skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grooveshark is hiring developers (front-end/javascript), designers (web UI), admen (yield optimization/digital sales), and more...check out grooveshark.com/careers for more info or send your resume/cover letter/portfolio to careers@grooveshark.com.

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Nice, but it disables DTrejo's keyboard navigation extension. Can you please add J-walking?

Help from the DTrejo's extension:

Current style of hotkeys: gmail style.

Key — Action
j — move down
k — move up
o — open / view comments
enter — same as above
r — reply to comment or post. Only works on article pages
w — upvote (win)
s — downvote
Sample Workflow
Hit news.ycombinator.com
hit 'j' a few times to get to the 3rd post
hit 'o' or 'enter' to view the comments
hit 'o' again to read the article
hit ctrl-w or cmd-w to close the tab
hit 'j' to scroll down the rest of the comments
hit 'r' to respond to someone who is wrong on the internet.
Floop - New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iOS, Android, OpenGL, Mobile app design (Information Architecture through gradients and icons)

We're a funded "stealth" startup building what we call a social opinion platform. Our iPhone app will be launching later this month. We'll be gathering feedback and iterating quickly, so we'll need some help! We're interested in anyone with one or more of the skills listed above. We're low overhead, flexible on hours, and all we really care about is getting shit done.

Please submit code/github/portfolio if you are interested. We'll be happy to add you to our testflight before we chat so you can see what we are all about. Good compensation, equity for right person. pat at floop dot com.
Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com) in Chicago, IL.

We're looking to add a full-time developer to help build and develop Pitchfork and its affiliates. You'll work out of our Chicago office with our small dev staff, assisting with every aspect of Pitchfork and directly impacting how our three million loyal readers use the site.

We're looking for the devops sort, those with an interest in working on all aspects of the site. We run on Django, and lovelovelove Python. You don't have to be a Django developer, though.

You, and you working here:

- You should love music. Love it.
- You'll come into a fast-growing, fast-paced work environment with a lot of autonomy. Being a self-starter is clutch.
- The idea of your work reaching Pitchfork's three million readers should be exciting.
- We have tons and tons of ideas, and pride ourselves on not letting good ideas go to waste. A big part of your job will be not only helping us implement these ideas, but contributing and implementing your own.

If you're interested, shoot a resume and some code examples to mattd [at] domain in first line. Feel free to hit me up with any & all questions, too.
You mostly develop software on top of Java?
"The Enterprise" operates at a glacial pace and has been holding back innovation on the web. "The Enterprise" is the reason why 10% of Internet users are still using IE6. I'm glad Mozilla is ignoring the Enterprise.
Listen, search on a calendar is the worst thing to happen to humanity. I don't use search in my calendar workflow, therefore no one should.
San Francisco, CA

VerticalResponse is hiring for a lot of great positions:

* Ruby on Rails Developers

* Ruby on Rails Architect

* Director of Product Management

* Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Analyst

* Senior QA Automation Engineer

* Online Marketing Specialist

* Product Manager

* Director of Acquisition Marketing

* Senior Financial Analyst

* Customer Relations Specialist

VR is an established and successful, privately held company in SF for the last 10 years. We work with Rails 3, Git, JQuery, Rspec, backbone.js, Haml, Sass, TDD, pair programming, agile development and other leading technologies (you don't need to have experience with all of these). I've been working there as an engineer for 7 months now and really enjoy it.

Occasional work from home is allowed if you have an important appointment or need to keep germs out of the office. We have happy hour on Fridays and the fridge is stocked with a wide variety of beer, so we'll sometimes end the day with a cold brew while we finish pairing on a difficult problem.

Apply here: http://jobvite.com/m?3RB34fwj
I must say I disagree with this post. Based on how my "normal" friends use facebook, I'm impressed to the lengths they can go just because they love the product, or because it's trendy. Many non-geeks today like to think of themselves as computer savvy, and I think little tricks like the bold and italics will seem cool for them and not "geeky" or "hard". But that's just a circle of hipster twentysomethings.

