skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't both of those activities more endemic in generally healthy people anyway (tend to live longer)? It'd be a bit of a stretch to say that it'll improve the genetic variables effecting your lifespan.
SpotHero | Chicago, IL | http://spothero.com
SpotHero is changing parking, and our tools will redefine the transportation industry. With over a million cars parked, fast growth, and solid funding (https://angel.co/spothero), SpotHero offers countless ways to make an impact on the company and your career.

Senior Engineer - Platform - https://spothero.com/careers/570628
SpotHero is seeking a Senior Engineer for our Platform Team. You will be responsible for building all things related to our Platform Services and Infrastructure that power our website, our API, and our native apps.

To apply, please email your resume to jobs@spothero.com. Include any github account, linkedin profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on.
tray.io | Senior Frontend Engineer (Mostly React) | London (Shoreditch) | Onsite | Full-Time

We are an ambitious and well-funded startup looking for top engineering talent to make connecting software services a breeze. Many software services we use every day are distinctly separate and difficult to use together - we intend to fix that. Your role as Senior Frontend Engineer will be to drive the customer facing design and code across the tray.io platform.

We currently use:

- ES6, React, Redux, Node

- Babel, Webpack, Jest

- Photoshop, SketchTypekit, Google Fonts, FontAwesome, Bulma

Usual benefits apply: Stock, Open holiday policy, Private healthcare, 50% off gym membership, Fitbit, Conference budget.

Apply: https://tray-io.workable.com/jobs/23131
That was in the context of "to enable users to control their technology" and "software people want/need, that they are no longer permitted to use because Apple said so". It is about consumers.
Phaxio | Chicago | Full-time | REMOTE OK (U.S. only)

A bit about us: Phaxio is a simple, yet powerful, faxing API (you heard that right, faxing). We power small companies from places like YC and Techstars to major banks and Fortune 100 companies.
Who we're looking for: As a full stack developer at Phaxio, you will be working with a variety of technologies on the front and back end. We recently rewrote our API in Rails and just rolled out a whole new look and feel.

On an average day you might find yourself: - Updating chef recipes to deploy a new service
- Working to add a new feature to our Rails web dashboard or the flagship API
- Tweaking our packer or vagrant development setup to optimize dev time for other engineers
- Using Wireshark to diagnose issues with one of our carriers
- Improving fabric scripts we use to automate our infrastructure on AWS
- Answering a technical support ticket that involves a feature you created
- Work on an open source library that helps developers or even non-technical end-users integrate with Phaxio

For interviews: After a brief conversation to make sure that we're all on the same page, we'll send over an interesting issue for you to diagnose and solve. Nobody looking over your shoulder or breathing down your neck :)

If you're interested, send an email to howard at Phaxio.com
Ask HN: What is your main criteria when looking for a new job?
Some people look at the salary, the location, a promotion, the project, company, people, etc.

If you were to pick one criteria for your next gig, what would you be looking at and why?
The Tao of Backup (1997)
deepstreamHub, Berlin - https://deepstream.io/

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Junior Fullstack Developer to work on both the deepstream.io open source server and our upcoming realtime data platform deepstreamHub.com (on-site/fulltime in Berlin).

The role:
- Contribute to key architectural decisions
- Developing stunning realtime frontends and user interfaces
- Creating the backend components that power our architecture
- Contribute to deepstream.io open source and engage with our growing community
- Extend the deepstream ecosystem with new integrations and frameworks
- Develop a platform that scales efficiently
- Use a wide array of realtime technologies and cloud infrastructures

Find out more - https://deepstreamhub.com/careers/junior-developer/

Cheers!
MM.LaFleur |Senior Software Engineer| Full Time (Onsite) NYC

MM.LaFleur is a fast-growing professional womenswear company based in New York City. We aim to be the go-to wardrobe solution for modern women of purpose. How? By delivering luxury-quality clothing via a seamless, direct-to-consumer stylist experience. We're a varied group of go-getters who are all passionate about reimagining the way women shop and dress for work. We have a validated market and die-hard fans, a quickly growing revenue stream, and a whip-smart and energetic team. We take our work (but never ourselves) very seriously. We’re data obsessors who like nice clothes. We truly believe we can do it better and faster and smarter and have more fun. They are one of the faster growing e-commerce companies!

