skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Name: Vahan

Location:Montreal, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: python, pyramid, django, mongodb, mysql, aws, javascript, elasticsearch, linux, rest, saas, api, backbone, nlp, nltk, instagram api, amazon api, facebook api, agile, scrum,

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vahanayvazyan

Email: aivosha@gmail.com
The Best Photo Organizing App? I’m Still Looking
This is two fatal accidents, so far. There was widespread speculation in the space community over Scaled Composite's seemingly blasé attitude to Nitrous Oxide, after their cold-flow test fatalities.
DMCA being relevant or not, my understanding is that the takedown notice goes to the website's ISP (LINODE-US in this case).
I guess I don't get it. When you terminate the account you can stop accepting payments and auto-trigger a pro-rated refund. Then the consideration is "the service, while you used it" or "the money, while we accepted it", depending on which party you are. Can you expand on that idea?
It seems to mean go back from the committer to the project that is funded, not tip4commit's coffers.
I believe Flattr does something similar.

They will accept donations on behalf of a YouTube channel (or Instagram, Soundcloud, etc.) whether the content creator opted in or not and release the fund when the creator claims his/her donations.
I suppose ruby is the example where you have map! and map.
I don't know - the java stream API is clear enough IMO.
The Java8 approach was to allow mutating functions on collections and then have lazy-non mutative stream api.
As a java8 dev, I don't think it's so hard to understand that map on a play promise is non mutative though - I'm not dropping requests for typesafe to change the api.
You have some very strange and unfounded beliefs on all this.

There is no evidence to suggest medical costs will increase as a result of legalisation. In every instance of drug legalisation or decriminalisation recorded, drug use has spiked in the short term and then fallen back down to either pre-change levels, or actually seen a long-term drop. Deaths and serious illnesses will decrease massively as a result of increased ability to provide care and safe usage conditions for drug users, as well as controlling drug quality and dosage.

You'll get a whole bunch of people out of the overcrowded and SUPREMELY expensive prison system. It's not just the cells and food while they're there, it's the lost productivity from that person while they're in prison, and it's the exorbitant administrative cost of arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning a citizen.

Why would medicare providers test you for legal drug use when healthcare costs do not scale for soft drink consumption, obesity, smoking, exercise, or any one of a thousand legal things that could affect your health? Should office workers pay more for medical care considering the adverse health effects of their living conditions?

I can't respond to any of the rest of your post because I didn't really understand it. That might be my fault, I apologise that I failed to comprehend it. I took a look at some of your other posts on this matter and it doesn't look like a once off so we may be coming at this from fundamentally incommunicable positions.
Alfa Jango - Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI - Ruby, JavaScript, both front-end and back-end developers - full-time - REMOTE or local

We build startups, all day, every day. We are our startups' technical co-founder, acting as their CTO and development team. We help everyone from new founders who have an idea and aren't sure what to do next, to founders who have already raised money, have a product and are looking for a more experienced team to help out or take over the technology (one of our clients even went through YCombinator).

Several of our startups are doing very well and we need to add someone to the team to help us grow. A couple have won large competitions this year, a few are raising funding (in addition to the several that have already raised funding) amidst initial traction.

One of our startups also just got acquired by Edmunds.com!

http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/edmundscom-acquires-carcode-...

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We've recently grown to a small team of 6, and are now looking to bring on two more developers. We do most of our work using Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and other open web technologies (CoffeeScript, SASS, and more). We're looking for intermediate to senior level developers for at least one (or preferably both) of next two positions (and maybe some interns or beginner-level developers immediately after that).

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We also work on a lot on open-source. For example, I maintain the Rails jquery-ujs [2] and jquery-rails [3] libraries; Scott is a maintainer of the Kandan open-source chat app [4]; and we just launched Dynatable.js [5] back in December, which has now overtaken Datatables in popularity on Github; and we have several other projects in the works as well [6]. Our open-source projects have over 8,000 combined stars on Github so far.

