skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a lot of people (surprisingly) miss is that Open Source in general has several distinct camps:

- the ethically politically motivated: there are many sides of the spectrum here. Copyleft GNU advocates are a good example. Writing GPLv3/v2 is an issue of freedom and the code the write is a political statement

- the open source as a business model types: another category with different sides of the spectrum. Companies that dual-license as a restriction mechanism is another example. One license model allows anyone to use it with a GPLv3 license, while the author company really expects to make money of the consuming companies that do not want (or cannot) use that license. The consuming company has to buy another "commercial" license that does not require them to GPL anything.

- the I-just-want-to-build-cool-stuff camp: I found it on GitHub, so I just fork and use it. Often, they don't really understand licensing restrictions (or care). It is about hacking.

- the I-want-this camp: They may be seriously fed up with a particular piece of software. So much, that they are starting a new Open Source software and putting a lot of intellectual (and emotional) effort to build something they envision. Criticisms to the project are direct criticisms to the person. After all, the motivation for creating the project was personal.

- etc

The point of this, is that it is easy to forget that the motivation for using and creating Open Source for all these camps is drastically different. It is easy to get political, be attacked by zealots, get personal, or emotionally offensive.
TheFacebook open source
A non official version of thefacebook is open source. Install worked but took a while.
You are incorrect on what China spends. They are closing the gap, and I imagine their equipment actually costs them less per unit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
I fail to see how that isn't obvious

ssh -D sounds like a good solution to the problem. ssh is a powerful tool with a lot of options that are well worth learning. Many of these options are not, however, "obvious". If you doing anything with UI, I hope you aren't in the mindset that every every feature is obvious.
Jay Leno is 3D printing replacement car parts over 100 years old
Protect Notes with Vim (built in) Encryption
I interviewed once at Bloomberg. Kind of rocked the phone interview on algorithms and then on-site everybody was acting like if they hated to be there to deal with me. Plus it was weird as it was a Rails position and I got interviewed by people not in the team I was applying for on college C++ internals stuff. So be careful guys :>

The office looks really nice though. And the projects sound pretty sexy.
It's completely in line with current Google Glass experience. The pickup has Valets, champagne, ice cream, guided campus tour...
>the same Lockheed Martin that processes the tax returns

I don't understand this one. Are they behind the IRS's systems or something?
There's no reason it can't be a meritocracy run by humans with human emotions.
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I know two non-techies who bought Samsung Android phones when they upgraded rather than iPhones because of that trial. Not a huge effect and obviously anecdotal, but these things do have an effect.

However, I think developers are likely to stay with Apple as they have solidly adopted their products over the last 7-8 years, and weirdly many people seem willing to forgive a large company anything, just because they happen to have purchased some of their product range.
Flynn Meetup (November 5 in SF)
Department manager takes "Google X" literally, gets budget for giant rave barges.

Seriously, no. Someone is having a good laugh over at Google.
Edward Snowden letter to German government in full
As a motorcyclist I'll take someone driving 100 mph over someone txting and driving any day of the week.
But if there is some uncertainty and/or overlap it's still not necessarily a deal breaker- you can buy a lot of bus passes for the price of half a car.
Toronto, ShopLocket

ShopLocket is the fastest way to add ecommerce functionailty to any web site, whether that's adding a simple shopping cart or taking preorders and charging later.

At ShopLocket, we're currently spending a lot of time on:
- building a product that can live anywhere throught the magic of third-party Javascript
- turning our simple service into an API that other developers can build on top of
- designing a tool that gets out of the way when it has to but be intuitive and pleasant to use when it can't
- investing in automated testing so that we can adapt our codebase without (too much) stress and deploy confidently
- giving ourselves a quantified view into how both buyers and sellers use our platform

We do our work in Rails, AngularJS, Coffeescript, Sass, deployed on Heroku; however, we're reaching that exciting stage where we're running into some of the limits of what these tools can do well.

We're looking for a VP Engineering, Backend Developer, Front-end Developer.

