skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bot & Dolly - SF (Potrero Hill) - FULLTIME

We are working to advance robotics and automation as a creative medium and build world-class tools that enable others to do the same. As part of Google's new robotics initiative (http://nyti.ms/19ghryl), we're working with some of the best engineers and designers on the planet to build the future of automation.

Our open positions are described on our website (http://botndolly.com/jobs). We're looking particularly for people with experience building modern 3D applications and UIs, as well as strong C++ generalists.
It would have made more sense for KS backers at the $99 level and up, simply own the device now. As it stands, I can visit the site and pay $199 for said device (ownership) and it comes with the 1 year of service. Quite honestly this whole debacle has left me with a sour taste in my mouth and I highly doubt I'll be renewing when my year is up, especially given that I have to pay $149/year I believe..
Good name :) Another possible name could be the Differentiator Pattern (heh, just a wild try), since it differentiates between calls which otherwise have the same data. Or even the Call Router pattern, for obvious reasons ...
MasterCard SecureCode / "3D Secure" or whatever they call it, has been active on my card for many years and I never had any problems whatsoever. Always worked like a charm.. And the upside, nowadays I don't worry anymore about anyone storing my CC number on their unsecured servers.
Is remote a possibility for an intern? And are internships available for high school students?
The idea of shutting down the NSA is destructive: their charter is to listen to foreign traffic, and to secure domestic traffic. That's what they kick ass at. That their abilities got co-opted for unapproved purposes was NOT the NSA's doing. The problem came from outside the NSA, and was likely out of their control.
Entelo - San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full-time - http://www.entelo.com/

Entelo allows recruiters to search for the most talented people across the web. With over 300 million social profiles in its database, powerful search to surface relevant candidates and patent-pending technology to help discover candidates who may be open to new opportunities, Entelo dramatically improves your ability to find the right talent. Our easy-to-use collaborative tools help streamline the recruiting process and allow recruiters to spend time more effectively and efficiently.

Our team is small, but growing so you'll play an integral role in building something meaningful. We work hard while respecting that our colleagues have well-rounded lives, and we strive for a diverse, welcoming, and respectful environment. We have over 90 customers including Box, Yelp, Square and Groupon and recently announced our series A round of funding http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/entelo-the-big-data-recruit...

Some of our perks include 100% coverage of employee health care premiums, $300 noise-canceling headphone allowance, and 1:1 matching for donations to non-profits.

Current openings:
Engineering (Data): http://www.entelo.com/careers/engineering/data_engineer

Engineering (Full-Stack): http://www.entelo.com/careers/engineering/full_stack

Sales: http://www.entelo.com/careers/sales/inside_account_executive

Customer Success: http://www.entelo.com/careers/customer_success/director

We just moved into a beautiful open office in SOMA right across from the 4th and King Cal-Train station and near AT&T Park.

I'm the founder and you can email me directly at jon at entelo dot com or call me at 310-351-7275.
Like this a lot! especially the live update example on the website. I think we are beginning to see how web developer tools that are browser-based make certain things possible that would never be possible with native tools.
...that reminds me an awful lot of ASP.net web-forms. Which isn't a terrible thing... MS had some good ideas with that bizarre framework, it was marred by brittleness, leaky abstractions, and the technology of the day.
We haven't backpedalled on anything. The original rewards offered on Kickstarter stand. We will honor all backer rewards as originally offered.

We simply believe that the offering we are now giving to new customers is better in most ways than the one we gave to Kickstarter backers, so we wanted to let them in on the sweet action too, at their choice.

And to say thanks for backing us early, we threw in an extra 6 months of service ($60 value under their current plan), free, if they took us up on the offer.

We thought we were being cool about this, and the vast majority of our Kickstarter backers do think we are being cool about it, voting in support of this offer with their very real dollars by upgrading.

Those who are upset by this offer are very few in number, and we've offered refunds to all of them.

What else do you think we should do?
Ask HN: Hacks to eliminate gender bias in hiring?
Orchestras that audition musicians behind a screen eliminate gender bias and start hiring more women[1]. For various reasons, it would be difficult to do blind auditions for technical positions such as software development, but I started wondering if there might be other ways to hack the hiring process to eliminate (or at least compensate for) unconscious gender bias. Any ideas?

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/blind-auditions-orchestras-gender-bias
SEEKING WORK - Back End / Front End Web Dev Remote (Contract preferably), based in Berlin Germany.

10+ Years Web Development:

PHP: MVCs such as CodeIgniter, Yii, Kohana, and CMSs: Drupal, Wordpress (Custom Plugins, core hacks, custom themes).

Python: Django, building complex Data Aggregation projects.

