skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worker&#8217;s Compensation, Stuart, Martin County, Florida.
37signals - Chicago, IL
(Remote - Work from anywhere)

2x DevOps guys or girls.

http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/9730
TDD is particularly valuable (I'd even say unavoidable) when writing modules, libraries and so on. It's extremely helpful on some tough program parts that aren't enough defined in behaviour by the spec. Writing tests first in these case will avoid you countless traps, particularly in "the other 90%" as mentioned in the Cargill's law:

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first
90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent
of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the
development time."
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
The latest stable version of Node.js is available in the official Community repo: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=nodejs
Things like adding users, and restricting a database to particular users, was a nightmare to figure out.

When trying to enter a view, you need to quote and escape your code and put it all on one line. It's really bad, no novice would even know how to do this properly. I had to write my own little slash/escape tool to do it right.
The Get Bonus project is an experiment in functionnal game design.
"When's the last time a dual-UI delivered a good experience?"

Nothing works, until it does. I've had this same conversation with clients and partners alike. When something goes wrong, they reaction is often "Well it worked yesterday." Yes, everything works until it doesn't, and nothing works until it does. Evaluative statements of the past don't always predict the future.

I agree that it won't be easy. That's why I say that there is no easy play here. Apple has forged ahead with a tablet that completely abandons past models. It is a 100% touch experience. It is undeniable that people have cried out for a dual-UI product though.

Balance. I'm not saying consumers know best either. I'm saying that if Microsoft can balance the two, it could pay off.

As far as developer incentives go, I think Apple has done Microsoft a huge favor. There will be a lot of bad dual-UI apps. Lazy programmers produce crappy applications. But there are a large number of motivated developers out there as well. They've seen what a touch UI should look like. The incentive comes in the form of inspiration and the validation (from consumers) that a 100% touch UI sells, and it sells well.
Your choice of terms is very interesting! I would say that Protovis and d3 do not take a Grammar of Graphics approach per se; rather, they tackle mostly just the lowest level of the grammar, namely aesthetic composition and some transforms. ggplot is very nice for the kinds of datasets that people use R for, but it's only one part of the story.

For large dataset and interactive visualization in Python, take a look at Chaco: http://code.enthought.com/chaco
Mapping language communities using Twitter and Chrome language detection
Rough dental cleaning?
I don't understand why Google went in two different paths. Why didn't Google release an Eclipse plugin for Dart instead of an Eclipse based editor ? If you think you have an answer to that, try applying it to why did Google release a plugin for Android and not an Android editor like Dart ?
Hm, as a general rule, I'd actually suggest continuing to avoid such packages in general, unless you know that they're what you need: you need to track whether there's been a source code update, whether someone broke the upstream build, whether your current versions of other packages depend on it

(example: x264-git, pretty much requires that you also install libav-git/mplayer-git, and then of course blender doesn't work, and so on. It can become quite messy at times.)
Ask HN: How do you send email blasts to your customers?
I have a forum which now has about 22,000 users. I wanted to send an email newsletter to the ones that checkboxed that they didn't mind.

However I don't know what software to use. Does anyone have recommendations?
Sorry for the irritation, as I say it's a work in progress including filtering some things which shouldn't be in there.
NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality
iOS - London - full time - Memrise - http://www.memrise.com

We're seed-funded, just out of TechStars Boston, and we have thousands of happy users, clamouring to hear about progress on an iPhone app.

If you like the idea of a deeply creative, technically demanding role in a company that aims to make all learning fast, fun, mobile and effective, please send an email with CV or questions to jobs at memrise.com.

Join us in our mission to give the world a better memory.
"INTO the midst of things" things could be very fitting as well, depending on your thoughts on the after life. Some choose to believe we join a party already in full swing...
I worked for 13 years doing phone based technical support. I can tell you that people with a strong accent are often seen as 'stupid'. I worked with several Indian co-workers and it wasn't unusual to have calls transferred to me (no accent) because people didn't want to talk to them. As a team lead I got to listen in to those calls, and it's amazing how badly one human being can treat another. There's the passive aggressive person who just keeps saying "i don't understand you". There's the person who says things like "Where am I talking to" "are you in india?" "Can I speak to someone from Canada" (we were all in Canada, same country as the callers). Then there's the people who would just rip in to the agent, questioning their intelligence, yelling at them and much more.

On the other hand, we would often have people call in who had strong accents, and the tech support agents would often judge the callers as 'dumb'. I earned a reputation of being a genius, not because I was a genius but because I'd actually listen to people and try to understand them (sometimes they were hard to understand) rather than being an asshole to them.

In short - it was very common for people on both ends of the phone to rationalize racisim with a hard to understand accent.
Austin, TX - OwnLocal (YC W10) - INTERN, FULL-TIME

OwnLocal is looking for a full-time web designer as well as a full-time software engineer.