What will you do?
Herein lies your opportunity:
* Build an integrated CRM, marketing, and sales system with a combination of custom and third-party tools. Take our proven customer data-centric sales model and make it more efficient and scalable.
* Define product and choose technologies as we grow, starting with a “free the data” architecture overhaul.
* Help hire a team of engineers, both in-house and contract.

What skills do you have?
* Know PHP backwards, forwards, and upside down. MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, too. Magento? Great!
* Be good at (or ready to learn) commerce platform management and development.
* Love the entire stack, from devops to cross-browser styling to A/B testing marketing campaigns to internal tooling.
* Desire to set the foundation for an awesome engineering culture and help build the team.
* Be excited about analytics and data-driven decisions.
* Appreciate UX and the designers and engineers that make it possible.
* Heart startups—you like flexibility and ownership; you move quickly and (sometimes) break things; you appreciate process, but don’t mind if it doesn’t exist sometimes.

Please feel free to reach out directly at john.ball@mmlafleur.com

https://boards.greenhouse.io/mmlafleur/jobs/134873#.WJIPNrYr...
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Ex-GitHubber specializing in infrastructure design, automation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and scalability.

I'm not interested in AWS or other cloud platforms, since I prefer working with bare-metal and VM deployments, switches, routers, and hardware appliances.

Tech stack: Linux/BSD, PicoLisp, Ansible, Cisco, *SQL, Redis, HAProxy, Nginx, Lua...

Contact:

GitHub: https://github.com/aw

Email: alexwilliamsca at gmail dot com

Website: http://alexwilliams.ca

Business: https://unscramble.co.jp

I'm always open to interesting projects, so let's talk!
How was it racist? At worst it was discriminatory, but then there is literally no way to hire without some degree of discrimination (even if the measure is a perfectly legitimate 'more qualified for the job').

Let's not abuse the term 'racism'.
You mean "to distract the person I was replying to", I presume - my entire point here is that the list is nothing to do with the new administration, and we should be focusing on the stuff that they're actually responsible for, since frankly that's rather more horrifying than the particular list of countries they're doing it to.
This is a very old website, but the lessons are immortal (contrary to too many people's backups, alas).
LWN.net | https://lwn.net/ | Writer/editor | Remote | full-time or freelance

LWN.net is (IMHO) the premier news site for the free and open-source development community. We are looking for a top-quality writer/editor to join our staff. It's demanding work, because LWN's readership is highly technical and used to high-quality writing by people who understand how the development community works. But it's rewarding, and opportunities for international travel abound. See https://lwn.net/Articles/696258/ for more information.
Have you considered looking for jobs that require more skill and pay more than what you got before? It sounds counterintuitive, but a while back, I was going through a lot of interviews and not getting hired. I then started looking for jobs that paid significantly more. These seemed more concerned about how I would preform on the job than how I would preform on some random irrelevant task that proves how much I studied for random irrelevant tasks. There could be a number of other hidden factors at work here and I can't guarantee that it will work, but if you are currently not getting paid, it's worth a shot.
I have vscodevim plugin, currently 0.5.2 and it's decent, it's been making progress, yet still it has little things that definitely detract from the experience, like motion keystrokes do not take the key auto-repeat. Actually it works moving by block ({}) and line (+-) but not with character (i,j,k,l) or word motions (wW,bB,eE) or next/previous occurrence of search (nN). Annoying. At least now they've fixed the issue where I had to re-enter a search term when switching buffers. So there's progress, and it will eventually be just as good.
Quitting a job is a major, life-changing event for many devs and the question is whether such a clause in the contract is worth the trouble. That said, I disagree strongly with these intellectual property clauses in dev contracts.
SimpleReach | Senior/Lead Rails Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | $120-160k + equity

https://angel.co/simplereach/jobs/208333-senior-rails-engine...

