skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have a sense of humor. Really I do."

Are you sure? I think you're taking yourself and the internet a little too seriously. If the jokes aren't funny don't laugh and don't click. If it really bugs you go ahead and spend a day without reading news on the internet, you'll survive, I promise.

April Fools is interesting on the internet because attention is rewarded and that encourages companies to put real effort into silliness. It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. The fact of that a company like Google still has a sense of humor about itself renews my faith in them a little bit.

Look at Blizzard's April fools:

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/games/outcasts/

The credit card slots in the controller to make for easier microtransactions. With the new business models they're using for Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm it's actually pretty funny. The fact that they're acknowledging it softens me to them even just a little bit.

Some of us look forward to April Fools on the internet, maybe the jokes are lame but the effort makes the event interesting.
Words have legal meaning. If they called it something different it would be easy to write new laws giving special rights only to people in one of the groups. By legally using the same words and terminology then you make sure that both groups are automatically covered by all future laws.
A very good post helping explain HyperLogLog : http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-...
I'm pissed. My email address is among those leaked. I got two transaction requests, the first for 732342.34425 BTC and the second for 999999.99999999 BTC. The second had registered a username of "⚠ URGENT: Сoinbase hacked. We" so that the email subject line read "⚠ URGENT: Сoinbase hacked. We sent you a payment request."

I got my coin out of Inputs.io just a few days before they got hacked, and I've got a low balance in Coinbase. I'm going to make that a zero balance, because I've completely lost faith in any company's ability to manage Bitcoin.
You're right. As a Coinbase customer, neither my name or Coinbase-only email address was in this list.

What you describe is exactly the exploit that was disclosed and exactly what the person exploiting it seems to have done based on the content of the list. Of course, Coinbase argues that this is a feature and not a bug.
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Having worked in many environments, currently cubicle style, which included personal offices, lunch room tables, and open floor, I find that it comes down to effective management more than the provided work space. By that I mean, we were just fine three abreast on a lunch room table because we knew what we were doing, who was doing what, and where we all were, and on and on.

Too many times I see these floor plan discussions and just wonder if its an excuse for poor management or worse, developers.
That link about the Cornell study is comically bad. Where are the raw data tables?

It was a link to a summary of the actual study. With that said I went and skimmed the original study and that looked just as bad. Here's the original study.

http://iwsp.human.cornell.edu/file_uploads/offices1_12382569...

Forget the fact that they didn't have the raw data. They don't clearly explain on what basis they reach their conclusions.

How are they measuring the 'success' of an open floor plan? For that matter, how can you even measure the 'success' of an open floor plan versus a close floor plan?
This is nice.

One project i work on has two branches, master and release. We develop on master, then branch release from master when we want to make a release. If we find bugs during pre-release testing, we fix them on release, then immediately merge release back on to master. Note that this ensures that master is always a descendent of release, which means it's always safe to re-branch release. We don't use named feature branches; we make commits straight to release (and master). Could we use git-cascade to automate the immediate merge from release back to master?
Thinknum - http://www.thinknum.com - NYC ( moving to SF in a couple of weeks for a 4 month accelerator then moving back to NYC ).
- Hiring 2 software engineers
email: gregory.ugwi@thinknum.com
The US is fast becoming a culture where it's considered acceptable to run out of town (and out of work) people who fail to share the latest progressive ideas with us. Even if they were legally and peacefully exercising their constitutional rights, it's OK to hate those people and attempt to drive them into ruin.

It's always a shorter hop than people think from today's in-crowd to the gulags of the next group to come along.
Outlook Web App: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/31/microsoft-announces-outloo...

Coursera: I'm a beta tester
Homo.js
Apparent Coinbase response there:
"This stance is not unusual on the web: you'll find that user enumeration is possible on Facebook, Google, and nearly every other major internet site"

Um, no. If that is what Coinbase believes, I just lost respect for their claims of security.
So weird to see this here
> implement it almost for free

What does this phrase mean?
Hey! I'am also from Romania.

