skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how some people do it either. My excuse is I have a full-time job, a wife and two kids but then there's people in similar situations like me that accomplish things on the scale of what fogus did...

I do like to relax and do nothing so it is probably that ;-)

Also there was an article recently about "elite" archivers as they called them, pianists and violinists that achieved more while putting in the same hours as their peers because they kept pushing their boundaries and had two well defined practice sessions each day. It also meant they felt more relaxed during the rest of the day.
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Need to haves:
- Object Oriented PHP.
- Frameworks (e.g. Symfony 1&2, Zend).
- MVC pattern experience.
- Agile experience (e.g. Scrum).
- Databases (MySQL, MSSQL).
- Linux experience (Debian).

Responsibilities
- Develop, but also contribute in conceptualization, to make great solutions.
- Development of e-commerce and features to improve customer experiences.
- Development of internal web applications, such as sophisticated product management software.
- Development of web applications to support new product features.
- Overall optimization and improvements of existing systems where considered necessary.

SteelSeries is a leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals, including headsets, keyboards, mice, software and gaming surfaces. For the past decade, SteelSeries has been on the forefront of competitive gaming gear thanks to continued innovation and product development in cooperation with leading professional gaming teams.

We're a fast moving company experiencing high growth in a global market. Close to 100 employees spread around the globe in 3 main offices and multiple satellite locations, creates an interesting and educational multi-cultural environment.
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Link to source as it's simple and clear enough: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/47300
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On paper yes. But Apress bought all Wrox successful titles and (I suspect) it's people. Same game different name in other words
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I'm a Python web programmer, that means I've also got JavaScript, HTML, CSS and so forth covered. I can do full-stack development, complete buildout to deployment. My preference is to work with Flask. In fact I've done a number of projects with it and at this point feel it's one of the best Python web frameworks available today.

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GitHub: https://github.com/MaxCountryman
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Highly varied experience in both development and hosting at high scale. Enjoy helping startups.

Most recent example of work: kernelmag.com

Contact details on profile.
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Not to mention that code that is only there to provide future-proofiness can be a huge hurdle to understanding an existing codebase for any developer new to a project. The hours spent on trying to understand code that doesn't seem to make sense, only to be told that "we put that in just in case we needed xyz, but it's actually not used anywhere", can be incredibly unproductive and frustrating.
Will the Pi really teach you embedded system skills?

I don't want to be a cynic, but I don't see how this board makes it easier to control anything or interface to any other device. It's still Linux and it's typical set of drivers, right? How will the Pi or the upcoming add-on interface board let me connect an LVDS LCD or capacitive touchscreen? You mean I still have to hack up an I2C device driver and wire it up? I need to spin a kernel? Is there an open-source video driver for the Broadcom chip?

I think it's a nice idea to put a cheap laptop into the hands of students. But I'll be more curious to see what those first 10 boards will be used for other than tiny MP3/MP4 players. You're still in Linux-land and that's not the most friendly environment for embedded systems programmers.

Resourceful and talented developers can do a hell of a lot with a cheap Arduino or garage-sale laptop, they don't need a magical new Broadcom EVK to do this.
Yes, we have for over a year now. I work on the Revenue team, and i can tell you that it's going great.

Maybe you should follow more tech news. This might have more details: http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-interview-twitter-c...
Hard to answer but:
1. know the design better then anyone else.
2. Be ready with any question that may come up.
3. Know what your guys do at any time.
4. Plan a good gantt.
5. Be a friend with your team until it comes to work decisions.
6. Backup your team against anyone outside the team.
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Brett Terpstra: some favorite Mac apps of 2011
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We're currently growing our datasets fast and need devs with NLP and big data analysis skills to help us handle the information explosion.

We work mainly in Python and JavaScript - but candidates with a strong web background in any language are welcome.

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To apply please email founders@arachnys.com to apply introducing yourself and linking to code samples.

We're not yet ready for remote employees but we can be flexible about face time if you live outside London and can commute 2-3 days/week.
In grad school, I made a presentation/walkthrough about what the Linux kernel does for an x86 system at boot-up: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/papers/boot_2up.pdf

This article is from the hardware perspective. My walkthrough is the software side.
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Nice, and some of them with the same URL! Guess Hacker news has a more lax duplicated posts policy when it comes down to old submissions.

Which is good, as it allows great stuff reaching a broader/newer audience. On the other hand, it can be abused...
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Poll: Mac, Windows, or Linux?
Are you a Mac, a Linux, or Windows?
Cloud startups to watch in 2012
This was my thought exactly. All the fields I have been dabbling in are not on that list by any means.
I dunno, this seems like a prima facie argument where the "inherency" step got missed. Does the solution cause more problems than it fixes? If yes, then don't do that solution, live with the problem.

But I guess that in the case of SOPA, those who imagine themselves plagued by the problem aren't the ones that have to suffer the consequences of the bad solution.
"Search (for) it."

Most people are going to use Google, maybe Bing, maybe Bahoo!, and are barely aware of and would not use another search engine.

Those that do know about DDG will either use it or not.

