skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a monthly "who's hiring" thread, with some remote offers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324236

Though many "remote" offers require you to be able to go to the U.S. on a semi-frequent basis, so are not available to many foreigners like myself.

If you're U.S. based, there are several nice opportunities :)

Most offers don't seem to be a match with your skillset though, .NET especially doesn't get any love in HN. The frontend and Ruby stuff will help you land a job hopefully :)
They're also throwing out all the communities who are living "unauthorized" in warehouses and commercial units.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVL50gwSLlE
Its ok to still live with your Parents.
That's a limitation of d3.js, not JavaScript. gRaphaël is pretty easy to use: http://g.raphaeljs.com/
I agree that startups in central London is pretty daft. Bit like choosing Manhattan with good views of the park.

I like Bristol. 90 mins from the big smoke, decent airport and railway hub, more chilled and counter-culture than South/South-East, closer to countryside, climbing and surfing. Has a history of new and high-tech like chip fabs and renewables. Oh and its not the North :)
I cannot see it because it is flash only but is this from the same interview where they only ask him about bitcoin at the end for like 3 sentences?

Oh here it was, page 24

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://fm.cnbc.com/applica...
I see it too but I don't think it's really there. I clicked around the area with a colour picker and the values stayed the same across the "gradient" so it must just be an artifact created in our eyes at the boundary.
The Zimbabwean dollar analogy is appropriate. Throughout its wild swings and hyperinflation, it was backed by a government. Bitcoin is backed by nothing at all.

One is a currency, the other is a commodity.
What is the value of a building? To me it seems obvious that a building is an asset and what you want from it is the income from the rents, and the value of it is the NPV of future rents. Anything else is bubbly.
They fail to address the way they solved the protocol problem (only being able to encode 6 keys in one event).

I'm assuming they went the custom-protocol-extension route, meaning sending more than 6 keys restricted to Windows-only drivers?

Or did they do something else?
Certainly you meant we breathe O2.
We're almost bordering Crimea, but Crimea is an autonomy, so what happens there is more or less confined. You can ignore politics here if you choose to do so, but unfortunately you can't ignore economic repercussions of it. Exchange rates are skyrocketing, prices on import products (majority of them) rise accordingly, banks put limits on access to debit cards and extreme limits on credit cards. In our biggest bank you literally can't spend more than $20 per day from credit card (and this, combined with higher prices, put strain to people with low income).

As for tensions, our city is pretty much evenly split up pro-russian/anti-russian. Majority of people I know is anti-russian, but this is probably demographics bias, because older people (who lived half of their life in USSR) are mostly pro-russian. But you won't see many fights here over this. In everyday life when someone mentions they are from one camp and someone from another, we usually just laugh it off and change theme. Some extremists do escalate the conflict, but they're not good people anyway, no matter what side they're taking.

I've witnessed one episode recently when playing at trivia competition with my team. It's split up to pro-russian/anti-russian, just like our city, but we just joke casually about each other and that's it. One of the pro-russian members is a world-class athlete. She took part in world championship on behalf of Ukraine and came to this trivia competition in national athletics team's suit. One of the anti-russian people from other team was shouting to her that she does not deserve to wear this suit, because she's pro-russian and hence anti-ukrainian. But that's just nonsense, because she earned the right to wear this suit more than anyone else in that room. Fortunately, this was one of just few exceptions. So what you read about people in Odessa is true for people in Nikolayev - majority here value respect for each other more than political beliefs.
Newsweek was sold recently and it's not the publication it used to be.
Oh yes, for us Canadians it's really as simple as "just go[ing] outside".
Yup, this video is a subset of that interview. Thanks for the transcript, by the way.
Thats all you have to say after reading such an article? Do you mean the guy is a bastard ?
I understand. I wasn't as touched by this plot twist of sorts (partly because I read your comment prior to reading the article, so I knew what to expect). I've seen quite a few dieing developer stories over the past few months, so I've got a similar fealing towards "death of a developer" sob-stories as you have to BC fodder: I've read it too often before :)

The "christ" at the end makes it seem like you pass judgement on the top comment, while I thought it added some value to the discussion.
What I like is the "I dont start prototyping till I have a good mental picture"

I am currently stuck on a project I want to start becasue I cannot get it to fit right in my (future) head. And I am glad I am not an idiot for not being able to knock out my next great project in between lattes.

(Ok, in direct comparison terms I am an idiot, but at least its not compounded)
Different for me, i would prefer YAML over XML or JSON
I like it ;) Might borrow that one
Would have posted it but for some reason HN has taken away my posting privileges.

