skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you guys considered using PostGIS? I'm asking because I'm considering that for my own project and am wondering what other people's thoughts are on it and alternatives as well.

Thanks.
REMOTE, relocation to Germany possible if desired.

Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is looking for JavaScript and C++ developers.

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Senior JavaScript developer

We are looking for a senior developer with a solid understanding of computer science and a focus on web technologies, in particular JavaScript.

https://eyeo.com/jobs#senior-javascript-developer

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C++ developer

We're looking for someone who can help bring Adblock Plus to mobile devices and other resource constrained environments.

https://eyeo.com/jobs#c++-developer

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We're in the middle of changing the world of online advertising for the better, and there's lots of work to do. We're also experimenting with new, supplementary ways of content monetisation.

What we do is disruptive and controversial, and we've had our share of bad press in the past. Much of it FUD, but there's also legitimate criticism we need to address. We do this by being as open as we can possibly be, which is what we ought to do anyway. Mozilla is pretty close to what we want Eyeo to be.

Apply at jobs@eyeo.com if you're up for all this, we'd love to hear from you. Please include a list of notable open source projects you are contributing to or have contributed to. We're an open source project, so that'd be a very big plus.
Hall
https://hall.com/careers
San Francisco, CA (local preferred)
VISAs OK

Hiring for the following full-time roles:

Sr. Fullstack Engineer

Sr. Rails Engineer, Infrastructure/Backend

Visual Designer

___________________________

Transforming the way companies communicate.

Why work at Hall?

Work on a product you'll be actively using every day

We use node.js, rails, redis, mongoDB, capistrano, chef and EC2

We're a design & data-driven organization.

Recently raised a $5.5m series-A when the company was just 2 people led by the early investors in Mint.com, Google and Box - Felicis, PivotNorth, Founder Collective and AngelPad.

Located in SOMA, San Francisco near 4th and Bryant. Just a 5 minute walk from Caltrain.

Hall's CEO & founder Brett Hellman joined his first startup at 14, and also spent time building new products at Yahoo & Intuit.

Hall's CTO & co-founder Ron Adams, previous led the engineer team at Yahoo! Sports.

___________________________

PERKS:
Be a part of a world-class team, love what you do and have a huge impact!

Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 27" monitor

Generous equity grants

Weekly company-wide happy hours

Medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

https://hall.com/careers
I don't see how using a map function is being clever but I'd love to hear why that is.
It's usually the designer that sets up the prices for feedback. To see it you must click the "Get Feedback" button on the designer's profile page.
RelateIQ- Palo Alto, CA
www.relateiq.com

We're working on relationship intelligence and are looking for a number of different engineers to join the team. We're pretty open on backgrounds and previous experience but would really like to find people who can add knowledge to our team in areas of Distributed Systems, Analytics, Security, and Android.

Our current stack is mostly Java with Cassandra, Mongo, and Postgres. We work a lot with Hadoop, Kafka and Storm. Our front end is mostly Angular, and we are heavily invested in Docker for our infrastructure.

We're located in downtown Palo Alto. We're about 75 people, with about half working in Eng and Product.

If you're interested in hearing about some of the projects were currently working on, please email alexl@relateiq.com or message me here. We’re open to relocating people and working with visa sponsorships, but we do want people onsite with us.
This might seem obvious, but I have a style of email for any kind of update where the recipient is not as day-to-day or emotionally involved as I am (investors, executive management, other business units, etc.)

Basically, you bullet out the key raw metrics and status items at the top, with as little narrative or opinion as possible. You assume that everyone who sees that email is only going to read those bullets, so it has to convey all of the core data.

Then, below that, you can do a longer narrative form with discussion and opinion and background, formatted to align with each bullet point. That's where you ask non-critical questions, explain why you think last quarter's growth was slightly off, or a project was delayed, etc.

