skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an oddly fortunate coincidence, I switched PortableApps.com to using custom static social sharing buttons yesterday afternoon to speed the site up. It's worked very well.

The only tradeoff is losing the Facebook like button (which is kind of useless on web pages these days anyway) and the like/tweet counts. The upside is lightning-fast loading (just image links) as well as increased privacy for your visitors. The buttons use a single Javascript function to bring up a centered window about the size of the standard social sharing widgets using the sharing URL so the functionality is about the same.

It isn't an entirely new idea as I've seen a few different writeups on it online. My solution is based on ideas from a few different online sources as well as my own custom images and tweaks. I'm planning on implementing it as a standard Drupal module posted on Drupal.org for my own sites and including options for faded and grayscale buttons to better blend with alternate themes and not grab too much attention from content. I could probably put together a quick set of code and throw it on Github as well if people are interested in just using the raw code or working up a WordPress module for it.
Now this is a much clearer title!
After you make the Scientific Revolution win, and start the Industrial Revolution, changing the entire world forever, you're allowed to brag.
Location: South Africa
Remote: Yes please.

Im looking at remote contract work, few hours a week.

Willing to relocate: Sure.
Technologies:

16 years experience in Software design and development
Team lead skills, client skills, can write a spec, integrate systems.

.NET, c#, ado.net, windows dev, sql server. I lost touch of asp.net as it got too crazy and stopped being fun. I now dig java, jersey, jax-rs, java web apps for web.

php, python, html, js, mysql, curl, scp, bash, ssh, setup a tunnel.

linux (centos, debian), windows server

apache, whm, cpanel, jetty

Release management, ci, some simple ansible

Can do java Jax-RS in jersey, java web apps, java windows services, rabbitmq, jdbc, maven.

Resume:

Ask to see my full resume. But you'd have to be serious and email me from your company email address. I don't just send resumes out whilly nilly.

Email:

ihazthecodez@gmail.com

You got the budget I got the skills. Oh and you can trust me on your server, big guys do.
If you're looking to integrate with an automatic time capture platform with a RESTful API, checkout CreativeWorx TimeTracker. www.creativeworx.com
Swift Foundations for iBeacon Technology
State (www.state.com) - Hiring Android developers and more in London - check out http://jobs.state.com -

State is a completely new kind of communications platform, a global opinion network. A place where people connect based on what they think, not who they know. Its a modern semantic web platform that lets you express opinions in a quick and fun way that also provides enough information with which to interpret, count, and connect them.

Based in London, State is looking for people like you to join our highly skilled, energetic, and creative team working at the forefront of technology. State was founded by Mark Asseily (Rebtel, Skype) and Alex Asseily (founder and chairman of Jawbone) and is advised by some world’s most influential people such as Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt, and Deepak Chopra.

Lead Android Developer - http://jobs.state.com/apply/n7iXQD

In this role you will lead the development of our Android app working alongside our team of world-class developers. The app is highly interactive with an innovative visual style, and is a core component of our vision to create the world’s opinion network.

We have only just gone public with State, so this is a great opportunity to join the team early and to make your impact on the world.

Experience

You have created multiple commercial, native Android apps on the Play Store that have widespread usage and are built on top of web services.

Skills

* Strong Java skills
* Expert knowledge of the Android platform and its core frameworks
* Familiar with Git/Distributed version control, agile development and code reviewing
Familiarity with 3rd party libraries such as Dagger, Retrofit, Gradle, Robolectric, etc
Familiar with API design, networking, caching and complex modelling issues for highly interactive apps

Culture

You thrive in a fast moving, creative, and challenging environment. You are a team player, you can take initiative, you experiment - nothing here is static. Bring a sense of humour and help us change the world.

If reading this is getting you a bit excited, do not waste any more time and get in touch with us. We would love to meet you.

To apply please email me, Mischa Tuffield (State CTO) on mt[at]state[dot]com
Back down for me in Toronto.
12:37 EDT

Edit:
Back up (again) at 12:54 EDT
It's $4 million dollars.

http://bgr.com/2014/08/01/google-mystery-barge-cancelled/

That's a rounding error.
Is node-webkit going to be renamed to node-blink at some point? It seems misleading to continue using WebKit in the name when it's not been based on WebKit for quite some time.
Spoon.net - Full-time Software Engineers - Seattle, WA (Remote possible) - http://spoon.net/careers - jobs@spoon.net

Spoon's virtualization, streaming, and networking technologies allow applications of all shapes and sizes to be run instantly, anywhere. We're completely employee-owned, have grown from 15 to 25 full-timers in the past year, and enjoy being profitable and independent of VC influence.

