skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very interested in this project.

However, the first thing I think of when I see:

"We’ve taken several important steps on the road to making “NSA-proof communication” on your favorite websites possible."

is that a lot of use cases involve mobile phones (of course) which have two other computers[1] inside of them that you have no control over and are regularly used to manipulate[2] your android/ios environment out from under you.

I love to see these pieces coming together to form a more secure ecosystem, but it's really one step forward and two steps back as long as we don't have an open baseband and sim card OS, etc.

[1] the baseband processor and the SIM card

[2] OTA updates
OSM has classification schemes for tagging mountain bike routes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mountainbike

This might be of interest to you http://openmtbmap.org/
BBC - London - Contract

The BBC OTG Platform team in London is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an in-depth experience in audio/video Internet delivery and streaming.

We are looking for someone with excellent software development skills and experience in writing scalable software for the web. For this specific project we are flexible in terms of programming language, but we expect a solid experience in OO static languages as well as in dynamic scripting languages.

Experience with HTTP based video streaming, with a focus on delivery networks, is essential. Experience using caching technologies such as Varnish would be a big plus.

Drop me an email if you would like to find out more.
Could someone explain, what is usually considered by H1B here ?

Either candidate should already have H1B, or he could apply without H1B, but possible to process ?
San Francisco, Thumbtack. H1B welcome.

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You are placing me in an uncomfortable position of spewing pro-Kremin propaganda. Ok.

>Presenting this as if it is some sinister technique freshly invented

Well, I didn't go into details, and I'm not an expert, but Color revolutions in ex soviet countries have certain common qualities to them. The main is "nonviolent action" of Gene Sharp. Holding a square for weeks, and waiting for violence to discredit government wasn't a normal normal way to make a revolution before this method was used. Other than that there is financing of pro-Democracy NGOs, that work under assumption that there is a lack of democracy(no matter what), and leaders with western eduction or ex-Reagan administration staffer wives.

>dictatorship of Putin

While I hate Putin and don't like Russia generally it's too subjective and CNN-like to call Putin a dictator. He definitely has support of pupation, and is adequate to Russian people. And I think the level of democracy in Russia is not important to US policy. Russia is US's major geopolitical opponent, one of the few of still independent ones. The US will support revolutions on Russian border no matter how democratic Russia is. Even more, it's easy to argue that Russia is not democratic as say western europe or the US, precisely because The US is very capable at overthrowing governments.

>a very far cry from "setting up the riots" which you have claimed.

While of course US didn't set up riots, it certainly assisted the forces which performed an illegal government coup. There is even a recording of ambasaddor Nuland on youtube. Maybe Yanukovich wasn't popular in the Ukraine(Bush too at the end of his second term), but he was a legally elected president, and Eastern parts of the country supported him initially. Forces that took over the government lost in the last elections, and (most likely)didn't have a chance at winning them next time.

As for me personally, being a Russian with pro-Liberty ideology, taking into account the fact that US is meddling with Russia's neighbors, still I'm for these revolutions. I even can't wait for one that will take out Putin. Russia must be weak and fragmented, because cultural code is very authoritarian, and if Russia is strong it will create problems not only for Russians but for people all over the world. But it's not a position of a patriot. Nor it's position of neutral observer.
That's like being surprised that after 10,000 hours of practicing basic arithmetic you don't know any algebraic topology.
If today, you just came back from a year long vacation in a country without papers, internet access or TV, had no idea what happened in Syria, and was unaware of the back-and-forth struggle to get Ukraine to align with the EU ...

Woke up today for the first day back in civilization, opened the papers, and see that Putin was mobilizing forces ...

then I guess yes, my whole argument is a "pile of bullshit" and the guy who is mobilizing forces must be the "aggressor." And I'm obviously a sucker for propaganda. Tin foil hats and all.

I guess we have short memories - it wasn't too long ago that the US fooled itself by going into war in part based on the crack reportage out of the New York times, courtesy of Judy Miller. Here's an apology from Bill Keller on her work:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/06/03/bill-keller-speaks-o...

So, yes, by all means call me crazy for trying to piece together what might actually be going on here.
You don't just have one battery, you can have multiple. So for example first day you charge battery 1, next day you use battery 1 and charge battery 2, next day you use battery 2 and charge battery 1, etc...
Austria had a ban on Google street view cars due to privacy. That's why you see no street view anywhere in Austria. I think they removed the ban, but since then, Google hasn't exactly been in a hurry to send any cars that way.

It seems a little strange because I'd assume mapping Vienna, one of the world's more well known cities, would be of high importance. I wonder if they're now avoiding Austria on purpose, simply to send a message.

