skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

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

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet retail. We're funded by First Round (among others).

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale.
* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me with any questions - tjanofsky monetate com.
Are They Crazy? Digium Launches IP Phones For Asterisk
Ask HN: Is the following IP policy justified for a company?
I work for at tech company that has the following IP policy. It looks overly aggressive to me, but I would like to get a second opinion. I am in particular worried on the parts that say "any work or material"

All intellectual property rights in any work or material developed/co
developed/conceptualized directly or indirectly by the Employee during the
course of his/her employment shall be considered 'works made for hire' under
the intellectual property laws and shall belong to and be the property of the
company and the employee confirms and accepts that he/she shall not be
entitled to claim any rights over any such Intellectual Property. If required
by the company, during or after the Employment period, the employee shall
assign and transfer in favor of the company.
Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com

= About Lose It! =

Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight.

8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently top 10 in Health category)

500k+ Android Downloads (very new, currently top 15 in Health category)

2M Website enabled users (connecting to our website is optional)

2M Uniques per month across all platforms

7M+ pounds of weight have been lost by website enabled users (Estimated ~18M pounds lost across all users)

8k messages betweens users that opted into social features per day

450M+ foods logged by website enabled users

Current Team - 1 CEO (technical), 1 Developer (me), 1 Business Dev, 1 Community Manager

Current Stack - GWT, MySQL, Java (server side and Android), AWS, Objective C (iPhone), Membase

Current Tools - Intellij, Git, Navicat, New Relic, CloudBees, Asana

= Who we are looking for =

Lose It! is looking for new members (we have more then one spot open) for our product team to help us build our next generation of products. We believe that small teams of well rounded people can do great things, so we're looking for someone that can contribute to all phases of building a great product. We believe that iterating on our products with customers is the best way to build something great, so we'd like someone who enjoys talking to customers and making them happy (and maybe even helping to change their lives).

As a software engineer at Lose It!, you'll be an early member of the team that is building the core product, the most complete and effective weight loss software spanning mobile devices and the web. You should have a passion for and a proven track record of building products that delight users.

= Who to contact =

{first name} at loseit.com - If you think you would be a good fit send me an email with anything (resume, cover letter, github account, maybe just a simple 'hello'. I'll read anything and everything you send).
Yes, people forget that after each .tld there is a dot. news.ycombinator.com. is the real deal.
Nanotune claims
Great article
Why I stopped reading TechCrunch and started reading HackerNews
Simple. TechCrunch sold out to AOL. And ever since you can see it reflect on the deteriorating quality and increasing quantity of posts.

Now and then I am definitely seeing posts that look like sponsored or written for the sake of it. I got tired of Techcrunch.

Do you share this feeling?

Edit: Just recently I stumbled on Sara's post as well when Googled for her wondering where the heck she vanished. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/18/the-rumors-are-true-i-am-leaving-techcrunch/
Pinterest's Obvious Secret
>the problem was that AT&T never let the system become open source.

The whole thing except the fonts was put under a very liberal open-source licence 10 or 12 or so years ago. (By then it was owned by Bellcore or Lucent, not AT&T.) Before then there were severe restrictions; is your opinion that by time the severe restrictions were lifted, it was too late because Linux had already become entrenched?
Shit Sillicon Allee Says (German copycat of YouTube viral)
Feynman on imagining electromagnetic waves
Thanks apaprocki for the clarification. Dont you think that an additional step would be have a public API directly accessible through internet? In the past customers had to buy dedicated lines for your service, then BLB gave the opportunity to use internet connections, but with desktop software or appliance inhouse. The next step will be giving direct access to api from the internet without other software involved (opening probably in this way more market for new web applications/services integration)
Then why not just learn with Interactive Brokers API, you get access to their TWS test system API which is great for learning purposes.
Web-based spreadsheet - add an Excel-like table on a web page
Foundations of Privacy
Quick Question: Do I have to run this from the terminal (windows) or can I run it from a remote machine and connect to the terminal?
Well with my parliamentary wonk hat on they did not write their prop (the petition) within the rules that apply.

It could have been written to ask "why the appropriate law enforcement body is not taking action after MR X admitted committing bribery" which satisfies the "to address a problem" criteria

Though the we the people site is doing a useless job of having the rules front and centre and explaining then in plain english for non insiders.
Thanks for the response. Can you give a pointer to the Bloomberg pricing info, to get an idea of the fixed + variable costs?
Chartbeat - Full time - NYC

Chartbeat is a real-time analytics service designed for real-time action used by everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Al Jazeera. We're democratizing data by putting it in the hands of people who need it to make decisions and take action - right now.