I started doing this when I would get replies to long-form project updates that made it clear that the reader had missed the point, or not even read the email in its entirety. Bulleting up all of the data upfront helped prevent me from trying to excuse away mistakes, made the readers' lives easier, and allowed people to self-select if and when they wanted to get a fuller picture.

Maybe it sounds obvious and self-evident, and once I started doing it, it seemed like common sense, but I get tons of emails all the time that don't follow these kinds of guidelines and it is occasionally frustrating.
New Snowden docs: NSA spies on pretty much everyone abroad
> These sexual harassment cases do more to hurt women than help them IMHO. It reinforces the viewpoint that women are seen as a liability.

Let me translate what you just said: if someone harasses you at your workplace and elsewhere, and as such causes harm to you, and do so also by deploying systematically dissipated stereotypes (yes, they are social weapons), you shall not press charges, because if you do, you would be a petty little girl who is causing harm to your company.

...
DataHero

San Francisco, CA

https://datahero.com/about/jobs

Node.js | Backbone | Angular | D3 | MySQL

* Full Stack Engineer
* Machine Learning
* Frontend Engineer

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At DataHero, we’re building a beautiful data analysis and visualization platform that anyone can use to understand their business data.

Can you explain a join to your sales manager? Can you instead build a system where she can combine her Salesforce and Stripe data without learning a line of SQL?

Our system uses recommendation algorithms, an intuitive user experience, and all the dirty engineering grit to give non-engineers superhuman analysis skills.

You:

- build high-concurrency single page HTML5 webapps
- don’t mind that Node.js hasn’t yet reached 1.0
(and have built many an escalator through the 9 levels of callback hell)
- believe design is just as important as engineering
- want to work for a top venture backed startup with monthly recurring revenue
- want to contribute to our beer preference datasets with our
small close-knit team:
https://datahero.com/blog/2014/06/17/datahero-beer-consumption-analysis

If you’re a software hacker or data nerd who wants to lead the next data revolution, get in touch with us at jobs@datahero.com.
Yeah, I'm just making up phrases.

But, Socrates is a guy from Plato's books who's is frustrated by all the smart people around him. They all seem really smart to Socrates, and Socrates wants to be smart, like them. So, he goes around asking all of these smart people lots of stupid questions. But, it turns out that they can't answer a lot of his stupid questions.

It may not be a good strategy though, because eventually they kill him, because he's an annoyance.
We do our own searching and wrote our own crawlers. Does that answer your question?
Beeminder is an interesting product! Didn't know about it.
Location: Wales, UK

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Absolutely

Technologies: Odd mix. Qualified Control Engineer (MSc) but generally C#, MySQL, Mono, Solidworks. Generalist with a good mind for Systems design and architecture. (And anything technological!)

Resume: Say hi first!

Email: jobs at writemy dot email (anon email)

I'm an Engineer with ~5 years C# experience. I have a keen interest in most things technical. I like to learn and because of that tend to pick things up quite fast. Currently doing freelance work for a few companies and looking to make contacts with others and see if there's anything else interesting out there. Also looking at bidding on smaller govt projects soon if anyone fancies teaming up.
/boggle. The pizzeria is indisputably the victim of extortion here.
> Regarding the blind signature: yes, you can check it and in most cases it's just checking a series of bytes at a given position in an array. One line of code. Building a multisig transaction locally? Good-luck doing that.

Code? Better yet include it on your examples.
Vurb - San Francisco, CA - http://vurb.com

We just won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC - http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/05/vurb/

Vurb is working on reinventing search, browsing, and sharing - by creating an intelligent layer over the Internet that helps you get things done in one place. Rather than opening lots of windows/tabs or hopping from mobile app to mobile app, we're building a platform that brings everything together.

We do this by connecting the services we use in a contextual way, through data technologies (search, machine learning, big data, etc.) and original thinking around UI/UX.

We're funded by Max Levchin, Drew Houston (Dropbox), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), CrunchFund, and many others. This is a hard problem, but it has the potential to change the behavior of how we do things on the Internet (and make it fun!)