In the end, if your mom doesn't understand the internet, she'll go to what she hears is popular and not what's simple. And if the hipsters join the bandwagon many people will follow independently of wether they understand it or not (I find this to be especially true for twitter, where a lot of people I know joined because a lot of others were using it, but they never really understood the service).
San Francisco, CA

ZeroCater

Come build a Food AI (FAI).

We make it easy for companies to feed their people. We generate a set of custom orders across local restaurants and automatically arrange delivery, then optimize the selections with customer feedback. Think smart playlists for food.

We have openings for hackers and a designer.
http://www.zerocater.com/jobs
Tool of the Day: Proposable: Proposals in Real Time
Absolutely agree. To make an assumption about the world, test it and find out you were wrong is way better than to not make any assumptions and just being passive. And what upsets me more is that such 'zen' philosophy become more and more popular. Like relax, lower your standards, don't have expectations, don't care for work too much, go play soccer. This is how western civilization fades away becoming more lazy and less competitive.

Why is it bad to constantly challenge yourself and the world around you. Humans are great because they can change the circumstances and not to surrender to them. Although often times it comes through terrible mistakes, but the process is moving forward.
How a Change of Perspective Can Make Data Epic
Wrong target, Anon. Law enforcement personnel, while a natural ally to every form of official corruption, do not have the power to improve the immigration situation. At most they could refuse to uphold the law by ignoring any suspicion of illegal status. Maybe they should do this, but not because they fear Anon; because they know it's right.
Thanks for the suggestion -- didn't think about looking at Mixergy.
Interesting, I will look into this.
QT7 is available if you know about it and either download it or install it from disk.

QTX / QTKit don't provide a way to:

- save in formats other than H.264 for iPhone or computer

- select datarates other than 2x for iPhone or 1x computer

- export just the audio

- export a still / image from your video

- do simple in/out copy/paste editing
Secrecy requires trust. If your employees trust your vision and direction -- they can be left in the dark and still work hard everyday. If your employees think you have no direction or make bad decisions, secrecy is perceived as a way to cover your ass.
New York City, New York

Thrillist.com, the leading men's lifestyle newsletter, is growing and needs more hands and brains to keep up with our agile, fast-paced development cycle.

We're looking for a PHP developer -- Junior level on up. It's a growing start up -- slowly growing into an actual company. We have our main content site, Thrillist, a flash sale site, JackThreads and our new rewards product, Thrillist Rewards. We have an amazingly smart team and a great company culture. We're working on some big updates in the coming months and some really cool internal projects, too. Our technologies are PHP, Mongo, MySQL & Postgres, SOLR and Drupal & CakePHP. I'm the lead developer for Thrillist and have been here almost a year and am loving every minute of it.

Email us at techjobs@thrillist.com if you're interested. Do me a favor and let us know you came from HN, too.
Redwoods Media is giving away a free explainer vid to Tech startups
I am afraid of the statement of "lifetime payment". May be because I am a newbie to Internet entrepreneurship but I think the ability of providing the opportunity to users to small payments for a specific time would result in more sales rather one time huge payment.
Or was it "Follow us on Twitter! twitter.com/ProductFoo" at first?

The same way +1 could develop in to "+1 ProductFoo". Just give it some time.
The difference between segmentation and clustering
Segmentation is always possible, even in an extremely homogeneous collection of items ... Finding clusters in this extremely homogeneous collection is impossible ...
Waltham, MA-

We're looking for an Affiliate manager (and any Mongo Experts) here near Boston.

If you're a Mongo DBA, and want to work with large and growing datasets, scaling to multi-shard, multi replicaset servers, I'd love to talk with you.

For the Affiliate-
SavingStar is searching for a star to help take our revolutionary startup to the next level in an important role. We're seeking an experienced affiliate manager (3-5 years experience) to help us revolutionize the grocery coupon industry. As the only national paperless grocery coupon service, we're poised for amazing growth. We want you to help grow our user-base and revenue by recruiting top publishers, monitoring and consulting with publishers to optimize SavingStar's promotion on blogs and websites, and tracking and forecasting affiliate program revenues. Opportunities for amazing growth don't come around too often. This is one of them. Please apply if you have demonstrated past success managing affiliate programs.

