skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use resumator or one of the other cheap apps for handling this. For most people a canned response is absolutely fine, it's the no-response that ticks people off.
Has anyone tried to use genetic algorithms with traffic simulations to try to determine if there's a better way to manage traffic, especially in regards to the design of merge lanes, on/off ramps, etc?

I've thought for a long time that it would be fascinating to build a complex traffic simulator that could be used by people designing freeways, neighbors, shopping malls, etc to plan for traffic. Right now those designs are just based on best guesses (or terrible guesses) by architects and not simulations.
Merchantry - New York, NY.

Front End Lead Engineer
Senior Engineer (Java / Groovy / Grails)

Well-funded eCommerce startup backed by great VCs, building the nucleus of a growing dev team in New York.

For UI Engineering Lead, we are looking for an experienced engineer to own user interface development and help scale the team as we grow. The senior engineer will also be a core founding member of our tech team and will work on product and our APIs.

Merchantry is a growing, fast-paced SaaS company with customers across the globe. In May, we raised our B round, and are funded by top NYC and Silicon Valley VCs (Greycroft, Kite and e.ventures). We were rated by Crain’s as one of the best places to work in New York in 2012.

Our Tech Team

* We are committed to doing things the right way, using the best technology available, and we want talented engineers who can bring these ideas to the browser.
* We started out as a Java shop, and are now adding other languages such as Groovy / Grails and others.
* On the front end, we are moving to Single Page Apps and are considering Dart and TypeScript. You will help make some of these choices.
* We are agile and continuously integrated. We want to be continuously deployed when we grow up, and also service-oriented.
* We use Puppet for our DevOps, TeamCity for Continuous Integration, Zabbix for monitoring, Solr for search, and many other technologies.

Our Product

We connect product and fulfillment data between online retailers and their vendors. The product has several APIs for integration, and two user interfaces, one for vendors, another for online retailers. Our professional services team is responsible for integrating product with high-volume clients. To give you a sense of scale, we are currently hosted on 20 servers in a premium data center and we are just getting started.

Please email resume to: jobs@merchantry.com. If you have some publicly accessible work (github, portfolio, photos of drawings you did as a child), please include links…..

More info here: http://goo.gl/uVZP9U
It looks... okay. I'll leave the technical issues (such as non-responsive elements) to people with more skill to critique them.

My main issue with the redesign is that it's too generic. It doesn't look that much different than any other site. My personal preference would be something very much like this new design but that incorporates more of the signature things that make Slashdot look like, well, Slashdot.

A good example of a site that pulls this off is reddit. Reddit actually looks quite a bit different from the way it did when it launched, but it still looks like reddit. I think this is primarily because reddit doesn't like launching "THE" new design every once in a while. Its strategy is more of constantly tweaking the look of the site. I think Slashdot should take this approach.
If they had bought QNX early and switched to either a recent Java version or another decent language - even something like webOS HTML5/JS/CSS would've worked given a sane looking UI and frameworks.
TeamPages.com - Vancouver, Canada.

TeamPages is a web and mobile app that helps over 100,000 teams and leagues stay organized.

We're looking for an outgoing Customer Success Advocate in Vancouver to help our customers adopt and use TeamPages.

We offer a flexible work schedule and the option to work off site from time to time too. Employees get 3 weeks vacation per year and we offer health benefits as well.

Head here to learn more: http://ow.ly/poldp.
Yup - remember the whole "sub dermal RF fields - so it can't be a fake finger, or your finger can't be cut off - has to have a pulse and be live", from Apple's own marketing?

Yeah, not so much. The fakes didn't even pretend to be live tissue.
"So what is the definition of "most successful startup" being used here" --I guess not making money?
I think any reference to improved protection against theft has to do with iOS 7's new feature of requiring an Apple ID even after a wipe.
In your area, who shares your interests?
New York, NY.

Full Time.

http://www.thehackerati.com

Software Devs at all experience levels, for front end, back end, and big data. We don't care what language(s) you know, as long as you're highly skilled in at least one. Email me if interested:

alex.krupp@thehackerati.com
Snowplow Analytics - London/Remote, INTERN.

Snowplow Analytics is looking for 1-2 open source software interns this Winter (December through February), for 3-6 week paid internships. Our winterns will work directly on and contribute to projects within the Snowplow open source stack (https://github.com/snowplow). A Snowplow wintern loves coding, enjoys experimenting with new technologies and is happiest working "in the open" on community/team projects.

These are paid internships; we will consider candidates who can work from our London office and additionally remote candidates who are UTC +/- 5 hours maximum. Interested? Please email wintern@snowplowanalytics.com, and tell us about a piece of software you are proud to have written. (And don't be afraid to suggest specific projects/initiatives/features that you would like to work on in your internship.)

