skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little more digging... here's what I think is going on, and it's sad.

I've pieced this together based on Google searches.

Sails was started by Mike McNeil, who also started a company called Balderdash to do consulting and dev work using Sails. From what I can tell Balderdash isn't quite a "real" company in that everyone listed as working there also does other things at present (http://i.imgur.com/dFVQawi.png). (Mike also started a product company that utilizes Sails called Treeline. Full disclosure, I've been to some of their meetups in Austin, they seemed like clever guys.)

LinkedIn paints a slightly different picture (https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=2604050) with a few more employees listed, including listing both Mike and Travis Webb as "CEO" (http://i.imgur.com/onnhqqO.png).

Given the size of the company, and the fact that the staff seem to be doing other things, I'd assume someone told Travis, "Hey you can be CEO, but you have to hit some metrics... and if you don't you can't be CEO any more..." And given some of the bickery on the other threads... maybe it wasn't clear or maybe those metrics weren't possible given the range of projects Mike and the other people were working on. We've all been there... Client says, "Yeah we'd like to work with you, but... Do A, B, C, and fix X, Y, Z first..." maybe Travis needed Mike's help and didn't get it. But who knows, and regardless it sounds like Travis was shown the door.

So, and you can see this in the numerous videos where Travis has been promoting Sails the last few years (just Google, he comes up for all the training / discussions around Sails), Travis really liked Sails, and had his feelings hurt because he couldn't work on the project he really liked. And in response, he's now saying, "Burn the ships, Sails is dead, everyone come with me to Trails."

Guy goes from being a huge Sails fanboy in hours and hours of videos that are posted online, to coming here 2 weeks later saying, paraphrased, "I'm going to build my own Sails... with blackjack, and hookers." This scenario sucks for everyone.

You hire a good dev, someone who knows how to get the technology side done... he offers to step up to a bigger role... but who knows, maybe he can't make sales, can't retain customers, he isn't a leader, or isn't focused on the company needs because he's only interested in being a dev... but wants the title of CE-something because he's 22 and it's an ego boost... so rather than leave with dignity, and move on to his next job going back to what he was good at, he is out to sink the people he had been working with.

That's my read. I could be totally wrong, but the drama here peeked my curiosity and after an hour of digging around that's what I came up with.
It's telling that the only way to make the ISS look good is by comparing it to one of the biggest boondoggles in US funding history.
But its normally HR that sets the metrics which is often not what the company needs but the latest fad.
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> strong correlation between doing well and taking notes. Many students believe [...] that they should just sit back,

The important thing is not to take notes per se, but to make sure to engage with the lecture and focus, and fully follow the mathematical argument being presented. Personally I pay attention much better without writing notes, but I know other people who pay attention best while drawing unrelated doodles, or by writing down everything that goes on the chalkboard. If I try to write everything down, the action of mechanical symbol copying takes up brain cycles and prevents me from thinking about what I’m hearing/reading.

The “strong correlation” you noticed is because taking notes is a clear signal that the student was paying attention at least enough to write something down. However, you’re looking at a symptom rather than the root cause of the problem. For those students who don’t take notes, some of them might be fully mentally engaged, and others might be daydreaming or checking facebook on their phones. Of course this group is going to do less well on average than the note-taker group when you lump them all together.
So are the botnets that still exist mainly running on the legacy XP boxes?

It says here that it's roughly 10% of machines. It's safe to assume at least half are infected. But aren't they mostly third world?

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
Works wonderfully on Opera mini.
Upvoted for being one of the best 'who is hiring' posts I've seen so far.
I'm traveling as well. I've completely given up on some tech blogs. Because going to them is costing me too much money, i.e. The Verge.

I travelled through Spain where the largest data plan is 2GB for €20. Top ups were 100MB/€ and you could only top up 200MB at a time.

I'm currently in the Caribbean. Data roaming because some providers don't even offer data unless you are on a postpaid contract.
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- As a freelancer I had worked with several startups regarding several topics

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- I'm the maintainer of the defacto thumbnail app for Django http://github.com/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail

- I had also worked with Pylons and Flask. I made Desktop apps in my free-time and maintain personal projects with Angular.js

- I work with http://humanzilla.com as an independent software consultant or with a team of two more developers, all with similar experience, as a company.

Languages: Python, PHP, JavaScript / Node.js, Lua, Vala, Java, C

Web: HTML5, CSS, Angular.js, Backbone.js, jQuery, React, Pixi.js, WebGl, Cordova etc.

I'm always open to talk, even if it's not about job. I had found great people in HN in previous post like this.