Whenever I include a search link in an email (or HN thread) it's always a DDG link, except for those rare searches where I get nothing back from DDG. I think that's one of the best ways to promote DDG. Bonus, the DDG search links are unadulterated.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck+duck+go

Firefox, Ubuntu plus whatever 2 or 3 way deal Google has with all that:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=6&gs_id=11&xhr=t...

Chromium, Ubuntu, plus whatever deal ...

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=6&gs_id=m&xhr=t&...

I didn't ask for that, and I would have to clean that up before I pasted that google search into an email.

Opera etc:

http://www.google.com/search?q=uzbl#pq=philadelphia&hl=e...

And by the way, if you want to search google a little more anonymously, do it via DDG. In your search bar or on DDG's page, type in !g your search term. You'll be redirected to Google's search, and the URL will be relatively clean:

From ddg, !g duck duck go gives you:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=duck%20duck%...

I still didn't ask for the hl=en bit, but it's much better than the cascade of line noise that Google would otherwise give you.

Edit: minor wording.
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Not to be snarky, but that's what reviewers do: help with good stuff, reject bad stuff. Academia works the same way. Even if you think it's a racket, this is far from unique to Apress.
We had a great conversation about app search yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409575
6 ways cloud computing will evolve in 2012 
Cloud computing will dig even deeper into the enterprise, with hybrid clouds, virtualized clients, and security standards topping the hot trends
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Ruby, Rails, SQL, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5.

Web app/startup I am bootstrapping: http://www.compversions.com

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Email: marc@compversions.com

P.S. Serious enquiries for large projects ($20K+) only please. Thanks
I found a greasemonkey script called GoogleMonkeyR, which has an option to disable this behavior. It also has a few other enhancements, such as bringing back the Google cache links, numbering the results, and automatically adding the next page of search results when you scroll to the bottom of the page.

Only problem I've had with this script is when I am entering something in the Google search box, sometimes the cursor will take a jump to the left in the middle of typing. It seems to be a weird interaction between this particular user script and Google's search prediction feature.
Smartphones, privacy and a year of tears
Yes, they have (in the email delivery space if memory serves).
hey, have some plans for small golang project? interested?
All too often the difficulty is convincing Management to stop treating plastic cups like glass ones.
I've heard British people claim that American's don't 'get' irony but i've never heard it claimed that there's a difference between 'American and British irony.'

In my experience the irony police are usually unwilling to consider the full subtext of someone's statement when they describe it as ironic. For instance people often say things like 'ironic, isn't it - beautiful weather all week and then when we finally decide to throw a barbecue, it rains. ' This is of course just bad luck, but people like to jokingly invoke some sense of fate conspiring against them. Or, someone might consciously wear an 'ironic t-shirt', and people consciously recognise the intent, but the unspoken subtext that maintains the irony is that there is some other observer or potential wearer who would be unaware of the incongruity.
Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area)

TRUECar.com - TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guides them to dealers we've certified. When someone buys from a dealer we've sent them to, we get paid. We already have solid revenues, are well funded and and are growing rapidly. We need lots of technical talent to help us grow.

* JAVA - We are looking for several talented Java developers and architects to design and build the technology used to power our production websites, APIs, widgets, and internal tools. This is a chance for you to join a growing company and build something that's going to scale to support millions of users/visitors and provide them with all kinds of data.

* Front End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Help build out our main site and our partner sites.

* Senior .NET Developer - You should have extensive experience building .Net applications using C#. Our user interfaces are web-based, so ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, and CSS are important. We use SQL Server heavily, so you should read, write and debug enterprise-grade SQL. Strength in developing applications using ASP.NET MVC and modern JavaScript frameworks.

* Python/Django - Our main site is in Django, which means we need serious talent to help it scale and expand as we continue to grow. Plus, you'll get to work with me.

* Senior Systems Engineers - Got Linux? Keep our 200+ servers going strong.

* Front End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Help build out our main site and our partner sites.

* QA engineers - More software, more bugs. Help us find them.

* We also have some non-technical openings for senior positions in marketing, customer retention, HR, finance and accounting. Email me for details.

My story - moved from Atlanta all the way out to Santa Monica after stopping by the TrueCar booth at PyCon 2011. I started here three month ago and love it. I'm working with a great team that knows how to develop software and for management who seems to "get it" with regards to software developers.

The Python team in an open workspace that has a view of the ocean (http://picplz.com/user/dabent/pic/tpc4v/), and all the Santa Monica offices are blocks from the beach. They have great benefits, including company equity, 100% paid family medical, dental, vision, and a healthy 401k. They also offer gym membership reimbursement ($50 a month), 12 holidays, career training, 3 weeks PTO and have a kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and such. I've honestly never had a job this good.
If you're interested, send me your resume. My email is in my profile.
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While it may certainly help to hang out in the right places, there's two reason this won't work out:

1) At least where I live (Italy), hanging out with the "right" people just isn't enough. You have to have deeper connections with somebody (for example, they're in some way connected to your family) before you can get some kind of attention from the "right" people.

