skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ScraperWiki in Liverpool, UK

We're hiring a data scientist!

https://blog.scraperwiki.com/jobs/swjob10/

If you hear news of a new dataset on the web, the GP prescribing data, or the catalogue of the Science Museum, for example – what is your first instinct?

If you answered “Download the data and play with it”, then we have just the role for you!

ScraperWiki is a technology company based in Liverpool with clients around the world. We provide a self-service data hub product which enables users to acquire, clean, analyse and share their data and a data services team who provide these facilities as a service.
Outsourcing firm Infosys caught cheating, faces record U.S. immigration fine
Having moved from Windows to Linux to OS X for desktop I've found that nothing beats OS X for stability and uptime. Linux esp the Kubuntu was never stable. Windows same. OS X is bloody amazing esp when under load. I guess it all depends on what type of development and torture one puts the OS through.
WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time- Hiring Front End Web Developers and Platform Engineers

Jobs@WebAction.com

WebAction is a private equity backed real-time big data infrastructure company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing an end-to-end platform that will enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates, and (of course) a kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots on University Avenue in Downtown Palo Alto.

For the front-end position, we ask that you have the skills to contribute to a cutting-edge user interface and data visualization dashboard built on top of real-time, big data applications. Having an eye for user interaction design is a plus.

These are the tools you will work with:

-backbone.js

-jQuery

-HTML5/CSS3

-D3.js

For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to implement a scalable, highly optimized data processing infrastructure. For those of you interested in highly scalable, low latency data platforms, working at WebAction is an opportunity to work on one yourself.

If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.
Become a contractor. After that, "job hopping" as a derisive term becomes non-existent.
Would that be chr(40)?...
Kira Talent (https://www.kiratalent.com) - Toronto, Canada

At Kira Talent, we help employers spot top talent earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.

A bit about us:

* we’re a small team (you’d be #12), based in the heart of downtown Toronto

* we’re well funded (we just raised a $2M seed round) and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company

* we’re hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, analytics

* we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design

* every single one of our developers have committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour

Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:

* building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming

* re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS

* designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike

* presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team internally

We use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), ActionScript, MySQL (and some MongoDB), but you’d be free to choose your own tools and libraries.
If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
"As bi-partisan as you can get"? C'mon, that claim doesn't pass the laugh test. Plenty of legislation has passed both houses of Congress in the last five years with large bi-partisan majorities. Leahy-Smith[1] is just the first one I thought of.

As for it being "the Republicans' plan", you're hanging an awful lot on some Republicans' support for an individual mandate (conceived, remember, in opposition to Bill Clinton's nascent proposals for an employer mandate) twenty years ago. The guy who most Republicans actually voted for wanted to change the system to allow health care plans to be sold across state lines, and de-couple employment and health care via a universal individual tax credit [2]. Neither of those are in PPACA.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Act

[2] http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/10/the-mccain-...
How can you measure the return on investment for all we learned from trying to get to the moon? From inspiring so many people to go into science.

I don't think building better war machines inspires people to go into science.
Xinhua - The trust fiasco of America the Eavesdropper
They did try one myth involving a methane sewer gas explosion.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/manhole...
Valuation conversations always remind me of something George Carlin once said: "ever notice that everyone who drives slower than you is an asshole, but everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?"

I call it the Water Level Theory. It is that subconscious assumption that our personal thresholds for risk tolerance and boundaries of acceptability are the standard, and everything else is classified accordingly. It is in a similar vein to the notion of "one man's trash is another man's treasure."

As for Snapchat, I hope they're worth $4 billion. It gives me hope for my dozen or so crazy ideas being worth only a few hundred million each. :-)
Cheers mate - if you do, and have any questions, feel free to drop us a line (gwilym@vidigami.com).
I love the concept. However, I don't necessarily love the layout or the flow of the whole interface. The overarching goal of the whole app is trading games. However, I'm multiple clicks into the app before I can get to a search bar. The "list of available games" on the front page looks impressive, but it does little good for a user looking for a specific game, which, I would wager, is > 80% of your use case.

I'd love to see a search bar on the home page, maybe even a "google instant" style mechanism that shows me whether or not you have what I'm looking for at the moment, and allows me to rapidly re-query for other titles. I'd wager it might even moderately boost your conversion.

Anyway, love the concept and how it all works. Keep up the good work.
Mozilla is working on your alternative with Firefox OS. We're still very early but there is no doubt in my mind that Firefox OS is going to do to the smartphone market what Firefox did for the browser market, get vendors fighting over users and developers by improving the user and developer experiences and opportunities.

