skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software Engineer at Aircloak - REMOTE ((UTC +2) +- 2)

My name is Sebastian, and I am the CTO at Aircloak. Aircloak is a young and well-funded startup working on privacy preserving data processing and analytics. We are a spinout from the German Max-Planck Institute for Software System research institute and receive a lot of backing and support from the institute and their extended network.

Our technology allows us to process highly private streams of data and only ever make fully anonymous data available to our customers. One of the features that make our system unique is that no one, including operators, customers, and ourselves, ever has access to the sensitive raw data. This property holds true even after we update the software running on the machines processing the sensitive data!

You should:

- be intelligent
- have a good sense of humour
- be an amazing programmer
- wish to change the world

Our system spans many machines and services, with major components written in Erlang and Java, in addition to components written in C, C# and ruby. Knowledge of functional programming is a plus. Experience with web development is not going to hurt either.

The founding team consists of recent University of Cambridge graduates and a director at the Max-Planck Institute. In the past months we have also been joined by two excellent engineers.
The work environment is highly international and diverse, and we would like to keep it that way.

We are looking to hire one additional engineer, and are in the lucky position where we can afford to be picky with whom we choose.
Our team is distributed, and we would therefore expect you to work remotely as well. We would prefer if you were located within one or two timezones of our own (UTC+2). We offer good and stable salary, generous equity, exciting problems to solve, and a fabulous team, and in turn expect you to be driven, social, and good at solving problems.

We hope to hear from you. Please email us at jobs@aircloak.com if you have any questions!

You can find more on our website: http://www.aircloak.com/join.html
> (though that can be just by agreeing to a job that stipulates the opt out in the contract)

That would probably fall foul of the regulations.
I wouldn't necessarily add Dalton to the category of "Successful" just yet. Although he is a great influencer and a great technologist.
Tight budget? That's more than my grocery budget, and that includes everything like toothbrushes and binbags too. And I'm not being stingy with it, that includes wine and beer and fresh coffee delivered every week.

One person will pay almost $3400 per year for this. That to me is just insane, unless you really need this.
Has done for a while, but wasn't aware of using the "etymology" query; I used to hit the drop-down on "define:" queries.
There's two arguments that can be made: 'teach a man to fish' is basically what providing Internet access would do, it could enable a whole new generation of people access to information and allow them to significantly improve their lives, or for them to fully realise their potential. How many of them may actually be able to contribute directly to improving their lives, and the lives of millions of others if they had the resources?

But Gates isn't wrong, providing Internet access isn't what they need right now. They need safe water, and a cure to malaria, and improved medical services, and dozens of other things. Where Gates argument falls down is that it doesn't need to be a single focus, why not have the Gates foundation solve malaria cures why another goes after safe water, and another goes after Internet access. A multi-pronged attack to improve lives, and to give them the tools to improve their own.
Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand (what on earth does sympathy have to do with it, especially for Eric Schmidt? it's user data the NSA is copying)

Meanwhile, I'll point out once again the rest of what he said, in which he warned everyone of the dangers of cloud computing due to the powers enabled by the Patriot Act. But no, no one wanted to talk about that. Too easy to go for the sound bite.

> Q: "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?"

> Schmidt: "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities."
... or ... both. :)
Yay for LastPass - my password at adobe is a long string of gobbedlygook that is unique to the site. I changed it just in case...

which makes me think...

Why the hell hasn't Adobe reset everyone's password yet? That would be the FIRST thing I did in that situation. At least prevent the world from being able to log into my own site with the leaked passwords.
+1 for your post. As an addendum: He had such respect in the german community after World War I for his deeds in R&D and industrial chemistry (chemical weapons, fertilizer, munitions) that he was able resist nazi influence in his research institute - albeit only for some time.
Voeding met deze schadelijke E- nummers beperken voor een zuiver lichaam
My personal experience. There was a time in my life when the idea of having "free time" was a foreign concept to me. I took 12-14 credits in college, worked 60 hours (mostly graveyard shift), plus I had small online side projects (needed fair bit of time) which was making me $500/month and I was fairly busy socially and had a girlfriend. The commute to my work and to my school were both about 1 hour each (NYC subway) and most of time I would sleep in the train to make up for rest and would sometimes miss my stop. I did this for about 2.5 years (give or take).

Life was bit of a blur, so much was happening, so fast, it was hard to keep track of everything. But I LOVED it. I loved the rush, I loved having something to do all the time. I loved looking forward to vacation times dates or whatever leisure time I could squeeze in.

Now that I am older and have much more free time in my life, I am not even 1/10th as productive as I used to be.

