skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benbria - http://www.benbria.com/careers - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

We are looking for full-time interface designers. We also have several coops and internship positions available throughout the year.

Benbria is the leading provider of customer engagement solutions. We work with some of the world's largest retailers, restaurant and hotel chains. Our products help build valuable connections between businesses and their clients.

Interface Designer
+ Knowledge of core graphic design & usability principles
+ Expertise in writing cross-browser friendly HTML & CSS
+ Proficiency with your Adobe weapon of choice (Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator)
+ Good understanding of JavaScript as a programming language and experience writing it
+ Experience with designing web applications and responsive websites
+ Strong portfolio of work demonstrating the above
+ Holistic approach to design and ability to carry your own ideas through discussion, wireframing, prototyping and production
Nice-to-haves:
+ HTML & CSS preprocessors (Jade & Stylus is a plus)
+ Ability to create great-looking UI in-browser (more CSS3, less images)
+ Experience with source control management (Git)

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Perks:
+ We are a small company - a talented and diverse team - with big customers.
+ We support your personal growth: buy books, lunch-and-learns, conferences, on-site gym and soccer field, etc.
+ Relaxing environment: game nights, rock climbing, cat picture spam in our chatroom
+ Competitive pay, full benefits and stock options
Behind the App: Josh Presseisen, Crescent Moon Founder
great. Where do you live in Asia ?
On the other hand they ensured that every Windows user had free access to a high quality browser (at least, at the time IE6 came out).
Only $200 million was raised this round for 5% of the company. All that means is that 5% of SnapChat is worth $200 million to a very small number of people. It does not mean that the other 95% is worth $3.8 billion, nor that the other 95% worth of value actually exists.

Funding rounds are just deposits on houses. I can put down $40K for 5% of a house today, and choose to never pay the rest if someone gives me that option, implicitly valuing the house at $800K. But when the time comes to actually sell, it doesn't mean that I'll get $40K back. It just means that at the point of my deposit, the value of acquiring the option to acquiring the house was worth $40K.

That's all. Valuations are bullshit.
You have to put the EFF's action in procedural context. They're at "Plan B." They've lost "Plan A," which was the political debate. Voters, broadly, are mistrustful of "hackers" and don't see a problem with searching computers at the border. Certainly, my mom doesn't see a problem with such searches. Now, the EFF is coming along and asking a federal judge to tell my mom and all the voters like her that they can't do what they want to do, all because of some "words on paper created by mortal men" 200 years ago. This is "Plan B." At this stage, the rules are different and more restrictive. To overcome the democratic will, you not only have to show that your point of view is better, but you have to show that this 200 year old document requires people now, 200 years later, to act a certain way. That procedural posture leads to "the obsession with the semantics and the literal text of the Constitution."

As for why this spectacle doesn't happen in other countries, it's largely because in those countries there is no "Plan B." If you lose at "Plan A" you're done. In the U.S. you have a "Plan B" because we have a judiciary that is a co-equal branch of government. Other countries have constitutional courts, but those courts have very limited jurisdiction and do not function as a co-equal branch of government. In the U.S., you have 94 federal district courts, 13 courts of appeal, and 1 Supreme Court, any one of which can declare a state or federal law unconstitutional. Moreover, unlike judges of constitutional courts in other western countries, American federal judges have the extensive powers of common law judges. They can not just declare laws unconstitutional, but force public officials to take affirmative actions to remedy violations.

The U.S. federal judiciary is, as an institution, extremely anti-democratic. It can not only defeat the democratic will of a state or even the national legislature, but do so in a way that binds all future legislatures. The power to bind legislation in the future is one that no legislature in the U.S. possesses. The obsession with "the semantics and the literal text of the Constitution" is the flip side of this anti-democratic power. The judiciary derives its legitimacy from its role interpreting the text of the Constitution. To the extent that it strays from that text, it loses legitimacy.
On one hand I think this is disproportionate amount of value, but on other I think investors with lot of money are not really that stupid and see some sort of value in this.
The US needs to retire daylight savings and create two time zones—one hour apart
Well that is the wrong thing to do in that situation.

Just use ssh -D to set up a socks proxy and use your local browser via your remote VPS. I fail to see how that isn't obvious
Thank you.

I will try to improve the section.
While I have no idea what information investors are basing their decisions on, it's probably some evidence that Snapchat is starting to replace Facebook among some bellwether set of users. That could be a reasonable bet, depending on what the evidence is. But I don't know what the evidence is, and without it there is no way I can estimate what Snapchat's valuation should be.