Our stack is mostly Python with some C in there, Google Closure for our JavaScript needs, and other fun things like MongoDB.

http://chartbeat.com/jobs/
This happened to me about 15 years ago. I looked at it, and crossed off the bits I wasn't comfortable with. In this case, it would be

<i>or that are directly related to such employment, whether or not the same are conceived, developed or made during regular work hours</i>

and

<i>In the event that anything I conceive, develop or make with the scope of my employment does not qualify as "work made for hire" under applicable law, I hereby assign to the Company all interest and rights therein.</i>

and initialed the changes and sent it back. Nobody every said a thing about it.

At every subsequent employer, we negotiated these things satisfactorily prior to hiring.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance

Python/Django/jQuery, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I have a research background, data analysis, playing around with NLP right now.

I run a django dev shop, currently taking gigs. Here's my portfolio:

* http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html

* http://www.cloudshuffle.com/

Contact details in my profile or the link above.

Here're some examples from my portfolio:

* http://www.teaspiller.com - An online marketplace for tax experts.

* http://www.garnishbar.com - social network, to share mixed drink recipes

* http://www.fertilityplanit.com, built their self serve ad network + billing and payments.

* http://www.turlytag.com - an app to connect owners with people who found their lost items.

* http://www.fratmusic.com - an online radio streaming app serving over 1.3 million uniques a month.

* http://www.emriq.com - a web based medical records platform for small to medium clinics.

* http://loudfarm.com - A music event site.

and many more.
UK Mother responds to Obama over attempts to extradite her son - Web Piracy case
Is it weird that I immediately thought this was coded to help people find more porno?

Only after a minute or so did I consider that its primary purpose might be to help people implement porno-blocking software, ie the exact opposite.

I am such a bro :(
Chris Dodd is a crooked politician, and legislators of ilk are an malevolent force that is damaging american democracy.

After publicly proclaiming that he would not be working as a lobbyist, he became the MPAA's lobbyist for $1.5M. As you can see from the history of SOPA/PIPA, his influence peddling was nearly successful in ramming this legislation through with little or no substantive debate.

Before that, he was the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. While Chairman, he refinanced his homes in Washington, DC and Connecticut with below market rates reserved for "friends" of the Countrywide Mortgage CEO. Note that Countrywide was one of the biggest issuers of fraudulent sub-prime mortgages. He asserted that he had no idea that he was receiving special treatment.

Before that, he bought a vacation house in Ireland with a Bear Sterns executive who was convicted of insider trading. He used his influence with President Clinton to help obtain a pardon for his partner. He subsequently purchased his partner's share at a significant discount.

The fact that behavior like this typifies career politicians does not make the behavior ok. This guy should retire and be thankful that he doesn't live in an era where his actions would have landed him in prison.
No, the whole point is that they're getting major speed-ups by using arrays and a giant ring buffer to avoid object allocation, reduce garbage collection, and improve cache behavior.

They're writing really tightly optimized C. In Java.
It is blocked. Xs4all provides a list of DNS and IP address blocks:

http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/
Collaborative - Boston, MA/Wausau WI/Raleigh NC/Dallas TX
Full-time (Enterprise developers (Java/Web/HTML), ETL developers)

mail me at smummadi collaborative com
The Evolution of a Straight Line
No mention of auctions. Among my friends it is common to buy at an auction. Only registered car dealers are allowed. I guess I am lucky to be able to go through some. They ask a flat fee of $500 and they will buy the car you want at the auction. I am not an expert at it, so I was wary and I actually bought a new car at what I thought was a good price. Next time I will have to go for the auction, especially since the 'hackers' here don't even mention it.
in Sweden.
AFAIK, the EU court still hasn't spoken on this. They'll have to get similar verdicts in all member states, which they may or may not get, and then from the EU, before it's actually effective. As it is, for example, I could see a challenge brought to the EU court on the basis of restriction of trade between Sweden and other member states, as soon as one server is based in, say, Germany or any other member state.

It's a long, log way to Tipperary, and this battle is far from over. "Normal" people are getting more and more pissed off; it will take a generation to undo the disasters the Boomers are doing to our world, but it will happen.
I agree with you, despite creating Politician Market to protest the issue.

The real question is how we can increase public representation in politics and ensure that politicians are knowledgable about areas they propose legislation in.

You can't effectively remove corporations from politics without lessening the influence of individuals. Focus on what you can change instead.
You mean, there's a freenet project, until it gains massive traction, and the US government starts blocking its ways of getting donations from people.
Simple made easy
6 Lessons that Facebook’s IPO Can Teach Entrepreneurs
Arachnys (http://www.arachnys.com)

Full time - White Bear Yard, Farringdon, London

We're looking for smart Python developers who want to be part of a growing startup solving exciting and technically challenging problems.

