skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Max2 Inc - New York, NY

Hi! We are Max2 Inc. - the makers of the Scene app: http://www.sceneapp.io

We are building a way to generate and surface real-time information about places around you - Think of it as "Waze" for places. This is our entry point as part of a larger grand plan to become a bigger player in the mobile local commerce space.

We are small, close knit team of 7 developers (1 devops, 3 backend, 2 frontend, 1 floater) and 3 bizdev people. We are still in the very early phases of developing our product, and have spent most of our focus on our back-end and infrastructure.

We are looking for some really talented UI/UX designers to get us to the next level and round us out. We especially need designers that are adept as visualizing data streams, but are also generally looking for interface designers who are familiar with the latest trends but are not afraid to think outside the box.

We are also looking for an iOS front-end developer who can work with both Objective-C and Swift.

We are a startup in the true sense of the word - We don't have project managers or set working hours. We are looking for people who can be self-motivated and take ownership of tasks assigned to them. You won't just be handed down requirements or directives, but will be asked to be a part of the decision making process behind them. Basically, we want people that want to be a part of building a startup, not just work for one.

We are well capitalized/backed, so we can offer competitive wages on top of an equity stake. We offer full medical/dental/vision and an awesome informal working environment in a small brownstone we fully occupy in Manhattan.

If this sounds like the sort of thing you might be interested in, reach out to me at michael@max2.com.

Michael Salmasi
Co-founder and CEO
Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol radiative forcing
Flexport - https://www.flexport.com - San Francisco, CA - Engineering

Flexport is a platform for global trade. We make it easier for companies to ship products between any two places in the world.

Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of."

We have a tight-knit team of 7 engineers lead by our CTO Amos Elliston, who was previously co-founder of Geni, where he helped lead the engineering team that built and spun out Yammer.

Our business is working: We grew revenues 94x in the last 12-months, including 115% from March over February of this year.

We're looking for a senior front-end engineer to help create great user experiences for our clients, for our team and for our logistics partners around the world.

Check out our job posting for more information on the tech stack and engineering culture: https://www.flexport.com/careers

And please email jobs@flexport.com with your resume to apply.

Thanks!
There's a lot of crapware disguising as adblockers that unsophisticated users can fall for...
How to make a Web Developer ad
Yea i only briefly glanced at the FAQ - wouldn't necessarily classify it as a 'wall of text', but it was bunched together enough to make me not want to read through each line
I think the use of road names will depend a lot on the local governments (called municipalidades). Many streets don't have signage labeling them with their names. Much recently (a few years ago), the Municipalidad de San José started putting street name signage, bus route signage, etc.. So I think we will eventually get there somewhere in the future. Regarding postal codes, Correos de Costa Rica already publishes codes at the Distrito level (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Costa_Rica)

Plus, Waze is helping also. Every time I use it, I can hear a street's name.
Groupon Testing Online Marketplace Called Groupon Stores
> We need to change the wrong headed notion that dense urbanity is somehow bad for the environment. On the contrary, it's how we need to build in order to save the earth.

I'd like to see the capital/environmental costs of heavy urban development compared to electric cars in the suburbs and rural areas.

I'll drive a Nissan Leaf ($199/month) if it means I don't have to live in an urban area (I work from home).
Taleb is pretty heavy duty with these attacks. I'm a big fan of his, but isn't it extreme to demote Dawkins [0] to just a journalist? He's got a Phd in animal decision making (close to the field in question here) and has been on the faculty of Oxford for 45 years.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
Google Reader re-launched:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader-rises-...
There are botnets with hundreds of thousands of hosts in them. There are proxies and NATs with hundreds or thousands of users behind them. How do you balance those out?
A 'national emergency' that cannot be addressed by a lawful act of congress!
Taleb comes of as an asshole here, and a lot of the time really, but after reading all of his books (except dynamic hedging) i find myself agreeing with almost all of his core hypotheses. The Black Swan and Anti-fragile are some amazing reads.
StreetView from GoPro Videos
Uber driver arrested for trying to burglarize passenger's house
If a company is big, old, and sclerotic enough to have a formal performance review system, it's time to get out and find somewhere less soul-sucking to work.

(only somewhat joking.)
My understanding in the US is that a lot of the naming rationalization was done as part of the E911 location-aware service. This included giving numbers to properties that either didn't have them or at least didn't commonly use them (like summer cottages). It also involved, for example, giving segments of roads different names if they weren't connected or if they had multiple branches. It also largely rationalized cases where roads had different names in the USPS database and on local maps. (My house effectively had two different addresses when I moved in and I always needed to make sure local service people knew where was house was; on more than one occasion I was accused of giving someone the "wrong" address for my house.)