E-mail me. cdavis@savingstar.com
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Same here. I've been using Planets theme for a while specifically because it's immediately obvious what's read and what's unread.
Mountain View, CA - RockMelt is looking for Windows (C++) and Mac (Objective-C++) developers to help build our web browser.

jay@rockmelt.com
Patch Labs - New York, NY

Platform Engineer (Full time)

Patch Labs (http://labs.patch.com) is building new ways to make life easier for you and your neighbors.

About you

* You’re smart, and make it happen

* You love being part of a small team that solves big problems

* You’re pragmatic when architecting solutions to real world challenges

* You’re informed by both well established and emerging approaches to solving big problems

* You keep the end user in mind, and appreciate the value of developing useful software that scales

* You’re Agile where it makes sense, but always sensible, clever and hard-working

As a founding member of Patch Labs, you will work closely with a front-end engineer, user experience designer and product manager to create really useful, intuitive software. Specifically, you will:

* Architect, build and ship highly-scalable systems, libraries, and frameworks

* Code using primarily modern languages (Scala, Clojure, Ruby, etc.)

Requirements

* Passion for building software that makes life easier

* An understanding of the challenges involved in building popular applications at web scale

* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Ideal experience:

* NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, etc.)

* Search relevance solutions (scoring functions, query classification, text normalization, etc.) and technologies (Lucene-based, Real-Time search, etc.)

* Cloud based services and hosting (AWS EC2, etc.)

* Developing APIs and Web Services

* Consuming interesting APIs (Twilio, GroupMe, Venmo, Foursquare, Twitter, etc.)

* Geo-location, geometry and mapping

* Natural Language Processing (NLP)

* Mobile development

* Open source projects

* Comfort with Git

What We Offer

* A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and reaping the rewards

* Laid-back office environment in the heart of SoHo

* Competitive compensation and excellent benefits

Apply: labs@patch.com
Palo Alto, CA
Quora, Inc.

Quora is hiring! We're building out the core team: http://www.quora.com/about/team with talented engineers and product designers.

Open to varying levels of experience including new grads, and we're open to H1B sponsorship.

For more info, check out: http://www.quora.com/jobs

email andy@quora.com
here you go. google'd this for you.

http://savedelete.com/10-alternatives-to-gmail.html
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SEEKING FREELANCER
Small interactive agency in NYC is looking for a solid Python/Django developer for a couple of days worth of work. Remote work is preferred. To be considered, you must supply live samples of your latest work. No recruiters please. Contact info is in profile.
You're comparing apples to oranges. New programming languages are great, but it's a very different problem domain than web UI interfaces.
I've interned at a few larger software companies and most of this is not specific to startups. I've met management, worked with geniuses in a comfortable, laid-back environment, owned my projects (bugs and all) and learned a ton. This article is most definitely not about "interning at a startup"; it's about finding an internship at a place worth working, be it a 5-person company or Google.
Atlanta, Ga

We're a fast-growing startup focused on making green building easier. We're looking for an excellent Rails developer with an interest in sustainability.

email me and mention Hacker News. stuart at ecoscorecard dot com
... or an interpreter named "tic" and then you can work in the arctic.
Create a Web Spy with a PHP Crawler
Sorry but that sounds like an absolutely awful place to work. :(
This article is basically a ginormous infographic. I'm a design whore as much as the next designer, but I really don't see the point of most of these things. This particular one, it seems, is basically a distillation of the company's Crunchbase page[1], taking cues from Zynga's logo for a color scheme and, of course, using Helvetica.

