skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CyBranding Ltd. | http://hashtagify.me | Product Marketing & Digital Marketing | Rome, Italy but fully REMOTE team | Preferably full time, possibly part time

We're the top free search engine for hashtags, and are already pretty well known in the Social Media Marketing community, with great inbound traffic without doing any advertising. Our challenge now is to find the right product/market fit for our paid tools.

After securing a seed round to build a stronger tech team, we now want to step up the game with a marketing team to match. Our new hires will work with the founder mainly on Customer Development and Product Marketing.

Our team is fully distributed and remote applicants are welcome. Required skills:

* strong understanding of Marketing basic concepts, especially applied SAAS businesses

* a minimum of experience

* great communication skills

* good analytical skills

Do you feel up to the challenge? Write to: dan at cybranding.com
Capitalism vs. Democracy vs. Capitalism
Sky | London | Full Time | ONSITE

Systems Integration (Full stack engineer) job at STB Software Delivery. Working with embedded device, pulling together a working software stack and provide priority fixes and problem reports. Working closely with development teams to investigate problems, identifying and implementing fixes to both code and design. To ensure that software updates fix what they claim to fix, and don’t introduce new problems. Performance analysis and optimisation across multiple target platforms on differing architectures. Help drive down our cycle time through continuous improvement of processes and automation
Take an active role in personal, technical and professional development.

Skills: C, Java, Unix/Linux, Object Oriented design and development techniques, compilers/debuggers/toolchains.
If interested you please email me at douglas-passos.lima @ sky.com
Rolo Calendar – A calendar for people who don't use calendars
Ethanol Mandate, a Boon to Iowa Alone, Faces Rising Resistance
Exactly what they should have done. Return an error in the driver framework's evtDeviceStart (or similar...), let DeviceManager show the "device could not start" icon and write a "You are using a non-genuine USB to UART chip..." to the eventlog.
Keen IO | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time

----- About Keen IO -----

Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale.

Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth.

Some things we believe in:

-Honesty & empathy

-Introspection

-Distributed innovation

-The importance of laughter & relationships

-Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborators.

----- Storage & DevOps Engineers -----

(SF Bay Area or Remote US only) Keen IO is seeking engineers to join our team. We build and nurture an Analytics API that processes user data and queries around the clock, across diverse industries. Whether it’s gaming, e-commerce, advertising, publishing, or IoT, our platform aims to make Analytics so easy for developers that they can focus entirely on their product. Our challenge is to scale with a constantly growing data deluge and evolve along with our user’s needs.

Skills: Cassandra, Jave, Scala, Python, Tornado, Zookeeper, Storm, Kafka

----- Consultative Sales Representative & Sales Development Opportunities -----
(SF Bay Area Only) Be one of the first Sales Representative and SDRs for a fast-growing, Sequoia-backed, cloud analytics platform.
Our Cross-Vertical Practice is a small, cross-functional team (marketing, sales, sales engineering, data science) tasked with growing our business across all verticals.

For questions, please contact us at humans@keen.io or visit us our career page (https://keen.io/careers/).
http://www.15gifts.com - ONSITE Brighton UK

DATA SCIENTIST

15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, EE, Sky and The Times, and we're growing rapidly. We are now looking for a talented data scientist to join our team and help shape the recommendation algorithms that underpin our product.

Our data science team is at the heart of the company and plays a crucial role in analysing and visualising customer behaviour - using the data to build statistical and machine learning models that generate highly tailored recommendations and drive the product forward through data-led optimisations.

We're looking for someone with strong analysis, statistics, machine learning and programming skills (we’re particularly fond of Python and R). It's a great opportunity to work for a small company (13 employees), while analysing data from some of the largest e-commerce sites in the country and beyond. Contact peter.fine at 15gifts dot com to find out more.
The museum is likely a controlled environment. The artifacts may not last quite as long as if buried in mud, but what use is them lasting longer if they are useless?
Whenever I don't quite understand how something works in a programming language, I try to imagine how I might implement it in C. Or I look up the implementation, or write it myself. This helps me understand from 'first principles' or near enough.
I like seeing the work those guys put in to that. My current (admittedly lazy) tendency is to use whatever default serif/sans-serif the user's browser has set. My reasoning is that if the user cares at all, they've set that font. Otherwise it doesn't matter. I might use one of those font stacks instead in the future.
65k to 100k for a "senior frontend engineer"? good luck.
My two cents is that as time moves on we have a need to show growth and it simply isn't easy to do so once you have picked tie low hanging fruits. Thus, we try to look for ways to increase revenue and cut costs that were previously ignored as the cost of doing business. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.

