skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING FREELANCER - based in NYC but REMOTE okay, looking to hire NOW

Frontend work for new and existing Django web apps

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WE are Placemeter and we're looking for a frontend developer that can commit about 15 hours per week. We are graduates of the TechStars accelerator, are backed by top investors in New York, Silicon Valley, and Paris, and need a frontend expert to join our great team of backend engineers, computer vision scientists, and designers. Read more about us: http://placemeter.com/about

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YOU will work with us to build the frontend for a user account dashboard to display account status, user data, settings and options.

This is a Django web app. We will provide pixel-perfect PSD designs and interaction requirements. Frameworks we're currently using at the frontend level are SASS, Foundation and jQuery, but we can be flexible with these.

While your focus will be on frontend development (HTML/CSS/JS), some familiarity with Python and Django is a big plus. You'll need to at least learn the basics of Django/Python to do effective work. This would be ideal for someone with mostly frontend experience who wants to learn a bit more about fullstack development.

REQUIRED SKILLS
+CSS
+HTML
+Django-Framework
+Javascript
+jQuery
+(experience with PSD conversion a plus)

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Send us your info

We have several other projects in the pipeline, and would love to develop an ongoing relationship with the right candidate.

Email: meter@placemeter.com

Subject: Frontend Position
Yes emails tend to be associated with all the bad things. Usually though if a user subscribe and expects it everyday, it'll unlikely get marked as spam / unsubscribe

And yeah that's their target market. I forgot where I read this but they "aim to change the way young female professionals read the news". Don't quote me on that though.
It's not different. Half of Microsoft developments these days are them implementing some open source tech (like not-Windows in Azure, Node becoming close to first-class on IIS..)
https://twitter.com/TechnichiLLC

It's real.
Climate Change Communication
Or as Richard Feynman put it, nature cannot be fooled.
China After Tiananmen: Money,Yes Ideas,No
TokBox introduces new video codec, AF14
https://twitter.com/TechnichiLLC It's real.
Fred, some advice: make your public notice more sympathetic than that post.
Gamblers are primarily male, too.
Why is it not a good idea? Genuinely curious
I have to disclose something. I work for a company for which Facebook is our major customer. The person from FB tells us they want something, and we scramble to make sure it happens.

I'm currently involved with another open-source release of our product, for which there is also an enterprise version. We are required by FB to keep our open source stuff in line with the enterprise product. I personally like the idea of open-source and the open source community has been very kind to my career. But frankly, this requirement has also been a pain in the ass: FB, or at least this part of FB, are uncompromising when it comes to making sure their infrastructure tools are open, and we've had to scramble a lot just to make sure it happens.

Now, if FB want to control the Rift platform, they can do it. What I described is for their infrastructure, not a product one of their portfolio companies is selling. I suspect though, this attitude is baked into their DNA. It isn't even a matter of saying things that the open-source community want to hear; they are more anal about it than we are. As much of a pain in the ass that requirement has been for our work, at least when it comes to infrastructure, they really do mean it when they say they want open standards for their infrastructure.

And yes, it makes the whole history FB has with privacy strange to me.
not sure if April Fool's joke...
Just wish I could see my current orientation! (Seriously though—from a given screen, I have no idea what the result of A is going to do or what the arrow keys are going to do. If i'm at a square and facing left, hitting the left arrow key will move me left, but if i'm facing any other direction, hitting left will rotate me. It's important that I know which way I'm facing.)
Pascal Metrics, Washington DC (Georgetown)

We're a healthcare startup focused on improving patient safety in hospitals.

Our software platform enables clients to detect, track, and analyze patient safety issues across hospital systems.

Open positions:

* UI Engineer - Front-end developer with knowledge of CSS, HTML5, Javascript for our SaaS platform. Knowledge of MVC frameworks and CSS organization desired.

* QA Engineer - QA engineer with experience developing and executing rigorous test plans for web applications and a passion for seeking & destroying software defects.

* Java Engineer - Core Java developer to help build out our SaaS platform. Experience with play! framework, event processing, distributed systems a plus.

Check us out at http://www.pascalmetrics.com

Full job listing: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/PascalMetricsInc

If you're interested in getting involved with healthcare, improving work culture, and tackling hard technical challenges, please feel free to reach out to me directly to chat in detail.

theo at pascalmetrics.com
Thank you for taking the time to make it work on mobile devices.
Of course we were naive enough. Lots of people made these email addresses when they were in high school or earlier.