1: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga
How Do U.S., Indian Developers Really Match Up?
Top 10 Most Annoying Facebook Status Updates From My Silicon Valley Friends
I'm not sure that anarchism can be as stable as government, but I think it's certainly possible

your free to think anything you want, but with no empirical data or any substantial evidence to support your opinion...why share them here?
RIM is now a textbook case of Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy (http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html) in action. Group one, the goal seekers, have been or are being forced out or converted to members of group two, the organization supporters. Those anonymous letters coming from the current and former employees? Just desperate attempts from group one employees to be heard over the crushing silence of the group two management structure.

Don't expect RIM's fortunes to turn around any time soon. Only a catastrophic business failure is going to shake up the management structure. With RIM's financials and market position, it could be years before that event comes to pass. Even then, there's no guarantee that RIM would really make a recovery. Most likely RIM will be absorbed by a larger competitor (and the current RIM top brass removed) before anything like real business failure can occur.

It's so painful to watch this. RIM has really made some great products and services.
Is there a careers page on alltrails.com? Couldn't find one. Alternatively, can you give more details about the specific knowlege that you're looking for in applicants? Thanks.
FAFSA, which every college student who wants financial aid must fill out.

(FWIW, they support Chrome through something like version 9, but nothing newer...)
San Francisco, CA.

We're looking to build the right product team that can take Disqus to what we see as the next act. We're still a small company (~20) with a lot of user reach (~500mm/mo, 45mm users). Incredible, connective experiences is what we're after, and we're game for experimentation.

We're hiring for many engineering/design roles, as well as actively searching for super strong product leads to shape the next stage of Disqus.

All position at http://disqus.com/jobs/ or hit me up at daniel@disqus.com.
SEEKING WORK

Architect/Civil engineer, software developer. Madrid, Spain. Can move through Europe if necessary.

Ruby on Rails, specialized in creative work, digital art and graphics. Other languages and frameworks, including Scheme, C, C++, D, and to a lesser extent Javascript, Bash, Java, Assembly, Objective-C.

You can see my "software art" portfolio in http://castrocastilla.com

We can use webconference, desktop sharing and technologies to ease remote working. I can also further clarify my background and skills.
gorecki.matt@gmail.com

Good on ya.
You could be correct. At the end of the day, we may be able to make the Israeli model work. But the question most people don't seem to ask or answer: should we?

IMO, there have been exactly two positive security advances post-9/11: you can't barge into the cockpit anymore, and everyone in the air knows to resist attempts to hijack the plane.

Adding more air marshals, creating the draconian TSA, forbidding liquids on flights -- it's not worth the time or money.
or just +ProductFoo
From my understanding, VCs don't like to decline so that they don't close any doors. They may not want to fund at the time, but may jump on it later.
Law enforcement can absolutely refuse to uphold laws that are unjust. In fact, many northern law enforcement officials refused to return slaves that escaped from the south.

Everyone involved is partly responsible
Unfortunately, the cost of the lawsuit will be borne by the handset makers and not by Google. The price of these patents is fairly indeterminable because the chilling effect of the almost certainly imminent lawsuits is hard to estimate. Now Google has no choice but to back the OEMs to the hilt and fight this to the death in the courts.
The minute that everyone feels that a space is locked up is the perfect time to get started. I think there's plenty of room to start a tech site at this point, the trick is to do something new and not reinvent the wheel.
Android consumers 'are put off by paying'
I agree. But the energy was undeniable.
I'm not a huge fan, it's a cool plugin but I want to see HN, not Google.
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DocuSign - San Francisco, CA & Seattle, WA

We're the leading provider of electronic signature services
(more than 7 of every 10 e-signatures)!

We are a pre-IPO company and have openings in San Francisco and Seattle for:

* Mobile Developer (iOS)
* PlugIn Developer (.NET, GreaseMonkey, Browser plugins)
* Integration Engineer (ASP.NET, C#, Web Services)
* QA Engineers

You can send your resume or questions to jd.brennan@docusign.com

Job descriptions for these new positions will be on our web site next week: http://www.docusign.com/careers
SEEKING WORK
(REMOTE or York, UK)

Lots of experience building webapps quickly in PHP and node.js but I also do SEO/SEM consultancy and audits, contact info is in my profile.
Let me back up here and try to be less smarmy and more straight with the facts of the matter.

