skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a site called ApartmentFetch.com that's been running as a side project for a couple years. Get's about 50-100 SEO clicks a day and have had an Adwords campaign running for quite some time that can generate a lot more traffic than that. Used to monetize it from sending leads to 3rd party apartment sites but some of those relationships dried up. If someone was willing to put the time in to add the ability to charge apartments directly (along with Adsense, etc) could be back to generating some decent revenue.
There is a skill to writing a press release. Think of how often people take things out of context during an argument on the internet. Now imagine they have a financial motivation to do so.
Don't shoot yourself in the foot is good advice, even when it doesn't come from your surgeon.
Currently in São Paulo, Brazil, Remote and Relocation, accepting Full Time and Contracts

Stack: Lua, C, C++, Obj-C, Android Java, many other languages with many paradigms (including Functional, OOP, Procedural...)

Short Resume: http://coderofworlds.com/short-resume/

Contact: mauricio.gomes@coderofworlds.com

I am CTO and Tech-Cofounder of a mobile games startup, I am willing to do contracts, or quit the startup entirely if the offer is good enough.

Although I have a obvious focus in games (including a Game Design degree), I love hacking in general (for example I helped my dad design a wheel balancer, and using skills learned with that I made my own arcade game, including cabinet and electronics) and worked in non-games jobs in the past (for example, designed OCR and error correction to read numbers from a SMS received on very low-end mobile phones).

My main strength is learn whatever weird stuff you need learned fast and then use it to do whatever is needed (thus why the lots of languages and APIs on my resume... but I can say that I am master of C and Lua, because I love those two languages in particular, to the point of teaching them in conferences, workshops and tech schools).
A Fast File System for Unix (1984)
Full pdf of the paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.9535&rep=rep1&type=pdf

This was a classic even 10 years ago, when I read it in my operating systems seminar in grad school. This is the paper that taught me how disk-based file systems are organized, and why.
London UK, Relocation (I'm from Slovenia, full EU member - meaning no visa required to work in UK), Full Time

BSc Computer Science

Stack: C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC, JS/jQuery, Entity
Framework, LINQ, WCF, CrystalReports, R, Subversion

Resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/516897/CV.pdf

Contact: driznar [at] gmail [dot] com

Looking for a C# web development role with ASP.NET MVC. I have more than 3.5 years of experience developing software with .NET stack, from desktop apps (WinForms), to web apps (ASP.NET MVC) that utilized machine learning methods (R, R.NET) and SOA-based services (WCF, Web-services). All of it was done in the context of working for a financial services software provider, so I also have a lot of domain knowledge of how financial industry operates.

PS: I'm also open to learning another stack, if given the oppurtunity to learn it (especially Python/Django).
Sorry I did not know any of this terminology.
You trust that the pilots made the best decision they could given the data they had, and you find a way to give them better data next time. If they took a known risk, you ask why they thought it was ok to take that risk.

If you think they were truly acting in bad faith, you have other issues.
The name really hints at the product being like OneDrive, but for businesses. Why didn't they call it sharepoint365 or something :-/
“I salute Sen. Feinstein,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference of the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I’ll tell you, you take on the intelligence community, you’re a person of courage, and she does not do that lightly. Not without evidence, and when I say evidence, documentation of what it is that she is putting forth.”

Pelosi added that she has always fought for checks and balances on CIA activity and its interactions with Congress: “You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/07441526589/nancy-...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 is an interesting thread. And https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021898 .

My take is that RH is more afraid from patent trolling than some kind of shady government deal.

(edit: expanding why it's more against patent trolling: see their "Open Source Assurance" program: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/assurance/ , they provide indemnification, thus their legal department seems to be more on the cautious side)
London, UK

Full time, lead dev.

www.geneix.com

We're about to change the way doctors prescribe medication. We're interested in your medical data, your genetic data and other biological data we can get about you. We use it to provide clinical decision support to prescribers as they prescribe, not two days after when the patient is complaining about the side effects.

We have a (pretty much) full javascript stack for our web app. Node and MySQL db on the back, single page, responsive, Angular on the front. We're into beautiful UI and intuitive UX. If this sounds like your kind of thing get in touch. Salary is good, vested share equity included, offices are shared with other cool startups (Wayra accelerator), flexible about hours and location.

Contact: adam@geneix.com @Adam_HC
The amount of memory that can be used by an LBA is specified by the input, not by the machine, and there's no limit to how big it can be, only that there has to be some limit.

