skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to see they are planning to roll out SSL (perfect forward secrecy) even to the Free Tier.

These days with SSL certs becoming ridiculously cheap (hard to beat Free), I wish everybody would just go enable HTTPS by default. But the extra configuration is a pain for the average "webmaster".

By using Cloudflare and a simple switch, you will be able to get totally SSL'ed from the feet up.
Love it! Soon I will be able to easily SSL all my 30 odd toy sites on Cloudflare!
seriously? an announcement without any code?
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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 #13), 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 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 mostly use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), 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, I'm the co-founder/CTO, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014
Did you sign a lease or contract for said device?
I did some research and found this 1973 SCOTUS case that matches your description:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774...

Here is the key quote, taken from section 273:

But the search of the petitioner's automobile by a roving patrol, on a California road that lies at all points at least 20 miles north of the Mexican border,[5] was of a wholly different sort. In the absence of probable cause or consent, that search violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free of "unreasonable searches and seizures."

Edit: Reading through the decision, sections (pages?) 280-285 briefly summarize some of the conditions under which warrantless searches are permissible. This is very interesting reading, thanks for the heads up!
Isn't that kind of what Verified By Visa/MasterCard SecureCode tries to do (but implemented amazingly badly)
There is Hadoop, Microsoft have been pursuing it aggressively recently.

SciPy type stuff is best handled using F#, which also works on Mono, and has some features that I haven't seen in any other languages (e.g. Type Providers).

There are multiple .NET web frameworks, including Microsoft's own ASP.NET MVC and Web API, but also OSS efforts like FubuMVC, Nancy, ServiceStack, Simple.Web and more, most of which work as well on Mono as on MS .NET.

As you say, the Node story on Windows has improved lately, and most current languages work as well on Windows as on any other platform.

C# itself is probably second only to JavaScript in terms of cross-platform development: Xamarin for Mac and mobile; Mono for Linux (yes, it's incomplete, but Linux people should be used to that); Unity for game development across consoles, mobile devices, web and traditional PCs. By "cross-platform" I don't necessarily mean write-once-run-everywhere, which results in lowest common denominator dreck anyway, but the ability to reuse your skills and some code in many different environments and domains.
Any body could provide me a H1B visa? My resume:https://raw.github.com/haosdent/resume/master/Resume_Haosong... :-)
Priceless lessons from the real world for the people who want to build a product. Thank you.
My understanding thus far has been that openssl has gotten a pass because their implementation was always broken ... so nobody was at risk.

Has that changed ?
That was the sarcasm, I think. That there's no need to harvest usernames and phone numbers anymore.
What is your definition of 'responding positively'? Does that mean taking the offer? Because for some people, they might take the offer, but still be annoyed about it. They might also not have realized the issue that I'm pointing out.

I'm also leaning towards getting a refund at this point. I spent a fair amount of time going back and forth with your CS, hoping that the situation would improve, but instead of admitting that you screwed up on Kickstarter and didn't make your intentions clear, your CS reps dug in their heels and are claiming something that is simply not true - that you own these devices.
If you want to attack his "caricature" you should be able to point out some way in which it is inaccurate.

Samsung has been convicted of paying shills to make false forum postings and reviews.

You are accusing apple of choosing who to give review units and press invites to based on who they prefer.

Every company does this. What else do you expect them to do? Provide a review unit to every blogger who asks for one? If you claim their behavior is underhand, you should be able to explain an alternative.

Comparing giving out review units to paying for shills is plainly absurd.

As to your comments about the review itself, they certainly reveal things that you would like to complain about, but none of these things were whitewashed or concealed by AnandTech, in fact they were fully exposed in statements, charts, and numbers.

Your chief complaint seems to be that you would have liked the review to have a vitriolic tone.
The announcement that never came at the end of 2013
In many countries the caller pays for the cellular airtime. You have to know how much your call is going to cost before you dial it, so a new area code is needed. In the US, the cell phone user pays for the airtime even for calls they receive, so a new area code was never needed.
The same logic suggests that all customs searches are unreasonable; after all, they could also take place in your home.
Do you want to completely change the way that native mobile apps are developed?

