skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many things that might have happened but for one key decision. You can't spend the rest of your life wondering "what if?"

But it can be tempting!

In my case, I had the opportunity to be the first programmer at Apple. I told the story on Reddit a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h4n5w/

As you can imagine, I have wondered "what if?" more than a few times. :-)

But "what if?" can work both ways. I could have become a billionaire and one of the most famous people in Silicon Valley. Or Steve could have driven me from the mild depression I'd occasionally experienced into full-blown mental illness, as happened with one of Apple's earliest employees. You just don't know which way it could have turned out.

The other story on the front page today about Regis McKenna reminds me of one of the more remarkable coincidences I've encountered.

As I told in the Reddit story, when I walked out of Apple's answering service in 1976 I thought to myself, "Those guys are flakes! They're never going to make it."

It was one of those things that sticks in your mind. I remember vividly to this day exactly where I was walking and the exact words that were in my head.

A couple of years ago I was reading Michael Moritz's Return to the Little Kingdom and ran across this:

At first there was great uncertainty at the Regis McKenna Agency about Apple's prospects. The account executive, Frank Burge, explained, "People who knew Markkula and Apple wondered whether they would make it. We kept saying 'These guys are flakes. They’re never going to make it.'"

Other than "these" vs. "those", it's the exact same words I was thinking.

It was definitely a strange feeling to run across that quote!
That's not a reasonable thing to ask him to say in this situation. I don't know if you realize this, but you're just some random dude making a claim with nothing at all to back it up besides that you said it. You said there was info online, but haven't provided it. You said your acquaintance has hard evidence, but realistically we're all going to forget about this conversation before you ever actually provide it.

Sorry dude, this is not a claim you're going to have taken seriously with the level of info you've provided.
Remitly | Seattle, WA (downtown) | Sr. Engineer | ONSITE

About Us:
Remitly is a mobile payments service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international money transfers from the United States and Canada. Our online service uses the latest technology and mobile devices to eliminate the forms, codes, agents, extra time, and fees tied to the traditional money transfer process. A Techstars company, Remitly is backed by DFJ, QED, Trilogy Partnership, DN Capital, Founders Co-Op, Bezos Expeditions, and TomorrowVentures.

Opportunity:
We are looking for a senior engineer with considerable backend and web services architecture experience to join our Customer Service and Risk Product team. You will own a lot of our internal products around customer service and fraud systems. We provide some of the best customer service in the industry and a lot of it comes down to a top notch suite of support softwares (both third party services + in-house products).
Technologies we use: JAVA (dropwizard stack), PHP, Bootstrap. 100% on AWS.

https://www.remitly.com/us/en/home/careers?gh_jid=104696
Location: Seattle

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Perl, PHP, Linux (CentOS/RedHat and Debian), BIND, Exim, Sendmail, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Icecast, RMServer, ProFTPD, Apache, sshd, nginx, CVS, SVN, Git, and Sinatra

Resume: http://resume.ulyco.com/

Email: resume@ulyco.com
Move file within directory in Node.js
This is blatantly misleading. April Fools' Day HAS NOT been banned in China. I can confirm because am in China. Upon searching baidu (their search engine), April Fools' day has not been banned or blocked. Rather, it's simply being discouraged by official media. There's a HUGE difference between discouraging something and banning it.
Theranos Promised a Revolution, but Delivered Dangerous Errors
Basically like every country.
Location: Minnesota

Remote: Please.

Willing to relocate: Yes, but I can't; sick mom.

Technologies: Full-stack Ruby/Rails, Postgres, Redis, APIs, Heroku, AWS, buzzwords, etc.

Resume/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/joshmn

Email: josh[at]josh.mn

I closed up my shop because I lost my co-founder who was design/sales to my biz/back-end. I can't pass a background check (see post history), but that's usually not an issue these days. I'd be grateful for anything and everything that I can help you with, because bills are stacking up and my mom isn't well. She's my number 1.