In short, it still has infinite memory, you just have to pick how much of it to use when you run it. This differs from an FSM or a Turing machine with finite memory in that you choose the quantity of memory when specifying the machine rather than the input.
Yeah but come on, it's happening.
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>instead of CVEs we're now getting marketing.

Well that is what patio11 and other were calling for after heartbleed. More marketing! More selling yourself! Always be selling!
So are you saying the agencies should be "rogue" and completely independent from Congress?
Two things to point out here...

1. Rumors and innuendo are not the same as hard evidence. While some politicians may survive a controversy, in most cases reputation-damaging information has a negative effect on a political career (especially if it's indisputable evidence). "Nobody wants a scandal". Furthermore, what an old enemy might leak to the press is a far cry from what might be uncovered through comprehensive digital surveillance. Having access to raw, captured Internet traffic is a game-changer.

2. If the members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence don't feel that they are getting completely accurate and inclusive information from the NSA, why wouldn't they feel vulnerable? Who could know the truth if the NSA doesn't give straight information to the very people who are supposed to be overseeing their work?
Whenever you set it up so that one group of people are armed and another group is defenseless, the second group exists entirely at the mercy of the first.

That's really the problem here - not that government isn't made up of citizens (obviously, it is), but that the act of banning firearms sets up a major inequity in terms of real power. No one is saying "no one should have guns", they're saying "Only these people should have guns". That's a recipe for tyranny.

As for the purpose of the 2A, it's not exactly a long amendment. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The verbiage was revised multiple times to make it more clear that the purpose was military, and applied to protection against internal threats as well as external. For example, take Tench Coxe's words printed in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette in June 1789:

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."

Noah Webster argued in support of this stance as well:

"Before a standing army can rule the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."

While obviously tyranny was not the only concern addressed by the amendment, it was absolutely an integral part of its original purpose.
> I want "the best for me".

I agree - this should absolutely be your goal.

That said, as an example of why these differences matter, my MacBook pro spits out a lot of noise and has a different sound profile when compared to my iPhone, which sounds completely different than my Mac mini which is connected to my headphone amp/dac. When evaluating headphones, evaluate them on the device you'll be listening to them on. Don't trust your laptop to tell you how your phone will sound (or vice versa).

Also, if you do transfer the files to your mobile player - make sure they aren't automatically converted to lower quality files.
Phoenix or anywhere, Remote & Relocation, Full-time / part time / contract

Stack: C/C++, LISP

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryasher/

Contact: jerryasher at gmail

20+ years of experience in C/C++, Linux development for embedded systems, enterprise systems, distributed systems. Some experience with Python, and JavaScript. And fwiw, I am really looking to move back to a coastal city.
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Ok - First the good news: I was already contacted for a new position!

The bad news: Ageism is alive and well in Philadelphia. I do not mind working with recruiters, but your requirements should NOT say you are looking for a "20-something developer". That is discrimination. He claimed this was a request from the client, but it is still illegal.

Also, yes I do own NoSQL.com and I love working in NoSQL, but I did not 'invent NoSQL'. No one did - it is just a marketing term that I was lucky enough to get the domain. Please - if you are looking to hire technical people, please at least try to understand some of the technology.
The difference being that it's tough to kill people at scale and covertly with a rifle or even poison mail. Exploiting a bug in networked pacemakers could give you the means to kill an entire userbase.

For the train comparison, it's the difference between pushing a guy on the rails and derailing a train remotely by accelerating it remotely through a curve and disabling the manual controls.

What's the value to the user of a networked pacemaker? Maybe a lower price? There would be better ways for it to 'speak' to a network to collect data, I should think.
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Yep, it's likely they have some "public opinion making" going on. After all psychology teaches us that people look to other people first to find out what to think and do. These guys spoiled the Internet.
Perfectionist much?

