skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I broke my version of this cycle by doing things that I knew I would struggle at. I think it's emotionally valuable to be out of your comfort zone and "fail". Taking up another hobby is a good idea, but if it is just something else you have to excel at to enjoy, it could just be more of the same. I went out of my way to take foreign language courses in high school and college, despite -- or because
-- I'm not good at it. I'm doing ceramics this year in part for the same reason.
Patents are offensive only. Even if you have a patent over your product, you can still infringe another patent.

The reason big companies want patents "as defense" is because they can use those patents against a competitor if the competitor sues.

A good example is Apple v. Samsung. They both asserted many patents against each other.

Patent trolls, however, don't infringe any patents. You can't hit them back.
I don't mean to be rude, but this is a bullshit perspective and a direct result of the very American imperative of "winner takes all", or "second best is nowhere", etc.

Dump the computer and travel outside the USA for a few months to a year, and you might catch a glimpse of life as it really is.

Life (in general, including professional life, BTW) is all about the connections you make with other people, not your kaggle/topcoder/etc ranking.
For those interested in investing and finance, I have a question.

Why would this news not cause Tesla's share price to go up?

It seems generally well-received (well, as much of an indicator as 812 points on HN is). Surely that's a good sign? Or did the announcement not live up to the hype, causing people to dump stock?
Most people I know don't let legality get in the way, but would very much like to not be criminals!
>> "Upon consuming this drug, you are not allowed to work for x years, drive, or be treated for health",

Why the hell would you be so nasty about it? This is pure hysteria.

Most drugs do not last all that long, are less harmful and addictive than alcohol and there is no reason at all to try to exclude them from work, care or driving (beyond the time the drug is in effect, obviously).

We don't turn people away from healthcare because they have the odd drink do we? So why would we do it with ecstasy? Or cannabis? Or... ?
> The original idea with SSL was to give out certificates to organizations, not domain holders.

FYI that's exactly what EV SSL does now - hence the company checks, and the green bar:

Eg, here's a regular certificate

openssl x509 -in example.com.crt -noout -text | grep Subject
Subject: 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=GB/businessCategory=Private Organization/serialNumber=09378892, C=GB, ST=City of London, L=London, O=example Limited, CN=billing.example.com, DNS:billing.example.com, DNS:www.billing.example.com

https://certsimple.com/blog/do-ev-ssl-certificates-have-bett...
> the campaign for "marriage equality" is deceptive and has only been concerned with marriage between homosexuals

No, its not. Marriage where one or both partners are homosexuals is legally permitted (and has often occurred) without marriage equality.
You should post this in the official "Who is hiring post" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 (160 points, 1 hour ago, 225 comments). This post will be probably ignored or flagged.
Roku - Sr. Software Engineer - Firmware, New Products
ENGINEERING - SOFTWARE | Austin, TX, United States

The Role and Responsibilities: We are looking for senior software engineers with extensive experience in embedded Linux, system-on-a-chip (SoC) development and integration, streaming audio and video technologies, and lightweight consumer-oriented player systems such as Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon. This is a senior role with a high-level of visibility and you must have a proven track record of developing and porting software for new hardware platforms from prototype to mass production.

See https://www.roku.com/about/employment for more info and an application link. There are a bunch of other software engineering and QA positions there too, but this is one is specifically in my group here at the Austin office.
GoPro | San Francisco | Full Time | On Site Only | Senior Backend Engineer

Come work with us!

You will:

* build massively distributed, scalable, durable, and fault tolerant communication systems and backend services for millions of software and hardware clients

* be obsessed with performance, code quality, and test quality

* be coding in whatever language/framework/platform it takes to get the job done right

Sweet skills:

* distributed messaging and real-time/stream data processing systems such as Apache Kafka, Storm, Spark, etc.

* experience engineering for embedded devices (you understand resource limitations of them)

* experience handling large amounts of inbound and outbound data on distributed platforms

* experience with multiple types of datastores (SQL, noSQL/KV, the ether)

* experience with machine to machine communication protocols/platforms/languages (MQTT, TinyMQ, XMPP, CoAP, cups connected with a string, etc.)

This Job: http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.acti...

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Adding more levels/features to the Algebra game is in our roadmap. Right now we are heavily focusing on the coming products to take the company to a new level :)
Best resource I can recommend is Yogi's PCT Handbook. She also has a guide to the CDT (Continental Divide Trail) and the Colorado Trail.