We also each have our own side-projects we work on as well, including our company status dashboard (built on Node) which pulls from all of our internal applications in real-time to show how we're doing that week, an application which helps you record and save your important voicemails forever, and several others.

If working on startups and open-source sounds like a lot of fun to you, then you might be a good fit :-) If you're ready to become an integral part of a startup building startups, let us know.

Check us out (http://www.alfajango.com), and reach out to us at support@alfajango.com.

[1] https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs

[2] http://rubygems.org/gems/jquery-rails

[3] https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan

[4] http://www.dynatable.com/

[5] http://os.alfajango.com/
Yusuf Islam on His Break and Return to Music
Ask HN: Running SAAS Out of the US and VAT Calculation for Clients in EU?
If I have a SAAS product that runs out of the US but I have clients from the EU region, how do you handle VAT and things ? I mean for example, is the SAAS company responsible to charge/report VAT or is it the client that has to do on their end ?

Example: If I have a subscription product for $100/month, I charge the flat rate of $100. Do I need to figure out the VAT and then add on top of this $100 or will the client pay the VAT separately to their authorities in their country ?
> a great demonstration of how far human creativity can go toward solving problems, as opposed to the "throw more hardware at it" mentality.

It was an era where you got to feel like your existing hardware purchases had become brand new whenever some new software came out. I still remember the difference between Sabre Wulf and the Thalamus games like Retrograde; it was like buying a whole new computer even though it was the same one we'd had for years.

These days you can't feel any progress in software without upgrading your hardware. Indeed, the games that set new standards like Minecraft or Fez, are the ones where the limits of creativity has been pushed instead of the limits of hardware.
TripleLift - New York, NY
We're an adtech company in the native space and are growing quickly. We help website owners monetize their sites by getting rid of banners and putting a bit of JavaScript that will allow them to include dynamically generated ads that match the look and feel of their site.

We're hiring across the board and our stack is Angular on the frontend, Node + Java on the backend, and a bunch of Python/R thrown around for data analysis. 2015 will be the scaling year so if you're interested in working on tech that scales and helping build out an engineering team that scales definitely reach out.

If you have questions feel free to reach out - dgoldin@triplelift.com
Nobody is being forced to accept the money, and therefore nobody is being forced to interact with bitcoin. The money is there if they want to claim it. If not, no problem, they can just ignore it in which case it doesn't affect them.
London Trust Media, Inc. - Los Angeles, CA

We are behind the Private Internet Access brand (VPN) and are highly committed to privacy.

Our office includes a ping pong table, award winning rooftop pool, free happy hour from 5-6 every weekday and even playstation(fifa tournaments).

We are looking for:

- Ruby on Rails Dev(s)

- Java + Swift + Obj-C + JS Dev

- Not technical administrative assistant

Please send your resume to jobs@privateinternetaccess.com

We have a 4 day (@ office) + 1 day (@ home Friday but you're more than welcome to come in if you want) work week.
It's a very strong sell from someone who just cut them a check for $10 million.
MIT startups win big at MassChallenge
Well, I had a C64 and a C128 and I do remember using them. Am I misremembering?

[Update]
I guess there was an entire set of illegal opcodes on the 6510. Unfortunately, I longer have my source code; that shoebox is long gone.

The one thing I do remember is that it had something to do with registers because it gave my code a computer significant performance boost because I didn't have to go to memory so often.

References:

http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=illegalmnemonicslist

http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/docs/6502-NMOS.extra.opcodes
Depends on where you're going from, but the LIRR is rarely appreciably faster: express subway + AirTrain, vs. LIRR + AirTrain, both take around 60-75 minutes total from most parts of Manhattan. The only real exception is that the LIRR is faster if your starting point is right next to Penn Station; if you have to take a subway to get to the LIRR first you lose most of the advantage vs. just taking the subway the whole way. (Also, the LIRR is both less frequent and more expensive.)
Their ISP appears to be LINODE-US. But the other commenters are right that DMCA probably does not apply to trademarks.
> The ethical question is if drug use would go up and thus a legalise-drugs policy would be guilty of leading people down a bad and potentially deadly path.

