skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Root Labs - Oakland, CA

We are a fully-funded startup with a major paying customer, building a web-based service for analyzing and searching code. You will be in charge of building a large, distributed computing system for parsing and indexing code for our search engine. We've been creating the code analysis tools for existing customers, and we need you to build the automation framework to help us scale. We are building something really uncommon for a HN hiring thread, so contact me even if you're just curious!

We're solving problems that will have a major impact on the software industry. For example, one goal is that independent, open-source authors have a way to get paid for their work.

You'll team up with us to implement solutions to some challenging problems. (But don't worry, you don't already need to be an expert at all of these).

* Nearest-neighbor search in high dimension (or knowing how to
avoid this by projecting to a lower dimension)
* Classifying code by various metrics (structural flowgraph analysis,
symbol sequences and frequency, etc.)
* Map/reduce deconstruction of complex queries
* Distributed computing design, cluster management, software deployment,
load balancing

Being a good programmer is the most important part. We mostly work in Python and C/C++. We use PostgreSQL, Redis, and Riak for a lot of the existing components.

You need to understand distributed computing, fault detection and error recovery, messaging, etc. An interest (but not expertise) in low-level details like compilers, operating systems, and reverse-engineering is a good plus.

We have much more details and contact info here:

http://www.rootlabs.com/developer-job.html

If you have any questions, you can also just email me at the address in my profile. Thanks!
Here is something constructive to take away from Patrick's essay.

If you work in a bureaucracy dont whine about code quality ,better testing etc coz guess what ...No one really gives a shit!

If you really want to do good work do where its actually going to matter.WORK ON OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS.

When you are at work.Keep in mind that the only thing the management cares about is increasing profits and cutting costs.So go ahead and make them the ugly PHP5 form that they want.It will take you very less time anyways.Spend the rest of the time working on open source projects.This is a complete win-win strategy.

Yes years later when your companies stock value is in single digits ,some people in upper management will maybe understand the value of good source control,good testing procedures etc.But guess what they are not going to give much of a shit even then.All they will care about even then is (Repeat After Me)"Increasing profit and reducing costs".
I agree with him that Google's power is worrying to some extent, but with respect to Experts Exchange: Good riddance.

Their horrible faux pay-wall really deserve to be ranked down hard.
this rules.
OK - I'll see if I can get time.
The grandparent has a point, but didn't state it very well.

The NSA and CIA and other three-letter federal agencies do have a reputation for grabbing any telecommunications data they can get. One could think that they might be monitoring and capturing activity on the White House site, to correlate with persons of interest, or even just collecting everything for future use. (And it's not necessarily evil either; we'd cheer if they intercepted a source of terrorist funding by using account credentials that matched something carelessly entered into this site.)

The scenario is somewhat far-fetched, but not entirely out of the question for secretive unaccountable US government agencies.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Web Developer, full time http://www.poolhouse.ca/

We run Dogbook and Catbook. We love what we do and offer a lot more than a standard 9-5 job. The salary is competitive and we are located seconds from Eglinton subway station.

We're looking for a smart, hard working individual who loves building consumer applications. Standard web technology experience is essential PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS. Mobile app development experience is a plus.

If you read HN that's a great start. We're also offering a $500 referral reward if you know someone who is looking.

Email: hn-apply@poolhouse.ca
The following link will take you to an EFF page. You can enter your address and get the contact info for your Congress members. It also lets you email them automatically about the other version of this bill, Protect IP, which is just as bad.

https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?...
Seeking Work!

Technologies - TIBCO Product Stack (BusinessWorks,BusinessEvents, RV, EMS, AMX, Activespaces), C, Java

Work level: Senior Dev/Architect

Location : Toronto, Canada

Will work remotely?: Yes (Preferred)

Fulltime/Part-time?: Part-time preferred

Rate: $100 - $120/hr. Depending on role and contract length.
>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.

Didn't say it CANNOT do email. webmail and email apps were welcome, and i didn't say that it wasnt a mistake (it was) but i think RIM went for an MVP (BB style email must've had a big time-to-market cost) to get to market faster.

>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.

We are on the same page (hence the "direction") part. Playbook was a misguided attempt, instead of zagging. it wen t and battled with iPad squarely without the 10x improvement or any unfair advantage.

In summation, i think the rank of problem of RIM's tablet strategy are: 1st: Wrong angle of attack, 2nd: platform friction , (close)3rd: key features weren't in the MVP.
Please help with the reasoning, client wants to switch to .NET
If you figure out how to convince the public not to vote on appearances, please share it in time for the next general election... it'd put a lot of politicians out of work.
Austin, TX - http://appsumo.com

AppSumo provides daily deals for web geeks. We're growing and we need some more Sumos around the office who are into startups, having an immediate impact, and burritos. Looking for a range of awesome people:

From http://appsumo.com/hireme

Python Developer - Build cool stuff (refer someone to this position and get 5 years of Chipotle!)

