skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about one for "I dropped DropBox in favour of an option with client side encryption"?

Wuala, SpiderOak, even GDrive/DropBox + EncFS/Ecryptfs/BoxCryptor. So many better options than DropBox for those of us with privacy concerns.

And for the more DIY people, there's OwnCloud, git-annex assistant (which supports encrypted remotes!), SyncThing and TahoeLAFS. Anyone know of a good sync client for TahoeLAFS though?
Show HN: Phishing Audits as a service
I'm very much a libertarian, pro-gun kind of guy and I'm glad this project project exists, but I do have to say I'm reluctant about it. There isn't really anything (that I can see) that can stop this movement. I abhor gun registries and most restrictions on firearms but I'm glad that there is at least a small hurdle to acquiring a firearm (purchase permits). Hopefully the trend towards more and more CCW holders increases as responsible people carrying guns will be a big line of defense against crazy people. See: http://www.reddit.com/r/dgu for a sampling of recent defensive gun uses, it is a very common occurance.
Location: Western Suburbs of Chicago (Naperville area)

Position: Sofware developer

Full time position, no remote. Financial institution that uses C#/ASP.NET to make webapps that support various financial services. We have a large application upcoming and are moving towards a REST architecture using javascript client-side and asp.net webapi backend. We're looking for a developer with experience in any client-side javascript technology (current line of thinking is to use angular, but open to alternatives) utilizing REST to become part of the team that designs and implements the platform. Knowledge of server-side factors of REST also desirable (ideally c#/asp.net/webapi but not required).

If interested, contact me via email and I can provide more details. Email is in profile.
So... it's a CNC machining apparatus? Why are people making such a fuss about that?
MedTech Exchange, Inc. -- Atlanta, GA

We are a small, but growing healthcare IT company based in Atlanta, Georgia. We’re looking for Front-End Developers who are passionate about making fast, scalable, and well-designed web interfaces for the healthcare industry. You will be utilizing the latest web technologies to solve challenging problems, create innovative web applications from the ground up and understand exactly what it takes to create an outrageously good web experience while driving down the costs of health care.

As a member of the team you'll be designing and developing new user interfaces as well as supporting our existing systems. As an early hire, you'll have the chance to build new product and shape the culture of our company as we grow.

We're looking for people with the following skills:

* Angular.js
* Bootstrap
* jQuery
* Less/CSS/Object-Oriented CSS
* HTML5
* Responsive design
* Understanding of UX principles and best practices
* Single-page Application Development/Design

If you've got experience with any of the following, it's great. If you don't it's not a deal breaker.

* Play Framework (Java/Scala)
* MySQL
* REST
* Object-Oriented Development/Design
* RabbitMQ (or other message queueing technologies)
* Automated Testing
* Linux Administration

Interested? Send your resume to hiring@medtechexcange.com
>> crude (and pretty dangerous) shotgun

> "zip guns"

This helps people make a fully automatic machine gun, an AR-15, not a single-shot gun.
Apache Cassandra on Google Cloud
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, PHP, JavaScript

Resume: http://lnkd.in/2N3qSG

Email: sharmagauravanil@gmail.com

I'm a full-stack developer with Java and PHP experience. I'm currently working on AngularJS apps and have just started working on my first Android app.
"A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation."

Love it :)
I am considering moving to ownCloud, but I'm in no hurry. It's just a few personal files.
How to get 100 daily visits
How can I get 100 daily targeted visitors to test a MVP landing page without spending money (or very little)? How did Eric Ries get $0.05 CPC on Adwords? I'm not finding that bids (not even with long keywords)... Facebook is also pretty expensive... Thoughts? Thanks.
Does that mean I'm not allowed to check my work emails if I take a vacation in Thailand or EU?
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote: Yes - definitely interested

Willing to relocate: No

I am primarily interested in making contacts with people in the startup scene in Toronto.

