skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things I disagree with / question:

* The comment includes, this leads to state, you now have to manage what you comment.

* Bool hides the data type.

* ++ vs +=... really?

* VLA usage is debatable.

* There are many more warnings that are useful
I think it sounds like a good idea. If you're not paying people, you shouldn't be allowed to ask them to work.
"We also have an over-classification problem. I don't condone what Ed Snowden did. He made a commitment to protect classified information. Breaking that commitment was wrong. However, he did bring to light this classification problem, which needs to be debated as a society. The problem with over-classification is you create an inherently closed system. Closed systems are prone to failure. In fact it's not just technology. Think of the political system. Closed totalitarian systems are inherently weaker than open egalitarian systems."

Anyone else seeing the contradiction here?
Any 'values' that apply only to a certain nationality aren't worth much anyway.
#!/bin/sh
for word in $(cat /etc/dictionaries-common/words);
do
echo A Netflix for $word;
done
I think the key idea here is transparency. There's nothing wrong with showing theoretical maximums, but be transparent about it!! Otherwise it looks like you're trying to get away with something .
I say this as a developer who uses ruby as my primary language - Can we just please cut it out with the coffeescript in these tutorials? It just adds another level of complexity on top of the tutorial. Everybody already knows javascript, just write your examples in that. Instead, in addition to absorbing the Angular portion of this tutorial, I also have to mentally translate everything from coffeescript to javascript, which makes learning this stuff harder.

Javascript is the lingua franca of frontend web development. Stick to that.
Www.Google.com/jsapi MIA
Codified Genomics - Houston TX
codifiedgenomics.com

The software you write at Codified will influence healthcare decisions for thousands of patients. We do clinical genomic variant analysis. We take exome sequence data and predict clinical outcome for the variants we observe in patients, which is then used by clinicians to inform diagnosis. To do this, we aggregate large amounts of additional data on individual genes and variants, and apply a series of proprietary algorithms.

We're growing our software engineering team. At Codified your responsibilities will be wide - you will probably end up touching every piece of software we write, with an emphasis on the user facing applications. We are currently using GWT and MySQL with some scripting in Python. Successful candidates will be productive with Java and comfortable working in a Linux environment.

We have a large number of interesting projects under active development, spanning natural language processing, machine learning, user interface design and of course sequence analysis.

A willingness to learn is more important to us than a Biology background, but the job will require you to learn the basics of the Biology that we're working with.

Preference will be shown to candidates in the Houston area.

Send resumes to codifiedgenomics@gmail.com
...and they thought they could get away with it.
Nirav, could you please reply to an email? At least when it is from a HN user. Thanks.

EDIT: I sent an email more than a month ago. Second one two weeks ago. No reply. So what's the problem? (asking to downvoters)
great idea. Can visitors post status updates? Would be cool to have Government employees posting what works and what not.

Used to work at Government projects and it is funny how many of the people who work there including PMs (high level) actually support the Tea Party. Including African American PMs. Once you see this mess from inside, it is impossible not to acknowledge it is a huge waste of money and total mess. As for me they can shut them down like forever.
READ THIS FIRST: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/a...
Nevermind, it's back...
well. You can't tell the server what to send, really.
Who we are:
http://www.intelligentreach.com

Intelligent Reach is a market leading on-line Digital marketing agency and technology vendor. Through direct client relationships with leading retailers such as Debenhams, House Of Fraser, Argos, Shop Direct, Carphone Warehouse, Halfords and through top media agency partnerships Intelligent Reach manages and optimises over £3bn in client revenue across Shopping Comparison, Affiliates, Marketplaces (eBay, Amazon and Play), Paid Search and Display channels. Intelligent Reach now has over 75 clients in the UK, US, Germany, France and Australia and is growing at a phenomenal rate.

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London (Victoria), UK | Full-time | .Net Web Developer (Full stack, with main focus on the front end.)

You will be joining a small(6) but highly productive development team. This will be a high impact role building out new features and enhancements to our platform. You will be reporting directly to the technical co founder while working alongside other developers and QA to deliver high quality work. Some benefits of working at Intelligent Reach are;

-Casual office environment

-Fresh fruit

-Unlimited Nespresso

-Flexi time

-Indoor football Fridays

What we use:

JavaScript | jQuery | HighCharts | TypeScript |
ASP MVC 4 | C# .Net 4.5 | MS SQL Server 2012| SSAS | SSIS | MS Testing Framework |
TFS 2012

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Applying:

When applying please put in the subject: Developer HN Oct 2013

developerjobs@intelligentreach.com

I am one of the developers you will be working with, so please feel free to contact me personally with any questions or to find out more about the role.
steve.ayers@intelligentreach.com
As a U.S. citizen, this is actually my biggest concern - this is all going to hurt us economically. Of course most people will think it is Snowden's fault for making it known, rather than the government's fault for doing it.
London, UK. Full time. Geckoboard
Ruby engineer needed to help architect, build, test and improve a young, fast moving and market defining web application with all the challenges that come with that.