Changing it now is too big of a hassle.
My experience is that, in practice, open-ended questions on programmers.stackexchange are closed too, e.g. this post of mine http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/133506/when-s...
Essay: The Real Competition to Virtual Currency
In Canada the banks provide this service, and it's used very widely.
Why Monkeys Hitting Typewriter Keys Write Better Plays Than Shakespeare
mjolk: KeePass is a local password storage solution.
That's essentially how the GPG feature works.

Cool. I think that's the way to go. If you needed GPG for things beyond the initial checkout, automated git deploys (among other things) would be out of the question.

You might be confusing git-crypt with another project.

Oh, wow, you're right. I'm using a forked version of something called git-encrypt: https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt

This is just a shell script (no compiled code), started about a year before your git-crypt, but interestingly the design is very similar. Both of you are using smudge and clean filters with AES 256.
Decoding the mystery of humor
Update - blog post here: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/81407694500/update-on-coinbase...
So everyone can try the product now? In that case, I'll put it back. Sorry for getting it wrong in your case.

It's often difficult to make this call, but I do think it's important that HN distinguish email signup and fundraising posts from things people can actually play with.

I'm going to make this thread drop to the bottom to clear the way for on-topic comment. Best of luck!
Whoops, sorry. Edited.
For UK readers and or football fans, the Alisher Usmanov mentioned, who now controls VKontakte, is the same Alisher Usmanov who owns a large stake in Arsenal FC.

He also owns a stake in Odnoklassniki, another Russian social media site, which is "for classmates and old friends", a bit like Friends Reunited:

http://odnoklassniki.ru/
If someone has your email address it is impossible for coinbase or any service to stop that person from checking if you have an account. All they have to do it try registering a new account with your address and see if it lets them (as most services don't allow multiple accounts to use the same email address).
I didn't say it is unknown. It's well known, but only in certain circles. As contrasted with, say, Harvard which is known by just about every mother, brother, and child.
I thought april fools also, but I'm really hoping it's true. My 4-year-old MBP has finally been outpaced by software speed needs.
Pixdo Coin – Mine the web as you browse
I like that there's people working to make scraping easier and friendly for everyone. Sadly (IMHO) the cases where these tools will probably fail are at the same time the same not really open on providing the data directly. Most scraper-unfriendly sites would make you request another page before to capture a cookie, set cookies on the request headers or a referer entry, or manually using regex magic to extract information from javascript code on the html. I guess it's just time one tool will provide such methods, though.

For my project I do write all the scrapers manually (that is, in python, including requests and the amazing lxml) because there's always one source that will make you build all the architecture around it. Something that I find that is needed for public APIs is a domain specific language that can work around building intermediate servers by explaining the engine how to understand a data source:

An API producer wants to keep serving the data themselves (traffic, context and statistics), but someone wants an standard way of accessing more than one source (let's say, 140 different sources). If only instead of making an intermediate service providing this standardized version, one could be able to provide templates that a client module would use to understand the data under the same abstraction.

The data consumer would be accessing the source server directly, and the producer would not need to ban over 9000 different scrapers. Of course this would only make sense for public APIs. (real) scraping should never be done on the client: it is slow, crashes and can breach security on the device.
I am well-familiar as I'm an early adopter (and sufferer), but how about having a button "report spam/scam"? If I "decline", the attacker will get a confirmation I'm logged into my account and my email and account are verified!
How large is your customer service staff/ how do you know when you should add to the CS staff?
Periscope -- San Francisco -- User Experience Designer

Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast.

The slick UI and impressive backend speed sell the product, but the most important feature is the way the user experience encourages sharing and collaboration on charts and dashboards. Periscope spreads data throughout an organization, eventually instigating a culture change that makes the company more data-driven.

One customer recently said of Periscope: "It moved our data out of a closet and into a storefront."

We're hiring our first user experience designer, who will own this experience.

About You

- You love the way that great user experience design enables users and makes them feel powerful within the product.
- You have great respect for how the little details impact user behavior and happiness.
- You understand that execution speed is a feature, and are comfortable with tradeoffs and making calls on the fly.
- You have a demonstrated track record of shipping designs in modern web or mobile apps.

About Us

- We're a team of 4 ex-Google and Microsoft PMs and engineers with venture funding, paying customers, and a spacious loft apartment in SF to work out of.
- We consider our design that enables frictionless sharing and collaboration to be our most important feature.
- We strongly favor rapid shipping over endless review and iteration.
- We have close relationships with our customers. We see customers several times a month, and email with them several times a week.

Reach out to me (Harry, co-founder & CEO) at harry@periscope.io

More info: https://www.periscope.io/user-experience-designer
Us: https://www.periscope.io
That's a good point but I think it's a weak assumption.