A summary of myself:

- PhD in applied mathematics from one of the top US schools

- Knowledgeable in machine learning, statistics, optimization, graph theory, data analysis, data science, etc.

- Expertise in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, financial data analysis, markets, etc.

- Fluent in a multitude of programming languages

- Experienced in developing web apps in Django, Javascript, etc.

Things I would be interested in working with:

- Functional languages: Scala, Haskell, Erlang, F#, etc.

- GPU or FPGA: Cuda, OpenCL

- Big Data: Hadoop, HBase, NoSQL etc.

Resume: cannot post here due to confidentiality reasons.

Contact me at randomwalk152 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
haha it's funny, this is almost always the first worry programmers have after we talk about Eve.

Don't worry, we'll make sure it works whether you use the mouse, a keyboard, maybe even a touch screen or voice. :)
dropbox support across EVERYTHING is why I continue to use dropbox for frequent stuff...

I use BTSync for "heavy lifting", since there is no cap on usage (other than bandwidth caps) but it doesn't run on everything.
I left Dropbox for Copy solely because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice.
Cambrian explosion
More like an afternoon on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHdV5slQps
While I haven't learned this in detail (I loathe the AR10/AR15 design), I gather it's quite a bit easier than that, e.g. http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=11004/learn/ Maybe six months if you're busy with a lot of other things. And of course a fair amount of mechanical aptitude is required, if you're learning that from scratch or nearly so (not the case for many of us in flyover country), it could indeed take quite a while. And more than a few ruined parts.
I dropped my paid account. I still unfortunately must keep a free account due to sharing with clients.
I am usually pretty insensitive to dick humor, but the mix of here is just weird.
Am in the process of switching....
CRUD using Backbone.js and Drupal 8
I left Dropbox for Google Drive because of Condoleeza Rice appointment and also because Google Drive has been much lovelier to use.
“What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law,” Comey said.

Sure, they're dissatisfied. But the roots of their dissatisfaction seem to be that they've tasted the forbidden fruit, and now believe that they have a fundamental right to watch our communications. Their fundamental attitude is that they should have visibility, and that anyone who wants privacy must be trying to hide something. It's just the old saw "you don't need secrecy if you've nothing to hide", restated from the law enforcement perspective.
Pluralism is dead.
What is the "..." operator? I have never seen that before. I can't find any references to it. Is that a macro specific to this project? [I checked the post above, but it doesn't match this source code exactly (and doesn't have ... as an operator).]
As a non-programmer, business/marketing guy who fuddles around code when needed - this makes me super excited.
WebAction - Full-time- Downtown Palo Alto in San Francisco Bay Area

Hiring Front-end engineers, UI/UX designers, and Big data platform engineers (java)

WebAction is building an end-to-end big data application platform for analyzing real-time transactional and operational data. We're looking for highly motivated front-end engineers, UX designers, and big data platform engineers. Our UX secret sauce is allowing users to build big data pipelines through a drag and drop UI and making it easy to hook the result set to beautiful visualizations. Our backend secret sauce consists of out-of-the-box, high speed data ingestion and processing components via a distributed stream processing engine (for real-time data) and lightening fast distributed cache (to collate real-time data with historical data).

Front-end stack:

-Backbone/marionette

-d3.js

-require

-LESS

-Experimenting/exploring where we can use react.js

Back-end stack:

-Java

-serialization frameworks

-high throughput messaging frameworks (ZMQ)

-lots of in house frameworks including our caches, stream processing engine, and others

If you're looking to work on some fun, challenging problems and deliver on the promise of making big data easy and engaging for users, send us a line at:

jobs@webaction.com
I dropped Dropbox for Seafile, and I've never heard of Condoleezza Rice.
All German universities free of charge... [paywall]
Yes, I did because of her.
Welcome to Life
+100

1. Powerful keyboard-based navigation/manipulation will be extremely helpful.

2. RDBMS-style tuples seem weird to me; why not objects? Quite natural to a layperson, IMO. If a "cell" can hold an object ({name: "Brown shoes", price: { amount: 254, currency: "USD"}} rather than just a scalar value like $2.54) a spreadsheet can be a lot more powerful.
PSA blems are $45 on sale. LPK for $45 and a stock kit for $60 and you have a complete lower.