Question: Favorite program to write code in?

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Biz-Dev Sumos (2 openings) - Work with awesome companies and people to promote their businesses.

Question: Favorite web app today?

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Marketing Associate Sumo - Help tell the world about AppSumo.

Question: Favorite marketing blog or books?

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Design Sumo - Help us look sexy with innovative creatives. See your designs put to the test immediately.

Question: What inspires your design?

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If you want in, email hireme at appsumo dot com, including the job title in the subject line and your answer to the question.

PS: We're a bunch of goofballs who love what we do, so it just might help if you are too.
I'm a big fan of jobstractor. We actually had a success from the other end, somebody found our job posting through the tractor.

Keep up the great work!
semi-related question to the arch users: are you running arch on production systems, or personal systems (or both)?
Newbie indie dev's Android game income stats for October
Their technical services have been outstanding.

Clearly, you don't have any instances running in their Fremont datacenter. Hurricane Electric is like an unreliable, abusive alcoholic, and Linode is like a doting battered wife who stays with him because "someday he'll change".
Not necessarily. I think this petition holds more water than the other two given that the bill is specifically about the internet. If the internet reacts it only makes sense to listen. Then again, making sense is not one of the government's strong points.
Many services are very hard to pin a price on.

Raise yours. Find new people willing to pay the increased rates.

Oddly enough, I've found raising prices to make people MORE DETERMINED to get you sometimes.
source? I'd be very interested in hearing more about this.
HAHAHAHA, touche! Thanks for the perspective ;)
> but I thought the project was dead

"MagLev 1.0.0 was released on October 31, 2011"
Can Tendonitis & Other Pains be Absolved w/Pineapple (Bromelain)?
OpenBSD 5.0 Released
Having done some hard-core real-time programming in the past, and currently thinking about a low-latency benchmark between languages, I am not sure that this sort of test is useful in a real-time environment. Also, using a garbage-collected language in a real-time environment would require some extra care.

One of the things to consider in engineering a real-time environment is what is the central data-flow load of the system. For example, in a medical data-acquisition environment, allocating an object for each tick would not likely be wise. In fact, use of malloc might not be called for, statically allocating buffers being a better avenue.

In the case of a low-latency financial trading system written in a garbage-collected language, it might be prudent to allocate all the objects before 0830 (if that is when trading starts) and free them after the market close.

There is a wide range of real-time response requirements (for financial exchanges, response times of less than a hundred of milliseconds (eg, 395 from BATS) for full turnaround are expected). Electrocardiogram data needs to be sampled once each millisecond, but the jitter in sampling times needs to be low.

Looks like some good tools there, but without the engineering context it is hard to draw a useful conclusion.
This is awesome, I remember playing this as a youngster, in the library on the computers there.
The Courier was never demoed publicly, let alone shipped to consumers, it's a bit silly to say it was leagues beyond anything at all.
Amsterdam, Netherlands, FULL-TIME - REMOTE options

Experienced hacker in one or more: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jquery, backbone, etc).

We answer questions like: how much less co2 is emitted if everybody switched to electric cars. How can you replace nuclear plants with alternatives.

We're a charming Dutch (almost grown up) startup, with Central office location, great engineering-driven team. Healthy work-life balance.

Our code is both a lot of plain Ruby code, front end code, admin code, glue code. There is something for everyone.

You are an experienced hacker, you think lean and pragmatic and solve problems creatively. You're proactive, prefer fixing over complaining. Order of preference: Dutch, Europe, World.

send me a mail with short introduction and code samples (ruby, javascript) to u57i942v0n@tempalias.com
Do you get much repeat business? Can you speak to old/previous clients and find out what they would be willing to pay?

Can you improve your own productivity, what takes up most of your time when managing the translation?
Los Gatos, CA Netflix

Looking for Senior SREs.

Basically, we're starting a new company to take streaming global and make it so convient that it is better than the free options.

I'm looking for people to help make sure that any time someone wants to find and play a movie, they can.

We're solving lots of really interesting problems, like how do you maintain a reliable service on hardware that is unreliable and you don't control (Amazon Web Services).

Our group also gets to help teach other groups how to build for scale.

Come join me!