We need a real competitor here with a completely different kind of agenda and, IMO, Mozilla is the competitor to do that. (Yes, I work for Mozilla on Firefox OS, but I'm not just spouting off. It took us a while to get from Mozilla in 1998 to Firefox but we did it and it fixed the browser market. We're getting into phones for the same reason and you can help us fix this market by joining the Mozilla Firefox OS project.)
Thanks for your work. I know there are people like you who work hard on fixing bugs but it seems to be the minority of Mozilla's effort.

Here are some open bugs which affect sites I work on, one which was opened in 2000. I don't understand how having a bug open for 13 years is acceptable.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63895

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688556

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620691
Satellites have fixed orbits, which makes them relatively easy to hide from because you can figure out when they can see you.

Drones are good for spying because they're unpredictable, silent, and pretty much invisible, but their range isn't great. If you're not within range of a place where drones can be deployed, you're relatively safe from them.

A mach 6 manned plane can be anyplace, anytime. They can sit in their base in Nevada (or wherever) and be deployed to investigate anyplace in the world within a matter of hours. Drones and satellites just don't compare to that.

So, if you accept that the basic mission of these technologies is valid, then it makes sense to develop manned aircraft. It's just unfortunate that it takes so long for the technology that's developed to trickle out of the secret programs so everyone can get some benefit from it.
The more expert a teacher claims to be, the more they have to learn.
Pretty nifty. One of the things traceroute also does is to deal with broken routers that don't send the proper replies, as well as a number of other edge cases, but this is a cool toy and will probably work in most average cases.

see also:

http://cluepon.net/ras/traceroute.pdf and
http://blog.cachefly.com/2012/02/15/understanding-traceroute...
As Peter (sibling) mentioned, the force would not be equal across the surface. If it was propelled straight (i.e. orthogonal to the radius of the Earth), then there'd be some serious eddy effects of airflow around the circular edge (cross-section).

Probably the best thing that could happen from a NOT-deform standpoint would be to have it launched at an angle, i.e. as if a quarter fell on the Earth and landed on it's side (neither face). This would present the smallest and most uniform cross-section possible (as opposed to the face of the quarter looking into space, the rim/edge of the quarter points up skyward).

Also air resistance is extremely tricky at "normal" speeds, let alone at 10km/s+, and I think the real factor would be the currents of air around the edges, massive turbulence = massive amounts of friction/heat on the edges. It would be a mess! Hopefully that makes it a little clearer :)
Agreed. We're spending 1.2 trillion on the lifetime of the F-35 project, yet NASA begs for scraps. I hate my country's priorities. We're military first, people second, and science last. Not sure why we think this is a winning formula, especially as we watch Asia rise.

So "yes" to every pork-barrel weapons system designed for enemies we don't have and for a conflict we'll never have (another WWII-style drawn out war with everyone pretending they dont have nukes). "No" to anything that doesn't make the military industrialists wealthy.

Heck, when we do let NASA do something, we give it parameters that destroy any chance of success like giving Republican Senator with ties to $x_company_in_his_district to bring jobs to his district instead of going with a efficient vendor.
Those Comics in Your Basement? Probably Worthless
your reply wasn't really grumpy, and i understand it's a touchy subject for many people. the content of the article wasn't what interested me so much as the topic of it. it had never really occurred to me that the movement of potential suicide notes to digital media allows the opportunity for prevention.
I cant find the FCC or CE ID but this is whats written on the note under it,

IMEI: 868555010238909, S/N: K8U5TB9372301411
Its an Huawei LTE CPE E5172s 22
I predict in the long run they should have taken the $1B from Facebook. Yes they have users, but where in future will revenue come from? Startups like this come in two kinds, one that can become a standalone business (think Apple or Microsoft or Google) and the other an IPO or sellout business (like Youtube or Instagram) that eventually makes sense to a buyer as a piece of their revenue puzzle. For the former you need products that people buy and the latter you need buzz that attracts buyers. For the latter any excitement increases the chance that someone will eventually buy it. To me Twitter is the latter kind but it's still trying to be the first.
It looks like a nice little library. Unfortunately, most of these "micro super fast i can build a todo app in 4 lines of code" things aren't enough anymore.

Most of us aren't building "Todo" apps. We're building bigger apps which require - or are more suitable - for a framework like Angular/Ember. That's just my 2 cents.
I believe we are looking for some designers who can also do front end programming. Let me get back to you in the morning my time when I can talk to my team as I'm only hiring the PHP programmers.
Riot is just jQuery though. The riot's own source code is literally useless. I agree with the ideas that you can structure your application without frameworks like backbone though
What is the timeframe for maximizing profits? If I can liquidate the entire company and maximize profits for that quarter am I required to do so? If I can avoid instigating expensive legal battles and the associated bad PR to maximize profits in the next 10 years wouldn't I be just as required to do that?
I thought the same thing about the `store` variable in the `Todo` object. Not sure what we're missing.
Dogfish beer founder shares his secrets
Monotype partners with Google to release typographic experimentation tool
Atmospheric? Sure. Hypersonic? Why?