Thousands of organizations employ Spoon to distribute their enterprise applications; tens of thousands of developers use our cross-browser testing and automation capabilities; and millions of casual end users have found that streaming software is faster, safer, and easier than installing.

We're growing rapidly and are looking to hire exceptional full-time software engineers, product designers, program managers, business development folks, and more. Check out http://spoon.net/careers to learn more about us and apply, or email us at jobs@spoon.net.

Hope to hear from you! Cheers
* Location: NYC, but very mobile

* Remote: Maybe, for the right company

* Willing to relocate: Sure

* Technologies: Python, Django, Hendrix, Ansible, Salt, CI, Selenium, GNU / Linux, Coffeescript, more and room for more
Email: justin@justinholmes.com

I am a one-week-at-a-time sprinter. I can get your CI suite up-and-running, help assess and bolster your unit test coverage, train your people, or any number of other
tasks.

Start here: http://jmyles.github.io/
i'm personally a fan of the chrome mobile app framework https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps. It's on top of cordova as well and provides some additional functionality from the chrome extension framework, like oauth support and some additional security features.
Any of us would commit suicide under the right circumstances. It looks weak and selfish when you have never had to walk in that person's shoes, but if you ever get there yourself, to lose all joy and humor, to be in seemingly constant pain and misery, to have all of your hope and faith dwindle to nothing, with no help in sight, only then can you really fully understand what it's like seeing no other way out.

If you want to help prevent suicide, rather than limiting methods and consigning many people to continued torment and suffering, how about advocate for improving some of the societal problems that contribute to people losing all hope?

Poverty is a huge driver, along with inadequate physical and mental healthcare. Homelessness, or being faced with it, is demoralizing and inspires hopelessness. Some of the hardest-to-remedy but most hard-hitting issues are always going to be domestic physical, sexual and emotional abuse and bullying.

How about we try to improve other peoples lives and quality-of-life rather than sealing off the exits and trapping them in it? If we are ever going to have a truly compassionate society we need legalized assisted euthanasia, available to everyone after a waiting period, confidential counseling and a finite period of treatment. We all need to be honest with ourselves, stop the judgements, and provide the same options that we would want available if we were in somebody else's shoes.
GitHub repo https://github.com/makeandbuild/ibeaconSearch

I've been experimenting a lot in this area but this is one of the first examples I've seen of using Swift to interact with iBeacons.
Freelance software is a ton easier than freelance plumbing. But don't take my word for it, and please prove I'm wrong.

The market is not 100% efficient, not for freelance plumbers and not for software people. One thing I do know: if I call a plumber and he turns me down for job 'a' I won't be calling him ever for job 'b' (which he might have gladly accepted). You build relationships with people that get the job done, not with people that are afraid to get their hands (literally) dirty.
A great way to check the visibility of your own profile is to view it in an incognito window.
Timehop - http://timehop.com - New York, NY

We're looking for backend engineers, devops, and designers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus

We write a ton of Golang and Ruby to support our recent amazing growth (see: http://j.mp/TimehopGrowthGraph - thats 6.5x since March!).

Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have MILLIONS of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second

We recently became consistently a top 25 US iPhone app, making us the fastest growing app in NYC!

We also just raised $10mm (http://j.mp/TimehopTCSeriesB)

Send an email to benny@timehop.com – let's chat!
New York:

I'm an architect for BaubleBar [http://www.baublebar.com], we are looking to fill following positions:

1. Product manager for business systems and shopping experience (e-commerce).

2. Senior and mid-level engineers for test automation (Selenium or Cucumber, Junit, TestNG)

3. Senior to mid-level engineers (PHP or Python experience).

Interested? Shoot me your resume: aleksey@baublebar.com.
MutualFunds.com and MutualFund.com Domain Names Acquired for 7 Figures
Hi! 24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit, just graduated from UCL (MSc Web Science and Big Data Analytics)

I have 2 years experience in web development in Python and Java, working both on App Engine and AWS.

I am willing to work on:

- Data analysis (Python and R)

- Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)

- Web development (Full stack Python Java Golang && HTML CSS Javascript)

- MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)

---

Location: London

Remote: Would consider

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Python (django, flask), Java, Javascript (jQuery, angularjs), HTML, CSS, R. AWS (EC2, cloudsearch, S3), App Engine.

