skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What: http://www.colab.re, a Brazilian social network for citizenship

Why cool: We are helping people solving city problems by connecting them to local government. Already live on 25 cities in Brazil
There's some pretty neat info on the Silicon Border site, but here's a quick report on there talking about "Five Reasons to Consider Mexico" that has some nice information:
http://www.siliconborder.com/sites/default/files/documents/F...
When you say "problem" you are describing something higher level than just an algorithm, yes? Could you give some examples of problems that the most natural program is imperative or object-oriented?
Optaros is a leading eCommerce services firm based in Boston, MA, with offices in Austin, Boston, San Francisco and Bucharest, Romania. Some of our clients, including Rue La La, Macy’s, and Nestle, and we work on platforms like hybris, Magento, and Demandware.

We are recruiting for a number of roles, such as Tech Lead, Tech Architect, Visual Designer, UX Lead, and Sr. UX Developer.

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Technical Lead – Boston
(https://apply.hrmdirect.com/resumedirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.a...)

We're looking for technologists with deep Java experience including Hibernate, Spring, and MVC, with experience in consulting. This position is based out of Boston, MA with around 30% travel.

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Technical Lead/Architect – Austin
(https://apply.hrmdirect.com/resumedirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.a...)

We're looking for technologists with deep Java experience including Hibernate, Spring, and MVC, with experience in consulting. This position is based out of Austin, TX with around 30% travel.

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UX Development Lead – Boston
(https://apply.hrmdirect.com/resumedirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.a...)

We're looking for technical strength (html5, css3, JavaScript, jquery and skilled in backbone or another similar framework) and at least 2 years of leadership experience. Knowledge of Ecommerce and a consultative approach is also a must. This position is based out of Boston, MA with around 30% travel.

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Sr. UX Developer – Austin
(https://apply.hrmdirect.com/resumedirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.a...)

We're looking for technical strength (html5, css3, JavaScript, jquery and skilled in backbone or another similar framework), strong communication skills and a consultatitive approach. This position is based out of Austin, TX with around 30% travel.

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Technical Lead w/ Demandware- Boston
(http://optaros.hrmdirect.com/employment/jobopening.php?req=1...)

We're looking for technologists with deep Demandware and Java experience including Hibernate, Spring, and MVC, with experience in consulting. This position is based out of Boston, MA with around 30% travel.

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Sr. UX Developer – Boston
(http://optaros.hrmdirect.com/employment/jobopening.php?req=1...)

We're looking for technical strength (html5, css3, JavaScript, jquery and skilled in backbone or another similar framework), strong communication skills and a consultatitive approach. This position is based out of Boston, MA with around 30% travel.

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Senior Visual Designer- Boston
(http://optaros.hrmdirect.com/employment/jobopening.php?req=1...)

We’re looking for a Senior Visual Designer with consulting client facing experience preferably in the eCommerce industry. The Senior Visual Designers primary function is to understand business and brand requirements and create engaging user experiences. This position is based out of Boston, MA with around 25% travel.
https://rage4.com/Home/ANY

Is that what you are looking for? They only have 3 locations tho.
Thanks! We edited the title.
The actual bottleneck today is with residency spots. With that knowledge, it's really for the best that medical school enrollment is limited. The situation law schools find themselves in is not an enviable one. I don't think it would be good for anyone to send students to medical school, make them suffer and struggle for four years (doubly so because they weren't as strong students to begin with), ask them to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, and then say, "oh, you can't practice medicine because we just don't have enough residencies anymore."
As someone who has lived in both San Diego and Tijuana, it is not THAT much of a tech place as it sounds (well, Tijuana is not, not sure of San Diego). I personally know one of the people who co-founded Hub-stn. It's mostly just a bunch of export factories there. The true tech scene in Mexico is in Guadalajara, Jalisco. You have big tech companies with many offering benefits similar to those in the Bay Area such as stock options, health insurance, great salaries, and more. Tijuana has none of that. I had to move because it was impossible to find a good job programming in Ruby on Rails.
On the other hand, Bluetooth Low Energy is running off small batteries (for a long time), I wonder what the numbers look like there.
Another one I found is that advocating for privacy is a quick way for downvotes. Lots of users here run businesses that thrive on user-generated data so it makes sense they would prefer more control and liberty with the data in their service, to the dismay of some users/consumers.
What: https://www.uncover.com