All my links are auto-dead now. I can only comment :-(
It's built with Meteor.com and the Iron-Router project, specifically.
Maybe. Unless the merchant is also changing site content that you're not aware of and then everybody ends up making decisions based on flawed data and assumptions.
How do you establish a new currency? Well it is easy, you take control over some area of land, by military force or by treaty with the present occupiers of it, then you declare that the people living there need to pay you taxes, then you decide what to accept those taxes in. And that's what it means for a government to "back" a currency.
Facebook Adopts IKEA-Style Pre-Fab Design to Build New Swedish Server Farm
I think I can see the thieves lining up to break in to his house to steal his bitcoins already.

Whether he is the Nakamoto behind Bitcoin or not, I think Newsweek have basically made him a target.

Let's put this another way. I see him as a potential target worth $400 million, and I'm not even inclined to partake in breaking and entering. So, what about the uncrupulous people who don't know much about bitcoin. Oh yeah, let's steal the guys computer. It is worth $400 million dollars.

Newsweek just lined this poor guy up as a target for every crook in LA.

I feel really sorry for the guy.
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
It's not interesting. It's garbage. There's too much noise in their input data to derive any meaning whatsoever.

Garbage in, garbage out.
Would you like to elaborate? The only data-leak story I have heard about was that until recently, "scrub disk with 0s" was unchecked by default when a droplet was destroyed. Now that option is checked by default. What other concerns do you have?
Print("If you're reading this, that means the program got to this point!")
distractions ?
Just after the first world word, cigarettes were used as currency in Germany. Currency is simply anything that is accepted as a medium of exchange. That's all what makes currency a currency - doesn't matter if someone doesn't like even for (supposedly) good reasons. :)
Ooops:

This article has been removed as it was launched early. It will be reinstated at the correct launch time.
No, not ephemeral disks. They're typically used for temp files, caches, etc., or servers you can afford to lose. EBS volumes are persistent and work just fine between stop/starts.
Yes. It makes for a much more fluid experience (at least if you have JS ;)), similar to that of a desktop app. The web was originally built to be a set of individual pages but that's not how we want things to behave today. Building a UI with Meteor.com where the JS controls all the interaction, page switching, event handling and automatic data updates is sooo much simpler than requiring a full page refresh or using AJAX to modify individual components. If the DOM is built up by JS in the first place, it makes it very simple to change it by JS. Read more about Meteor's philosophy in the first paragraphs of their docs, here: http://docs.meteor.com/

The downside is that if you don't have JS, you can't do much. In our case it was a price we decided to pay.
One day of self-reported data extrapolated over 18 years? Knowing what we know about psychology of self-reporting and the changing of diets for people over time, you think that this study means anything?

Is it any surprise that it shows very odd, contradicting results based upon age groups?

do you honestly think that NO conclusions can be drawn from observational studies?

Well, I didn't say that - but if the study referenced is the best they could do then they might as well give up.

Haven't you noticed the meta analysis of many studies recently that show that most of the original studies were flat-out wrong? Do you think maybe it might be because of weak studies like the one in this article?
Recursion explained [gif]
Designing a timeless smartwatch
> #container {display:flex;}
> #foo {margin: auto;}

or

> display: table-cell;
> vertical-align: middle;

Where is the mess in these?
An excellent point, that is almost universally ignored. NPV of future rents is ignored almost totally in the domestic housing market, and it seems that commercial property is riven with debt fuelled purchases that need another purchase to work.
Show HN: Padlock – A minimalist open source password manager
Very cool - I agree with that. One question: it seems I can choose any color in 'Free Build' with one click except gray. Is it intentional or did I miss something?
Geoip geolocation with Google BigQuery
"Because companies rarely dedicate resources to making existing software better purely for its own sake, ..."

Well, there's your problem right there. Do not implement a crap workaround when you know what the proper solution is.
XML is unnecessarily verbose, for the supposed sake of human readability. But used as a serialization format, it isn't really readable or editable by humans (except in the sense that a Turing machine is programmable): remember that the ML in XML stands for "markup language", and SGML, its predecessor, was designed as a way of marking up normal text, not littering data with angular brackets and identifiers. (XML/SGML arguably isn't that hot as a markup language, either.)

If you really need a hierarchical serialization format that is "verified for validity and syntax", the problem is that XML has prevented the adoption of something better (because it was "good enough").

If you don't need that, then XML is overkill and bloat and makes your format less readable than it could be. And you rarely need it, because either your data is computer-generated and -read, so there's little point in putting in extra schema checks, or schema verification is woefully insufficient (because it can't verify the contents of fields, relations between fields, or a ton of other stuff that can accidentally go wrong).
One option that is very well hidden: Click to fix the colour, and an up arrow appears at the bottom. From there, you can type in an RGB/hex/cmyk/etc code to change the colour, e.g. if you want to find colours to go with a specific one that's already in use.
From the recent article related to DO's $37.2M funding [1]

“Flywheel built an entire WordPress hosting service on top of our cloud,” Uretsky said. “They are running over a thousand droplets for their users. The integration is so tight that customers can’t tell that we’re running the service.”