Depends on the drug. Drugs can be objectively ranked based on the harm they do to users and others. For example, heroin is worst, alcohol is the second worst (so I've heard Dr David Nutt proclaim), crack third.

If less harmful drugs are used as substitutes for more harmful drugs -- cannabis in lieu of alcohol, for example -- the path will be 'good' and less deadly.

Alcohol related deaths each year are around 3 million, in the UK. Tobacco related deaths around 6 million...

I don't believe there's any amount of evidence that would move the current UK government on the legal status of cannabis et al. The only way drugs less dangerous than the current legalised drugs will be made legal is if most of the world legalises them first; thus, highlighting Britain's current draconian stance.

Alternatively, a political party such as the Liberal Democrats could come to power (unlikely!).

There's an 'interesting' logic used with drug such as cannabis, in Blighty:

* Illegal drugs are dangerous.
* Cannabis is illegal, therefore cannabis is dangerous

On marijuana legalisation, I'm looking forward to the upcoming second wave of votes in the US.

If you get a chance to vote, please do! It has consequences not just for your state, but for the rest of the world.
Not sure if this matters but I realized that DigitalOcean recycles droplets i.e. they re-assign a same IP to a new client taking it from a previous client who might have left/deleted their account. It happened to me actually. Of course, that may not be a big deal but I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic from a certain domain that still points to my IP (they probably had that droplet IP before).
I don't like that but DO said there is nothing tehy can do because the domain owner has to change the nameservers.
Matchmaking for martial arts students and instructors
A website that will match martial arts students with instructors, personal trainers, gyms and disciplines depending on user preferences, experience, location, and other personalized filters.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1624651835/matched-martial-arts
Location: Vancouver, BC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: LAMP, JS, Meteor.js, Python, Celery, Java, Android
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkim1
Email: john@appsonify.com
Github: http://github.com/jjk3
Historically and in political science literature, "republic" IS synonymous with "representative democracy". In the 20th century autocratic/oligarchical/fascist states adopted "Republic" to sound democratic, and that use is becoming more common.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2011/09/republic-or-repr...

we regard the terms “republic” and “representative democracy” as being interchangeable, as does the political science literature.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/163158?redirectedFrom=republic...
a. A state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; spec. a state without a monarchy. Also: a government, or system of government, of such a state; a period of government of this type.The term is often (esp. in the 18th and 19th centuries) taken to imply a state with a democratic or representative constitution and without a hereditary nobility, but more recently it has also been used of autocratic or dictatorial states not ruled by a monarch. It is now chiefly used to denote any non-monarchical state headed by an elected or appointed president.
The Client’s Guide to What It Actually Takes to Create a Website
Yeah not really that much of a distinction these days. People have built just about anything on WordPress. Community & ecommerce are both covered pretty solidly by the plugin ecosystem.
Location: Oklahoma City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes! (particularly interested in west coast)

Technologies:

- Lots of expertise - PHP, iOS/Objective-C, JavaScript, HTML, Bootstrap, CSS/LESS/SASS, MySQL, MariaDB+TokuDB (big data SQL), PostgreSQL

- Learning - Natural Language Processing, Voice-Enabled Interfaces, Python

- Want to learn - Python, Node.js, Angular, Backbone

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/un50nxpyuw79hnq/DanielSposito%20-%...