You can get more info here: http://jobs.usethesource.com/item?id=166

Or here: http://www.reddit.com/comments/jyaqd/

Or here: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs?id=7563&jvi=olLGVfwr
“Continue search on server” works for me, although it is slow and the UI is clunky: I have to first navigate to the All Mail, then search for something, then click “Continue search”. I’m sure this would be much easier in a native Gmail app for iOS.
Politics is just professional wrestling for intellectuals.
You're an Engineer who writes software, nothing wrong with that. Lots of Chemical and Electrical Engineers write software, I'm still not going to call them Software Engineers.

This isn't about discrediting anyone's life work. The fact is if you're developing software that gets deployed on anything but purpose-built hardware you're already not engaging in proper engineering practices. It would be like building a bridge with materials whose properties you didn't know.
Mindmaze was a favorite of mine in my younger days; I'm glad to see it revived. This is just for my nostalgic needs, but I'd love to see the original music here :P
> let their next app be an HTML 5 app.

That's what he's talking about. People saying to do that.

Yes, a good mobile app needs a bit more than simple HTML 5 web tools (as opposed to a mobile site, which can look quite good using a more unified toolset).
How long do you spend manually testing? I find that developing automated testing(note I don't really care about TDD just unit testing and automated testing.) takes a little longer to get setup and running. Subsequent testing is cheaper because regression testing is free, and test code can be reused when developing new tests.
That good, huh?
When's the last time a dual-UI delivered a good experience?

Before the iPad was launched you could just as easily say "When's the last time a tablet delivered a good experience?". Microsoft and others had tried the form factor and failed, but then Apple came along and made a brilliant device. There is no reason the same could not happen for dual-UI devices.
My experience with Linode has been great and they even refunded me some money (I paid for a month for a bunch of servers, canceled after a couple of days) which I was NOT expecting. Linode is VPS, not cloud so I was expecting that the monthly payment is the monthly payment. They ended up prorating all my unused credits and I had 2-3 months that I didn't have to pay anything (spun up a lot of extra servers). So this may just be a bug on their system but I didn't have to call or email anybody to get this process.
I'm taking a page from Experts Exchange:

The comment that originally occupied this space is now behind a paywall (or, if you want to get technical, it's buried down further in the thread, and you now have to scroll through a bunch of other stuff to find it).

It begins with "Experts Exchange currently displays ..."

That's right, I've capitalized on the Hacker News "comment juice" my original comment received and the above-the-fold real estate it garnered, effectively "cloaking" my original answer.

Annoying, isn't it?
Payday Loans Review
SEEKING FREELANCE - Remote / Cleveland, Ohio

Budget is not established but is flexible. Expected initial duration is 3-4 weeks. Engagement will be limited after that, but potential for limited long-term help is there.

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tr;dr:

We have already done a lot of experimenting/testing with Drupal, but need someone with D7 experience to make sure we're doing things the right way.

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A Drupal consultant to help us customize a Drupal installation profile to be used to power upwards of 50 individual Drupal sites.

We need to work together to define our needs and translate them into a Drupal system. In addition to creating a customized base Drupal installation, you will help us create a clear process for systems administration. Experience with Drush is critical.

In addition to programming, configuration, and other technical tasks, we really need you to to help us better understand Drupal best-practices and educate us on a few areaas. We will be creating a system that will empower close to 100 web content contributors, but will be maintained/adminted by a relatively small (and already very busy!) staff. We need to get things right from the onset to offset wasted time fixing things at scale.

Contact: scott.sharp@case.edu

Please do not reply if you do not have experience with Drupal 7 (multisite installs), Drush, or do not wish to have very active communications during the project.
The Eatery: Massive Health Experiment #01
McLean, VA (Just outside Washington, DC)

Ringio ( http://www.ringio.com ) - Full Time

Ringio provides internet phone service to small businesses to improve the quality of their phone interactions. We're looking for a few great software engineers to help take our product to the next level. If you're interested (or know someone who is), read more and give us your info at http://ringio.wufoo.com/forms/ringio-software-engineer/ or email nick AT ringio.com

Major areas of development focus:

* Modern HTML Applications - We’re very excited about the JavaScript frameworks that have grown in popularity the last few years (like Backbone.js, ExtJS, or SproutCore). We’re interested in using web technologies for our mobile and desktop applications, so if you’re experienced with (or just interested in) JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SCSS, WebSockets, or BOSH, there’s a lot of research and development to be done.

* Voice Technology - All calls using Ringio run through our voice systems to enable things like on-hold music, call screening, and transfers. We have a lot of new voice functionality that we’d like to build, as well as technology we’d like to integrate. This is fairly unique to our industry and involves some interesting timing, concurrency, and state management problems.

* API Development - Integration with CRM systems and reselling partners requires APIs for large pieces of our platform. We need help expanding our APIs, making sure they’re usable and secure, and testing that they’re working correctly.

