skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People’s obsession with Slack and chat apps (applies to open offices too) seems overly done in Silicon Valley.

> After a decade of 70+ hour work weeks, you really appreciate what is work and what isn’t.

> I recognizing that promoting free flowing communication is important, but dorm room chat isn’t the solution.

"Dorm room chat" is a great way of thinking and talking about it, and I think you can extend the metaphor really far. A lot of young people working in Silicon Valley and startups (not all, of course) see it partially as a lifestyle choice of sorts.

Where it gets interesting and messy is– if your employees value that sort of thing, should you encourage it? Discourage it? I guess it depends on what you're trying to achieve.

I agree completely with the philosophy that communications in general should be lean and tidy. It's interesting to observe that different people have different attitudes about this, and that every organization comes to its own sort of compromise.
Iterable | San Francisco | Onsite

Iterable is a marketing automation and user engagement platform. We grew revenue 10x in 2015 and closed a Series A from CRV last month (http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/21/iterable-raises-8m-to-help... ).

We are hiring across all positions:

Back-end/Infrastructure Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable/2cab5696-81fb-403d-938f-a0a6a...

Front-end Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable/8118b95e-edf4-4a0b-87d7-0a2bc...

Mobile Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable/a5ee5f1c-a769-492d-82fa-a0980...

Security Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable/ee123f62-7ad4-4f2d-9e97-95c37...

Platform Reliability (DevOps) Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable/9296a32c-f9f0-44e5-bf52-4a2cf...

Marketing/Sales positions as well: https://jobs.lever.co/iterable

We have a lot of revenue/customer momentum and plan on growing the team aggressively in 2016. The founders and current team have experience at Twitter, Google, Microsoft and other leaders in marketing technology.
It's funny how tech is a great use-case of remote work, yet if one reads today's "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" post, the vast majority of listings require onsite involvement.
Real fanboy comparison.

Cherry picked features and yellow/green coloring is mostly LibreOffice friendly.

Real life comparison is much different
Sounds like how Telize started. Look at the first[1] article from the author. He decided to bring the service down after being contacted by a malware research company that his service is used by ransomware.

Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage?

There was a story floating around with the curl author receiving emails like that just because he showed up in credits. I personally would pull the plug from a free service immediately if I found out it was used by malware and I would have no accountability for the person I was enabling with my software.

[1] - http://www.cambus.net/adventures-in-running-a-free-public-ap...
The nature of code
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Boston, MA | Full time, interns | Onsite

Do you want to help realize the next industrial revolution?

Tulip is transforming manufacturing processes by bringing the latest technological advances from the lab to the shop floor. We have multiple Fortune 500 customers and are already enabling production lines building the things you interact with everyday.

We’re developing a web-based platform and shop-floor hardware, bringing consumer-grade user experiences to a space dominated by ancient enterprise technology. We instrument and augment production lines that still rely on paper to share information, collecting vital data about what’s really happening on the factory floor.

Our product overhauls how manufacturing processes are designed, deployed, tested, measured and analyzed, providing immense value to manufacturing companies who are struggling to keep up with technology to stay competitive.

We get to visit our customers' factories, learn about their manufacturing processes (a la How It's Made [1]), and figure out how to solve their toughest problems. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to talk.

We’re looking for people to join our core team who are excited about working on every part of our software stack: Meteor-based web development, IoT/embedded software, computer vision, data science, technical operations / DevOps, web-based UI design, and anything else we need to make the best product possible. E-mail us at jobs@tulip.co.

[1] http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/videos/h...
There are many serious issue in China's economy. Unfortunately, there are no feasible way to avoid them considering the hyper-growth in 30 years. If you have thoughts and ideas, please share. Call it "Monumental Ponzi"? I suggest you to do two things. One, do some serious study in economics and live and do business in China for a couple of years to see what it really is, if you can afford it. Or continue shedding your eyes from the world and being delusional.
Obscurity is when the secret part is entirely based on one side of the transaction (I hope they don't find this URL) whereas security involves secrets on both sides that must be discovered (here is a key exchange where we both know a secret thing).
Except that we've been pumping radio waves out of this rock as loud as we can for decades. We're the loud cousin who can't keep quiet when hunting.
I thought SV was all about customer feedback and refining your product. In this case your marketing event for your product but still.
I guess its something that grows on you as you get older.

