skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't open floor plans or private offices. It's quality of design, and indirectly hipsterism.

Good open floor plan designs are driven by acoustics and sitelines - management of audible and visual distractions. Yeah, staining the concrete slab and exposing the brick wall and using the metal pan and joists of the floor above as the ceiling and hauling in oak library tables as desks, just echos "lookie here, we're rebellious and unconventional." Then again everything echos. That's the pysics of sound meeting hard surfaces and since the echo reaches everyone, everyone will be tempted to look.

Architecture is sometimes said to be the world's second oldest profession - or the oldest when architects talk cynically amongst themselves about the nature of actual practice and dealing with the clients who pay them for their special talent...but anyway, good open floor plan design is a solved problem, all except for the fact that it hasn't photographed well since Gordon Bunshaft and SOM designed Lever House and CIGNA in the 50's and 60's.

Which is to say is that the problem with good open office design is that it doesn't look like photographs of office spaces in recent issues of magazines (aka "archiporn"). Instead it looks a lot like class "A" office space in a suburban office park - carpet, gypsum wall board, acoustic ceiling tile, and fabric covered modular office walls (aka "cubicles"). All these reduce sound transmission and reflection and impact noise - and if cubicle height is thoughtfully selected provide reasonable balance between visual communication and visual isolation and hopefully shared natural light. And if the holy grail of being able to select HVAC systems exists, then good white noise acoustic masking can be provided and that is even better than chasing sound attenuation.

Sharing the natural light means putting the private offices on the core and the serf farm by the windows. This of course means overcoming the sina qua non of hipsterism - status consciousness. But then again at the point where a leadership team has bought functional design over archiporn, this is just the last hurdle.

The problem of course is that corporate grade solutions require corporate grade budgets. Good systems furniture is more expensive than cheap doors, drywall and paint - as is good open plan office space versus lower quality space. On the flip side, acoustic ceiling tile and carpet are less than painted ductwork and stained concrete.

Anyway, the important change to architectural design over the past century is not an evolution of visual style. It's the increasingly sophisticated material options and the need to integrate an ever growing number of building service systems. The problem as always remains convincing lay people that living in a house isn't a good basis of experience for designing a workplace for others. The optimization problems are radically different.

Truly useful innovations in architectural design occur far less frequently than useful innovations in algorithms.
How much of a problem is cargo shrink and how often does cargo get lost? And if lost cargo is found, what is usually the reason? Theft?
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Please do not hijack the thread.
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Any person who seeks to enshrine in law the inequality of a subset of persons before the law should be condemned. Bring proof that a communist conspiracy attempted to do that, I'll happily condemn them for you.

Or were you hoping that would be a problem for me?
The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records
I'm betting it isn't actually.
The last link was the most useful for people wanting to know a course sequence: http://shanelynn.ie/index.php/online-learning-curriculum-for...
If it is an April fool, then it is not entirely off the mark as satire. It isn't uncommon to see reviews of apps like Dragonbox and Slice Fractions where bloggers claim "my 5 year old can do algebra"[] or "my 3 year old can do fractions".

[] My son could play Dragonbox when he was 3, so I am not knocking the game, but I am skeptical it will be of much use when he does algebra in school.
FortyTwo — Mountain View, CA — Frontend / mobile / backend (H1B okay, read below)

Hi all, I'm Andrew from FortyTwo. We're a well-funded Series A startup (~10 engineers) in Mountain View building https://www.kifi.com/. It's a lot more than a bookmarking service: we're building a search engine and content discovery system that blows away what's out there by letting you organize everything super easily, while not asking you to change your searching habits. We have a product that we love, and have lots to do still.