Our product gathers international press and corporate data and turns it into intelligence for companies doing business in emerging markets.

As of Monday, we're now four people (2 1/2 technical :) and looking for our fifth.

We'd ideally like someone who could write a thesis on Bayesian classifiers, but we'll consider skilled engineers who can look us in the eye and make us believe that they'll learn. Very specific expertise is not a requirement; enough of a maths/compsci background to call bs on the wrong approach is.

Email founders at arachnys.com if it sounds like your sort of challenge. Include links to public code please.
Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right
html doesnt validate if you put in a single facebook opengraph tag. css doesn't validate if you put in a vendor prefix. these tools are outdated and useless.
I had the same experience, but instead of giving up, I called American Express and explained Steam's supposed policy to them. They said that was in violation of their merchant agreement and that they'd be contacting Valve for me.

I was refunded the full cost of the game a couple days later. Interestingly, Valve never removed the game from my account. It still doesn't work on any of my PCs to this day.
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Interns. (H1B ok for the right candidates)

Betable

We're building a platform for developers to easily implement real-money betting in their games and apps.

Stack is Rails/jQuery/PG/Node but expanding VERY fast, so as long as you're super smart we're interested in meeting you no matter your favorite tools of the trade.

Looking for:

* Platform/Backend Engineers

You ideally have experience working on APIs or web services, mastery of either Ruby, Python, Perl or Scala and an advanced knowledge of RESTful services, OAuth and JSON.

You will help us build the whole platform and the developer-facing APIs.

* iOS/Android Engineer

You should have experience building SDKs in objective C, Java or C++
Game development experience and advanced knowledge of RESTful services, OAuth and JSON are big pluses.

--

We're working on some seriously hard and interesting problems, and need help with it. Our product is still in private beta but the demand is crazy and we already need to scale fast, and as one of our first engineers you'll have a strong impact on the code and product. We can guarantee a fun ride.

We're very small but are well backed by the best-of-the-best so you get the best of both worlds: an amazing team, generous equity, a competitive salary and health/dental. A fully stocked kitchen, team-cooked lunches, new computer/monitor and team trips to Vegas make up the rest of the package.

Shoot me an email at stefano [4t] betable.com if you're interested.
Uncensored - A charitable project to support the open internet
It's used on Twitter, Google and Facebook (er, Blue Bar). I think the "average user" can get it.
Perl one-liners are a great way to learn more about Perl -- there is a lot of uncommon syntax that makes some of the more advanced examples more like little puzzles.

However, if you are not familiar with Perl, and fall to the common stigma that Perl is unreadable, I urge you to delve more into the modern Perl community. The community doesn't have the same tendencies towards built-in obfuscation anymore.
Explanation of that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2558169
BTW, there's a thread on es-discuss mailing list about adding some simple variant of zLib API, possibly as an extension of File API:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-January/0...
I'm pretty certain that's illegal under consumer law in the UK, but like the article says, none of any of this has been tested in court.
Even so, if that's the problem, they should solve it with technology. If they let a customer gift games across pricing zones and the trading rules in the EULA don't inform you that this is unacceptable, then it's absurd to ban customers for doing it.
Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay Without A Direct Order
West Hollywood, CA - Geni.com, home of the world's largest family tree, has two openings:

Network Operations Specialist
Quantitative Product Analyst

We're a fun, flexible team looking to expand with enthusiastic go-getters. More information at http://www.geni.com/corp/jobs/
Chicago, IL and Jacksonville, FL

Hashrocket is hiring Ruby on Rails consultants for our offices in Chicago and Jacksonville. For more information, see: http://hashrocket.com/people/work-at-hashrocket/developer for more information.

ONSITE FULLTIME
Engine Room Apps - Leeds, UK

Experienced iOS Developer (Full Time, On site)

Required skills:

iOS SDK to version 5.0
XML/JSON/SOAP and RESTful web services
Strong core iOS development experience with knowledge of core frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, CoreLocation etc
SQLite
Xcode 4.2 development environment
OpenGL ES
Git source control

----------

Experienced Android Developer (Full Time, On site)

Required skills:

Android SDK and Blackberry API
XML/JSON/SOAP and RESTful web services
Strong core Java development experience with knowledge of core Java SDK and libraries
MySQL, SQLite
Eclipse development environment
Blackberry SuperApp
Git source control

contact: muneeb [at] engineroomapps [dot] com
Ask HN: Searching for most active RoR community?
Besides SF/SV??? (I've have a trip planned there, but am looking for alternatives)

I know very little and want to learn ASAP. I will look into Code Academy, but looking to move to the most active community.
Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past
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 stuart at ecoscorecard dot com
Yes, it was made open source in 2000, 8 years after the first release of 1992, far too late.
Enthought - www.enthought.com

Python development for scientific applications, financial applications and Python toolset development.