Edit: It looks like the ban was lifted in 2011. Three years later, and there's still no street view in Austria. I'm scratching my head on this one.
Y2k
Maybe for a fairly standard CRUD web app which seems to be all the rage, but honestly it's not like you need to go to university to build something like that. The people making the frameworks, tools and unique domain specific programs still need to build things up from first principles.
Oh, sorry about that. I just came home from a looong bus ride when writing that.
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(REMOTE a possibility if you live in a major US city)

Rinse is a very early-stage startup (we are only 6 people currently) looking to bring technology to the dry-cleaning industry. The industry is ripe for innovation! We're building mobile apps, tackling scheduling and dispatch problems, and scaling a service at over 10% week-on-week growth for over 6 months now! I know 'app for laundry' is a tech cliché right now, but we're definitely encountering real demand. The problem is real, and we're solving it.

The team is very strong, with an HBS grad who grew up in a dry-cleaning family heading cleaning operations, a Stanford GSB grad with direct consumer startup experience heading customer acquisition, and a former Army Ranger managing our driver corps. I'm Stanford CS/EE, have built a few teams at various startups, and am just starting to build the technology and team to support this (very viable) business. The tech stack is Heroku / Python / Django / Celery / Phonegap / JQuery / Backbone / Twilio currently, but obviously there is plenty of opportunity to influence technology decisions early on, and plenty of opportunity to learn new technologies as well. We expect the next couple of hires to own entire new efforts, and have their hands in wide-ranging parts of our entire business.

We're looking for a Full-Stack Developer to develop interactivity for our customers and tools for our staff. We're doing things like route scheduling and planning, e-commerce funnel optimization, and analytics gathering for data-driven decision making.

We're also looking for a Director of Marketing. Rinse is a quintessential B2C business, with plenty of opportunities for online advertising, offline collateral, partnerships, and 'growth hacking.' We're building a scalable business model and the technology to support it, now help us scale the business. Please see a job description at http://bit.ly/1dLJigo - The sky's the limit!

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Hacker News has definitely been our most successful recruiting channel. Thank you! Feel free to contact me at sam@rinse.com with questions, comments, or applications.
I should also add I do front-end dev as well.
Comcast Is Acquiring Video Ad Company FreeWheel For $320 Million
I am aware of that aspect. But having been a military wife and lived in different places, I think you are mistaken to say that "if you have X amount of money and not enough, it is just a personal problem." His remarks imply he has high-ish medical expenses. In a European country, that likely would not be a factor. And any place you live, your choices in where to live are not as wide open as you imply. Choosing to pay less on rent may involve exposure to crime or involve very long commutes, either of which can make that low rent make much less sense (driving more involves expense as well, not just gas but wear and tear, possibly higher insurance, etc). It can also simply be inappropriate housing for your needs. (I lived someplace once that went through a period with a lot of "adults only" apartments. After that was made illegal, they made those apartments available to families as well. We looked at one. The open floor plan bachelor pad failed to provide adequate privacy for me and my husband to have a sex life with small kids in the home. We looked elsewhere.)

But, when it comes down to it, I see absolutely no reason for you to dismiss his question simply because you think he has a personal problem. Whether he has a personal problem or not, there are things wrong with the big picture. I don't think it is a less legitimate question just because the asker happens to have a high income. It seems rather ass-holish to reply at all if you have no plans to talk about the thing he asked about and are merely taking this as an opportunity to talk trash about him as an individual.

Of course, that's just my personal opinion. Lots happens on HN that I don't like. I don't run the place, so whatever.

Carry on.
OOoh, nice. Is this is a direct intellectual precursor to Clojure (although I have no idea if the authors have had any collaboration)?
State-run utilities? Public transportation?
No I wouldnt say that at all of travis, but it starts from a clean (sort of) defined environment for each build. There was an interesting talk at Fosdem about Debian reproducible builds.
The key to our Universe: Irrationality
I would like to have some feedback from the community about this article. To you, in what way could we make mathematics more "human" without loosing its objectivity and rigor?
My work laptop w/XP is less than 4 years old and has an i5.
Hmmm. Maybe it's better now, but there was once a local pub on the wrong street corner that I corrected. It took almost a year for the change to show on google maps. I don't know what the validation process is but I remember looking and feeling like I was totally ineffective.

Google created something great with google maps. But I'll always feel like it's there to be consumed, not to be part of.
Is there anything particularly remarkable about this release? The release notes make it sound like it really offers nothing more than some bug fixes, and very minor new functionality.
You say they will cease to be large, and "pretty soon" at that. You accuse employees of being impatient. But this collusion lasted for nearly five years.

