skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you have 143 files open at the same time?

Personally I use some (2-7?) buffers in vim and cycle through them. When I don't anticipate editing a file for a while I close that buffer.
Maybe they mean £23k per month?
New York, NY

Lead Front End Engineer @ Profitably.com

We just raised $1.1M, and we are looking to hire our 6th person. Our 3rd co-founder was UX & Visual Design. We couldn't take design more seriously, and we need someone that loves making design a js powered reality. We've got cash and equity for you if that's in your wheelhouse.

Profitably is business analytics, simplified. Email me with questions, more on the job at: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/8551
FBI's most wanted
SEEKING FREELANCER. Remote worker preferable.

I'm looking for a mobile web developer to help build some basic cross platform (iOS & Android) apps. Bonus points if you have experience with Titanium or Phonegap (to wrap the web apps in a native format so they can be downloaded from the AppStore).

Email me your portfolio at paul@thestartupfoundry.com with your hourly rate and I'll get right back to you.
SEEKING WORK

Bay Area resident, camped out in Buenos Aires through May so I'm looking for remote work. (Unless you're in Buenos Aires, I'd love to work in person too!)

Most recently I have been working on JavaScript-heavy applications to facilitate in-browser user-response testing of videos, photos, and websites.

I have also been working with RabbitMQ/AMQP and node.js as tools behind another spin on "a social webapp for [x]".

Email is in my profile. I look forward to hearing from you!
CoffeeScript 1.1.0 released
I don't know why JobVite doesn't offer a RSS feed of job openings, but in case anyone is interested we (LinkUp) offer a RSS feed that shows all of Dropbox's jobs - http://bit.ly/dropboxrss.

A very good indicator of how cool the coders at Dropbox are is the challenges page that they use for hiring engineers: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges. That awesomeness is why everyone should keep their RSS feed handy!
Yes, but I'm extremely lazy :) The less time I spend learning a new editor is more time I can spend learning a new technology.
Apparently Bing is not interested in non-American users...

Bing Visual Search is not available in this locale.

If you wish to access Bing Visual Search, change your locale to United States
Your link is dead.
This is pretty cool. I am currently shopping for a motorcycle and it is much nicer to be able to browse the images. I do wish that it didn't gray out the image on hover though.
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred

(Buzzword: Data Scientist)

I'm primarily interested in freelance work, but full-time is also a possibility, and I'm willing to relocate. I'm currently in the Bay Area.

I have several years of experience in data mining, statistics, and machine learning (doing everything from quantitative trading and pricing, to building recommendation engines and mining search engines). I pick up new languages and technologies quickly, though I work primarily with Ruby, Python, Java, R, Rails, and Hadoop. To use a buzzword, you can think of me as the prototypical 'data scientist' -- I love doing everything from building dashboards to display data (Rails, Sinatra, Javascript), gathering data and cleaning it up (Ruby, Hadoop), exploring and analyzing data for patterns (R, Python), and coding machine learning algorithms for production (Java).

Blog, contact, and more information here: http://bit.ly/iP3aeU
San Francisco, Cupertino, Seattle
Splunk is hiring: http://www.splunk.com/view/careers/SP-CAAAAGG
Server engineer, QA engineer, Windows engineer, Frontend UI engineer, Cloud, Intern, and much more. 50+ positions.

Splunk offers attractive compensation and excellent benefits including pre-IPO stock, H1B, ...
Nowadays you add things like this as a dep to rebar.conf (the most popular build system):

{deps, [ {epgsql, "0.2", {git, "https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql.git", "master"}} ]}.

It seems unlikely that the Erlang standard library (OTP) is going to include database drivers.
However, having to specify such things is a small price to pay considering all the amazing stuff you get for free with Erlang.
That's harsh, and I hope things work out for you, but there is another thing going on here - a constant treadmill of qualifications is becoming the norm in many industries. You might be doing your career harm if you isolate yourself from the main stream of academic qualifications that makes up that treadmill.