Why is it cool: In the fifteen months we've been in operation, we've never lost a customer. It just gives everyone a smile on their face and that's the type of businesses that I like to work on.
> I find the mistake they made somewhat understandable since they could easily have failed to foresee the consequences of their actions, but it was still a mistake.

Yeah, like arming Bin Laden when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, who would have guessed? Iran-Contra fallout? To an outside observer, it would appear that the CIA may have a sound tactical approach in many cases, but fails miserably at strategy and long-term view.

EDIT: oh, yeah, and Iran and the Shah (for the youngin's, the movie _Argo_ gives an ever-so-brief bit of background at the beginning). How could I forget about that textbook example of blowback?
I use Emacs + Geiser + Guile on a regular basis and it's the best programming environment I've ever used, hands down.
I think it's a mistake to try to explain everything in titles. Hacker News users are smart enough to look things up, and it's a good thing to have to work a little.
It's really not as complicated as you could make it seem.

Your Bitcoins just have two states: Spendable and not spendable. Spendable coins are ones that you can go ahead and make a transaction with right now. Unspendable coins are ones that are locked up until some event occurs—maybe they're part of a complicated Script, or maybe they're already part of an unconfirmed transaction.

It's not unlike how when you go buy something with your Visa credit card and the merchant places a soft hold on some value. That value becomes an unconfirmed transaction until days (weeks? months?) later. Bitcoins are similar except the inverse, you get a hard hold until the transaction is resolved.

Are credit card complicated? Very, especially when you realize how much of the arcane half-broken functionality is purely due to specific regulation thresholds. But we get by alright with burying our heads in the sand.

> Colored coins, while kind of fun, live outside the blockchain, so don't really bother me.

Depends on the colored coin, some live on the blockchain. http://coloredcoins.org/
Almost $800 million raised. That is a lot of money
Microsoft to Launch Sway
What: Healthcare application

Why Cool: By doctors for doctors. 'Nuff Said'
> If the numbers are comparable, then we figure brown kids have less value than Wall Street bankers?

We all know we do exactly that, even if we don't like to admit it. Our inaction is the proof.

There are thousands of questions like this one that we should have been asking ourselves for a very long time, but never did, on a societal level.
"View Course Record" is your friend...

And then you can download them with coursistant or coursera-dl and have them wherever you go...
I've been waiting for this to happen. Why? Because Samsung will fight this, and there's a 90 percent chance Microsoft will lose, just like they nearly lost with Barnes and Noble. But unlike B&N, Samsung won't back down this time with a settlement.

So this is actually great news for the Android ecosystem. Some of Microsoft's main asserted patents will finally be invalidated. It also doesn't help that all of their 300 asserted patents have now been exposed by the Chinese government, and Google and OEMs can circumvent them in future Android versions (governments should've never allowed them to keep the licensing deals secret in the first place, as it creates an anti-competitive environment and defeats the purpose of patents), obliterating most of Microsoft's Android licensing/extortion business.

This lawsuit also comes at a perfect time after the recent Supreme Court ruling.
This is a bit off-topic but how realistic is it to move to and live in Antartica these days? I'm asking out of natural curiosity.
I'm creating a web-based IRC chat.

Basically: You install it from npm and then run it, then you browse to http://localhost:9000/ and start chatting.

It's responsive and works great on your smartphone.

Repository: https://github.com/erming/shout (star if you like it!)

And of course, a demo: http://shout-irc.com:9000/

Edit: If you can't connect (Freenode only allows ~5 active connections) try "irc.rizon.net".
What: A service that promotes the use of bicycles and helps people to maintain their cycles.