JavaScript: writing jQuery plugins, building full Web Apps based on jQuery, jQuery Mobile & AngularJS.

Front End: Implementing WP, Drupal, and custom MVC responsive website Themes with Bootstrap, SASS, CSS, HTML, JS.

LinkedIn: http://de.linkedin.com/in/asafzamir/

contact: asaf.zamir@gmail.com
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how web developer tools that are browser-based make certain things possible that would never be possible with native tools

What do you mean? Can you give me an example?
PVC also doesn't show up well on x-rays either. A student at our high school had a potato cannon explode next to his hip one year. He ended up with a trip to the emergency room where the radiology tech shared that nugget of wisdom with him. Fortunately, when PVC fractures, most of the pieces remain large, so he was mostly bruised, but he had a couple of nasty cuts.

In this case, however:

> Fortunately, everyone was safely behind a barrier a safe distance away, and no one was hurt.

It sounds like this particular experiment was conducted by people with enough sense to stay out of harms way.
In general, no. You would typically take your widget, create it, and put it into a widget-agnostic container or layout manager. The widget wouldn't know about it's parent or children. The widgets would communicate by sending signals which bubbled up or down the container heirarchy, triggering repaints, resizes, and so on as needed.

Of course, this varied by toolkit.
You'll either be paying $10/month or $49/year. Those are the only two subscription models the company has ever offered for a 1TB device.
> The DOM is not good for building UIs.

Funny, after years of Win32 C++, VB, and then web development, I find I can slap together an interface so much faster and better-looking using HTML/CSS/JS than anything for the desktop.

However, "slap together" may be the important phrase -- putting together a well-architected, consistent, extendable, etc. interface is perhaps a little hairier. But the DOM is great for building UI's quickly, with trivially easy custom styling and graceful resizing.
Here is one such idea: Since referrals by existing employees are one of the best ways to get high-quality candidates, what if male candidates had to be referred by a female employee to be considered (or conversely, that male employees could only refer female candidates)? This idea was partly inspired by women-friendly technology events where men are welcome to attend, but only if they are brought as guests of female attendees.
I backed the project and thought I own the device because of: "device included" in the reward levels on KS.
Also why the hell I should check forums, comments & discussions when I knew that the device is mine?
This might fix digital advertising for good: value-driven advertising
Been living in a couple of European countries in last few years, luckily I never fell prey to any fraudulent operations (I pay online sparingly, mostly for air tickets; paying by card and using ATMs quite often).

There are multiple ways to minimize the risks in very simple ways, and it's strange the banks/card companies do not care about it.

1. Have separate cards for ATM+payments and separate for just online transactions. As simple as that. In Poland many banks offer "virtual cards" i.e. just CC number + CVV for internet-only transactions. But it's usually extra paid (though rather cheap).

2. Suppose 1. is impossible, then why on earth CVV is printed on the back of the CC?

3. Being a geek, I'd love to have a superuser panel in my online banking interface where there would be on/off switches like: enable this card for particular regions/countries, enable for internet transactions, etc etc. I'd turn them on if I plan to go to Indonesia or Colombia; for 90% of people random transaction in a remote country is a fraud.

4. In one of my banks I can't change PIN to my debit card in the ATM. WTF? Well maybe it's a security feature, otherwise people will put 1111 and be happy [1]

5. In one of my online banks, my login is publicly known (part of account number) and password is max 6 digits (0-9) <sigh>

IMO the best always-available precautions are to

1) keep just a bare minimum on the primary account and put the rest on a savings account, which can't be accessed via card outside the issuer bank's ATMs,

2) monitor transactions via online bank at least weekly.

[1] http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html
Hah, it's UpdatePanel all over again!
Your argument is circular because it assumes it's possible to do something "wrong" to Starbucks. I'm arguing that it's not possible because ethics don't actually exist in the relationship in the first place. Ethics are a social contract that Starbucks won't participate in. Any participation on your part is optional, and I believe silly.

> That doesn't mean all corporations including Starbucks are the same.

No, of course they're not all the same. But at some point they abandon humanity and are literally incapable of making an ethical choice independent of business value. Certainly the brewer or other small businesses are well below this index. There are people at those entities that are capable of making a ethical decision without regard to how it will affect the organization. Where organizations cross that line is fuzzy, but Starbucks is certainly past it.

Also, I don't believe I'm generalizing at all. I certainly think the evaluation is case-by-case, but I'd certainly be quick to assume that any publicly traded company worth billions falls into this category.

[Edit: Also, I didn't say it gives anyone a blank check. There are obviously legal consequences, and the law increasingly vastly favors entities like Starbucks, because money buys law in the US. In short: If you're the brewer in this story the scales are already tipped against you. Opting-in to the idea that you ought to treat Starbucks the way you ought to treat your next door neighbor doesn't help anyone but Starbucks.]
Wow. This is what passes for logic? Begging the question?