Those friends who cruised through school and have good careers, did they actually stop at a BA? Or do they have, say, accountancy qualifications? Masters degrees gained while working? Memberships of professional institutions, working towards being chartered in their profession?

Obviously I don't know the answer to that, and it varies a lot between industries - many programmers here on HN get by fine with talent and experience, and don't feel pushed to gain extra qualifications. But depending what you do, qualifications can open doors to other qualifications and over a long career it might make quite a bit of difference.
The previous version was 1.0.1. Mostly minor changes; nothing likely to break existing code. The REPL is dramatically improved.
Seattle, WA

Übermind (http://www.ubermind.com/)

Hiring Android, iOS, UI/UX, and QA engineers. QA intern positions also open. See http://www.ubermind.com/#!/careers
Boulder, CO

Not sure if this is appropriate here (please let me know if not), but over the last two weeks I put together a page of over 50+ jobs in Boulder across 20+ companies. Most are engineering, but there is also design, marketing, etc.

http://boulderstartupweek.com/boulder-is-hiring/
Oh please, I've been doing it for years. I recently wrote an article about it: http://diysupplements.com/2011/02/add-caffeine-to-everything...

To summarize: Get a 0.1g accurate or better scale and dilute the caffeine in water to make measurement easy.
Thanks - I hadn't considered that. I'll add it to the list of improvements I'd like to make.
My editor has been opened for 2-3 weeks now so I just keep piling the files from all the different projects. I prefer typing 'C-x b [strat]' to opening '~/dev/projects/something_else/lib/strategy.rb' but it might just be the way I'm used to working.
I love MacVim too, and have dropped Textmate completely. The only thing that I don't like about MacVim is that scrolling through text (vertically and especially horizontally) feels choppy compared to Textmate. When I see someone else scrolling through code in Textmate, it looks unbelievably smooth and fluid compared to what I'm used to in MacVim.
click on that link -"United States" and you'll be able to see the list.
San Francisco, CA - REMOTE considered for right candidate

Elation EMR is a talented, small, angel-invested team of folks working hard to build much better tools for Physicians.

There's only 5 of us (you'd be #6!) and we've got load of pretty exciting technical and product challenges to crack. Our tech stack today includes javascript, jQuery, Python, Django, Celery, Redis, and Java. We'd be especially thrilled to find someone who'd really enjoy taking some ownership of our front end, but we'd love to talk to anyone talented and interested in what we're up to.

Learn more about our product, team, and open positions here: http://elationemr.com - - Thanks!
your right and I have seen my percentage time on vim get higher an higher over the months, but thats from persistance. Its slow progress because I mainly work in eclipse and the vim plugins aren't 100% great for me.

Vim is just hard work getting going, e.g. in HTML I like to have the closing tag automatically done for me which im sure vim can do but i've just not had chance to look into. There are 100 other small things like this which I solve one at a time but often I just go 'cock it' and open it up in another editor. But then I want to split the window and open vim again....
How Do You File Paper Documents At Home?
Some of us our trying to turn that around. My studio, EA2D, has a lot of people from the startup space, so sharing is only natural. We have a small but quickly growing list of open source projects (many more in the pipeline):

https://github.com/EA2D

We also have an engineering blog:

http://eng.ea2d.com/

And we're hiring (drop me a line, mikeb@ea2d.com):

http://ea2d.com/jobs/
Free Google I/O developer event in Waterloo, Canada
which still sounds good for less than a year of work!
London (UK) and Boston (US).

We're a 90-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. Some of you may know us from our sponsorship of Hacker News meetups in London. We're hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See https://dev.youdevise.com and http://www.youdevise.com/careers.