In exchange for your passion and expertise, we can offer a competitive salary, a great office in downtown Toronto, full benefits, and access to a variety of stimulants and depressants, where legal and appropriate.

Please get in touch: andrew@shoplocket.com
Healthcare.gov Memo: Six Completed Signups On First Day
IMO the minute you are hired as an at-will employee that can be terminated at any time, with or without cause, you have been granted carte blanche to do the same to your employer.

That said, staying for ~2 years and jumping when you can get a promotion by doing so seems to be a pretty common strategy. I've heard hiring managers and engineers decry this practice repeatedly, but I know way too many directors and VPs who got there by doing this very thing to feel one should criticize it. Or, sigh, hate the game, don't hate the player.
THEY'RE BOTH RIPPING OFF OWS http://occupywallst.org/! Power to the people.
Horse. Shit. I have a perfectly healthy family, a family in which I am notably the least actuarially sound bet. When we started Matasano, we found my wife and (at the time) 7 year old daughter both uninsurable, full stop, at any price, due not to preexisting conditions but instead previous medical examinations that led insurers to believe that at some point in the future the two (coincidentally? female) members of my family might develop a condition.

I've talked to dozens of people since then and come to the conclusion that "functioning human female reproductive system" is, in essence, a coverage-denying preexisting condition in many US states.
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Location: New York, New York

Position: Full-time on-site software engineer

We are looking for great software engineers to help us match people with the perfect jobs. If you are committed to building solid software as part of a cross-functional team, we would love to hear from you. Our current stack includes JavaScript, iOS, JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure), MySQL, Couchbase, ElasticSeach, and RabbitMQ. While it is nice to find people who have experience in these areas, the first qualities we look for are curiosity and a willingness to learn how to do new things.

As an engineer you will help us tackle big technical problems. We have millions of users and thousands of jobs, with historical data going back nearly a decade. In order to provide our users with an experience that they are willing to pay for, we need to build smart, scalable solutions. You will be at the heart of this, designing and building products using your skills and the best available technologies.

We are committed to taking care of our engineers. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and unlimited vacations. We also want to help our engineers grow. Inside the office you'll see this in things like our onboarding process (http://dev.theladders.com/2013/03/theladders-on-boarding-a-r...), code reviews, technical discussions, and our developer blog (http://dev.theladders.com). Outside of the office it will take the form of conferences and training programs, paid for by the company.

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If you had a one-off Ferrari engine, you could scan each part and then re-create the entire motor. Right now, we're scanning a Duesenberg body

Wow - is he going to 3D print a Duesenberg someday ?!
Rockton, IL/Beloit, WI/REMOTE - Fulltime Senior/Mid Software Engineers at AccuLynx (http://www.acculynx.com)

AccuLynx isn't your typical startup company. For one, we're profitable! Second, our primary product is a SaaS that caters to specialty trade contractors. Yup, software helping construction contractors.

We are looking for a “smart-and-gets-things-done” senior/mid software engineers. We do not hire based on buzzwords or popular acronyms. We expect you to have mastered at least one language and be eager to master any technology or language in the future. Here is a detailed job description: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/31889/senior-c-sharp-e...

Here is our current stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC, Sql Server, AngularJS, jQuery, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Git. If you aren't familiar with those technologies that is fine, just show me how good you are. :)

We have pretty awesome perks: Unlimited paid time off, free snacks/drinks/beer, flexible hours, sweet laptops, sit/stand desks, super comfy chairs, dual monitors, casual dress, and cutting edge tech. We play boardgames for “team building”, have frequent team lunches, and monthly company outings. We might even develop video games and robots on the side.

Here are the other benefits are top notch: Highly competitive salary (80k-100k), stock options, unlimited paid time off, $5k/year to spend on continuing education (conferences, classes, etc), sweet computer hardware, choice of cell phone, MSDN subscription, gym membership, competitive medical, dental, vision, 401K with matching & safe harbor contributions, relocation reimbursement available, etc.

