skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spiceworks | Austin | Full time | Onsite with relocation assistance available

Spiceworks helps millions of IT pros do their jobs with free tools and connect through our online community. Come help us transform IT. We are looking for the following:

- Test & Automation Engineers

- Data Engineers and Architects

- Software Engineers (front-end, back-end or full-stack)

We have an awesome culture with full benefits, an onsite gym, free drinks & snacks (with breakfast tacos on Monday and bagels on Friday), a weekly development lunch-n-learn and more. We're also ranked as one of the best places to work by Fortune (http://fortune.com/best-medium-workplaces-in-technology/), Glassdoor (http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Small-and-Medium-Companies-to-...) and have been ranked at a top work place by the Austin American-Statesman six years running (http://www.topworkplaces.com/frontend.php/regional-list/comp...).

Find out more about Spiceworks and see the current openings at http://www.spiceworks.com/jobs
Repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel if you use computers, so absolutely yes!
You know you could've condensed that entire post down to "I think Internet will eventually be free and subsidized by the companies that profit from the usage of it."?

Hell, Facebook's already doing it with Internet.org.
London, UK | Geckoboard https://www.geckoboard.com | Full time | ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem)

Geckoboard is a successful, growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time dashboards solve a tricky, important problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that information simple for everyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join up projects, and make better decisions faster.

We are looking for a front-end developer who is excited about tail-call optimisation in ES6, uses TDD consistently or wants to learn to do so, and builds super-usable single-page applications. Any React knowledge is a plus but we are happy for you to learn with us.

Please see our jobs page for details: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/

We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making our architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating our work and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality.

We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your family, and we have generous maternity and paternity leave policies. We see our contractual obligation to offer 25 days' paid holiday as a /lower/ bound for everyone in the organisation, not a limit.

We actively contribute to personal and professional development and have a minimum budget allowance to be spent on courses, conferences, and books. We also run fortnightly "innovation days", where everyone has complete freedom to work on anything that interests them, from contributing to open-source projects, learning a new skill, or improving our internal tools and processes.
We can keep writing these articles and reading them and knowing we are right and get nowhere.

1) Say I'm an engineer with a manager who doesn't get it. How can I empathetically (that is, without spontaneously developing a "political performance problem" on my next review) help my manager improve?

2) Say I'm that manager, and I want to improve but meetings and spreadsheets are all I know. What can I do?
8/10

Pros:
- I get paid a lot of money doing what I did as a hobby when I was younger

- I come in whenever I want and leave whenever I want

- I can work from home whenever I want

- My work is intellectually stimulating

- My coworkers are smart and interesting

- I get to play with dogs at work

- If I don't like my job, I can get 5 other offers within a week

Cons:
- I still make less than I would have if I pursued law, finance, or medicine

- Most interviews are some sort of hostile, cargo-cult nonsense

- Those 5 offers would not offer me anything significantly different from each other or my current job

- Nearly all of my coworkers care more about playing with the latest technologies and building unnecessary frameworks than actually making things

- The best companies/jobs are all in Silicon Valley or SF, whereas I want to live in NYC

I don't really like the "industrialized software development" model most companies follow. Wherever I work, I am 2-5x more productive than the average developer. When I start, I usually am on a team with people who are similarly productive. But, as our success grows, we hire more people who are less productive (against my wishes), and the people I used to work with either leave or get promoted to management, which means I don't get to work with them anymore. I also get promoted to management, which means that I spend less time programming and more time doing things I don't enjoy.

Yes, I get that it's hard to hire exceptional people. I get that companies would rather consist of many easy-to-replace mediocre people than a few hard-to-replace exceptional people. I get that, at a certain size, predictability matters more than speed, and having more people on the team allows their idiosyncrasies to cancel out.

I just wish that I could work on a small team of really smart, really well-compensated people. Does such a thing exist? Should I take Google's job offer (from what I hear, they over-staff every team)? Should I look into hedge funds (not super interested in building stuff I can't use)? Should I say "fuck it" and try to get a job as a quant or trader (I've gotten offers in the past)?
Why is that a fantasy world? Most of that has already happened or is in the process of happening.
YouTubers at War Over Those ‘React’ Videos
Review of the FPGA Based Vampire II Turbo Card
Or you could use a Sony a7S, which is perfectly capable of shooting films on normal lenses with no other lighting but candle light.

A significant portion of my short film "HOWTO: Demon Summoning" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZoiva3DfI8) was shot with nothing but candle light last year. Four tealights, to be exact.

We just used a regular f/1.4 50mm Contax/Yashica lens on the a7s body, running at 40,000 ISO or therabouts.