Yogi's books are really two-in-one, a planning guide and an on-trail guide.

http://www.yogisbooks.com
The 'patents' section of stack exchange was made to do something sorta like this. See the original blog post announcing it: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/askpatents-com-a-stack...
> But it's a big firm, they've got to comply with both UK employment law and the German rules too.

I don't know why this would be relevant. Excuses for why they are dysfunctional don't change the fact that they are dysfunctional.

> They get 1000s of applications, so they need to filter them, it's time that's far to important to spend on a developer, I mean they are short of them too.

It doesn't matter how many applications a big company receives as a whole. If you've posted a job posting for a specific job, you're lucky to receive 10s of applications, let alone 1000s. And given that a hire will affect the productivity of the team every second of every day for years, spending an hour filtering applications is absolutely a worthwhile investment of developer time.

And if applications are handled at the corporate level for a large corporation, the hiring process is fundamentally broken. That doesn't mean it's okay to have unqualified people filtering applications, it means that you should be posting jobs for specific teams rather than for the whole company.

I've worked at large companies where applications were filtered by a central office and it showed in the quality of applications we received. I ended up drawing from my local community instead and this was a big part of why our team outperformed others at the company.

> So I'll stick it on, probably in a format that makes it obvious to a technical person, I consider this an expansion of the bullet point technology.

You're only doing yourself a disservice by catering to organizations with crappy hiring practices. Good luck!
I was on cash payments since they introduced the referral program. There's an button to switch over but (like /r/thebutton) I haven't clicked it. Not entirely sure if they will force me over to credits in the future. It's been a really good program for me thus far, as has the Linode referral program.

Project idea: a platform to pair people with hosting credits with people that are in need of hosting.
I tried to write about some of this recently:

http://michaeldehaan.net/post/117078569362/the-philosophy-of...

At the code level, I'd suggest taking pride in the individual smaller bits as well as the larger bits, and side projects can help too if you really feel the need, but I also like the suggestion about enjoying other hobbies too, and then do really good work on working hours. You can do really good and robust technical work on some uninteresting projects (though working in a more interesting problem domain might be good for you), too - it's mostly about changing the way your mental evaluation function works.
At the moment, true, and Blue Origin is not renowned for their development speed, but suborbital is clearly just a stepping stone for them. Their suborbital booster uses liquid hydrogen as a fuel, which is a very good fuel but so obscenely cold that you don't want to use it unless you really have to. So it's mostly reserved for upper stages where efficiency really matters. (For suborbital a much easier, but less powerful, fuel like alcohol would be fine.)

And given that they already have a much larger methane engine under development, this suborbital stage seems to be an early revenue-generating version of a future second stage of an EELV (Falcon 9/Atlas V) class launch vehicle. And probably, like SpaceX, they will be targeting VTVL recovery.

This is actually really good news for launch prices, because without a real competitor with reusable vehicles (and none of the incumbents seem capable of this in any reasonable time frame) SpaceX will have no reason to drop prices much below expendable costs (other than benevolence). Blue Origin could probably field a Falcon 9-equivalent in a few years, and even if they don't the prospect should keep SpaceX on their toes.
I can't believe that grooveshark's actually gone. there was a time when it didn't work on our computer, and it was awful. Grooveshark's always been my go-to place for music, and I loved it. Now that it's gone, I'm super sad and angry. I had all my music on there, and it's all gone :( all I have now is what I can remember. Imma miss you guys.
Thats right, you are right.

Hard to get the common public to learn to read it though. After all, its better to have a weaker 'substitution cipher' that people can read, than pure hieroglyphic language (that only CS kids like us can/want to learn)

The interpreter wouldn't be hard to write, but how to teach hieroglyphic composition, on a keyboard? Tall order.

This is v1. v2 will have a smarter designer. :)

I designed it for to provide a single layer of 'glance encryption' to give people the ability to obtain ambient information from push notifications without sacrificing privacy.

The alternative is the current model: private personal messages on push notifications.

Working on making it better.
eBay Enterprise/Magento - Culver City, CA - Site Engineering - Local only - Full time

Magento powers 26 percent of all eCommerce sites in the Alexa Top One Million Sites list; more than any other eCommerce platform.

Join the team that delivers high quality websites for eBay Enterprise. Our oldest site is http://magento.com - our newest site (just launched) is http://ebayenterprise.com.

From developing new back-end features to pushing the envelope of front-end dev, our team has massive freedom to innovate and explore things that are interesting to each dev.