On a side note, my cat is almost 20 years old. Can you imagine that? Here's a picture: http://i.imgur.com/hVdZpMh.png
>Having an effective universal annotation platform in wide use across the web

...funded by venture capital with an expectation of hyper growth and liquidity event would not necessarily be beneficial for all users. To put it mildly.
Storygize | Newbury Park, CA | Fulltime | ONSITE

Seeking software engineer.

At Storygize, we're working hard to evolve Programmatic Native Advertising so content marketers can rest assured their stories are delivered respectfully and efficiently, at scale. With deep roots in online performance marketing, our founders envisioned a solution more powerful, easier to use, more cost-effective, and ultimately results-driven.

This full-stack engineer is passionate about clean and simple code, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate values state-of-the-art online technologies, follows the Agile Manifesto, and welcomes concepts of Extreme Programming.

Responsibilities:
Align architecture and development with the overall business strategy, Build technology platform, Write clean and simple code, Follow the Agile Manifesto.

Required Skills:
Strong JVM background, OO Design and Development

Experience with:
Automated testing, Relational Databases, NoSQL Data stores, Implementing REST services

Valued Skills:
Scala, Javascript / ReactJS, TDD, AWS, Agile / Scrum / Extreme Programming

Storygize offers competitive pay, great medical insurance (includes dental & vision), and flexible time off.

Please send inquiries to jobs@storygize.com
Does EM stand for electromagnetism? If so it seems that force is the most important factor in an organism?
Yes, I guess that makes sense. But I think in a 1.5hour talk, many of those questions will be forgotten by the end, so I rather they get asked right away. Especially in a small gathering of 20 or so hackers, most of which know each other.
Show HN: HTTPalooza – Ruby's greatest HTTP clients on stage together
Fieldbook | https://fieldbook.com | San Mateo, CA | Full time

Fieldbook lets anyone create a database, as easily as a spreadsheet. We help business teams get their operations out of spreadsheets—from project tracking, to data collection, to content management systems.

We were #1 on Product Hunt with over 1400 upvotes: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fieldbook-2

We're pursuing a big vision to create the world's best tool for working with structured data. It's an ambitious project with deep technical and UI challenges—but one that will transform people's relationship with the tools they use every day.

Our investors include Pejman Mar Ventures, Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Steven Sinofsky (ex-Microsoft), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), and John Collison (Stripe). We are building an ownership culture where employees take pride in their work and put the customer first. This is an early-stage opportunity with the potential to have a big impact on the product and on the company itself.

Hiring:

* Software Engineer

* UI Designer

* Growth Marketer

https://angel.co/fieldbook/jobs
Lambda Labs | Software Engineer (iOS / Computer Vision) | Palo Alto, CA (University Ave.) | Onsite | Full Time

We're hiring a Software Engineer with iOS and Computer Vision experience. Math, EE, CS, or Physics degree. If you love math and software engineering, you'll fit right in.
Required experience:

- Experience shipping multiple Objective-C apps that are currently available in the app store.

- An aptitude for design, ability to innovate using all of the tools available for iOS
Ideal candidates will have:

- Multiple apps in the app store.

- A track record of making high quality mobile user experiences. - Proficiency with basic computer vision and image processing operations.

To apply, please email your resume and github link to: s[at]lambdal.com
Hey EmilLondon, your email address looks incomplete.
If you change the function pointer, then you have to be aware of the calling convention used by the compiler and make sure you replicate it. Another can of worms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
When you alter the timeline, it's no longer a social network.
It's pretty unfortunate, but penalizing the airlines financially is the only way that they'll stop kowtowing to these sorts of unreasonable requests. Hopefully if this goes through, similar lawsuits will be brought against non-Israeli airline companies and this type of anti-social behavior will go away worldwide.