Ive toyed with the idea of buying a little house in south europe, cut my expenses, work IT part-time/remot and have some land to grow stuff on.
There are many serious issues in China's economy. Unfortunately, there are no feasible way to avoid them considering the hyper-growth in 30 years, as far as we as a society know. If you have thoughts and ideas, please share. Call it "Monumental Ponzi"? I suggest you to do one of two things. Either do some serious study in economics and live and do business in China for a couple of years to see what it really is, if you can afford it. Or continue shedding your eyes from the world and being delusional.
General Assembly (http://generalassemb.ly) | New York, NY ONSITE & REMOTE | Multiple Positions | Fulltime

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We have small, cross-functional product teams that are developing innovative new solutions to online education, and currently we have various open positions across the engineering organization that we are looking to fill. If you want to be part of a diverse team, working on challenging tasks, and want to help the world expand their knowledge to better themselves and their careers via education, drop us line. If you're in New York City, let's grab a drink or a coffee and chat!

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people should just let a company die in peace so the people working there who did fine work and not neccesarily were implecated with this can find a job easily after it blows over >.> this kind of shit is tasteless and just burdens people who have nothing to do with it. bunch of 12 year olds point at eachothers fails. when will people learn this is not how you grow. as a person, group, company, country, or whatever kind of group of people.

What has been learnt from all these things we didnt know yet? nada.
There is still a need for software developers to go to college (or something like it). I have a degree in computer science and when I was in college, we studied the theories behind compilers, language constructs, and database design (and many other things)

It allowed me to completely switch from PHP to Python in less than 3 months because I understand what is going on behind-the-scenes.

Many of these bootcamps just teach you how to mash apis together. You never truly get a full understanding of your craft.

Software development is part art, part science. Some people just want to learn the art side, which could turn into a career, but you won't go as far if you learn both.
I would absolutely do labor, if it paid the same, as long as it wasn't the most basic (e.g., digging ditches) labor.

I worked at a car wash (vacuuming, drying cars, etc.) for 9 months when I was 15, and I loved every minute of it, despite the fact that it was very laborious. I had many jobs in the year before that, most of which were inside without much labor, and I hated each of them.

Then, I framed houses (first 3 months were basically just carrying things around and making cuts for others) for a year when I was 16, and it was a blast, as long as it was warm outside. However, what was not a blast was making $7.25/hr. I felt great though, super healthy from all the lifting, walking, climbing, etc. The only non-monetary negative was cold weather; swinging a hammer in the cold is no bueno for anyone.

I also did landscaping at 17... for one day. I'm not going to lie. Landscaping is mega hard work, and the 3 Mexican men I worked with put me to shame in less than 6 hours, despite my frequent visits to the gym and +10 years of youth I had on them.

Now, I write code. I love it, but I absolutely hate being in a chair, and standing while I type is not appealing to me. I work out for 45 min every day at the gym after, but it doesn't make up for all the cave-dwelling I do.

In summary, I think that labor is usually really rewarding, even when you feel pooped at the end of the day, but certain labor jobs push the envelope a bit too far to be called "rewarding".
Betastream -- New York City, USA -- Full/part time, REMOTE

Beta is looking to fill two positions:

- Support engineer (PHP + DevOps) based out of New Zealand or Australia to extend our support hours (this means a developer, really, that can just be there to diagnose/debug things and offer support when we're all sleeping);

- Front-end dev (EST, with a preference for NYC and Montreal) mostly working on WordPress projects

Email resume and code samples/sites to pl@beta.io!
No. Just because "it can be worse" doesn't mean someone doesn't have the right to be unhappy. It's a totally specious argument. "Your kid died? Well, what if BOTH your kids died? You have a lack of perspective..."

Yes, they would no doubt prefer their high-paying job over a minimum wage job. But that doesn't mean that they no longer have any right to be unhappy with their lives. This is exactly the point of the hedonic treadmill[1]. There are happy people with rough jobs and unhappy people with great jobs.

[1]The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.
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GrowSumo makes it easy for SaaS companies to generate revenue through people that recommend products they love.

