skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London, UK -part time/intern (sorry, no remote work, and we can't help with visas)

NBCUniversal - Research Assistant, Data Science & Predictive Analytics.

We're no startup. We're the special operations team for the corporate world.

We're hunting for engaging problems and opportunities to create real value for our marketing, sales, and research teams throughout our international businesses (television, movies, news, and home entertainment).

You'll be helping us on a variety of problems - little ones like writing a script to hack a third party's website and collect info on our products, to large ones like creating a model that can show our products value through time. In all cases you'll be working closely with the a senior engineer and either senior corporate management or a business unit in TV, film, or news. A typical week might look like this:

* Meet with the head of sales for a UK TV channel, learn about a problem they're facing trying to get an accurate value for advertisement slots.

* Discuss what you learned with the rest of team. Someone suggests that a nearest-neighbors regression on data from the marketing team might help.

* A senior dev helps you implement the algorithm and a UI for the sales team to use it.

* Spend some time with the sales team to see if it's creating any value, look for improvements.

What we use (We list this to tell you what we're like, not to tell you what languages we expect to see on a CV):

* Racket. We're big fans lisp and functional programming.

* Bash. We create a lot of value with small dirty hacky shell scripts, and we aren't shy about it.

* Whatever gets the job done, and whatever we think might be fun to use. Python, R, Javascript, Hadoop, EC2. We even wrote code in Fortran once (we don't like to talk about it.)

Who we're looking for:

Most importantly, you should be an intelligent problem solver who wants to apply whatever programming and maths knowledge you have to real world problems. We're not fussed about what languages are on your CV.

You have some familiarity with functional programming, machine learning, and linux/bash scripting, and you're eager for a chance to use it on real-world problems with support from other programmers. Given the predictive modeling angle, you're probably studying or have studied maths, stats, or even physics.

These are two assistant/internship positions for students looking for experience while doing their degree. Alternatively, if you can take on several projects in a full time role, please get in touch, too. We're pretty flexible.

Interested? My contact details are in my profile. Get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.

Apologies if you've contacted me before from outside London and I didn't get back to you. :( If you contacted me from London and didn't hear back, please do so again!
Base - http://www.wearebase.com - Bournemouth, UK

We're a digital agency, looking for 1 full time senior PHP developer and 1 full time Android/iOS developer. Full details:

http://wearebase.com/BaseJobSpecificationPHPLAMPDev.pdf

http://wearebase.com/BaseJobSpecificationAppDev.pdf
Did you even read the bullet points? None of them are about writing perfect code or non-buggy code. They are so high level that, as someone else noted, they are not a software engineering code of ethics but simply a professional code of ethics.

>When you're told to do something you can hardly go, 'Well, I'll get back to you in two weeks once I've done the preliminary public impact analysis.'

You can if that's part of your process. You do plan things out before you work right?
Millennial Searchers
A mistake, but only in context of the larger issue. In the context of a reverted commit, it was a fairly laid-back way of saying "you shouldn't have done this direct merge and you probably knew better".
No, confirmations are not just a measure of computing power. The difficulty of carrying out attacks with a sub-50% proportion of the total hash power increases exponentially with the number of confirmations, whereas requiring more work per confirmation only gives a linear increase. Satoshi's original whitepaper explains this.
There is a hint of what a full society of self-driven cars will be like in Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge: there are no traffic lights. The cars all weave through an intersection much like pedestrians do while walking.

The future, at least in terms of the dangers of driving, is bright.

I look forward to the day when every car is a taxi, and the only cars parked on the side of the road are the ones owned by the very few people who can still be bothered at all to own a car full-time, which will hopefully be very few people.
Full-featured websites, quicker than ever before
Based on the daily pro-bitcoin articles and comments here, I agree.
I think this is worth noting - especially in the UK, where PhDs are 3-4 years on top of a 3-4 year undergraduate. I think this shorter PhD length means that there's less opportunity to be exploited as cheap labour, and more opportunity to finish up and leave while you're still young if you ultimately decide that academia isn't for you, as a lot of people I know are. I might not stay in academia, but I won't regret doing it -- I enjoyed the challenge, the people, and doing my little bit for science. I can imagine being a bit more bitter if I was still doing my PhD a few more years down the line.
yes, on my laptop. On my iPad I start with 'h' to get hn.premii.com.
No idea. These things can generate panic. The creator is probably trying to take advantage of human behavior.
I've read Hockney's book, and it is completely convincing to anyone who (to paraphrase P. G. Wodehouse) isn't being paid to be unconvinced by it. In his book he finds geometric errors (mismatches in the textures and folds of tablecloths and floors, for example) and depth of field artifacts exactly where you'd expect to find them if the painter were using optics to focus images onto a drawing canvas, and had to change focus as he moved out of focus planes.