While we don't have remote workers, we do help successful candidates relocate to London or Boston including arranging visas where needed. For example, last year we hired HN readers from Denmark and the US, and we moved a Polish employee to Boston.
Perhaps it feels extremely hard because a preferred programming environment is so deeply tied to muscle memory via key bindings (which, admittedly, Vico is trying to address for vi users), whereas learning other new things engages other more flexible parts of the brain.
A long time ago I TA'd at the CS department at my uni, and this was part of the interview. You needed to choose one topic among several (beforehand, of course), and give a lesson on it. It's a pretty good technique, indeed.
Would Vico also have support for emacs keybindings? :-)
Can some people critique my new service?
This new service uses a passive alert system in order to alert people's emergency contacts when something bad may have happened. It's also coupled to a light blue force tracking system (using phones/apps), and is being tied into facebook for check-in purposes. it's at persn.com
Meraki / http://meraki.com / San Francisco
We are re-imagining how enterprise networking gear should work. We started with wireless and have moved into routers. We have a ton of customers (our website has case studies) but have a small, tight-nit engineering team.

I am looking for people that like building web uis
(javascript/ruby/scala), backend engineers, and firmware hackers. We have openings on the business side also. Email me if you're interested. I'm the CTO. jbicket@meraki.com
Mountain View (next to Caltrain station)
TrialPay is a transactional advertising company processing payments for Facebook, Zynga, Fandango, EA and hundreds more.
http://www.trialpay.com/about/jobs/
RIM Launches BlackBerry Style 9670 CDMA Smartphone in India
You don't use it for production? Do you include modules locally in production?
Very nice work.

I've been getting irritated with emacs'... rough edges a lot lately and am tempted to scratch my own itch with an emacs slant :-)
Excellent. A quick note: :q when in split-pane mode will close everything, not just the current active buffer.
MarkLogic, San Carlos

http://www.marklogic.com/company/jobs/engineering.html

( if you always wanted to be part of the database revolution, and you had enough with tables and rows )
Makes sense. There's a thin line between providing a better reading experience and redistributing someone else's work. Readability/Read it Later/Instapaper can survive because their service is user-driven.

Zite's going to have to concentrate on their recommendation engine (which is excellent) and forget about the presentation layer. Writers have the right to choose how their work is presented. It's not worth it for Zite to try and fight this.

That leaves Flipboard in an awkward position though; their business is all about presentation. Partnerships are a way around it, but I just don't see that being all that profitable.
I don't quite follow this line of thinking.

The unstated but obvious leaning of wikileaks, Assange, and a large portion of the hacker community is towards anarchy be it anarcho-capitalism, crypto-anarchy, some variant.

To find wikileaks dangerous and counter productive simply requires being opposed to anarchy. You can obfuscate and spin the issue all you want but the most parsimonious explanation is that the motivation, to put massive amounts private information out in the public's view, is political.

The clear intention is disruption not reform of the establishment. Now one can agree or disagree with the political goals of the organization or players involved (and these are quite well known btw) but that's irrelevant to the discussion.

Be political, advocate for anti-establishment causes, spread anarchy if you believe in it, but be honest about it. I can respect that even if I disagree.
Formspring for comments.
I think if you have aspirations to work in an office job for a traditional company, something beyond a high-school diploma is more or less the price of admission these days. On the other hand I think that we tend to assume that this is what everybody wants, and as a result our public education systems no longer serve well those who are not college-bound.
btw there is a public test user i've made:
U: testcase010175@yahoo.com
P: testcase010175
State Space Dimensions:
intelligence, social skills, hard work, honesty
1.)most folks are lazy and anti - hard work because of
'learned helplessness. Your car is stuck on ice. so you
spin your tires and create more water and ice.

2.)not smart enough to program? can't get a job? then,
cheat and avoid honesty.

3.)make up for it in social skills. Be everybody's BEST
FRIEND like the politicians. shake hands, kiss babies.

4.)Be intelligent. Keep asking tough questions and studying.

Alas, the world, especially in the U.S.A. is anti-intellgectual and ANTI-intelligence.
so the stags are:
1.)intelligence and NOT honest. - pretend to be surprised
at how good you are.
2.)intelligence and social skills. Great career as actor
or politican. Manipulate others, so that others share your
strong mind. quote: Star Wars: These are NOT the droids you
are looking for.