You’ll be:

- Shipping code, solving interesting problems and making a difference

- Working with an innovative web application and platform helping thousands of businesses around the world

- Working in a small fast moving team to shape the future development of the application with input on key technical decisions

- Working in one of London's hottest startups (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/08/east-london-20-hot...)

Requirements:

- An ambitious and tenacious individual with a passion for hacking

- Eager to join a fast growing, well funded startup on an upward trajectory

- 1+ years’ experience with Rails (or similar advanced web framework).

- 2+ years’ experience with a dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (preferably Ruby or Python).

- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL

- Experience with at least one NoSQL datastore

- Test driven development experience

- Familiarity with DVCS (we use git).

- Able to work in London full-time

Nice to have:

- Open source contributions

- Backbone.js experience

- Event driven programming experience

- Keen on the startup world

Perks

- Competitive Salary with equity options
- Flexible working hours

- Choose the equipment that’s right for you – desk, chair, computer… whatever you need to do your job

- Free drinks and snacks and team lunch every Friday

- Take the holiday you need, we don’t count days

Application Process

To find out more send us your C.V./Github or Stack Overflow portfolio and a short description on why you’re perfect for the role to jobs@geckoboard.com
I've been using this for about six months now and it works great. Is there something bad about this that we should all know?
I used to be an owl for years. A regular 9-5 schedule seemed out of reach. This May I changed my environment by filtering out blue light after 8PM. I use the following:

1. Inexpensive Uvex amber googles from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S0360X-Ultra-spec-SCT-Orange-Anti...
Wear them at least an hour or two before bedtime.

2. I replaced most of the white compact fluorescent lights with amber compact fluorescent lights
https://www.lowbluelights.com/index.asp

3. And I use a sunrise simulator alarm clock.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-HF3520-Wake-Up-Colored-Simulat...

No will power needed beyond the habit to wear the googles and change the lighting. Usually in bed by 10PM.

Result: no insomnia. Have been able to consistently maintain an early schedule. This would have been inconceivable earlier. I have become the person you've never met.
'Gravity' review: try not to scream
Kinda ridiculous that the titles of each gag post are getting trimmed off, but the full-text isn't.
> At the end of the day, Samsung wants the benchmarking to show the theoretical maximum. Other manufacturers may not be too bothered and are happy to show benchmarking of normal usage. It's like reading the specs on a car, you're never going to drive at 160 mph, but at least you know you could.

And they should be vilified for re-interpreting preconditions that would usually guarantee valid relative comparisons and are used like so. ("Theoretical maximum" is a problematic end to work towards, though - why shouldn't clock-speed specifications suffice, then? I presume you're talking about stock speeds sans the software stack - but cranking up frequency scaling isn't much of a meaningful hop and skip away from just running the benchmark.)
The solution is already available by the very same folks who would just as easily think nothing of presenting that "female | male | other/it's complicated | prefer not to answer" field though.

In lieu of questioning who the user is, may I suggest see what the user does instead? Behavior, in the end, is the real key to unlocking demographic potential. What purchases are made, what items were clicked on, where they had browsed and what titles on pages attracted them on the site can tell far more than a simple field.

This, of course, takes time and testing plus accumulation of data. But since a fair number of HN users also like to exalt the status of "Big Data", there's a more productive use for it.

Don't try to finagle who the user is or isn't. Just find out what they want.
details on the implementation. I wonder where things went wrong

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/health...
Computational Synesthesia: Audio Analysis with Image Processing Algorithms
Flag squad is on it.
If your laptop doesn't have the cooling to support the maximum continuous performance of a CPU or GPU, how is that the chip-maker's fault? The chips offer you as much speed as possible under the power/cooling constraints - isn't that exactly what you want, as a user?

I think the benchmark manipulation by Samsung is in a different class; it configures the system in an impractical mode that actually isn't available to the end user at all.

In contrast, high-consumption turbo modes in laptop CPUs and GPUs really do benefit the end user, even if the benefit isn't everything you were hoping for.
Are you kidding me? This is the web 1.0 spinning globe gif all over again.
Wait.. it's shutdown? I booked tickets to visit there later this year.. What to do now?
I'd be interested to know more about what you did with dashboards using Docs.
Harris + Hoole (http://www.harrisandhoole.co.uk) - London, UK

H+H is hiring a tech all-rounder!

We are a rapidly growing brick-and-mortar coffee shop startup (from 3 to 22 shops in the last year), bringing better coffee to the high street. We also have our sights set on being market leaders in technology and innovation, and have just launched phase 1 of our mobile app (harrisandhoole.co.uk/app).