The SR-71's high speed and altitude was useful, and worth its high cost, for two reasons:

1. It was impossible to shoot down.

2. You could go check something out on short notice.

#1 doesn't really matter with drones, especially if you're not going to overfly the target country. #2 is easily solved by keeping a bunch of slow drones in the air all over the place at all times, rather than keeping fast aircraft ready to fly.
I think the short of it is that Mark Shuttleworth, leader of Ubuntu, wrote an article in which he ad hominem attacks criticizers of the Mir project.

The weirdest part of this attack is that he specifically mentions certain toolkits as 'competitors' who do not support Mir but do support Windows.

When superficially reading this someone who has followed recent events might think this is about Intel, who has recently refused a patch to their graphics card drivers and are rather big in their opposition of Mir.

But when reading more carefully, it does not really make sense to call Intel a competitor of Ubuntu in any sense. And the Intel linux graphics driver project obviously does not really support Windows.

The only project that comes to mind that does fit these criteria is KWin. Why would Mark single out KWin? I don't know, but obviously Martin is rather upset about it.

I get the feeling that maybe Mark just sort of jumbled some characteristics of Mir opponents together, and the jumble accidentally fit KWin perfectly.

Whether it was intentional or not, Mark should really apologize for causing Martin to feel this way.
Cheers! It's pretty fun to use. I'm conscious the docs could use a bit more fleshing out, so Kevin or myself will happily field any questions.
Fusion-io: Senior Verification Engineer

Salt Lake City or San Jose

We are seeking an ASIC/FPGA Verification Engineer to join our growing team of skilled engineers to work on our nand flash memory controller for our solid-state storage devices. The Logic Team at Fusion-io consists of highly experienced design and verification engineers to develop industry-leading products in solid state storage.

Responsibilities:

- Developing module as well as system level verification test-bench infrastructure, including generators, monitors, scoreboards, stimulus and models using UVM code base.

- Generation and execution of test plans in constrained-random environment, including the creation of appropriate assertions and functional coverage points

- Integration of target specific simulation models for FPGA and/or standard cell libraries, third-party verification IP, and driver software for co-verification

- Collaborating with fellow team members, both teaching and learning advanced processes for logic verification, as well as adding necessary infrastructure improvements.

We have a fun work environment that includes free lunches, ping-pong, family picnics, engineering summits, and if you come work in Salt Lake there is basically no traffic and an abundance of outdoor activities within a half hours drive from the office year round.

email: bmurdock@fusionio.com

P.S. we have some other openings too: http://www.fusionio.com/company/employment/?area=all
Oh I didn't know Cristopher Poole is a programmer!

Okay, he isn't.
It's actually more of a move away from MySQL -> Mongo, than Java to Rails

All of our other apps are on a Rails/Mongo stack. Most of our dev team is Rails and figured it'd be easier to hire Senior Rails hackers than Java folks.
Thanks for the comments. The search bar is definitely something I'm looking in to. Something along the lines of a recommendations dropdown as you search, with a "X copies available" note, sounds like an awesome idea. Much appreciated!
If both corporations and the government act outside or above the law, then they both have too much power, right? (Note that I don't actually believe Google has violated any laws here - just commenting on the perception).
Ask HN: Evernote for coders
Does anyone know of any tool which is like an evernote for coders? I used to use twiki a lot, but I just found the interface cumbersome.

Evernote bugs me because syntax higlighting is so finicky.
Excellent point, and I think that's the bet -- capture their attention long enough to keep them around. Hard to imagine, but someone has to be thinking about that problem.
Actually, OS X 10.9 was certified as UNIX by the OpenGroup (as were earlier versions such as OS X 10.6):

http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3602.htm
I like your book. Thanks for writing & sharing it.
No, it had ramifications on First Amendment rights as interpreted for broadly for associations of citizens. But it did not go so far as to declare associations of citizens as, themselves, citizens. More details and citations at [1] and a whole bunch of other places on the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Opinions_of_th...
Wow nice work. When I travel outside I usually use wikipedia to get a list of places where I should go. But a direct recommendation from friends is a lot better since wikipedia lists only places/things that are relatively popular.

