skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jose Padilla was not kidnapped on the streets--he was arrested at customs in Chicago while returning to the U.S. It's also not clear whether he was "tortured." I don't want to get into a debate about enhanced interrogation, but this article describes what we know about his interrogation: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1565798,0... (solitary, sensory deprivation, extreme temperatures, stress positions).

Padilla was clearly an example of the Bush administration overreaching. He's the only known example of the government holding a U.S. citizen as an enemy combatant without charge. But he was ultimately indicted, and the length of his detention would've been a lot shorter if his habeas petition hadn't been filed in the wrong jurisdiction in the first instance. The gears of justice sometimes grind slowly, but in that case checks and balances worked.

If you're going to say "the government is picking Americans off the streets and torturing them" you shouldn't have to lawyer your way around each of the elements in the sentence.
How to Grow Potatoes in Potato Planter Bags
SEEKING WORK (Remote; live in Connecticut)

WordPress!

Developer and designer (5+ years), work out of my own shop, HetaThemes. Our flagship theme is MidLaw, a WordPress theme for small to mid-sized law firms.

Primarily develop, design, and customize WordPress themes, or convert PSD designs or HTML/CSS/jQuery to WordPress. I'm also building an app and run my own server (Ubuntu) as a hobby.

I've worked on complex sites for digital agencies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins). References available.

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS/LESS, jQuery, WordPress, mySQL, Foundation, Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Sifter for issue tracking, HipChat to keep in touch with clients. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can send you links to live sites I've designed and developed, sites I've converted to WP, etc.

Thanks for your consideration.
He did not reply to me. That was someone else.

Your remarkable impudence is a shame.

Edit: Also I - still - did not participate in any argument about gamer gate. I - still - did not edit anything in the thread you mentioned.

I can't belive I am even answering your tirades.

Edit2: Nobody in the thread answered on my post. I am on hacker news because I don't want to engage in hostile arguments and hateful accusations. Keep that for yourself. Leave me in peace.
Is this python for data science as well, or just sticking with general programming?
Thank you for pointing this out. I wasn't aware that his original narrative was inaccurate, him having taken proprietary source code that he developed makes this outcome substantially more tolerable.
Clumsy Graffiti Drone RUINS Kendall Jenner's SoHo Billboard
It's not on the site yet, but we're adding it so that it's public/clear.
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) | Boston
Engineering Intern

Deploy real-world code to production week one. Develop code and your skills. Spend some time in the sun, working in Boston and Cambridge.

WHAT WE DO:
We build KnowledgeHound, a data search and exploration tool, on top of some fantastic technologies. We've got a real product, real revenue from Fortune 500 clients and real investment. We're looking to add some more interns & developers to that mix.

COME WORK FOR US IF:

- You believe that work doesn't need to be all consuming to be productive and fulfilling,

- You are committed to getting better at your craft every single day (tell me how you do it!),

- You want to get your hands dirty in a real code base (sorry, powerpoint doesn't count as work here),

- You thrive on flexibility not micromanagement and

- You've built something real (class or side projects or previous internships are great examples)

WHAT'S THE SUMMER GOING TO BE LIKE?
We've got a backlog of new features/bugs, and we're overhauling one of our major systems. We want you to join hands with the rest of our tech team and deliver production code. Just like everyone else, you'll pull a new bug/feature from the queue, work with anyone else necessary (e.g. our world-class designer, Joe) and put together a pull request. I'll be a personal resource and I'm dedicated to learning and to teaching. If you hit a snag or don't know the best way to do something, we'll work on it together.

We are a collaborative team. We count on everyone to think critically, bring ideas for improvements and champion those ideas. In other words, "We do pay you to think." Be a part of designing our product and our business.

WHERE IS THIS PLACE?
I'm currently our entire Boston office (there are another half a dozen of us at the home office in Chicago and one on the West coast). On that account, we don't have a permanent office here yet. I'm planning to spend the summer working from co-working spaces, coffee shops, home, and places in the sun. I like to alternate between working surrounded by great people and taking a full day somewhere quiet to knock out some "real work" (writing code). If that sounds better than the cube farm, email me (john@knowledgehound.com).
Jobs HN: Rudder Hiring CTO
Job Title
Co-founder and CTO

The Role
We are looking for a programmer to join our executive team as co-founder, CTO and senior mobile app developer. The CTO will utilize technical and creative prowess to build a mobile communication platform. To do so, the CTO will lead the development and maintenance of iPhone and Android apps, and will also collaborate closely on design, strategy development, and implementation.