Email: daniel.g.sposito AT gmail.com

GitHub: http://github.com/dsposito

Website (Projects): http://danielsposito.com
You can even hear the audience falter on a clap when he switches
Except you know it would be a complete balls up, of course. Rodney would be all excited about the idea of Bitcoin, convince Del Boy on it, and then they'd start up their own TITcoin (Trotter's Independent Traders, of course) which would totally fall on its arse ;-)
Shoefitr - Software Engineer - Pittsburgh, PA

1 in 3 shoes bought online is returned, and 65% of the time it's for fit-related reasons. We think that's super lame. That's why we make software that helps online shoppers get the right size the first time. Our customers include Nordstrom, New Balance, and Netshoes.com, and our app is served to more than 15 million uniques / month. We’re looking for a talented, full-stack engineers to help us shape the future of Internet apparel retail.

You will join a talented engineering and design team that has worked on everything from Microsoft's C++ compiler to the Linux TCP implementation. We think you'll learn a lot from us, and we look forward to learning a lot from you.

You’ll work with us to build out our product offering for footwear and apparel retailers as well as a stand-alone retail site. You’ll be responsible for architecting, implementing, testing, and deploying new features and applications. We expect you to be a "full-stack" programmer – someone who’s comfortable hacking in Javascript one day and C# the next.

Please apply at http://shoefitr.com/careers.php
LIVESTREAM is hiring an electronics engineer at their Bushwick Brooklyn, NYC HQ.

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Livestream's mission is to democratize live video broadcasting and provide the tools to bring every event live online.

We are expanding our in-house hardware capabilities and designing new and exciting hardware products! We are looking for a talented and passionate electronics engineer (with firmware/software dev experience preferred) to join our team. You can see some of our products here http://new.livestream.com/broadcast

*

Full job description and apply here http://livestream.theresumator.com/apply/jjuwX8/Electronics-...
I hear you were worried about the setup and safety and I think that's worth considering when you observe things that are new and unfamiliar. I run into it all the time myself: Ebola for example. However, I do think we, as humans, use FUD to project our concerns onto others so they will share the feelings we have. It's an often times necessary habit we must practice in person that doesn't translate well to the Internet. An ad hominem argument is one that attacks a person (or thing) based on a casual connection (or sometimes no connecton/strawman). In a way, make up a story based on the fears is ad hominem because it is only loosely related to the subject matter.

I'm sorry this mad you sad. That was not my intent.
Huh, what's with the down votes?
Fundamentally, we don't know where our resources would be best spent. We need to try all the things.

The biggest lever we've got right now is computation, so yeah maybe it would be more efficient to develop AI / IA first and then mass space travel, but we can't be sure.

Also, fundamentally we can accept a few billion deaths. That sounds and is grotesque, but it wouldn't be the end of humanity. I don't see how climate change kills us all in the next 100-500 years.
And brings LibreSSL:
- This release forks OpenSSL into LibreSSL, a version of the TLS/crypto stack with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.
Looking for a junior product management position.

Location: New York
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Objective-C, Java, Python, Haskell, Photoshop, Illustrator
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshrael
Email: joshuarael [at] gmail [dot] com
NYC. Superstar, OpenSource Loving Engineer w/ Node.js experience at Electronifie

http://bit.ly/13rU1dp

We're building the world's first corporate bond trading platform in Node.js. Why is that interesting? Turns out the corporate bond market is a 10 Trillion dollar market that still works like it did in 1978, with traders calling each other up on the phone. Modernization that happened in equities never made it to the bond market. All the biggest players are calling for new solutions (http://bit.ly/1tLXFZq) and that's exactly what we're building. The incumbents in this space are big, slow moving, enterprises with six to twelve month release cycles and a fear of Open Source software. We push out updates and new features within days and are releasing our own tools back to the community.

Want to solve amazingly exciting problems with a small team of very experienced engineers? Want to help disrupt FinTech by leveraging OpenSource tools and running circles around the competition?

Come join us.
SalesWise - Atlanta [Atlanta Tech Village in Buckhead] - Fulltime, but interns OK.

Space: Sales is the singularly most important function of any Company. Many new products and platforms have been created to help sales organizations with these changes but sales reps and sales managers lack a compelling, easy to use, interface to organize, visualize, and share data about their prospects and sales performance.