We are moving to an awesome new office in Beloit, WI within the next 4 months (each developer gets their own office!). We have toyed with creating a remote team. If you are an awesome remote dev let us know (I'll be honest, you'll have to be pretty awesome to get the remote gig). Email me if you are interested (mention HN to get my attention), my name is Paul: careers@acculynx.com

Seriously, this is the best job I've had and I want to bring the best onto my team. If you have any questions, let me know.
SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, am reliable, and get stuff done.
PHP, Perl | Laravel, CodeIgniter | MySQL, MongoDB

I often utilise Test Driven Development, and strive to produce clean, maintainable code.

More backend focused than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

I am particularly skilled at working with large legacy code bases.

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glen@glenscott.co.uk
Everyone NEEDS this App for Privacy, particularly now
This app will ensure your private things remain private.
I get the whole eat your own dog food thing, but having to click twice to get to the actual career page can't be good for conversion.
Homeless turn overnight bus route into Hotel 22
Color me crazy, but I think supporting a growing surveillance state is just as bad -- if not worse -- than refusing to assist in providing healthcare services.

Shall the calves in the hutch be content with their fate as veal, as long as the food arrives regularly and in plentiful quantities?
>> Consider that if we didn't need national defense, people would probably just want lower taxes and you still couldn't convince them to go to the moon.

We have 1.5 million active military personnel and almost 1 million in reserves. Then you've got at least another million employed by contractors like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grunman, etc.

You'd devastate the economy by getting rid of the military. It's a huge jobs program.
I think this is probably cheaper to build than it would be to RENT that much square footage for a month in SF or NYC.
Austin, TX
New York, NY
San Francisco, CA

BazaarVoice is hiring for a variety of roles: http://keepaustinbazaar.com/
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No remote work – must be able and willing to work at our Amsterdam office.

Silk (www.silk.co) is looking for Javascript, TypeScript and Haskell engineers.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

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The severity of hiring manager "job hopping" alarms are inversely proportional to historical job tenures listed on your CV.

If you show that you changed jobs at a rate of 6 months then hiring managers will extrapolate this and conclude that you are less likely to stay longer than the preferred minimum 12 months. A severe "job hopping" alarm will be triggered in this case.

If you change jobs every 12 months, then you're in more-likely-to-land-an-interview territory, but there will be questions and reservations, depending on the job position.

Anything longer than that and it's probably unlikely you'll trigger job hopping alarms for engineers. PMs may be a bit different depending on the industry. For example, if you're a PM in a slower moving technology industry like telecom then anything less than 24months would probably count against you, especially if you're moving between different completely markets.

Startups help to explain short job durations, but hiring managers would then expect to hear what you learned and convince them you were insanely productive during said period.
When the wife threatened to pitch them, I shipped them all to my nephews. I hope they got more psychic value than the couple of dollars I could have gotten locally. I expect my kids to get them back when they're a little older.

I think a couple things kill the prices:

- A lot were produced.

- It's much easier to find and sell them. (Thank you eBay)

- Softcopy as a medium doesn't appeal to today's buyers.

I wonder if Comixology will go after older properties.
However, we don't have to worry just about China. We have to worry about Iran, NK, China, Russia, etc. So just looking at what China spends isn't that useful.
At Hipmunk, we're hiring full-stack (python/coffeescript) web developers, as well as developers for iOS and Android. We're also hiring a PR director and an SEO expert. We're in San Francisco.

Email the address on http://www.hipmunk.com/jobs or me at david at hipmunk dot com and I can pass you on
Flat UI Design, Is it just a phase?
Flat UI designs often appears very simple of the surface with just a few differentiating colours, but the planning and effort going in is a lot higher than one might think. Flat UI is a minimalistic digital design technique that puts a strong emphasis on usability.
Show HN: 1 week project, website screenshots emailed to you and archived daily
I know it's nitpicking but the footer keeps getting pushed away.

I didn't even see the top nav but found the search from there. I know what I'm doing after work now.
Yes. It seems like they've been involved since at least 1996 or so (probably way earlier than that).