For example, a company I used to work at sold its building and rented (leased?) only three floors and the basement from the new owners. This injected cash into the company. I don't know what the slightly smaller cubicles cost the company in terms of employee productivity. How do we quantify such things?

The next place I worked (steel industry) at had my cubicle which was at least four times as big as that place before but I'm confident my productivity didn't go up four times because of it.

I'll agree with gp though. It is reprehensible to defend open floor plans as anything other than a cost cutting measure.
Definitely agree. Try taking a job that pays minimum wage (if you have one), or work in a shop, as a builder, or find friends who have to work all hours to survive and you'll realise how damned lucky you are.
ZipRecruiter - https://ziprecruiter.com - Santa Monica (Los Angeles area) - REMOTE OK for some positions

Our goal is to create the best online services for filling and finding jobs. We bootstrapped for the first four years, growing to 100+ employees. Last August, we raised $63M led by Institutional Venture Partners.

We have a number of open positions:

- Software Engineer (primarily Python) (Santa Monica)
- Software Engineer (primarily Perl) (Santa Monica or remote)
- Software Engineer in Test (python, selenium) (Santa Monica)
- Software Release Manager (Santa Monica)
- Software Engineering Intern (Santa Monica)

We're growing rapidly and have a large customer base (primarily small and medium sized businesses). We have interesting problems to solve in the areas of search, yield management, analytics, scalability and new product development. If you'd like to learn more, please visit https://www.ziprecruiter.com/hiring/technology or email us at techjobs@ziprecruiter.com
Except the universe has been around 13 billion years, and our solar system has only been around 3-5 billion, so it seems unlikely we are the first.
I think it doesn't really matter what people learn as a first programming language. Eventually, any serious programmer will become familiar with the most common languages and paradigms, C being one of them. It may not be the best choice for beginners, but it's valid nonetheless. People can have fun learning algorithms without worrying too much about pointers and complicated type declarations. It's not like it's going to mess up their brain and prevent them from learning higher-level languages later on.
My experience is the reverse. I think that beginning with C gives you the necessary knowledge of the inner workings of programs and systems that is required if you want to end up with a degree in CS/CE/similar. I've seen too many programmers that started with Java or Python and then didn't know what exactly is memory, what is "allocation" or similar concepts that are required if you want to understand what's going on with your programs.
I think the previous commenter was saying that the communication speed limits may not be a problem that can be, or needs to be, solved.

If the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit, technological civilizations may just have to accept it and work within that limit. Just because a method of communication is slow doesn't mean it's not worth using.
What is the business model of Phylagen? Scientific consulting? Is the company also interested in in house development of therapeutics? Seems to be mostly in stealth mode.
Overcoming goofy shit and gotchas is part of any programming system.
The story in question:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/sources-security-firm-no...
Talkwalker (http://www.talkwalker.com/) is hiring in Luxembourg City, Europe, Full-time, Onsite. (VISA possible for strong candidates)

We do social media monitoring, including crawling and indexing more than 300 million articles a day.

We are searching for java (backend and frontend) and javascript (frontend) engineers to join our growing team.

Please contact me by email (Thibaut Britz, t.britz@talkwalker.com) if you are interested.
Ticketmaster - Integration Engineer - Hollywood/Los Angeles, California - ONSITE

Ticketmaster is looking for an Integration Engineer to join the newly minted Distributed Commerce team. We are building new products and services that enable partners to sell verified tickets off-site on some of the largest platforms, social media networks, mobile apps, and websites in e-commerce and online media. As a key member of a small, dedicated business unit you will be responsible for onboarding new API clients, monitor critical applications, configure both new and legacy ticketing platforms, and resolve integration problems at a deep technical level. Effective communication skills are a must.

Responsibilities

- Integrate new API clients onto our transactional and/or content systems

- Design, develop, implement and test technical solutions based on business requirements

- Create and maintain integration documentation

- Design, build and maintain tools that monitor, automate or streamline internal processes

- Monitor business critical applications and troubleshoot or escalate appropriately when issues arise

- Maintain the integration pipeline and coordinate amongst key stakeholders, both internally and externally

- Provide primary QA support for partner integrations

Qualifications:

- 2+ years professional hands on experience

- Understanding of web services development principles and high-volume applications

- Ability to effectively communicate with third party technical and sales teams

- Basic knowledge of databases and SQL

- Programming experience and understanding of programming concepts

Email ryan.aviles@ticketmaster.com for details. No recruiters please
VividCortex | Charlottesville, VA | INTERNS, ONSITE | https://www.vividcortex.com/

Local (Charlottesville area) candidates only, please!

