skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pattern Insight is hiring both full time engineers and students/interns

We are a startup based in Mountain View, CA building next generation semi-structured analysis and search platform

http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.php
No there are no security issues. We do not take any contact information of the person. We also give them 3 signatures out of which they are free to choose any.

Yes gallery we will be moving to homepage very soon.
If you know solr/lucene and some python, we're definately interested here at NewsCred. We're funded, generating revenues and have an awesome B2B product. Email me and I'll send over details. Shafqat at newscred dot com.
Well we create signatures from scratch for each and every user. Our team of calligraphers create them according the inputs given by user. We can not use ready made fonts to do that.
I don't necessarily know any better, but I think that we can probably estimate the number of galaxies in the entire (observable and unobservable) universe given the assumptions that the composition of the universe is generally homogeneous and that the big bang theory is correct. If this is the case, we can calculate an approximate number of galaxies from the combination of observed galaxy density and the extrapolated size of the universe based on the time since the big bang.
If you know solr/lucene and some python, we're definately interested here at NewsCred. We're funded, generating revenues and have an awesome B2B product. Email me and I'll send over details.

Also looking for a rockstar sales or bizdev guy.
Shafqat at newscred dot com.
Seems like a nice idea. Thanks for the feedback.
- Original Le Corbusier LC4
- Convertible sports car
- Star Alliance Super-Elite card
- Man Ray/Ansel Adams original photographs
- 100+ year-old trees
- Cottage on a nice lake
I see your point but thinking back on the situation as it was framed, it still seems to me that it was a direct test as to whether one will follow the procedure as it was stated or opt to stray from it. What conclusions could then be drawn from that are up for speculation I suppose.

Perhaps creativity vs. "automaton-hood" is not the dichotomy being tested and the value of the test really is more to do with following instructions when not doing so could kill you. But the sceptic/rebel in me wonders about those situations where following the instructions may well get you killed. I am not in the military or law enforcement and for better or worse, past experiences have taught me to be suspicious of both.
Find something that you think is worth doing, and do it. The more you do it, the better you'll get at it, and the more you'll enjoy it.

Try not to let other people's evaluations have any effect, other than to point out possible ways to improve.
It may sound a little like sour grapes, but I think the author's analysis of the VC-underpinned "web economy" is fundamentally very correct.
Each signature we create is absolutely unique for that person, we can guarantee that. It also represents their personality in case graphological signature. When each person adopts to the signature we have created for her, She adds her own personality traits in doing that which makes signature points back to them. There is no way any person can do exact match of the Signature we have created for her.
I don't block ads, per se, but I do block Flash, which gets rid of the most obnoxious ones.
airbnb could get some nice coverage if your stay is done via them at some of the places you visit.. will chk your itenary on the new website.
I think it's much more about "when do you have too much responsibility to risk crashing and burning?" rather than just "how old"? A 22 year old with a wife and kid and mortgage and student debt is probably less able to focus and take chances than a cashed up 50 year old without those responsibilities.
Sexy UIs designer. Uber corporate enterprisey software. Form based intranet apps made into intuitive eye candy. 100% Lisp shop. Telecommute. Salary, no equity. Starting late September.
I think life is quite likely, because as soon as it was possible for it to form on this planet, it did. However, it took several tries and mass extinctions before civilization arose. On the other hand, the are several varieties of intelligent life, such as dolphins, octopuses, and crows, so perhaps intelligence isn't rare, but the right combination of traits needed for civilization are. ( communication, tool-building, etc...)
This has got to be one of the best cs job listings around the web. How can I turn this into a nextgen job listing site ?
yo give me an invite.
I did this alone for my winter break of freshman year of college. To the best of my recollection, my itinerary was Portland -> Vancouver (BC) -> Toronto -> New York -> New Orleans -> Ft Worth -> Joshua Tree -> LA -> SF -> Portland. One month. I arranged to either sleep on the train or crash with friends (knew someone in most of those places). The diner car was pretty expensive, so I generally carried a little food and ate heavy when I hit stopping cities. A significant portion of the 30 days was spent in a train, from what I recall.

Traveling by train has a special extra something; you're with the people you travel with for long enough to actually develop a conversation, but you're with them just short enough that you don't have to worry too much if you don't hit it off. This was great for an introvert like me to practice chatting up strangers with little risk in a safe setting. And you meet a really interesting mix of folks, different from the people I normally find myself talking to. It's particularly fun to feel the gradient of humanity / culture shift as you travel.