Where do you study?
3scale.net in Barcelona, Spain is looking for Full time Operations Engineers.

As an Operations engineer at 3scale you will be working to improve the reliability and performance of our services, as well as you will have the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team in order to build the next generation products for APIs focusing on automation, availability and performance.

Responsibilities:
Work with the engineering team to build, and maintain 3scale’s highly available infrastructure between AWS, and other cloud providers in USA and Europe.
Write Sensu plugins, handlers, and extensions to monitor all of our stack.
Write Puppet modules to automate our infrastructure.
Troubleshoot issues across our stack hardware/software and application.
Work with our ELK (Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana) cluster.
Design resilient and scalable architectures.
Willingness to learn and tech.

Qualifications:
1+ years of experience with AWS. (3+ for senior.)
2+ years industry experience on system administration (Linux). (5+ for senior.)
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Lead Engineer

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Hah, multumesc! :D Thanks for signing back in, I'll be sure to check mechanical engineering for future studies, I've always wanted to look some more in that domain!
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We're looking for Android and iOS developers.

Please shoot me a mail for more info aaron.signorelli@bullorbear.com
If you ever want to move to the US (and I'm not saying you should, but many people do), getting the degree will make you one less factor of "weird" to US employers.
What Makes a Startup Great: Facebook, Lyft, Oculus
I skipped to page 11 right away too. Great topic, overblown article.

When people tear apart the Tiger Mom book because they think overachievers miss out on important things, they miss the core point of the book. The author admits that something was wrong, but she just can't help herself.
it's got motorola assist, which is pretty cool
In Silicon Valley entrepreneurs perform plastic surgery to look younger
Notsecretapp: what happens when anyone can tweet from one Twitter account?
Yeah, the $3T the FED printed is accomplishing its purpose of keeping asset values inflated. That being said, remember when everybody said Facebook was overvalued, every time they had a funding round?
Well, they never really traded above ~17 times 12 months forward revenue (Not including secondary market trades or Microsoft's strategic investment).

2004: $100,000 line of credit from Dad when accounts were frozen.
2004: 10x. Seed. 1st ads in May generated ~$2,400 revenue. In June, Thiel invests at $5M valuation;
2005: 17x. A. $6M rev at a $100m valuation;
2006: 10x. B. $52M run rate on $525 pre money;
2007: 100x.C. $150M revenue at $15B valuation;
2009: 13x. D. $750M revenue at $10B valuation;
2010: 17x. E. $2b revenue at $35B valuation;
2011: 30x. F $3.3B run rate on a $100B valuation;
2012: 23x. IPO $4.2B revenue on $100B IPO valuation;
2012 17x Post IPO $4.2B revenue on $68B market cap at sale;
2012 6x Post IPO $7B (2013) Revenue on $40.7B market cap;

*Note: Not including Microsoft's strategic investment, and Secondary market trades
It is indeed real. Check it out: http://rhgproductions.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-finished-rex-...
Contributor Agreement is absolutely relevant. If there is any chance that the project will accept patches from random people then release those patches as part of the core code base under a license .... you need a contributors agreement.

Given that OpenCall is Open Source, this is very possible.

Good point re diff between on GPL/BSD and AGPL. Tho if I may add, AGPL will only state that in writing. A bad company may break that, and then it's up to how willing you are to get legal on them to enforce the AGPL. Some people may be unwilling to do this, so this may play into the choice of license you go for.
something that this article does not address is all the other things that need to happen to give employees private offices, e.g. architect, permits, construction.

i have previously leased and built out a high-end office in a building in downtown chicago and the amount of time burned with the architect, waiting for permits, and construction is serious. after doing that once, i will never do an office build-out again unless i actually own the building. when you add in the fact that the building is "union only", the delays in construction become ridiculous.

after going through this part myself, i'm all for open-plan offices, despite their being less than ideal for developers. the majority of our developers work on remote anyhow.
Biggest problem with UDP: No support at all in modern browsers without plugin. So when doing web games, you can't really get around using Websockets which are TCP based.
Appinons - http://appinions.com - New York, NY

Appinions Inc. is a Manhattan-based startup that provides a SaaS influence marketing platform and services that let people see the web through the lens of peoples’ opinions. Behind the services is a natural language understanding platform, based on over a decade of research at Cornell University by Dr. Claire Cardie, Computer Science, and her students.