I'm a backend engineer there for almost 3 months now. Tight knit team, tons of leadership opportunity, overall great place to work with lots of opportunity for an individual to guide the direction of the engineering! My interview process consisted of:

- phone screening ~30 minutes
- tech screening with CTO ~45 minutes
- tech/culture screening with engineering manager ~ 60 minutes
- onsite technical interview with Lead Engineer, Chief Architect,
non-technical with VP of Engineering ~ 4 hours
LibreOffice 5.3.0
it's actually happened quite a few times in the USA as well. If you search "USA christian bakery" there's at least 3 or 4 separate cases of bakeries that have been sued on the front page alone.

[edit] by search, I mean on Google rather than HN
Connexity | Santa Monica, CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Join a small, tightly-knit Data Science team as we transform our data assets into valuable business products. Although this group of 4 has a great deal of industry experience, we've only worked together in this capacity for about a year. This means that there's still a lot of opportunity and green-field work ahead of us.

The position could be described as a Sr. Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer. We work with billions of records per day and small hundreds of thousands of (messy!) features. We primarily use Scala/Spark and Python, but we employ R, Ruby, plain old SQL and other tools on a regular basis.

We'd like to find someone familiar with Bayesian systems, Random Forest and other classification. Experience in ad-tech, e-commerce or online retail is a plus, but we strongly favor hiring someone with the right qualities that transcend mere familiarity.

More than anything we value sound judgement. It's great if you have loads of tools in in your tool belt, but you really have to know when it makes sense to use them. As you get involved with research or optimization work, we want to have confidence that you'll have the right intuition about what questions to pursue and what questions to defer. With our high transaction volume, hundreds of unique models in production and hundreds of thousands of potential features, discernment is an essential virtue. We'll always have 5x more questions and curiosities than we'll have time to chase down. We're looking for that person whose judgement is guided by experience possesses a knack for uncovering valuable, actionable insights.

Within our team I lean strongly toward the engineering side of the spectrum, but I'd be happy to have a conversation about our work. dlarsen@connexity.com If you're more comfortable going the typical HR route, you can find the posting here: connexity.com/open-positions
I tried cast-iron (mostly for pancakes) but found that it heated very unevenly (to the point of burning food in the center and not cooking food at the edge).

I've found success with a multi-clad stainless steel skillet. Heating it to the Leidenfrost point [1] ensures that nothing sticks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect#Leidenfrost...
Game of GitHub – Game of Life in GitHub Contributions Chart
Some of the responses are a little over broad. Sometimes in an interview the discussion will revolve around current projects and challenges and the candidate needs to pay close attention and repeat back. Thats really all there is to it.

It wasn't in the bland HR generated job req but todays task is we're trying to talk to the MQTT server and ... anyway five minutes later to see if the candidate is listening the interviewer asks why you ... If the candidate responds with something indicating the candidate heard the interviewer five minutes ago talk about MQTT servers or libraries or whatever, then awesome, thats exactly what the interviewer expected. If the candidate rambles about their resume its because they were not paying attention and in the workplace its annoying to tell someone what to do and then have them go off on a totally separate tangent. If the candidate panics and goes lost in space, they were daydreaming about lunch or the TV show they watched last night and that is also annoying in a professional workplace during a professional conversation.

"Yo I heard you say in this interview you're working on X Y and Z right now and let me tell you all about how I can speed it up and lower risk by helping you out with X Y and Z."

Oh and don't surprise the interviewer. They read your resume and expect an answer along the lines of what they read. Or heard. Even if its true don't suddenly shout out Holy Cow thats exactly like a programming assignment I did in class or some random thing. Before they even asked they already guessed what your response will be and you want them all warm and fuzzy by restating what they expect.