We will be blogging with more information about our winternship program later this week.
I had the same experience. I understand if this is hard to do, but from my perspective it would help if I can expect to hear back from you in a few days, a few weeks, or a few months.
VirtualPBX : How To Blow The Opportunity Of A Lifetime
By default, it can't be a 'nice' letter if it contains an insulting message - which is what's communicated by that level and type of reward.

My point is Yahoo's message to the people would have been taken better as /just/ a letter, than a letter and a far undervalued "reward".
LiveRamp | Multiple Engineering Positions Available | www.LiveRamp.com/careers | San Francisco, CA | H1B, INTERN

About us: LiveRamp’s leading data onboarding solution empowers marketers to activate their CRM data in their choice of online advertising platform for targeting, attribution, content optimization and more. We see relevancy as the world's largest optimization problem, and are excited to contribute to building a future where marketing is predominantly informative, engaging, and even appreciated for their usefulness to consumers through the use of data. Imagine that!

We're well funded, and steadily growing. Our employees enjoy weekly yoga, catered lunches, and unlimited PTO. But the best job perk is our awesome team - we’ve got a staff of amazing people who just happen to be great engineers as well.

About you: Type S(tartup) personality is a must: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working and proactive. You’re comfortable in multiple languages, frameworks, and environments. We are looking for full-time engineers and interns (summer or any time of year). If you think you’d be a good fit, consider joining our team!

We’re looking for smart and talented engineers for the following positions:

* I’ll Be Back-End Engineer

* Glass-Half-Full-Stack Engineer

* Maximum Security DevOps Engineer

* Statistically Significant Data Scientist

And for new grads and interns:

* Four Star Generalist Software Engineer

* public static final intern softwareEngineer = fall/winter/spring/summer;

To apply: Visit http://www.liveramp.com/careers or send your resume to recruiting@liveramp.com. Tell us in three sentences why you'd like to join our team and what makes you a great fit, and show us what you’ve got. We’d love to see links to sites you have worked on or screenshots of your work.
Rdio/Vdio

San Francisco, CA H1B welcome

http://www.rdio.com/careers/
I just read some of your older blog posts. They're close to my research and well written and very informative. Keep up the good work!

Cheers
"Dendogram" should be dendrogram.
I've used Face Unlock. It's terrible. It's slow, very inconsistent, doesn't work at all in variety of situations (low light, in pocket) and goofy.
if you are running one docker per VM, you are probably doing something wrong :)
You don't have to let me in. I am sure someone in front of you will. Then you have the right to throw a little hissy-fit because of having to live with the repercussions of your poor life decisions.
The d3.js google group is a good place to discuss intermediate/advanced topics and get some help when you're hopelessly stuck. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/d3-js
I think he is saying that a letter an no money would be better than a letter and a pathetic amount of money. Getting a pathetic amount of money is more insulting than not getting any money.
I think that a less extreme, but possible, outcome could be that brands move to a partial wholesale/retail model. Its possible that brands could take some of the risk and wholesalers take a smaller margin hit but still guarantee a partial buy.

My opinion is that it is more likely that the types of successful brands that exist change all-together in the long run. There are small-ish new brands that seem to be able to sustain only direct-to-consumer retail (e.g. Everlane, Warby Parker, Frank & Oak) that are taking on 100% of the risk. Maybe we see more brands like that. The differences there seem to be more agile production on a more frequent basis, with smaller production runs and more willingness to stock out.
On a camera with effectively infinite depth of field? Probably not.
Firefox's screen usage is easy to configure. Compare[1] my KDE-themed Firefox and Chrome, for example.

[1]: http://jelv.is/browser-screen-usage.png

Extensions require a restart to be installed, perhaps, but that doesn't seem to be a big issue: you only install any given extension once. If you want to install a bunch at the same time, you only need to restart once.
You can copy finger prints rather easily, they are something you have.
3D printing is becoming 4D, with shape-shifting objects
I just set this up. Works great! I recommend you run it once from the Run menu to make sure you entered a domain name correctly. You can comment out this line to get an email every time it runs (good for testing):

// if (status !== 200)
Looks a couple years behind but my main criticism is of those images. In most cases, they appear largely irrelevant but are quite visually dominating and not strongly tied to their respective stories. I instinctively check the note beneath it for a clue as to which story it relates to and see just the image credit.

It seems like they're using images for the sake of it and the end result is less useful information in each screenful of content.