2) The author implies that what you are able to do is just not relevant. While I've found out that is certainly true, I personally think that it's very unhealthy for you as an individual to completely drop all of your skills except for the social skill (which seems to be the only thing that matters, especially when dealing with the "right" people).
Shouldn't that be Mac, PC, or Linux?
Do you have the backwards?

The dollar has lost 95% of its value since the creation of the Federal Reserve.

Inflation with gold based currency is rare. The California Gold Rush is the big example of inflation with a gold currency.

No, I don't.

Firstly, the periods when the US had no national reserve bank showed either severe inflation or a depression / panic cycle that only ended with a private reserve bank being set up as lender of last resort - hardly ideal. In both cases the lack of reserve banking made the financial system volatile and unstable.

Secondly, the Federal Reserve was created 99 years ago. A 95% drop in value (your numbers, I've no idea of their accuracy) is equivalent to inflation compounded for 99 years at just 3%. While I agree hyperinflation is bad, 3% is a long way from hyperinflation and a cursory examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s shows why deflation is a bad thing. Some small inflation is good because it promotes market liquidity rather than hoarding and provides incentives to investment.

Thirdly, China are being asked to revalue the Yuan because its value is being artificially manipulated down to make both Chinese exports into world markets cheaper and foriegn imports more expensive, both to the benefit of China but the detriment of global free trade and free markets. It also has the side-effect of exacerbating China's balance of payments surplus and leading to it stockpiling both resources and currency (thus artificially boosting its international buying power), which is directly parallel to the mid-19th century 'silver grave' situation that led to the Opium Wars. Revaluing the Yuan is emphatically not an indication that the dollar is inherently weak, it's an indication that China is trying to use the openness of western markets and restriction of their own to its own advantage.

Fourthly, the California gold rush and resultant inflation is an example of what happens in a commodity-backed economy when that commodity suddenly becomes more abundant, a factor that is now out of state control unlike the Dollar money supply which is currently able to be tightly controlled. Commodity-backed currencies in the past have also caused severe deflation, and we're back in Japan in the 1990s. Now, the bulk of world gold mining assets are in Australia and China, and China is agressively buying up Australian mining assets - well, mining assets in general, particularly across Africa, using up its balance of payments surplus created by their artificial suppression of the value of the Yuan. A gold-backed US economy would have its money supply (and by extension both credit availability and rates of inflation / deflation) largely out of national control and primarily in the hands of China. I don't think this is a good idea.

All of which is why I think Ron Paul's understanding of economics is dangerously flawed and (reluctantly) I'd regard him as the least preferable Republican presidential nominee.
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Ruby on Rails?
Toronto, ON. Full time.

G Adventures is a technology-driven adventure travel company in downtown Toronto, and we're looking to expand our software engineering team.

Our current stack is Python/Django. We use Macs, deploy to Ubuntu on Apache/Lighttpd, and love experimenting with technology. For example, we recently rolled out a dynamic booking process built on Backbone.js and async data-refreshing with Celery.
We love coffee, roti, beer, and foosball. Oh, and of course adventure travel, for which there are generous perks!

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I don't quite get the joke here. I would think eating out would be a tax-refundable biz expense for you guys. Is it not?
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Worked with small companies, some private security firms, as an on-call IT admin, web developer / administrator, and consultant. PHP/MySQL, Joomla 1.5 (Now 1.7), Wordpress, ALEIR Reporting System, and some e-commerce stuff (Ecwid, Virtuemart).

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This actually causes "coder's block" in me when I start a new project. If I have this cool app or site idea, it often never gets off the ground because I spend too much time trying to create some architectural framework that I assume I need.

This is REALLY bad for me in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch apps. Objective-C is so verbose and writing classes is so "mechanically cumbersome" (having to write .h and .m files and duplicate stuff, for example) that I sometimes lose interest before I ever really get off the ground.

The trick I use to beat this tendency is to totally eschew good software engineering principles at first. Typically all of my code lives in main.m (and I usually start out in CodeRunner rather than XCode). Interfaces are done sloppily in Interface Builder or entirely in code. This really helps me get started.

Before long, of course, I have this unwieldy spaghettified mess of a single source file. By that time, though, I have some stuff WORKING, so doing some refactoring into a good architecture for the code I have while keeping the working stuff working is kind of fun.
Bay Area or Los Angeles or Shanghai preferred, but remote work is possible for exceptional candidates (must live in the U.S.). Full-time only. H1B is okay. We also have several summer internship opportunities.

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that developers, startups, and big companies can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We believe in openness and transparency rather than proprietariness and obfuscation.

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We currently have about half a dozen job openings, from data engineering to software engineering to system administration. For the software engineering position, you would ideally know Java, Clojure, and/or Ruby, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NoSQL, algorithms, infrastructure, and/or Hadoop.

If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it just opened last month, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

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C#, C++ and Java are very common and low risk skills to learn. There is also a demand for mobile application development and front end development with Html and JavaScript. The Ruby on Rails frame work is common especially at newer tech companies.
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Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow.

Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.