skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look that's why I said "if that money ever get paid off" not "when it gets paid off". And of course the only "not extremely bad" alternative is to continually roll over public debts forever. Financing tricks though don't change the value of the underlying assets, which is really the point that I'm making. I don't disagree at all with what you're saying.

The problem is that eventually the debts can grow so large that the people who are expected to service the ever increasing principal and interest payments view the debts and overwhelming and/or odious, and choose to default. Then you get a deflationary spiral (i.e., Greece, Cyprus, etc), or alternatively currencies can hyperinflate to service the debt, which is essentially another form of default (i.e., Japan).

We haven't really seen the current situation before, so don't know how this plays out... but we'll find out soon enough I think.
> Our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child.

That is actually really cool. Are there any privacy concerns though?
Main Street Hub // Austin, TX - ONSITE, Full-time // email: brandon.beck@mainstreethub.com

We are looking for a few experienced software engineers to join our small but growing R&D team in downtown Austin. Within engineering we are a passionate group of people who are extremely interested in building the software that helps our customers around the country thrive in their local communities. We’re a pretty small team (currently ~24 people) so you’ll have plenty of say around how we develop software going forward. We are currently in the process of modernizing our software platform to be more modular and truly data driven. Our goal is to use data to make sure that we provide the right content to the right consumer at the right time. We’re building our internal API using REST based services implemented in Java, and while our front end is currently implemented in PHP, we are migrating away from that. Some of the technologies that we’re using: Dropwizard, Flyway, React, CloudFormation, Troposphere, and Ansible. All new engineers get company provided downtown parking, flexible work hours, 100% of their health insurance premiums paid for by the company, the ability to choose their own work computer, and access to our kitchen with plenty of drinks and snacks. We’re looking for individuals only so please NO RECRUITERS OR AGENCIES (seriously, your emails will just go into the trash folder so let's save each other's time). In addition we’re looking for full-time employees who are already in Austin, TX or willing to relocate.

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Why feel depressed about it then? The statements were also factually misleading -- (far) more than .1% of programmers make more than half of a specialized doctor on average.
Wow, I do not believe it was that pricey when we were using it.
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: JavaScript, Python, HTML and CSS. Playing with Django, NodeJS, and SQL

github: https://github.com/katebee

twitter: https://twitter.com/KateAWhalen

Email: mail@kate.gg

Junior developer looking for a great company where I can contribute to interesting work and further develop my skills.

My background is in medical devices and business analysis, but like many, I have decided to pursue software full time.

I have been working hard to grow my developer skills for the last year; if you have any upcoming intern or junior developer positions please send me an email.
If you're writing your own Slackbot it shouldn't matter, should it?
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The interface of Slack is still in English which is a major blocker for me.
Strikingly (YC W13) | DevOps Engineer/Ruby Engineer | Fulltime | Shanghai

== About Strikingly ==

Strikingly is powering the next generation of websites. Our mission is to give everyone the ability to turn their creative ideas into reality and build brands around them. We're a small team working internationally and based in Shanghai. Backed by Y Combinator (W13), SV Angel, Index Ventures, FundersClub, Innovation Works, and more.

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AXA Tech Advanced Engineering Lab | Lausanne, Switzerland | Full Time | ONSITE

We are looking for a mid-senior software engineer, with mobile, web and system development skills to help us build prototypes.

The AXA Tech Lab is an entity that builds prototype to explore emerging technologies (drones, robots, OPC, deep learning, IoT, blockchain...) and understands what can be their impact on AXA entities (World biggest insurance, #20 Global500). We do not work more than 3 months on any project, and we expect you to be able to adapt to very different technology landscapes.

We offer 5 week holidays, good hardware, an incredible work environment (we are in the middle of EPFL, one of Europe major university) with view on the Alps/Lake, and competitive salaries.

You can apply by emailing : pierre-loic.doulcet - at - axa-tech.com
Some interesting history about Seattle:

http://www.undergroundtour.com/about/history.html
Zapier: Introducing Multi-Step Zaps
Since the first comment didn't work, I'll try going into more detail.

Our genetic code doesn't include statements like "if (is_male) { try_to_have_sex_with_ladies(); } else { try_to_have_sex_with_dudes(); }".

Our genetic code produces proteins of different shapes and those shapes influence the development of the structure of our brains and their function and that brain generates feels of various kinds that lead to attractions of various kinds.