Honestly given the choice I would gladly take a extremely busy life over all the free time I have right now.

Trust me I am not just sitting around with the all the free time I have. I try to take on projects, learn new things, take on difficult physical challenges (training for marathon), but its just not the same.
Apple, Microsoft Lie To The EU About Opposing Patent Trolling
From what I saw and of the other core committers could take over his job. If Linus is not merging things, commits are probably just piling up on the repos of the respective subsystem responsible persons.
If I were a developer why would I spend a number of hours developing,m not knowing if the client would pay?
We use that same emulator (x86emu) in coreboot to isolate the VGABIOS from real hardware (except the video card, of course)
Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
Wow that's a great idea. Great execution as well.
Some initial remarks after playing around with this for a bit: Currently, this seems to only include the etymology for English words. Proper nouns are not included, except those also used as common nouns, like Newton. Nor are most compound words made up of simpler words or affixes such as mainland, snowman, simply, or even disuse. This is understandable because covering all these cases will dramatically expand the number of words that have to be dealt with, and this is probably the limitation of the original source used by Google for the etymology information, which was probably an etymological dictionary with the usual space constraints. But freed from such constraints, it should be feasible in the future to add in the etymological information for such compounds.

What I like is the tree structure of the presentation. This covers not only compound words but weirder cases of combination of disparate etymological sources—check out discombobulate or typhoon. But the tree structure is misleading in cases like apple, where Dutch appel and German Apfel are indicated as if they were parent forms instead of sister forms to the English apple. The branching should occur between Germanic and the daughter languages to make the relationship clearer. Also, note that this doesn't show the Germanic form for apple—it looks like it doesn't do hypothetical forms, restricting itself to attested forms.

A welcome feature would be being able to click through to different words at each stage of the etymology, to be able to trace through to even earlier stages or to see what other words are descended from the same roots.
This actually looks fun and solid. Nice work, love the work you did on the interface especially. Nice and tidy.
Mono's actually really solid, and I'm looking to bring it more heavily into use at work. Some of the most active F# contributors are Mono-first, too, so it's a well-supported target.
The compiler cannot compile itself yet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+etymology

:(
I think the eight square boxes mean "exactly 8 characters", and the long rectangles mean "up to 8 characters".

You can tell them apart (sometimes) because "exactly 8 characters" will match if those 8 characters are re-used by someone else with a longer than 8 character password.

And the layout emphasizes the re-use, which is also shown by color coding.
A funny thing: a decade ago, people said technology was wasted beating Bowser in Mario.

http://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Mario_references_in_live-ac...

I concur with this point of view. I very much doubt most smartphones are used to access the wealth of knowledge on the Internetz. They are used to play games. Source: my time on the NYC subway system.
Certainly, but essays predates blogging and cover something else, all essays are not blog posts and all blog posts are not essays.
Ask HN: Anyone tried raising venture capital in Australia before?
Raising venture capital in Australia is a lot harder compared to the United States because we are a smaller country. Has anyone tried raising capital in Australia and if so, were you successful and if not, what was your experience like?
Yes, Fritz Haber is pretty much single-handedly responsible for starting the chemical weapons race that ravaged soldiers and citizens alike during the great war.

Edit: Although Victor Grignard, on the Allied side, deserves a fair scoop of the blame as well.
Yup, typo from an audio transcription. Glad you liked the content though :)
Reviewing your Initial Business Plan
If you're looking for an ORM-like thing, check out gorp (https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp). I find abstracts interaction with datastores quite idiomatically.

I find gorp with Revel (http://robfig.github.io/revel/) makes for a powerful and performant backend. I just wish Revel had better testing integration.
Add "tabindex=1" to the title-link found in every /item pages. Now pressing tab on the comments page selects the link at the top, press enter to follow it.
I love reading the answers from prison inmates on Quora, it's one of my favourite things about the website. Some real insight into what it's like and surprisingly, a lot of inmates seem intelligent. I guess crime doesn't discriminate. Christopher seems like a bright guy who got dealt a bad hand and dug himself into a hole he couldn't get out of.
What that chart reports is, in effect, energy per instruction executed. By that metric, the GA144 indeed does extremely well. But not all instructions are equal, and it's far from obvious what the right conversion factor is between F18A instructions and, say, ARM instructions.

My guess (based on pure industrial-grade ignorance) is that about half the gap between the GA144 and, say, the ARM Cortex-A9, would go away if you corrected for the difference in useful work done per instruction.

The GA144 still comes out looking good even if that's so. But in that chart it looks miraculous and I think that's a bit of an illusion.
Definitely. There's enough time and resources for everything. People just need to coordinate and spend their time more wisely.