Resume: http://romainstrock.com

Email: contact [at] romainstrock.com
Ubuntu (philosophy)
As is the NASDAQ

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
One thing that I don't think this article has mentioned that the customer is from the US. I think that alone gives them jurisdiction. As stated in the article its about who has control. Both the company and the customer are located members of the US so I think that Microsoft should be compelled to comply with the warrant. However if the customer was not a US customer I don't think they would have jurisdiction.
But I need to duplicate the data to pouch, then move it to couch.

My question is how do the sync myself. How build the log so it be usefull to this task? To be clear, how is the algorithm for this? Any hint or open source example?
I'm no expert but I see no harm here. In order to use symmetric encryption, you need a certain key size (e.g. 128-bit key for AES-128). How do you transform a password of, say, 15 characters to 128 bits? You guessed it, with a hash (well a key derivation function to slow down brute force). What they do is I think standard practice.

> but not increase the number of possible keys

So yes, if your password is weak, then it won't make it strong.

> while actually lowering security (since hash collisions can occur)

But I think you're wrong here. On a human password of 30 bits of entropy, there is very little chance of collision. If one collision was to happen, you'd still have a key space of (30^2) - 1, which is very much the same number.
> even if it was just a port of Redshift.

I believe the github-head version of Redshift has experimental OSX support, merged in mid-May. Discussion in this issue (with a list of merged patches at the end): https://github.com/jonls/redshift/pull/69
The stability of incumbents is an inevitable result of government corruption.

edit: The first company that is successful in a space will accumulate the money and the clout to keep competitors out of the industry and influence regulation to protect their position. The only worry such a company has is that a larger, more incumbent company in a related industry will undercut them by taking a loss, either through expensive lobbying or aggressive underpricing.

Since Reagan, the US has openly been reducing taxes and extending subsidies and bailouts to the largest companies, and finance/media rules have been gradually dismantled enabling politicians to take better advantage of indirect payments.

The reason incumbents have been more successful since 1980 is a direct result of government corruption, and is no different than similar patterns within other corrupt economies.

edit2: I forgot the incumbent option of buying the competition though the furious M&A that has also increased steadily during the same period, along with increasing weakness of antitrust legislation which encourages the behavior.

It's sad that we live in a time (due to computing and the internet) when starting or expanding a new or small business is less capital intensive than it has been in history, yet the incumbents have used regulation to make themselves more entrenched than they've been in nearly 100 years.
I've done:
1) Install extension
2) Allow permissions
3) Restart Chrome
4) Resign-in in Gmail

Doesn't seem to work for me. :/
Yeah, this is really confusing to me. When I freelance I charge a fixed hourly rate no matter if I'm doing a 30 second site that's all Django scaffolding or something much more difficult.

I also charge by the hour - so I'd take 1000 of those 30 second Django sites any day of the week :-) Heck, some good freelancers have a minimum engagement period in the days.

For a tradesperson this is even more imperative: it's far easier for me to switch from one project to another; our plumber has to load their tools and drive to the next job site. This means the plumber is always going to charge a fixed rate or risk losing money because they took the "$35 unclog the sink" job over the "$220 'the poop is everywhere'" job.
Maybe one should only use BaaS providers that promise/guarantee to release the source code as open source when they go out of business. What about Firebase? I hope they're better off.
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C++, C#

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2tIjBsHxwnWVHNpT2taWmVzbFk...

Email: ipotuzhnov@gmail.com

I've just graduated from the university, but have some experience in software development. I am passionate about new technologies and programming. I am looking for internship or traineeship with opportunity to get full-time job.
Thread has been on my radar since the last Who's Hiring thread on HN.

I'm moving to South London (Croydon) soon - I'll be doing some travelling in August and I'd like to start working in September. I'm currently in the process of preparing to leave Canada, but expect to get an application from me soon!
OpenGov - Mountain View, CA

OpenGov is a powerful platform that strengthens the bond between citizens and their governments as well as increases internal efficiency in financial planning and analysis. We design innovative interfaces that transform complex government financial data into approachable and actionable visualizations for citizens, journalists, and government employees.

We have a huge vision and we're backed by folks who do as well. We're 35 people strong, based in mountain view, and have raised $22 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, and Thrive Capital.