We’re Looking For People Who Are:

* Smart software developers

* Familiar with object oriented programming. We use Grails and Java for our major systems. Grails, Groovy, or Java experience isn’t required, but you’ll be expected to get up to speed quickly.

* Familiar with Unix/Linux command-line systems. Logging into a Linux server to count the number of ERROR lines in a log file grouped by hour wouldn’t be difficult for you.

* Excited about joining a startup

* Authorized to work in the US

* Able to work from our McLean, VA office (flexibility to work from home sometimes, but most time will be at the office)

If you're interested, check out http://ringio.wufoo.com/forms/ringio-software-engineer/ or email nick AT ringio.com
What I meant is just that after programming usually comes feedback, bug fixes, improvements, new features which need to be discussed, spec'd and developed and so on. In the sectors I've worked in (web and enterprise software), programming is part of an iterative process, so if the project is successful, it's not really the end of anything. It can be different in "heavier" sectors with projects that span over several years and that don't change much after the initial release.
REMOTE, Portland, New Mexico - http://elctech.com

ELC Technologies is hiring iOS Developoers!

We offer all the usual benefits… and if you’re located in Portland, an office with the world’s greatest espresso machine, a team of Kung Fu masters, Eight Ball champions, Nerf Gun Assassins, and world authorities on Dungeons and Dragons.

We’re passionate about many things here at ELC, such as:

- Creating cross-platform, enterprise level mobile applications with awesome UI/UX.

- Having fun, we believe that going to work should carry the same anticipation as that 10 minutes leading up to elementary school recess.

- Being Agile, we don’t force-feed one specific process, but pick and choose what is going to work on a per team/per project basis.

- Solving real world problems without compromising creativity.

Check out this post for the details: http://www.icodeblog.com/2011/10/28/ios-developers-we-are-hi...
Taking four paragraphs to get to your conclusion is a good tactic there. Because maybe by the end people will have forgotten that I'm not actually advocating judging people by their skin color.
الفنان السنوسي : الخوف اليوم في قلب الطغاة
This is kind of an eery prediction of how are future generations may be identified. As we learn more about our DNA and what exactly makes us human, eventually we may all be represented as just lines of code. Join the resistance. ;)
That's an interesting correlation that you've transformed into causation.
"Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad"

With all due respect, the courier was not a shipping product, the video mockups were cool, but to compare a successful shipping product with a vapourware concept video - and to conclude that the non-existing one is better, is not particularly useful.
Conshohocken, PA - Monetate (Suburb of Philadelphia, PA)

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT). We've got existing high-volume customers.

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* Backend Software Engineers

* Front-end Developer

* Systems Engineer

* Web Production Designer

Feel free to contact pat at monetate.com
>> How often are these term sheets enforced anyway?

Virtually every time. Nothing is ever going to turn out better for the founder than what you see on the term sheet.

The term sheet is handed to the lawyers as a template for the contract. The odds of the contract being more beneficial to the founder than the term sheet is infinitesimal. The odds of there being clauses in the contract making it less beneficial to the founder than the term sheet is significant.
"My main occupations are being owner/operator of ww.com"

This guy is not a programmer. He is a business owner that can program. He can call himself a trashman and not loose a dime.
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I remember posting this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161455
Hit the 'f' key to collapse all the chrome. Mouse-over to get the title bar, including navigation.
Klick Inc, Toronto Canada

Digital agency. We're just shy of 200 employees and growing. One of Canada's 50 best managed companies. We're looking for Web and Mobile Application developers, Front end web, Project Managers, Senior project managers, Account managers, Reporting analysts, Creative designers.

If you're a programmer, we're language agnostic with respect to your past experience, mostly .NET in practice (and rapidly expanding in the mobile space).

You can browse the positions at http://www.klick.com/career_opportunities/ and if you've got any questions, you can email me directly: alex.chesser at gmail

I've got a good breadth of experience and honestly believe that employees are treated really well here. There's a good focus on work-life-balance, weekly paid lunch, lots of free snacks, a bottomless ice cream fridge (careful ... it's delicious and really tempting!)

Also - steps from Yonge & Bloor station so pretty good for a commuter (I guess union might be a touch better but oh well).

Any questions, email me and I'll tell you all about it. I can even pass your resume on to HR for you.
If anyone uses .net, check out this library https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net
Spawning a new process is not the same thing as forking, but people often forget this bit. This post wasn't about forking.
Thanks for the suggestions. Mailchimp wants me to include a mailing address which would be my home address so I really don't want to use them considering 22,000 random people would know where I live. I'll check out Ask Emma.