VividCortex is the best way to see what production database systems are doing. Our database monitoring platform is used by major companies like King, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and Etsy to monitor their MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis servers in production and development environments.

We're looking for interns to join our young, lean, energetic company with a great get-it-done culture.

Our technology stack consists of AWS, Kafka, MySQL, and Go on the backend; Symfony, AngularJS, and D3 on the frontend. Our exciting technical challenges include high-performance database protocol decoding, statistical anomaly detection, adaptive fault detection, time series storage, and stream processing.

Interested? Please contact me at preetam [at] vividcortex.com!
But then who would the A-type managers talk at? ;-)
> This seems to be very short period for closing down a service.

That's because "things changed when [Frederic] discovered Telize was being used by malware and ransomware."

> However, some trouble could have been avoided by a longer closing period.

Are you suggesting he should have willfully and intentionally continued allowing his service to be used by malware and ransomware to harm innocent web users? Seems like more trouble was prevented by shutting down as quickly as possible.
SEEKING WORK

Location : Ankara, Turkey
Remote : Yes
Willing to relocate : Yes but not in one year. So remote only for now.
Technologies :

- Advanced Javascript (ES6, Babel)
- Responsive HTML5 websites,
- SaaS web apps development
- Backend (node.js)
- Frontend (react.js)
- UI prototypes
- Wireframes
- user flows
- Git
- agile development
- Unity (for game development)

Resume :
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I'm looking for remote freelance, part-time, full time work. Thanks. Volkan Ongun
It varies by state, but I just looked up New York, California, and Texas and they are surprisingly uniform. Getting a 72-hour hold is pretty easy, and a psychiatrist can tell the court if s/he deems it necessary to hold for an additional 14 days (ostensibly, so they can verify that whatever medication they choose to administer has taken effect). These courts are pretty much set up to rubber stamp whatever the psychiatrist wants to do; many hospitals that have psychiatric services have these courts in the same facility. After that, although the patient has the right to leave the hospital whenever they want, but in many cases they aren't told that, or that they may need to call a lawyer to take them court in order for the judge to issue a release.
What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone...

I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full time | Onsite, relocation

Independent View is an asset management firm focusing on quantitative investment strategies. We are a young, energetic, research-driven company consistently outperforming benchmark returns. For this, we were recently awarded Best Newcomer Commodity trading advisor in 2015 by CTA Intelligence Magazine. We are keen to build on our early success and are looking for talent to expand our Research and Development team.

We are hiring for a very hands-on developer position with direct ownership of multiple internal products. Pace of work is fast, decisions are made quickly and communication is efficient within our tight-knit team.

If you see yourself growing together with a very promising young company, this may be just the right place for you.
We are a small, highly multinational team, communicating mostly in English. We value our casual, creative atmosphere, with emphasis put on tangible results and technical arguments.

If you’d like to meet, have a chat and get some more information about the company email me jerry at independentview.com. When found the right match, we’ll be more than happy to help with relocation to Amsterdam, which is a lovely city to live in.
I guess you could say it's also the point of most tech startups, but only for the founders and the first few employees.
Open offices went away with the clerical staff. In the 90s, a professional job like IT would be in cubes or shared offices. Real offices don't make sense financially, mostly for tax reasons.

What changed is that IT operations became a bigger thing, and we started needing more programmers. The traditional cubicle created the illusion of a private space, but made IT ops hard because you couldn't see anybody.

Now open offices are back. Wifi is displacing many of the managed cabling requirements, and people are into the feeling of "energy" that comes with a newsroom like environment.

If you look around you and see a big open room of people futzing around with headphones -- take the hint. You're the clerk of the 2010's.
Yeah, but why start with an exceedingly painful one except to needlessly inflict pain and suffering on students. Better to lay the groundwork with a friendlier language, learn the basics, and then move on to the more complicated gottchas (at least in my amateur opinion).
Gee, another open space rant. We never see enough of that.

So let's review what open space helps with.

Open space helps with teams working on creative problems. It helps them by allowing them, as a team, to own their collective space in such a way such that they are constantly socially interacting whether they would prefer that or not. The theory is that a group of people, left alone to work physically beside each other on something non-trivial, will eventually work through obstacles that each of them working individually and trying to email would not. In addition, people work through these problems on a non-verbal level, using body language, obfuscation, and all the other social tools that nature has given us to use when dealing with problems as a group (Insert long discussion here)

In a room with 80 people all sitting at cafeteria tables? That's not it. In an environment where teams don't have and own separate spaces? That's also not it. Working on a grunt project that doesn't requires a lot of creative problem-solving? Probably not for you -- and your job is in danger of being taken over by robots. Not responsible for truly helping a business problem and instead just being told what to do every day? You might as well work anywhere in the world; office setup isn't going to change anything for you.