3.)intelligence and hard work. Pretend to be lazy and even
sloppy. Obviously, never talk about religion and politics.
Get elected, win the lottery and make BIG MONEY, with no
hard work.
The girl is NOT interested in how ou REWIRED HER CAR for
hands free music or diagnosed the subtle vacuum leak via
computer codes. SHE LOVES THAT YOU HAND WAXED the car, so
she can show it off to her friends.

Nice that the girl knows you are working on 'the next big
thing to google's pagerank algol.' SO WHAT! The real estate broker (who dropped out of high school) charms her
with his BIG ROLL OF CASH.

For you younger geeks aka awkward smarty pants. Get the
small onsulting gig/contract with WALL STREET, New York City. Gals love an I-banker - investment banker. or
in LA its the same as FOREIGN FILM DIRECTOR to actresses.

arrogant? or being honest?
abrasive and judgemental? or being provacative, and analytical-critical?

School is weak and often irrelevant. Read some of the
PhD thesis (my hobby) online. some garbage and some DRIVEL.

criticism often is just speaking TRUTH. Einstein and a few
folks I know (maybe me) have corrected teachers with their
WRONG and INACCURATE questions.

Many of the SAT exams have AMBIGUOUS questions, so theoretically there is a score above the top score of 800.
This means YOU ARE SMARTER than the rules/exam!
Thanks for spotting that! (fixed it now)
I'd like to second the request for a very detailed blog post written by one of the PyPy devs on how interested parties can contribute to the development of Numpy on PyPy. Lack of Numpy support is the showstopper for me and a lot of other people in terms of switching over -- almost everybody who wants faster Python is using Numpy in some way or another :-) This is something I would be really interested in working on.
I really want to try out vim and tiling wm setup. Is this a good place to get my feet wet? I was going to just set up VM of ArchLinux.
I actually presented all 193 slides in less than 15 minutes. The format was a huge hit with the audience.
Just a note-- it's probably better not to have the "seeking work" option at all, or at least in another thread. It creates a lot of visual spam to sort through if you're looking for "seeking freelancer" positions.
Because learning new editors takes away from time we could be coding.
I love the concept. It's a nice alternative to allowing or disabling comments altogether.

I don't like the way the questions are organized, though; the unanswered questions should be placed separately and should not be viewed by default. (Only early adopters and fans of the service will want to view those.) I would consider something like this on my blog, or at least some of the post, but not if it's likely to be cluttered by unanswered questions.

I'd like a Twitter feed to follow as well.
I agree. I regularly flag links to slide share. Life is too short for clicking 190 times to get through at most a page of text and a bunch of pictures.

I also upvote any and all comments within such posts that supply the content in a more readable format.
"How Many Mulligans"? What?!

This is HN. This is where we have thoughtful discussions on how to improve ideas, projects, and companies. This isn't where we sit in our armchairs and decide as users which companies are going to fail and why we've given up.

What the hell, people.
I'm sorry for your pain about what you have done. I am not inclined to judge such things in terms of "good" or "bad". I'm sorry you seem to have so much difficulty accepting love. Given your history prior to your diagnosis -- of not dating in high school and then screwing around casually in college -- I am inclined to think that your medical condition is just another excuse for your inability to accept love and not the real reason. Inability to accept love seems to have preceded your diagnosis, not followed it.

I have a form of cystic fibrosis. On CF forums, people sometimes discuss being alone, feeling like no one would love them, feeling like they would be wrong to get involved because they could die on someone and so on. I got married at age 19 and wasn't diagnosed until I was 35. So I had no such excuses. My reasons for feeling unlovable when I was younger were rooted in sexual abuse. But an awful lot of people seem to have some reason or other for feeling unlovable -- even people who marry and may appear to the outside world like they have their act together. I was married for about 22 years. It was never a happy marriage and would have ended much sooner had I not turned up unexpectedly pregnant at age 21. We loved each other (ie were "in love" at one time and continued to sincerely care) but had terrible communication problems and other issues. We divorced as a final kindness, as the only nice thing we could still do for each other.

Something I always told my sons: No one can "deserve" unconditional love. If you could deserve it, it wouldn't be unconditional. We can only try to accept it should it come into our lives.

Nearly dying taught me to live. And getting a diagnosis empowered me to get myself healthier and finally start getting my life together after a lifetime of frustration and bafflement. For me, being celibate is a practical matter while I heal from decades of infection and inadequate care. Because that is my main reason for being alone, it has been experienced from very differently than what I expected/feared for most of my life. For me, it has been freeing, healing and empowering. If I could wave a magic wand and give you piece of that, I would.

Peace.
> You need Mac OS X 10.6.6 to run it.

sigh. No joy for PPC users, again. This is a huge part of why I'm not sticking with Apple hardware again once I replace my laptop.
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Pittsburgh, PA

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Windows 8 Build 7959 Milestone 3 Leaked in a Wild
Classifying Software Developers
I wish that Dropbox would allow remote work.

And I say this because I love the product. I'm just not at all interested in living in California.
Hmm... I didn't say that I'm "not interested in testing at all", and it's unfortunate that I came across that way. In fact, years ago I created a Rails tool for performing a/b split tests: https://github.com/flyingmachine/rails_ab_split_tester . Also, in the resources section of the site I link to Don't Make Me Think, which strongly advocates quick, cheap user testing. However, I felt like a discussion of testing was outside the scope of site. And unfortunately, I don't have the time to conduct proper tests myself. I wish I did, but I've spent a great deal of time on the site already, and it's time for me to work on other things.

However, this is why I made the site available on github - if you'd like to improve the site, please do create a pull request. If I come across a little surly here, it's because it's bizarre to me have put so much effort into the guide, motivated solely by my love of design and desire to engender it in others, only to read that somehow I'm exhibiting disrespect for great design.

Re: "clean" - keep in mind that the site is meant to be an introduction to design. People who have no design vocabulary nonetheless have an implicit understanding of "clean" and "messy". For many people, "clean" can in fact be a goal, and I felt no need to ignore the way people actually use the word. Also, it made for a fun title :)

I try to explain what I mean by "clean" design in a way that's not limited to personal aesthetic - it's design that allows the audience to quickly find the information they need. Did that not really come across? If it did - do you think that making information easy to find is not a valid goal of design? Or do you disagree with my definition of "clean"?

It seems like we're not using the word "clean" in the same way, but if we are, I'd love to hear your thoughts on why you think "clean" isn't better or necessary.
Yeah, Zite is my favorite app on the ipad. I wish they made it for the desktop and iphone. The one thing they can improve upon in their rec. engine is removing dupe articles. It'll definitely be interesting to see if Zite can find a good way around this.
Really REMOTE.

deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote; there's no central office with a team located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists.

One exception to all that: there's an Infrastructure Engineer position which is located in Vancouver. It's C++/Java focused, and involves developing backend services used by the rest of the site.

We post information about our development process here sometimes: http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/

Apply here: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply
Why use credit when you have cash?
Personally, I tend to think that an overly dogmatic commitment to backwards compatibility does more harm than the benefit produced by supporting a tiny minority of users with five year old hardware. Backward compatibility is the enemy of elegance. Just look at C++ or the x86 instruction set to see examples of that.
I don't know of any numbers to back it up, but I suspect that there are strong parallels to be drawn between the speed of someone scanning a web page, and the distance someone is from a poster.
add the hitlar mode alias to your .bashrc.

echo "alias hitlar='ls -Fhitlar'" >> ~/.bashrc

$hitlar

$hitlar filename
Agreed. I stopped reading halfway through, having not yet found a description of the beast beyond "It was a fossil that looked like a cross between two different kinds of animals," which describes everything from jackalopes to owlbears. The author doesn't even note that it was an insect until 3/4 of the way through the article.