the rest matched up.
Washington Post closes sale to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
what relations does a relational db not help with? (i thought they were basically an implementation of the relational model).
it washes up on the shores of Null Island http://www.nullisland.com
What's wrong with the mobile scrolling on that site. The article is unreadable.
Location: Atlanta, GA

Company: Experience ( http://www.expapp.com/ )

Looking for devs of all shapes and sizes.

We are a small group of sports / music fans that believe live events should be more fun. Our product lets teams offer unique experiential upgrades and also unused or unsold seats as in venue upgrades. It's better for fans, better for teams, and both love our current product. We are a well-funded and passionate startup, looking for a few devs to help us grow and change the industry.

Some technologies we use: Groovy/Grails, PostgreSql, redis, BackboneJS, etc. Experience with any of these is not required. We believe a good dev can pick up tools as necessary. We move fast, and we love new challenges and finding the right solution for them.

Contact me directly at: matt [at] expapp.com
as someone learning iOS development - thank you
Google Launches Analytics Academy.
The joke being that Docker requires LXC and aufs, which means you are stuck running Ubuntu for now. Fedora is soon going to announce Docker support when 0.7 is released.

For now if you want to run docker on your Mac, the best bet is to use Vagrant + virtualbox (or fusion if you have the provider). This means you have to run another VM to run docker which defeats the purpose of the suggestion of running Docker, so you don't have to run another VM instance.
Great job! I have always been curious about which HN Hiring posts were in my general area (Washington DC) and only got exact matches when doing a simple Ctrl+F. This map shows a few companies just outside the city in NOVA (northern Virginia), Maryland, and the like.
When writing technically you need to be specific and redundant.
Opbeat - Copenhagen, Denmark

Build the devops platform you've always needed. Come help us make life better for application developers.

These are positions that are especially important to us at the moment:

* Devops champ: Looking for a person that could help us scale out and manage a lot of servers in an efficient and reliable way as well as optimize workflows for our devs.

* Developer: We're looking for engineers with a keen sense of quality and experience in building modern web-based platforms.

* Designer: We're looking for a great web designer with focus on functionality and UX. SaaS experience is a big plus.

Our goto language is Python, but are we're also in to Ruby, Go seasoned with PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

Contact me directly: ron@opbeat.com
Animated gifs would today work. What if the camera focused on something behind you first and then the face? Would that bypass a 2D method?
I read only non-fiction and sometimes I have to read through 20-40% of the book to decide whether I want to finish it. I think many people do same with fiction(especially fan-fiction). So there's niche for these people too. Many of these people are also bad at finishing books and such services will unfortunately encourage this behavior!
Raw: the missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics
This is awful. Scribd is not the answer. So I guess nothing to see here, moving along.
UserVoice is looking to hire a Sales Development Representative.

More info here: https://www.uservoice.com/jobs/

If interested you can reach out to me directly (recommended) at Amar@UserVoice.com or submit an application online.

You'd be the 4th person on a fast growing sales team with an established company (6 years) and proven market fit. We just developed the sales process a little bit more than previously and you'd still have the chance to help shape it as we grow. You'd also be the only SDR and in line to move up to account manager very quickly as we hire.
As an aside: anytime I read anything from asymco, I feel much smarter, and much dumber, all at the same time.
It was a personal argument but it was aimed at a lack of perspective, and not knowing what he doesn't know (a chronic failing of youth, and I'm young myself), rather than an attempt to insult him for it's own sake. As you're hinting at, rather than being upset at me calling him 'some kid', maybe he should wonder why his age is so easy to peg.

He didn't seem to grasp why working with streams of bytes is important in this context, and why extremely spotty/inconsistent support for it is not sufficient. If he had a broader base of experience, or if he was inclined to listen to those who have such experience, maybe he'd get it.
Well, it's possible that the fence they sell the phones to would be motivated to find an exploit.
Yes, this seems pretty much what the author wants to implement. It's also worthwhile to have a look at the paper describing Shazam's original algorithm (http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf).