Email: hello @ humanzilla.com
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If anyone following the Ian Murdock situation is feeling suicidal, PLEASE talk to someone. Doesn't have to be medical staff, but do something and talk to someone you trust so you don't do something worse you might regret later, or worse, your loved ones regret more.
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What happened to iPhone 6 plus mobile?
Not sure why this ended up 'dead', I've revived it.
Yeah. And range checks are used to take subslices, so you can take a "sub"slice that's half the memory space, and you have unchecked access to everything after that point :-)
I think looking after your feet /boots would be more useful - there's a great scene in "when we where soldiers" where the CO points this out.
Here, that is a bit older. Border controls within the Benelux were abolished in 1970 (http://www.britannica.com/topic/Benelux-Economic-Union)
The app looks great! Keep up the good work!
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Willing to relocate: Yes

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Email: 'hackpravj' on Google mail service

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I am a senior Computer Science student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, with experience and interest in Data Science, Information Retrieval and Distributed Systems.

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3. Open Source Presence Infographic of Indian Startups: http://pravj.github.io/blog/open-source-presence-infographic/

* Source: Real humans
I've hired 3 people via HN
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Asia

Data analysis and research
Mainly use SAS/Python

coreguy.gmail
Also going back and cleaning up resources (css and js references). Lots of dead css is out there in the wild
I hope we get more clarity in the long run. I don't think his legacy is at risk in any way, Debian is a great monument in itself, and thousands of us in the foss world and those relying on it know this.

I never knew him, but I'm still very saddened by this loss.

I don't know what happened, and I ask myself why it could have went so wrong. Is the despair and feeling of injustice that much larger when you are an idealist?
Not sure you got beyond the headline. Doctorow rejects the philosophical question; any car that can be programmed to kill it's driver, a driver can reprogram.
VideoLabs/VLC • Paris, France • Developers • iOS, Android, Go and C/C++ • Onsite|Remote

We're a team working on open-source multimedia technologies (VLC/FFmpeg) and new services around video consumption.

We're mostly working on VLC (we did most of the mobile/tv versions of VLC) and other multimedia technologies like FFmpeg. A large part of our activities is also on new web services around video consumption (content, recommendation, etc...).

We're now a team of 13, (9 in Paris, 4 Remote) and we will probably need to hire a few (4?5?) new developers or tech team lead, starting from the middle of January. Remote is OK, if in Europe.

There should be a position for iOS, one for Android, one in low-level C/C++ for VLC's core and codecs, one as a front-end developer (ng) and one in Go.

Email: contact+hn@videolabs.io
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PHP, MySQL, JavaScript&Node.js, CSS
Mail: milankragujevic @ gmail . com
In Firefox mobile, there's usually an open book icon in the URL bar (at the right) that puts you in a sort of "reader mode", stripping away CSS and giving you text only. It's usually there for articles.
I like how Emerson felt about conformity, not to mention - to be exceptional, one must be a non-conformist. Many would rather be accepted than exceptional At some point in your life, you may have to make that choice.

The problem with public opinion in our times is this idea that the crowd is always right. Something is true because the crowd says it is. The crowd saying it is, makes it true. Sane is not the same as true.
Sane just means many people believe it. The person who believes something no one else does is considered insane. When the lone "insane" person is vindicated, great wealth and success seem to follow.
The guy who's work was originally the basis for Augur has some interesting things to say about that project (and is working on his own implementation of a Bitcoin-based prediction market): http://www.truthcoin.info/faq/
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Singapore Aircon, a lifestyle business providing online booking for air conditioner servicing, is looking to bring on a new partner in Singapore. This business was started in 2010 as an experiment in providing an easy-to-use, online option for booking a service required by countless households every day, which otherwise tends to require phone calls, giving directions, and the like.

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In France a new house means you don't have to pay the notaire, which adds 7-10% to the price. A new house doesn't have liens or inheritance disputes.

A friend took 18months to close on a building in Paris. The notaire had to track down family in the US, Uruguay, Australia, and the U.K. and ask them to approve the sale and split the sale accordingly.
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- PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

- Blockchain knowledge

- Interested in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency technologies

Send your CV and a short intro to: pay@getpay.me
Snowplow | REMOTE UTC-6 <> UTC+2 | Support Engineer

Our Managed Service offering has grown significantly over the last year, and we now orchestrate and monitor the Snowplow open source event pipeline (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) for over 50 customers, many of them processing billions of events per month.

We are looking for our first full-time support engineer for the Snowplow Managed Service. There’s room for coding in this position, but you don’t have to be a coder to succeed in it: instead we are looking for candidates with analytical minds, high levels of customer empathy and an enthusiasm for troubleshooting problems and improving processes and systems.

Find out much more on our website: http://snowplowanalytics.com/about/jobs/support-engineer.htm...
> What are the differences between the jobs I could get with a B.Eng and M.Eng?