Why cool: Most people nowadays use cars for shorter distances when using their bicycles would be just fine. If we could get more people to use their cycles, not only would we promote health but also lower CO2 emissions.
Ask HN: How to measure if a person is sitting on a chair?
I have restaurant biz startup. A big problem I have is how to measure the impact of my solution, i.e. measure the occupancy at the restaurants. Neither I, nor the restaurants have a good solution for this. So I thought this could be a business I could provide.

So my question is: which technology would be a better aproach to record if there is a person sitting on a chair?

Requirements:
- Must be very cheap
- Must record somehow how much time is a chair empty or with someone sitting on it
- Must be reliable

I imagine something that could be applied on a sticker. Maybe measuring pressure or something and sending a signal to a hardware when it is occupied. Then this central hardware keep track of the time it is recieving a signal or not.

Any ideas?
#knowledgebomb

Fully offline live-USB (Ubuntu) w/ offline Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, OpenStreetMaps, and other public domain / creative common sources, all running on OSS. Just download and toss it on a USB, then use it as you want. I think it's great for those that have/may-have an intermittent internet connection, want to have an offline way to browse wikipedia, want to put it in a time capsule, are going camping but want educational material, etc.
One benefit would be increased ability to navigate/enjoy complex social situations and understand implicit cues. It sounds like although you were "cured" of Asperger's (whatever that means) you may still have been very much an introvert. This would explain why it was draining for you to go and glad-hand everyone. Another reply to your comment alongside mine seems to show the same experience. The other perspective: I'm an extrovert and it invigorates me to go meet people, while I feel somewhat anxious if I'm sitting alone all day with little social interaction.
Autism isn't a disease...others don't even classify autism as a 'mental' illness. Those on the high-end of the spectrum may feel they just have a different brain, and a gift.
I wanted to be a medical doctor. I volunteered at hospitals, local first aid groups, I even took the prerequisites (anatomy, organic chemistry, etc.) while I was in undergrad for electrical engineering. My pie-in-the-sky hope was to combine my knowledge and skillset in electrical and software engineering, with medical training to create new innovations in medical technology. I didn't know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew the path I wanted to take. Heck, it's even why I did a Master's in medical imaging (didn't write my thesis though.)

I wrote my MCATs, got a 33S, which I was super proud of. Had a 3.5 GPA. Not stellar, but I thought it was good considering my workload and degree choice. I applied all over Ontario, in hopes of getting in. I never even managed to get an interview. I guess I shouldn't have bothered to believe the medical schools when they said they look at each applicant holistically. They just care about the raw numbers. I mean, it explains why the entrance average at some Ontario medical schools is higher than even Harvard.

I gave up. Sure, I looked at the Caribbean schools. Plenty of my friends in the sciences went there. My sister is there now. I looked at going to the US. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to study in my home country. I mean, I am who I am because of the investment of my fellow Canadians in me through their tax dollars. I wanted to try and start to pay that back, while also continuing to reap those benefits.

I lost hope in my Master's degree. I didn't see the point anymore. I became depressed. Things were going downhill. I left the program, and took a few months to pull myself together. I sought out help. I tried to go back to my Master's program, but it was all for naught; I couldn't get back into it.

I tried going back to what I loved: creating things. I fleshed out my mobile payments startup idea, went through a whirlwind ChallengePost competition, lost, but had a ton of fun. Then I taught myself to create Android apps, and took on a contract for a friend in San Francisco. Proposed to my girlfriend in Rome with the money from that contract. Took on another contract doing Android development in Palo Alto. Decided to go full-time, moved to Palo Alto. Facebook bought us, and I worked at Instagram for a while. I left to pursue my own ideas back in Toronto, having tremendous amounts of fun and success doing it. Got married. Have an amazing wife, an amazing place, and amazing family.

Like I mentioned, my sister went to a Caribbean school. She's in Chicago right now doing rotations. She went straight out of high school, so she'll be a doctor before she's 26.