The primary reason I think your idea isn't favorable to using bcrypt is because of the weight of experience and research. Dropping bits from your salt might be a perfectly valid crypto protection technique, but when it comes to crypto, I'm inclined to go with research over cleverness.

If dropped bits from the salt were a viable means of securing passwords, I'd imagine that someone would have implemented something like this already. It's one of those "oh, that's clever" ideas, but the cleverness trap is a dangerous thing. Just because something is clever doesn't make it good.

This is one of the most oft repeated warnings when it comes to crypto: don't build your own, you'll do it wrong.
OwnLocal in Austin, TX

Working through newspapers, we make the web less scary for small businesses.

We're hiring:

- Ruby systems engineer (http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/ruby-systems-engineer/)

- Web UI Designer (http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/web-designer/)

We're also interested in talking to interns who want to pick up Rails.
Let us know when we can run Babel-17 in most major (mobile and desktop) browsers.
It's pretty much an anarcho-capitalist society.
I'm no crypto expert but wouldn't using a nonce allow this approach to work?
You might try renaming 'campaign' to be just 'website'.
Boston, MA.

Dimagi is hiring a Senior Engineer in Boston. We are a small social enterprise that make apps that support healthcare systems in the developing world. We focus on mobile and SMS-based applications.

Any excellent programmers welcome to apply. Experience with Python, CouchDB or Android is a plus.

Dimagi: http://www.dimagi.com/
Careers: http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/
> I think it's a safe bet that the social networking site that replaces Facebook will have fewer features, be ugly, be more difficult to use, and have no redeeming qualities other than nobody's parents are going to participate in it, and kids will identify with it as the cool thing for that reason.

Ugly or not, it will happen. Since human time is limited, a smart social strategy is all about identifying the right "circle" of people you want to join, and then performing activities that increase the chances of your interacting with people from that circle while reducing the chances of your interacting with people from outside.

What this means is that even when your social site is small (compared to say Facebook), if you have all the right people in it (meaning people with high social favorability factor), you will succeed.

Some people make the mistake of assuming that the larger their site is, the better off they are. It's not only about quantity, but also about quality. Low quality eventually leads to decline in quantity by driving people away. That's what happened to MySpace and what will happen to Facebook.
You can use my referral link if you'd like: http://getdatadriven.com/2eygp
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As of September this year: San Francisco near Market Street

Currently: Palo Alto, CA (very close to Caltrain)

MindTribe is hiring Electrical, Mechanical, and Software engineers. We're an engineering consultancy in downtown Palo Alto (considering an office in SF very soon though, so if that interests you, let us know). Notable projects include the Aliph Jawbone headset, the Pure Digital Flip (before it was acquired by Cisco). We're looking for thought leaders who will help us bring agile development to physical products in support of our clients' customer development efforts.
http://mindtribe.com/jobs/

I'm our Director of Software Engineering and, despite the requirements listed on our website, I'm specifically looking for enthusiastic embedded developers with strong C skills, test-driven development discipline, and agile planning experience--regardless of degree or pedigree. And the agile experience/mindset is more important than intimate knowledge of C. If this excites you, contact me at hn@mindtribe.com.
Based only on my experience with outsourced work, this:

"That the gap has narrowed, Desai said, is attributable simply to Indian programmers having gained more experience"

becomes

"That the gap has narrowed, Desai said, is attributable simply to Indian programmers rampantly cheating"

but I could just be incredibly bitter from bad experiences.

edit: I can't decide if this comment is coming across as racist or not, but I just can't put any faith in the Indian education system anymore. Seeing a masters degree in computer science on a resume has never failed to disappoint.
Maybe one should make it clear that if they don't take you up on your offer now, they won't have the opportunity to do that later.

Obviously this should only be done with second rate firms, but since most deals don't make them any money they cannot afford to miss the few which do make money.
Or use Groovy++