Full-time opportunities in San Francisco (3+ yrs experience, interview on-site)

* Search / Data Scientist / Data Engineer - search, classification, ranking, ML, recommendation systems, NLP, graph dbs, data crawling/processing. Search experience strongly desired.

* Full-stack Engineer - experience in JavaScript and async programming (e.g., node.js) preferable

* Android Engineer

* Lead Designer - visual design, interaction design, and experience design - please include your portfolio or Dribbble when applying

jobs@vurb.com | angel.co/vurb
About to start A Theory of Fun for Game Design.

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Game-Design-Raph-Koster/dp/1449...

I have no interest in making games, but this comes highly recommended to understand applied intrinsic motivation (which I am very interested in). Grabbed it from the worrydream book list.

http://worrydream.com/#!/Links
Polymer includes a Web Components polyfill, so you can write raw Web Components if you want to. Polymer is really just some syntactic sugar over that (and other specs thrown in, like html imports, templates, etc).

That said, these aren't really the same kind of libraries at all, so I'm not sure why this is such a x vs y thread. Ideally, react and web components are fully composable, and it doesn't really matter where the element came from.
Show HN: Napwell – We Want to Help You Sleep Better
Location: Minneapolis

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, C, SVN/git, some experience with VHDL, assembly, and embedded C.

Resume: Not updated at the moment, but I want to get this post in while the thread is still active. Available upon request.

Email: forsberg@iastate.edu

I'm finishing up my computer engineering degree this fall. This summer I'm interning at Cerner in Kansas City, doing java development. Last year I had two internship in Taiwan. I'm more interested in working with great people than any specific technology!
That big "Apply" button screams Wufoo. :-)
This is a rather restrictive approach to the problem of 'I want to choose from a more aesthetically appealing subset of the colors computers can reproduce' (where 'aesthetically appealing' is valid for some definition rooted primarily in experience with physical paints, stubborn adherence to school artroom dogma, and nostalgia). You could achieve the same effect with a color picker that only includes the colors traditionally produced by Crayola.
Hands down this has been my favorite mac application since the first version came out. I hope the rest of the cocoa community takes notice.

Keep up the good work Alex & Glenn!
Surfing AND playing electric guitar [Official Video]
Some don't, like everybody who posts on the mining forums of bitcointalk.org and is generating their own coins, or converting alternative coins to bitcoin. All these miners want computer hardware, makes sense to directly market to them.
I have. I've been interested in bitcoin for years now. But my interest doesn't translate to me thinking it will be successful as a consumer tool.
"I recommend this. Reading it is better than not reading it, and you may not have been aware of its existence."

The recommender is in no position to know whether your next-best alternative was reading another work on the subject or reloading hacker news or taking a nap.
You're a bunch of domain squatters.
>blast makes it trend down the front page
Seeking ‘a more active role,’ David Karp leads executive shakeup at Tumblr
> Someone can also break into your servers and manipulate your transactions. It's our business to run a secure and reliable service

And now they have two servers they can break into?
Purple (distinct from violet) does not appear on natural rainbows.
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Remote: Yes, but a physical location is preferred.

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity. I would prefer to stay in Canada, but am not against farther relocation.

Technologies: Preference for low level, backend work: C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Erlang. Intermediate knowledge of: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery.

Resume: Upon request.

Email: dmunoz_hn at outlook.com

About me:

I have a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia. My major was computer science.

I am a recent graduate/entry level/junior candidate. I have taken some time off since graduating to help with a family health issue, but have used the opportunity to improve my skills both professionally and in my hobbies.

I have made code available for both personal and school projects on my website.

My HN alias is a pseudonym. Upon contact, I can make myself available through email, irc, and phone. Please include a little about the opportunity when making contact. If I'm not interested, I don't want to waste any of your time. I will reply in either case.
Let's see. I could pay for hardcore online pornography in a pretty anonymous way. I could board a flight with a flash drive containing $1million dollars in BTC. I don't have any draconian restrictions on who I can and can't exchange my "money" with. If you send me BTC and the network confirms I never have to worry about your cheque "bouncing". I could donate to Wikileaks without a company like MasterCard or Visa deciding who I can and can't send my money to.