It's interesting (but not surprising) to see that there are many parallels among popular algorithms in computer vision and computer audio.
Does anyone know of an open-source/forkable alternative that comes close to matching the functionality here? Not necessarily the searching piece, just the note management and content editing screens. I've seen a number of them fly by on HN over the past several months, but didn't capture any of the links.
"Reasons that don't necessarily apply to me," while fair, do not fall under "hype."
Configuring Chrome User Profiles
You see two different classes of responses because there's two different use cases.

There's security that geeks advocate for ourselves and our own implementations (often things we only have to set up and maintain infrequently) and then there's security that normals actually use (often things they have to authenticate with several times a day).

And I must have missed it, if anyone's been arguing this is a serious security mechanism. As far as I've seen, it's been lauded as (not much) better than a passcode, but, primarily, convenient enough to get people to use it instead of nothing, bringing up the relative security of a still-fairly-insecure bunch.

And you may want to re-read the discussion over the faked-print attacks. It isn't about (im)possibility. It's about the time, expertise and equipment involved and the likelihood of success being too expensive to be worthwhile for gaining access to most phones. [1]

And if we're wearing our "serious" security hats, I still don't see any reason to worry too much about print faking, as its core assumption is a skilled attacker who has unfettered physical access to our device, unbeknownst to us and beyond our control. And at that point, the game is already over.

[1] CCC themselves, with ideal source prints, had to significantly complicate their process to generate fakes that worked with a suitable consistency. So even if you think suitable source prints grow on trees, the point of significant skill, equipment, time and resources remains.
Yep, I'm well aware. I found my job through it and I have references hired through it as well. I just haven't seen them anymore -> maybe bumped off the front page too quickly?
In this argument we are trying to find a balance between convenience and security - - but it's not possible. Anything that is easy for me to do to unlock a phone can be faked and/or hacked.

I'd rather just have an NFC chip hidden on my body that I had to tap the phone on before entering a numeric value on a randomized keypad.
In my case, what bothered me was when I accidentally opened up the various side bars. Usually on Android, I'd just hit the universal back button to go back to where I was (text input, not the menu screen). Since pretty much everything works this way, it's reflex. So it was odd when I hit the back button and returned to HN.
Have you tried Dave Winer's Fargo? http://fargo.io
Location filter is based on what's returned by the Google Geocoding API. United States is stored as USA. Europe's a continent, so it's not there but you can use a regex like, "Germany|Netherlands"
Yeah. This is why I don't want to give them _specifically_, the benefit of the doubt.
It's the same on desktop, and I think it's because it links to the print copy, which has completely broke scrolling/keys functionality. The paged copy is fine however, and I'd like to think this is not deliberate.
Forcing someone to put their finger on a phone is a matter of seconds. No matter how you put it, getting a password is harder and lengthier.
Is that really the best thing for a typical user to understand what they're getting? Shouldn't they get it the way the OS will treat an application under normal circumstances as that's what they'll see day to day.

As I said, I don't mind if they put it flat out for the benchmarking, so long as they do the same for the battery tests too.

looks at a mobile phone with a 2 hour battery life
I think the article addresses your point nicely. People reportedly see bigfoot everywhere, all the time. For so many citings, we really should have an abundance of physical evidence, but we just don't.

Giant squid citings however are rare. The infrequent discovery of physical evidence is therefore not particularly troubling. (And before we found any credible physical evidence, the lack of physical evidence was still less troubling than the lack of physical evidence for bigfoot).

(Also not covered by the article: Thanks to sperm whales, who eat the things and sport scars from fights with them, we've actually had credible physical evidence of giant squid for quite some time. As far as I can tell nobody was mistaking these things for abnormally large regular squid since at least the 19th century, and people have been finding credible intact (although dead) specimens of them since about that same time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_a...