Evolution works by changing the coding of the genetic code which changes the shapes or amounts of proteins produced which changes the development... a local maximum happens when the final system produced (our feels of attraction) would be negatively affected by any individual mutation on the genetic code. There may be better feels-of-attraction systems you could build from scratch that would propagate the species better than ours, but you can't turn ours into this better system without making it worse for awhile.

Nature can't make arbitrary changes; it can only make incremental changes. And consequently, we frequently get stuck at local maximums rather than global maximums.
I think it was part of the management culture and how they got things "done" back in the day. The CEO came from a background where solution finding was sticking people in a war room for hours churning through things to find solutions. That works when you're sitting together analyzing data but not when you're writing the code to create the data being analyzed.

It also comes from time valuation. They value their work at $X and my work at $K where X > K so it's oK to burn my $K value because the $X-$K delta is high enough to justify prioritizing their work needs.
While it may be well explained, the example given is pretty bad as far as user interfaces go. It shouldn't have a 'Calculate' button, and instead just update as you type. That way there can't be any discrepancy between the two units at any time.
Call of Champions Hack No Survey 2016
Bestapps – Terminal list of best dev apps in your computer
"It's always interesting to me when people build on top of a service that is free with no guarantee of it existing in the future."

1. free
2. no guarantees

Think of a web site that is free to access, e.g., one that lets a user query a web crawl or a database of user-submitted personal photos, that also sells ads to anyone wanting to buy.

"Customers" are allowed to buy ads, but how far into the future?

Can the web site change its terms at any time?

Can you think of an example?
The Liberty Memorial WWI museum's also excellent. Better in some ways than what they've got at Les Invalides in Paris. One of a handful of things in the city worth adjusting an itinerary or travel route to see/experience.

Incidentally, the Middle Eastern restaurant (Habashi House, I think it's called) on the City Market square where the Steamboat Arabia museum's located is pretty damn good. Coffee shop in the corner's got good sandwiches. Avoid the Indian place—not good.
TargetSmart | Washington, D.C. | Full Time | Remote (US ONLY)

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

TargetSmart’s expert team of data, political, and direct marketing professionals wakes up every day with one objective: to help our clients win with data.

REMOTE (United States ONLY)

Responsible for overall administration of production and R&D environments, including databases, web services and security on remote and cloud based servers.

More job information here: http://targetsmart.com/careers/#srcloud

Email résumé to devjobs at targetsmart dot com
Maslow | NYC | Full-time

Maslow is where you see what your friends think about anything from "Cats vs dogs" to "Donald or Hillary?"

We just launched: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/maslow

Reach out to me if you're an experienced developer looking to make a big impact.

- Mark (mark@maslow.co)
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Skypicker - https://www.skypicker.com | Brno, Czech Republic | ONSITE, INTERNS

Skypicker is a flight ticket search engine offering the cheapest possible flight combinations by combining low cost and legacy carriers. And thus doing real big data. With more than 400 employees and daily revenues over $600k we are still growing. If you actually read this description, please address our CTO as 'Jozo' in your email.

Our DevOps are managing more than 200 bare metal servers and one of the largest AWS infrastructures around here. Technology: Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, nginx, Ansible, node.js, React

Positions: Data science, Backend dev, Frontend dev, Mobile app dev, DevOps

We offer competitive salaries and a pure startup environment. Also, partial remote work is possible. Feel free to ping our CTO directly at jk/at/skypicker.com
hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.
> "If they haven't noticed you're as stupid as you think you are, they themselves must be even stupider."

Ah, the old "I'm not ok, you're not ok" section of the OK Corral[1].

[1] http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/ok_not-ok.ht...
Yeah, we have an open-office plan, but we've successfully lobbied to have developer meetings largely moved to one day a week, and engineers on important projects get "office hours" to allow for interruptions during a defined time. It's important to separate meeting cultures from open offices.
What's he like? Did you know his name when you got him?

My sister has a pre=owned galah. Like all parrots he is endearing, but at the same time, crotchety and set-in-his-ways.
There's a board game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-H4q6OXSc4
And how will you know that you actually got a legit ftdi chip?
Cool to read this from Janestreet. More functional, more compile-to-JS, more well-typedness, more reusing code between server and client (isomorphic). Good stuff.