> As an objection to the patent laws, some people cite the fact that two inventors may work independently for years on the same invention, but one will beat the other to the patent office by an hour or a day and will acquire an exclusive monopoly, while the loser’s work will then be totally wasted. This type of objection is based on the error of equating the potential with the actual. The fact that a man might have been first, does not alter the fact that he wasn’t.
Oops, my bad… meant to type “aren't” there but somehow missed it :(
No problem man, I was just wondering.
... we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.

A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea
of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed
of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform
intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the
world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot
arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are
like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from
symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages
that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.

A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes
programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's
apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to
anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors
(usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and
unanticipated consequences.

SICP, Chapter 1, lifted from the on-line version:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-9.html
While undesirable, bloody revolutions happen pretty much all by themselves once some hard to estimate pain limit is crossed.

I tend to believe, most western civilizations are pretty far from that limit of pain. But, at the same time, they're far closer to the limit today than a few mere decades ago.

So there's ample reason to worry, and ample reason to speak out that the course we're staying will not end at a happy place.
$99 KS is a great deal. Device ownership costs more upfront, but cheaper long term. There's really three options for you:

1. $99 + $120/year (not $149). First year is free.

2. $99 + $79 (upgrade) + $49/year. First year is free. We included 6 months additional service with this offer.

3. Return $99 device, pay $200 up front + $49/year. First year is free. This is basically #2, but more expensive, and no 6 months free.
Planetary (http://planetary.io) - REMOTE, New York, NY or St. Louis, MO.

Looking to hire a head of Business Development. You'll help seek out potential leads, bring in new clients, and close new contracts.

We are a young design and development agency; you'd have the opportunity to really drive the direction and growth of the company. Technical or design experience is a huge plus.

--

At Planetary, we have designed and developed just about everything there is to design and develop — games for a Super Bowl campaign, internal apps for startups, point-of-sale applications for large national brands and dozens of issues for a number of periodicals. In doing so, we've learned the particularities of each different medium, but more importantly, we've gained a sublime handle on how to partner with our clients and become an integral, valuable part of their design and development process.

Whether for small brands, large brands, medium brands, brands without a brand, all the work we've done in the past few years has been intent on providing a talented team, clear communication, plain expectations and flawless execution. That's what you can expect from Planetary. Strong design and quality development with an unrivaled attention to detail.

--

If you're interested, send me a little blurb about yourself along with any relevant links or information (résumé, Github, Dribbble, etc.) and why you're interested: team@planetary.io
Right, none of those things are explicitly stating that the hardware was a lease in the flow of someone backing the Kickstarter.

As far as my questions to your staff, there was a consistent back and forth until that point. I'm completely sick of dealing with this issue, and it was pretty clear that I was not getting anywhere. I also didn't want to be dealing with this over the holiday, but I didn't set the upgraded deadline as the end of December! It is pretty frustrating and stressful going back and forth and getting absolutely nowhere. I was hoping to get some perspective by posting it. I think that I've gained that perspective, and have decided to ask for a refund. I didn't want it to come to this, as I had previously been very excited about your company and product.

I feel that the "public attack" is more pointing out to people the sleazy thing that you did in inserting a new claim of ownership into an upgrade offer. I felt like this was something that your company was completely unwilling to acknowledge and that it needed to be pointed out.
Benchmark Education - Westchester, NY

We're an education company with a focus on building literacy for grades K-6. Our small internal dev team is focusing on building the online tools as schools start adopting tablets and online learning.

Front-end developer

Skill Requirements:

- Advanced web-based user interface development
- Advanced in CSS/html markup
- Expert in JavaScript
- Experienced in modern JavaScript MV frameworks (Backbone, angular, etc.)
- Experienced in template libraries and css compilers (Underscore, Mustache, LESS, SASS)
- Experience in Git, Subversion or Mercurial
- Experience writing PHP web services.
- Knowledge of wireframing, diagraming UX
- Knowledge of Photoshop, graphic manipulation
- Good communicator
- Knowledge and some experience in Linux command line
- CS degree or equivalent experience

Skills Prefereed

- Some exposure to Agile practices
- Interest in literacy education, new methods of teaching
- Responsive and adaptive design technologies
- Node.js
- Desire to understand the underpinnings!
- Documentation and commenting
- Ability to work with on-site and off-site teams

Email dfox@benchmarkeducation.com with your resume.
Ask HN: Has anyone gotten freelance work from 'Looking for Freelancer?'?
If you are jailed for 25 years (let's say unfairly because of some kind of corruption) your opinion may change.