I can do all these things on my own without having some third party potentially fucking me over or charging me a monthly fee. I consider all these things great advantages.

It also doesn't mean I need to abandon credit cards or other forms of value transfer. But in those cases I now have an alternative I did not have had BTC not existed. It's a weird black and white kind of logic that HN has where it seems for Bitcoin to succeed it must replace everything currently in use. That's a false dichotomy. They can mutually coexist. Right tool for the job.
Take with a grain of salt since I'm not the target audience.

I read "All your team's contacts in one place" and think it's a shared address book. However, it's not the contact information that interesting, it's the aggregation of the data related to the contact that's interesting.

Perhaps that's too complicated for a tag line though.
Will do, thanks a lot for the feedback.
How to Rewire Your Brain for Success
I don't understand why a code review system has to take 3 to 6 months. That seems backwards to me: it should be the first step to improving the project. Every one of the changes listed in the roadmap should be reviewed and signed off by at least one other peer in the project.
You just don't remember how different is it to sleep longer.

Exercise is like that, too. If you stay relatively stationary for a few weeks, then get out and do some serious exercise, you are more awake than you remember possible.

Similarly, smoking (especially green) and drinking are like that, too. When you stop, it takes awhile to get over, then it's amazing.

Probably being outside in nature in general has additional benefits, re: general sensory stimulation, removal of droning mechanical/electric noise, variety of light conditions, rhythmic subtleties of tone in the shadow of a moving tree, etc.

You notice northern hemisphere people that come to the tropics revert near-instantly to depression when boarding flights back home in their winter. I saw it in a set of Russians in Vietnam earlier this year... it was incredibly well choreographed!

PS. I went on a brief hunt via thesaurus.com and Wikipedia for an effect along the lines of 'acclimatisation' but failed to come up with a trans-disciplinary term. Please post if you know of one.
Sounds good to me. If followed through, OpenSSL and libressl portable could possibly converge on practically identical code bases.

It is a little weird though that it's almost the libressl game plan, verbatim. It could literally just say "do whatever libressl" does.

Some of the specifics, like memory management is dangerous, fips code is tangly, win16 support is obsolete, seem a little too familiar. We haven't really tried to make an exhaustive list of issues to fix in libressl. I know there are things we haven't looked at yet. But for the OpenSSL roadmap to match 100% our public work is weird. They haven't found anything to fix that we've overlooked?

Also, there are definitely some problems in OpenSSL that we've identified, but haven't talked about. I'd expect any independent review/roadmap planning to identify them. They're missing from this list.
Definitely — thanks for the feedback. That's something that I struggled with in particular, because I wrote the post for a dual audience — both HS Hackers itself, as well as the wider hacker community.

I'm updating some of the language in the intro section to paint a more clear picture of what exactly HS Hackers is.
SEEKING WORK (iOS) - Remote - Pacific Standard Time - US Citizen

I'm a 3-year iOS developer, who remembers developing for early iOS 4.x builds + iPhone 3.

Currently, I'm seeking remote work on Pacific Standard Time, and I'm a US Citizen.

I have resume experience from lead roles, remote teams, an acquired startup, and at Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

Not very long ago, I published an academic breakdown of UITableView - a popular iOS control - on my employer's tech blog + open sourced the repo of the rebuild:
https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2013/12/02/lsctablevi...

I also contribute to the tools I use, too! I've made contributions to PonyDebugger, AFNetworking, and SDWebImageCache.