While I can agree that pointing out the spelling and/or grammar mistakes could be constructive, calling the article "un-shareable" because of them seems terribly over-the-top.
Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor
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Nashville, TN, Local & Remote, Contract or Part Time

Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Redis

Resume: http://dailytechnology.net/projects/

Contact: hn@dailytechnology.net

Web application developer, past experience with Jave, PHP & Ruby. Familiar with jargon of healthcare. Love working with data (particularly with Amazon Redshift). More interested in moonlighting projects than anything else, but always open to talk.
Awesome to see. Windows DevOps guy here.
I use this myself, that's what I was hoping for.
Confused about downvote? SpaceX is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Google is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Russia is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. Halliburton is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. SpaceX has a founder whose background is not in this industry. Google has founders whose backgrounds are not in the business of providing Government services. Russia is very much in the business of providing government services. Halliburton is very much in the business of providing government services. Seems like a solid analogy.
This is very useful and has a lot of great information! Thanks!
It seems HN didn't like your comment. Maybe a citation is needed:

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14
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Narrowly regarding "But I don't believe that, because some government leaders and some political candidates are essentially shameless.":

First, there is a tremendous difference between (having already been exposed) choosing to run in the face of that difficulty (possibly not showing sufficient shame, to be sure, but dealing with what is effectively a sunk cost) and choosing to take (or postpone taking) that blow in the first place.

Second, even if there are congresspersons who wouldn't comply in the face of blackmail, are there enough or are they insufficiently identifiable that they can't simply be avoided?

Note that I'm not saying that I think blackmail of many in congress by the NSA is hugely likely, I'm just not sure your reasoning is sound.
I would encourage everybody to have a lawyer. I've used the same guy for circa 15 years.

We talk maybe once a year, as I rarely need legal advice, but it's enough to keep the relationship alive. If I ever needed a legal specialist, I'd instantly go to him for a referral. And I'd use him to double-check any advice from the specialist.

The first time, it seems a little weird paying somebody $200-500 to, say, look over an employment contract. I was used to half-assing that myself, which cost nothing. But now I look at it as two kinds of insurance. First, you're drastically lowering the risk that there's something in the documents you missed. Second, if something bad does go down, your lawyer's now involved; it's not a new matter, it's something they blessed. And as a practical matter, negotiating contract points is much easier when you can, "My laywer says X" instead of, "I'm no expert, but I think X".
Every national government in the civilized world needs an intelligence-gathering agency that can operate with some degree of operational secrecy.

What is the basis for this assertion? What would happen to a nation that didn't have that?
As far as I can tell, Clapper was asked about a classified program during an open session of Congress. Confronted with a conflict between his oath to tell the truth and his obligation to preserve the secrecy of the program, he chose the latter and corrected his testimony later in private. Maybe I'm misconstruing what happened, but, if not, why is this controversial?
> How could an attacker manipulate a URL to redirect somewhere else?

A site begins writing software to OAuth with Facebook. They start by filling out a form on Facebook with app name and the callback URL to their site. They then write a handler on their site for dealing with the callback URL they expect to receive from Facebook after the user approves the connection with their app. However, the week before the company did OAuth integration, there was a ticket opened for 'redirect user to correct page after login' which was implemented with a '?next=http://urlofyourchosing.com/' decorator handler written by the Swedish intern.

The redirect parameter isn't going to be compared by Facebook. Only the base URL is going to be checked to ensure it matches.

Once Oauth integration is complete and tested, the site launches. They get on the front page of HN, Reddit and Mashable and sign up about 100K users in a few weeks. In the meantime, a bad agent discovers the flaw in their login flow and tests the behavior and discovers the ?next redirect 'venerability'. They know the site uses Facebook, so they craft a URL to do OAuth with Facebook, then redirect the user to the attacking site by using the ?next parameter located in the third party's website code. They then use the current bad actor method of propagating their evil URLs and .... profit?

Impact: Any action by the user allowing access to data will, in theory, allow the attacker to view the information they gave the site access to and, possibly, more information than the user originally approved for the site if they accidently chose another security scope. It should be noted that all access by the user to both Facebook and the attacked website will be logged by their respective servers.

I implemented an OAuth2 workflow with Github to an AppEngine project last year, so I'm at least passingly familiar with what goes on under the hood with the flows. Still, I could be missing something here. I might try to hack up a working example to test my theory.
Remote, Contract | Part Time

Stack: Amazon Web Services, Docker, CoreOS / Debian / CentOS, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, HAProxy, nginx, Varnish, and in general weird and neat unix-type things.

Resume: http://github.com/afsheenb

Contact: ylloffehillu-8514@yopmail.com (I'll respond with a proper address

Overview: I do linux-y and devops-y things. Let's chat.
I'll get around to that right after I make the one that changes all instances of "Hacker" to "Rockstar" on HN and in the hiring threads.
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Stack: PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, Mongo, Python, a bit of Node, others as needed.

Resume: http://coreygilmore.io (contains links to LinkedIn, etc.)