The footage was a bit noisy as it came out of the camera, not aided by my shooting in LOG format without exposing as high as I should have done, but once we ran it through the Neat Video noise filter plugin it looks great.

I wrote a bit about the process over here: http://www.strangecompany.org/lessons-i-learned-from-my-firs...
For whatever reason, society seems to value risk-taking 10x more than it values work. Just look at the replies in this thread. People are actually arguing that founders deserve their megawealth because at some point they risked something, and that employees do not deserve it, regardless of how much they work, because they didn't risk anything (although I would argue that employees #1-4 risk a hell of a lot more than most founders).
Yeah, that and a lack of responsibility sometimes attracts me. My whole career (+15yrs) has basically been in industries where things are not allowed to go wrong. Some days I wish I was a lumberjack or maybe a programmer in an industry where you don't kill people or cost millions of dollars with a bug... But at the end of the day I can't stop myself from programming and I want to work on things that make a difference, so I'll leave the wood-cutting to my spare time.
> My mother loves Steve Jobs so much she got a little teary when I gave her a Chromebook Pixel for Christmas. She didn't open the box for almost 10 minutes, because the idea of having a tech product that didn't come from Jobs bothered her so much.

Well, at least I don't have to deal with Jobs-worship when I assist relatives with technology. Could be worse I guess.
Getting on stage at a top three in the world IoT event
Gardening is very enjoyable as is working on my home. Something very gratifying about seeing your hard work in physical form versus virtual work.
I'd argue that neither Ocaml nor F# get the OO-FP integration quite right. The problem is this:

offer ... object system on top of
... functional features.

This implicitly assumes that objects are a special case of functions. This is questionable. Scala goes the other way and recovers functions as special cases of objects. In my opinion that solved the integration problem of typed OO with statically typed FP. Javascript, Smalltalk et al are not statically typed.

Almost any language having some kind of procedure mechanism. I'm not sure how helpful it is to take that alone as an example of supporting FP.
Software Engineer | True Link Financial | San Francisco, CA (onsite)

A YC company in 2013, True Link Financial is an SF-based financial services company that believes in quality financial services for all: from protecting grandma’s money from scammers to providing supplemental financial tools that support disabled Veterans.

85% of our work is in Rails, 10% is in Java, and about 5% is DevOps—AWS, multiple SSL & IPSec VPNs, encryption, security, etc.

Our technology suite is complex, geographically distributed, and must be both secure and robust to protect our customers, more so than your typical startup.

Did we mention that we built an IVR for customer service, and handle customer incoming customer requests via SMS, too?

If you’re a nice person who has worked on hairy, wacky production full-stack code before, let’s talk. You should be someone who can make things better without being rude, judgmental or arrogant about it. Rockstars need not apply; sessions musicians only.

We hired a Rails engineer who gives frequent talks on diversity issues in tech.

We hired a stand-up comedian and mathematician who has been blowing out our UIs with React + Flux.

We’re migrating our deployment automation from Elastic Beanstalk + Opsworks to Ansible.

We do stuff.

Unfortunately, we cannot support part-time, remote, or contract work at this time: only an in-house full-time hire here in SF.

Email jobs@truelinkfinancial.com and we'll get back to you within 2 business days. Seriously.

Keywords if you Cmd+F’d the page: rails3, rails4, RoR, ruby, sloths, ReactJS, Flux, Ansible, fintech, full-stack, IPSec
This is too real. shudder
Google Primer App | New York City | On Site | Contract

Interested in mobile learning? We're looking for an iOS Developer to join the Google Primer Team.

More about the product:
https://www.yourprimer.com/

Job Req: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1ZYsasha6efKeDWaeLy1n...

Write to yasui@google.com
That just leads to the conclusion offered in the post I replied to:

or hey, I got a better idea. Let's just not buy FTDI any longer. That sounds much cheaper and less painful.

If you want to trade on your reputation and a manufacturer makes it impossible to verify their parts, don't use that manufacturer.

I think differing ideas of 'reputable brand' may be the problem, you can't just want to be a reputable brand and go through some motions of providing quality, you have to walk the freaking walk.
Fermi:

> ...technological civilization doesn’t last long enough for it to happen.”

Writer:

> Both York and Teller seemed to think Fermi was questioning the feasibility of interstellar travel—nobody thought he was questioning the possible existence of extraterrestrial civilizations

What happens when a technological civilization 'doesn't last long enough'? It stops existing.
> Do you have a source for this?

I don't. However it seems odd to think people wouldn't zoom in a document viewer.

Let's get some real numbers though: I just asked Addy Osmani on Twitter if there are stats for this, since window.devicePixelRatio changes with zoom.
I find this an interesting line of argument, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to eventually find out that the current model is missing a lot of important "second-order" effects that contribute to the convergence towards good designs for life. I would be particularly interested to see if epigenetics play a larger role than we previously thought, because this would provide for a feedback mechanism.