One with a serial number, but there it is.
Pointpath Studios - Brooklyn, NY - http://pointpath.co

Pointpath Studios is looking for a motivated, talented, mid-level PHP developer with front-end capability. You’d be developing web sites, building web applications and solving painful problems for a growing group of clients, primarily in the financial services industry.

We’re a small team in Brooklyn, so you’d have plenty of control over your workflow, technologies and tools. Our focus is on the end user - quality user interface and excellent user experience - and we’re open to whatever technologies and approaches will achieve that. However, almost all of our existing code is in PHP, so a strong knowledge of object-oriented PHP is a must.

The job is focused on the back end, but some front end chops are necessary. We value clean code and good practices, but our primary interest is in your ability to execute and ship working solutions.

We’re looking for a new team member that is driven and constantly looking for new challenges but at the same time thorough in execution and attentive to details. This is a full-time position based out of our office located at the intersection of residential Williamsburg (yes, that one) and industrial Bushwick. We have a large loft space bathed in light, filled with plants and all the espresso you can drink.

All the details at: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/69059/web-developer-at...
SnapEngage - Berlin, Germany or Boulder, CO - Front-End/UX Software Engineer

This position is a full-time software engineer based in either our Boulder, CO or Berlin office (work from home office 2 days/week). As a front end & UX software engineer at SnapEngage, you will work with a small, agile, distributed and passionate team. You’ll develop new, exciting features for the SnapEngage live chat and customer engagement solution, writing front end code that runs and looks beautiful in desktop and mobile browsers.

What you'll do:

* Lead UI/UX projects
* Create appealing and functional UI with millions of daily mobile and desktop views
* Be hands-on in implementing designs
* Research and promote new technologies to help improve our development processes
* Contribute ideas to improve our service and software
* Maintain and improve existing functionality
* Spend a few hours a week chatting with customers to keep a pulse on customer issues and maintain a customer-centric focus
* Participate in daily stand-up meetings with our global team

About you:

You are a wizard when it comes to designing great user interfaces and implementing them in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. You are a quick learner, a dedicated team player and have a relentless positive attitude. You are authorized to work in the USA or Germany, have excellent written communication skills in English (additional languages a plus) and would enjoy working cross-culturally. Additionally, you:

* Exhibit a mastery of JavaScript frameworks like Backbone, Underscore, D3
* Have the ability to write clean, efficient code
* Can demonstrate experience with Google AppEngine, GWT or Eclipse (any of these are a big plus)

Awesome benefits of working at SnapEngage:

* Work from home part of the week
* Employee Gain-share plan
* Yearly team building trip to exotic locations
* Opportunity to make great ideas come to life
* Work with an amazing multicultural team

http://snapengage.com/jobs/front-end-and-ux-software-enginee...

SnapEngage is a fast-growing live chat solution for the web. We are an Internet startup born of the TechStars program in Boulder, CO with offices in Boulder, USA and Berlin, Germany. All SnapEngage employees have a stake in the company’s success and enjoy an exceptional work-life balance. Our employees embrace a good challenge and enjoy providing the best customer service in the biz. SnapEngage is self-funded, profitable and deeply committed to creating products that make peoples’ lives better by changing the way companies interact with their customers.

Come chat with us at http://snapengage.com if you're interested!
I stayed on as a customer.

I really don't keep magic lists of people that are cool or not-cool.

As far as privacy, it remains a concern, but Rice has absolutely zero impact on that, so the whole thing was not germane to my internet activity.

What concerns me more about Dropbox is this practice of giving away space -- but only for a limited amount of time. I bought some products and got a huge amount of space, but only for a year or two.