We're mainly a Java-based shop, and heavily use Hadoop/HStack, AWS, Spring, and JQuery. We focus mostly on front end user experience, big data, identity discovery, and NLP problems in free text.

Right now, we're mainly looking for full-stack style engineers, but we're in a growth mode, so if you think you can help us out, by all means, submit your resume!

http://www.appinions.com/company/careers/
IE11 gains the most market share, and Chrome finally passes Firefox
Did you actually ask everyone

Yeah, I did communicate with people about the efficacy of the working environment. Plus, for the past 12 years or so, everyone I've worked with has had a laptop that they could always (and did at times) take to quiet places when they needed alone time. They self-identified as needing quiet. Most others self-identified as liking the more collaborative working spaces.

I'm one of them

If you're working in an environment that is unproductive for you (that you hate) and you're not able to say something, then you should consider departing from it or addressing your own inability to have frank conversations with the people for whom you work.
But there were buttons to be pressed!
Or perhaps, the two concerns met in the middle? "How do we achieve $design_feature while perhaps saving a bit budget?"
That's all the information it would ideally have on earth, but then again, there are aproximately 8.8 BILLION habitable planets on our galaxy alone, and the more advanced ones oughta have a lot more information to store.

However, about our planet, the HHGTTG had only this to say: "Mostly Harmless". It does have an entry for human beings though, so we actually don't know how much information about us it contains.
Startup from Hulu Founding CEO Jason Kilar and former Hulu CTO Richard Tom
Located in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

We're stealth, so we can't divulge product details yet, but we're looking to change the landscape of an industry or two. Our company will focus on building a multi-platform consumer facing service. We're big believers in the combination of great design, great technology and a compelling business model. We firmly believe that world-changing companies are the output of world-class teams and world-class cultures.

We're looking for strong developers who love to code in a variety of languages, tackling every portion of the stack.

If you're one of them, you can get our attention by following the rabbit hole @ http://thefremontproject.com/rabbithole.

Alternatively you can email us: devnull@thefremontproject.com.
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SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or London, UK

Python/Javascript dev (django, angular, jquery, plain js) and some Go as well.
I usually work with a TDD approach and can easily fit in a team or work by myself.

Website with links to github and projects: http://vincent.is/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentprouillet

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Notice that I did not ascribe a motivation; I simply pointed out that Proposition 8 had no other purpose than to make a certain group of people be treated as not equal to every other person under the law. There is no possible charitable reading of its text which suggests any other goal; that is what it aimed to do and what it -- until it was struck down -- succeeded in doing.

Ignoring the fact that this person took part in doing that in favor of wondering why they did so misses the point by a number of light-years.
In your opinion, not in mine. If Facebook agrees with you, then Facebook should be honest and ban commercial entities from having accounts, instead requiring them to use only the ordinary advertising mechanisms.
You happened to append for to the url. As a convenience:

http://www.skulpt.org
Yep. Except note that it won't merge from `release` to `master`, because the script doesn't know whether you guys pushed other commits to `release` that you don't want to have on `master`. So it'll push just the source commit to both `release` and `master`.
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https://properapp.com (my product)

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Hey I am not looking for a job but I love flight aware and use it daily (even though I fly only once or twice a year). It is just fun.
My thought exactly. Argumentum ad absurdum (I don't mean it to be offensive) - abolition of slavery, too, "removed an already-existing right of certain persons".