The article's key quote:

> Rabinowitz, a Jew who attends synagogue and keeps a kosher home, told the Guardian: “The man had no other reason to complain than my gender – and that’s unlawful discrimination. It’s no different than if a person of another religion had said: ‘I don’t want to sit next to a Jew.’ And I don’t believe El Al would move a person in those circumstance.”
Unfortunately many employment agreements prohibit side projects.
Someone with more knowledge of these thing, let me know:

Why does Tor not "charge" per request? i.e. Using some decentralized currency, to pay for requests.

1. Make it cheep enough such that users don't care, however, financially disincentives spammers/malicious users.

2. It would continue to be anonymous. - cycle through wallets - all transactions would also be proxied.

3. It would incentivize proxying and exit nodes (exit nodes would effectively collect a bunch of virtual money to be resold to clients for USD).
Powerpuff Yourself
Location: Berlin
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, clojure, julia, rust, javascript. Less recently erlang, ocaml, haskell. Recent heavy experience with relational query compilers, logic programming, reactive UI.
Résumé/CV: http://scattered-thoughts.net/resume/ or https://github.com/jamii/
Email: jamie@scattered-thoughts.net

I'm primarily looking for part-time or contract work.

I spent the last two years building compilers and relational databases at Eve (http://witheve.com/).

Before that I spent several years consulting. Some highlights:

Item-item article recommendations for Springer users based on ~600m past downloads. Uses locality-sensitive hashing and external sorting to run on a single low-powered server. https://github.com/jamii/springer-recommendations

Built a prototype replacement for the core trading engine at the Smarkets betting exchange: 10x less code, 40x better throughput, 10x better 99% latency.

Built a LaTeX aware search engine to power latexsearch.com. Covers the entire Springer library – more than 8m LaTeX equations. Searches by tree-edit distance on compressed syntax trees, using suffix arrays as a first-pass filter. https://github.com/jamii/texsearch

Parallelized a constrain-logic programming DSL - http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2012/12/19/search-trees-a...

> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Email me for whatever you like. Worst case I don't reply :)
I really don't think the intention is to say "look we improved this!", but rather to have a visually striking (since the original photo is visually striking) result that doesn't have a "ground truth color" to compare it to.
Planetary Resources | Redmond, WA | http://www.planetaryresources.com/

At Planetary Resources, our mission is to mine asteroids. Along the way, we are building Ceres, an advanced Earth observation system.

Help us build a robust and reliable data pipeline extending from the images collected by our satellites to a customer-ready product.

We are looking for someone with a mix of the following experience: Python, GDAL, remote sensing imagery processing, API development, data visualization. We work in a linux environment.

Email: jshriver@planetaryresources.com

http://webconnect3.atango.com/CN_Frame.aspx?ID=planetaryreso...

We are also hiring a Director of product, and mechanical, embedded, RF communications and software engineers. Check us out if you are interested!
Not necessarily. These work in combination.

If they're requesting specific type of content like images or some weird request that queries DB, these would be grouped together.

What I'm saying is gather more information for each request and use it more wisely to expire IP reputation quicker - within minutes as opposed to months.

The DDoS problem is actually easier than the rest because you need a large volume of requests to do anything. Usually these requests are very similar, come in rapid succession and come from the same bunch of IPs.

Edit:

Going with the mask analogy again, it's like you see 1000 masked people rush into a bar and block the entrance with their bodies.

Is the solution really to ban wearing masks everywhere?
Contrary to what this VC believes, it is NOT okay to expect someone to "work 60 hours a week at Facebook and then another 40 hours a week on your side project". Because starting a business should not be founded on giving up your personal life. Quitting your job to focus on your idea full-time is a perfectly reasonable expectation. Investors need to start doing their homework instead of pushing founders to the burnout limit.
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, Portland or Eugene, OR.

Technologies: Swift, iOS, Rx, Network architecture, Python, PHP.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/thanegill

Email: me@thanegill.com
> That's the part which is adverse to the rest of your argument. You're not voting off the bad actor, you're voting off everyone in the bad actor's country.

