skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be nice if they gave an example of a trial beyond "work on engineering problems." What's the expected amount of time it should take to complete the trial? 4 hours? 4 days? 4 weeks? 4 months?

There's a huge difference between "here's something that should take you a day or two, but take your time" and "come work for us for $25/hour, with no benefits; but as a perk, you don't have to quit your current job"
I find one of your premises very thin: browser implementors are implementing DOM promises, so promises were clearly not invented solely to make up for the difficulties of Node.
Erm, it might not have been obvious, but let me point out that I actually didn't threaten to kill anyone if you don't abandon facebook immediately.

I mean, seriously, you can't see the difference between advocating a certain view using supporting arguments and threatening people who don't do as you demand?

People calling for society to get rid of nuclear weapons are essentially the same thing as people who would want to kill anyone who has premarital sex because they both put forward a world view that others don't happen to agree with?

I'll answer the first part of your post once you have explained how to understand the second part.
Y band is 1 μm, K band is 2.2 μm [1]. Almost all current adaptive optics systems work in the infrared.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric_system
My Startup Nightmare
Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament to use Debian for email encryption
Anyone interested in buying an island in maine as a joint venture 
need 10 people. island has electric and water and 2 cabins
You don't have to wait for Microsoft to fix Windows 8. There's already a free program, Classic Shell[1], which implements the Start menu and a normal desktop. It feels pretty much like Windows 7, and you never need to use the new UI at all. I haven't played with it that much since I'm still running Windows 7, but I installed it for a friend, who finds it very usable.

[1] http://www.classicshell.net
This is amazing news for both, customer and small businesses. Both can get benefited from this service.

I always do check-in when i visit local store and also publish my review. This will help my friends to know about such local stores and also help business owners to find new customers !
KDE4 had a rough launch, but the later versions are actually really good. Resource usage is down, it's an order of magnitude faster, and it's just an overall much better situation.

Looking forward to see KDE5 once it's released/stable.
"Bad news: Unicorn jobs don't exist, at least not for long." - Philip Guo http://pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm
Hey, did this happen? If so, I'd love a link to the discussion .
California Legislators Introduce Bill To Banish NSA
I feel it's pretty rare to work for a company that isn't about "push this out", check out The Monkey Inferno (http://bit.ly/monkeyinfernojobs).

I working started here about 5 months ago, it's pretty much a place where you can just run with an idea and you get to just be you.

email me if you have any questions: furqan@monkeyinferno.com
I have not, but I'll check it out, thanks.
'...were modifying the Firefox source to contain malicious code and calling it "Firefox" ' - You put a little load in there.
Not every Firefox patch is obscure, malicious or both.
It's a bold assumption that those open source projects are larger than facebook, a company which employs 2000+ engineers.

webkit and chromium have about 6 or 7 million lines of code and < 200,000 commits.

Facebook 6 months ago had 62 million lines of code and > 1000 commits a day.

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-...

Also, there's a difference between those open source projects using large repos with git and Facebook wanting to increase developer efficiency. Developers sitting around waiting for a rebase doesn't really pay off, where as an open source project can get away with it.
New e-commerce startup hits the web in 2014
For many years the practical attack surface of desktop computers has been shaped by doing work in the kernel better left on a different, less-privileged plane (userland.)

Some systems have chosen a different path and draw the line elsewhere.
You forgot child labour. See how you didn't notice the privilege -- or is that still not enough empirical evidence?
"and they are paying you to try them out."

But if you're a talented developer then opportunity cost comes into play.

If they are paying me $X an hour to audition but I could be making $X*3 otherwise, the fact that they are paying me for the "try-out" isn't much of a positive factor.
Have you looked at http://enigma.io/? They won TC Disrupt last year
The problem at that time was that Qt wasn't free nor open sourc software (you could see the code but could not redistribute modifications). Both GTK and Gnome were started as truly free alternatives to Qt and KDE. If only Qt had implemented a dual licensed model like they do now, the history of Linux's DEs would be very different.
IRTF Chair Refuses Removal of NSA Employee as Co-Chair of Crypto Working Group
Yeah no. I won't spend a day of my time for free, because you distrust my resume and references. Maybe if you paid me?
"Homeland Security" is already the Orwellian name. What is now the Department of Defense was known from 1789 to 1947 as the Department of War. It's the same sort of thing. If you want to call "Homeland Security" what it really is, it would be the Department of Surveillance and Imprisonment.
>I know and because of this something nice looking in one font becomes something completely useless when not using that font.