"Steenstrup wrote a number of papers on giant squid in the 1850s. He first used the term "Architeuthus" (this was the spelling he chose) in a paper in 1857. A portion of a giant squid was secured by the French gunboat Alecton in 1861, leading to wider recognition of the genus in the scientific community. From 1870 to 1880, many squid were stranded on the shores of Newfoundland. For example, a specimen washed ashore in Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland on 2 November 1878; its mantle was reported to be 6.1 m (20 ft) long, with one tentacle 10.7 m (35 ft) long, and it was estimated as weighing 2.2 tonnes.[citation needed] In 1873, a squid "attacked" a minister and a young boy in a dory in Bell Island, Newfoundland. Many strandings also occurred in New Zealand during the late 19th century.")
I always think about it the other way around: given we have photoshop and similar tools, every bit of photographic and video evidence is suspect. Just look at a movie - if that's what we can do, how could anybody ever believe a photo or video of, say, aliens unless they were there themselves.
No. Many people are have a bias against distributed teams, especially in the case of startups, since they believe that it's harder to collaborate, and because they prefer the feeling or appearance that comes with having an office.
So what is the definition of "most successful startup" being used here? Is it historical? Is it just number of users, or acquisition price? It certainly can't be revenue if Tumblr is the king.

I know it's a small aside in the article but it always irks me how these type of labels get tossed around without any actual consideration by the tosser as to what it means.
They can accept the revenue from Google without compromising their integrity to the user.

If it wasn't Google then it'd be Microsoft. Doesn't really matter besides the fact that it helps them fund the development of their initiatives.
That's also done on Chrome for Android.
Show HN: Create a link to your email
http://www.email2link.com/
I didn't make it up... It was Microsoft's internally used phrase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

The irony I was pointing out is that while at one time, Microsoft's Windows ecosystem had a huge advantage in number and quality of apps, now they are the ones relying on the web to fill in gaps where 3rd party software exists on other platforms but has not been written for their minority OS.

Sorry to have offended you.
Not nerd-bait...really you bring up some good points.
It was still the best typing experience I ever had on a phone.
With BYOD, I can't imagine a enterprise-only RIM being successful in the long term as iOS and android move into the enterprise space.
"Yeah, so, it turns out that charging for something prevents its overuse."

'WOW! REALLY?'
Car blows up MUST WATCH
Ha! And it's the right that's accused of "epistemic closure"!

I'm sorry it bothers you I'm having a little fun while hn slides into Eternal September. But I'm old enough to remember these same arguments 17 years ago, and believe you me, Republicans were still obstructionist jerks when the whitest white guy who ever played a saxophone was president.

It's somewhat amusing. Presumably you were not a fan of the last president's Manichean streak. Yet here you are, describing the folks your neighbors vote for in stark, black-and-white terms.
My two favorite parts of this article: the author lives in New York and "Don’t let people merge in front of you, ever." Now I understand New York drivers!
> We did eventually get bodies, but only fairly recently.

While living giant squid have only been filmed recently, their bodies have been washing ashore and studied for over a hundred years.

>It wasn't really until the 2000's and a live specimen was discovered that it was generally accepted that these things were real.

Not true. Many dead giant squids have been caught in fishing nets or have washed ashore and have been studied by scientists or even put on display in museums for years. Additionally, scars from giant squid suckers are common on certain whales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_a...
Hmm, I guess I've been using that term incorrectly to describe fixed substitution ciphers. It's been a few decades since I learned this stuff.

It's effective at preventing a simple copy/paste or "view source" but ineffective against an adversary of any sophistication.

I've seen this used in PDF files before. There, if you have a pristine copy of the embedded font, you can just look up a copy of the character program to find the original value. But it's effective against naive pdf to text or pdf to html services.

Then again, you could just ocr the rendered text, so I guess the obfuscation technique only has to be as effective as rendering the text as a bitmap.
Bookmarks bar is hidden by default. Don't complain about your own customization.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/?utm_source=firefox...
> People would rightly find it outrageous if a woman sold her company and all the media could comment on was her clothes.