This largely happened before the widespread consumer use of GPS, but it certainly helped when GPS rolled out.
If collisions are not too hard to find, isn't the process just:

1: Steal database
2: find collision
3: authenticate with the input that hashes to the same value

What stops that from happening?
I don't think it violates it but maybe you could point me in the direction of which rule could be a potential problem. I'm using the official Google Calendar API according to their guidelines/agreements.
I'm a Chrome extension author and I've been contacted at least a half-dozen times by shady companies that want me to add some "totally unobtrusive" ad-injection javascript into my extension.

I've been told I could make $0.50/user based in the US per month. That would be a nice raise, for sure, but I'm not the type of person willing to sell out my users to make a little extra dough. Plus I am a user of my own extension, and I don't want ad-injection. And how long could one possibly retain users once you start injecting ads? Probably a steady decline until your left with the users that don't know where the ads are coming from.

Selfish plug to my extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musicality-music-p...
Not sure that comparing x-rays to fish oil is a good comparison of risk/reward.

People (like myself) take fish oil for a variety of reasons, in my case to lower the risks of serious heart disease over the risks it might contribute to prostate cancer.

There are even studies that show fish oil could reduce the chances of prostate cancer: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12540506

Ultimately each person has to judge the benefits/risks for themselves until better data is available. It's also worth noting that prostate cancer is increasingly a risk for all men as they age, fish oil or not.
The tri-state area includes a LOT of suburbs. Carbon footprint in NYC proper is far lower.
My first experience with an open source project was just a small github repo for a library I wanted to use. I noticed some TODOs in the code and fleshed them out. Even now, the repo only has four contributors, but the others were quite helpful when I had questions.

I have yet to move onto a big project, but it was a nice introduction to that kind of distributed coordination needed for open source repos.
Chef Delivery's CLI in Rust
All of that is hardly prerequisite for using modern C++ on a day-to-day basis. You can get away with just reading "A Tour of C++" and the Effective C++ books.

If you want to start writing highly generic libraries with the intention of submitting them to boost, then absolutely you should be reading everything in your list and more. But how many C++ programmers are writing boost libraries?
Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy.

Conversely, the feeling when I changed something incorrectly (without backups of the original file, of course) and the system error'd out during boot - sheer panic.
Yep: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6169380?hl=e...
Dietary supplements are, if anything, not low profit.
> He's describing a fundamental game mechanic, namely the way the series handles saves and respawns.

No, he's describing how a fundamental game mechanic (namely the way the series handles saves and respawns) was misunderstood by him to require him to "pointlessly repeat large chunks of levels" to get back to the area Boss, because he missed or misunderstood a separate fundamental game mechanic (exploration is rewarded with discovery of shortcuts that lead to you discovering that the world is heavily connected and you generally never spawn more than 30-45 seconds away from a Boss via the shortest path)
> These hashes, even old and obsolete ones, are still entirely secure for password like hashing if the password is random enough

Ah, got you, I'm wrong. Thanks!
Biggest omission is the option pool. The option pool is expressed as a percentage of the post money shares, and can range from 20-40%.

A 30% option pool would make the founders stake 50% after the hypothetical series A, not 80%.

Not to mention any seed investors, whose stake would also be deducted from the hypothetical founders stake in the series A. And by the time of a Series F', there has usually been additional dilution from expansion of the options pool, warrants issued for venture debt, etc.

If you're wondering, why is the options pool included in the pre-money valuation, when those shares haven't even been issued yet? VCs probably started this practice to make their offer seem more impressive. I'd love to hear any other explanations, it's a curious phenomenon.

EDIT: While its true that option pools have gotten smaller recently, that does mean the pool needs to get expanded again more and sooner, certainly by a series F'.
Announcing rkt v0.5, featuring pods, overlayfs, and more
Ask HN: Salary for remove dev in India?
(throw away account, apologies)
I just joined a new company and have inherited a remote dev in India. The dev is currently critical to operation, but that will change as the organization grows (as expected). The dev's work experience is rather limited. Some other contract work and an internship while they finished their masters degree. Only experience is PHP and MySQL.

I've worked with a lot of devs over the years and my opinion, this one is very green. Probably a good dev long-term, but the experience today is lacking which results in extra work to explain how/why to do things a certain way. Things which would be obvious to someone with more experience, but costs us time.

The dev and I want to convert to salary (currently hourly), but I have no knowledge of reasonable market rates for what I'd consider a "junior dev" in that geographic area. Would anyone happen to have any information to share?
We learned yesterday that 80% of water consumption in California is by agriculture[1]. Yet this executive order does nothing to reduce agriculture's use of water[2]. It only refers to use of urban water, lawns, landscaping, and cemeteries. Agricultural users just need to submit vague "plans."