We’re looking to hire a full stack web developer; as the first technical hire, you’ll help shape the company as it grows. You’ll make significant decisions about the product and will be looked upon as a leader as the company scales.

We use Python/Flash, JavaScript/AngularJS/Node.js, Postgres, Redis, and run on AWS.

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The Harvard Business Review reports "an overlap of only 50% between 'the top collaborative contributors in any organisation and those individuals deemed to be the top performers.'"

That's a pretty high percentage, if you ask me. I wonder what other traits you could identify in the set of top performers that would be equally or more prevalent. The article seems to equivocate more collaboration with more distraction. These two are perhaps related when policy aims to encourage collaboration through shared office space, Slack, and meetings which interrupt deep work. But let's be clear; collaboration is a good thing and we shouldn't act like it's wrong to encourage it, just that perhaps there are better, less distracting ways to do it.
As a B2B SaaS app founder I dream of the day when our app generates this type of positive, organic coverage so effortlessly. It's no wonder Slack are growing at such a rate, they've built something that provides a serious amount of value to people.
Learning C is to computer programming what the study of human anatomy is to medicine. You may not enjoy it, but you will be dangerously uninformed if you don't do the work.
Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat.

Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.
Deploying a Haskell Web Service with Nix
I wonder if you'd have enjoyed it as much if you weren't as young as you probably were at the time (late teens/early 20?)

That sort of work can really wreck your body as you get older.
This heuristic, generalized, is sometimes called Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?
You will not get promoted. As long as you're super valuable in your current role, they only have incentive to keep you put. I got strung along with that bullshit for years at my first job before I learned this lesson.

It's not a total loss though. If they do find you valuable, play hard on your salary.
If that limit can't be broken, it would massively slow down space travel though. Our civilization currently consumes more resources than can be replenished. What if other civilizations have the same problem and can't travel to other planets before resource starvation comes in?
How to Build a Timemachine – NY Times Engineering Blog
I'm shocked that SV ingenuity has ended up at such a horrific solution for office environments. The "open" plan hardly delivers any collaboration either, just a continuous stream of distractions or creepy silence with a room full of headphones. Surely we can do better?
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Init.ai | New York (NYC), San Francisco (SF), Boulder | Full-Time

Init.ai is a platform that makes building conversational apps simple for developers. We handle integration with messaging services, natural language processing, and business logic, including integration with third-party APIs.

We are hiring for two positions:

Backend engineer (or full stack)

* Help build and develop our platform and APIs

* It's a developer facing product, so consistency and reliability are critical. Build something you'd want to use.

* Modern tech stack: Go, JavaScript, Postgres, DynamoDB for primary API; Go, Torch, Java, and Clojure for NLP components

* Help figure out how to scale training and deployment of customer-specific machine learning models while maintaining high performance and reliability

* Work closely with the client tools team to help develop CLI tools and a management console (in React)

Machine learning engineer

* This role is part research, part engineering. We want to push the boundaries of the NLP field while actively deploying those findings into the world

* Research, develop, extend, and productize our NLP and machine learning systems, based on cutting edge techniques

* Would be responsible for developing and improving models and systems, as well helping to deploy the models in a scalable and efficient manner

* Potential to publish significant findings if developed

Email jobs@init.ai if interested.
Agreed that was probably the most interesting tidbit for me to read in the article. I never considered using Slack integrations for personal use cases but it was nice to read about it here.
Cleanflight Flight Control Software
> They had a chance to patch and didn't take advantage of it.

Did they though? From what I can tell, the author never required users to 'sign up' for the API, he simply said here's the end point, here's the format, go at it. That means he is/was unable to reach out directly and notify his users via email. He's relying on them visiting the website on a daily/weekly basis just in case something changes. I don't think that's a very fair expectation to have out of anyone.
18F - https://18f.gsa.gov - Washington, DC; San Francisco; Chicago; New York; Remote - Full-Time

18F is a technology consulting office inside the government, for the government. We work with agencies to build and buy digital services that meet their needs, and we educate federal employees about how to move to high-functioning, efficient, and user-centered software development techniques.