We are looking for tech hire #2 who will support and improve the day to day systems used in HQ and our shops. Lots of opportunity for process improvement and automation, as well as getting stuck in to web app development (Ruby at the moment, but whatever fits), data design (D3.js dashboarding, server push) and our strategic projects (the mobile app is a preview of things to come).

This is a great place to solve problems and build stuff for a physical business. You can also drink as much coffee as you can handle!

Interested? Drop me a note at hn@harrisandhoole.co.uk
Exactly how is enforcing agreements between employer and employee insane?

Sure, there are some minimum numbers enforced by the governemnts, but the agreements tend to increase them.
C++ is the correct name, you write a few thousand lines C code and then write class LargeObject in the first line. So C++.
Knockout.js Lesson 11: The visible binding
I am absolutely with you here, but it seems that a lot of people are using coffeescript in tutorials because it's become the de-factor convention for Rails apps.

Fortunately for us, it's relatively easy to convert it to regular javascript.
You are what you are. If you read anything about the way Samsung is run (especially in South Korea), this is par for course.
A good reason to find deliberate deception ok.
AdBlock Plus is running an initiative of acceptable ads.

That is the solution, frankly.
Arlington, VA
Systems Engineers
Full-time

To Apply: https://www.iqt.org/systems-engineer/

Description: The systems engineer facilitates the transfer of various sophisticated technologies, developed by IQT portfolio companies into the intelligence community. These technologies may include, but are not limited to geospatial analytic tools, video analytic products, large scale data systems (“Big Data” solutions), multilingual translation tools, security and mobility products. The technologies emanate from early-stage companies and start-ups with which IQT has a relationship.
As someone who has clearly had an S/TS, (and who may want to have one again in the future) it would probably be (at least) irresponsible of Mr. Finan to condone the discloser of S/TS material by somebody with a clearance.
Rap Genius (YC S11) - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com - Help us build the Internet Talmud

jobs@rapgenius.com

We're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and yet our tech team is only six people.

Anyone who joins us is going to have the best of both worlds, you'll work on a product that millions love and use while getting the experience of being a part of a small team and helping define the culture.

WHO WE ARE

We're a tiny, quick-shipping team. Each of us makes product decisions and owns whole features. We're close and we all enjoy spending time together. We’re a small team because we’re picky about who joins us. We have one of the hardest technical interviews in NYC but if you make it, you’re going to be on the best team around.

Our house library includes Metaprogramming in Ruby; Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid; POODR; and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?".
Loving rap is not a prerequisite for working here, though an appreciation osmoses to everyone after a while.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

We started Rap Genius in 2009 to explain the meaning of rap lyrics, but the big vision goes beyond music and touches all of text – whether it's the Bill of Rights (http://news.rapgenius.com/United-states-congress-the-us-cons...), the Bible (http://news.rapgenius.com/God-10-commandments-lyrics), “The Waste Land” (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Ts-eliot-the-waste-land-lyrics), or the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling (http://news.rapgenius.com/The-supreme-court-of-the-united-st...), it's all on Rap Genius (or Poetry Genius, or News Genius, or... you get the idea). One of our favorite recent examples is Junot Diaz's amazing annotations on an excerpt from his own The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Junot-diaz-the-brief-wondrous-li...).

BENEFITS

* Bomb salary and equity—you won't be taking a pay cut to work here
* We don't count vacation days
* Free meals in the office, free unlimited Seamless, free unlimited Fresh Direct
* Free gym in the building
* We pay your phone bill and when you join we'll upgrade you to the newest iPhone
* Laundry and shower in the office
* Free indoor bike parking
* Free health, dental, and vision benefits
* The deluxe computer setup of your choice

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

* Experienced full-stack Rails engineers
* Front-end developers with an eye for design
* iOS devs to help build our upcoming iPhone app

INTERESTED? Hit us up at jobs@rapgenius.com with:

* Your name and GitHub profile, your Twitter, blog, StackOverflow account,
personal website, etc.
* A cool side project you built, library you've released, or some code that's
impressive
* Something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you've used
* Your résumé
* Apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate. Our office is in
Williamsburg, and it's awesome.
Not to be too much of a pedant, but the phrase

> SVG has an opposite y-coordinate system (0 is on top, height() is at the bottom).

struck me as silly, since that's how the coordinate systems of nearly all computer graphics systems work, not really opposite....
This is awesome, in the sense that I am in awe that google lets you do this. Could you create a shareable doc to create a google powered DDOS of a site? Hypothetically, of course.
Two different questions. Everybody uses Windows for web development because you need to test sites on all major browsers and IE only runs on Windows. The title asks about Windows as a primary OS. Nowadays with multiple cores, lots of RAM and tools like Virtualbox it is easier than ever to use Windows as a primary OS because you can have Linux in a VM anytime you need it. I have about a dozen Linux VMs that I use for different purposes, i.e. they have different things installed, so it is easy to work with PHP one day, and Tomcat the next day. Just swap VMs. I always build the VM using the build docs for the production servers so that I match the final production system as closely as possible. That means sometimes I use a Centos VM and other times I use an Ubuntu LTS vm.
Sabbatical for Creative Reflection: A beginner’s guide
European antitrust watchdog moves closer to settlement with Google
Katie Hafner wrote a book about online death about a decade ago: http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Seminal-Online-Community/dp/0...

It was triggered by the sudden death of one of the Well's prominent/prolific members, Blair Newman, which resulted in a lot of conversation about what happens to one's digital presence after death. In Blair's case, he had removed his content from the system and closed his account (as there were those who were bullying him) before his death. It was decided to restore the content (from backups) into a Memorial sub-conference for him not long after his death.
I guess it goes both ways. I have to mentally translate all those boilerplate curly mess when reading JavaScript and find CoffeeScript much easier to understand. CoffeeScript is much closer to Ruby syntactically, not to mention a Rails default.
From a developer standpoint, the dev tools in Chrome far exceed those in Firefox. The nightly releases are just starting to compare.
If the mode were attainable in a realistic end-user scenario, there would be no point in detecting the benchmark tool in the first place. A high CPU load (like from a benchmark) would kick the CPU up into high performance mode and that would be that.

I would guess that the high-performance mode drains the battery so quickly, or creates so much heat, that it's impractical for general use.
YoDerm (www.yoderm.com). VP Engineering / CTO. Santa Monica, CA.

We are YC '11 rejects, but that didn't stop us from building one of the only functioning telemedicine platforms in existence. We launched in May and now have real physicians treating real patients every day. We've also used the past year to raise an angel round and line up some incredible business development partnerships.

And now we're ready for our technical co-founder to come aboard and prepare YoDerm's infrastructure for scale. We want a full-time partner to dive in to our Django/Python stack, own the engineering roadmap, and set sail for a new world of online medicine -- and clearer skin.

More details at www.yoderm.com/careers or write ben@yoderm.com
Cloudbill - http://beta.cloudbill.com - Santa Monica, CA

We're a super early stage venture backed startup in Santa Monica looking to change the way bills are paid an managed.

Right now paying bills just sucks, even if you're one of the few Americans who has everything on Auto pay what happens when your credit card expires? Or your wallet gets stolen.

What's worse than that is that our competitors are pushing users towards paying with options that are cheaper for the bill providers! We believe you should be able to pay ANY bill with any method you choose.

So we're making it dead simple to put your mortgage on your credit card and get Amex points for that, your kids' preschool and anything else that you regularly pay.

On top of that we're alerting users to fraudulent charges by scanning every line item of all your bills for anomalies and alerting our users to them.

It's a tough challenge, banks and bill providers don't have API's and in the last three months we've built the technology to be a more full featured version of Yodlee or Intuit's partner program all in house, so our overhead is low, our hopes are high and we're looking for some great people to make paying bills suck so much less.

We're hiring for:

Backend Engineer: Coffeescript and Ruby - We've built two seperate applications. One uses almost entirely coffeescript the other is a rails application

Designer/Frontend: You should be able to at least understand enough haml/erb to implement features in the frontend without hand holding

If you're interested get in touch at jobs [at] cloudbill.com
Mobile devices are energy/power-limited (battery life / chip temperature) and you always have to optimize between those and performance. Theoretically you can add performance as much as you'd like but with a huge power draw. Basically, all these benchmarks are meaningless without knowing the power draw.
I tried that when I was a student, with much the same results though probably a couple more hours shift daily.

You get really weird days when 10am has become 'staying up late' somehow...
Startup from Hulu Founding CEO Jason Kilar and former Hulu CTO Richard Tom.

San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

As with many startups, we are in a bit of a quiet period. While we can't share substantial details here, our hope is to give you a sense for the scope of our ambitions. Our company will focus on building a multi-platform consumer facing service that we believe has the potential to positively impact a number of industries. We're big believers in the combination of great design, great technology and a compelling business model. We firmly believe that world-changing companies are the output of world-class teams and world-class cultures. With that, we we wanted to share some of the defining values and principles that comprise our culture:

- Unrelenting focus on delighting customers. Everything we do starts with the customer.

- Innovation. We are committed to the relentless pursuit of better ways.

- Tenacity. We believe ours is a closing window of opportunity. Sense of urgency is critical.

- Humility. We believe that those who achieve great things are often also great in humility.

- Ambition. We are defined by thinking big.

- Long term thinking. We’re here to build something special and rare, which will require a long term mindset. If you’d rather hop from company to company, this is not the place for you.

Email us: innovate@thefremontproject.com
Doesn't pingdom allow only one site on their free plan? One benefit of this method is the ability to monitor all your sites.

No, scratch that. You get 10 "checks" with pingdom free.