I think a mobile app that keeps track of the paces you have been and then syncs it to wanderlust for friends to see could be really good. I think facebook does it but here it would make sense.

Really good work.
SEEKING WORK - Bespoke built web applications, Manchester, Chorlton, Salford areas, North West of England. Can/will work remote. I have a few front-end design guys who are very experienced who I work with. I typically work at £14 per hour. Give me a shout :)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut)

Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP.

Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and learning whatever needs to be learned to build your project.

http://dncrane.github.io/

dncrane@gmail.com
This book is containing my own story with Zen. How did it change me personally and how does my daily work life looks like. What have I understood from it. And so on. Actually the book contains the result of my practice. Inside the book you'll find many references to the actual original texts where you can read more about it.

You wrote "may contain" and "it does not". You simply don't know whats inside the book if you haven't read it.

Instead of assuming what the book is about or not, I invite you to just read it. If you are not happy with it I will refund you. Or if you buy it on Leanpub they will refund you according to their 100% happiness guarantee (on Leanpub you have even a bit more time to read the book).

Here is the book on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/thezenprogrammer

Here is the happiness guarantee: https://leanpub.com/thezenprogrammer#happiness_guarantee

There is no risk for you. When you have read it I am happy about your email if you liked it or not and if you actually see any harm in it.
Social hierarchies in apes and monkeys run a huge gamut of behaviors and structures. That a hierarchy exists doesn't say anything about social structure and how that hierarchy operates.
New Relic - Portland OR/Seattle WA/San Francisco CA (http://newrelic.com/jobs)

We make the best application AND mobile performance monitoring solution, and deliver the only serious SaaS APM. It gives deep visibility in production apps running on Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, and .NET (with more platforms on the way). Over 50,000 developer/users have used our tools.

Making it easy for our users, however, is hard work. Our answer is to hire top notch people and then turn them loose to solve tough problems as only they can.

We're looking for a number of technical positions (check out the Jobs page), including engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1-Bs welcome.

We also take our company culture seriously -- Best Place to Work and all that, of course. But we also provide an unusual and exciting development environment, one where managers are working to enable developers, not the other way around.

Come take a look. http://newrelic.com/jobs
Depends on a few factors:

- Type of employment. Is it a contract or "perm" position? Contract positions are expected to hop. It's part of the game.

- Timing. Are you in the middle of something? Can someone else easily pick it? Bailing in the middle of a big migration will leave a nasty taste in managers' mouths.

- Rank. Are you a CTO or a developer? The higher up you are, the longer you're expected to stay.

Changing jobs is something that you should do, in my opinion. Here's why:

- Versatility. You'll be exposed to new challenges/solutions, practices, and possibly languages.

- Network. If you do it properly, you'll establish a lot of new contacts in the industry

- Exposure. The same job at different companies may have different responsibilities and roles. You'll get a chance to build new skills or determine weaknesses.

- Pay. If you're hopping for the right reasons and doing it right, it is hands down the best way to get a pay boost. Once you're "in" a bigger company, they'll put you on a standardized raise ladder. Sure, you can get promoted but those will often have calculations involved that reduce your elevation. With hopping, you can set expectations (I need X% more to jump).

Problems with job hopping:

- Bridges. You'll burn them.

- Fatigue. It's a lot more time and emotionally consuming than
you'll realize to look for work. Interviews are exhausting (and intentionally so).

- Loyalty. You won't have any.

- Rank. It's hard to climb a ladder when you're jumping off of them.
Seeking Work - Remote / Travel ok.

HTML5, JavaScript, PHP and WordPress

https://github.com/omarabid
The same is true of newly constructed buildings and, I would imagine, commercial barges.
Well if that was the case its interesting that products are built to expire. Cause its certainly good for companies.

Waste is just a resource we have not found a way to utililze, we will.
Mirror since the original link is unavailable

http://pastebin.com/HqmzuAZ4
If you're using Google's unofficial finance "api", they just shut it down
I was using this url for my WatchStocks android app: http://www.google.com/ig/api?stock=AAPL

Google just turned this off (as of Friday Nov 1st).

Recommended backup now is Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL

However Yahoo doesn't support as many international exchanges or DJI.

Anyone know of a good alternative?

I'm now getting lots of refunds and 1-2 star reviews for my app due to data not updating this morning.
Are you thinking of something like http://snippets.me ?
I live in an old busted rented house in an old busted neighborhood in an old busted giant city, thank you very much, and type on an old busted workstation salvaged from a university. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your narrative.

And yeah, maybe that's what needs to happen. Tyrants have never been disposed of by hiding indoors and hoping they'll go away.
I think I addressed this point in another thread once: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6505161