Half the Melissa Mayer pieces I read, spend a great deal o the article talking about her fashion sense. No only do people not mind it seems like it's a prerequisite for writing an article about her.
To be fair, people comment on plenty besides Karp's wardrobe.
You have to say the same thing in several different ways. Everyone has their own ways of thinking and understanding so you must be as clear as possible and provide several ways to express the same idea. This will allow different readers to understand the same subject.
I think your response raises an issue of perspective. Are we focusing on fingerprint technology from a user's point of view - or are we considering its implications over many years?

This reminds me of certain U.S. Supreme Court decisions. As someone who's interested in constitutional law, I often find myself defending things that seem trivial and nitpicky. Why does it matter if the police enter one drug dealer's home without a proper warrant? Who cares if we restrict someone's speech, considering that the person was, say, a racist whose ideas were ignorant and offensive?

Of course, the content in this analogy is very different. I'm not comparing fingerprint scanners to crimes. But the logic is very similar: when judging law and technology, respectively, it's important to consider how seemingly small decisions serve as a precedents for bigger trends.

If fingerprint scanners become a common replacement for passwords, and the author's argument is correct, the scanners may dramatically change our security and expectations of privacy.
We used Clerky for something recently. They took a process that would have been complicated, costly, and fraught with anxiety in the past and made it near-effortless for a ridiculously low price—really a commoditized price. I can't imagine what challenges they must face figuring out how to scale that in the market, but the benefit to customers is so huge that if they pull it off it will be the rare thing that deserves the term "disruptive". You might want to check whether they offer what you need.
Tumblr's not a startup anymore either!
I am totally on-board with what you're saying, I guess I just don't buy into the idea that school != connected to the real world. I think the idea that everyone in academia is being philosophical and scholarly without contact with the real world is just wrong. There are plenty of practical skills that you can learn through school. Given the general anti-school sentiment I tend to come across in HN discussions, it might just be that I'm the odd one out when it comes to thinking that going to (grad) school is not at odds with gaining exposure to working with real world data.
Google Chrome 30 Release
Yes! We have persona support in a feature-branch, it just didn't get merged/integrated, yet.
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Ah. Could I persuade you to enter some examples in the input field as a `placeholder=` attribute such as

placeholder="USA, Germany|Netherlands"
Rsync 3.1.0 Release
That's funny... Of the co-inventors of TCP one works for Google (Vint Cerf,is 70) and Bob Kahn is 74 years old.
Entrepreneurs: How High Should Your Gross Profit Margin Be?
Shirts.io - https://www.shirts.io - Berkeley, CA

Shirts.io is a t-shirt printing and fulfillment company that makes it easy to sell t-shirts online. We work with startups, Youtube celebrities, and some of the largest t-shirt retailers.

We have the following openings:

* Front-end Developer
* Python/Django Developer

To apply, please email raymond@shirts.io
"Individuals make catastrophically bad decisions that the collective can avoid" is a perfectly reasonable lesson to learn from it. Another reasonable lesson is how easily money corrupts people. For want of $75, supposed "firefighters" already on-scene would not even turn their hoses a few inches. I don't know how they sleep at night.
FYI I use Solr cloud for that purpose.
SocialWire - Full-Stack Engineer - San Francisco, CA

Online ads suck. But advertising keeps the web free (as in beer), and we want to keep the internet free. So rather than hating on advertising, we decided to do something about it.

At SocialWire, we are taking a new approach to advertising: building a recommendation engine for ads. Our system generates product-level ads and hyper-targets them to exactly the right audience. We do this at scale and automatically across a retailer's entire catalog. We want our ads to be so good that people discover interesting products through them, and find them to actually be useful.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer to join our small and talented team. As our fifth engineer, you'll have the opportunity to work on and shape all aspects of our product, from backend Python services to slick dashboard features in JavaScript. We work at the intersection of distributed machine learning and data warehousing, we like to experiment and take risks, and our engineers choose what they build. Most features are live in production just hours after they're completed. We push early and often (with testing and code review!). We ask tough questions. We get shit done.

Super sharp team, early stage company, awesome investors, huge opportunity, beautiful office, and interesting engineering/research challenges. Come join us!

If interested, drop me a line at stefan@socialwire.com