The App
Rudder is the brand new communication app, available in the App Store, that lets users get instant feedback on upcoming decisions from their trusted circle of friends. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id925570269

Primary Responsibilities
•Senior executive in charge of development and technical strategy
•Lead ongoing front-end and back-end iOS development
•Lead Android development or coordinate with external Android developers
•Coordinate with external design talent and smoothly integrate design and development
•Manage outsourced development processes as needed; over time, build out and manage internal technical team
•Analyze application design and functionality requirements and translate requirements into elegant functional solutions
•Integrate user feedback and usage patterns into redevelopment initiatives
•Stay on top of latest industry trends in mobile technologies and design
•Create compelling, easy-to-use, device-specific user interfaces and experiences
•Attend industry events / conferences, both as a presenter/exhibitor and attendee

Essential Skills
•Proven mobile application development expertise, including published examples of mobile applications on the App Store and/or Android Market
•Strong written and oral communication skills; able to explain technologies and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
•A passion for new consumer technology and the emerging media and messaging landscape
Email me for more info: willie@rudder-app.com
Paperspace (YCW15) | NYC | Full Time - DevOps

We are building a large scale virtual desktop infrastructure built entirely for the web. We are looking for local (on-site) engineers to help us architect a challenging distributed system. Especially looking for people who have worked with CloudStack/OpenStack/Virtualization/XenServer

email me directly, dillon@paperspace.io.

Also looking for developers working with WebRTC/C++
That's the transition between the different sources of aircraft power i.e., ground power to the auxiliary power unit.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I am an independent mobile app developer with 4 years on my own and 6 years developing iOS and Android apps. Happy to start at any stage in the process. I can build out your completed design or help you figure out what needs to be included from the start.

iOS/Android/Windows phone apps of all kinds.

Example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vima-gps-run-tracker/id87185...

Email: clarky07@gmail.com
I see this product targeted at current tesla owners. A PowerWall driven supercharger in-house could reduce charge times by 80%. Today's 10 hour charge time is a huge inconvenience compared to a 10 minute gas station run.
Looking forward to your future games then :)
But you could run it on a combination of onshore wind, offshore wind, distributed solar, utility solar, and energy storage (ie Tesla's Utility Storage solution).
> My salary went from $32,000 to $1XX,000 (sorry will not disclosing exact number) but technology is the key.

more like #talkpaypartially
With respect, isn't illegal to declare a preference for a gender, sexual orientation, or race in a job posting in California?
Can somebody verify this? I'm one who used Groove Shark to discovered music that I really like and then bought it in an effort to support the musician (thanks big music, you just took away one of your means of extracting money out of me).

I would happily wear the t-shirt if I knew that it was in fact the most direct route to actually transfer money to the musician.
Pirate3D (Singapore) − Web back-end, front-end & native. Part-time, REMOTE, to evolve into full-time with possible VISA sponsorship & relocation to Singapore.

Our main product is the Buccaneer, a 3D printer designed to be affordable, sleek and user-friendly. The printer comes with native smartphone and PC apps to control the printer, and with access to Treasure Island (http://treasure.is/), our webstore for 3D models. The focus is on providing a one-click printing experience, where users can expect any object on the store to print well without changing any setting.

You will join our team over on GitHub, Slack and Google Hangout. The back-end uses AWS, Lavarel & MySQL. The front-end uses Ember.JS. Native apps are on Android, iOS, Windows and soon MacOS.

We are ideally looking for one programmer specializing in back-end dev, and one specializing in app dev (web and native), but full-stack programmers are welcome.

If interested, send an email with your achievements and aspirations to Kai at contact@kaielvin.org
Airphrame -- San Francisco

Drone startup hiring full stack web developer.

We’re looking to hire a Full-Stack software engineer with solid foundational programming skills and at least 4 years professional experience and has built several large web apps using different front end frameworks.

--Interesting Technology--
Scala Backend. Technologies include http4s, Slick, Postgres, PostGIS
Statically typed languages front end. (ie. typescript)
AWS skills a plus. Linux System Admin a plus. Devops skills a plus.

--Interesting Business--
At Airphrame, www.airphrame.com, Our goal is to deploy a fleet of fleet of flying robots, potentially 10,000’s across the world, that are constantly updating geophysical data (such as 3D point cloud sets) for mapping platforms, environmental & civil engineers, and other business who can utilize such data. We’ve been in business 3 years, have recently raised 5M serA, and have paying customers who love us. In the present, our data is invaluable to maintaining utilities infrastructure (dams, powerlines, highways, rail, etc). In the future, robots (for delivery, cars, etc) will depend on good mapping data to navigate the physical world - and we will be an essential part of that.

