skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
REMOTE - Anywhere (Company is in the UK)

Replay Gaming is looking for a full-time Ruby/Rails developer to help us grow our virtual money poker site. We are a small team of experienced developers geographically distributed working with Skype, Pivotal Tracker and GitHub.

Replay Poker is as established play money poker site with big ambitions to grow substantially over the next 12 months.

About us

* We’re incredibly small, so you’ll have a huge impact on the decisions and the work being done
* We all work remotely, 100% of the time. Work from where ever you are most productive
* We work both on a web application and on a ruby multi-threaded tcp server

Ideally you

* Have professional experience working remotely
* Are familiar with rails and ruby internals, specially active record and threads
* Know threads and parallel programming best practices, use of mutexes, shared state, etc
* Have worked with multi-threaded tcp servers, or other non http servers
* Have experience scaling services horizontally
* Have knowledge of Facebook integration
* Have contributed to open source projects
* Have experience with social real-time games
* Enjoy playing poker!

You should

* Have +2 years of Ruby web application development experience
* Know SQL and concepts like transactions, database locks and ACID
* Have linux working knowledge, and a mac or linux workstation
* Have experience writing automated tests, be it BDD, TDD or something else
* Have excellent english language skills

What we offer

* Plenty of autonomy for you to work the way you think you’re most productive
* A flexible process with the focus on efficiency of working with minimal bureaucracy
* A mixture of a fun and challenging project working on a real-time game about to face scaling challenges
* Competitive salary (negotiable and depending on experience/skills)

How to apply

STRICTLY NO RECRUITMENT COMPANIES

Send an email with the subject of Ruby Developer to
jobs@replaypoker.com. Please include your resume, a brief summary of recent work experience and hourly rate expectation.
I'm an engineer and have studied several MBA courses as part of my engineering management degree. MBA courses are heavily corporation oriented and have limited value for founders of organically grown start-ups.

Majority of the management techniques taught are economic only when applied at corporate scale.
GoCardless is a VC-backed London-based startup looking to hire for the following positions:

- Backend engineers

- Front-end developers

- Business development roles

We're building the next generation of online payment tools, and are partnered with one of the world's largest banks.

GoCardless is built using bleeding edge Ruby and Rails, Postgres 9, Coffeescript and Redis. Experience with any of those technologies is a plus, but certainly not required.

More detail here: https://gocardless.com/jobs
UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, in New Jersey
Scribie.com, Remote, Fulltime.

I have been running Solo founder for the past few years and things are growing beyond me now. I am looking to hire the first full time developer now. We use PHP+MySQL and NodeJS for backend, HTML5/JS for frontend and lots of things in between.
The advantage of "everything-is-a-file" is that every process gains thread-safe access to some API without having to pull in the headers, link, and manage a foreign memory management regimen.

But the real boon is that each process can conceivably be linked with any 'file'. I liken this practice to the STL library's iterator pattern: algorithms are the processes, and files are the iterators (although I bet STL was inspired by unix). You can redirect your tty through an ssh tunnel, you can scp a regular file, or you can ssh tunnel your soundcard or mouse. And of course 'ssh tunnel' is only one such kind of glue. There are pipes, devices, fifos, etc. In the end it works out that there are O(n*m) possibilities for only O(n+m) implementation cost.

But remember that with STL, not all algorithms will work with all iterators, and vice versa. And likewise, not all processes can work with all files, and vice versa. The benefit comes from the significant overlapping portion.
Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode
The Analytics Microscope: Only Metrics You See Can Become Actionable
Ask HN: Equity for Non-US employees
I've got a bit of a conundrum. I have an employee located in India, to whom I'd like to give an equity stake in my US startup. In principle, I'd like to give him more or less the valley standard - x% over 4 years.

The employee is currently physically located in India, and is employed by an Indian corporation which sells services to the US corporation. Let's assume US immigration authorities will never allow him to physically enter the US.

I'm concerned about the specific mechanics of how to structure such an equity agreement. Particular issues:

a) Enforceability. This is the biggie. How can I construct a contract which he can enforce? We can transfer equity in a US corporation to him with little difficulty, but how can he enforce his equity rights? It's unlikely that any US lawyer would be willing to get involved in such a cross-border dispute, at least not for the sums of money involved.

b) Taxation. How can we avoid having him taxed by both the US and India?

We are thinking about multiple mechanisms. One is for him to sign an equity-like cash-settled contract with the Indian corporation. Another is for him to directly invest 1 rupee every month, in return for X/48 shares, and we can terminate this agreement whenever we like. (If we terminate the agreement, he quits, roughly equivalent to firing before fully vested.)