The bad actor is the organization or person responsible for administering the network where the abuse is originating.

When I'm being attacked by someone's VPS, I report them to their host. After the fourth time I report them only to have their host pass along my report but take no further action, the host becomes, maybe not a bad actor but, a "bad citizen".

My choices are to allow them to externalize the costs of their lack of enforcement (or decision not to enforce) and attempt to find a way to block the specific actor under their purview, or just to block that host and accept whatever collateral damage that occurs. (And yes, sometimes that "bad citizen" may end up being most of a country - it doesn't change the equation for me.)

It's the only method I have to exert any pressure on the host to act responsibly. If enough people agree with me, then it quickly becomes "their problem" rather than "my problem" as they get blackholed from everywhere on the internet.
> It's like city guards banning everyone with a mask from entering and issuing IDs to them.

The flaw in this analogy is that in this case the mask makes every person completely indistinguishable from every other person wearing the mask. In this case, one ID is issued to every person wearing the mask.

When 90%+ of the people with this ID are criminals and vandals, blocking anyone with this ID is a pretty obvious and effective way to prevent crime and vandalism. It's seems pretty reasonable to me when presented this way.
> discouraged by official media

That's a good way of putting it. We've changed the title to reflect that.
How much of a jerk is your boss? - of the 7 bosses I have they combine for a low score of 2. All are nice people.

How chaotic is your environment? 10 - Agile doesn't mean 6 week waterfall sprints. Unit tests aren't something you do manually and infrequently.

What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? Everyday I stay past 6:00pm but I'm only allowed to be on the property till 6:00pm.

What are you currently doing? Waiting for an IBM source control tool to finish doing something.

What would you like to do instead? Learning Erlang & Elixir
And lines of credit, leases, loans, insurance policies, corporate credit cards... One real-world indicator that your company is beginning to succeed is reaching the point that personal guarantees are no longer required.
WOW! Just wow! That would explain why + stopped working for me.

Thanks buddy.
We've extended the challenge up to May 30th, raised the prizes and added Python 3 support.
Location: Bay Area/San Jose

Remote: Yes/No. Willing to do remote, but not remote would be just as good.

Willing to relocate: Yes, West Coast of US preferable

Technologies: Python, C/C++, Javascript. Willing to learn anything you want to throw at me.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVFioskGW1y5mklNdyaxLuDC...

Email: nsokolnikov1995@gmail.com

I'm graduating in May 2015 with a CS B.S. and looking for an entry-level CS position. I have experience with both machine learning techniques and application as well as low-level C++ programming.
Maybe because he uses it like FB, adding friends.
One of the dailies in the UK is reporting that some people have had job offers withdrawn and/or had to deal with other consequential issues:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/01/gmails-mic-...

Not a lawyer, but I wonder if Google is on very thin ice here. Federal law about snail mail may not be relevant if someone launches a substantial civil damages suit.

>The very fact that Google thought it worthwhile to do such a thing with personal communication absolutely boggles the mind.

This might have been funny on G's own internal network, kind of. But forcing it on users was astoundingly stupid and tone deaf.

Maybe next year we can have a gif of Eric Schmidt jumping over a shark on water skis.
Oh. Eye-opener. Is this why in the past year or two random contacts are doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and I can't merge them, and sometimes one app (like Hangouts/messaging) won't know a phone number is attached to a contact while another (the phone app) will, etc?

The contacts in Android seem totally fubar lately.

Knowing it's due to the G+ POS clears things up a bit.
Thanks! The current state in the industry is pretty poor. Really looking forward to helping fix that.
> full-blown mental illness, as happened with one of Apple's earliest employees

Can you share who is this early employee? Couldn't find him using Google.
SEEKING WORK - Charlotte/Remote

Full stack Ruby on Rails and PHP developer. Tons of experience in API development. Available immediately.

viacoffee@gmail.com
> What is the motivation behind this?