Still working on bringing these things to the place where I work :)
The title attribute does provide a mouseover tooltip, but for users who are not using a mouse (e.g. they are browsing the web on their phone), there is often no reasonable way to access the title text. For example, as far as I'm aware, iOS Safari will only show title text for images. I see this as primarily an issue with the browser, but until Apple and others implement such functionality into their browsers, it's up to the web developer to ensure those users are able to access the title text.
Not MS alone, but anyone who uses lock-in. And why should such despicable behavior be respected, because it's an "industry practice"? It is not. It's just common because various major companies in the industry are indeed jerks.
> the feed url is very long

What does this have to do with the security of the feed?
Great story, I'm jealous! Assuming by "run" you mean you own the shop, I would love to learn in more detail how you were able to leap from day-to-day programming to being able to afford your own company.

I see a lot of responses like that in this wonderful thread: I used to program for a few companies, then I got into management a bit, and now I own my own company. That's listing step 1, 2, 3, and then jumping to step 59!
It's like server side templates in that an entire refresh of the page occurs without preserving any state, which the React core developers stated as their main motivation behind creating it.
What sort of companies / products did you build? How did you first start? Did you sell the company, or is it a revenue generating model? How did you support yourself while building the company?
Microsoft have exhibited too many of these privacy/user-control related 'blunders' over the last few months for it to be accidental.

I'll never buy anything from them again.
I mostly agree that the environment in government contracting is pretty laid back. We definitely have surge times, but generally we're focused more on getting things done correctly over fast. I think there's also a good understanding that people aren't as effective when they work over 40 hours/week for consecutive weeks.
Royal Bank of Canada | London, UK | Toronto, Canada | Full-time | On-site

We are looking for a senior level Data Engineer in London, UK to help build autonomous systems to undertake intelligence gathering and lead generation, by automating the identification of prospective clients, collating information relevant to the domain of Wealth Management and monitoring the public domain for intelligence to aid the sales process.

About RBC: Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We employ approximately 78,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 39 other countries.

Senior AI & ML Engineer (Wealth Management) (https://jobs.rbc.com/job/London-Machine-Learning-&-Artificia...)

Many other career opportunities (in technology, as well as other fields) can be found here: https://jobs.rbc.com/?locale=en_US
Packetzoom | San Mateo, California | Full-Time. USA candidates only | VISA (H-1B transfers ok)|
Contact jobs @ packetzoom.com or connect with me (Founder/CEO) personally using one of the methods in my profile. UNSOLICITED RECRUITER MAIL WILL BE FLAGGED AS SPAM IMMEDIATELY.

Mobile Networks are different. And yet we continue using the same legacy protocol stack (TCP/HTTP/SSL) to connect mobile devices to the cloud. We are changing this with radically new tech. If you want to help, come join us.

Packetzoom is rethinking the whole stack from the ground up. You get to hack network and/or security protocols, innards of mobile operating systems and build a global distributed system around brand new protocols. It's a small (but well funded) team so everyone contributes in everything.

PACKETZOOM ENGINEERING LEADER

If you have shipped products or built services where you (at least) actually had to deal with unix at the syscall level (either in the userspace or kernel) in C/C++ code, we want to talk to you.

If you were responsible for shipping and maintaining the product for a decent amount of time, we really want to talk to you.

You'd be joining a small, elite team of engineers who build and run the PacketZoom stack (https://packetzoom.com/learn.html) on millions of mobile client devices (iOS, Android and any others we decide to pursue) as well as our globally distributed cluster of servers running our own C++ and java code. We also harvest and process millions of mobile network performance data points in realtime while squeezing every last ounce of performance out of the hardware. If that sounds like fun to you, please do connect.

SENIOR ENGINEERS

We're also looking for smart Software Engineers to join our team in individual roles. We're looking for smart generalists who can dig into any given area depending on the need of the day. The areas of focus range iOS and Android platform specific work (C++, Java/ObjC), to Data Engineering and analysis at massive scale for the global mobile network performance metrics, visualization and alerting on detecting trends in said data etc. Basically a whole lot of fun for the motivated computer scientist.

We're venture funded and have paying customers. Compensation will be market appropriate for your level and startups at our stage.
Tell that to my buddies :-)
That's why I'm losing some of my excitement in programming and getting it back again in designing physical board and card games. Video game development used to excite me, but now most games are made to be consumed in an hour or two and forgotten for the next game.

Meanwhile board games last, there's value in old editions (I picked up a 40 year old copy of Diplomacy recently), and people still play games that are decades old (not all games, but enough to be worthwhile).

Also, even if I never get a single board game published (unlikely), I will still leave prototypes behind for my family to encounter. Meanwhile, my video games are on my hard drive and could disappear if they don't keep perpetuating digital copies of them.