I traveled light; just a backpack, a camera, and a laptop (well, and climbing shoes for J-Tree). I was super careful about keeping the tech gear hidden and slept wrapped around my bag when I slept in public spaces (train stations / trains).

One thing about traveling by train: Amtrak is always late, and often by half a day. Make sure people who might be meeting you at connections know this and don't expect it to work like air travel.

Anyway, my thirty days of independent travel was a fantastic experience, and I'd really recommend it to anyone, young or old. You can even comfortably get work done in the passenger cars. Tether to your 3G phone or whatever and you're riding the Rails in style.
Can you imagine being there when these images were first compiled and revealed? I would have gaped in disbelief, and then wept. From a minuscule patch of nothingness, bottomless infinity has been glimpsed. It's unfathomable. And it's out there, right now, part of our existence. How awesome and thrilling.
We found a local astronomy group and saw it tonight. I probably saw a total of five shooting stars.
Philips Medical in Foster City (C++ or C#)
Old-School Cracking
I'm going to try to draft up a blog post about working memory and the relationship between working memory and attention - if you send me an email [zackster/@gma\il.com] I will link you to it.
Often happens at all-you-can-eat sushi places; personally I know of three or four in Montreal/Toronto where this is done.

They're the kind of places where you order small dishes off the menu, and you can just keep ordering them until you're done. No limit on the number you can order simultaneously, but if you call for the bill when there are uneaten plates they'll charge you some nominal per-plate fee for each one (this isn't for leaving one or two pieces behind - it's for when you order a plate of ten pieces of sashimi and eat two).
I understand why IE6 is around – I have plenty of friends stuck on IE6 who can't easily use my personal site.
Amtrack now has designated "quiet cars" for people who need to work or read. No ringing allowed, and when I rode recently, plenty of seats with tables and power outlets.
Okay, a good rant. How about some solutions?

Unfortunately it's not just about creating jobs. Those jobs need to create value. The hard part is creating the types of jobs that can make use of the large underutilized work force.

Perhaps building rail lines, renovating our libraries and schools, improving airports and shipping ports, fixing our bridges and overpasses. Maybe constructing elderly care facilities or power transmission lines.

The author would get more traction by suggesting solutions.
Ask HN: Latest news on computer graphics and related fields?
Recently I have started taking in interest in Computer graphics due to my final year project being related to augmented reality. What sites do fellow CG,virtual reality, augmented reality etc enthusiasts frequently visit?
If you're a UI designer, yes. Shoot us an email, start late September. Work from home, please (I want to go to the Philippines anyway ;-)
One of my roommates just booked it.
Handwriting analysis tells everything about that person. Probably that is why each person has unique handwriting and it also changes depending on the age and circumstances person is living in.

If you change your Signature as per the Graphological inputs from an expert it surely brings positive changes to your personality. It is psychological.
Coffee shops.
Yes but technology does not progress linearly. So to us it may seem so impossible by methods we possess, but it may be closer than we think to travel throughout the universe.

So a flash in the pan may be moot depending on the right technology.

For example captain Jack sparrow trying to locate a ship in the ocean may seem like a huge task, and today it would be too if we use the same method back then. But if that ship had a GPS tracker on it completely changes the way we look for the ship.

We/or they just have to discover the right trick.
The World of Mathematics edited by James Newman (a four-volume anthology) may give you a feel for and an interest in exploring math further. It's a great collection ranging from mathematical curiousities and puzzles to memoirs of mathematicians to a very moving short story by Aldous Huxley.

Also, One, Two, Three, Infinity by George Gamow (a great physicist) is a great intro.

Second the How To Solve It recommendations.
We (i.e. Guidewire Software) are pretty much always hiring good software engineers, product managers, and QA engineers.

http://www.guidewire.com/about_guidewire/careers_listings

Of course, we build software for insurance companies, which isn't exactly the sexiest industry in the world, but we're a good company with a solid business (we write software that people pay real, actual money for), a lot of smart people to work with, some fairly cool (at least we think so) internal technology, and a solid devotion to both being a good place to work and to always trying to find ways to work better. Most of the coding work is in Java and our in-house (hopefully open sourced within the next 6 months or so) scripting language. We're located in San Mateo (mid-peninsula in the Bay Area).