You know take home projects? This question is like a take home project without the take home. You mention rabbitmq they freak out or go on a fizzbuzz tangent or talk about freebsd in general, not so good. If it were a take home assignment they'd fail or come back with a solution to a different problem, not so good. You mention rabbitmq and they respond rabbitmq ah now there's an attentive on task future employee whom if I HAD assigned a rabbitmq take home project would probably have returned with a solution to the rabbitmq problem as opposed to something else or nothing...

Edited to add, think of it like the conversation you probably have with your boss on a regular basis. Especially if the interviewer might be your new boss. Boss says yo I'm getting a lot of heat about bug #15133 and feature request #126699 and then you talk about the weather for ten minutes and the conversation closes with some sort of what you're doing today? and it better revolve around #15133 and #126699 and I totally have a plan and the skills to handle it, definitely not oh shit I type meta-x panic-mode, or I have no idea, or how about that TV show last night, or whatever.
information doesn't upsell itself
Zotero | Backend Developer | Fairfax, VA | REMOTE https://www.zotero.org

Zotero is an open-source project that develops software and web services to help people collect, organize, cite, and share their research. Our software is recommended by most universities and used by millions of students, scholars, scientists, and researchers worldwide.

We're looking for a remote, full-time, contract developer to work on Zotero's server-side architecture — our public API, backend services, AWS infrastructure, etc. You’ll be part of a small team producing free and open-source software along with an amazing global community and help make a huge difference in people's ability to manage their research effectively.

More details here: https://www.zotero.org/jobs
It hasn't changed. Gigster PMs seem to be in charge of staffing projects, but the strategy for connecting developers with projects is vague. They seem to look for either people they have worked with before, or people who are active on Slack (so if you are, for example, an Android dev, the advice is to be active on the Android Slack channel). PMs as a group hoard information on projects: devs have almost no visibility into the current set of available, unstaffed gigs.

Another issue I feel I should bring up: Gigster has problems paying out on time. The contract specifies net-15 terms for payout, but I've personally had a payment delayed for a month beyond that, with no visibility into why or what was going on. I often see complaints on Slack from others of payouts delayed that long, or longer.
PSPDFKit | Senior Frontend Engineer | Vienna, Austria, EU or REMOTE UTC +- 5 hours

We're looking to hire an experienced web developer to join our team working on PSPDFKit for Web. PSPDFKit is the leading PDF framework on iOS, it's used by Dropbox, IBM and Evernote, and we want PSPDFKit for Web to match and surpass that level.

PSPDFKit for Web is a ES2016+ React project, using Flow type annotations, Redux and Immutable.js. WebSockets are used for real-time communication. Our customers host the PSPDFKit for Web Docker container themselves and embed the JavaScript library in their web apps.

Check it out at https://pspdfkit.com/web

PSPDFKit is a fully bootstrapped company, with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and a team that can be found all over the world in places like Raleigh, Hamburg, Ljubljana, Kiev, Mexico City, Bratislava, Cologne and London. We are committed to having the best developers from all over the world.

Most of us are around the UTC timezone. We found that working with people within 6 hours of time difference works best and we have a few people in EST (UTC-5). Other, more distant timezones might work but only in exceptional cases.

We are looking for people joining our team - not for outsourcing companies or recruiting agencies.

Job ad: https://pspdfkit.com/jobs/#senior-frontend-web-engineer

Here's everything you need to know about our hiring process: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2016/hiring-a-distributed-team/
Linking to the release notes; downloads live at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
PythonQL: query files, objects, SQL and NoSQL with a built-in query language
> My MBP 13 has an SD card reader , screen connector and USB ports and is still pretty small so I don't buy the size argument.