Our tech stack is mainly Drupal/PHP. You don't have to be an expert in Drupal, but CMS experience of some kind is preferred.

To get an idea of how we work, read this blog post: https://medium.com/@entendu/how-we-built-the-imagine-2015-si...

If you're interested, ping me @entendu and we can chat. The team will also be at DrupalCon LA if you're going!
How to check if your ISP is lying about your broadband speed
NASA's seemingly impossible space engine looks more possible after latest test
E-Indistinguishability – don't tell Google “I'm lonely” [pdf]
I was Idealab's first acquisition in this story (Twidroyd) and I can only confirm that dealing with Twitter on whatever level has indeed gone downhill each and every year since then. No comparison to the days when working directly with Ev & Co. Arguing whether that's part of growing up as a Business is part of another discussion — Last time I checked that numbers weren't that convincing.
> In other words, removing a pound of cargo can reduce the total weight of the plane by several pounds

Thats only true if a significant amount of fuel is used to overcome induced drag when in cruise. If most of the fuel is used to overcome parasitic drag, then reducing your weight doesn't significantly affect how much fuel you need to carry.
Location: New York or Brooklyn
Remote: Willing to remote
Willing to relocate: to Boston, SF Bay
Technologies: Front-end, backend, iOS
Résumé/CV: http://www.joemcm.com/
Email: jmcmahon443 [at] gmail.com

http://www.orbert.io/
http://padloc.co/
Hard drugs, like ketamine, the stuff they give children during surgery, a medicine on the WHO's list of essential medications.
PlayStation R&D Europe - London, United Kingdom - Full Time - Senior Web Developer

The DevNet team is responsible for helping PlayStation developers and publishers at all levels- from concept to testing to publishing and reporting. We're currently looking for a Senior Web Developer to not only help us both improve existing portals, but also help innovate to make the process quicker and easier for them.

There are more details on our job posting page: https://www.playstationjobs.co.uk/vacancy/1098-Senior-Web-De...

If you feel like you're a good fit for this role, don't hesitate to apply via our job board.
Webflow (YCS13) is hiring across the board: Engineering, Sales, and Community.

Over the past year, we've grown our community of developers and designers by hundreds of thousands, and we're gearing up for a complete relaunch of the product that will really change the way people build for the web. Check out our jobs page at http://jobs.webflow.com [1] or shoot me an email at bryant[at]webflow[dot]com if you're interested in learning more!

Engineering:

Backend - Build powerful data-driven applications in node.js and Go. Handle massive amounts of traffic and build scalable systems. We also use mongodb, redis, Docker, OpenResty, nginx, and lua. Explore new technologies like Amazon Kinesis, and InfluxDB.

Frontend - Be at the forefront of what people can do in the browser. We're transitioning everything to React.js - there is no better place to flex your Flux muscles than at Webflow. (Check out our design tool to get a feel for what we're achieving with React.js: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/interactions?preview=18d...)

Sales/Marketing/Design: Check out our jobs page!

[1] http://jobs.webflow.com
[2] https://preview.webflow.com/preview/interactions?preview=18d...
A German company is doing this too. Nice to know it's more like an industrial movement not just one company doing it. There is hope.

http://www.asd-sunstorage.com/
Chromium/Chrome have already proposed a step in the same direction, pushing your market share figure up to 37.4%. [1]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...
The US congress was supposed to be made up of ordinary citizens

And indeed they are, and this is the heart of the problem. They're just regular people like us, subject to the same prejudices, temptations, motivations, etc. We shouldn't be surprised when the motivations that are built into the system actually do something.

More concretely, we've vested incredible power with our politicians. That makes them huge targets for those with vested interests (whether those be corporation, special interests, foreign governments, what-have-you). The potential reward to them for getting influence is so great that they'll invest tremendously in trying to do so.

The idea that "public servants" don't magically become saints, but respond to the same incentives as do the rest of us, is the core of public choice economics [1]. There is, in fact, a fair amount of research and literature on the topic from an academic perspective.

From where I sit, if you recognize the problem as one where we're giving the corporations and special interests, etc., a huge potential payoff by finding ways to co-opt governmental power, then increasing that power to try to combat it doesn't make sense: it's just increasing the size of their potential payoff. It sounds like silly pop-Zen, but the way to get such corruption out of government is to limit the power of government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
NGP VAN - Boston MA or Washington, DC - Many Positions

* Software Team Lead

* Software Engineer

* QA Engineer

* QA Analyst

* SQL Developer

* Technical Product Manager

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products available.
We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing digital platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.