He also points out that Caravaggio's greatest paintings (among many examples) are a combination of astonishingly deft lighting and detail combined with gross errors that you'd get if (essentially) copying and pasting bits of photographs onto a canvas. (And, hey, I love Caravaggio...) The critics would have you believe that Caravaggio was a godlike draftsman who cold realistically paint the veins on people's eyelids but couldn't put their arms in the right position with respect to their bodies.

These guys invented (analog) Photoshop in the 17th century and it was one of their trade secrets. Apparently art critics find this insufficiently awesome, or the wrong kind of awesome. (Think: science awesome vs. romantic artiste awesome.)

Hockney also traces the passing of the secret technique by putting the works of various artists on an up-down (geographic) and left-right (time) chart and can show how two artists (one of whom had godlike drafting abilities and the other of whom was merely competent) crossed paths and then suddenly the lesser artist became godlike.

The argument that Hockney is just jealous of the talent of the old masters is equally ridiculous when he shows his own work with and without the techniques. One could level the charges that the art "authorities" that disbelieve him are simply jealous of their own utter lack of talent.

tl;dr -- most "art experts" are self-deluded idiots. News at 11.
The UK police investigates anything the government wants to signal it's dislike about. It's the UK governments goto version of putting you on notice they don't like you.

If there'd been serious chances of anything coming out of it, they'd have acted by now - they, and everyone else, knows the damage has already been done, in that going after The Guardian now won't stop coverage, and would in fact be pretty much the only thing they could do which would get Guardian plenty of support (out of self interest) from other media organizations that have so far given the NSA/GCHQ revelations very little attention.
Rap Genius (YC S11) - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com – Help us build the Wall of History jobs@rapgenius.com

IF YOU PASS OUR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW AND RECEIVE A JOB OFFER FROM US, WE'LL GIVE YOU $1,000 CASH (even if you don't take the job!) http://news.rapgenius.com/2368105

We're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and yet our tech team is only seven people. Anyone who joins us is going to have the best of both worlds, you'll work on a product that millions love and use while getting the experience of being a part of a small team and helping define the culture.

WHO WE ARE

We're a tiny, quick-shipping team. Each of us makes product decisions and owns whole features. We're close and we all enjoy spending time together. We’re a small team because we’re picky about who joins us. We have one of the hardest technical interviews in NYC but if you make it, you’re going to be on the best team around. Our house library includes Metaprogramming in Ruby; Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid; POODR; and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?". Loving rap is not a prerequisite for working here, though an appreciation osmoses to everyone after a while.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

We started Rap Genius in 2009 to explain the meaning of rap lyrics, but the big vision goes beyond music and touches all of text – whether it's the Bill of Rights (http://news.rapgenius.com/62958), the Bible (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/237774), “The Waste Land” (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/83150), or the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling (http://news.rapgenius.com/1910390), it's all on Rap Genius (or Poetry Genius, or News Genius, or... you get the idea). One of our favorite recent examples is Junot Diaz's amazing annotations on an excerpt from his own The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/2002590).

BENEFITS

* Bomb salary and equity—you won't be taking a pay cut to work here

* We don't count vacation days

* Free meals in the office, free unlimited Seamless, free unlimited Fresh Direct

* Free gym in the building

* We pay your phone bill and when you join we'll upgrade you to the newest iPhone

* Laundry and shower in the office

* Free indoor bike parking

* Free health, dental, and vision benefits

* The deluxe computer setup of your choice

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

* Experienced full-stack Rails engineers

* Front-end developers with an eye for design

* iOS devs to help build our upcoming iPhone app

INTERESTED?

Hit us up at jobs@rapgenius.com with:

* Your name and GitHub profile, your Twitter, blog, StackOverflow account, personal website, etc.

* A cool side project you built, library you've released, or some code that's impressive

* Something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you've used

* Your résumé

* Apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate. Our office is in Williamsburg, and it's awesome.
mySociety.org - REMOTE (anywhere in the UK) or Oxford, UK

Few non-profits really respect software engineering skills. mySociety is a successful, open source social enterprise that was built by, and is still driven by passionate technologists. And we're supported by big name donors with an understanding of technology, like Google.org and Omidyar Network, so we pay grown up wages.

We’re looking for developers with the skills and passion to help people open up closed governments, get their streets fixed, and put pressure on errant politicians.