GitHub: http://github.com/joshavant

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/joshavant

Twitter: http://twitter.com/joshavant

If I can help with your iOS project, please be in touch! joshavant [at] gmail [.] com
Google I/O 2014 – HTTPS Everywhere
This is the most ambitious game in the universe
Trusted adviser on amazon payroll, to help reduce cost of paying to amazon. #Conflict_Of_Interest
Dart Programming Language Specification [pdf]
If I were a pizza parlor owner, I would frame this letter and hang it in my restaurant.
Tell HN: I am a founder that thinks about suicide daily
Q: Is this part of the journey? Have other founders been through this?
This was actually fairly heavily discussed on the Golang mailing list a few months ago[0]. For now I believe the designers of the language would rather keep things as simple as possible. For something that can be done with a fairly simple for-loop, they would rather have you write that out. If there is certain functionality that requires a complex amount of code, the would consider adding either a package to help or changing the language if needed.

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/RKymTuSCHS0/di...
As someone fairly new to systems programming, I can still see why you'd want to pick a language like Rust over C. But can someone explain to me the difference between Rust and Erlang? They are both system languages, no? Erlang is much more established. But what are the key differences? And I'd ask, "which should I learn?", but that is generally not a great question...
By the name, I thought that this was going to be a MUD.
Cold War Kids
Space Rogue (of L0pht fame) owns hackernews.com and (at least, up to a few years ago) publicly pondered reviving Hacker News Network, his old infosec news website, which was immensely popular back in the day.
Npm now the largest module repository
>proof that your program will terminate

Or that a coprogram will be productive (services/servers/streaming fall under this).

Most programs these days operate on codata, so termination on a per-destructed-codata-component basis is productivity if I understand correctly.

(ejenk touches on this in the comments as well, but I wanted to add this point)
What's the advantage of only letting in 100 people at a time instead of making it publicly available? Personally, I'm not inclined to give you my email address without at least some sample content.
Security content of iOS 7.1.2
Of course they don't - there's no such thing as a hardware wallet yet. It's irrelevant to the discussion to say that a theft might not have happened if the victim had been using a fictional technology.
There are a number of technological solutions to the security issues related to storage. BIP38 and multisig are both very promising innovations, and there will be more. We're really at the very early stages of Bitcoin's development. Think 1994 for the Internet.
Remind, Soma, San Francisco - Education startup

https://remind.com/careers#jobs

Highlights

- 15% of US Teachers

- 6MM monthly actives

- $19.5MM raised; Kleiner Perkins (led by John Doerr) & Social+Capital (led by Chamath Palihapitiya)

Positions

- Full stack, Backend engineers

- Senior Product Designer

- Android, iOS developer
Well, he had to tell his wife something...
Could you please elaborate on your 'private network' setup on Linode?
"Login with Facebook"

That's too bad. I was looking forward to trying it, but re-creating a Facebook account deleted years ago and then dealing with new friend emails, etc, isn't worth it to me.

* I'm happy you also have an Android version

* I'm sad that it requires Facebook. Note that Reddit even apologizes for using a captcha during registration, and does not require an email address to this day.
Palo Alto, CA

INFER, INC.

- Team: 10 engineers from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Google/Google Research, Facebook, Y Combinator, Microsoft Research, Palantir, Jane Street, IBM Research, Yahoo! Research, ...

- Investors: Red Point, a16z, SHV, Social Capital, ...

- Customers: Box, Jive, Microsoft, Tableau, Zendesk, AdRoll, Nitro, and many more

- Product: machine learning applications for non-technical users to help their businesses more effectively win and retain customers

- Looking for: strong engineers excited to join an early-stage startup to help grow & shape the company

EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build on and extend our sophisticated model training pipeline that uses data extracted from the web and other sources

- Build beautiful visualizations to communicate results and frontends to allow non-technical users to build complex models

- Develop and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to manage and process customers' large, confidential datasets

- Create and shape the processes used to guide the engineering team to work together effectively

QUALIFICATIONS

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related fields

- Depth in software engineering, algorithms, and general analytical problem-solving

- Familiarity with Python preferred

CONTACT

- https://www.infer.com

- hiring+hn@infer.com
Could Server-Side Dart Replace Node.js?