Contact: coreymgilmore@gmail.com

Overview: I build on the web (webapps) because I hate having to refactor code for different device types and languages (iOS vs Android). My focus is on data and user driven apps that are narrowly focused but perform great. I also have a large focus in developing real-time connected devices for home-automation and the Internet-of-Things (see Droplet Labs http://dropletlabs.com).
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That's odd, I grew up on the tail end of the Cold War and it seems to me that much of Snowden's accusations of the antics of the US government is up there with the propaganda from the US government itself as to why the Soviet Union was bad.

For a generation that grew up with something like East Berlin and the Berlin Wall thinking that government surveillance isn't bad makes me wonder what level does one have to get to before it's considered bad for the people.

For those that did not live through or remember the Soviet Union collapse and the fall of the Berlin Wall leading to German unification I can understand. It's hard for current generations to understand how truly awful WWII was for the human race as a whole, they simply cannot relate.
Ughh. A corner strip mall opened recently in my area and plopped down a parking lot with no sidewalks abutting the side streets (there are planters directly between the lot and street).

There is no safe walkable way to get to/through this area. It's really depressing.
Hi Mario ... as another Orlandonian ... Hello :) Are you familiar with some of the startup related organizations in Orlando (http://orlandotech.org/, http://starterstudio.com/, etc.)?
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Ask HN: How can I maximize my first Google I/O experience?
I'm going to I/O and have never been. I've heard there are huge lines, lots to do and interesting people / activities. From those of you whom have been, how do I get the most out of my experience? Also, what should I know about private parties?
> They certainly don't sympathize with the ideas of hypothetical political dissidents that might be hypothetically suppressed using surveillance.

Like Martin Luther King?
+1 .NET developer.

For the same reason, moving to Front-End development on my next job (mid-june).
I always wrote complex crappy code for my previous employer, because if some of my own projects ever takes flight, I wouldn't want to be in an IP lawsuit against my own code. Thus I saved the neat implementations for my own projects, and actually I don't even feel bad about it. If you have a boss constantly reminding you about that you have a contract where they own anything you produce, then thats what you get. It's called the cobra effect.
This is unfortunately true per Neil Degrasse Tyson's (NDT) speech in front of Congress to increase NASA's federal budget. It currently stands at 0.48% of the Federal Budget. There is a great youtube video highlighted NDT's points on this. I believe the video was around the initiative http://www.penny4nasa.org
Reykjavik, Iceland, Local, Full time

Stack: JavaScript, C, Python, Ruby, AngularJS, HTML5/CSS3, SASS, Grunt, sound design in various DAWs

Resume: eirikurorri.com/cv

Contact: eirikurorri@gmail.com

I’m a second year B.Sc. Computer Science student at Reykjavik University, looking for a job over the summer. Specifically interested in audio, game and front end development. Generally interested in making people happy.
I feel he was right to disclose the illegal collection of phone records. However, he was wrong to disclose pretty much everything else that he did. He disclosed details of activities that weren't illegal and has hurt the NSAs ability to do its job on behalf of the United States.
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Yesterday's Who is hiring? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431) only had 1 mention of Groovy or Grails (and none of Gradle) out of over 400 comments. And many (most?) of the projects tagged Groovy on Github are triggered by a single Gradle build script for a project that uses some other language. These Gradle build scripts are often 30 lines long.

So I'm not sure how Groovy will fare in the future. Nothing seems to be taking its place, though, for testing and general manipulation of Java classes. Java and Scala are statically-compiled languages for building things, whereas dynamic Clojure seems to also be used for systems programming rather than scripting. I'm guessing Oracle will heavily promote Nashorn for scripting and JavaFX, but Javascript syntax doesn't seem quite as full-featured as Groovy for now.
I'm familiar with the oauth2 spec (rfc6749). I can't find enough details to actually understand the claimed vulnerability. Does it a specific flow? It sounds like the Implicit Grant (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.2)

> Covert Redirect flaw uses the real site address for authentication.

That is so vague. Are they claiming the attacker is hijacking the redirect_uri parameter?

Are they saying that these third parties aren't comparing the redirect_uri? I can't think of a oauth2 server I've interacted with as a developer that hasn't required you to register a redirect_uri.

Anyone have more details?
I think it's more that it is flippant and doesn't really advance the conversation in any meaningful way. You could post that comment on every story that touches on politics.
Interesting that each 'layer' doesn't carry the same visual weight, and thus it's dominated by only three colors.
Also the palette is one of Russian tricolor! There must be a beautiful conspiracy theory in it..