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-02-04/business/36862...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lockheed-martin-wins...
It's just FUD. In 2007, LM was awarded a minor contract to help update the IRS' technology systems: (1)to modernize the notice system (referring to notices received by taxpayers under audit or for penalty assessments) and the publication system (the pdf's available on the IRS website. (See http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2007/oc...)

Lockheed Martin was not involved in helping the IRS design or update its return processing system (including e-file). A contract of that magnitude would be worth billions, not the $36 million LM was paid for the work above.
Square Register does this, plus adds:

- Don't need to run code on a VPS to do it (this is a positive for the constituency that got into business out of love of wine, not computers).

- Don't need to muck with merchant providers.

- Uses an iPad, which does double duty at home.

- There is someone you can call for support. This is good because you went into business because you love wine, not debugging POS systems.

So: why would Square Register not be a better answer for the target user of this?
If you ignore Erlang and run your database on a ramdisk.

Sorry, round 7 isn't helping much. Wait for round 8.
Apparently, yes.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lockheed-martin-wins...
Sounds like a useful tool for tracking answering questions like "who knows the most about file/subsystem/internal concept X". Questions where false positives are more or less in inconsequential and easily corrected.

But number of commits is a horrible way to infer seniority. Unless you value "frequency of checkpointing changes" above all else. You get what you measure, so I suspect OP is going to get a lot of small commits in the future.
No disagreement there: every company has their own pile of technical dirt swept under the rug.
You make a good point, but just so you know, when I see political put-down portmanteaus (politdownteaus?) like "libercrazian", "libtard", "randroid", etc., it immediately sets off my alarm bells for people who are operating on an us-vs-them instead of a reasoned-thinking basis. I doubt I'm the only one for whom a good argument seems weakened by this sort of silliness.
Show HN: We built a better way to chat during live shows-Using Ember.js and RoR
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Expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with focus on Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Neo4j graph database using Blueprints and Gremlin, image processing and computer vision using OpenCV.

Java, C#, C++, Python. Using Java mainly for NLP/NLU tasks.

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Email address in my profile.
Just signed up.

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Yes. Specifically, we're focusing on NYC and the Bay Area first.

Most people we speak to are open to consultants that work remotely, but prefer devs that can occasionally be on-site for kick-off meetings and the like. If you can meet with a client once a week, that gives you a tremendous advantage over devs that are entirely remote.
She has gone over her electable expiry date by at least a decade. She should retire, where she can natter idiocies to herself instead of pushing garbage legislation ad nauseum.
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"LucidWorks is the commercial company behind Apache/Lucene Solr, the world’s leading open source search platform.LucidWorks is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.These cutting edge technologies power critical search apps at thousands of websites and enterprise apps large and small – including Netflix, IBM, Twitter, LinkedIn, and dozens of other household names. Our team includes leading contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search, distributed computing and scalability. Be part of this exciting technology story and work with many of the Lucene/Solr committers!"

In other words, we do a lot of work with helping companies implement search as well as processing and analyzing "big data", whatever that might mean to a customer.

Our engineering team consists of 15-20 of the committers to the Lucene/Solr project, including our founders Erik Hatcher and Grant Ingersoll. Erik is known for writing one of the definitive books on Solr, as well as working with libraries all over the world to implement better search. Grant Ingersoll has written a few books himself and is a co-founder of the Mahout open source project, and an overall fount of knowledge relating to machine learning.

We're looking for engineering types that would be interested in development or consultant roles, and have experience with enterprise search. Solr/Lucene experience of course would be ideal. Experience with Java development is a huge plus, and even more bonus points if you already contribute to open source.

We're also hiring for support and UI positions, again people with enterprise search backgrounds are preferred for those roles.

Please contact me at yann.yu@lucidworks.com if you have any questions, concerns, feedback, resumes, etc.
Learned something new today. SABDFL: Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for life. That initialism actually goes to his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABDFL.
If the satellite imaging is good enough, it's probably cheaper to just have complete coverage. GPS was like 20 billion? a billion in ongoing costs?

If i understand correctly, a new jet is a trillion dollars.

Perhaps the imaging isn't good enough, cloud cover or whatever, but a whole bunch of satellites seems like a far simpler solution.