We're also looking for paid and unpaid software engineering interns in Austin.

We have full health coverage, you can work from home most of the week and we have free beer.

Check out http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/ or apply at jobs@ownlocal.com. Tell us about projects that you've worked on. A resume isn't really necessary, but if you send one it may get some mundane details out of the way.
Introduction to Clojure expectations
I don't see how this was even a dilemma to Microsoft. The market for what is essentially a digital scrap book could have in no way justified it. Seriously, what percentage of the population would actually benefit from this functionality?

Companies like Microsoft don't get into a market unless it's worth billions.
realtime what? Realtime like C? Realtime like ATLAS or MKL?
Try backporting a package that depends on packages whose versions are older in the target release. It is a real nightmare and the packages themselves already exist. This is the most common use case I encounter that it much better handled by Arch.
In before, "Apple Killed The Desktop PC".
Chicago, New York, Mountain View

Matasano Security

Do you like to break things? Was your childhood room full of toys you'd taken apart and put back together in ridiculous ways? You may be just who we're looking for.

At Matasano Security, some of the most interesting companies in the world hire us to break their code/hardware in terrible, terrible ways, and we're looking for people to join the team. Security experience is great but not required, and we love people with interesting backgrounds and insights. Above all else, you have to be quick on your feet and be comfortable learning entirely new languages, frameworks, platforms, etc while attacking a product. You'll be pushed to the very limits of your capabilities and love every minute of it.

If this sounds like fun to you (and it is!), check out http://www.matasano.com/careers
Floating point error is the least of my worries
Cambridge / London, UK - Full Time - http://handyelephant.com

Handy Elephant is building a productivity app for business professionals who have to maintain a large number of relationships across multiple channels (e.g. Phone, SMS, Email, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook).

We have been accepted into a Silicon Valley based Startup Accelerator and are now looking to extend our team of 4 (Android dev, Web Dev, Web & UX Designer, Marketing) with a Web Lead Developer - more details here: http://handyelephant.com/lead-web-developer-wanted/

Why work for us?

- Exciting technology, which sits in the intersection of Social Networks, Mobile apps, Data Warehousing and Social Psychology

- Beautiful Location, as our office is in Cambridge with an awesome view. Cambridge is well known for it’s vibrant startup, investor and developer community – and a great place to live. And the best thing: No London Tubes, it's all bikes here!

- Spend 10% of your time on “building relationships” like all of us do. That could mean being active in local developer groups, stackoverflow, contributing to an open-source project or writing a blog – it’s your choice.

- Optionally , come with us to Silicon Valley next year, to join the start up accelerator, and explore the start-up capital of the world.
Correlating the estimated time required and estimated cost, you are basically paying $100/week. I assume 5 days / week and 5 hours / day. That's $4/hour. Serious?
> I can't increase costs because of competition, even though I am sure my service provides a much higher quality translation.

Self-limiting belief. Self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever you want to call it, this one single sentence will kill your business.

If you are providing a higher quality service than the competition, then guess what? You should be charging more.

If you're not getting the clients you need when charging more ... well, your marketing sucks. Position yourself as a premium service. Provide a better experience and charge for it. Get customers by encouraging referrals, etc, etc.

Look at Apple. They charge twice as much as their competitors for the same hardware. Why? They provide a premium experience and they charge extra for it.

Why are you competing on cost?
Cake Health, San Francisco, CA, Full Time

Lead Developer and Ruby Developer

Cake Health is looking for brilliant people to help us build a platform that can fix the U.S. health care system. We believe that your benefits and care options should be described in simple language, that you should always have immediate access to all of your data, and that you should always know what’s covered by your insurance.

Our team has built some great momentum in just the last ten months and the product is now open to the public. We've raised money from some of the top angels and funds in Silicon Valley, and have been featured in Forbes, Wired, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and the Financial Times, to name a few.

We have a big vision for where Cake Health can go from here, which is why we're looking to build our team. You will be a critical team member that will have significant responsibility. You are bright, hard-working and resourceful, and most importantly, you are excited by the challenges and opportunity for an early-stage startup to change the world.

We’re always eager to talk with anyone who has a sharp mind and a passion for detail. Right now we are particularly interested in hiring relentlessly resourceful software engineers who can deliver on key features and delight our growing user base.

Read more at https://cakehealth.com/jobs. Send your details to jobs@cakehealth.com.
SEEKING WORK

Python, Tornado, Django, Google App Engine, Javascript (jQuery, learning Backbone.js), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux and VPS (Linode), MongoDB, RabbitMQ (Celery and pika), Twitter API.