Besides, how can their talent leave for players paying better money when nobody except for the large players can afford top wages? Just because Google can extract $150k+ of yearly value out of an engineer doesn't mean another company can. You need a large, successful business for that...
Not even "in place of" but "in addition to". There's a reason that the script tag has a language attribute as part of the standard.
I remember when Peter Norvig wrote the first cut at Silk - I think he wrote it in one weekend.
I don't know in which country you live but the trailers are only a minimal part of the pre-movie show. Most of it is again ads. Ads I don't enjoy at all. Nobody in the cinema does. Thats why people are still talking and not paying attention to what is on screen.

I don't even enjoy the trailers anymore because I've seen them all already on the Internet. I don't need them. Thats why I do something I can't do with a newspaper for example: I come into the room 30minutes later. When the actual product I've payed for is being aired.

This is a luxus I don't have with newspapers, on my company computer surfing the Internet, on the street,... My brain is being attacked by those unwanted information that has been tailored to hook onto certain mechanics within my unconscious mind I can't control. It manipulates me in a way I can't do anything about it.

And it is even worse: they also lie to me. I would never rely on this information because I know there is another player on the same market claiming the same things for their product. Why should I believe them? How should a lie be useful to me? I just can't see it.

I also don't recall a single situation where an ad showed me a new product I've never heard of and was interested in. I just can't. Maybe I'm to informed but I doubt it. I asked my girlfriend. She's not even close to that nerdy as I am. She also never did that. You think that might be an coincidence?

What was your last product you did not hear about before and bought after seeing an ad?
Hey, don't despair.

First, not everyone has admitted defeat. Maybe you just need to meet more people. Grad schools are just wrapping up admission season, and I'm totally inspired by the level of talent and quality of students I met this past few months.

Second, scientists are among the greatest beneficiaries of the information technology revolution. The most important instrument every scientist uses is a personal computer. Brenner says "The way to succeed is to get born at the right time and in the right place. If you can do that then you are bound to succeed. You have to be receptive and have some talent as well." This definitely feels like the right time and place to me.

Science may be the pursuit of knowledge, but that doesn't mean humans who work as scientists get to be privileged when it comes to allocation of resources. We will just have adapt to new ways of communicating why our work is important, and new ways of raising money [1]. Science is way more expensive than most people realize, but it costs millions, not billions to run a successful lab.

Anyway, we'll make it work. Just like our predecessors made it work when science budgets were a fraction of their current size.

[1] For example: YC-backed experiment.com
Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburbs) - No remote, but we will relocate. Monetate helps digital marketers make their content more relevant. We turn data into action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM manipulation to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.
What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems.

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here. We ship often (every two weeks), and iterate.

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - huge data sets, UX, 3rd party Javascript, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical project teams are self-organizing and have full authority over (as well as responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Open source - Google Closure, Python, AngularJS, Pandas, Redis, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr, Selenium - we're open source across our stack

* Funded by First Round Capital and OpenView

We've hired great people from HN before, and we're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ Send me a message if you have questions or want to apply: karl at monetate dot com
WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring Front End Web Developers, Platform Engineers, and Application Developers Jobs@WebAction.com

WebAction is a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing an end-to-end platform that aims to enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. We provide data management solutions for mission critical systems by providing real-time processing power, an intuitive web user interface, and beautiful dashboards.

Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley. We're also well funded (recently raised $11m Series B by a private equity firm with a $15 billion fund).

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots on University Avenue in Downtown Palo Alto. We also offer an array of perks and free food at our office.

UI Developers: Do you wish you could work on visualizing some of the world's most valuable data? Example use cases for WebAction include visualizing cell tower data, revealing cyber security attacks, catching fraud, showing the ins and outs of world's largest data centers, and many other problems of that nature. At WebAction, you would have the following responsibilities on UI:

- Code user interface components for a real-time big data dashboard

- Optimize code for performance and usability

- Contribute innovative ideas for new dashboard features

- Collaborate with platform engineers to coordinate user interface with back-end functionality

Requirements:

- Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery

- Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment

- Portfolio of deployed projects

Nice to Haves

- Experience working with real-time, data-intensive user interfaces

- Experience with D3.js or other data visualization libraries

- Experience with Backbone.js or other front-end MV* frameworks

- User experience and design skills

For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to implement a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. For those of you interested in scalable, low latency data platforms, WebAction is an opportunity to create one yourself. The following skills are desirable:

-Large scale distributed systems

-Familiarity with the HStack (Hadoop/Zookeeper/HBase)

-Significant experience or interest in HBase or Cassandra.

-Interest in stream processing systems such as Storm or Akka.

If you're interested, please send us a message at jobs@WebAction.com