--Interesting People/Place--
We’re a small and highly skilled group who prefers working with top talent than at a big company. Founded by three engineers: Mechatronics, Unmanned Systems, and Software, you’d be in the first 10 employees. We have a young environment with offices in MidMarket SF and a robotics laboratory (aka adult treehouse) in Oakland.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please send an email to: jobs at airphrame.com, subject: [Position Name]
Please include github account or code samples
Career Page: http://www.airphrame.com/careers/
The argument is silly. The kids could also forget (or just not bother) to put gas in the car and leave it on empty. Yet strangely we manage to make do with gas-powered cars.
* Full Stack Engineers * DevOps Lead

TeachersPayTeachers - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com (TpT) New York, NY

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

I'm putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Application for all three positions: http://grnh.se/l56nvo

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com
We're hiring like crazy at Hipmunk in San Francisco:

* Engineers (frontend, backend, mobile)

* DevOps/SRE

* Bizdev

* Marketing

* Product Manager

* SEO

* Customer service

Good pay, good benefits. https://www.hipmunk.com/jobs
Feel free to ping me at the email on my profile page, or use the contact info on the jobs page there.
That's kind of the issue. There's basically two circumstances where I want to connect with a remote site:

1. I don't care who they are, I just want to read their content (any site I'm not going to log into, e.g. blog posts, etc)

2. I care who they are, I need to know they're them (banks, HN, Twitter, etc.)

The current CA system provides the second one, but fundamentally it would be nice if, with the lack of a CA-verified certificate, the server/browser would just encrypt the connection anyway.
Here’s what Silicon Valley would look like run by cartoon animals
I have the strong sense that the New York court system, both federal and state, are particularly corrupt. The NYC based bankers all look out for each other. If you're plugged into the financial scene at the right levels in the NYC area, you're untouchable, and anyone who affronts you is going down.

How else can you explain John Corzine is still walking free and Madoff was never arrested for years despite many people screaming there was an obvious fraud? Why do you think they had to extradite some guy all the way from London in their search for a scapegoat for the Flash Crash? These people have a mutual protection gang going.
Java FX Will Outlive Most of the JavaScript / CSS Frameworks
Purely financial restitution would seem to encourage a "double or nothing" response.
Help.com - Software Engineer (DevOps, Full Stack, Frontend, and Backend) - Austin, TX

Backed by $6 million in angel funding, Help.com is building the next generation of customer service software. We're looking for talented and passionate back end and front end software engineers with a few years of work experience to join our small-but-growing team at our downtown Austin office.

We are hiring full stack software engineers, a senior frontend engineer (Backbone, Angular, etc.), and a senior backend engineer (Node.js), and DevOps lead/systems engineer to join our engineering team of 7.

We are predominately in the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem, but have developed a microservice architecture that gives us immense flexibility in our choice of languages and tools. (We've authored code in JavaScript, Java, and even Haskell.) The engineers on the team make technical decisions and have full authority and responsibility for their work. It's collaborative and challenging, and very rewarding.

In addition to competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, and equity in an early-stage startup, you will have the opportunity to make an impactful contribution to both the product and the team. You will also get to work with some extremely talented and friendly folks who come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We're learning a lot from each other.

Email douglas.hanna at help.com with any questions (or just to say hello). Job listings and application information can be found here: https://jobs.lever.co/help.com.
Stereotypes are a form of knowledge. They are just a really low-grade form of knowledge. That's why they're frequently confused with ignorance ;)
Frozenbyte Interview about Trine 3 Early Access
I can highly recommend Dreamlines. It's a great place to work.
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com

We launched in February on the iTunes Store ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/mobile-search-david-vs-goog... We also won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team

WHAT WE DO: Vurb is creating a single app mobile search and sharing experience - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're delivering a cohesive experience in one place - an app you'll use every day.

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint + others.

APPLY IF: You are looking for a rapidly growing small team and the opportunity to take on significant responsibility and ship quickly. Examples of challenging problems that you could help us solve include:

- Manage and index millions of objects around places, events, movies, etc with blazing fast read-write access

- Develop search relevance and content discovery infrastructure on millions of objects and TB’s of data

- Develop mobile apps for not only scaling app performance but architecting the app to support a growing number of services and verticals

LOOKING FOR:

* Full-stack Engineer / DevOps - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend, devops. JavaScript, node.js, backbone.js, AWS

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Search / Data Scientist / Data Engineer - search, classification, ranking, ML, graphs, data crawling/processing. Advanced CS degree required.