(Hint: and neither can The Washington Post or any of you.)
What You Need to Know About Text-to-911
And sadly, with great pain, I rest my case.

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But hey, if you want to try out a hot new framework that Fits in A Tweet™, I've got something special for you.

Announcing Revolution.js

It's a mere fraction the size of Riot.js, and provides over 100 times the functionality. Despite the unbelievable size, all the building blocks are there: a template engine, router, event library and a strict MVP pattern to keep things organized.

Revolution.js is simpler and faster — in fact, on a completely different scale. In fact, it's so small and so fast that I can share it with you right here:

function Revolution() {
var a = arguments;
return jQuery[a[0]].apply(jQuery, a.slice(1));
}

New frameworks like Riot.js persuade false beliefs with shiny websites and finely crafted marketing without transparent, scientific analysis. They solve hypothetical problems and cause new problems instead.

At this point you might ask — "Hey, wait a minute, what's the deal? Isn't that just wrapping jQuery, and adding nothing?". To which I would answer, yes, exactly.

This is a Revolution against the status quo! Revolution is a manifesto for vanilla JavaScript and jQuery.
Python is for verbose people. :D
It would be naïve to think they wouldn't do this. Google would do it if they were in the same position. This is mostly a problem with the law, the fact that such a thing is possible is a problem.

Also, pretty much all these companies were invited to join Rockstar to buy the patents, including Google: http://www.techradar.com/... . Except Google decided that they wanted it all for themselves and went against the group, in the end they lost. The only reason to hold these patents are to basically sue other companies, the fact that Google bid against the group over and over again implies that if Google had gotten these patents they would have done exactly the same. So lets not pretend Google is a victim.
First, no it does not. The fact that there are fewer letters does not mean that there is less boilerplate. If you want an accurate measure, you need to count up actual lines of boilerplate in the code.

Second, even if it did (again, it does not), it comes at the cost of reduced functionality. You can claim that these are unnecessary features, but, for instance, the entire template is not re-rendered on each change in Angular, only the affected piece. If you think that that's the right way to write apps in riot, then that means that every line in your app dedicated to restricting changes to a part of the view is boilerplate.
Check to see if you're in the Adobe user data leak
>It only received one major update: ICS to Jellybean.

I am not sure people will agree with that. Even if Google called all 4.{1,2,3} releases JellyBean they did introduce significant new features in every version. Take a look - http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/ . 4.2 brought new camera with PhotoSphere HDR etc, full Braille accessibility services, stock browser HTML5 Video support and better performance and Gesture Keyboard. 4.3 brought Restricted User Profiles, OpenGL ES 3.0, Bluetooth LE/AVRCP etc. Not more of the same IMHO. (Now some of these required HW support not available on the GNex but still the point is it will work well at least another year on 4.3 giving it a 3 yr lifespan - not bad for that piece of crap hardware - it uses a TI SoC and TI isn't in that business anymore.)
Okay, here're a few examples. There are probably more:

I've used $.bbq plugin for 'basic' routing (similar API to riot).

It wasn't enough. I was writing tons of boilerplate and my routing logic was fragmented and hard to follow. Sure, this comes down to lack of convention, but that's as I said, a benefit of frameworks that establish said conventions. I'm also not much of a fan of Backbone's router by the way. Ember's on the other hand, looks bloody fantastic.

I've tried every templating language under the sun.

The idea of creating portable/pure HTML/logicless templates (whatever you want to call them) so that your 'HTML developer' can work with them is a fool's gold. If your 'HTML developer' is likely to misunderstand or break your HTML because it contains logic in it, they're just as likely to do the same when there are implicit rules in your templates. If anything, explicit template tags, like say an {{#each}} tag makes them far more likely to tread carefully when dealing with them. But in reality I've found this is all a non-existent scenario. The (JS) developer is going to be the one writing the HTML and translating a designer's vision into the web-app code. That developer is likely to need to refactor templates/partials several times over the lifetime of the app. So whether the designer creates their style-guide as HTML & CSS or not, you don't want them working on the actual app's templates. It seems to make way more sense to have them working on static playground version of the app's markup.

Collections. Boilerplate.

Backbone's Collection and Models are really great and the create/add/save stuff cuts down on a lot of repetitive code. The Underscore functionality you get on Collections are fantastic for opening up your console and exploring your app with powerful things like:

App.Models.people.pluck('age'); // spit out ages in array
App.Models.people.where({ age: 18 })[0].set('age', 19); // see what happens in your view as a result
App.Views.funkyInspector.model.set('active', true).save(); // see what happens in view/xhr as a result...