NGP VAN has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for seven years in a row, and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. We are a successful and growing company with a passion for our employees’ career advancement. We are an open-minded, flexible workplace that values learning and contributions of many different kinds.

Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

We are open to interviewing across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.
It's a hugely underpriced IPO in a bubble (Tech stocks average P/E is over 100). +/- 10% is the price limit in Chinese stock markets.

So rather than having a price jump, this stock continues going up with little volume, until the "real market price" is reached.

Edit: It's oversubscribed by almost 300 times. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL3N0WI22B20150316?irpc...
Uken Games is Hiring!

Uken Games in downtown Toronto is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Frontend Developers

Uken is looking for a talented Front End Developer (Unity) to become a core member of a game team. The role will create fun, performant mobile games in Unity, build beautiful, pixel perfect user experiences, and collaborate closely with UX designers, artists, and other developers.

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services (SOA) that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Rails and MySQL, but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, Spark and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is either Javascript (HTML5) or Unity.

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com
North Korea - illustrated travel diary (2013)
I think I am going to wear my Grooveshark shirt today.
So you create software that takes the mouse movements generated in software and sends the correct data through a usb port to this thing (or directly to wherever the device sends it). It's not exactly that hard, and hardware was always going to be a hard sell - even if it was truly impossible to spoof.
Maybe base it on how much effort and progress you're making instead of the immediate result or the current level.

But to be honest, if your worth is not based on your work, then what could it be based it on? Your looks? Your hair style?

I can't really think of anything more significant.
Depraved-heart murder
You used to be able to use apps like Last.fm which would add random functionality, but they discontinued apps, which made me ditch Spotify.
Location: Germany currently (Canadian citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Go, Frontend, Can learn whatever

Resume: http://john.ston.ca || http://github.com/DylanJ

Email: qdylanj on the google mails
I can attest that the methodology really does work - at least for my son. I bought it when he turned 6 and he was able to learn with just a tiny help from me. Thanks for building a great learning experience!
Location: Milan/Shanghai

Remote: Definitely

Willing to Relocate: Maybe

Technologies: I am mature enough to work with paradigms, not single languages. I love functional programming and I work well also with oop. (language of choice pythons and clojure) Work with either SQL and NoSQL

CV: https://github.com/siscia/siscia.github.io/blob/master/asset...

Email: simone at mweb dot biz

My main expertise is the back end, everything that happen away from the user is my bread and butter.

I am also available for contract/freelance jobs.
Have you seen http://terralang.org ? With a little work, your DSL could be generating stand-alone, statically compiled executables and c-linkable libs :D
Localhost will not be restricted. If you're making people edit their hosts file you can make them bypass any security warnings.
I guess this matters to me because I've worked at places where they didn't :-/.
Please please say you'll make one for statistics too. I'd totally buy even though I'm not your target audience. :D
Not exactly an answer, but I appreciated this speech about explicitly acknowledging the worth of others as intrinsic, not contingent on performance: http://mathyawp.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-lesson-of-grace-in-...
It can't go up any faster due to Chinese regulations
Drink some whiskey, smoke some pot, dance
So I recently needed a special cable to make some old gear work. It was only available from a single source and they charged me an arm and a half for it.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because the price of something has very, very, very, very, very little to do with how feasible something is, how much work is required on a fundamental level.

So what? Recycling lithium isn't profitable right now this very instant? Because the price is too high? Apart from the circular logic here, this means nothing.

(This kind of thinking is disappointingly common here. We will never get anywhere when we do some adhoc "price" analysis on every new technology and obviously deduce it's infeasible and should not be explored. Cars were economically infeasible back when you bought petrol from the pharmacy.)
Rob Graham seems to like free markets (great) but think US cable companies are a free market (plainly wrong). Thus he thinks that it's a bad idea to protect the internet free market from the cable monopolies. It's a noble cause, he's just not well informed.

Their staff might be feminists, but that doesn't mean they engage in gender discrimination. If you have something better, post it.
No, the idea would be that http becomes https with a self-signed cert. It shows as 'not protected' the way http does now to the user. It only turns green or gets the key box when it's a signed cert.
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Full-time: No

Part-time: Yes, up to 20 hours per week

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, Ember.js, iOS, Swift, Objective C, many others.

Experience: 5 years with web development, 6 months with iOS

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Email: nathan [dot] f77 [at] gmail [dot] com