I'm looking for a co-founder for Neonto, join me on this trip:

http://neonto.com

The product is a native Mac app. It's close to alpha stage, and I'm confident that there will be a usable beta in a few months. (Much of the code is recycled from a previous project of mine, Radi [1], so there's a proven foundation.)

The company has a tiny pre-seed investment and a handful of real customers lined up who are eager to use the product even in an alpha quality release.

Having previously done a company alone, I don't want to be in that situation again. I'd love to meet a co-founder who preferably would have either a design or business background combined with a good understanding of mobile user experience.

[1] http://radiapp.com
Heckuvajob, Brownie.
Formlabs - Boston, MA - Full Time

Algorithms Engineer

The Job:

- Develop world class desktop 3D printer software with a focus on geometric algorithms

- Lead the development of cutting edge software features from inception to release

- Serious, low level, high performance coding

Software is at the center of our product development, as it bridges the transition from digital models to beautiful physical form in 3D printing. If you are a talented engineer and you’re ready to dirty your hands with 3D geometric algorithms and other puzzling problems, we want you to join our team.

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* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

Twitter has moved away from rails, but you are #2 as SlideShare is #1. ;)
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Lately I've been front-end focused (lots of HTML, CSS, JavaScript), but in the past I've helped create products and support systems using C, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Math.

I've also helped people choose to create the right products and systems for the problems they're facing using good doses of both analytical and creative thought.

I pinch hit in design and UX as well.

I'd be happy to talk about how I can help you.

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there is another system for e-commerce, where the card generates a new credit card number on the fly for each transaction (I know Visa Electron is this kind of system).

edit: I got it wrong. Visa Electron is a systematic checking card (the shop has to call the bank to get the authorization every time), the short validity disposable card numbers has another name.
Space Monkey employee here, although I wasn't the one that created the subscription rules(I'm a software dev).

* For people who bought the Kickstarter, Space Monkey technically owns the device. We realized this isn't what most people wanted or expected, so if you buy on the site today, YOU own the device.

* In my opinion, yes.

* From a statistical standpoint, most people understood they were leasing the device and were happy we offered an upgrade. The ones who thought they owned the device are upset. We're trying hard to do everything we can to make our customers happy (while still staying in business)

* We want our customers to be happy, if that means refunding you.

* I can't answer that for certain, but I would say do whatever makes you happy.
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend)

Menlo Park, CA

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

We're looking for a highly talented full-stack web developer. On top of our robotic workcells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, and some CoffeeScript today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

We're a small startup (you'd be #10), but well funded and have customers. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a really small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people.

Recent coverage: http://theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-transcriptic-t...

team at transcriptic.com

https://www.transcriptic.com/
So could we take the list of leaked usernames and subscribe everyone to pugs? Or does it confirm.
What purpose does posting that serve? I think we've already pretty clearly established the flaw is real. What does intruding on the personal life of an unrelated person have to do with it?

Do we really need rules saying "don't post other people's non-public personal details" like Reddit? Someone needs to tell you that?
This is a great example of a startup not running their numbers due to the lack of a business plan, running the numbers post-Kickstarter campaign after thousands of people have pledged and millions of dollars raised, and finding out that their economics do not add up.

Now they are backpedalling on their promise, leaving 95% of their current/future customers with a really bad experience. Had it been a SaaS business, I don't think this issue would have escalated as much, but given a sense of "ownership" is involved, users are not that happy; and it's understandable. Add to that that users don't have their encryption keys, but SpaceMonkey, a US company, has them... both issues mixed make a great backlash cocktail.

I personally see this business opportunity as one BitTorrent Inc. should make the most of it. They know the protocol, they have the distribution, surely there must be an off-the-shelf a la RPi solution, with great reliability/redundancy that could be taken mainstream.
My takeaway:

Any other problems left? I can't think of any. That's something to discuss on Twitter.