Now what the hell am I going to do two years later? Download 100GB over my satellite connection? They've effectively trapped me into doing business with them. That's the kind of thing I find much more objectionable than keeping a roster of who plays on which team in SV.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or on-site if near Amsterdam

I'm an iOS software developer with almost 15 years of experience in the industry. I have done everything from embedded software and enterprise-class databases to reading out custom electronics and mobile.

Besides development, I've done Linux system administration, including security lockdown, configuration of DNS (Bind), Apache, firewall, Xen virtualization, etc.

Currently I focus on iOS apps, but I can take care of the server-side work as well, preferably in a scripting language like Python, Perl or PHP. I've worked with local as well as outsourced teams in China, Indonesia and India.

Website: www.dutchvirtual.nl
Contact: bart at dutchvirtual.nl
Docker vs. Virtualization
You're right in this case. There have been a number of other cases where the whole software is open source (under a GPL or AGPL license) and the author sells a "non-viral" commercial license. Qt comes to mind as an example of this.

In this particular case, the author seems to be doing a hybrid. The original library is LGPL. If you buy the "Pro" version, you not only get the closed source bits but you also get a non-viral license for the open source bit.

The headline does indeed seem misleading though.

FWIW, I've been earning a living via open source software since late 2007 – I've just been doing it as a full-time employee at companies (SitePen, Mozilla and now Adobe).
Good article, lame title. Schrödinger's cat reference are now about as irritating as "Stay Calm and XXX" references. We get it, Big Bang Theory made a joke, let's not repeat that "joke" ad nauseum.

As to the article, the author didn't REALLY explain why showing lower/upper case when on the respective shift was "jarring." I will admit that it is outside of Apple's design norms, but I just find showing me an accurate preview of what will be outputted to be rational.

Fortunately the shift issue is largely solved in iOS 8 simply because I don't picture many people sticking to the terrible default keyboard. Google's default keyboard (called "Google Keyboard") is damn good, Swype support, auto-complete, multiple dictionaries, different themes, the whole works. Apple's keyboard is simplistic, slow, and terrible. If I had an iOS device I would install Swype or SwiftKey.
I support Condoleeza Rice and GOP, but that wasn't enough for me to start using Dropbox — Google Drive is fine for me.

Not everybody is left-leaning here.
TheLadders -- Software Engineer -- New York, NY

- What We're Looking for -

TheLadders (http://www.theladders.com) is looking for full-time lead software engineers with experience building backend systems using JVM technologies. You will be responsible for helping to set the technical direction of the team, mentor other engineers, and contribute to the design and development of our products. If you're interested, email me at aturley@theladders.com.

- What We Do -

Our mission at TheLadders is to help people advance their careers by providing access to information and intelligence about jobs, jobseekers, and their professional networks. From the user's perspective this is accomplished through our websites and mobile apps. Under the hood, we have a technical infrastructure that uses Java, Scala, RabbitMQ, Storm, Clustrix, Couchbase, and a variety other technologies to deliver useful information to our users.

- Who We Are -

Our engineering team is committed to growing and improving. We like to share things that we've learned on our developer blog (http://dev.theladders.com/), each engineer is given a yearly conference budget, and we have a weekly meeting called The Conclave where engineers share what they know and what they've learned in the last week. We also take care of our engineers, with unlimited vacation, comprehensive health insurance, and competitive compensation.
Webcam Shield
Location: Vienna, Austria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, redis, vagrant, ansible, chef, Debian/Ubuntu

Resume: on request and https://github.com/Sgoettschkes

Email: sebastian dot goettschkes at googlemail dot com

I worked as developer through university, co-founded a design startup right after my Master (Development, Infrastructure) and am now working for a spin-off as "technical guy" (mostly project management and product development, little development). Would love to get back to programming (PHP, Javascript/Nodejs, Python, ruby, Java/Scala).
Location: Slovenia

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (I would prefer to)

Technologies: PHP, NodeJS, AngularJS, SQL, HTML, CSS, Linux, Git, Windows Phone, Unity