There's a lot to do
Creating new, cloud-based technology for an old-line industry is challenging, but also immensely rewarding. Your work will affect and transform governments and the communities they serve in new and profound ways. We recognize that recruiting and cultivating amazing people is the key to developing the powerful and intuitive software that can achieve our company's goals.

Apply at: https://www.opengov.com/careers
thanks for the reply. I indeed had not considered the login-aspect of it. I'm not working in the website/online service business (and neither do I use facebook) so this helps me understand better.

For the rest, I added a clear note.
Has it ever? ;)
SEEKING WORK - remotely or Prague:
Starting career as Android developer, I would like to start on smaller projects and build my way up.

I already did one fairly complex application (login, sending gps position to server, reading data from server, push notifications). Now I am learning more about Android and fillings gaps.

I am business oriented, and I was co-founder of web development company, but I want to go solo and be great Android developer and mobile UI/UX expert. I have knowledge of front/backend development, so I can do server side for mobile applications.

LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/YUH2zX
If you have any questions, or want to know what I did just write me: marek@ovecka.name
The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.
Location: Palo Alto
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: I have experience in web design and ios development.
Resume: Please send me an email for a full resume and chat.
Email: mathman290@gmail.com
Yahoo Labs Contributes to New Study on Servers and Seismic Activity
Demansys Energy - Troy, NY

Smart Grid technology company seeks passionate, motivated individual who meets challenges with tenacity and competence. We want someone who can completely solve complex problems under pressure and has close attention to detail, someone who takes ownership of his or her tasks and pursues uptime relentlessly.

Demansys develops and operates smart grid technology to better manage the electric grid by managing storage devices and automated commercial and industrial loads in real time. Our systems interact with the power grid control systems as a fast responding virtual power plant and are disrupting the landscape of energy production and management at the wholesale scale.

You will be given full latitude over the systems you build and are responsible for and have a big impact on how the company’s products are developed and operated. Reports directly to the CTO.

Duties:
* Manage Linux (Debian based) computer server systems using virtualization
* Manage complex WAN and LAN equipment on cisco and other hardware, Cisco certification (CCNA, CCNP, current or expired) is a BIG plus
* Completely solve problems, sometimes under extreme pressure
* Occasional travel to deploy and maintain hardware located in the field

Skills/Qualifications:
* Expert/fluent understanding of Linux based environments and x86 hardware scenarios, ideally with a strong familiarity with Debian Linux
* Familiarity with Cisco IOS based network hardware with a strong familiarity with switching, IPSec, dynamic routing, and serial WAN technologies (T1, frame relay, etc)
* Knowledge of industrial control and automation protocols and technologies beneficial, but not required

Please email inquiries to jobs <at> demansys .com with HN in the subject.
Good call. Just update the article and Helpful homepage. Thanks
I would also like to add that as long as each country follows this logic, that is they can only obtain warrants for customers in their own jurisdiction and that the company in question must operate in the country of origin then there is very limited ability for this to be abused. That is it would prevent say China requesting emails from a US Citizen because they have no jurisdiction of them.
South Lake Tahoe (Zephyr Cove, NV)

Informa Investment Solutions, Inc. is seeking both a senior and a junior developer to join our web applications team at our office on the shores of Lake Tahoe. If you love designing and building modern, responsive web applications that make it easy for business users to run sophisticated investment analysis software, we would like to talk to you. We’re an established company with actual paying customers and we want to make our little corner of the world a better place for our users.

We use standards-based HTML, JavaScript and CSS, along with state of the art technologies – Canvas, SVG, RequireJS, Backbone, Marionette, and LESS – to build cross-browser interfaces and advanced data visualizations. The backend is a mixture of C#, Java, C++ because we believe in using the right tool for the job, and we are regularly evaluating our tools to ensure that. Our development process is agile and we release our web products approximately once a month.

Our offices are a five minute walk from the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe and Heavenly ski resort is a fifteen minute drive from the office. As a developer you’ll also get your own private office and even though we mostly develop on Windows, all our developers have Mac hardware. We prefer to hire generalists who are as curious and excited about technology as we are. All of us enjoy learning new technologies and tools; we have a small team and each developer should be able to work on every aspect of the system.

To get a feel for one of our software products, just search for "zephyr ondemand".

Please note: these are full-time positions in our Zephyr Cove office. We do permit senior developers (5+ yrs. relevant experience) to work remotely, but total travel time to the Zephyr office can be no longer than 3 hours. If you're interested, please email matt.motherway -at- informais.com (and put “Hacker News” in the subject). Thank you.