So far I haven't received any spam reports from Mailchimp - hopefully that's because I haven't received any instead of Mailchimp failing to catch any haha...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7510226
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I am a full-stack developer from Belgrade. I work on Python projects and I'm available for about 20 hours per week.
Email: sasa.s.trifunovic@gmail.com
Shutterstock: http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs.mhtml

A public, profitable company that is very engineering friendly. I'm a software developer inside the company.

A variety of positions are open across a variety of languages: Node.js, Ruby (Sinatra and Rails), Perl, PHP, Java, as well as non-developer roles (DB Admin, etc.)

The job positions don't state it, but I was hired into a position as a remote/WFH worker, so I would imagine that the possibility is open to other people as well. The company also has offices in a variety of locations if being remote is not for you: New York NY, San Francisco CA, Denver CO, Berlin, Paris, London, etc.. If you work near the mothership, we have a pretty swank office space: http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/look-inside-shutterstocks-n...

I'm not sure if I'd get a referral bonus for this, but tell them that I sent you.

- Elliot Foster, Software Developer at Shutterstock
Seven-a-day fruit and veg 'saves lives'
Are you aware of anyone who's done a similar analysis of graduate degrees?
I agree, this has to be a joke. I swore Mixpanel held pride in how easy their product was to use. This communicates the opposite.
How To Deploy YesGraph at Your Company
A LOT more than 17%. I have to hit someone really hard with a fresh banana to kill them, but a tin of peaches makes the job a dream :)
Not true. Degree from top university is worth it, but otherwise nobody ever asks.
It does confirm email addresses you can guess though (which are not necessarily email addresses you have, until they're confirmed), along with leaking other information about that user.
How do you envision this happening? Either the runtime would have to be written in JS or you'd have to get all the browser implementers to adopt your virtual machine — which, I mean, why would they?
Microsoft announces Azure price reductions
Employers rightly think so. There's a lot more to engineering than being good at math and problem solving. The "other stuff" that Bahamut so flippantly dismisses as easily self-taught involves a lot of domain knowledge and best practices. Engineering curricula also includes project-based courses in which you have to apply your knowledge to produce an actual product, sometimes working in a team with your peers. This builds a lot of the skills necessary to effectively tackle real-world engineering challenges and is not something that you would get from a math/physics degree.
Whoops -- I was thinking lastpass. Thanks for correcting me.
> 1. Have a really, really good password, and change it often. Your password should not contain “real” words (and definitely not more than one real word in immediate proximity, like “whitecat” or “angrybird”), and should contain capital letters, numbers and symbols. The best passwords of all look like total nonsense.

http://xkcd.com/936/

But really, I'm a bit puzzled by her 5 "recommendations". Turn off your devices while you're not using them? I feel like the most important one is missing - don't use HostMonster or Godaddy, their representatives are not paid enough to care about the implications of you losing your domain name.
Portia uses https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely library for data extraction. It doesn't use XPaths for learning. There are some links to papers in scrapely README; scrapely is largely based on ideas from these papers, but there are many improvements. In short - yes, this is taken care of.
Keybase seeks to solve the exact problem you just pointed out by connecting PGP keys to established online identities (Twitter, Github, etc.). You could create a Keybase account for Edward Snowden, sure, but his friends wouldn't trust it when they discover that the Twitter account they know to be his hasn't verified the key.

You say that people should start with authentication. That's exactly what keybase is trying to do. Realize that it's a hard problem. How would you implement it?
Or take the VoltDB way and persist to memory (in the commercial version AFAIK).
hahaha, you're so funny
I had always thought of it as a nifty display that would make some games a little better (driving sims, flight sims) since you could better decouple where you're looking with where you're going than a mouse-keyboard combo. Plus since it's 3d, some of the issues with depth perception that exist in modern games would go away. 3d platformers become trivial since you can actually gauge where the next platform is and all the difficulties that led up to the revolution of Mario 64 (which, if you notice doesn't have very much classic platform jump puzzles).

The real issue is a matter of control interfaces. Right now the norm for 3d games is keyboard and mouse, which is duplicated on consoles with dual analog sticks (and then maybe improved with the steam controller). One set of controls move your virtual "body", the other set controls your orientation (which feels like where your head is looking).