* Languages - Python, Ruby and Perl

* Culture - non hierarchical, self-directed, passionate about good code, keen to make a difference

http://mysocietyltd.theresumator.com/apply/J0R4BQ/Web-Develo...
WHO is Satoshi?

The fact that he owns between 4-9% of all bitcoins that will ever exist... This fact is frankly outrageously frightening. We have no idea who this person or group is. They might end up being the wealthiest person in the world, by a large margin.

When I tell someone about Bitcoin for the first time, and that it is developed by some mysterious person who is completely unknown... the reaction without exception is "WTF!"
I intend to continue in academia, but in my lab for instance most of the PhD students want to go to the industry after their PhD. Our field, implementation security, is very practical and clearly skew the answer to this question. But it's to say that not all people starting a PhD do so with the intent of working in academia after that.
Now only if someone could build an index of that second column to the first ...
That, I agree.
I lost it at the idea that there are more poor souls trying to figure out how you exit from vi[m] than there are alcoholics looking for advice on quitting.

Alternatively, one could argue that using vi[m] is equivalent to a harmful addiction and the only cure is Emacs.

Otherwise, the issue is more accurate when you do 's/Facebook/web/'.
Mandiant - REMOTE or located in New York or D.C. areas - I work at Mandiant, a cybersecurity company, and we need Rails and Node.js programmers for some projects we are working on. If you're interested in chatting about it, email me at my HN username at gmail.
London -

I am looking to make contact with DevOps contractors and consultants - Puppet, Chef, Python, Sys Admin.

This is for some overflow work from myself which may be kicking off in the new year.

Please get in touch at bswootton@Gmail.com for an informal chat.
dicks! glows! i'm interested. let's chat via email. my email is fadysfca@gmail.com. i have a few questions :) i actually just visited seattle and loved both of those places!
Toronto, ShopLocket

ShopLocket is the fastest way to add ecommerce functionality 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 through 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
I imagine you might get a fair amount of interest in this kind of material, not least because ABET[1] is now requiring accredited C.S. programs to include it.

So if you're looking to put together something that others will use, my suggestion is to keep track of ABET's requirements (which are currently on the vague side in this area -- but they change every year).

[1] http://www.abet.org/
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boston Area

Full-Stack Developer to geek out from databases all the way to font-choices. Developer with an eye for product. Would love to build out your (web) MVP. Mainly based on Rails, responsive Foundation and optional Backbone.

Previously built credport.org

Email: nambrot@gmail.com
Website: nambrot.com
> Bitcoin may recover after a future crash but because nothing is really backing it, it's likely it'll fade into history.

When bitcoin was first brought into existence it was worth nothing, and people invested anyway for mostly speculative reasons. Lets assume that at some point in the future it will be worth zero again, once the current batch of investors cash out. Why will it suddenly not have the speculative value it did before? If anything, it should have more, since it will have a more complete infrastructure and more momentum than it did when it was first created.
Right now the scariest part about self-driving cars is the corporations making them or governments having access to remotely-controlled "kill-switches" for these cars. In such a future you wouldn't need to "cut the breaks" to "make it look like an accident" anymore, and doing it like this would be far easier, if strong security measures aren't considered from the start.
Hello, i believe i a m hacker, consider me for the job ;<
Check my profile: http://re.vu/cyberlord92.

Contact me @ abhishekpandit.02@gmail.com
Ask HN: Should we start mining bitcoins on mars?
On average miners of the blockchain produce a block every 10 minutes. The bitcoin protocol adjusts the proof-of-work difficulty to target this rate of production.

Mars will forever be 4 to 20 light minutes away from earth. Given this latency, it is impossible for mars and earth to collaborate on extending the blockchain without substantial forks.

Bitcoins intrinsically ties the value of a currency to a light cone.

So Mars must have its own blockchain. Assuming bitcoins are the future of currency, and assuming humanity will eventually colonize mars, at what point does it make sense to start mining in the martian light cone?

Could an alt-coin self-fund it's own deployment as a blockchain started on earth, then launched to mars?