Another example, Beyoncé launched her new album in December. It turns out that Beyonce.com runs on DigitalOcean. The servers handled the album launch without breaking a sweat.

“We’ve seen 15 million visitors within the first 24 hours. She’s been pretty happy with the service,” Uretsky said.

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-mill...
I personally miss having schemas and XSLT in JSON.

> doing everything in XML is a stupid idea (e.g. XSLT and Ant)

XSLT actually made a lot of sense. If everyone writes code to transform format1 to format2 then what you end up with a lot of slightly different transformations. Its main downfall, just like XML itself, was that it was annoying and time consuming to write.

How would you replace all this if you moved away from XML?

http://git.hohndel.org/?p=subsurface.git;a=tree;f=xslt;hb=HE...
Isn't it to do with getting various electronic / noise / whatever certifications though? FCC vs UL vs EU vs ...
Upskirt photos aren't illegal, court rules
Ask HN: Top 3 favourite subjects to discuss on HN?
Passport Authentication for Node.js Applications
http://csszengarden.com/ have been there for years…
The impression I got was that he was going to store his data in a git object database and that the files would be virtual in there. It would be like the .git directory without the working files on disk. It's all just conjecture until his code his out.

Regardless, I would think that some applications are simple enough (store few enough separate objects in the file system) that the issues you cite are not likely to cause a problem.
Hint: You can scroll up/down to change saturation
The Challenge of Relativistic Spaceflight
Be advised that the Das is no longer being made by Costar. They've moved to an unnamed OEM in China, and most people feel that the new keyboards aren't as nice. There are lots of other good mechanical keyboards out there, though - Filco, WASD, etc. I have a WASD and I love it.
I've been working with restructured Text a lot, it's a breeze as well. Seems quite similar.
Yes, I should have said "integral to university budgets" rather than "central".

The thing is, the perceived value of education is largely based around prestige. Unless the cost of studying in the UK suddenly sky-rockets or there is some scandal that damages the reputability of all UK universities there isn't going to be a "bust" scenario.

It just doesn't seem very likely. I can envision a slow decline but no sudden fluctuations. Maybe I am mis-interpreting what "bubble" means?
PE moves almost all of our development time and costs to newer browsers
I don't know about the person you replied to, but I have been developing for that very web for the past decade and a half. I agree about web not going away any time soon, and I am not sure about it being the largest app platform, but of one I am sure: it is a lousy platform for the applications. So I do not want it to go away, just to go home.
(and let's not confuse the web with the internet).
When I started uni, the home/EU fees were £1000 a year[1]. My friends in class who were applying as international (non-EU) students had to pay £24k per year to attend the same courses.

The Government did pay universities the "teaching grant" per home student, to top up the fees, but when tuition fees settled at £9k per year that number was chosen in order to eliminate most of the teaching grant[2], so assuming that universities were getting topped up to £9k per home student, foreign students were worth 2.5x the home ones.

I know for sure that the universities compete to get as many foreign students in as possible, which was why all the fuss when they revoked London Met's ability to give student visas - they were attacking their funding, basically.

[1] they have since tripled twice, although remember repayments are like a sort of tax (the government lends you the money in the first place, and you pay back 9% of your income above £15k).

[2] I think science students still get it and arts students don't, or something, because this government is insane.
But in the design of XML this was already acknowledged.

That's why there is the distinction between well-formed and valid XML documents. Only with valid XML documents there is a schema attached that will describe these nodes with the type attribute. And because it is extendable, these types can be anything but they will be automatically validated by the parser.

JSON OTOH doesn't have this extensibility. There are a couple of predefined types but if you need to go beyond them (and this happens all the time because JSON doesn't even define a date type!) any interpretation is up to the parsing program and this can vary tremendously (again, look at the handling of dates and for example the questions on stackoverflow about them).
Looks like it's been memory-holed.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.the...
Text is boring
3 stories on company culture
> "A lot of people use AGILE to avoid planning at all"

Yup, I've seen this a lot.

In one instance "Agile" meant I could finish a major task using an unfamiliar language, framework and code base in short order.

Genuinely, the customer was told "Of course, fuzzix here is familiar with Agile processes so you should have this in 3 weeks".

edit of course this also meant there was no formal spec for the task, though I did have a photo of the whiteboard.
Come to Brighton instead!

Brighton is to London what California is to NY. I.e. full of hippies and "creative" types.
I agree it's confusing, I think the submitter just meant "system for files" or something.
Monitoring Helpfulness
Did you ever try turning f.lux off late at night?

