skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response.
There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* Mid to senior level Ops or DevOps engineers

* A seasoned QA manager with experience leading teams through lifecycle testing on multiple platforms

* Growth hackers and growth product managers

* Ruby engineers

* Senior JavaScript engineers

* Backend engineers with experience in search, recommendation, or payments

* 2016 summer and fall interns

Please note for Internships:
We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in January for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.
http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment that still lets our team get their work done. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.
Learning to solve
That looks like it's for 'socat', not openssl itself ...
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We're working towards building the future of energy distribution through clever use of batteries and solar.

We're series A backed by some of the most respected names in the Energy industry.

There's multiple openings for Full-stack engineers, A frontend lead, and a QA engineer. A super-fun opportunity to work on a hardware-software solution that the world legitimately needs.

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So if one opensourced a windows program, you would consider this bad because others would have to use the proprietary Windows to run it?
Yahoo sports is good. Their fantasy sports are huge. Their finance is also probably the most visited.
Ugly Ruby
Maybe those free software projects could use some help in the form of users trying it out and giving feedback.
Software Security Ideas Ahead of Their Time
Just a note to the makers of ramgrid -- while many of these comments may be harsh, it is probably not in your best interest to respond in anger/defensively.

This page is a trove of feedback from potential users of your product.

I personally chose a cloud hosting company called INIZ (that I'm extremely happy with) based on comments and a mention on HN -- just trying to let you know, this is your crowd, and they're angry/confused about your site. Find a way to fix it.
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Title is misleading -- this appears to be an issue with a tool called socat, not with OpenSSL. That's a world of a difference in the severity of the issue.
Didn't they already promised the MOON at some point?
Axel Springer's chief Döpfner’s 2014 open letter to Eric Schmidt asking "Why we fear Google" caught my attention. Google isn't the problem - if it disappeared Facebook and so many other companies would take its place as the object of Döpfner’s question. Google should have been replaced by the internet.

Nevertheless - a free and open press is at stake.
The Pi probably isn't the best choice for this, due to its "Ethernet-on-USB" design.
That's effectively telling everyone that if they aren't comfortable a) researching the available programs, b) paying for a server to host it, and c) learning enough to support a running container, manage SSL certificates, install security updates promptly, they shouldn't be part of the community. That's bad for growing the community, particularly since there are many people who participate in OSS now who don't have all of those skills or the time to spend supporting a service even if they do.
Seriously, does it even matter? Your ISP knows all, the NSA knows all, the free email service providers know all. There is no privacy. Having said that, I still don't like that they know I look at porn. :)

See you back inside the Matrix...
What's your point? That it's not available for Windows or Linux? The developer behind Quiver is a one-man shop and happens to be an iOS, OS X and web developer. So what?
For citizens it should be the duty az a parent, for immigrants it could be a condition of admission into country.
I forgot to setup caching
This is a vulnerability in socat's TLS support. It has nothing to do with OpenSSL (besides the fact that OpenSSL provided a footgun API by leaving it to application developers to supply DH parameters).
I was thinking that having positive fantasies about the future could be an escape mechanism from present unpleasant feelings.
I like the experimental approach. I'm also glad they realize a lot of these decisions were made by people with trade-offs that aren't obvious years down the line. So, it has to be done carefully. I agree with moron4hire that this is a very shallow take at it where it's basically just syntax. Prior studies on programming languages, particularly for quality or composition, showed certain features had strong benefits compared to other languages without them. I started on a list of examples proven by evidence in academic studies or field use:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734477

I'd like to see them start with what's been proven. Syntax was my lowest worry as COBOL and BASIC were used successfully by laypeople because they looked like pseudocode. So, just start with a BASIC then modify by how people solve the problem. Most issues in software defects and maintenance have nothing to do with syntax. It's an improper expression or manipulation of data, control, or interfaces. The techniques above address those.

So, I challenge anyone wanting to explore evidence-oriented paradigm (aka do science) and improve SW development to start on those techniques. Pull up all the scientific literature that puts them to the test against conventional alternatives. Look at the logic behind solutions & the results in terms of numbers. Re-run the studies using Quorum-style methods along w/ attention to reducing any biases. Use test data (eg applications) that embed realistic errors or integration problems that can show or refute the above's value in facilitating robust development. Once a technique is proven, start working on various approaches of doing it in both syntax and analytical model (i.e. effectiveness). Do it for all of them and we'll have better tooling that increases effectiveness instead of just pretty syntax.

That's my take on it. Good luck on that round of research.
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There are several aspects of life that are not fair. However, there are countless anecdotes of people psychologically sustaining to learn something new and improve their station in life.

I will say, I support opening opportunities to learn. Not everyone has a computer - help foster an environment that gets people access to one.