Right now, we're looking hard for:

• Frontend - we're building a cross-browser browser extension and a site using AngularJS. Ideal candidate is very comfortable with JavaScript, at least one backend (non-JS) language, and has used a thick-client MV* style framework. Full description is here: http://www.42go.com/frontend.html

• Mobile - we're building a soon-to-be-released iOS client as well as starting an Android client. Ideal candidate has experience releasing consumer mobile products, and has strong engineering skills to make an efficient and pleasant to use app. More here: http://www.42go.com/join_us.html#mobile

• Backend / Full stack - we use Scala, Play!, and Akka to build a highly-available, reactive backend to serve our clients. Ideal candidate has experience on the JVM, functional programming, and continuous deployment. More here: http://www.42go.com/join_us.html#backend

We blog at http://eng.42go.com, so check out some of the stuff we're working on. We're okay to sponsor H1Bs, but prefer Bay Area candidates already so we can move faster. To apply, email towel@42go.com with your resume/github/LinkedIn.
a lot of April prank going around...

though this won't "work" on HN, Microsoft gaining on WEB market, give us a break!
However we cannot simply look at issues from an ivory tower and attempt to gain any meaningful resolution.

So you believe that fundamental rights should be subjected to majority vote? Or perhaps you believe that equality of all persons before the law is not actually a necessary component of a free society?

It is not at all difficult to look at this issue and gain a meaningful resolution. It is only uncomfortable* for some people to do so because of dissonance with other views they hold dear.
Yes like have Tax laws to help encourage people to have children. (This isn't a moral judgment)

This is a SERIOUS issue in Europe and Japan (What do you do to help your population have more children when they don't) In USA this isn't an issue YET but it is interesting to see France, Germany and Japan struggle with a huge drop in population in the near future.
After a few tries my high score is 0x13 :D

Of course, I'm about to try again.

(really needs a shorter URL too. too bad flippybit.com is taken.)
That's true, but the delay from waiting for the lost packet to be retransmitted is the problem, not a delay for subsequent data after retransmitting the lost packet. Retransmission can take a substantial amount of time.
Twisted is pre-installed on OS X and various Linux distributions...
Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
"all persons must be afforded the equal protection of the laws, and all persons must be afforded due process of law"

Which must obviously include children and people who'd like to form polygamous marriages... am I right?
I think that comment is referring to Motorola's excellent additions that you can find on the Moto X, like Active Display, Touchless Control and Moto Assist.

These really are genuine enhancements rather than bloatware, and they're engineered to use minimal power (using the Xs low-power co-processors and LED screen).

However, for the asking price the G is a great device.
That is great new. Good for him. I don't do much work with MS anymore but in the past I always followed Scott's blog. I am excited to see Microsoft moving in the right direction. Hell, I'm glad to see Microsoft moving in any direction. They have been stale and dormant for too long.
Mobile and The Travel Industry: 5 Key Take-Aways
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Course Hero - Redwood City, CA

No remote, but we do offer relocation and H-1B process sponsorship

Summary:
We’re profitable, very open as a company, and supportive, and we need more engineers. EdTech.

Full description:
Course Hero is looking for a software engineer who can hit the ground running.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big -- terabytes of data and customers around the world -- but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

Our stack is LAMP (PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

Please email: jobs@coursehero.com (and put “Hacker News” in the subject)
I based it on the Libertarian Party platform.
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RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA
http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management.

Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.

RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems:

- We want to transform large datasets more efficiently

- We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations

- We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand

- While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include:

- Source control using git

- Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system

- Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello

- A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues

- Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

- Working alongside one of Philadelphia’s strongest technology teams
★ Benzinga -- is getting massive amounts of new traffic and we need a Drupal developer, a front end dev, and a Django dev to help us handle all the new visitors either REMOTE or local full-time in Detroit, MI.

Quick Stats
★ Customers include TD Ameritrade, Microsoft, Yahoo
★ 20 million+ monthly readers
★ 1000s of subscribers to our private Marketfy investor communities
★ Accelerated growth rate

We're a financial media company, a poor man's - lest we say everyday man's - Bloomberg competitor, and a financial product SaaS all forged together into a powerful trident that is attacking the high seas of Wall Street in a relentless pursuit of transparency.