The Caribbean schools can definitely give a second-chance to folks really keen on becoming a doctor. If you're truly passionate about helping the sick and injured, do it. I decided I ultimately wasn't passionate enough about it. I found my passion in my old love of software. And I'm grateful that I did.
Apparently, it's just been open sourced but it's not a new project
Science Exchange -- Palo Alto, CA

We've got a broad and meaningful vision: to improve the quality and efficiency of scientific research. And because we're still a small team, you'll be making a major contribution to the fulfillment of that vision from the moment you start.

Current tech job openings:

- Software Engineer

- UI / Frontend engineer

- User Experience Designer

- User Interface Designer

http://www.scienceexchange.com/jobs
Rust: http://rust-lang.org

It is cool because memory safety is really hard in low-level languages, and Rust helps you out a lot in that department.

I'm also working on a little product on the weekends. A CRM for tattoo shops. It's cool because it'll be a fully Free (AGPL 3'd) Rails app, and there aren't enough of those in the world.
It's really smart to ensure that at the end of a very long and pricy education, essentially every qualified doctor who wants to be a doctor can get a job as a doctor. Plus many med schools lose money or break even, and residencies are a big cost for hospitals, etc.
Twenty20 - Los Angeles, CA (Marina del Rey)

Twenty20 connects mobile photographers with buyers for their imagery. We’re disrupting the stock photography market by bringing an entirely new type of product to creatives - imagery of real life created by real people. Two years in, we’ve built an image catalog bigger than those of industry leaders like Shutterstock and iStockphoto.

Mobile UI/UX Designer: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/Xdz6YE/Mobile-UIUX-De...

DevOps Engineer: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/HUKIso/Sr-DevOpsTools...

Director of Content Operations: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/8tU58K/Director-Of-Co...

Sr. Search Engineer: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/P7dbhf/Senior-Search-...

Come join our awesome team!
The goal of VC backed companies today is to cash out as much "value" (ROI) as possible, as soon as possible. VC firms aren't meant to last; they're meant to enrich (a very select few).
Also, I have a suggestion (completely unrelated to my ramblings): could you maybe re-record the animations with some program showing what keys you press enabled? It would make them even better resource, I think. I only used this: https://launchpad.net/screenkey but it seems it's unmaintained; still, it could be still working. I know it would be a lot of work, but it would turn the gifs into self-contained mini-howtos, which I think would benefit everyone :)
A book and online course for geeks and other people generally less emotionally aware and skilled (like myself growing up) on how to develop emotional awareness, empathy, compassion, understanding and other skills schools rarely teach.

Also a project-based course on entrepreneurship to teach in the fall.

Also a seminar on leadership for General Assembly in New York for later this month.

Why are those things cool?

Because when I started my first company I had plenty of skills with science, technology, and knowledge and facts. I didn't know how to build relationships, work with teams, motivate people, and other business and personal skills I've come to find more important for business and other relationships.

I find very few places teach this stuff effectively. For that matter, few people think it can be taught or learned. Meanwhile people without these skills get promoted to positions where they'd help. Instead the run their organizations into the ground, destroy morale, and things like that.

I'm going to change that.
Please do not run your own DNS server if you do not have the knowledge or expertise to properly secure it. It is extremely irresponsible, and the article is also irresponsible for suggesting it and not having any information about rate limiting.
Thats exactly how I feel myself. I've learned all the social games and have a lot of friends, high levels of success both professionally and socially, but its extremely rare that I feel a real connection to the people I'm around. I always feel like I'm faking, and its somewhat exhausting to keep my face up. I was also diagnosed with ASD in the 90s, and had probably a 10 year old's social ability by the time I finished high school. I've made up for a lot of time very quickly, and I no longer feel behind but there is definitely something missing.
Russian Ministry of Finance has prepared a law criminalizing Cryptocurrencies
Yes that is 519A which is not the same as the one I found called just 519. 519A was published 1981, 519 seemingly in 1979.
Hah, awesome! I was talking with one of my buddies back from the Peace Corp about making something similar. Good work!
You can imagine this as a scrape of our website for the specific businesses listed (and their associated recommended reviews and tips, and the associated users for that content) on the date the dataset was generated (which you can assume is the last timestamp).