Also you can make a video game version of the board game you made and now you can sell in two different mediums.
Roswell, is a "killer app", as far as using Common Lisps with Continuous Integration and Coverage services (TravisCI, CircleCI, Coveralls et al) is concerned. It is not an interface to CI systems it is an Lisp Implementation manager and makes using CI services dead easy event multiple lisp implementations. Roswell also provides a handy hash bang scripting for Lisp.
TargetSmart | Washington, D.C. | Full Time | REMOTE CONSIDERED (US ONLY)

Senior Product Manager

TargetSmart’s expert team of data, political, and direct marketing professionals wakes up every day with one objective: to help our clients win with data.

Responsible for the vision of customer-facing software products developed by TargetSmart Software Engineering, the Product Manager must work closely with TargetSmart’s CTO, Chief Innovation Officer, and other internal and customer stakeholders to define, communicate, and execute TargetSmart’s software vision. We’re looking for individuals with relevant experience and strategic product vision, but also capable of building stakeholder consensus and providing clarity for engineers.

More job information here: http://targetsmart.com/careers/#productm

Email résumé to devjobs at targetsmart dot com
PromptWorks - Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY

All positions ONSITE, 1 of the positions for INTERNS. Relocation assistance available.

We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web applications, APIs, products, and services.

Pair programming, continuous integration & delivery, kaizen, and TDD/BDD aren't just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work.

Open positions in Philadelphia:

- Senior Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Senior Front-end Engineer
- Sales Intern

Open positions in New York:

- Senior Software Engineer

We use lots of Ruby, Python and JavaScript.

More info: http://www.promptworks.com/jobs/
Super Happy. Happier than I have ever been in my working life, due in large part to said job allowing me to enjoy not-working-life more than at any previous point.

I was a Journalist, the video and multimedia producer for a medium market newspaper. Pay was lower middle income level. Hours were flexible when flexibility was an option, but revolved around an inflexible daily deadline.

I just spent my 4th weekend in a row snowboarding, and yesterday was 11" of powder. As a remote employee, I still have deadlines, but they are from days to months depending on the project. Pay is upper-middle income level. My boss is great, smartest person I've ever called a boss, and extremely reasonable and personable.

Right now, life is good.
Nevada’s Solar Bait-and-Switch
Custora (YC W11) - http://www.custora.com - New York, NY - Engineering and Data Science

Marketing used to be an exercise in one-to-many communication: billboards, magazine ads, and - more recently - having a powerful social media presence. At Custora, we’re helping to turn this model on its head, using mountains of data to help our customers direct the right campaigns to the right users rather than blasting the same message to the largest audience possible.

We're growing quickly and looking for great engineers. We're analyzing data for well over 500,000,000 end customers, and this number is growing fast. We're building a marketing experimentation platform that's usable by entire marketing teams and we need your help to build new statistical models, to build the infrastructure to run those models, and to develop creative and intuitive ways of presenting our findings to our users.

We code in Rails, Angular, and Couscous, our distributed computation framework that runs statistical models with R and Spark.

Our job postings are at https://www.custora.com/careers. I'm more than happy to answer any questions and tell you more about us, so feel free to reach out to me at martin@custora.com.
If you live in the unix image this is great. The moment you want to do your work exclusively inside the Lisp image it ceases to be useful.
I am a strong believer in learning C as your first language. Why? Well a number of reasons but the two main ones are 1) it teaches you about what is happening at a lower level so you have some idea about what is happening behind the scenes of that Java code you wrote or whatever and 2) it makes you appreciate just how lucky you have it in higher level languages.

However I don't think you should start writing all your programs in C! Use the right tool for the job. If that job is something C makes sense for then go for it but if you are writing a webapp I wouldn't recommend you use C (although I would if you needed a fast, native library to call from your webapp).
Addepar | New York, NY & Mountain View, CA; Full time; VISA; ONSITE only

Addepar is looking for engineers to join our growing Mountain View & Midtown Manhattan offices! We're a fast growing startup trying to overhaul the data infrastructure of finance. Engineering is at the core of Addepar's culture and we are looking to add the best, brightest, and most passionate software engineers to our teams. If you are excited about doing the best work of your career in web development, distributed systems, analytics, data, automation, or infrastructure, we want to talk to you!

Contact us at: careers.addepar.com OR email careers [at] addepar [dot] com to learn more.