You mean in the same way that something that looks nice in one SVG icon becomes something completely useless when using another SVG icon in its place?

You are not meant to switch font-icon fonts arbitrarily, they are part of your page design, as much as a SVG icon is.
You realize that it's 2014 now, right? :)
I have a question, where are the questions and images stored? I suspect in some database for the NSA to get their grubby hands on.

Why can't this be built on p2p tech? oh I forgot, we are all mainframe developers now...
HN's local PhD-holders are interesting examples of how having a PhD doesn't really mean you have to do any specific thing (or pursue an academic career). When I was doing a little research on the most prolific HN posters [1], I found 3 of the top 20 have a PhD, and none are in academia: Paul Graham runs YCombinator, John Graham-Cumming is a programmer and author, and Colin Wright works in maritime technology (while also giving mathematics talks to students on the side). Another only-slightly-less-prolific poster is Colin Percival, who runs a one-man technology business (Tarsnap).

[1] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html
Better disable SVG too, lest it becomes an attack vector too.
As I read more about this, I wonder if there has yet been a powerful intel (or otherwise secret) government organization that hasn't abused its power in some major way. Without organizations that can keep secrets, you lose a lot of options (such as undercover operations, and surprise nuclear defence systems), but I wonder if you can't draw parallels to open source.

When your government is "closed source", the risks are higher as there are less checks and balances. But maybe, like many open source efforts, keeping the government entirely transparent would increase efficiency enough to make up for the types of operations that you can no longer undertake.
There are many infrastructure changes that are needed in order to increase the performance of the Internet besides faster home connections. CDNs / caching / DNS performance / SPDY / distributed computation and on and on and on. The OP makes it sound like the only thing between us and 0 ms response times on every service and every web page is some politics.

In other words the reason we don't have Google Fiber levels of performance is because 1) we don't have Google Fiber and 2) all the infrastructure to maximize the potential of that last mile connection isn't there. 2) is a problem!
We're hiring across the board at Local Motors.

We run ideation, design and engineering challenges on our responsive Django/AngularJS based platform, and we are white labeling this platform at armycocreate.com (to develop soldier solutions) and at a location to be announced this spring (for a fortune 10 company).

Our core site at localmotors.com is based around automotive innovation -- we currently are manufacturing the Rally Fighter (rallyfighter.com), Verrado Drift Trike (verradodrifttrike.com) and the LM Racer (localmotors.com/racer) in our Microfactory network. We currently are headquartered in Phoenix, have a Microfactory in Las Vegas, and are expanding to the East Coast in the spring.

In the past we entered and won the Experimental Crowd Sourced Vehicle challenge hosted by DARPA in 2010 when we produced the XC2V in under 6 months time from design to delivering the vehicle to President Obama.

Our tech team is currently about 10 people deep ranging from server admin, db, UI/UX design and Python/JS Engineering roles. We currently only list a Front End position on our Jobs page but we're definitely interested in expanding our Tech Team, building some native iOS/Android apps.

This is much much more than a code factory... we're actually developing real products whose inception happens on the web platform. Our in-house knowledge is deep in design, engineering and manufacturing of physical products rooted in automotive -- but we certainly could use more help on the web side of things. We've got a great core on our tech team right now but we've had the hardest time finding talent in the Phoenix area.

If you've got the skillset and experience we're looking for, you'll have a huge amount of influence on the platform's direction, in addition to the opportunity to crank out some super cool features that solve real problems -- but you'll be able to choose your own destiny, which for me is almost more interesting than just one or the other option.

We're not totally against remote work but we'd prefer you to have a presence in one of our Microfactory locations, or at least have the ability to spend a significant amount of time (>30%) in Phoenix at our headquarters, at least for your onboarding period.

Please contact me directly @ wwilliams@localmotors.com if you are interested.
Haha, excuse me for not jumping to that conclusion straight away, I have never heard the ability to live in the bush being used as an argument for another country in a discussion about Australia!

Also first link in Google: rough it - to live in a way that is simple and not very comfortable

Don't pretend search engines deliver the same content to everyone
Does cold weather cause colds?
"It's pretty much the definition of fascism (corporations assuming Regalian tasks)"

No, it's not. Fascism has an actual meaning and it's not simply "bad people doing things I think are terrible".

"Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation and asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations."[1]

All fascists are hyper-authoritarian, yes, but not all hyper-authoritarians are fascists.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
.. is not Reddit.
Not exactly what you were looking for, but if you take a look at https://github.com/bevacqua/frontend-job-listings, there's lots of job boards interesting companies (and then some) post their listings to.

https://github.com/bevacqua/frontend-job-listings
There is, actually. They're called Wireless ISPs or WISPs.
http://www.wispa.org/find-a-wisp
Bill Campbell: Silicon Valley's Secret CEO Whisperer
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This is great! Well, it's bad, but good to know! :-)

"Bad Your client is using TLS 1.0, which is very old, possibly susceptible to the BEAST attack, and doesn't have the best cipher suites available on it."
First Indian Startup to be acquired by Facebook
Never thought this day would come so soon!
That is fascinating, and kind of a twist on Innovator's Dilemma. It would be innovator's dilemma IF they saw voice as inferior to telegraphy, for instance, if quality and quantity of information transfer were seen as lower, and less accurate than morse code. Perhaps they mistook the fact that Morse code messages were pre-written and could be transferred quickly, while spoken messages were more stilted, and conveyed less info per time unit.
IRC conversations aren't googlable after the fact (I'm aware of channel loggers but they don't solve the problem, not really).

Every time I get really deep into some new programming language or tool or technology I hang out in the IRC rooms for it for a bit to see what the common questions are. Within a few days I become a primary answerer of questions because everybody is asking the same questions and I can deftly answer 90% or more of them, even knowing very little about the technology in question.

When you have a question, the first thought you should have is that somebody has asked this question before. Not that there should be an IRC room or a forum or a subreddit or a red phone waiting for your beck and call. Frankly this sort of self-centred "SOMEBODY ANSWER ME NOW" complex strikes me as selfish and the last thing I want is a social network founded on the idea of tracking me down to ask me things that can be answered with very little real effort on either of our part.

Stack Exchange encourages this selfish behaviour (pls send me teh codez), but at least it gives us with the Power of Google a way to access other peoples' selfishness, which is nearly the best of both worlds.
Am I the only one who read that as "Bang Bus App"?
Twitters streaming API used to work fairly well when I was playing with it. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis that was a few years ago though.
Reasonable, fairly small changes (visually), and makes it more unified.

I'm impressed. Often I see these things over-designed so they look great but only if you have ginormous fantastic photos of all your underwear-model friends. This could work for everyone.
The problem is that you can have backwards flow, not just backwards pressure, because water has to be conserved.
Yes, and we are looking to hire in it :)
Parse.com? I think it is more about cloud services for your apps.

I think it is more towards Facebook Home app. Why would they buy a android performance monitoring app. The guys at LittleEye have some good tech for automating the instrumentation of the APK on the device itself (decompile and build apk back), etc. They may be targeting android app store!
Mike at Standard Treasury here. We're hiring engineers to help us redefine the way companies integrate with their commercial banks. It sounds unsexy (at least compared to robotics mentioned elsewhere in this thread), but there's a massive opportunity in front of us to build APIs for banks. We're not cranking out features; we're selling a full developer experience and ecosystem. Let me know at mike@standardtreasury.com if you'd like to hear the rest of my sales pitch!
Fugly.
I get this impression every time I see a "look what neat scalability thing we did" post from Facebook Engineering. It's great that they're able to achieve such technical feats, but they refuse to acknowledge that maybe they're using the technology wrong. I'm reminded of the time they hacked the Dalvik VM on Android because apparently they had too many method names for the Dalvik VM to handle. http://jaxenter.com/facebook-s-completely-insane-dalvik-hack...

I mean, they run into a resource allocation problem for an application that is essentially a glorified web view, and they think "how can I hack up the VM to bypass this limitation?" Sounds like insanity to me.
Cool. Congratulations to the team!
Sure, but I see the payment as just icing on the cake. If you're a talented developer, you probably have a few offers in hand from pretty good companies. What better way to pick one than actually work 1-2 weeks at each to see what it's really like? It's a reasonable investment, given that you'll be there a good chunk of your life in the coming year, likely more.

Edit: BTW, I disagree with the rate (flat $25/hour for everyone) mentioned in the article. IMO it should be closer, or equal to, what the candidate will eventually make at that position. Compared to what companies pay recruiters and the lost money/time on dealing with a bad hire, 2 weeks of full pay is nothing.
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This guy knows what the true Win8 have: Visible and Fast application switch. I mean that, when you open a Modern application, you cannot find any visible way to switch between them. My opinion is to make the task bar always visible, and show store apps on it.
OK. It appears that there was no corporation that your work was contributed to. The personal intellectual contributions of your partner-founders are the assets to discuss, and that you will desire to have fully released to you to use going forward.