Resume: http://goo.gl/pZ5vMB

Email: meznaric at outlook.com

My skill set includes everything you would expect from Full Stack web developer. I'm also familiar with Agile development methods such as Scrum. I would prefer to work on Frontend, but I am willing to work on anything web related. I recommend that you read through my Resume Summary (3rd page of Resume) to get a better idea of what person I am.
A client dropped Dropbox when it took 2 days to download their 10GB backup on a >5Mb/s connection. The new solution is an external hard drive for nightly batch backups + Cubby's DirectSync feature for multi-systems, multi-locations & real-time propagation without actually using the Cubby 'cloud' service they pay for. 3-2-1, FTW!

PS: They were weary of BitSync b/c of BitTorrent pirate news but the news about the celeb nudie pictures helped them finally come around to what I've been saying all along: RETAIN CONTROL OF YOUR DATA!!!!!
No, it takes a semi-auto 80% receiver and finished the remaining 20%. (And after that, "Some assembly is required," e.g http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=11004/learn/ .)

But if you want to be concerned, look at how utterly simple a full auto (simpler that way, e.g. firing pin is a bump in the bolt face) 9mm Sten gun is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten

(A semi-auto AR15 is a much more capable weapon, BTW.)
No. It helps them make a semi automatic rifle, an AR-15, not a machine gun. One pull, one shot.
It gets a bit annoying that a lot of Rust libraries are named something rust-themed. I was looking at which web framework I should use (between Nickel and Iron) and so searching "rust nickel vs iron" returned absolutely nothing of relevance.

I did learn something about metals, though, so there's that.
Location: Washington, DC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Node.js, Angular, PhoneGap, .NET/C#,
Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, variety of others
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zach-cowell/31/812/709
Github: https://github.com/zachcowell
Email: zachcowell [at ] zachcowell [ dot] com

Full stack engineer. Would prefer an Angular/Node/JS heavy stack for my next gig, and/or front-end work. Recently built an iPhone app that leverages the MEAN stack. View it at zachcowell.com/violations .
I "dropped dropbox" for privacy reasons a couple years before Rice joined the board.

No option for this.
Well, 38 weeks * 40 hours * 7.25 per hour = $11,020. Your total tax bill at a yearly income of $11,020 is very close to $0 (and with educational credits I suspect you would get back slightly more than you pay).
Digital nomads chased out of Thailand’s PunSpace and detained by police
It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.
I like Google's pricing a lot better, but it really does not deal with locking/conflicts as well as Dropbox.
Pluralism does not require that you continue to patronize a business whose conduct you disagree with.
Folsom Labs, San Francisco, Full Time Software Engineers (www.folsomlabs.com)

We make powerful design tools for Solar PV (think cloud-based AutoCAD with built in physics modeling). Our mission is to make these tools as easy to use as possible, which dramatically broadens the availability of solar. It's a unique place in the solar industry, new technologies desperately need software like ours to convince both banks and installers that they can have positive impact on energy production.

We launched to revenue in January, and have real traction and high growth, and we're still just a 4 person team, so there's a ton of opportunity. Everyday we get to deal with a range of problems that few startups get to offer – we have a modern web-stack, we need to use our cloud-clusters for the simulation half of the product, but also get to solve interesting physics/optimization problems on a regular basis (if that's your thing).

– Paul paul.gibbs@folsomlabs.com

[1] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/better-faster-ba....
[2] AngularJS, Python/Flask (API/Backend), Cython/C (Physics Simulation Engine)
I continue to use Dropbox and I'm pro the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as for the sake of our industry it is wise for us to have better political links to the US government.

(Politics is irrelevant to me, but power is not. The government can already twist your arm; being on first name's basis with somebody important will be invaluable.)

Edit: I thought we could openly state our opinions, but it seems I am getting punished with downvotes. Editing again because it's now going the other direction, but my point still stands: don't downvote or upvote just to normalise your own political beliefs.