Meaning that the remaining problems are trivial misconceptions that can be disposed of within 140 characters.
How Github No Longer Works
the relevant technical solutions have all been deployed in Europe for decades, the problem is not technical.
It sounds like this guy is advocating something more like the French Revolution.
ECC isn't that much more expensive, while AFAIK the price premium for pro-model GPUs is almost pure price-gouging, and Apple's surely not paying those inflated prices for the GPUs.
zucks cell#? probably want to delete that.
Cloudy skies on nearby super-Earth
What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting
Setting aside the privacy of cell versus landline numbers, the phone book never had anything analogous to a Snapchat user name.
you've never heard of scarcity or the illusion of scarcity driving up demand at higher prices, or causing the market to clear at higher prices? Today nobody wants bitcoin at ten thousand, even though some people might still want it if it started clearing at that price: the reason this isn't happening, then, is that bitcoins are not scarce enough to reach that price. The existing demand is met by supply at a lower price. In sum, even if the investor sentiment were exactly the same, it would definitely be true that "The more scarce a supply, the higher the [prices cleared by existing] demand", or to some extent the higher actual demand. (Nobody would pay for a gallon of air today - but if people perceived it as being a bit scarce, maybe some people would even without its becoming actually scarcer.)
And they aren't licensing anything from Starbucks?

For a while I was looking into opening a coffee shop and it's fairly straightforward to license names and sell coffee and coffee products from a lot of major coffee companies. Not that I care for Starbucks coffee, but it was the biggest brand that business brokers pushed on me.
Nope. There was no lease or contract. I asked them about that too, they ignored that question.
Evidence we've already provided you in our numerous correspondences:

- Kickstarter project called itself "Complete Cloud storage subscription service"

- Kickstarter project added a $349 level after a few days that included "device ownership". Update #1 on KS highlighted this new reward level. Discussion in forums about ownership option and how it differed from the pure subscription model where you don't own the device.

- Kickstarter FAQ for our project says, in response to "what if I cancel my subscription?", "We'll give you a pro-rated refund on your subscription once the device is sent back."

- Numerous posts in the comment areas about device ownership vs. pure subscription.

- While there are a small handful of others who, like you, didn't understand the subscription model, these are in a tiny minority of all backers. All of them either upgraded after talking with us about it, stuck with their current plan, or were offered a complete refund. None launched public attacks calling us scammers.

Lastly John, our last response to you via our customer support system was yesterday at 12:59, but you just said, "I waited a while after my last round of questions before writing this up. It was pretty clear that they had no intention of responding, or at least not within their own deadline."

Does it seem fair to you to keep asking the same questions over and over again of our support staff, and then launching a public attack like this on a holiday because we didn't get back to you for the 14th time within 24 hours?
> Will they start sending SWAT teams to people's homes for pirating movies...

This happens already.

When government institutions aren't victimizing everyday people for engaging in nonviolent behavior, such as duplicating ones and zeroes, they're not growing. Paychecks aren't increasing. Power isn't consolidating. Terrorizing modern humans is often par for the course to any indoctrinated group/cult. It's easy to be trained and then divided against an enemy. Breaking down Grandma's door over a Britney Spears album, threats and extortion of exorbitant fees over crap people wouldn't otherwise purchase, at 250000x per unit, locking people into cages for consenting behavior like the trade and intake of chemicals, and on: power a mafia and warlords can only dream about. Corporate law won thanks to an oligarchical system of government.

The only temporary hope for pawns being victimized is when SWAT/militia shoot only the family dog but not other members of the family.
IIRC it was a joint venture with Pepsi (and yes, those bottles are clearly labeled Starbucks)
FWIW I didn't either. I backed their KS campaign at the $99 level also.
Really? It's a pretty well-known, common complaint.
This is why I use credit card instead of debit cards. With a debit card the funds are drawn directly out of our account. With a credit card, there's a third party in between. The funds are initially paid by the bank, and only when I approve the purchase do I forward my funds.

For unauthorized transactions, credit cards are a piece of cake. I have several options - dispute or flat out not pay. The right to dispute is protected by law (in the US). Debit cards are a different story. When funds are fraudulently withdrawn, they are already gone. Now the burden is on me to convince the bank to reimburse me. I have to make my case to the bank and hope they side with me.