Solution: We are building a sales platform that automatically interfaces and integrates with all backend sales systems and tools (CRM, Email, Calendar, Social, etc). Our initial product radically simplifies how sales reps organize and interact with the prospect/buyers It’s an elegantly-designed product adapted to let them efficiently sell to their prospects without the headaches of CRM entry or spreadsheets.

We’re an Atlanta startup looking for passionate hackers that love building amazing, technically-difficult products that make huge impact on people’s lives. We’re a small team with a strong background: a wildly successful serial entrepreneur that can’t stop and a passionate ex-Googler that lives on the forefront of tech.

You:
- Love the full stack. It’s OK if you don’t have chops in every technology that we’re using, but you should genuinely be eager about learning. Here’s what comprises our stack: AngularJS, Meteor, Go (aka Golang), IPython (data science).

- Look forward to building and owning huge parts of the product. You’ll be one of the first technical hires and there are a lot of exciting pieces to work on, lets chat and we can find the right fit for you.

- Love to get going -- have the mentality of a hacker and the quality of a pro.

- Yearn for the high rewards of an early stage startup. Lucky for you, not so much risk as we have a great comp plan lined up for you.

- Want to influence and grow the culture of a young company. The way we see it: We’re building something of immense value, let’s have fun doing it.

- Live in Atlanta, or can make the move.

- Are full-time, part-time or looking for an internship. If you’re a rockstar, we don’t care what your deal is, let’s get you on board!

Get in touch: jason@saleswise.com
Just a tip - you should say where in California. It's a big state ;)
Seems to work well when the app is open, what about background modes?
For anyone unfamiliar, Springleaf is most politely known as a "subprime" lender.
0.6% is still a lot of money. I'm not sure who the US does it's budgets, but in other countries the politicians are fighting over perhaps 1 - 5% of the actual budget, the rest is fixed. The Danish government has a budget of around 1 trillion Danish kroner, but the actual negotiations in parliament only revolves around 5 - 10 billion.

Missing 0.6% pretty much removes the entire bargaining platform.
In Finland all kickstarter style fundraisers are explicitly illegal, so is this. Basically any collection of money requires a special permit that is only handed to certain charitable causes etc. Otherwise it's paid work and has totally different rules governing it.

In this case the person would have to prove that they're not involved with tip4commit. Quite likely the prosecutor would simply say that you're cheating and are trying to circumvent the law this way. Because how improbable it is that someone would collect money for you even if you wouldn't want to?

So yeah. In some countries it might become a big problem.
Bountysource[1] seems to be even closer, not sure if that got any such complaints.

[1]: https://www.bountysource.com/
Good catch, all they are using is the project name. =( I guess a license addendum would have no effect.
Do you offer an internship program over the Summer?
> Signups from Tor on the other hand always require phone verification.

If you use Tor, what's the point in providing a phone number. All that does is give Google data that can be subpoena'd by the feds. :(
There are so many structural / societal problems in the way of feeding the poor that it's not a very interesting problem. You would have to re-engineer our society and power-structures.

Better to make incremental progress on poverty, without constraining the innovators to work on problems that don't interest them, or that seem even more intractable than e.g. space travel or AI.
I think the issue here might be Bitcoin. Many sites that deal in Bitcoin get "hacked" and the balances disappear, allegedly into the site operators' pockets.
Your focus on the software and license (which continues in your clarification) is more a demonstration that you haven't understood the situation than it is disagreement with anything being discussed. The complaint is Please remove my repositories from the website and do not add a way to add them again. I do not value third party websites gameifying my projects, but where it says "repositories", it is not talking about copies of the software, it is talking about listings on tip4commit.com that look(ed!) like they were collecting donations for mitsuhiko/*.

Maybe my other replies will make more sense in that light.

(the (ed!) is because they at least have stuck up a disclaimer saying the projects don't like the funding)