Enthought has offices in Austin, New York, Cambridge, Mumbai.

If you use Python and love numpy / scipy then Enthought would be a great place for you. Come work with numpy / scipy hackers on solving interesting scientific analysis and data visualization problems. Also we are building the next generation of Python development tools, so there is no shortage of interesting problems to work on. Send applications to jobs@enthought.com and mention that you saw this on the hacker news Feb 2012 thread. Looking forward to working with some of you.

If you have any questions about Enthought, what jobs are on offer and what problems keep us up at night feel free to reach out to me at dsharma at enthought dot com
There's a difference between saying "You did stuff I didn't like so I won't give you money" and "You didn't do stuff for my industry that I was explicitly expecting ONLY because of my earlier contributions so I'm not going to continue to give you money"
What's the difference between you and the MPAA? Well, how many 1m dollar bills do you have in your back pocket? ;)

Yes, I am saying there is a fundamental difference between an entity giving $100 to a campaign and e.g. $5m (if you add in the RIAA). To ignore that would be like... like saying it would be fair to pit you against Boeing in an airplane building contest. (Kind of a weak simile, sorry.) The point is the field is not level and, most importantly, they are not supposed to offer quid pro quo.
Startups, Dotcoms, and Other TLDs
More due to their attitudes towards source code and supporting a new generation of developers (Notch pays lipservice to open source and claims to be an avid supporter of the Pirate Party and an opponent of IP law yet aggressively pursues any competition that resembles Minecraft in any way with legal threats)

In terms of actual code they're not even in the same league so I won't bother comparing anything Carmack's achieved with Notch's magic number and circular reference-ridden Java code.
Yes, yes, Krugman's argument does not apply to apartheid.

It is the logical form of his argument which parallels the form of arguments made against divestiture in the apartheid regime. The logical form of the argument may be summed up as "the possibility of distant perverse effects outweighs the value of more immediate virtuous effects."

A analogy would be, we have a contract which requires me to pay you in cash. When you come to receive payment, I refuse to pay cash on the grounds that you might become infected by a virus on one of the bills.
A site which is 95% dedicated to sharing copyrighted content

[citation needed]

The Pirate Bay exists to make money for its founders. This is why it has so many intrusive ad's constantly popping up.

The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free.

The pirate bay is such a target because the people who run it humiliate and insult people with very deep pockets.

And? Is it written anywhere that people with deep pockets should not be insulted? If anything, their position of privilege should make them less prone to knee-jerk reactions.

They aren't victims, they enjoy the attention.

I think you should talk to your analyst about that complex, hating extrovert people is quite the negative attitude.
'Worm-Eating' Underground Leaves Discovered in Carnivorous Plant
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance

UK based Web dev generalist. Lots of M$ experience, c#, sql server. Bits of PHP and Rails - enough to put something small together. Ditto for Python.
I moonlight on iOS apps, though I'm by no means a "rockstar".

http://poissonpie.com
contact: username @ gmail
turntable.fm - New York City ONSITE FULL TIME

We are a team of nine people who love music and building the best social music experience anywhere on web. We keep the work environment a lot like our application, awesome and fun.
We run Python, put our data in Mongo, and run our servers on AWS. We do absurd things with Javascript.

We're looking for a VP of Technology, iOS Developer, Devop/Sysop, and generalist developers.

See our jobs page for more information: http://turntable.fm/jobs
I'm looking for multiple mentors or maybe a really active College group.
Who are you to say that? When it comes to a defacto standard that's not a choice everybody can make.
Skuldsanering is the Swedish option for personal bankruptcy, but differs in a number of significant ways. First of all you send in an application, disclosing all your debts and assets, and I believe there's an interview process as well. If they think you're hiding something, should reasonably be able to dig yourself out your hole on your own or don't think you've tried hard enough to sort your problems out on your own then you'll get denied. If accepted you have to sell of all your assets and spend the next several years making a good faith effort to earn as much money as you can and pay back as much of the debt as you can. I believe that if they think you're not being serious or not trying they can cancel the deal at any time. Only once all that is done will any remaining debts be cancelled.
One thing I want to see is ALL gaming media stop using the word "Sales figures", "Sales goals" etc.

The publishers like this because it implies ownership when in fact we all know that we are getting a license which can be revoked (Now more than ever). Maybe people will start taking notice when they read

"GAME X licensed 50,000 times" or
"50,000 licenses sold for GAME X"