Is this a mission a startup could undertake?
> Ruby syntax is still much prettier than Lisp's

No. Lisps have no syntax at all. You write your programs in AST form. It's not possible to compare this to writing Ruby or Python. For the comparison to be fair you'd have to write Python like this:

Module(body=[
Expr(value=Call(func=Name(id='map', ctx=Load()),
args=[Lambda(args=arguments(args=[Name(id='x', ctx=Param())],
vararg=None,
kwarg=None,
defaults=[]),
body=BinOp(left=Name(id='x', ctx=Load()),
op=Pow(),
right=Num(n=2))),
Call(func=Name(id='range', ctx=Load()),
args=[Num(n=100)],
keywords=[],
starargs=None,
kwargs=None)],
keywords=[],
starargs=None,
kwargs=None))
])

And I believe that in this case something like this:

(map (lambda (x) (sqr x)) (in-range 100))

Wins hands down in beauty, readability and any other "metric" :)
Rethinking a WMD-free Middle East: Start with chemical weapons
Everything you said here exactly mirrors my response to this article. I understand intellectually how addictive Facebook is, but for me personally it's nowhere near as addictive as HN, or countless other intellectual stimuli on the web.

But the addiction is more like a food addiction than cigarettes, because I need to consume a certain amount for my career. It's just a question of reigning in excess and focus when I need it.
San Francisco

Intrans

Ruby Engineers, Android

The last 50 years has seen the reinvention of almost every major industry except for one: Trucking. Intrans is here to change that by deploying the world's first mobile platform for on-demand freight shipping.

Over $30 billion dollars a month is spent trucking freight around the US. Without trucks, the country would grind to a halt overnight. In such a massive market, it's hard to believe that the entire industry today still runs on phones and fax machines. This means hundreds of millions of dollars worth of freight capacity goes unfilled every month due to the old-school inefficiencies of the industry.
We are changing that. We use our location-based technology to automatically match supply and demand.

If you're ready to transform the trucking industry, send your resume and GitHub profile to jobs@intrans.com.
Now what? If people would care about these codes then Facebook will shut down. (and personally, I think that would be awesome..)

I am all for a more ethical world but it just won't work like this. The best thing a software engineer can do to boost ethical standards is to __not work at an unethical organization__.
Please tell the website author to learn a bit about written English.
As a non-smoker currently reading Allen Carr's "Easyway" in order to find a solution against my procrastination problem, I completely understand the parallel but I don't agree. Facebook might be OP's habit to kill time but this works equally good with any Twitter, Reddit, or even HN. The problem (for addicts) is that those websites constantly stream some short new items, easily read, easily forgotten. It's the same dynamic indeed as going for a smoke instead of doing some work but it's not exclusive to facebook and facebook is not killing you.
> majority of the Bitcoin software authors would agree to do so

The majority of miners would need to adopt the new software, and in theory the "economic majority" would too: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
What's so great about Reducers?
San Francisco, CA - Full-time (no remote) - Consumer early-stage, funded

Vurb (http://vurb.com) - Max Levchin funded startup - http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/contextual-content-engine-v...

We're working on search, browsing, and sharing, by connecting the services we use in a contextual way that's more usable, efficient, and social (e.g., no more having lots of windows/tabs open). We do this through unique UX/UI combined with search, machine learning, big data, and other fun technologies.

We're looking for people who are interested in:

* JavaScript (node.js, backbone.js) - generalist / full-stack development

* Search / Data Science - search / classification / ranking, machine learning, recommendations, NLP, data crawling/processing

* Mobile (iOS, Objective-C, Android) - development of native apps

We're stealth but funded by Max, Drew Houston (Dropbox), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Arrington (CrunchFund), and many others. If you're looking to join a small team that solves complex problems and is making something people will use daily, then come find out what we're up to.

jobs@vurb.com | http://vurb.com/jobs | angel.co/vurb
Are digital pageflips suitable format for digital magazines?
Yep, half the people here are executives at American Express. rolls eyes
Central planning is THE problem. You have one institution deciding what everybody should produce and at what price to sell it. If you start with a very poor and underdeveloped country you can achieve some quick improvements since you can concentrate massive amounts of work into very important and visible projects. But that only makes it worse since more people start to believe that central planning is good. Soon enough the complexity of it becomes mind boggling. There is no way to do the planning in a straight mathematical form so socialist principles come to "help". Principles like "everybody is guaranteed a job". And then you end up with a vegetable farm at 1000 meters over sea level. "Smart" managers produce a certain product in huge quantities that can never be sold only because the central planning committee decided that its price should be higher than a more useful product. The system develops thousands of local minima and becomes frozen. After some years there is no way to move it without a huge shock from outside.
Well it might just be working judging from Mt Gox right now.
Live Stream of the Chang-E Lunar Launch [video]
GitHub has its own responsible disclosure policy (which they setup after their last hack)[1]. This is what they say about it:

>We consider correspondence sent to security@github.com our highest priority, and work to address any issues that arise as quickly as possible.

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/responsible-disclosure-of-s...
Even if Bitcoins may very well crash as some point (even soon), this point is so poorly argued that it was a pain to read.