Pissing your day away on HN debating what Bill Gates said about malaria and the internet for the second time in three days is probably not one of those worthwhile contributions. The world isn't going to be any different after our discussion. It will be a little better because Bill took action.
I totally agree. Self-contained installs without side-effects are the goal for Scoop, and it's almost there. Scoop extracts NSIS/NullSoft and InnoSetup installers already, and if all goes well it'll extract MSI installers soon too (using lessmsi).

If you're building your own package for Scoop and you just want to run the installer, there's good support for that too.
THIS. Can't up vote this enough.
example@example.com

nospam@nospam.com

nospam@here.com

Were all found.

I feel sorry for the people paying a lot of money to buy these short domain names, and finding huge amounts of spam being delivered to them because people have misused domain names that don't belong to them.
>> what's so wrong with Windows as a development environment?

Command line.

When you're doing a task on a computer, some paradigms are better suited than others depending on the task.

E.g. imagine delicately touching up pixels in a photo, guided by your artistic eye yet instructing the computer by laboriously typing many commands into a command line. There's no reason this couldn't work, it's just way more natural to use a pen & digtiser, or a mouse.

When we're developing we're editing text and invoking commands. Editing text is covered by any major platform just fine, a lot of popular editors & IDEs are even cross platform.

Invoking commands are sometimes covered by the IDE, sometimes the commands covered are pretty comprehensive (i'm thinking of Tom Christiansen's quip "Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX").

There's a limit to what tasks your IDE can cover, even though some do try really hard to cover all your needs (Eclipse has a web browser in it!) and when you hit that limit as we so often do in development, you need a command line.

At that point, Windows kind of whistles while sheepishly looking off to one side.

There's a related point about development dependencies, some libraries are hard and / or time consuming to build. A great package manager is a brilliant productivity booster. Mostly though, it's the point about the command line.

(just to be clear, i have given powershell a good shot, i estimate i've authored almost 1k lines of it).
Well, the point is, if you want to make a side project, it is because you have a strong reason. It could be several things, among them, learn new things, solve problems or simply the mercenary way: win more money.
Ask the same question to a university professor teaching students for 30 years. You may be surprised by their answer.
F# runs perfectly fine on Mono. No Windows required there, either.
Sounds like the future if just for the low-power.
« 144-core asynchronous chip that needs little energy (7 pJ/inst). Idle cores use no power (100 nW). Active ones (4 mW) run fast (666 Mips), then wait for communication (idle).»
Sure it will. The thing that I think Gates is missing is that even the poorest parts of the world aren't universally so. One need only think back to what it must have been like hundreds and even thousands of years ago. People back then were unimaginably poor by modern standards, how did we get from there to here? Incremental development a bit at a time. All it takes is a seed. A seed of literacy. And education, and entrepreneurship, and industry, and so forth. Once the norm starts changing things can reach a tipping point more rapidly than we tend to appreciate.

Look at South Korea, for example. In the 1950s they had been devastated by several wars (WWII and the Korean war). Today they are a wealthy industrial power house.

It may seem non-intuitive that today countries that are wracked by war, starvation, terrorism, corruption, and disease will end up with mass ownership of tablet computers over the next few decades, and that doing so will be one important facet in becoming wealthy, industrialized nations in the next few decades after that, but it's almost certainly going to happen.

Of course, spending a considerable amount of effort on curing malaria in the short-term is probably also a good idea regardless.
UK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime
So San Francisco is not the only city with a remarkably crooked Lombard Street?
Depends on if you view a blog as a type of content or a method of organising content (electronically distributed, ordered reverse-chronologically , short enough to be consumed in one sitting).
You're making a very good point, one which I've been making for a long time. Chiming in as a Norwegian, we actually have much higher levels of automation than the United States does. This is a necessity, since salaries here are so high. But we also have (1) higher salaries for lower-skilled jobs and (2) a very strong social safety net which ensures that you will live a decent life even if you get long-term illness or are rendered obsolete.

It is my hypothesis that the Scandinavian social welfare model is a prequel to the way things need to be in the even more automated future: High taxation of high incomes, and either a very strong welfare system or negative taxation for low incomes / citizen's wage paid out to everyone regardless of income.
> We were all born with the same rights.

The concept of "rights" is just some set of rules the society has agreed on. Nothing else. It's not something you get born with. If the society decides to completely redefine rights, they could, for example, remove the right of freedom of religion.

> When we were all born equal?

We obviously aren't.
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What's the level of "success" he's talking about?

Millions? Billions? Yacht & Helicopter money?
Norway.