Once you've got to the point of getting a face to face interview - none at all, and then on day one of your job, your qualifications (even a PhD) in most reputable software shops become irrelevant to your colleagues.

In the longer term a masters can definitely help if you're involved with visa related processes.

If you obtained some specific domain expertise that is interesting to the employer in your thesis that can help. Then again, you don't necessarily need to do a masters to demonstrate such expertise. Creating and publishing applications, open source project involvement and the rest can be as valuable if not more so.
London is about 2.7 times as dense as Silicon Valley [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/06/there...]. San Francisco has 18187/sq.mi while London has 14070 and Manhattan has 66940 [wikipedia]. Manhattan is a bit cheaper than San Francisco [http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/05/sfs_median_home_pri...] so it seems population density does not explain the bay area's high prices.
Date: 1986
Show HN: Perl interface to Osram Lightify lighting system
The new rules don't increase the labor supply.
Location: Washington, DC

Remote: YES

Relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, React, Angular, Node. (Some
Clojure + Elixir)

Resume & Email: ortuna@gmail.com

I've been a Rails developer for 5+ years (consulting and full time positions), and have been a web developer overall for 8 years (PHP, and Java). I've worked with high trafficked apps and almost every type of client (enterprise to small businesses). I'm involved in open source projects. I live on the command line.

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It's a cultural thing. Publishers only care about selling the book they are gambling on, and it's easier to do that if the author will face criticism in a manly fashion instead of crying on the phone and stop writing because readers might not like this or that.
3-D Print Lightweight, Ultrastrong Parts Resistant to Heat and Degradation
Ask HN: Courses  like Coursera or Udemy but without the videos?
Hi All,

Happy new year.

As of 2016, I realised that video based courses in Coursera and Udemy are not ideal and are a drain on efficiency. You cannot skim through content in videos and you are constantly wondering what you will miss if you forward the video. You will have to adjust to lecturer's speed rather than choose your own speed. You cannot listen to videos in noisy environments.

What I would like to see is repository of paid (or free) tutorials, which uses text and pictures to convey information rather than videos. Googling only shows scattered tutorials, but not the equivalent of Coursera. If anyone here please knows of such a resource, please let me know.
The 6 Biggest Technology Failures of 2015
I wouldn't call it the be-all and end-all, but rather the bare minimum. "If you implement this API spec, there's a good chance a lot of software can successfully build"
Be careful - you are generalizing which will lead to issues for your interactions with your superiors.

Good managers remove things when they serve no purpose (prevent extraneous development), when they aren't being used (reduce technical burden / debt) because they look at the data, and the changes they make are tied directly to the success of the business.

This assumes a bit of a functional work environment, but if you aren't inside of one, the problem you are dealing with isn't bloated webpages, its bad management.
Ask HN: Which services you signed up for in the past one month?
That is why VS gets confused often.
What do we know about happiness?
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Assembled Brands is seeking a data engineer to lead development of our growing data science operation. Our data warehouse and associated analytics infrastructure supports business decision making across all of our ecommerce, fashion, and lifestyle brands.

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Candidates should be SQL experts and familiar with Ruby or Python. Advanced Excel knowledge will be required simply to help transition business units off of Excel dependence. Familiarity with common ecommerce data sources such as Google Analytics MailChimp is a plus. Above all, applicants should have impeccable communication and organization skills, as they will be working with many people across the business to help them measure and meet their goals.

Send a resume to colin@assembledbrands.com.
Most people tend to stay away from such threads as they will quickly get downvoted and flagged and will either be buried like most comments on this post that or will be deleted like some of the early comments here that got stomped over.
People tend to downvote comments that they do not agree with (regardless of HN rules) which leads to either self censorship (not commenting in the first place or deletion of comments that get a few down-votes) or actual censorship as comments which get downvoted to -10 get buried by the HN system.
Floods Choking Everything from Oil to Wheat in U.S. Midwest
The main assumption made by Cory Doctorow is that the autonomous cars will be fully automated and under the control of somebody other than the driver.
That scenario - with a Uber-like owner of a point-to-point fleet of self-driving cars - is indeed a bit concerning, considering that you, the passenger, give up control of the vehicle and you have to trust the machine with your life in order to get you from point A to point B.

But this is exactly why I think that the consumer version of the self-driving car will always have a manual drive setting that will completely disengage the auto-pilot.

The insurance companies will never insure at an acceptable cost point a car that cannot yield control to its passenger that is the designated driver.

Also, passenger will want the reassurance that at any point they can take over the car and switch it off the auto pilot.

iPhones and any other mobile devices are a bad analogy with a self-driving car. The more apt comparison is with the current modern airplanes: even if these planes can drive themselves, the pilot is able at any time to take over.

This option is needed even more on the roads, where you don't have the dedicated flight path a plane has in the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVGpvzcHko