skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WiGLE is awesome.. but they are not completely open. Subsections of the DB will be if you use JiGLE or scrape it piece by piece over time.. and you can always do selective queries, but the entirety of the database is not freely available.

.. nor is it currently available from crowdflow at the moment (although it is in their stated goals). They also only accept consolidated.db uploads at the present.
Why are these "card-reader devices" considered revolutionary? They have a miniscule profit margin, and the ones who really benefit are VISA, AMEX and other card issuers. I don't see what's the disruption here, unless they plan to supersede banks and card issuers. Holding my breath for NFC.
I disagree. I think the questions are organized quite well. Great app.
The bulk of economics is against you. In a competitive market, prices fall to the marginal cost of production. That's almost axiomatic. One only has to look to fashion markets, where the leading players have almost zero monopoly power and to PC hardware markets.

What you're implicitly advocating is setting prices without regard to market forces, without regard to the value that consumers place on a good, without regard to increasing efficiency of production via price competition. At best this is short sighted, at worst it kills entire markets.
I really couldn't agree more on this topic. In addition, beside the huge motivational effect of building something useful that you want to have for yourself, in my experience you´re also automatically making sure that the user experience is right and you really love the product. So it´s kind of a switch from "I need to build this for this user-guy to work with" to "I want to craft this in a way, so I can love it."

Sumup: Being your own user enables you to convert user experience from just useable to lovable.
YC Summer 2011 Startup

Mountain View, CA

Web Developer

There's only three of us now -- you'll be #4! We're attacking a huge market in financial services and looking for someone to solve some interesting technical challenges. Our tech stack includes jQuery, Python, Django, PHP, CodeIgniter, Selenium, and Mechanize.

If you'd like to learn more about us, my email is on my HN profile.
Mountain View, CA - local preferred but remote considered for right candidate, interns welcome

Solum (http://www.solumtech.com) is looking for software developers, mechanical engineers, and scientists to help with the development and deployment of our soil nutrient measurement technology. We're a Khosla Ventures backed company working to revolutionize agriculture by providing a quantitative, information-driven approach to farm management practices. Our first measurement systems are currently being deployed with our initial customers in California, Iowa, and Illinois, and we have a great need for good developers to help us build up our platform to manage and analyze the information generated by these systems.

This is a very technically challenging problem with a huge economic and environmental impact. If you are interested, feel free to contact me directly (white@solumtech.com) or email our jobs account (jobs@solumtech.com).
Wanting to keep the proceeds of what you've created greedy? No. And he sounds like the sort of person who'd do something far more useful to society with the extra 15% than the federal government would.
But there is no notion of "Apple hardware" anymore. Apple has been using the "PC architecture" for quite a few years. You can run Mac OS on "PC" hardware just fine if you wish. Many people have done / are doing this; see www.hackint0sh.org for more information.
I think it's a similar phenomenon to people closing windows to free up space on the taskbar (for GUIs that have such a thing like Gnome and Windows). If you remove the list of "open" things people are free to just do what they want and let the OS worry about paging if memory fills up and all that sort of thing. It's a pleasant experience if the abstraction doesn't leak, e.g. Win98 crashing if you opened "too many" programs.

Once you free yourself from this list of things that are "open" (whatever that means) you simply stop caring about the number of items in what is effectively just a "recently visited" list. What value is there in killing those buffers if there's no list for them to clutter? (yes there are lists of buffers in Emacs but you only see them if you want to)

In that light here's my answer to your question: Because he hasn't exited his editor and the number of "open files" has no significance or impact on workflow. While you're deciding whether or not to close a file and trying to anticipate when you may edit it next he's already moved on to editing the next thing.
> Your argument of not wanting to be taxed for other people's education... just doesn't work.

I'm with you on that, and on the general moral obligation to pay taxes even if you are in the minority that (supposedly) gets less than they put in with their taxes.

However:

In the US, the taxes you pay essentially go to government official's cronies in the banking and military industries and to corrupt unions. Really. The US now borrows some 20-50% of what it spends (depending on who you ask and how you count spending on things like medicare, social security, etc)

In the US, you're not actually getting any health services (unless you're already dirt poor); good education is private in all age groups.

The moral argument is much, much weaker in the US.

And on the angle that I do agree with you -- I think most people who pay 35% taxes are actually paying much LESS than what they get for -- hiring your own guards is bound to be more expensive. That's the main service your taxes get you -- not getting robbed/killed every other day.
Less than six figures sounds good for almost a year of building a successful company? Seriously?
Posted previously on hiring threads and received a good response from the HN community. Needless to say, still looking for someone to help with my project to catalog every product in existence. It will be a non-profit service however I'd like to build for profit tools around it if possible. E-mail is in my profile.
Paris, France - Criteo

Any engineering position, no need to speak french (english is enough). (no remote, interns accepted)

Tech stack: C# .NET, Memcache, SQL Server, Hadoop/Pig

We look for any sort of profile from mathematicians to system administrators.
The NPM authors explicitly draw the line between development and production. Their official stance is that NPM should be a development tool; in production modules should be installed through the native OS package manager.
http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/04/development-environment/ (bottom)
http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/06/npm-1-0-link/ ("Caveat: Not For Real Servers")
Maginatics, Inc.

Based in Mountain View, CA right next to the CalTrain station. (No remote.)

We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems.

If interested, shoot me email: vibhav [at] maginatics [dot] com.
Interesting to listen to that. Though to be fair the question was whether college was no longer a factor or a disadvantage to gaining employment.

You can't argue with the global statement over time college education results in a greater income on average. However, what was pointed out in the OP was how balanced is the average?

Also I thought Levitt's point about comparing Vietnam draft high number lottery 'winners' not going to college versus lower number lottery winners attending college was weak simply because it was 40 years ago.
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AWS is an unique mix of startup culture/autonomy combined with the ability to leverage the incredible infrastructure of Amazon/AWS. I’ve worked in AWS for the past year and I’ve learned more in that time than I thought possible. I’m an infrastructure person at heart, and at other companies I’ve worked for, I’m always torn between doing the deep engineering that I love, or working on a more customer focused product. In AWS, they are one and the same. I like having scalability, availability, and performance as core features of the product I’m building. Another thing I love about working in AWS is the impact your work has - your service is used by thousands of developers, and those developers use your service in ways you never imagined, which are then used by millions of people.
http://geomena.org does this too, with a creative commons license. Firefox can be configured to use Geomena as the geolocation provider (instead of google).
Ok, so playing with this for a bit I just realized how much I miss TextMate's tab triggers. I hope this project goes forward, especially if it either a) gets open sourced, or b) gets other developers on board. I'd hate to see it go the TextMate route of getting popular and then taking forever for new releases to come out because the sole developer gets burnt out.

A few things that would be nice:

- Command line launching (like the "mate" or "mvim" commands)

- Ability to edit tmbundles within the app

- Downloading tmbundles seems to duplicate tab triggers

- Snippets still use hard tabs even if you've selected space-based indentation (soft tabs)

- Hitting backspace when you are using soft tabs and are in the "indentation part of the line" should go back that number of spaces instead of just one

Vico is like so close to becoming my main editor, if only these things are fixed. As others have said, a .vimrc-style config would be cool (as would a :retab command), but those aren't deal breakers for me like the above things are.
I never even finished High School, and now I earn more/do less than my college degree holding co-workers. I have the advantage of being a programmer though, where skill is at least measurable to some degree and college education isn't as important.

It's actually taboo, but we now assume that someone who graduated from college probably sucks but is willing to do boring tasks.
Furthermore, for many year now the compilers have been able to warn you if you use = instead of ==.
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Rhino Accounting (http://www.rhinoaccounting.com)

Looking for a full time developer to work on our suite of web apps that integrate with Google Apps. We work mainly with Python/Django and with Google API's so some experience with either of these would be preferred.

INTERN

We're also looking for a developer (and marketing) intern, this is a $2000 honorarium / unpaid internship.

Please contact me directly simon@rhinocloud.com and put HN in the subject line.
philadelphia, PA, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - The Sr. Programmer/Quality Engineer within the Center for Biomedical Informatics will establish quality assurance as a core competency of our rapidly growing, entrepreneurial R&D software group. We’re looking for a unique individual who is interested in moving beyond typical QA roles and responsibilities, someone who is driven to create new methods for testing complex biomedical software. This need is driven by translation of our successful research applications into clinical practice, and our software stack is well on it’s way to open-source release. Our environment requires an experienced QA professional who considers writing code to be a big part of QA, so this hybrid position demands an individual with a balance of quality assurance engineering, advanced programming, configuration management, and performance benchmarking skills who can quickly apply this knowledge to define a “best path” for a variety of projects that use a wide variety of technologies.

http://jobs.chop.edu/philadelphia/technology/jobid1100287-se...
I agree, I prefer the old format [1]. Keeping threads separate improve the conversation and reduce the noise. is it just me?

[1]
"Who is hiring"
"Who is hiring Remote"
"Who is hiring Interns"
Facebook of Disillusionment
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We are looking for software engineers to work on our VoIP platform, UI and IT back office systems. We are a small team, all contributions have a huge impact.

We primarily use Erlang and Javascript for development. If you are interested in using these languages to solve interesting problems, please apply. Experience with Erlang or Javascript is a bonus, but not required.

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I do agree to some extent. On the other hand, I've been using Apple hardware off-and-on again since the MC68030; I already went through this with the 68k->PPC transition, then again with the introduction of the PPC750 series processors, then again with the PPC->Intel transition.

At this point, I fully expect that if I were to buy an Intel series Apple system in the next couple of years, shortly afterward Apple would switch everything over to their new A-series hardware.

I have certain investments in my current development system, too, like the early-model SSD that has made it possible for me to haul this thing around in the car to client appointments every day for the last couple of years.

I'm just sick of having perfectly good hardware that gets aged out of being able to run text editors. Yesterday, I discovered I can't run pianobar (easily) anymore because the Pandora protocol changed, MacPorts appears to be dead, and homebrew is Intel-only. (There is a PPC fork of the Intel version of homebrew, but the documentation for it is all pulled directly from the Intel fork, and I'm completely stumped at how to actually get it to work.)

On top of all that, I get to enjoy the economics of owning a device whose secondary market is falling off a cliff.

Anybody's welcome to point out all the benefits of this kind of situation -- the longevity of Apple hardware, the supposed lower TCO -- or the fact that I should be budgeting a certain amount every year towards new hardware anyway, but it's not likely to change the fact that I've been through this one too many times now and it's just not something that, to me, is worth continuing to hassle with.
I've found that it's usually as fast to use the Vim Command-T plugin to switch files even once they're opened than it is to switch back to that buffer directly.

Main exception being the alternate buffer for which I have a quick shortcut - (<leader>, - <leader> being set to ,) The consequence is I usually have piles of buffers open at once.

Edit: sjs puts it better above. Having to think 'is this file already opened or not' and then using that information to determine the command you use to switch to it is rather annoying.
There are no such things as "performance-enhancing drugs"
Minneapolis, MN

Bloom Health - a VC funded startup solving big issues with the health care/insurance system

pension : 401k :: employer provided health care : Bloom Health employer funded account, purchase your own health care

My team is looking to add a couple of people to do groovy/grails/redis/mysql/EC2 development http://gobloomhealth.com/jobs/groovy-grails-developer

Feel free to e-mail me directly, e-mail is in my HN profile.
Menlo Park, CA: Ruby and C++ engineering positions. Full-time and intern.

Nearbuy Systems is looking for a few strong engineers to work on our indoor LBS product. We're a year old startup with a focused four-person team and a lot of exciting problems to solve. If you're interested in things like computer vision, big data, parallel programming, distributed systems, site operations or user interface design we'll have something for you to sink your teeth into.

We use a lot of different technologies (Ruby, C++, CUDA, Javascript, Amazon AWS...) and don't expect you to be experts in all of them. If you're a pro in one, interested in the rest and excited about Agile drop me (Nate, VP engineering) a line at jobs+hn@nearbuysystems.com.

Biking the SF2G Bayway route on Bike to Work Day?
Stop by our office energizer station at 3565 Haven Ave and meet the team.
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Expert Linux System Administrator for http://www.mnxsolutions.com to handle projects ranging from Amazon Web Service deployments/audits, high availability design, cPanel/Plesk system tasks, performance tuning, server migrations, upgrades, and system compromise recovery to name a few.

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Send your questions, details and requirements to hr@mnxsolutions.com.

Thanks!
A Taxonomy of Software Bugs
Thanks for the info on Intuit's unfortunate lobbying activities. That stuff does matter to me. I'll be reading into it. (Though sheesh, neither pre-filled out forms, nor free e-filing would be as radical as simpler tax policy. :D)

As for TaxAct, at least the onboarding process wasn't as nice as TurboTax on the day I was doing my comparison shopping. But I definitely will give it a try + trust your opinion (i peeped your profile and suspect you know more about consumer financial services than i do, heh).
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Redwood Systems is developing a web-enabled platform for powering and controlling LED lights in commercial spaces and datacenters. Our system collects a large amount of very granular sensor data and we use this information to save energy and increase our clients' productivity. Our engineers work closely with big-name clients to deliver solutions and shape the direction of our product. It's an awesome time to be working here.

We're about 50 people now and are hiring engineers for backend development, sales support, application development, manufacturing, and power systems development. See our full list of openings here: http://redwoodsystems.com/about-us/careers Interns are being hired in many of the same fields. Feel free to get in touch with me directly -- mball -at- redwoodsys.com
London, UK - Lead Developer

Looking for a full-time developer to work on the next stage of www.carbuzz.co.uk, which will facilitate new car buying online. We've had offers of investment from a number of sources and are looking to get things built quickly. Tech - Ruby or Python/Django. Market rate pay plus equity.

Please contact: jobs@carbuzz.co.uk to find out a bit more.
For some reason copy->paste didn't work in this case. I need to improve my QA when submitting articles to HN. :-)
Yeah, I'm sure there's something for it but I took the lazy programmer's road of just using Haml and Sass for everything.
Seattle, WA - SEOmoz is hiring primarily local positions, but may have some flexibility on remote, particularly for engineers.

Here are our 8 open positions currently - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-open-positions-at-seomoz and please note that for software engineers, we pay a $12,000 referral bonus to anyone who refers an engineer we hire as well as $12,000 as a signing bonus to the engineer. Details here - http://www.seomoz.org/refer-an-engineer
> That said, I believe that we should define "success" differently for our kids.

Interestingly coming from another country to US I had a little bit of a different understanding of "success". It meant something like a general "good luck", or "happiness".

Here (in US) it seems to a code word for "lots of money" and "power over people". One wouldn't refer to someone who decides to live in a remote hut in the woods, fishing and hunting but having 0 income and not managing anyone as "successful".
3 minutes have 180 seconds in them.

The point is it goes kind of fast.

I went through the slides and every one had content worth reading. The flow of it was good too.
Most of the silliness about Objective is (I think) based on an unwillingness to admit that GUI's written in one's favorite scripting language or Java are still too slow. I think Obj C add just the right amount of sugar to plain C for GUI and OOP, while its cousin C++ has WAY too much sugar (insulin shock!); both of these are screamingly fast after compilation. So saying "I would rather write it in Ruby/Python/Perl/Lua/Java/blah/blah/blah" is just ridiculous, at least with today's tech. Sure -- I would rather write an SS7 switch in Bash, but that just doesn't matter.

Oh -- and the fact that small minded programmers freak out when something is different (brackets, as an OP says, or 0 versus 1 indexing, etc)

(Note -- if you want to max programmer speed (in Lines of Code) for GUI's, you want to use a language even uncooler than Obj C: Tcl/Tk...)
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My rule of thumb is that if I'm using color to distinguish something, to never vary just hue. Always include a saturation or brightness change too.
An Update To My Ethics Policy (by Paul Carr - Techcrunch)
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The Coca-Cola product and company is partly named after the Kola nut.
Open cheque book for the State then? My impression is that an increasing number of people in the UK and EU and I suspect in the US, certainly do not accept there is a moral duty.to pay these taxes though they do so for fear of the consequences.

Genuine needful social spending nothwithstanding, they beg to differ that the State can spend their money without seeming limit, borrowed money at that, better than they can. Just one illustration - the EU budget has not been passed by auditors for 13 years in a row. And when this was questioned from within the hierarchy, that person was sacked.
There aren't really any good libraries for it. You can compile straight ObjC on linux fairly easily with gcc or clang (use -lobjc), but the thing is without NSString and all of the foundation you'll end up doing a lot of work.

And yes, you can get into GNUStep, but that's a whole nother ballgame.
New York, NY (Midtown East, FT on-site) - Novus is hiring software engineers to work on our real-time financial analytics platform. We use Scala, Akka, MongoDB, and generally stand on the shoulders of giants. E-mail if interested: max at novus dot com
I'm interested in why would using OS X be a requirement?
Who said that animals were good? TOP 10 ANIMAL EVILS
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Los Angeles area, specifically West L.A.

We seek a graphic designer to help us with our site. Non of us have an artistic eye. We have an idea for the color scheme and layout, as well as our logo. However, we would like someone more experienced with design to execute the graphics.
Portland, OR ~ Remote OK

COLOURlovers (YC W10) has a few positions open:
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Android / Java Developer
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