Has anyone here done something like this in the past? How did you structure it? Any pitfalls to be aware of?

tl;dr How can I give an Indian employee equity in a US corporation and minimize the ability of future owners of the company to screw him over?
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (February 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537882
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2012)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Eco-friendly Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V for socially aware technophiles
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V is an eco-friendly handset, which is made using recycled plastic and consumes less power. It packs 1GHz processor, Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread OS, 3.7 inches screen, 5 MP camera and 1500 mAh powerful battery.
Cloud Computing Patterns
AFAIK it's pretty normal, at least outside of cloud computing, that incoming traffic is cheap or free.
I don't know why whoever's behind this account is so desperate for karma.

It's the old-school trick - whoshiring - who's hiring rather than who is hiring.
Fulltime Java Research Engineer - Outbrain, Boston, MA

As a research engineer you will contribute directly to the algorithms driving the best recommendations on the web. This position is special because we’ll work on longer term – and often harder – problems which require a focus on sophisticated machine learning capabilities and research.

We are looking for a smart engineer, with practical know-how, good work discipline, and willingness to learn and have fun.

Requirements:

Excellent Java implementation skills. Knowledge of scripting languages a plus (e.g. Python)
Background in Machine Learning / Statistical Natural LanguageProcessing / Information Retrieval and an ability to bring algorithms to production
Comfort with UNIX/Linux

jobs_us@outbrain.com
The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure
Which does absolutely fuck all as soon as the magic word "piracy" appears. They're barely acknowledging this is happening.

Ask yourself: what has BoF done for us lately? Or ever?
Incoming traffic to AWS is also free.
I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want?

They are misrepresenting themselves.

Further, if they really had free speech and helping suppressed peoples in mind, they would remove most of their infringing content and provide a platform that can't be attacked on grounds of copyright infringement.
Freedom is a threat to government. The promise of freedom gets governments elected. Exercising freedom makes governments resort to violence.

Censorship has always been around. How many of the books once banned by the US have you read?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governm...

How many of the wikileaks cables have you read?

99% of The Pirate Bay is people downloading entertainment. Sometimes it's entertainment not available yet in their region. Sometimes it's a show on cable that aired last night. Reducing the friction for consumers to get content is a business problem. The Pirate Bay thrives because big media fails to solve that problem.

But 1% of the time - maybe less, The Pirate Bay links to content that will have no other home. Where powerful people can't squash it. If we have no place outside the reach of national governments where things that make them uncomfortable have a chance to spread, then we have no freedom.

So, while The Pirate Bay is the seedy underbelly of copyright infringement on the internet, it also gives you freedom. We need to protect that.
Bootstrap looks better then 95% of sites in internets. Actually I hope that more and more sites will use bootstrap.
I've tired of different look and feel. There are zillions of autocompletes and everyone behaves differently (different animations, keyboard shortcuts and so on).
Even buttons works differently on different sites.

If you look at iPhone or Mac or Windows application they looks the same as other application on particular platform and no one annoyed. Each application use same keyboard shortcuts and controls and frequently share same colors.
There is even UI recommendations for most of the platforms. You could use owner-drawn controls for sure but it usually they are used only if default controls are unsuitable for some task or in games.
Buffer - http://bufferapp.com

Looking for PHP Engineer + Sys Admin (remote freelance)

Email me: joel@bufferapp.com
Proposed release schedule at https://www.mozilla.org/img/covehead/esr/release-overview.pn...: one year of support, with ~12 weeks to get to the next version.
And people wonder why I'm cynical about politics. If Dodd was investigated for this it would lead to an investigation of 99% of elected representatives--including, presumably, the ones doing the investigating (I assume a congressional investigation would be required). This is the way politics works in our country, we just like to pretend it has more integrity.

This might happen if we ever get campaign finance reform and term limits, right after hell freezes over.
Does the cost depend on the volume of data accessed or is it just a fixed amount per month?
SEEKING WORK Montreal Remote

I'm not that mythical creature half designer half programmer, but I'm a programmer (back end & front end) who knows some design principles and who doesn't make ugly sites. I'm interested in programming and UX and comfortable with php, html, css, mysql, javascript but it's good to be uncomfortable sometimes, then you are welcome to throw me some ruby, python, nosql and more.

I started coding in 2003, in the last years I'm more focused on web apps and I have touched a bunch of APIs. I have worked in teams & alone, startups & web agencies.

Maybe relevant for a distributed team, I speak EN FR ES

Portfolio: http://robertomartinez.info
We host all of buddycloud's servers on them and they really do rock. Support is good. No outages in over three years. Very solid.
It helps that Eric Van Hensbergen, the guy behind 9p virtio, was a Plan 9 developer.
I've been using Hetzner for about a year after migrating off Slicehost to Linode and then to Hetzner.