This is really powerful stuff, and I've seen it make a ton of difference to how teams perform. But like everything else, it's been "re-branded", buzz-worded, adopted-and-extended, and compromised to the point where it's a disaster for a lot of folks. I can't help that. It's still a good idea in many cases. (And, quite frankly, as a developer I'd rather just be left alone to code. I do not care about creative solutions to interesting problems. Unfortunately, the people who pay me? They pay me to work through tough issues, not just try to spend the maximum amount of time in flow.)

So it's really getting hard to have an intelligent discussion about this. All the time I hear my friends say "I hate X!" Then I look at what they're doing? It's not X. I'm not sure whether to agree with them or not. I am reminded of the old joke: "Doctor! It hurts when I do this!" "Well, stop doing that."
> This has put me in a position where my manager has hinted that im going to get promoted if I keep it up.

You're not going to get promoted. That's just a bullshit game they play to pressure you into putting in more hours.

If it ain't in writing, it don't exist.
Creandum IV: A Swedish VC fund for early stage startups in Europe
Why C is great to start learning programming
> All it takes is one small group in one species to create the self-replicating probes that dismantle every natural grouping of matter to create more efficient arrangements to support more intelligence

The "paradox" ultimately comes down to a lack of data. If the milky way evolves interplanetary civilizations every 5 billion years, it's clear the odds are stacked against ever meeting another living civilization... especially if FTL is impossible and transporting large masses at C is not viable.

The assumption that life naturally lead to computronium and self-replicating structures also seems unfounded.
What a timely coincidence. I just finished reading Cixin Lui's "The Dark Forest" (it and the first book in the series "The Three-Body Problem" I cannot recommend enough). I think the central premise of the book is probably the worst of the possible reasons we haven't found anyone else out there...

"The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox."
Very sweet. I'm excited to see some of the more popular Zaps that get published.
It also has some emergent complexity that might not be immediately apparent without having seen how it works in practice:

- Success (i.e. being voted in) is considerably easier when you depend on a proportion of the population than a majority, and this diminishes the power of party political vehicles.

- PR therefore encourages (or rather, discourages less) the formation of splinter groups, "forked" parties, and independent candidates

- It results in legislative bodies with no clear majority, which in turn leads to coalitions of convenience (great for mapping to population majority on single issues) but tends to destabilize governments that do not dance the dance of diplomacy very well (because tyrannical "we have a clear mandate" decisions don't work without a clear majority).

These are not necessarily bad features, because cooperation becomes regularly necessary rather than an occasionally inconvenient task. It does mean, however, that politicians have to be good at politicking to ensure they continue to be important in a world where loyalty to the party is only a piece of the whole pie.

If you add in STV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote) it gets even more interesting, because the transferable vote means each winner has to have the approval of a majority of the electorate. This means that, while in FPTP or simple PR, someone might get elected with (e.g. from parent comment) 17% of the vote (meaning that up to 83% of the population voted against them), in PR with STV, at least 50% + 1 has to approve of the candidate, to some extent.

Neither system removes the problem of gerrymandering however, because it's still possible to draw a constituency that is statistically going to maximize e.g. working class candidates, thereby reducing the impact of that electorate on neighbouring middle-class constituencies.
> It's curious watching the Dev community obsess about how many things could theoretically do without getting off their butt

I understand the sentiment, but it's important to consider the people in situations where it's not feasible to meet physically. It's not about "getting off your butt" if you live multiple hours away from the office.
Intersection | NYC | Full-time | Onsite | http://www.intersection.com

Senior Software Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Android Platform Software Engineer, and more

We're the people behind LinkNYC (https://www.link.nyc/). You may have heard about the "obscenely fast" free public wifi we're installing all over New York City (http://gizmodo.com/nycs-new-public-wifi-is-obscenely-fast-17...). Come help us make it even better.

But that's not all we do. We create products and experiences that use technology to make shared spaces amazing.

Full set of job postings here: http://www.intersection.com/careers.html

Send me an email at benjamin.haas@intersection.com and we can talk more.
The Woman Who Got Lost at Home
Future of supercomputing
The Apple monoculture is strong with this one. When will trendy developer startups realize other environments exist besides iOSX?