1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/how-growers...
2. http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf
In addition to the radiation, which can also induce cancer, you don't want to go scanning for things without a good reason. The false positive rates would increase a lot and you'd end up worrying a bunch of people for no good reason. Not to mention, you'd then have to have secondary biopsies or scans for these people, and those are not without risk.

Let's say that you had a low-radiation source imaging device that only had a 0.01% chance of causing cancer (I don't know the actual rates, so this is just a hypothetical). If you only get the scans when needed, you might only have 10,000 people getting the scan in a year. That means you'd have roughly 1 radiation induced cancer, and that would be in a patient that was already undergoing some form of treatment. Now let's say that you open up the criteria for who can get a scan. So instead of the 10,000, you now have 1,000,000 people. Now you have 100 people that will get a radiation induced cancer. While each of them has a low risk, the risk for the population is still too high to warrant unrestricted testing.

MRI's are a different beast, but you still have the risks of worrying a bunch of people that may not have anything wrong with them. And then there are the costs involved - both in terms of $$$ and time. For each healthy person getting a prophylactic MRI, a sick person would have to wait.
As incoming CEO of Bannerman, I would like to thank Jonathan Chin for his contributions to this point. His efforts have been truly instrumental, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude.

I am excited to begin executing on our newly formed mission of making lawns safer, happier spaces, while also striving to make the world a better place.

foot stomp
SEEKING WORK - Remote (EST / UTC-5, but flexible about hours)

Full-stack senior developer with a bias towards Python.

Buzzwords: Python, Flask, Tornado, Django, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NumPy, SciPy, asyncio, BeautifulSoup, lxml, requests...

You can see some of my past projects and customer feedback here: https://www.freelancer.com/hireme/denep

hndenep@kaffeeschluerfer.com
Sony does own the .sony gTLD: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/request-2014081-...

More generally, as part of ICANN's gTLD approval process, if the gTLD being applied for is a trademark, then it can't go to anyone else besides the trademark holder. So there's actually a lot more assurances that you are dealing with who you expect to be dealing with with gTLDs versus random domain names on .com.
A beginners buyer's guide to drones
Last November I bought my first drone in order to learn how to fly. It is a cheap, baby drone of sorts but it has proven to be great for beginners who are looking to learn the mechanics of a drone as well as how to fly one. Since I bought my first one, 6 friends have asked for the info in order to buy one and the equipment needed to go along with it. Lets get started:

1. http://amzn.to/1Ei7q5c
The drone ($42) - trust me, it is a good one. This thing is nimble and fast. Don't buy the version with the camera - it isn't that great and you don't even know how to fly yet. You will probably destroy this thing and that is okay... and fun!

2. http://amzn.to/1x29wXs
Six 500 milliamp batteries and 6-way charger ($26) - The battery that comes with your drone lasts for 5 minutes. These can last 15 minutes.

3. http://amzn.to/1EiqyQo
Bricks ($11) - You can charge your batteries using anything with a usb port, but apple wall-adapters won't work. You could just use your computer but it needs a constant flow of power or else you could drain and kill your batteries. These wall adapters work well.

4. http://amzn.to/1MyNnl5
Crash pack ($15) - Your wings will get chewed up often. It is expected to have lots of spare props on hand to replace dinged props. Nothing compares to the feeling of a fresh set of wings on these bad boys.

5. http://amzn.to/1NTGCO4
Bumper ($6.50) - DO NOT fly your drone without one - you will break it. I know you will be eager to fly once you get your new baby, but if the bumper hasn’t come yet, hold off. Once you get comfortable, this is eventually something you can take off!

6. http://bit.ly/1FZw5eK
And last but not least a getting started video because I know you will be just as clueless as I was when I first got mine.

That’s it! If you want to add to or correct some of these items with better ones, feel free to do so. Things are moving fast and half the stuff above wasn’t even available when I started. Thanks and happy flying!
HandUp - https://handup.org - San Francisco

=== Senior Product Designer ===

HandUp is looking for a senior product designer who is excited about leading the future of direct charitable giving in the US. The product design lead is responsible for executing on all stages of the design process: from concepts, to user testing, to wireframes, to visual design. This role sits at the center of the team and requires close collaboration with marketing, business, engineering, and HandUp users. You should enjoy initiating small, quick experiments to validate ideas and assumptions. At the same time, you must be able to take charge of large projects, and incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders.
We’re a fast growing company that’s passionate about social change and are looking for candidates who share those values. As a senior teammate, we’re looking for someone with three or more years of product leadership experience and comfort in the startup environment. Our long-term mission is big - to leverage technology and the power of human relationships to fight urban poverty. We come to work every day excited to build tools that directly affect those most in need.