Why'd you get a 13"? If the 15" was close to the same size/weight would you have gotten the 15"?
I've been dancing over the line between devops and backend development. It sounds like I am where you were historically, I'm using ansible to deploy docker images to EC2 instances, and a few monitoring scripts in python to do a little more finely tuned orchestration.

Lately I've been using home-brew chatops to manage products so it's nice to hear what other people are using. Operable looks really interesting, I'm going to give it a shot. Thanks for the example cog!
My coworker built a little tool to identify potential domain spam problems:
http://upsidedown.domains/alternate.html?google
Front page worthy, really?
Alice Schroeder did a small AMA on reddit years ago that is worth reading.

When asked about their broken-off relationship, she says that they aren't unfriendly or anything, but that she is basically no longer in his inner circle.

Her explanation is that he figuratively laid himself bare before her for the book, which was necessary for it, but that it made things afterward quite awkward. Kind of like seeing a close friend naked.

Second the recommendation for that book. I like it better than the Lowenstein book, but any Buffett-head should read both, of course, as each has some details the other doesn't.

I was also confused about the implications around Susie and just assumed that she had an affair with the tennis coach guy, as cliche as that sounds.

Edit: Dug out the AMA. Definitely read if you are a fan of Buffett / The Snowball.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/2550vq/hi_im_ali...
Yeah I can imagine that setting up a multi-node deployment on AWS might be an issue.
Fortunately for openstack there is a redhat maintained heat template that should hopefully make the installation quite straightforward (but haven't tried it yet).

https://github.com/redhat-openstack/openshift-on-openstack/
If you think their products are fancy crap, would it make a difference if they suddenly decided to sell them for half the price?
It's not hard to scale a Rails server, when compared to other frameworks and languages. It's exactly the same as scaling a server written in Java, Node.js, Python, or any other language. You just spin up more machines and put them behind a load balancer.

Yes, Ruby is slower than other programming languages, but this usually doesn't matter. If you are charging people to use your software, or even if you are serving ads, you will always be making money before you need a second server. Plus, Rails is super productive, so you'll be able to build your product much faster.

I'm not sure why GitHub used a patched Ruby version, but no, that's not necessary.

Having said all of that, I'm moving towards Elixir and Phoenix. Not just because of the performance, but also because I really like the language and framework.
I know eporner.com went https long time ago and even asked opinion from users if everything is working as expected.

I don't know any other porn sites that have gone https, definitely not the big ones that dominate the market such as youporn, porntube etc.
Yeah, this is a narrative challenge in reporting. Often skewedness of a data set is a(n important) piece of background context, and figuring out how to get that detail into a story without being like AND HERE IS A BIG CHART WHICH YOU WILL NEED HELP INTERPRETING is non-trivial.
Psiphon | https://psiphon.ca | Toronto, Canada - ONSITE

= What we do =

We develop and operate Psiphon, an Internet censorship circumvention network that helps millions of people in freedom-restricted countries access uncensored Internet every day.

We work at the leading edge of circumvention technology, where the latest network protocol and endpoint obfuscation research is rapidly deployed into production around the world. Our tasks include censorship technology research, server and client software development, and operation of a dynamic, global network of thousands of proxy servers.

We’re a small team (8 developers) looking for skilled and enthusiastic people to join us.

= Tech stack =

Our entire system is open source, check it out at
https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system and https://github.com/Psiphon-Labs/psiphon-tunnel-core

We use Java (Android app), Obj-C (iOS app), C++ (Windows app), Go (cross-platform core client and server), Python/JavaScript/C/shell script (server-side stack), ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana (stats), and more.

= Contact =

info+hn@psiphon.ca
Debugging directly on the production system?

Yeah, nobody does that. Well, nobody who has any kind of serious operation going on.

If you can't replicate a bug outside a production environment you have a serious deficit in the devops department.

You should be able to stage a machine with a copy of the production DB/data and the same reproducible package(code) that currently runs on your production systems.

Everything else is just an accident waiting to happen.