The README links to the explanation: https://ellacydawson.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/how-news-geniu...
Even better, treat the website that does so as malicious and stop visiting it.
Quartzy (YC S11) - Palo Alto, CA - Full-time, ONSITE

Every day, over 180 thousand scientists improve the efficiency of their research by using Quartzy. Our team is passionate about accelerating scientific research through well designed, meaningful tools for labs.

We recently raised a new round of funding (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/04/life-sciences-marketplace-q...) and are gearing up for rapid product development. If you've always admired your friends in science but your career path took you elsewhere, you'll be a great fit here.

Open positions:
- Sr. Visual Designer
- Sr. Product Designer
- PHP Engineer
- Product Manager (not on the website yet - email for more info)
- A handful of operations roles (see website for more info)

Learn more here: www.quartzy.com/careers or email: careers@quartzy.com
ATTN | http://attn.com | Remote | Full Time

UI Engineer

ATTN: is a news and media company focused on empowering a generation to make social impact. We do so by creating engaging experiences around original content.

As an engineering team:

--We have a passion for helping people
--We are fans, consumers and contributors to open source software
--We believe in code quality and testing
--We encourage creativity and exploration

We are looking to hire an experienced UI engineer to help us build and mature the presentation frameworks around our internal and external facing products. If you are passionate about building component driven UI systems, this may be the role for you.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/attn/jobs/180474#.Vv6yRxMrLFQ

Product Manager

Attn is looking to hire a Product Manager who will be responsible for managing the product development process across all of Attn.com customer facing touch points. This includes the attn.com website and publishing tools.

This candidate will work with our internal departments to gather feature requests and package them as handoffs for product development. The candidate will also work closely with engineering teams in the implementation, qa and release of features and enhancements.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/attn/jobs/189375#.Vv60HRMrLFQ
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> I.e., if you don't agree to let CloudFlare track you around the web (perhaps by simply declining cookies) CloudFlare is likely to degrade your user experience to the point of being borderline unusable and then point the blame at you for coming from a bad network neighborhood.

It seems like CloudFlare is not absolutely committed to this position because they're willing to explore things like the blinded tokens approach.
April Fool's?
Shifting to Manual
Aclima - http://www.aclima.io - San Francisco, CA

==========

Aclima designs and deploys distributed sensor networks for environmental quality. Aclima’s sensor networks generate billions of data points to reveal actionable insights about buildings, cities, and communities. In collaboration with partners like Google and the EPA, Aclima applies these insights to improve human and planetary health. Aclima’s mission is to use this new body of knowledge to create a more resilient, healthy and thriving world. For more information, visit www.aclima.io. We are looking for passionate engineers to help build, scale, and improve our platform. We’re looking for engineers who are smart and get things done. Our engineering culture values rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and as much automation as is sensible. We work in a relaxed, purpose-driven atmosphere with flexible hours and competitive perks.

Our stack includes:

Python, Git, MariaDB, Cassandra, Nginx, NSQ, Redis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

Open Positions:

* Full-time Experienced Backend Engineer

- Great coding skills

- Solid understanding of distributed systems

* Full-time Experienced DevOps Engineer

- Experience operating large Linux-based deployments

- Strong Python skills and automation mindset
Its far from limit to Google. I wonder if it is a geek/SV thing, as i keep seeing "solutions" come out of there that are hopelessly utopian in their naivety when it comes to considering human behavior and reactions.
A very good, in-depth look at this is here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/how-mistakes-can-save-li...

A story of how a pilot's wife died in surgery and how he campaigns to have doctors follow the example of airline crash investigation.

Particularly interesting/infuriating is the bits about how often someone in the room knew that someone was going to die, or get the wrong leg amputated, but status games prevented them from intervening.
Location: Charlotte, NC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby(rails, grape, sinatra), PHP, Javascript, C#, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Redis, MySQL.

Résumé/CV: available upon request

Email: viacoffee@gmail.com