As senior product designer you will

* lead concept design to test and validate product ideas

* seek and incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders

* carry design ideas through to prototypes

* work with engineers on a daily basis to ensure we ship
the right solutions

* conduct user research and closely monitor site metrics

* manage product and copy feedback process and style consistency

Job criteria

* 3+ years experience on a product design team covering multiple roles (PM, User Research, UI/UX, Visual)

* comfortable and flexible in a fast changing environment

* passion for social change

* comfortable in html/css/js

Bonus

* experience in crowdfunding and/or social good technology

=== About HandUp ===

At HandUp, we believe that we’re all better off in a society where everyone can meet their basic needs. That’s why we created our company - to leverage technology and the power of human relationships to fight urban poverty. We come to work every day excited to build tools that directly affect those most in need. We’re a fast growing company that’s passionate about social change and are looking for candidates who share those values.

=== Compensation ===

$80k - $120k and 0.25% - 0.75%

https://angel.co/handup/jobs/48003-senior-product-designer
Google acquires XDA : http://www.xda-developers.com/google-to-acquire-xda-dev-rewa...
I really like antirez approach to building system software. Build it step-by-step, iterate and very soon you have an amazing piece of software
Dynamit - http://www.dynamit.com/careers - Columbus, OH - .NET, Java (Dallas, TX), but all other tech welcome to apply

Main clients:
- Panda Express
- Hilton
- WhataBurger
- Donatos
- Limited Brands

Get to sink your teeth into hot new tech, enjoy a very nice, new office space, and enjoy AM/PMs that don't under quote and over work.
Well, first of all Android has changed a lot since those early days. The competition has focused on higher-end devices to challenge the iPhone, not the low-end.

Second, it might be true that a single app could be more efficient as a native Android app than a web app. But regardless of whether it is (and I'm not sure it is - we would need to measure), the issue I mentioned is that Android phones have to support both native apps and their entire graphics stack etc., and the web platform and its entire graphics stack etc. Both because users can run both Android apps and a web browser, and because Android apps can embed a web view, so the combination happens even in a single app.

That fundamentally adds overhead. Of course, in theory massive amounts of work could remove it (you could unify both stacks on a single graphics codebase, and to some extent that is true on Android), but that might introduce compromises as well, and no one wants to compromise the high end which competes against Apple.

The bottom line is that Android doesn't ship super-low-end phones. That might not only be due to technical issues like these, of course.
The Assembly (http://assembly.com) community is a great way to get involved in building products. The community builds businesses together, and everyone shares ownership based on what they've contributed. (also, it's all open sourced under AGPL).

It can be a great way to expand your skills as a developer and also to gain experience working with designers and solving problems around growth, product positioning, pricing, and all sorts of other things.

[disclosure: I work at Assembly -- happy to answer any questions: austin@assembly.com]
I meant it in the brute-force sense, yes. I'm not sure how practical it would be when the input of the SHA-2 is random, however.
You can also install a chroot with the cli-extra target. This launches the chroot in a TTY with the `sudo startcli` command from the crosh shell. Instead of launching into a desktop environment.

Then I just startup a ssh server there. And head back to ChromeOS and SSH to local host (the secure shell plugin is good for this). This means my chroot is totally independent of any chromeos windows or crosh shells.
Detect Nudity API Automates Image Censorship
Anonymous Reveals 26,000+ Twitter Handles Allegedly Having Links with ISIS
Ah yes. MQ was the plugin used to create those patches, now I remember.

They stopped using? Even on the main Firefox repo?
It should be noted that Chrome (and hence ChromeOS) has USB, Bluetooth and even serial port APIs¹ for its apps. Though you do have to include the specific device codes in the app manifest, so it's probably not very useful for general purpose devices.

¹ https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_usb
Is this worse or better than "my ceo saw your profile" or we have kegerators, nerf guns and an xbox!
Redis is normally not in memory. Everything is written to disk and survives a power failure.

Memcached is just a cache. Don't store anything there you can't lose.
Wow. Fantastic idea.

Mathematica includes geometrical objects. However, scaling won’t modify an objects dimensions so scale and size isn’t captured graphically.
Any particular reason why? He holds a PhD and will happily present scientific facts if you wish to debate him in something.
That's pretty cool, although part of me is horrified at the thought of something else that touches the beer that I am probably not going to sanitize properly one day.
Reddit releasing a crowd game at /r/thebutton

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html
Could someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old? I feel like it went over my head. How does maths relate to altruism?
Apologies for the late followup on this. I was specifically thinking about natural selection.

Berkeley's Understanding Evolution website has a nice overview of all the mechanisms of evolution.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_14
It has specific political requirements that are not easy to satisfy in many parts of the world. We can do it technically, it's just that no one is happy about having a nuclear waste dump in their backyard.