As I said, I'm not comparing gay marriage to slavery here, but the idea that granting certain rights should be "forward-only" is bizarre to say the least.
RobotNews(RN),a HN clone for robot
Yet another project that will end up at the bottom of the lake like all other digital identity claiming sites.
Marriage is, as I have written, recognized in the United States as a fundamental right. If you believe those should be subjected to majority votes, I would be terrified to live in a society run by you.
For the best ROI on your CS degree, go to a state school
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This a paid internship; we will consider candidates who can work from our London office and additionally remote candidates who are UTC +/- 5 hours maximum. Interested? Please email intern@snowplowanalytics.com, and tell us about a piece of software you are proud to have written. (And don't be afraid to suggest specific projects/initiatives/features that you would like to work on in your internship.)

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Firebox is a 15 year young, profitable and growing online retailer specialising in the 'coolest gifts you can buy'. We have a small and agile tech team that work and learn from each other. We build new features, improve and maintain our current codebase, and design our architecture to handle high loads!

We're looking for another web developer who is passionate about technology and wanting to get stuck in building a long term business. We are looking for someone interested in the full stack of web development. On the back-end we currently use PHP/Ruby, MySQL, Redis, Nginx/Apache, and Solr.

To give you an idea of some of our current projects: we are moving over to Postgres, building an in-house iPhone app, re-making our development process to use vagrant, and building an API for internal and external use.

We (the tech team) work fairly autonomously and don't have any managers. We often get to choose what we want to work on in the best interests of the company, which keeps things fun and interesting.

For more info on the job, please see: http://www.firebox.com/admin/showcareer?id=webdeveloper

To apply please email jobs@firebox.com
Industry Dive - Data Mining Intern (paid) - Washington, DC

Industry Dive is a digital media company that creates apps, websites, and newsletters that empower people to use their phones as a more effective work tool.

We're looking for someone who can crunch through large databases and come up with actionable information. The ideal candidate has experience working with SQL databases, a good grasp of basic statistics, and can work with our design team to create graphics and interactive data visualizations.

Please contact me if you're interested or would like any more information: eli-at-industrydive.com

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Depends on what you want. Toss a coin for heads = Berkeley and tails = UPenn. When the coin is mid-air decide which face of the coin you are wishing for. If you aren't sure still. Go to UPenn, get good grades, start a campus club and then transfer to Harvard or Yale.

Coming out of Berkeley you'd have more access to SV given that a lot of people will choose to stick around in CA. I don't think it'd make a difference either way as they are both good schools. Everything else depends on you. Study hard at either schools and BigCos will want to hire you if you participate in their recruitment process and ace the interviews.

Here is a different perspective. Figure out why you want to choose one school over another. If it is purely for vanity, go to UPenn/Berkeley and transfer to Harvard. If it is for learning, either are good enough, the rest is up to you. If you want to work in SV Berkeley buys you better access + larger network that end up working in Tech.

Anyways you should read this article [1] by Derek Sivers, I wish I had when I was going to college. If you want to get the most out of college, here is my advice: kill it in your academics; join a fraternity/sorority that you'd rank as the top three on campus; learn outside the classroom on your own; join a max of 3 clubs and get deeply involved (sky diving club, salsa dancing, etc); join a public speaking club; make lots of friends your freshman year, become the initiator of campus outings/group outings. I didn't do a lot of these myself, but if I could go back, these are some things that I wish I had done [Georgia Tech 2012].

[1] http://sivers.org/kimo
Interesting, any useful resources you recommend for those interested in learning how to write a VM in Javascript as a fun side project?
Snips (http://snips.net) - Paris (FR), full-time or intern

We specialize in understanding how people live in cities. We do that by analyzing geolocations and by providing predictive technologies supporting new generations of infrastructure and services.
We're a small startup, already working with important companies, and are seeking world class data scientists, software engineers and infrastructure engineers to help us scale.

Get in touch: olivier.corradi@snips.net
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Realtime JavaScript development.

WebGL, WebSocket, WebRTC, Node.js, etc.

Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment.

10+ years professional experience.

JavaScript/CoffeeScript, HTML+CSS, C/C++

http://github.com/feisty

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