Riot doesn't give me this. Basically you're not doing enough for me!
IKEA is still, as far as I know, based in Sweden as much as Apple is based in California.
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/5331-ues-learn...
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Worked for enterprise, large ecommerce, facebook games and my own saas startup.

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Thanks! Just skimmed it for now but will definitely read it later.

So I was wrong in naming Switzerland - should've mentioned the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Netherlands Antilles and Curaçao instead.
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What always bothers me is that without the source, I don't know if this is a phishing attempt.

I don't like compounding security problems with more opaqueness.
All that you can truthfully state to be true about people with a lot of money is that they have a lot of money.

Everything else is probably narrative fallacy.
These start ups get massive investment, IPO for retarded valuations, and all the venture firms/owners cash out leaving the market and institutional investors holding the rest. Slowly these companies die.. but the original people have already made their money and are on to something else. Classic. For instance, is there any sane reason why a website like rapgenius.com needs to IPO to raise public funds? The answer is no, they IPO in order to get a liquid market to sell their shares in.
Was anyone else a little disappointed to find that it was yet another Haskell inspired language (like Fay, Roy, Elm, Lambdascript, ghcjs, &c)? I was really hoping to find a version of Pure http://purelang.bitbucket.org adapted for the browser. It seems like a custom language that compiles to JavaScript is the new standard Haskell pet project. For those wondering on what other JS powered languages there are, check out http://altjs.org.
> Companies are required to maximize their profits,

This meme needs to die.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/09/h...

"There are no statutes that put the shareholder at the top of the corporate priority list."

"Nor does the law require, as many believe, that executives and directors owe a special fiduciary duty to shareholders."

It needs to die.

Edit: And there are many, many other places you can find support for this.
I think it's rather disingenuous to call this a "1 kb" framework when it depends on jQuery (83,612 bytes as of 2.0.3). I don't know about the other frameworks, but the current stable version of angular is 81,447 bytes and does not depend on jQuery, and is significantly more expressive.
In addition to the points raised in sibling replies, the standards for getting a driving license in the USA are very low.
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Currently #funemployed, reading, making music, and building a prototype for a Bitcoin micropayment channel powered service that enables autonomy of programs. Massive fan of Bitcoin contracts. So excited to see what they are going to allow in the next 1-5 years.

Looking at opportunities to continue doing this, or working on anything Bitcoin.
360pi - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Company Overview: 60pi helps top retailers compete and win in an era when shoppers expect and demand complete price transparency. Our customer base of "brick & mortar", e-commerce, and multichannel retailers accounts for over $US100 billion in annual retail sales and includes Ace Hardware, Best Buy Canada, build.com, Crutchfield, Overstock, and REI among others.

We are looking for many development positions, including: QA Automation Developer, Application Developer, Data Quality Manager, Data Workflow Developer, Implementation Developer

You can apply here: http://www.360pi.com/about-us/careers.aspx, email your resume or questions to careers@360pi.com and/or dominic@360pi.com
Or, you know, it could be the fact that Sweden's industrial capacity survived WWII largely intact and so the country in general was better positioned than the rest of Europe to make money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_in_World_War_II
Using GoInstant to Create Multiplayer Real-Time Node Apps
I'm sorry, I've never used autocomplete for a few privacy related reasons, and this was one of them... this seems obvious, to the point where I thought the title was written in a sarcastic 'duh' tone...

I figured not letting your (google especially) browser store personal details was pretty much common privacy/security sense at this point.
OPPO - Shenzhen, China - Visa Provided

OPPO is looking for PHP programmers to help us transform the OPPO name into a world-renowned brand. We are currently expanding global efforts rapidly and you can be there from the start helping us build up our digital platform for international markets.

OPPO is an innovative mobile OEM with a focus on quality in every part of our business, from customer service to our build and component quality. Our brand is paramount to us and this shines through in the work we do.

As a programmer with OPPO you will be part of an international team in charge of planning and building new applications for promotions, product launches and new ideas as well as help establish a platform to build OPPO into a global brand. Our team currently spans 8 nationalities and all team communications are in English.

Our software stack currently consists of PHP 5.5, Percona MySQL 5.5 and Nginx with Laravel 4 as our framework of choice.

Please see full job posting at: http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/hiring-php-programmers.683...

To apply, send your résumé, cover letter, code samples (GitHub or other code repository a plus) and relevant information to martin chr(37) oppo.com.
Indexing apps just like websites
More Predictions, From Bad to Worse
Looks like the experimental designer actually thinks it might have been completely destroyed by friction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Propulsion_o...
There isn't THE Autobahn anyways. Autobahn is just our word for Interstate and not all of them are equally well-maintained. There are speed limits where it makes sense. There are speed limits in certain conditions (rain, ice, windy bridge, worn-down road), there are flexible speed limits (rush hour).