The difficulty with VR is and always has been the necessary decoupling of your virtual body orientation from your head orientation. This is trivial in vehicle oriented games, your car or helicopter etc. is your "body" and the controls for orientation map nicely. But for games like fps's, which have planar movement (forward-backward, strafe left, right) you need a new orientation control now that the rift take over your viewpoint orientation. Put another way, to turn around in an FPS with a VR headset on, you need to turn your entire body around, which means you need to be on a swivel chair or standing (and then you need to figure out a way for your controllers to travel with you).

The solution is obviously to maintain body movement with one control set (forward, backward, strafe), your mouse or other control set changes to control your body orientation and your headset handles viewpoint orientation -- so you can now sit stationary in front of your control interfaces. But many years of VR experience shows that this has the potential to introduce motion sickness in a huge percentage of participants. It's exactly like car sickness because your "body" is moving while your inner ears don't register anything.

So there's lots and lots of interface problems to resolve. The headset is pretty much just the first step for workable, general purpose, VR. Which is why most VR systems are very specialized, with the control surfaces built to fit the one kind of experience they intend to support.
This article reminds me of why I find the buzzword usage of "social" so irritating. The web has always been social! My most memorable and rewarding experiences on the internet will always be in the e-mail conversations I've shared with others around the world.
Better yet, how about moving some hardware work to Dallas? :)
You're thinking about it from the wrong perspective, the lambda calculus is essentially the equivalent of assembly language for functional programming. The problems you can solve by building abstractions on top of it are infinite, it's utility comes from all properties we can deduce about it when building higher level abstractions, not from it not from being immediately useful to people programming at a higher level any more than x86 assembly is.
This is huge!

Being able to write Node app in Clojurescript, Clojure on JVM and CLR, and now for the excellent SBCL platform.

I am naturally predisposed to like SBCL. I wrote a Common Lisp book for Springer-Verlag in the late 1980s and very recently another self published CL book (pardon the plug: https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp).

SBCL is a great environment and compiler but I have found Clojure to be such a practical language to use that about 1/3 of my development in the last 5 years has used Clojure. Getting Clojure to run 2x or 3x times faster on SBCL sounds great!
Yeah I thought you might change it. The reason I did is because when people are scanning their eyes over HN, 'xkcd' is something they would recognise.
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SDK-less mobile ad solution
Fetch ads directly from the service as JSON, then display in-app as desired. Zero SDK.
> and all they studied was respondent's reported diet

If you read the actual journal article referenced [1], a number of other factors were included in the analysis, and the stated effects were after controlling for those factors (which included smoking, age, and social class, among other factors.)

So, no, your dismissal doesn't work.

[1] http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2014/03/03/jech-2013-20350...
I think 8:30am is a bit late to send the news. I think a lot of people who work "traditional" hours are already up, out the door, and have made a dent in their day. I like to read the news before I get started.
Two-Click Reminder now offers recurring reminders. (For real.)
I've subscribed to designboom for email
http://www.designboom.com/

Kinda wish hackaday had one. Btw what's with the countdown?
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How does distance affect acquisitions?
But how can outsiders confirm that they are really insured and not just bluffing?
Yes, of course. And since transactions are completely irreversible on Bitcoin the insurance rate would have to be higher than otherwise, as there's no collateral for the insurance company to claim when they do payout.
> Admittedly I am mostly a C# developer and Microsoft does a really good job when it comes to documentation, at least in most cases.

I too use StackOverflow as a reference manual. Often the #1 answer is the concise example I'm looking for. MS documentation is a last resort for me.
It's not work if you tackle a problem you actually care about.

Getting a child excited about data structures, algorithms, and coding conventions will be difficult.

Have them dream up a guide, and let them fumble through the implementation while seeing the fruits of the labor unfold before them. Now that's excitement. And learning. Without ever feeling the need of forced discipline.
One of my side project is trying to make email as a web portal, that is, letting people do as many things as possible in email -- http://snipek.com. Well, I dogfood this project a lot in my daily life :)

1) Readability inside email (http://snipek.com/read). Send a url to read@snipek.com and you'll get a reply with readable content of the web page. And it becomes a way to navigate through links in email. You send a link to read@snipek.com, then you'll get the content of the web page in email, without leaving mail client to browser.

2) Read news (http://snipek.com/news/)

3) Create web page for your email messages, so you can share the web page on social network (http://snipek.com/web) -- forward any message to web@snipek.com
Break grammar rules on your website
You Are Too Much
Bitnami (YC W13) launches ClosedStack, the next generation private cloud platform
Yup. We actually don't want the HN front page to be too easily scannable—it's ok if people have to work to figure things out a little. I know that sounds weird, and is unpopular with some, but it's always been one of HN's design principles and it serves the site well.