My Github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work in Python:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://www.presidenciables2013.cl/

Blog: http://ccarpenterg.posterous.com/

Contact: ccarpenterg@gmail.com (My name is Cristian)
The iOS mail app works fine with gmail. What's the fuss?
One of the primary reasons I like computers is that I don't have to write by hand anymore. I don't think I'm alone.
Oklahoma City, OK - Full Time - http://goldfirestudios.com/jobs.php

We are a small but growing browser-based game studio, developing exclusively in HTML5 and Node.js. We are looking for Javascript developers with a passion for gaming. We are profitable and looking to expand operations.
London:

At Mixlr, we’re currently looking to meet developers.

Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including some of the world’s top DJs and radio stations. We also have an interesting and scaleable backend architecture which involves not only Ruby but lashings of Java, C and C++, with heavy usage of Redis and MongoDB.

We practice test-driven development, use Puppet to automate our server configuration and live by the mantra of rapid deployment: join us, and you can expect to see your code being put through its paces by thousands of users - within hours (or quite possibly, minutes).

We would love to meet developers with:

- deep web development knowledge - most likely involving Ruby on Rails.

- a strongly test-driven approach to coding.

- a love for learning new skills and technologies, and the enthusiasm to break out of Ruby and try their hand at unfamiliar languages and frameworks.

- a driving passion not just for coding, but for audio, music and startups as well.

For the right person(s), we are able to offer:

- A competitive, full-time salary - negotiable dependant on experience.

- Meaningful stock options.

- Offices a stone’s throw from Old Street tube.

- The opportunity to take a leading, hands-on role in building an exciting and ambitious music company.

If the above interests you, or you’d like to discuss anything further, then we’d love to talk. Contact me: rob <somehow> mixlr.com.
Baltimore, MD - Full Time & Interns - http://www.mindgrub.com/careers

I'm an information architect at Mindgrub and I love it. We're a growing agency that has some of the best mobiel and web developers in Baltimore. We've worked on interesting projects for Dell, Geico and other clients. We're currently growing really fast and need to add people to our team in the next six months.

We're looking for mobile developers, web developers and design minded folks. We're looking for both full-time and interns. We actually take a lot of interns from UMBC as we're located a mile and half away from the campus.

If you're interested please get a hold of me at mforr@mindgrub dot com.

Thanks!
>So in that POV, the playbook was for the people who already had email and bbm.

I don't know a single person that uses a tablet that doesn't use it for email.

>I think the high developer friction (poor tools, poor stores, etc.) and the wrong direction were among the bigger problems.

You're looking at it from a technical perspective, and the Playbook's failure was a complete lack of demand from consumers. When the people that actually buy tablets react to your marketing strategy with "that's stupid" and in turn refuse to buy your device, it doesn't matter if you have the best developer tools in the world; you've still set yourself up for failure.
I think you're missing the point - saying "I'm a programmer" essentially means jack and squat to most people.

Saying what you did, and better, what that actually accomplished in real world terms isn't a lie at all, it's what people actually care about.
This happens in many countries like Iran that try to artificially keep their currency overvalued.
Because … the White House is interested in phishing?

What?
I really don't think the new UI is that bad. Some minor tweaks are needed to improve it, but overall, it's fine.

Mostly, I'd like to see the headers shrunk to allow more Reader space.

As for the other changes (ie. +1 to G+, etc.), only time will tell. But I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
Gorgeous Miley Cyrus at the MTV VMAs in Los Angeles
New York, NY - Contract, INTERN

Vita Coco (coconut water) - http://vitacoco.com

We package and sell the #1 brand of all natural coconut water in the US. Our investors include Madonna, Demi Moore, AROD, & more. We're probably at your local grocery store, drug store, or corner deli!

We're seeking a tech generalist, who can own projects such as deploying ipads and developing MVP style applications for our sales team, using NFC/RFID technology along with FB & other social API's to do some really cool physical checkins with our field marketing teams, and lots more.

EDIT: Almost forgot, the gig includes all the Vita Coco you can drink!

If this sounds like you, email me at bolney@vitacoco.com and let's chat.
Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! I help supply and demand equilibrate everywhere! If you're turning away customers it means you've set your prices too low! Raise your prices until you have exactly as many customers as you can handle!

Sincerely, the Market Economics Fairy!
In reality it's more like this:

Step 1: Use bucket of cash to gain access to and develop a rapport with a politician, increase the rapport and dependency with campaign contributions

Step 2: Convince said politician of your perspective, namely that the works of art your company has struggled to create are threatened by people who want to "steal" them without paying.

Step 3: Convince said politician that it's necessary to go to special measures to protect content from being "stolen" because it's such a big and growing "problem".