Everyone that I've spoken to has mentioned that they immediately found themselves squinting or needing to turn down the brightness of their monitor.
Document markup is the one place XML is a no-brainer - more specifically, long-form, highly structured documents (i.e., essentially books).

Without it, publishing would be stuck in a morass of nebulous, ill-documented proprietary messes, and a great deal of current learning would be at risk of being lost to posterity. The fact that there are associated open standards such as XSLT with which to transform it is just the icing on the cake as far as publishing is concerned.

This is why there's so much distaste for XML - people try to use it for applications where it isn't ideal (and there are many more of those than there are applications where it is ideal) because they've swallowed someone else's hype, and as a consequence they have a bad time. If not for the unbelievable exaggeration a few years back (I heard people claim without irony that XML - a markup language for god's sake - would literally change the world), the divisiveness wouldn't exist, and it would be a technology used by experts quietly getting on with the jobs it's best for.
Internet Explorer 8 shipped with Windows 7 too so it should be supported until January 2015 (2020 for the extended support). It can be an issue for corporate applications.
I registered just before 7:30am Eastern today and got two emails...

@7:29am - Thanks for your interest in Codename BlueMix. We hope to reward your courage soon with a membership. We will be in touch shortly.

@7:37am - You have been accepted as a BlueMix beta member.
Albertsons parent Cerberus buys Safeway for more than $9 billion
Or the Medway Towns: Full of weird, strange people ... but still dirt cheap & commutable to/from London.
No. I'm tired of people blaming the recipients of emails.

The blame lies on IT departments who won't implement email authentication systems that have existed for years.

There should be a big green bar at the top of emails from people I would be likely to trust.
Thanks, I totally dig it now :) though I find it not intuitive enough without the hint You gave (Hint: if you scroll a tiny bit when moving your mouse, you might even not see the difference. So even those users who would try scrolling during the first visit might get a thought that scrolling doesnt do anything). By the way, is scrolling a legit move on all touchscreens?
PC users: beware of CryptoLocker malware
Most books have trivial layout and typography - simple, successive paragraphs with a few very minor embellishments such as the occasional large header, page-breaks before chapters, and page numbers in the footer. Preventing widows and orphans is definitely not the norm - just browse your local library or bookshelf. I seriously doubt people worry much about rivers, too.

Books with diagrams and side-notes tend to have more complex layouts, sure - and that's most educational books. Maybe there these typography issues are given more attention, but it's pretty clear that the typical paperback has demonstrated they aren't that important to readers (which isn't a judgement, it's just the way it is), so I wouldn't be surprised if almost no books worry about these issues anymore, beyond perhaps using software which addresses them insofar as they can be automatically.
Two in five Brits cough up for CryptoLocker ransomware's demands
Show HN: My 1st Android App to Market, Startn'Stop, A Simple Timer
Proud to announce the release of my first app to the Google Play and Amazon App Market.

Startn'Stop is a basic Android timer. Created this to get some traction with Android and the process of going through getting an app ready for the market.

Learned a great deal in doing so. Learned the value of straight up Googling Eclipse error messages.

Getting the app ready was also an experience with all the assets needed for such a basic app. Finally creating a keystore correctly was a small victory in itself as well.

I welcome any feedback or suggestions. Still testing things out and I know some flavors of Android have had different results.

At the end of the day, it's a good learning experience and a great feeling knowing that some of my code could be running on mobile devices all over the world.

Startn'Stop can be found on Google Play at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mkelleyjr.timer

Startn'Stop can be found on Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-L-Kelley-Jr-StartnStop/dp/B00ITG2SK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1394196667&sr=1-1&keywords=startn%27stop

Thank you guys so much!
Screen time is not your friend
> it was annoying and time consuming to write.

It remains annoying and time-consuming :) But there's no better option for reliably creating valid EPUBs to a predetermined business specification.
LOL yes, sorry :-) O2 it is...
There's some effort going on in Croydon (that's South London, and one of the cheapest parts of London for those of you not in the UK): http://croydontechcity.com/ (heh - just noticed I'm in one of the pics on their site)

They run regular event to try to pull together a startup community, and it's extremely well attended, to the point where they've had to restrict numbers for some of the meetings. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of it - it's only been going for a year or so, but seems to be growing rapidly and it does seem like there's an increasing number of actual startups rather than just people talking about it.

Croydon, despite its reputation has the advantage of lots of cheap low grade office space (though the cheapest stuff in the main business district is gradually being demolished to create space for new high grade expensive high rises, but there are also a couple of "retail parks" in the midst of a sea of cheap office buildings and warehouses a few minutes walk/bus out of the town centre), there's at least one local data centre from a good provider, and it's very well connected to central London and the South coast.