And conquer we shall! We've grown 100% quarter over quarter all last year and another 100% just in the last month. Our team has surged to 30+ people and the waves of revenue washed together to form a rushing roar with just one of our products going from nothing to $200k/month in under a year.

Being a media company we find our way into all kinds of cool stuff. Our office is furnished with things like a $3000 high-end bed that was sent to us to review. We got to talk to and get pictures with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) when they came to Detroit.

But, you interject, finance is one of the toughest startup seas to sail upon! The old boys club runs an ironclad ship with no visible decks for boarding. Avast! We've built a battering ram of a business in just a few short years that has pummeled its way deep into the heart of Wall Street. Old Ironsides has warmed itself to Benzinga and once a taste the thirst cannot be quenched.

We've recently became Microsoft's premier finance partner alongside 3 other companies, all worth over a billion dollars and established for years. As of this Christmas we were installed by default on 500 million desktops and tablets via Windows 8 Finance. No download necessary. That's right mateys, we're in the source code.

And if you happen to trade or invest yourself you'll find us inside almost all of the major brokerages in the US.

So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag? Well, our team is crazy ambitious, motivated, and experienced with shaking shit up. If you know your tech, and want on deck this is the place to do it. Your exact technical background and language of choice doesn't matter as much as your motivation and your ability to adapt quickly. We are a young team and we're especially looking for sailors who've got some salt in their whiskers who can help us scale from millions to hundreds of millions.

Why be a ninja when you can be a pirate? This ship is forging a new course, send an email to dev-us@benzinga.com to board!
Aviary - NYC, NY

http://www.aviary.com

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We are a 30 person team making people's photos look amazing. We have amazing traction already - 75 million users (including 20 million in our own apps) and currently power 1% of all the photos taken in the world. Great team culture and passionate people!

We are in need of mobile designers, product managers, and mobile engineers (iOS and Android).

Open jobs listings at the bottom of this page:

http://aviary.com/jobs
NGP VAN - Washington, DC or Boston, MA - Senior and Mid-Level Developers, Interns

NGP VAN (https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van) is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and new media products available.

We are a rapidly growing company that built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the country distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools for labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and international political parties across the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the vast majority of Democratic candidates from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing new media platform has recently become the most-used platform by Democratic campaigns as well.

We have a few positions open in DC or Boston for developers - our stack is mostly ASP.NET MVC / EF, but we have several node apps and are also using angular pretty heavily in new stuff. (The open positions would definitely involve both C# and node.) We're also open to summer interns in both locations.

The positions offers competitive compensation and a strong benefits package. NGP VAN prides itself on being a progressive and open-minded workplace; we have a fun and relaxed company culture, including blowing off steam on a softball field, drinking in the office on Fridays, enjoying periodic company retreats to warm places with beaches, and casual Friday every day.

Some relevant links:

Job Postings:
http://www.ngpvan.com/about/jobs/senior-developer-0
http://www.ngpvan.com/about/jobs/development-intern

Coderwall: https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van

Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com if you have any questions!
Does it do anything useful? It wants access to my contact list for some reason which makes me uneasy.
SEEKING WORK - Helsinki, Finland - Remote or onsite

I'm an experienced web developer specialised in Rails/Node JS/HTML5 work.

Strengths:

-- Ruby/Ruby on Rails

-- Postgres SQL

-- Node JS

-- Coffeescript

-- MongoDB

-- Native English speaker

My last two big projects were https://www.digital-tunes.net, a music download store built in Rails 4, and http://paparazzi.fi a new site for Finland's
biggest model agency.

Over the next 6 months I'll be physically located mostly in Helsinki, but also for 2-3 months in Lisbon, Portugal, so remote work is best!