For more information about recommended reviews please check out: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/11/yelp-recommended-review...

Let me know if you have any other questions!
I agree, the vaccination part of the operation was a mistake. But if the information had been released in 5-10 years the effects would have been less tragic. There are reasons clandestine operations should stay clandestine, at least for a period of time. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakil_Afridi
Well, picking colors to paint a bike shed is really hard.
Ask HN: Is this idea even legal?
Ive built a very basic service which i haven't made available so its not ready for 'Show HN'.

I've put up a landing page and would love some early feedback and help.

One of the big questions for me is if this service leaves me open to being sued if its later found some information attached to an address isn't accurate.

Another big question is 'does this service make sense and seem worthwhile?'

Id really love some feedback please.

The site is www.safelysell.co.uk

Thanks
I feel you. The weirdest thing about it for me is that I try to hide this even from myself. I'm trying to be normal all day and think I don't even suffer from autism that badly, but every now and again it just cracks.

In a way I'm like everyone else. I care about friends and family; I try to be productive and make useful things; I like learning about new technologies. At the same time I'm also different and people notice it. They don't ask me when a group in class is going out to celebrate the holidays. I'd chicken out of this social happening and probably say no, but what bothers me is that they don't even ask.

Some vocalize that they notice something is off and I might tell them about autism and give them an outline of what it means. If I tell them I often also ask if they can put it into concrete examples of what I do differently. They never can.

But I'll carry on. I'm normal enough, I can pull through life and make a living. Hope to meet a SO some day who understands me. That probably means she must have her limitations too and I'll have to live with that, but in return she might understand mine and that's worth all the gold in the world.

Hope this isn't too weird a post for Hacker News, I needed to write this after reading about a fellow person with autism. Keep hacking.
Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
Open source project maintainers might also consider a lighter-weight implementation, a CONTRIBUTING file, per Brad Fitzpatrick's CONTRIBUTING project: http://contributing.appspot.com
What: A 3270-terminal emulator interaction wrapper for Node.js
https://github.com/Chris-Cullins/hllapi-node

Why: Because old school meets new. Also, it is fairly useful for my job as a CICS mainframe programmer.
Unit and functional testing git with RSpec
>Cron will schedule the job at this frequency: 0:00:00 on 2 Aug, 2014 0:00:00 on 3 Aug, 2014 0:00:00 on 4 Aug, 2014

Results are a little harder to read. This other site gives more natural sentences.
FIRST HUMAN CLONE? (Warning Disturbing Images)
Where did you get the impression that this is like the DMCA and all requests must be acted on?

In all the commentary I've seen so far that's been one of the complaints: that companies have this duty to assess whether the information is no longer relevant or whether the person is in the public eye.
I've been spending almost all of my hobby code time in 2014 writing my own personal web server, database, and web framework in Haskell.

My reasons are:

- I wanted to learn Haskell.

- I wanted to learn more about web stack internals.

- I wanted a web stack that was entirely mine. I know how every single aspect of it works, from low level asynchronous network IO to HTML templating.

Of course, the amount of time I spent frustrated by bugs in my previous Apache/Django stack will certainly be less than 1% of the amount of time I've spent writing my own stack, I have no regrets. I've learned so much doing it.

It's cool because now that I've gotten several thousand lines of Haskell under my belt, I finally know what "a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" means.
Web & Android are both listed as "Coming Soon" at http://www.timeful.com
Your careers page features only men, and almost entirely white men :( Disappointing lack of diversity
Awesome, didn't realize that! Will definitely be using it.
Don't think of MS as a single monolith. They're a hundred businesses of various sizes that just happen to share the same HR department.

> use tfs, some svn, some git, etc
you can go onto MS's job board and find Rails, iOS, and Node positions. :-D