In many cases these steps can be quite natural and good seeming. The biggest problems are that the MPAA/RIAA have a lot more access to politicians than and a much more well honed "pitch" than any organization seeking to defend individuals.
A native Gmail iPhone app means one less killer exclusive for Android
Secondary Sales and Venture Capitalists – an unhealthy mix
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Looking for a $250-$400 gig. HTML/CSS/JavaScript (jQuery/Backbone) and PHP (WordPress/Fat Free). Email in my profile.
CouchOne abandoned any sort of marketing effort around CouchDB long before they got acquired by Membase. Since then, they have focused their attention solely on marketing the Couchbase brand, with close to zero time spent evangelizing Apache CouchDB. The other CouchDB “vendor”, Cloudant (who I work for) never had much of a marketing budget, so we spent no time marketing CouchDB either (we focused on building and marketing our own products, open-source BigCouch and hosted Cloudant).

This situation did not catch us by surprise; I flagged this as a potential issue at Cloudant and had conversations about it with the CouchOne guys back in January 2011.

What you see here is just what happens to open-source technologies when nobody spends time evangelizing them — and when maybe, just maybe, they’re not hip enough to get self-sustaining traction. I love CouchDB to pieces and believe it's an immensely useful tool with great things in its future — but it has long stopped being cool, compared to the MongoDBs and Nodes of this world. (Which is not necessarily a bad thing… Strong communities are not built on shallow attraction.)

So yes, both vendors decided to focus their limited resources on advertising their own products (successfully & deservedly so, I would argue) but I think the success & money that phase brings in will undoubtedly be funneled back into even more evangelizing & involvement in Apache CouchDB. (I'm speaking for Cloudant at least, don’t know what Couchbase’s open-source plans are for Apache CouchDB.)
SEEKING WORK - Japan, Kobe. Remote, travel or local ok.

I'm a doing some freelancing while bootstrapping ShiningPanda (https://www.shiningpanda.com). My expertise lies in: Python (Django, RabbitMQ/Celery, etc.) and Continuous Integration with Jenkins. I've also done my fair share of HTML / CSS / JQuery and GWT.

Email in profile
Home Based Business Marketing Using Attraction Marketing
Ask HN: How do you mix regulatory compliance & DevOps?
Okay, for the sake of argument, I'm assuming DevOps is a "thing" that you can implement. I'm also assuming that it's a good thing to implement for your environment. What I'd like to know is, how are people dealing with the "breaking down barriers" aspect of DevOps (i.e. letting non-operations push to production) while maintaining regulatory compliance (PCI for instance)? It seems to me like a lot of people would be more than happy to let some designated developers push to production, but we have these "artificial boundaries" forced upon us by these external forces.
I am fed up with all the bla bla around this issue. Really. Look, if you think there is racism in the tech field (let us define this narrowly as prejudices against blacks; prejudices against Indians and Chinese are, I think, a bit different), stop writing cute, angry blog posts; instead write about what the solution is and what you are doing about it.

That there are too few blacks in the tech industry is a fact. The reason is actually very simple (as others have commented): African-Americans are underrepresented in CS, EE, and other tech fields. This is similar to the issue of the dearth of women in these fields. Now, the reasons for this are complex and are not easy to solve. So, instead, while waiting for the root causes and biases to go away, be pragmatic and solve the problem at hand.

The solution is easy, but is not affirmative action or specialized VCs or quotas: It's as simple as increasing the demand of black (or women) programmers.

How to do this? I am working as a software mentor for two FIRST Robotics Teams in Chicago South Side, these teams are almost all black and this is their first exposure to programming (unfortunately, we have to use C++ for first exposure!) So, I alone have the power to introduce 5-10 black programmers to tech community! Assume I have 20% success, which is really lousy, that means 1-2 programmers. If 1K people do this, that's 1K more black programmers on the market.

Another example: Finding that the teams on the Apps for Metro Chicago challenge were all-male, my friend Pallavi quickly assembled an all-female team of college students, who won the second prize (http://www.metroplanning.org/news-events/blog-post/6262) and were featured in the local press.

So, same as starting a company: you don't need anybody's permission to start helping kids to solve this problem.
You definitely have been able to buy ebooks for a long time. Are you talking about paper books?
It's more of a systemic problem with how democracy (if you want to call it that) works in this country. The costs of running a successful, political campaign are unbelievably high and contributions from corporations and lobby organizations play a major role in it.
For all practical purposes, you only get the choice between two huge parties. Not only is a large segment of the population pretty much bound to one party, since they would never ever vote for the other party, but for those people who actually might swing their vote, there are even more issues at hand.
Even if you wanted to use corruption as your single decision criterium, the choice would be hard. Both parties managed to stay pretty en par in that and that's all they needed to do.
The brain washing that the campaign contributions pay for also work really well. It's astonishing what unimportant tiny events change in the polls before a presidential election. There is a complete decoupling from reality, once the race nears the finish.

If we want a better working system, we need a better democratic process. Sadly the US was a pioneer in that and is still stuck with a system, that was brilliant for its time, but needs updating. We need a system that allows more than two parties to participate and we need better campaign funding regulation.

That's the only way we can permanently stop BS like this