* Product Designer - UI/UX

* Growth Lead - experienced growing consumer products.

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | jobs@vurb.com
How many SEO experts does it take to change a light bulb?
Yeah, that's the primary use, but there has been speculation here and elsewhere that a battery could be worthwhile just for exploiting the difference between peak and off-peak rates. This indicates that, at least for my area and usage, the answer is no, it's not worth it.
Iirc, EU issue directives. But it is up the individual member nations to turn those into national laws and regulations.
I very briefly looked into this. It seems to be the same reason that simple and obvious things like solar water heating systems are so expensive in the US, but not elsewhere: Lack of awareness & low demand but few installers who target the eco/luxury niche product at a high price. These systems usually get installed only in high-end homes.
Venezuela has almost no dollars. They don't have the money to import toilet paper much less multi-thousand-dollar battery installations.
I know it's unlikely that the EmDrive is real, and even more unlikely that the "warp drive" effects that some have been talking about are real. But...I really hope they are. What a world it'd be if these things prove out to be real.
Why doesn't NPM work for you? If it's an user-permission thing (which is common if you installed node straight-up), consider installing nodejs using NVM (node version manager). This also has the advantage that you don't have to sudo npm.
Term limits should be set. I think 12 years in Congress is about the optimum number: not too long to become your life, but also long enough to get "enough experience" and pass it along to the newcomers as they come in. That would be 6 terms for House Representatives and 2 for Senators.

Of course it's not a magic bullet. Many other things need to be changed:

1) banning corporations, PACs or any organization from giving money to politicians - only individuals should be able to donate and the sum should be limited to maybe $1,000 (allowing "NGO's" and such to give money is just a loophole looking to be abused)

2) making votes in Congress anonymous [1]. Votes shouldn't have "transparency". There's a reason why anywhere else voting is anonymous: it's much harder to get influenced this way, whether it's by money or peer/leader pressure (see invasion of Iraq, passing the "Patriot" Act, etc). The lobbyists can give you money, and then you can still vote as you wish, which over the long term it will seem like a less and less viable strategy for lobbyists.

3) switching to a much more democratic voting system ("approval voting" [2] would be ideal, but even the 2-voting rounds system that's used in some European countries would be a HUGE improvement, as it would fix the "spoiler effect" somewhat - but still nowhere near enough as approval voting does)

4) proportional party representation in Congress (seems like a no-brainer to me). The idea that 2 parties can dominate Congress/Parliament for a century seems ridiculous to me. Parties should rise and fall every 10 years or so, like it happens in Europe. That would put the focus much more on the issues and much less on "being on the Red or Blue team".

5) abolishing or fixing gerrymandering

6) maybe even regulating the revolving door issue (this one is a bit tricky to do, but I think other countries have some regulation for this)

I'm sure there are many other things that can improve how Congress works. The idea is to make them listen much more to the People [3] and much less to single rich individuals and corporations.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

[2] - http://www.electology.org/#!approval-voting/cc04

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
Yes, getting energy from a sustainable source of energy is the best way, but assuming you only use it for power outages once or twice a year, I am not sure it is worth the investment. Especially if you expect it to last a day/few days (if you are self sufficient for a few days you'd better do it all year long).
I also live in Michigan, and can tell you it will be a money loser for one major reason: the full cost of the system you install will be added to your local property tax valuation, as the state tax exemption on renewable energy equipment was nullified several years ago and never replaced. In my case I had $500 in taxes added to my annual bill, which outpaces the value of the energy I produce and creates an infinite payback period.

Wait until this tax issue is resolved, then it will actually make good sense here. (It's sunnier than most people think!)
IMO, Publishing results before peer review seems like a much worse issue than just reproducibility problems.
Let's Change How We Think About Learning to Code
The problem here isn't so much with the facts, it's with the prosecutors and polices eagerness in pursuing it.

They only mention it in passing, but the reason he got all that evidence thrown out was essentially that the police were acting on very little else than Goldmans assertion.

Then he got acquitted on what was if you want to a "legal loophole", but still (and even that only happened a few steps up on the jurisdictional ladder, even though the law clearly didn't apply to him).

And then they charged him again, with essentially the same crime. So the same people that can't manage to put a single Goldman dude behind bars are all too happy to destroy lives on Goldmans words.
buy on the rumour, sell on the news.