I really don't see what all the uproar with CC fraud is about. Use CC instead of debit cards, review your statement before making payment, dispute all fraudulent charges and stop worry about fraud - that's the bank's job.

Also, -1 for disabling pinchzoom on mobile devices. What valid could this possibly add?
I will shed one tear for Starbucks
Notting Hill, London, England, U.K.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy and successful e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases, but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want - multiple times per day - without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and deployed on Amazon Web Services; we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalizing specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles, especially developers of all levels of experience.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is the UK's leading private shopping club, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.
Frontend engineer, PlateJoy.com - FULL-TIME, Cambridge, MA. San Francisco, CA, or REMOTE

PlateJoy is a 500 startups-backed consumer technology company that is making it easier for people to eat healthy meals. We build personalized menus based on lifestyle and health goals and work with local grocers to deliver ingredients and recipes next-day.

We're growing quickly and looking for a passionate, smart frontend developer. A great candidate will have experience in:

* Backbone
* Coffeescript (or at least JS and willing to learn Coffeescript)
* Sass
* Compass (and Susy)
* Jasmine, chai, or other testing libraries
* Photoshop experience
* Experience working with designers (major plus if you have design chops yourself!)
* Rails experience would also be a plus.

We are backed by great investors in Boston and San Francisco, and we've been recently featured in Tech Crunch, Fast Company, and the Boston Globe. If you are passionate about food and making the world a healthier place, please get in touch at jobs@platejoy.com. Thanks!
Yep, at this point, I'm wondering about my ability to wipe the device before I send it back for a refund.
Damn it I want the same two way verification option Google provides that allows me to approve or deny a charge over X amount either via a phone call or text message.

The X amount would be set by myself, but the amount set would have to be something like $300 & over.

The cost and time to implement this option for US bank customers would be nil compared to implementing Europe's chip and pin system.

US banks have no current incentive to implement the European system as it's too costly comparative to the fraud that's happening. Thus we need a less costly & quick solution. This is one anyone have others?
Nope. Problem worsened. Now they can just demand access to your google account.
Folsom Labs, San Francisco CA, Full-time/Intern Software Engineer

http://www.folsomlabs.com

We're building the next generation in solar (PV) system design tools; basically we make it very easy to analyze the potential value of a new PV systems by leveraging an advanced physics simulation engine. We've been in beta for about a year, and are formally calling it 1.0 in a few weeks. We've got a lot of great traction, and almost universally stellar feedback from our users. We've also recently received a federal grant[1] to help fund our next generation of products (and a round of hires).

Everyday we get to deal with a range of problems that few startups get to offer – we have a pretty modern web-stack [2] (that we actually need, not just to be trendy), but also get to solve interesting physics/optimization problems on a regular basis, while also acting as industry thought-leaders. It's a really unique place in both the solar industry, and as a software company.

We've made it this far as a two-man team, and we're poised for a lot of growth in the next year, so it's about time we brought on some help. If you're a full-stack engineer looking to do some really interesting work (and occasionally put your undergrad physics courses to real use), we'd love to hear from you.

– Paul

paul.gibbs@folsomlabs.com

[1] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/incubator_projects...

[2] AngularJS (frontend), Python/Flask (API/Backend), Cython/C (Physics Simulation Engine)
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Speaks English and Dutch. Experience with C and Make based builds. Some familiarity with Win32. Contact and examples on my profile page.
The part where you have to give your banking user/pass to PaidEZ kinda makes me nervous. I really wish banks would start picking up the trendy features of today like oauth, API keys, user-defined daily limits & callback URLs like webhooks in github(this would be awesome).

At least my Patelco Credit Union doesn't have any of this =/

The bank that starts doing this kind of power-user/geeky stuff will be very successful. Maybe some start-up should play as the middle-man to your bank and add all these features. Like say you give PaidEZ your routing/acct info so it can ACH withdraw and deposit, then you carry around a PaidEZ debit/credit card with all the cool features.