However, I wouldn't discount the importance of _sexual_ fitness being a part of the natural selection picture. In some sense, you have not just nature judging your genes, but an intelligent creature that can make judgments about all sorts of traits that are not critical for survival. Just by being very picky, we all contribute extreme selective pressure. I would also imagine there is somewhat of a runaway effects in this regard. If you confer a slightly crappy gene to your offspring, that will, on average, cause them to find a mate with slightly crappier genes themselves. Go a few generations down that road, and you might finally terminate.

Just some food for thought. Obviously your central point that you would need some statistical backing to buy what I've written is well taken.
{random advice from the internet}

The first step in finding a new job is applying for jobs, not further study. Think in terms of organizations rather than detailed job specifications if the critical element is working remotely. Relocating, of course opens up more options and increases the pool in which to build a professional network. It doesn't have to be forever or more than a couple of hours away.

Good luck.
What a world we live in. Defending the security of a nation = laid-back, no stress. Writing yet another CRUD backend for a mobile app = crazy hours and ulcers.
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
It wouldn't hurt to get SQLite Manager and periodically check what's in the browser databases. For example, if you buy anything online you might find your credit card number in there.
Availability: from 2016-04-01

Location: Poznań, Poland; (on contract till 2016-03-31 in Berlin, Germany)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but you can tempt me if the job is aligned with my interests.

Technologies: C, C++, OpenGL, POSIX, Linux, shell scripting, JavaScript

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/hadrian-w%25C4%2599grzynowski-780028...

Email: hadrian@hawski.com

A few of the things that I want to do in my spare time:

- Port Blender [1] to Pepper/NaCl

- Finish my Acme [2] inspired text editor (https://github.com/hadrianw/werf)

- Write a HTML5 game using Pixi.js

- Learn Go-lang

- Create receiving e-mail proxy with usage of Let's Encrypt in a way that only client would have private key for certificate

[1] https://www.blender.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29
The link is wrong, should be

https://medium.com/@_marcos_otero/the-real-10-algorithms-tha...

Article is also from May 2014, so not sure it's "news"
I had plenty of differential equations, but I never took linear algebra. I'm fairly certain it was introduced in one of the semesters of calculus, but IIRC there was a separate linear equations class offered. I never took statistics, but it always seemed like it was one of the more practical and useful math classes.

To be clear, my problem wasn't that there was a lot of math. My problem was that there was no context, and what we were copying off the board could easily have been copied from a book or pamphlet. I'm not sure what the practical reason is to spend multiple classes deriving one version of the FFT from another with zero context.
I see your point, and, well, agree with it. The only opposition I could see would be to make sure all your system incorporating FDTI chips comes from the same batch, and to change them all when you change one. Not realistically doable imo.
That's basically what I've been doing. I'm not convinced that's the only possible way, which is why I asked. Working on pointless projects is fine for a short period of time (at least for me - I tried that approach multiple times in the past), but a potential source of burnout in the long run...
Hot Valentine's Commercial for the Punany Poets
I think GP's point was the capacitor issue was still a corporate IP issue. A (tampered) formula for electrolytic capacitor dielectric was stolen and the resulting capacitors were prone to premature failure.

I don't see that as a "QA process gap".
There a many countries where you don't have to borrow a single cent to study medicine. Instead, you even get paid a small support every month.
I just thought I'd add some color on why people are using Edge, despite the fact that it has a feature paucity compared to Chrome and Firefox and IE. I definitely want the InPrivate bug fixed, but I'm still using Edge at this moment.

1. For desktop users, most of us aren't using Edge most of the time. Desktop systems are powerful and features matter more. The only time we use Edge is when some saved feature or history element is there.

2. For Windows Mobile, all 30 people using the platform have no choice but to use Edge. This bug is pretty important for them, as inPrivate mode has many more implications on a mobile device.

3. For Tablet and Surface Book customers, generally regarded as the "leading edge" customers & Microsoft's most robust product and software line? We use Edge and will probably keep doing so. Why? Because it's te only browser that gives a damn about efficiency. Chrome is quite fast, but is a monster on battery life. Firefox is quite slow (even without plugins). Edge gets very good speeds, generally good performance and compatibility, and doesn't trigger a battery dump spiral.

This is not a unique aspect of the Windows platform (Chrome can roast batteries on Mac OS X as well, and mobile/portable Linux's Power management story is not great either). but it's exacerbated by the new form factors Microsoft is shipping in its Surface line which can easily get >10h battery life with canny apps.
> and since we don’t see any obvious signs of aliens here, searching for their signals is pointless.