Recently, I drove from NYC all the way down to Miami. Speed limits make sense on the Blue Ridge Parkway, because of all the wildlife. But we were also passing endless roads that went just straight, perfect view, perfectly wide. This would be a typical spot in Germany where there's simply no speed limit, because it doesn't make any sense.

I noticed something else in the States: People on Interstates and highways stick relatively close to speed limits. However, once you get into city limits of bigger cities, everyone seems to drive at least 10mph over limit, if not more. In Miami, there was a point where not a single car(!) was driving the maximum allowed speed, but at least 10mph faster. But I noticed a similar thing in other major cities as well.

I never understood that.
I HOPE A METEOR KILLS YOU!
With Round 7 we have adopted a less forgiving approach to the test runs. In previous rounds, we would expend a non-trivial amount of effort attempting to ensure all of the tests worked correctly on both i7 and EC2.

But when we're busy with other projects, this becomes a real bottleneck. We wanted to get Round 7 out and be able to do future rounds on a monthly basis. In order to pull that off, we simply need to reduce our own bottleneck and ask the community to do more of that work. Round 7 was the first with a preview round and the community submitted a bunch of PRs prior to the final run.

To be as clear as possible, I absolutely do not blame the missing Go data on EC2 on the community. It's just the nature of attempting to herd all of these cats, er frameworks. :)

I'm fairly sure it's a configuration problem either in the Go test implementation -or- our test-suite. And this part may be obvious, but it bears repeating: except in very rare cases, test absence should not reflect poorly on the framework itself.
I can understand such frustrations (especially in light of the financial crisis) but they seem a bit naive. The system is more complex than just moving the money out of the country and funding Swedish social services with it.

Sounds more like a populist argument along the lines of: "Oh those dirty banks are stealing our money."
So, SNL had it right when they said the site could only handle 6 users at a time
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/27/saturday_n...
And Washington D.C :)
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> Current frameworks persuade false beliefs with shiny websites and finely crafted marketing without transparent, scientific analysis.

It is all marketing. Notice how shiny Angular/Ember's site is? Open source mindshare is not determined by technical superiority! There is plenty of marketing, hype, and fashion that controls it.

Big paintbrush here, but many devs don't seem to care a lick about how composable things are. They just want to learn someone's 'opinionated' API, and then bet their entire design on it. They'd rather dig through error messages, and obscure edge cases instead of learning how to structure their code so they don't need to rely on frameworks for everything. When faced with a new platform, they'll jump into whatever everyone else is using at the time, rather than starting with the core tech and building up until they hit a need.

Frameworks are great for MVPs, though.
Vienna, AT - full time machine learning enthusiast

(local in Vienna, the city with the best quality of life in the world http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/972..., we can provide relocation assistance)

We, nextSociety Inc want to help people find and connect to the subset of their social network contacts that is actually relevant to them.

To achieve this we need people that like hard challenges, want to work with cutting edge natural language processing and machine learning tools, and know that to deliver value to the customer even the loftiest algorithms have to be glued together with solid software craftsmanship.

We are a python shop with the frontend written in Backbone for fast prototyping, but strongly believe that real programming talent is not language bound.

We have an office in the center of Vienna in walking distance to innumerable bars and pubs, regular happy hours and regularly host guest start ups to cooperate and learn from each other.

If you are interested or know someone who is, shoot me (christoph@nextsociety.com) or our CTO (ben@nextsociety.com) a mail, recruiters shouldn't bother.
It's not the amount as much as the lifetime.

I live in that ancient belief that you should be able to keep your phone functioning happily for 3 years, which is exactly what happened with my iPhone 4, by iOS 6 it became slow and kind of crashy but usable and it did everything I wanted it to (even if it didn't get all the new features like the new navigation or Siri).

But the main point is that it kept going for more than 3 years, and the Galaxy Nexus, a phone that was really expensive at the time does not get the new update just a year and a half after release. That's half of the lifetime I expect of a phone.
> there'd be some serious deformation of the plate due to the frictional heat from the air on the plate.

How could it deform? For it to deform the force on one part has to be different from the force on a different part. But the entire thing was accelerated, and the air resistance is applied to the whole thing at once.

Perhaps there are some edge effects? Not sure.
One thing missed by the article is that Sweden was one of the few European highly industrialized nations that weren't ravaged by WWII (due to their neutrality, in turn due their perceived Arianism by Germany), so in 1946, they could start making and selling stuff to Europe which desperately needed, well, everything.