If you're interested in applying or want to talk about the company or our technology or anything, feel free to e-mail me directly at akeefer@guidewire.com
"If you change your Signature as per the Graphological inputs from an expert it surely brings positive changes to your personality."

citation needed. I'd like to see any scientific backing for this claim. Sounds like mystical mumbo jumbo to me (and deosn't belong on HN in my opinion)
Cellphones Largely Immune to Viruses, for Now
Falling fish shatters Ohio driver's windshield
A woman in Ohio is telling a fish story about one that got away — from a bird, and damaged her car.
Accused nude doorbell ringer pleads not guilty
A man suspected of appearing nude at homes and ringing doorbells is being held on $60,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a series of charges.
"I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents."

Well one issue I see:
XML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 1998.

Patent 5787449 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5787449) was filed Jun 2, 1994 and issued Jul 28, 1998. Can they change the patent that late to include XML?

From what I can read the patent is basically describing a system like LaTeX or HTML/CSS anyway.
Personally i don't like Prism. The idea of taking an app not specifically designed for desktop use and pretending it is a desktop app seems like a waste of time or temporary fix.
Any one hiring in india?
How would it be for a guy who aced second semester freshman physics and the math GRE (40 years ago), and top 100 on the Putnam?
Just deleted my BBC link (didn't see you beat me).

Anyway from the BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8197990.stm)

"I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents."

Well one issue I see: XML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 1998.

Patent 5787449 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5787449) was filed Jun 2, 1994 and issued Jul 28, 1998. Can they change the patent that late to include XML?

From what I can read the patent is basically describing a system like LaTeX or HTML/CSS anyway.
In my humble opinion, "very cool" is a huge understatement. Very relevant to my interests.
I think the author is essentially arguing that the recent bubbles have eroded the entrepreneurial community's sense of creating value. He seems to suggest that in the recent bubbles it was apparent value rather than actual value that was being created. The latter can only be achieved through hard work (he argues).

In part, I see his point. Though I don't think that hard work is necessary for innovation and creating actual value. In particular I think you can create a lot of value by combining things in previously unforeseen ways which may not be a lot of "hard work" is certainly innovation.

I think his fundamental gripe about businesses not creating value is true and much wider spread than the technology industry. I've noticed a rising trend of what seem to me to be almost fraudulent revenue models by some companies that certainly don't seem to create much value for the consumer but certainly take their money (like the rebate programs with onerous filing procedures, or banks changing account types and sneaking in fees). There seem to be lots of things that you can pay for if you are a sucker (or just less informed). These schemes seem to be distorting the notion of creating something or doing something that actually has the value advertised for the consumer.
Wow. Personalized learning!?!?! Too bad I've already been screwed by the education system because of undiagnosed ADHD... Thank you Obama, from saving me from having to fight for this change.
I'd say his terrible negligence is in having no professional ethics as a journalist. I expect a journalist to do some fact checking.

http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
its all about identifying problems. if your product doesn't solve a problem then it won't be profitable. The bigger the problem the more money you can make.

Furthermore, you need to be on top of how technology, politics, and the legal system is changing business environments because these three factors creates opportunities that otherwise would not be possible before.

If you can make connections horizontally rather than vertically you can be a very successful entrepreneur.
I'm not sure I agree with his point but I can see it. There are projects that require a long term commitment to bring to fruition and there are very few people in the Valley these days who are willing to take on those projects. The "get options and get rich" mentality has everyone trying to build the next quickie web service or iPhone app rather than looking at real improvements.

Worse people seem to be putting their faith into large companies and their R&D departments to deliver innovations and that strategy has a shockingly poor track record. Other than Xerox Parc and the early AT&T labs there aren't really many R&D success stories. Microsoft, for example, spends $7 billion a year on R&D and you have to ask yourself "what do they have to show for it?" I mean, I actually like MS Surface but when you've spent $7 billion dollars and the best you've managed to come up with is an iPhone the size of a table something's gone wrong.

Again, I don't think the situation is as terminal as he makes it out to be but I do think the opinion has some merit in getting us all to look at areas our industry is neglecting.
90-minute podcast on creative marketing
So you work in US or Uzbekistan ?
If in US, how did you arrange for US visa ?
"Researchers have previously disclosed other ways to hack the systems, including tampering with the machine's firmware by replacing one ROM chip with another."

How the hell are you supposed to do that discreetly?
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I have worked next door to bens in the past, and attest to the mind boggling creativity he commands. I highly recommend working with him.
The intent seems to be to portray the data as art. At that I think it succeeds. They are rather visually appealing.

I think the goal is to draw the casual observer into the data and contemplate what they are seeing. Perhaps with the goal of conveying a message that might have been missed if they were "boring" graphs.