You cannot force someone to have the willpower to work on this, the _best_ you can do is offer opportunities.
Mirror here: http://marc.ttias.be/oss-security/2016-02/msg00003.php
How Angular is reinventing itself with Typescript and version 2
I think anything recommended by Dan Abramov is safe to use. I'm not a fan of the popular react/redux boilerplates because most of them are very opinionated. Many boilerplate authors will actually invent new conventions within the boilerplate (e.g. use my new framework to do API calls). Yet their code is left uncommented and they assume you will just believe that their conventions are actually beneficial to follow. You're better off just starting from scratch.

I was once down-voted heavily on HN for saying the React ecosystem seems immature (this was about a year ago). A year later, it still seems like there's no consensus on how to build scalable apps with react.
Ok fine. Link me the spec that allows me to determine whether an FTDI part is genuine and I'll gladly inform the supply chain, manufacturing and testing teams I work with to reference that spec moving forward. Until then, we have to avoid anything with an FTDI brand as there's no way to be sure. Going with whomever I think is the most reputable supplier and then praying my products aren't bricked at some point in the future isn't the solution.
> having a $10 VPS

Oh yes that is definitely uber-geek.
Google Search Will Highlight Info About Primary Election Results and Candidates
React moved to Discord after being kicked off of Slack for having too large a channel. The Discord folks welcomed them in as a supported use case.

If your biggest concern with Slack is the invite-by-email hack, try Discord.
Ask HN: Am I hirable?
Here's my brief story. I'm a 30 year old white male in the USA. I have a bachelors in psychology, an incomplete graduate degree in psychology (60 out of 66 credits), no criminal record, good credit, over 50k in student debt, and a failed startup to my name. I spent the last three years learning to program because I had an idea for a website. I created it, but frankly, I don't have the business background nor the proficiency to be a one-man startup success story. I've learned MySQL, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, Laravel, HTML, CSS, some Python, and a lot about general computing. I'm an excellent typer, and I'm savvy with most tech. I have a variety of skills that involve computers, counseling, writing, and critical thinking.

I'm writing this because I feel like I'm telling myself a story that I'm not currently hirable. I read job requirements, and I feel like most startups or tech companies would choose someone with a computer science degree or more legitimate programming skills. I tell myself that I can't get a job as a counselor since I don't have a Masters degree. I also feel like my limited references (having worked for myself the last 3 years) will hold me back from getting any position that pays over 40k a year.

The frustration here is that I am extremely valuable to many companies, but without a strong résumé, I figure I'll be glossed over for a stronger on-paper candidate. I'm a fast learner, very resourceful, and I'm great with optimization. I love improving methods and systems to produce greater efficiency and effectiveness.

I can also move to anywhere in the USA, and I currently have enough money saved up to relocate immediately.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
I noticed this a few days ago, the came from google trick no longer works. Anyone have a workaround for this?
How do you read the charts? I can't make head or tail.
He arrived 30 minutes before it was due to start and stayed an hour and a half. Not unreasonable.

I love how you twist facts to make it sound like the event didn't start an hour and a half late.
What a bunch of asshats you guys are being, they were never referral links, he was including them to be useful... you guys that were complaining are quite honestly horrible people for doing so...
Unbelievable.

It sucks to be laid off, but they're better off in the long run to get away from a company with leadership like that.
My wife left her (fairly well-paying) job when we had our second child in daycare. After taxes and daycare, she was only working for her retirement contributions and that wasn't worth it to us.

Our kids now get the advantage of a very involved mom and the whole family gets the advantage of more home-cooked meals and a smoother running, better organized, less stressed to the breaking point household. Now that the kids are in public school, it would again be financially advantageous for my wife to work, but we've decided to delay that still as all four of us (five, if you count the dog) are happier this way.

I hate to sound like I'm a time-traveler from the 1950s, but it's not clear to me that allowing/encouraging more two-income households is a recipe for greater family harmony and happiness for the next generation.

It sure helps GDP, but it's unclear to me that it helps the kids or families.
That's fastmail!
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I run this for PonyChat and run into memory leaking issues. It runs out of memory on a 1 GB node about weekly.
Getting a degree from an elite institution does three things:

1) It puts you in a network of other people who went to the institution, oftentimes people who have connections that can help you in life

2) It gives you a piece of paper that shows you can follow a long term plan and execute on it, that other people recognize as a difficult long term plan to execute.

3) Gives you an icebreaker when going to interviews where you can talk about either how you and the interviewer went to the same institution, or rival institutions, or you can talk about how your elite institution was different from theirs and the same.