I'd recommend Linode if you need really good service (they once tracked down and patched a kernel bug for me), but if you don't want amazing support and just want some really good specs at a good price Hetzner is great, especially if you're in Europe.
For what it’s worth, Clojure is a
Lisp with namespaces: (string/lower-case yelling).
I am a doctor.

1. Your last sentence "... and save lifes" . I don't think that your iphone app will ever save a life. There is already a medical checklist system in the hospitals, based on paper checklists, which are controlled several times by nurses-assistants-supervisor doctors etc. Most of them are part of Case history written mostly on a computer software and then printed. This system evaluated in hundred years. To be able to change the whole system you must have a fully featured pc-mobile-tablet software. A simple-task app will be rejected by all hospitals. Even if you build something perfect to revolutionize the medical software system, it will be too hard to sell them. Because

1. They have already bought some years ago a new sofware and updated their system, and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.

2. Who would bother with a new app having more problems and tasks?! Probably you will talk to the directors of the hospitals, which are more than 45 years old, always doctors and are not open to innovations.

3. You must compete with healtcare software giants.

4. I saw already minimum 3 of apps doing the same work. You must research the market.

Hence, I wouldn't lose my time with this idea. You can build better things instead of spending your time to sell the product to the hospitals.
can anyone explain how is this even possible considering how expensive that piece of hardware is?
On topic: here is the post from whoIShiring

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537881
I concur with Dan Pop's interpretation.
Sorry. I didn't know there was a dedicated role account for these.

What time of day is it usually posted?
Google Tech Talk makes case for end of copyright (2006)
"What do you think killed it?"

Mergers and acquisitions. The homogenizing of radio made it such that, while it played the top-40s in each major genre, it become excruciatingly boring because they'd only play the top-40s. You'd literally hear the entire selection of music they'd play within a couple of days of light listening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Broadcasting_Corporati...

Here's the history of a great example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHFS_(historic)#Abrupt_format_s...

Top-40 music is by definition the music for the largest possible audience -- or put another way for the lowest common denominator of listener. It's boring, format stamped mediocrity that favors Nickelback over any better band.

Every so often I'll surf the stations and be amazed that songs that were playing and popular 10 years ago are still playing in regular rotation. Songs that have since moved onto regular rotation in doctor's office waiting lounges and elevators.

I remember a time when you could turn on your station of choice, listen for an hour and hear 3 or 4 songs in the top-40, 3-4 in the top-100 and 3-4 new songs as they tried to bring in new material for listeners. There also used to be just better selection in stations representing slightly different formats in the same major genre, it was possible at one time to find a station that played hard rock, classic rock and alternative rock. Now it's just "rock" and all three will play Nickelback at the same time.

Here's the current top-40 in rock http://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-songs#/charts/rock-song...

At least a fourth of these bands I remember getting airplay in the 90s. These are bands so old that the beginning of their careers are starting to see some play on the classic rock stations.

Radio killed itself.
Anyone know of a Javascript implementation of Snappy? There's a binding for Node, but not a Javascript implementation which would be useful in the browser considering IndexedDB and Websockets support binary data.
I agree, and I think it's worth pointing out that this isn't limited to Hollywood interference and corruption.

Remember: the charges and extradition demands against Julian Assange are coming from the Swedish court system as well.
That's probably because that's how it used to work. Remember before can spam laws?
Tel Aviv (Israel):

Nextpeer (http://www.nextpeer.com) is looking for server side and mobile engineers.

Come and help us change the way people play games on their mobile devices!

You can contact me directly daniel <at> nextpeer <dot> com
Legal help offered to Megaupload users
well the cars have a pretty decent aftermarket, so if you needed a new exhaust you could have just gotten an aftermarket one...or bought a used one on the forums for a few hundred
SEEKING WORK - Remote or occasional travel around Europe fine. Native British developer based in Warsaw, Poland.

Backend jack-of-all-trades, concentrating on PHP/C#/MySQL, experienced with Apache/nginx/IIS, and general Linux admin.

A few sample projects I work on in my spare time, using PHP/Kohana/MySQL/jQuery:

http://tweetingmachine.com

http://campaignbar.com

http://interactwive.com

I'm very good at finding solutions to complex problems, like working with technology, and am pretty personable :-) I can be reached at tom@tbbuck.com
Import your existing Google docs project to Reesolv in no time
Implementing startOffsetTime for HTML5
It's not about karma, he has a throw away account. He just didn't know there was an official account for that.
I agree. I've got a BS in Computer Science and an MBA, which is very common. A third of the class had undergrad engineering degrees.
Real-time, node-based video compositor
Pomegranates for Male Enhancement and Better Sexual Health? 
A recent study looked into the effectiveness of pomegranates in targeting ED. Find out how the fruit compares to Viagra and male enhancement products.
I'm gona take a wild stab in the dark and say megaupload has freed a lot of servers lol.
That's a rather defeatist attitude. People would be all for tariffs if they were told that it makes American workers' labor more competitive.
The point you make is really important but I think its relevance here may be doubtful. Civil disobedience at a massive scale is surely a compelling way of protest though you have to keep in mind that civil disobedience is about voluntary display of indignance by EVERYONE participating (read here as the users.)