Imagine if Hacker News put in an image like that every 5-10 headlines!
Known as the overjustification effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Landing Your Dream Job - 5 tips on becoming a self-taught programmer
Is there such a post? I only know of the "Who is hiring" and the freelancer posts.
The fingerprint databases would probably also include identity information.
For those of you that have tried the game: any feedback? Would you pay for an extended single player game, unlockable wizards with a custom special spell, or some kind of supporter program that gives you early access to a forum and betas?
Concurrent Data Structures (libcds)
Timetric - London, UK

Data visualization engineer (Python/Django/JS)

Contact jobs@timetric.com

Timetric is looking for software engineers to join our small London-based team, and help us build great data visualization products.

We build software around economic data. We collect it, analyze it and visualize it; we provide tools for our users to explore, use and reuse it. We want you to help us bring our tools to a wider audience.

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The Timetric platform was built from the ground up on Python (Django) and Javascript, with a Postgres/Solr backend. We try to stay close to the cutting edge of new technologies, and we're always open to new ideas.

You'll be joining a small team, with a minimum of process. Code is deployed continuously and we can provision a server with one click.

We don't expect you to know everything you need to do before you start - but you'll learn fast.

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Required:

* Good level of expertise in either Python or Javascript (or both!)

* Comfortable working knowledge of Linux

* Used to working with git (or mercurial/bzr)

Bonus points for any of:

* Interest in data visualization

* Numerical/scientific/mathematical background

* Understanding of AI/ML techniques

* Interest in economics

and if you've published or contributed to any open-source software, then tell us about it.
Security researchers' time is valuable. They spend their own time trying to find vulnerabilities that black hat hackers would use against their users, possibly at a profit. They report it to the company giving them a chance to fix their problems. It's called responsible disclosure, and the compensation keeps the smart guys on your side.

It doesn't even have to be monetary - for example, GitHub maintains a list[1] of people who have responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities, and they often send them a shirt or something similar.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/responsible-disclosure-of-s...
How to figure out which of 10 beagleboards you're currently ssh'd into
We're hiring in Portland (Kongregate)
New York, NY - full time, entry-level OK

Sense Networks, an exciting tech startup focused on targeted mobile advertising, is hiring for a full-time engineering spot on our Hadoop / Data team.

Full job description at: http://www.sensenetworks.com/company/careers/
Have there been any attempts to ascertain PINs by analyzing the finger residue left on touch screens? That strikes me as something that would be pretty easy (for an expert with the right gear), especially if patterns were used.
Well, you do have to explicitly turn that option on. It's in no means a default.

If you use the iPhone Configuration Utility, you can even reduce the attempts down 2 before it wipes itself.

I guess it's useful in circumstances where the data on the phone is more valuable than the phone itself.
Christopher Soghoian tweeted about this and I thought it was a joke: https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/384799909917884416
Dr. Bunsen's coffee experiments
Seattle representation is on par with Chattanooga, TN. This is surprising to me.
I think you misunderstood. The person entering bogus passwords is not a thief, but an otherwise trusted prankster. For example, a brother.
It's not that it saves money, it's that if the people who manage it aren't allowed to work, it's super dangerous to leave a website up. What if it gets hacked/compromised in some way, and employees are literally not allowed to take it down/fix it/whatever?
How about: "Cryptozoological creatures like [God] are (supposedly) [all powerful entities] living [somewhere outside time], and both have decades of 'evidence' to suggest that we might [measure one's effect in some shape or form]—as we did the giant squid."

> Maintaining one particular irrational belief does not a religion make.

According to the article, cryptozoologists have many irrational beliefs, one for each creature.
Professor Myung and his group at KAIST set out to develop a robot to deal with this issue, and last month, they tested out their solution, the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm (JEROS), in Masan Bay on the southern coast of South Korea. They've built three prototypes.

The JEROS robots are autonomous, able to use cameras to locate jellyfish near the surface, Professor Myung explains. The sequence below shows how an on-board computer processes an image and identifies a jellyfish on the water.
...
Once the robots have found a group of jellyfish, they team up and float around in formation
Was the problem the design of the site or the community? I was never really a big /. user but from everything I've read, it seemed like the community was the main issue.
After every crash in Netherlands, intense scrutiny
Does this go for the locks on your front door as well? As in "nobody should have front door locks that aren't 100% secure even against eg. terrorists"?
>Maybe they are afraid, closed minded or really belive we are alone in this vast universe

I was trying to find an explanation for the immediate rejection of the subject as silly.

> It exists inside people's minds.

The strange thing is that millions have the same thing in their minds, could this be a collective mental illness? but why do all of them report the same things and have the same details?

If you read Jacobs reports you will see that many people that never met experienced similar events, how can this be explained?