That is a huge over simplification. The fermi paradox doesn't really conclude. It is called a paradox because we need to solve the riddle that combined with the drake equation it is awfully quiet in our universe, why is that?

If you have 20 minutes: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

This is probably one of the best long reads on the internet dealing with this question.
Definitely a gem of a museum if you're ever in KC.
Nikon takes down plane photo after row
This is just cruel. I hope you left that job.
So what are the genetic advantages of being gay? And how come nature hasn't figured out a way to make these advantages without also producing gay siblings, which would seem to bring down the overall fitness of the genes?
A collection of JavaScript topics the just might spark the next revolt
SEEKING WORD — Remote, Central NJ (Office in Princeton)

My site is http://juliusparishy.com/ and my email address is hello@juliusparishy.com

To get straight to the point, I'm an expert iOS developer with skills across many other platforms too; I've created APIs in Python (Django, Flask) or Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), I've created web apps and desktop apps, and many mobile applications.

In the last year, I've built 3 major apps, Charlie App's iOS app [0], the Daily Burn Apple TV app that was featured by Apple both on the App Store and in Apple Retail Stores [1], and the On The Regimen Macros Tracking app [2]. In the past, I worked for Fitocracy and built both of their iOS apps [3].

I've very good at what I do and I can use my experience to propel your project forward. All you have to do is get in touch to get the ball rolling. I currently have availability for one new project and I'm excited to work on something cool.

You can check out my GitHub (https://github.com/jparishy) and Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/jparishy) to get a feel for the types of things I work on and the kind of person I am. Descriptions of my larger projects and some articles I've written about iOS development can be found on my website. Also check out RunSwift and TestAPNS to see some free dev tools I've created [4].

Looking forward to hearing from you.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/charlie-impress-anyone-you/i...

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dailyburn-video-workouts/id4... (Apple TV version, not iOS)

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/on-the-regimen/id1046300591?...

[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitocracy-workout-exercise/i... and https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitocracy-macros-how-much/id...

[4] http://www.runswiftlang.com and http://testapns.com
To address the screen-reader concerns: As a proof of concept I was able to swap out `data-hint` for `aria-label` without issue: https://github.com/jdan/hint.css/commit/e6541166ec055c525485...

`aria-label` is essentially used twice here - both to populate the tooltip's contents, and to provide an accessibility label to the element that can be read off by a screen-reader.

I proposed these changes to the maintainers under an existing a11y issue (yay to people thinking about it!), but pointed out that if folks are using this library to supplement the contents of an element with a tooltip instead of labeling it, then the a11y changes are not ideal because a screen-reader will omit the element's contents in favor of whatever is inside the tooltip. My gut tells me that this library is mainly used to annotate things like icons.
The real issue is not that we haven't been visited (for which read, we exist, because the matter of the solar system wasn't turned into computronium by some group billions of years ago), but that everything we see is a wilderness. All of the observable universe appears natural in every place we can assess whether or not it is natural. No dyson spheres in evidence, no class 3 civilization in any of the nearest 100,000 galaxies, etc, etc.

This makes no sense given that we exist, and the laws of physics show no indications that we are a special case, or that transforming the universe into intelligent matter is impossible. 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, and on a small timescale compared to the age of the universe entire galaxies are turned from wilderness to structure.

https://www.exratione.com/2015/05/the-cosmological-noocene/

"Per our present understanding of physics and intelligent economic activity, we will turn every part of that great span into our descendants if not diverted or stopped by some outside influence, stars and all. The cosmological noocene, an ocean of intelligence. That the natural universe remains present to be used by us indicates that something is awry, however, that some vital and important understanding is missing, and as a species we are still just making the first fumbling explorations of the bounds of the possible with regards to what it is that we don't know."
At my new job, I've really started pushing back against meetings that seem superfluous. Often times I'll find myself saying the same exact thing at 3 different meetings, and it almost never affects anyone else in the room.
IFTTT - SF, CA

Infrastructure Engineer - Docker, Mesos, Marathon, AWS, Ruby.

Web Engineer - Ruby, JavaScript, React.

We're located at 5th and Market in a creative environment that's full of fun gadgetry and intelligent, thoughtful people who enjoy generous benefits and compensation. Come help us change the way that people interact with technology.

https://ifttt.com/jobs
The Hawthorne Effect
Interview with Jason Ekstrand: Vulkan in Open-Source
Recently I bought a 3D printer from China, and surprise, can't flash the Arduino chip. This was a bit of a set back but after a little googling, I found a work around and was backup and running.

Here is the patch for anyone who's interested, http://kiguino.moos.io/2014/12/31/how-to-use-arduino-nano-mi...
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in that room, stoned and jealous. There are rumors, that Kubrick actually got real weed for them to get this scene to be authentic and perfect.