We are currently hiring front end designers, visual designers, software developers, product leads, and technical account managers. You can read more about each of these roles here: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/roles-and-teams/

Most of our team is distributed across the country in places like Chicago, New York, Raleigh, Tucson, Austin, Dayton, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, and Portland. Read more about how our work culture supports distributed teams: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/15/best-practices-for-distribute...

Submit an application to one of our current openings here: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/roles-and-teams/

Please include links to your portfolio, GitHub account, and any other work samples. Let us know why you want to join 18F and how you heard about us. If you have any questions, email our Talent Team at join18f@gsa.gov
I would much rather pay for it. Why? Someone that gives you something for free has no obligation to protect for you.
An AI to predict the profitability of new movies
While I agree with many of your feelings, I think you should try to think of this in a more positive way. Many other people go into med school without really having any professional experience at all or knowing what they are signing up for. You on the other hand now can be pretty confident that if you do go to med school, it's what's best for you.
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Sure, this press release from the acquisition might describe what RadiantIQ (Layered in the release) does and what it means to Onvoy: https://www.onvoy.com/deal-expands-onvoys-wireless-messaging...

At a very high level our development team is building RESTful APIs around telecom services like voice and messaging. APIs for both the management side (provisioning, porting, etc) as well as actual usage (sending SMS messages, placing VoIP calls, etc).
Ann Moyer's book, "The Philosopher's Game" theorizes that the game was used by scholars is university settings. The game is based on the Quadrivium (four subjects of which math is one) and Boethius concepts of numbers and mathematics. When those concepts stopped being taught at universities, usage of the game declined.
Domino Data Lab - San Francisco, CA

We make an enterprise software product that helps data science teams accelerate research, increase collaboration, and more easily operationalize predictive models. Our customers include dozens of sophisticated quantitative research organizations in industries including insurance, finance, manufacturing, pharma, and technology. This is an opportunity to work on a codebase that is already having tremendous impact on the ability for data scientists and quantitative researchers to impact their company and the world around them.

We are looking for Senior Engineers / Tech Leads: folks who can own architecturally complex features from design through implementation. Our stack is mostly in Scala, and we make heavy use of Docker under the hood. We are happy to talk to folks who are Senior Engineers in some other typed language (Java/C#/etc...) who have an interest in learning Scala as well.

More info at https://www.dominodatalab.com/careers or email jobs@dominodatalab.com
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Unveil Cost-Cutting Plan
Oscar Insurance is a healthcare startup using technology, data & design to change the way people find and access care. We are disrupting the healthcare industry by putting people first, not business and cost. www.hioscar.com

We're currently hiring for a variety of Full-time/Onsite roles here in our New York City location.

Software Engineer: Data https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/16268?gh_jid=16268

Software Engineer:Platform https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/13633?gh_jid=13633

IT Engineer: https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/32248?gh_jid=32248

Software Engineer: Product https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/13586?gh_jid=13586

Software Engineer: Android
https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/13585?gh_jid=13585

Software Engineer: iOS
https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/52063?gh_jid=52063

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Advanced Simulation Technology, inc. (ASTi) | Herndon/Reston, VA | Multiple Positions | ONSITE

We’re a small company building innovative products in the simulation and training industry. One of our newest products is SERA (http://seraatc.com), the Simulated Environment for Realistic ATC. SERA helps airline pilots learn to communicate by simulating the entire air traffic control environment, including artificial intelligence for aircraft and controllers, speech recognition on pilot speech, and text-to-speech radio chatter.

ASTi has been around for about 25 years. We’ve been very successful in our niche (audio and communications), but we’re beginning to grow in adjacent areas and need your help! On-site, full-time engineering positions available for those interested in software, web, cloud and speech technology.

Stack: C/C++, Go(golang), Python, Angular, Node.JS, AWS, Docker, RethinkDB, RaspberryPi

Check out this page for more information on ASTi, our unique work environment, and the full job descriptions: https://www.asti-usa.com/jobs. A few other reasons to consider ASTi: excellent compensation, profit-sharing, start at 4 weeks vacation (growing to 6 weeks over time), company-paid retirement plan, and we were included in Washingtonian Magazine’s "50 Great Places to Work" in 2015.

Get in touch via jobs@asti-usa.com.

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