What you don't get is a "better education". (Edit: Some have pointed out rightly that I should differentiate here between top non-elite instututions and the ones that are diploma mills, so to be clear, what I'm saying doesn't apply to the diploma mills.) You do the same work as the folks at the less elite institutions. Maybe you do it with slightly smarter people who help you learn new things that you wouldn't otherwise, but most of the "less elite" schools still use the same textbooks and materials. And heck maybe your professor wrote the book so you can get more detailed answers, but it's unlikely that that access gives you a significant leg up unless you take advantage of it.

So it makes sense that in fields where skills matter, the elite college doesn't add a lot of benefit, but where connections matter, it does.
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Wilmington NC, or remote

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*Javascript
Client Side (Angular, Vue.js, D3.js)
Server Side (Node.js(MEAN stack))
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Also have experience with Apache Storm, Mongodb, and general data analysis.

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Pro Financial | https://www.profinancial.bc.ca/ | North Vancouver, BC, Canada | Junior Developer looking to gain Full-Stack experience | Full-Time | some On-site time will be required, but we are flexible about some work-from-home

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You'll be working closely with our tech lead in all areas of our stack and you will interact directly with everyone in the company and our clients, transforming data into meaningful information. If you're into micromanagement, rigid structure, and never getting to see the big picture, this isn't the place for you. Your work schedule and location are highly flexible (many of us work from home part-time), but some regular on-site time at our North Vancouver office will be required.

Skills in Python, JavaScript, C#, .NET, and PostgreSQL are a must. Beyond that, your experience with IronPython, HTML, and CSS is a bonus, along with any administration of Windows and Linux servers. This is intended to be a junior role, evolving into a broad based senior role over time, and compensation will be commensurate with experience. But regardless, if you're a team player, a quick learner, and you'd like to know more, please respond with your resume and cover letter.

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We apologize, but time does not permit responding to all inquiries. We will do our best to notify possible candidates within 48 hours.
Where pre-K programs shine is children with diagnosable problems. Failure to have these kids in some kind of treatment can cost the taxpayer a lot money in K-12 and beyond[1]. When I was working with a 6 weeks - 3 year program in the 90's we had quite a few cases of hearing and speech problems that could be corrected in that time frame. If the kids had made it to kindergarten like that, they would have been permanently behind because of all the brain development in those years.[2] Even making sure children were given an initial screening with follow up assessments (we used the Denver Screening and E-LAP) catches a lot of things.

Yes, the other kids catchup, but the problem is some might have never have got there.

As to pre-K / elementary, if the kid does not have STEM mentors in those years then you can probably forget getting them into STEM in HS. Opinions of cool and want develop pre-K through elementary.

1) obviously providing the child a normal or at least better life

2) I was rather horrified at how much of this got by family doctors
Those tips seem to be to enable to code more and die a little later. The key to getting more satisfaction from coding is to work on projects with clear value to people.
So this[1] isn't your github profile then? Because publishing FOSS via a proprietary service would be you saying that free software like Gitlab isn't good enough for you.

[1] https://github.com/davexunit
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No. I'm worried that a supply chain screw up upstream is going to create unbounded liabilities for our company. If FTDI provided a mechanism to prevent this, I'd have no issue with it. We WANT to use genuine FTDI parts, but have no way to be sure other than accepting this risk that FTDI has created out of thin air. That's a risk that we simply can't take.
What gets measured gets ...

* Managed [1]

* Done

* Gamed

* "Optimized"

* Cheated

Especially if there are rewards associated with the measurement.

1. http://www.druckerinstitute.com/2013/07/measurement-myopia/
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Holy crap, that part's incredible. Let me count the ways...

1. It's half the price of a FT232R.

2. It's available in SOIC. Much easier to solder.

3. It's USB CDC compliant. No drivers required on most OSes.

4. Along with GPIOs, its spare pins can also be configured for ADC or DAC operation. Also, it's got an I2C master.

It doesn't have a full set of UART signals, unfortunately, but it does have a couple of configurable GPIOs. There's also the MCP2200 which sacrifices I2C for RTS/CTS.
I think a good measure of one's success is how much time one has where one can do anything one wants.
They show number of blunders (score dropping 1.5 or more) categorized by player strength and current position evaluation according to either Komodo or Stockfish. The conclusion is that people blunder much more in worse positions, but they blunder most in dead even positions.

At least I think that's what it says:-)
A lot of the alternatives are mostly extensions to the IRC concepts though (group chat, #hashtag, private chat, mentions, etc..). If all you need is text, IRC is fine.

I actually use a number of things through BitlBee [1] just to combine everything into one client. Scripting things in python is also fairly useful.

[1] https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
Samsung Galaxy S7 Is Rumored to Be a Game Changer: Just the Facts
> The only real benefit of Slack is easier file transfers

IRC has rock solid file transfer. Depending on your IRC clients, it's easy to use as well.
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