You could at least see read some of the reports or see some of the "non" evidence before rejecting it as silly.
So they're going for the Lifehacker/Gizmodo/Engadget sort of look. Huh.
Hilarious quote of Marco Arment from 4 years ago:

When a similar idea circulated back in 2009, Tumblr’s then–lead developer, Marco Arment, summed up the party line in a scornful blog post: “I hope they let me work on some of the many exciting projects at Yahoo … I want to move to California and get stuck in traffic every day on the way to my midlevel engineering job where I sit in a cubicle all day and can’t make any product decisions while working on something nobody will ever see to manage regional ad clickthrough stats tracking.” Thanks, but no thanks.
Hospitals are increasingly at risk of data breaches
I'm a little confused. Didn't ExtJS, Dojo, various jQuery plugins, etc do this same kind of thing years ago? And didn't we kind of find out that JS + CSS + HTML was acually a pretty nice separation of markup, formatting and functionality?
Advances in Obfuscation
Slashdot should be imitating HN or Reddit's design. Liberal usage of whitespace is NOT a good idea for news aggregators. (too slow to scan content)
Facebook has a new way to spy on people
Great! I already know everyone loves Breaking Bad.
Drivy https://www.drivy.com - Paris, France

We're looking for a Rails backend engineer. Remote possible.
more info here : https://www.drivy.com/jobs (in French, sorry)

Drivy is the #1 peer-to-peer car rental service in France and the largest in Europe. We are making the car rental experience cheaper, closer, and more human.

Car owners can rent out their own car when they don't use it to earn additional income. Car drivers can find a car close to them at an unbeatable price — online or from a mobile phone.
Drivy makes transactions pleasant and secure by providing an comprehensive car insurance and secure payment, as well as a great care to user experience and customer service.

We're funded and have big plans for the future.
Our vision : have a car in each and every street of Europe!
Come and join us!
Does not work offline! No choice for me.
The community. Definitely the community. I used to be a frequent Slashdot reader, but moved on to Reddit.
I think it also would have been hideously difficult for BB to dev, market and sell two entirely different kinds of devices.

I think there's really been 3 kinds of smartphones:

1) The Microsoft model - shrink a desktop down into a phone display and since everything is so little now, use a stylus to pick at things on the screen. You can definitely see an older MS smartphone and still see it as being a smartphone.

2) The BB model - optimize for most common use-cases and provide a dedicated set of physical inputs to operate. These days, feature phones pretty much do everything a BB can do, but the interface into the capabilities suck. The classic BB phone is very much a feature phone on steroids. A nicer screen, better input but good hardware build quality and excellent email services. It turns out that turing machines are turing machines and BB eventually figured out you can run other kinds of apps on the devices, but their pedigree is very much an amped up feature phone.

3) The iPhone model. Grids and capacitive touchscreens. Let's be honest here, Android started as a copy of the BB model, early Android phones even had a similar set of input mechanisms.

The iPhone model is interesting in that it was just like the Microsoft model in the sense that it was just a cheap portable computing device where "phone" was just an application on the computer. But unlike Microsoft they didn't just take the obvious route of just shrinking down the desktop into an unusable and fussy tiny screen. They developed a different kind of interface.

Also, if you squint just a tiny little bit, it looks kinda like the mobile interface model that BB used, but instead of a wheel or ball or whatever to navigate and a keyboard to type, they simplified and just did everything on a bigger screen.

Pulling these two influences together into what we have now, and being willing to deal with the tradeoffs (lack of precision input and the "feel" of a keyboard + the reduced battery life and added component cost) was really innovative and daring. It was so impressive that Google completely redirected and pivoted Android from the BB model to the iPhone model.
Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite)

We are building something awesome around mobile commerce, trying to connect the people who make products directly with the consumers who love them.

Our current stack is Go (all our backends are in Go), PostgreSQL, AngularJS and ObjectiveC and we picked them thoughtfully because they are the right tools that will help us move fast and build high quality products.

I was at Google for 5 years building the google finance charts, gmail's multiple inboxes, some maps infrastructure, and the like. My co-founder was at Fab for a little under a year.

We have a fantastic team - http://jellolabs.com/team - are seed funded, and growing quickly.

More details http://jellolabs.com/jobs, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.

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Lead iOS Engineer

We're looking for an iOS developer with a great sense of UX, that can both build the best iOS app out there and also help give valuable feedback on building some industry-leading world class UX.

More details http://jellolabs.com/jobs, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred, travel possible

I used to be an embedded guy (assembly, C, C++ and actual hardware) then I transitioned to mobile and web work about six years ago. The last two years I have been doing mostly native mobile with iOS and Android.

Bottom line: If you want to build anything that has to run on a phone or tablet, I can help you out.
You can reach me at darbelo@darbelo.com.ar for any questions.