If they are done with the idea, a conversation about the value or worthwhileness of releasing their contributions to you is appropriate. Those initial contributions are not worth much if they cannot do the really hard work of making the idea live, sustainable, and perhaps completely changed by later understandings about finding your audience of paying users.

The concept is "ideas are cheap--implementation and the people committed to the implementation are everything".

If there were a corporation, and employment agreements stating that the work and IP became the property of the corp., the conversation would be about ownership or vesting and non-vesting of the departing founder's shares in the corp. Early departing founders get nearly nothing.

It is typical in venture funded startups for the funders to to demand that founder's stock vest over several years so that the startup is not controlled or excessively influenced by (subsequently) departed and non-contributing founders. You have now met the reasons for this kind of arrangement.
Did you even read the post? Stock git is significantly faster than stock mercurial, it's only after they hack it up that they make it faster.
funny how this article came back today, I'm visiting my grandma, she has an ipad as her computer (first successful adoption of a computer for her btw, she previously had bought 2 computers and didn't take to either one) and I'm looking at her internet speeds and I can't deal with it. She is paying $28 for 3 mbps (max) speeds. It's dsl from at&t. I ran a speed test and she only gets about .5 mbps. I get about 300mbps(when plugged into ethernet) when I'm at school...
I wonder if this will lead to CentOS getting security updates at the same time as RHEL (or very shortly thereafter) or if CentOS will continue to have to "play catch-up".

It is for this reason that I moved to Oracle Linux about a year ago when deploying a bunch of new machines. I am certainly no fan of Oracle the company but they were getting security updates out much quicker than CentOS.
A safer and faster Internet
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The guy who wrote the essay is smart.
Apple reveals iPhone and iPad owners spent $10bn on apps in 2013
Did you read the article, or did you just say what you think people are supposed to say about anything Wolfram writes?
There's one simple thing that the FCC could do to put a stop to all this mess: reclassify wireless broadband and cable companies from an "information" to a "telecommunication" service.

Then, they would fall under common carrier regulations that require allowing other companies to offer ISP services on their infrastructure. I know that the FCC is so corrupt that it will never happen, but it is still a one word fix.
Ask HN: Is Apple Delaying Text Messages on Older Models?
I currently have a 5C and it works great. But before, I had a 4S and I found that the text messages would never be received unless I opened the messages app or unlocked my phone or waited an hour. This caused a bit of frustration as I rarely got texts on time. I figured it was just poor service.

But now, after I've spoken to a few friends and heard from others, it seems my delayed text message problem is something that seems to be a fairly common issue is in Pre-5 models.

I know this sounds a like a conspiracy theory, but might there be a legitimate reason for this happening? I don't have the technical knowledge to find out myself. Enlighten me!
...or a billion $1 ideas? Its not the idea that counts; its having some insight into the market and an execution plan that counts.
If you had seen lots of resumes and references, then interacted with those people later, you'd distrust resumes and references too.
Didn't someone do this with his friends in a similar location?
FINsix laptop adapter is tiny, yet powerful
I see more boring jobs as an opportunity to polish your craft. Especially if you are more junior, like me, you can learn from coworkers, as well as on your own. Now if I can just get one :-).
In the bay area, if you can get our bandwidth needs at the level you need from them, I highly recommend Sonic.Net. They seem to be trying to do the right thing/build infrastructure/and bring better broadband speeds to people in the bay area.

I recently left them to go from DSL to go to Wireless w/ a local reseller of some of Sonic's service. I gave up a few static IPs to get 20Mbps symmetric. I'm one of those where upload is just as important as down. Price is reasonable given I could get rid of my land line and some other costs.
The worst is they shut down the product and the team was assigned work in unrelated area. I would say most of the time these companies just want to control the future of the product, it's more a defensive act.
>Is the answer to build a new social network? No.

Wait... I thought jelly works on top of existing social networks, no?
> It's pretty much the definition of fascism...

I looked it up, and you're right!

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fascism

noun

1. requiring people to have a Facebook account to access a free public wi-fi hotspot so they can keep up on Reddit while they eat their fudge brownie ice cream.

2. an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Yes. In British Columbia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395148
I bet they wouldn't even let you pay with Bitcoin!