These are the glossy box for the (perhaps) "boring" technical data inside, flip them over for the technical specs of what you are seeing.
Just a thought, but maybe in future installments of this kind of thread it should at least be suggested that people attach things like: (1) where the job is located (2) if telecommuting is an option.

If the job is too far away, it might not be worth my while to even attempt an application.
I just finished my MBA, and decided to start a company out of business school. I can honestly say that I've learned more about starting a company in the past 3 months than I did in the two years before that. The only way to learn entrepreneurship is by doing it.
I know Nostrademons in person, who was recently hired by Google, and I can vouch that he does care, is extremely smart, and isn't a slimy salesman. Though it's getting larger, and hence more bureaucratic (from what I've heard on the outside), Google still has the best data in the world and hence attracts world-class engineers.
This seems like a great idea to me, as it could get you a job, and make your service much faster, in that you could build your notification system into the class scheduling system, which would mean you wouldn't need to poll their system every 3-7 minutes - it could be event-driven instead. (Dropping a class could trigger a check of who's watching the class and notify recipients that way.)

Writing in that line or two of code would also take care of the school's strange DoS concerns.

Of course, if profit is the goal, this isn't an option (though it doesn't look like you're trying to monetize this... kudos for that).

Also, this removes the exclusivity from classhunt (as any student would see this while browsing the schedule online). I'm sure you can make more inferences about this option. (Less social capital in the business world as you have nothing to point at and say "I did that," etc.)
How to get hired in the worst economic crisis (video)
So, you think you're a rockstar programmer?
I've had this daydream lately of doing SoC or something like it while also spending the summer travelling. (Not hardcore, always-on-the-move travelling, just living around in a few interesting cities (or even other countries) for a week or two at a time). I haven't looked very hard into whether this would be possible. As someone who has done SoC, does it strike you as unrealistic? (Issues of budget and potential distractions aside)
Academia.edu is hiring student interns. We have three interns at the moment. We are currently looking for engineering interns. Email jobs at academia.edu if you are interested to learn more.
I don't know about the getting featured part but the apple sample code is provided for developers to use as they wish. I agree though that simply putting up the sample code is not very cool. There are not a huge amount of these as far as I can tell.
WebKit breaks with other browsers and treats RegExps as functions in native JSON
5,000 tons of left-over meat is burned to generate electricity in the UK
I used that and a 30" display. It is far bigger
I work in the States. Daniel (our CEO) made all arrangements, I applied for a visa in Tashkent and got it.
Hm, I know someone who wants to live in Auckland - she's fanatical about Les Mills exercise programs and their HQ is there.
I thought that too, but I've been using it for unfuddle and I prefer it this way. It gives me a separate window and dock icon from my regular browser, and just works well with the self contained system that is Unfuddle.
Wingify (that's us) is looking for great hackers in JavaScript, MySQL and PHP/Python
Well eventually the argument will be "You'll be able to use the real internet!"
Applying in the yahoo career portal is the worst crap they don't even review the application but they call them self as hiring.
It's _not_ a one percent improvement (1%). That is mathematically incorrect.

It's a one percentage point improvement. Wrong terminology is responsible for 95% of this thread.
That's good to hear. I wonder how many start-ups would go all the way for the hassle of making all the arrangements in hiring someone from another country.
can you elaborate more on a particular business?
How did we even survive this long, for millions of years, without the ability to detect killer asteroids? I'm all for spending more money on interesting science stuff, like space related research, but I guess if we need to feed people's fear about destruction of the earth to get funding, then so be it. Now, about that funding...
A lucky hole in our current series of rainstorms gave me horizon-wide clear skies, and the moon was not yet risen. I saw a lovely show, about 2 per minute. (rural West Coast, USA) Thank you very much for the alert.
GS-There is no Other
Can someone summarize?
Kevin Rose, Tim Ferris on YC (and other stuff)
Ask HN: What do you do with big ideas?
What do you do when you come up with an idea that would take too much time/resources to implement with what you currently have available?

Do you wait until you have enough resources? Pitch it to a VC? Build a tiny portion of the idea?

And how would you evaluate how good it is if you don't have to resources to test it out?
Fluther is hiring for employee #1 (full-time).

We're looking for an awesome backend-engineer/curious-thinker/olympic-whistler with sys/db knowledge, but many hats will be required. Dabbling is good. Python/Django/MySQL is a plus.

Our office is in SF in the Mission.

jobs at fluther dot com.