The Pirate Bay cannot take that decision on behalf of their users. It has to be an active and voluntary enagagement.

Further, this TPB post stands for something more than mere access to paid content. It is essentially a protocol infused with freedom. No bar on content; no censorship; no policing. How one uses it is immaterial but as long as it exists, it offers people that freedom. Dissidents, political prisoners, protesters can always look to it as a last resort to share things.

I think that coming out the way you describe is just not feasible for the TPB, the same way surrendering never made sense to Robin Hood.
MeetMoi - New York City - Java Engineer
http://www.meetmoi.com/careers#java

About MeetMoi:
MeetMoi is at the crossroads of the white-hot mobile-social space and interactive dating. Leveraging location-awareness and other native aspects of mobility, MeetMoi makes it easy to meet interesting single people around you. Available on the mobile web at m.meetmoi.com and Android and iPhone app stores, MeetMoi is the leader in mobile location-based dating. We are growing rapidly, and have open positions in virtually every function.

Email jeremy at meetmoi.com for more information.
SEEKING WORK, Nottingham UK, Remote

LAMP (Perl) developer, sysadmin, web developer and email administrator. Looking for small remote freelance projects or full-time work in the area/remote. I have a small UK Ltd company for freelance work at http://cardwellit.com/. I can configure and optimise your server software and debug your server problems. I'm a top quality Perl programmer and pretty good at web dev too. My github account: https://github.com/mikecardwell/ and my tech blog: https://grepular.com/blog/
Broadway Technology - New York, NY and Austin TX

We are a tight, fast and profitable ~50 person software company (we were at 30 people a year ago, we're growing fast) working in the financial software space (we don't trade - we sell pickaxes to the gold miners, so to speak). Our main product is a high speed distributed system, on top of which we've built a trading platform for algorithms and other software. We are looking for experienced software developers (no finance experience required) - in particular, we really need an awesome UI developer to help build our trading UI and make it fast and beautiful.

See our news room for some buzz: http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/press

and apply at: http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers
I started hosting with the South African branch of Hetzner (http://hetzner.co.za) for several years starting in 1999, back when the owner was manning the support line himself. In that time they were always service-oriented.
I belive I saw some posts on webhostingtalk or some other forums that stated, that their method of operations is to buy tons of hardware - single platform (mobo) that they build their offering on - with greatly discounted prices from manufacturer. They will provide it for a year or so, and then they will create new platform again after a while after they are out of stock, this happens once every year I think. Also keep in mind those are not "server grade" components so don't count on expansions to the servers/ECC RAM - this kind of stuff - you want to scale - just buy more boxes, there are upgrade possibilities, but they are limited to my understanding.
KinderTown

Philadelphia Area - Fulltime

We're looking for a developer with iOS xp to add to our startup, targeting early childhood education. Complete info:

http://www.kindertown.com/careers/ios-programmer-with-additi...
I'm using Hetzner for 10years, with very very few major problems (I only remember 1).

I compared them some time ago to EC2 pricewise:

http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-virtualized-servers-cloud...

And setup of a new server is quite fast too.
The Lack of Money Shouldn't Drive You to Succeed
I am the author of the library. Just to be clear about my motivations, I wrote this library for chrome extensions. It's a simple way to export/import large user data.
On a sidenote: AWS is way more expensive than dedis in every calculation I make for my business.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-moves-to-se-domain-pr...
Torrentfreak's artcile citing the above article and explaining why there's a .se in the link!
Correct, and I didn't know if there was an official time-of-day for that (is there?) and I wanted to be in the first few minutes.
SEEKING WORK - In Chicago, prefer remote work.

I'm a CS undergrad at the University of Chicago, but I have to pay the bills. Bigger projects should probably look elsewhere (until June 9), but I can burn through a lot of work pretty quickly.

I have experience with a lot of things, but particularly C, Objective-C (iOS), Python, Javascript, Haskell, and Ruby. Of course, I can do whatever needs doing.

http://github.com/zuwiki
http://twitter.com/#!/mvzink
http://mvz.so/blog
Here's a link to the infamous fast inverse square root function: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/c...
Will mobile campaign donations be a game changer for politicians?