The system is good as long as you are not the one who is mentioned in the news.
SurveyMonkey ( http://www.surveymonkey.com )

Offices in:
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Portland, OR, USA

Job Description:

Survey Monkey is looking for software engineers who have a passion for
solving complex and interesting problems. In addition to scaling site,
we are looking for people who can help with advanced analysis and data
visualization, natural language processing, and new storage
architectures.

Requirements

* Experience writing top quality software for high-volume/high
availability websites, including being involved in building critical
user-facing components.

* Comfortable working in a Unix environment

* Experienced in working with multiple databases and datastores
(Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc.)

* Love Python

About the company

SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, but there's really
much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who
work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period.
We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the
insights and information they need to make better, more informed
decisions.

We help customers collect over 2+ million online survey responses daily.
SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the
Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and
organizations of all shapes and sizes.

* What Python is used for:

Our primary services/applications are all built on top of the Pyramid
Webframework. We use pylibmc, ansible, jinja2, sqlalchemy, and many
other open source python libraries to power our infrastructure.

We are planning to do our first Python3 and PyPy deployments in 2014.
Along with moving from weekly releases to continuous deployment.

* Contact Info:

Contact: John Anderson

E-mail contact: johna [at] surveymonkey.com

No telecommuting
First thing to start with is getting public financing of campaigns because that's the source of influence aka corruption... the money. It's the biggest problem, by far.
Ractivejs http://www.ractivejs.org/ is another good library which does all most all of these things in a smart way!
I was just trying to draw the exact distinction you make. Scarcity of supply leads to higher price given demand, NOT a shift in the demand curve. Perhaps I'm nitpicking, but the language used in the article suggested a misunderstanding of econ fundamentals.
Really interesting project, would love to learn more about your vision.
>With a credit card, there's a third party in between.

Not always. My Visa plat credit card is directly linked to my bank account. Seems to be some weird hybrid - not really a debit card and not really a credit card.
BTX Trader (http://btxtrader.com) - NYC

We're looking for a web developer.

We are building Bitcoin trading tools. We're tiny (2 people) but we've got the ambition and the backing.

Here is the role profile in terms of skills:

- Strong grasp of core JavaScript
- Experience with client-side frameworks (Backbone, Angular etc)
- Familiar with Grunt/Yeoman or similar workflows
- Familiar with, or interested in
using: canvas, WebGL, three.js, d3.js etc. for visualization

Get it touch! divya at btxtrader com
SEEKING WORK - Chicago/Remote

Designer and Developer. Familiar with everything from website design to building products from scratch. I like to focus on the quality and longevity of what I create. Good with everyone from big corporations down to solo founders. Some things I can help with:

Extra Pair of Hands - I can help as an additional member of the team. Good for periods of overflow or when you need to meet a deadline.

Product Development - I can help you design and build your product idea from scratch. Experienced in all stages of product dev and even run my own: https://properapp.com.

Product Strategy - For those with existing products, I can help you plan and execute on ways to improve your product's UX, UI, and promotion. Also can help to set up analytics and metrics tracking.

Website Design - I'm good at synthesizing information and putting together clear, well-articulated sites for your business, organization, or product.

You'll find me a good match if you need agency-level quality but you don't have a huge budget (my sweet spot is between $5-10k). I'm easy to work with and can be highly effective and autonomous with the right info.

Some recent work:

http://2013freelancetools.com (design and dev)
https://properapp.com
http://ryanglover.net
http://dribbble.com/rglover

Send any questions or requests to: ryan@wellroundedgent.com.

Happy New Year!
rung for a minute then it ended on his side (no voicemail set up).
I wonder how many more years before gutless UK politicians consider proper cannabis regulation?
Not mentioning on the campaign that the device is a lease, rental, etc., and now saying it is, to me, is backpedalling. Add to that the fact that SpaceMonkey never mentioned the cost of the plan post-1 year during the entire campaign, and months after. From the outside that comes across as if the entire cost structure was to be determined, and it sure seems to me that that was the case.
I think 3D Secure only prevents doing transactions without double auth in "3D Secure enabled" online shops. In the shops that don't have that implemented, the transactions can go through (though probably those shops pay higher provisions).
Darpa Video Event Recognition (Mind's Eye Project)
Brogramming: Sex & Sexism in Tech
Some of these are actually pretty prescient. Particularly this one

"Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence."

Rest is pretty hilarious. E.g.

"Any number of simultaneous conversations between earth and moon can be handled by modulated laser beams, which are easy to manipulate in space. On earth, however, laser beams will have to be led through plastic pipes, to avoid material and atmospheric interference. Engineers will still be playing with that problem in 2014."