You can check my portfolio at http://webshaped.net, and drop me an email at william@webshaped.net.
SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back
SEEKING WORK - GERMANY, in the EU or REMOTE

Hey, my name is Basti and I've been a freelance webdeveloper for over 5 years. For the past seven months I've been a nomad traveling through Europe. I've got two backpacks. If your job requires traveling (in the EU): I'm totally ready.

My current area of work includes everything JavaScript (+CoffeeScript) and the rest of the crew: HTML + CSS.

Frontend:

* jQuery

* Backbone, Underscore

* Mustache, Handlebars

* Stylus, LESS

* Foundation, Bootstrap, Semantic-UI

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Backend:

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I am the creator of jQAPI (http://jqapi.com), have sold a jQuery Showcase/Blog/Twitter (http://usejquery.com) and I finished 3rd in the Nodeknockout 2012 in the category Utility/Fun.

My current project is http://pairs.io - a remote control for the web.

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> Should all high-ranking employees in the USA be vetted for appropriate (leftwing?) political views before being hired? That doesn't seem right.

That's a sly way of phrasing it, Dolimiter. Those crazy leftwingers are enforcing their minority morality on everyone! I'm a little sad you've taken it there, and in the top comment, because the original article was incredibly sensitive to the issue and by no means was calling for this. Nor do I think the commenters are. Mozilla is a special organization to a lot of people, for reasons intertwined with the idea of a free and open society, and that's one reason why this is a big deal.
Don't forget Unicode. 140 Characters =/= 140 bytes.
Unicoins will be coded in unary numeral system, much powerful than the binary numeral system that the bitcoins are coded in.

Unicoins will trump the bitcoin very fast, the questions you will ask on SO on how to mine unicoins will make earn unicoins at the same time, creating a positive feedback loop that will make you rich faster than it took Facebook and Twitter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
I'd say write a little came. Possibly with multiplayer support if you want a challenge.

I recently started writing a clone of the curveball flash game with OpenGL graphics and network multiplayer support to learn haskell. I'm halfway through and I think I am familiar with the basic haskell concepts now.
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Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. INTERN, REMOTE, H1B all welcome.

See [1] for an overview of what challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. You can apply by emailing me directly at gdb@stripe.com. Make sure to include some background on who you are as a programmer — at the very least, what motivates you, what kinds of things you like to build, and (if available) a code sample that's representative of your best work.

Also feel free to ping me if you're thinking about applying but have any questions!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...
FWIW, https://plus.google.com/people/find

You can find people's G+ profile if you guess the email correctly. I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn,Facebook,etc. had the same type of thing. I do think that coinbase-API should be rate-limited or unreplayable, but I'm _much more_ interested in where the email-list input data came from. My email wasn't in this alleged partial list, but if it was I'd like to know where they got my email from to begin with because the source of that email-list is the real problem IMHO.

I will say this though: Coinbase, please make sure there is absolutely no api call that returns banking/CC info!
Just a note from experience: when devs see someone talk about an app that is "eighty percent complete" that throws up all kinds of red flags. The first 80% is the easy part. Why does it need to be "taken over"? Did you have a falling out with other freelancers? Lots of questions on that, might be good to address them.

(Note, I'm not looking for work, just thought I'd point out the thought process here.)
Proposition 8 was a direct response to the issuing of marriage licenses a few years prior, and was introduced when it became clear that the courts of California would not find same-sex marriage to be incompatible with the state's constitution as then written.

And the enactment of Proposition 8 resulted in the effective annulment of marriages which had already taken place, and that annulment was not an accidental side-effect of Proposition 8's language.
"According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are 1,138 statutory provisions in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges."[1] He donated money to a cause to prevent those 1,138 benefits, rights and privileges being available to gay couples. He hasn't changed his mind, explained himself etc. He has issued a statement saying Mozilla employees will get benefits, rights and privileges within the company equally. But those same employees (not to mention Mozilla's user/customer base) also have lives outside of the company. It is very easy to see how that appears contradictory to mozilla's values, as well as calling into doubt his suitably going forward.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_and_responsibilities_of...