Arbeidsmiljøloven (the Law of Workers' Environment) is one of the strongest pieces of legislation in the world to prevent exploitation of laborers. This law has to be followed by everyone who doesn't have an exemption after an agreement between large groups of employers and employees. Basically, most of the nation has the advantages of unionized labor without the big disadvantages (rent-seeking, destructive bureaucratic processes, low productivity).
I embarked on this same search a few months ago. Unfortunately, I never found something that met all of my requirements. I ended up going with Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/). Harvest works well, until you want to do something that they don't specifically account for, or if you want complete control over your data. It does integrate invoice creation nicely, which saves me some time.

If you find anything that matches your requirements, please let me know. I've been thinking of writing my own.
It really depends how you see success... "Success is working towards a predetermined goal" Earl Nightingale
How much money does a CEO need to make to be deemed successful?
For me people like Ryan Carson are successful because he is on a journey and whilst I admit he doesn't blog now as often as he used too, when he does blog it is about the journey he is on.
Mark Suster I would deem successful irrelevant of how much money he has and his blog is brilliant and regular and a great read for any entrepreneur.
Just my thoughts :)
This is the study that says Vanguard is one of the most powerful companies in the world for running a bunch of people's 401(k)'s in index funds, right?
I've always found this a puzzling argument. He wants to spend his billions on malaria and polio, should we let him do that or should we start a committee that decides how best he should spend his money? Maybe he can do a televised competition where people go on stage and make a 1 minute pitch for him to choose one cause over another. Or maybe he can just keep doing what he's doing and solve two really big problems and then move on to something else that he wants to do when that's done.

He didn't suggest that people pour money into malaria either, really, he just suggested that they don't pour it into connectivity, and he had a really good point. But if people want to do that, then maybe we can solve malaria and polio AND get people connected at the same time!
The Latency of Dialogue
Sorry, but this is all but useless. Anyone remotely interested in IRC is bound to be capable enough to find all of this out on their own. It reeks like a cheap attempt to get pageviews.

I was hoping to find a list of useful IRC channels, but not even that.
Beware this line of thought.

The justice system in the United States used to try and "fix" the poor and the "feeble-minded" by sterilizing them. Men and women sterilized to "protect" society from them, and produce a more wonderful race.

Or perhaps we could look back to the electro-convulsive therapy and forced hormone treatment used to "fix" gay men (Alan Turing, for instance).

Turns out that sometimes it is the societies need fixing rather than the people.
I heard that Kaspersky got trolled recently, and it f\a*cked up. Are some p_trolls deliberately trying to shoot themselves in the foot?
Writing Macros in Clojure
512 symbols for every one! Or 256 for unicode! NEED LESS? Twitter just 140!
> Not to be an ass, but why not?

He's not saying it can't be done, he wants to ask "someone that knows something about declarative programming".
In the future, we may simply not have a use for violent people anymore. War can be automated to some extent. Violence can be abstracted, so it is done via remote control. This is already happening.
Humans may just become domesticated, like dogs. If we have relative peace for long enough, those who can't control their violent urges just won't fit into society any more.

However, that doesn't negate your point that we could end up ruining it all through war. The thing is, most people want to follow, and they aren't very choosy about who leads them. Leadership tends to attract the kind of people who enjoy power, and so, even if resources are abundant, there is always something to fight about.

The technology that could bring about a lasting peace wouldn't be robotics, it would be some social mechanism through which we could obtain wise leadership. Which is certainly possible. Information technology opens up the possibility of entirely new levels transparency and accountability. Alternatively, there is the possibility of extremely rigid population monitoring and control.

Frankly, I think the most likely possibility is that there will only be a very brief period of time (maybe 50 years) between the point where we can automate all manual tasks, and the point where we have AI or augmented human minds, that are (by definition) impossible for us to predict.
Someone should assemble the leaked hashes and hints into a real, huge browser-based multiplayer crossword. Imagine how awesome would that be.
complete stab in the dark here, but perhaps however you're getting your work onto master is rewriting timestamps (NFI if the graph goes off authored or commited dates).

Maybe try 'git checkout master && git merge --no-ff feature-branch' and see if that helps
You're right, blog content looks pity. One post about how to use ln, another about IRC.
That's a really misleading way to put the sentiment that you should love your spouse selflessly. And marriage is definitely also about you. If you're in a relationship with someone who isn't reciprocating your selflessness you should probably give it some deep though.
I read it in another Guardian article at the time, but: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/pri... slide #3:

"Collection directly from the servers of these US Service Providers: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, Youtube, Apple."

"directly from the servers of these US Service Providers" means "with help from these US Service Providers"
What are your main issues with working on Windows 7?