skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco CA (remote okay)

Crawl Engineer and Big Data Enthusiast

We're looking for someone enthusiastic about open source, net neutrality, open data and keeping the web truly open. Common Crawl is dedicated to building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data in order to enable a new wave of innovation, education and research. If you're looking to do work that matters, come join us!

We're set to do amazing things this year, and there is no better place to hone your big data skills than helping us manage and process our 50 TB corpus. Plus, you'll be working within a passionate community and have the chance to interface with plenty of talented researchers, educators, startup folks, and an incredible advisory board.

Responsibilities

* Improve the stability, scaling, and visibility of our distributed web crawler
* Use, improve, and extend our post-crawl, Hadoop-based data processing pipeline
* Design and build mechanism for specification and execution of custom crawls

Desired Skills & Experience

* You can architect and code for a system with tens of billions of documents
* Strong coding ability in Java
* Strong coding skills in at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl...)
* In-depth knowledge of HTTP and are familiar with web crawlers
* You have development and administrative experience with Hadoop and HDFS
* Ops experience with Linux or other UNIX
* Some familiarity with AWS, including one or more of EC2, S3, EBS, and EMR
* Like to build useful, thorough documentation of code and systems
* Self-starter wiling to take ownership of projects

http://www.commoncrawl.org
San Francisco, CA

Twilio is hiring. Want to call/text message your users, or build a product around phones? Instead of writing horrible interface code to text message or call users, people use Twilio's REST API to take care of the messages and get back to doing what they do best - building great web apps.

We are growing like crazy and hiring for lots of positions - see a full list here: http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs. Two good ways to get your resume to the top of the pile: build a Twilio app, and mention this HN post in your cover letter.

Remote considered for Developer Evangelist, Marketing and Support positions, but not for engineering.
I don't mean to be rude, but I had taken some valuable time to apply, just to be sent a canned email saying that "internship selections are over". In that light, can you justify advertising that you are still accepting interns?
God damn capital S.

When will the internet learn?
I frequently fall victim to this and I've gone through considerable effort not to.

One example: at my previous job, our ecommerce site had individual templates for each product. We only had around 20 products, but I came from a job where you might have thousands of products, so a single template was used. I just couldn't wrap my head around why you would have individual templates for each product.

The pages were mostly static (aside from a header and footer, and the pricing), and they took quite a while to make.

Then I realized that because we had so few products, we could really customize and market each page to highlight the features of each product. I went on to build a personal site with only a handful of products the same way as well.

Like Jason said, spending that extra time (even if it isn't literally 5 minutes) can really change your perception of something.
I have found this approach to be quite useful with my co-workers, friends and even my spouse.

Sometimes I hear an idea and my initial reaction is "No," when what is really going on inside me is "Let me mull it over." The trick for me is to not open my mouth too soon before I've truly given the idea a chance to breathe a little.
SF / Bay Area, FULL-TIME & INTERN

beRecruited.com (http://berecruited.com) is disrupting the high school to college athletic recruiting market. We connect high school students to college coaches across the country, helping students earn scholarships. We're the largest company in the space, with room still to grow.

We're 3 YC founders, we've got over 1 mm registered users, revenue via our freemium service, and plenty of funding from relevant investors. We're relaunching the site in just a few weeks, and this is a chance to get on board and drive meaningful product development and influence what we do next.

We're a small team of 5 looking to add another full-stack RoR developer.

Definitely get in touch if you:
* Combine a strong overall computer science background with a passion for web development, particularly Ruby on Rails
* You're equally at home writing complex SQL queries, architecting scalable rails services, and building beautiful html/css/javascript interfaces
* You've demonstrated your abilities writing top-quality web or open source software
* You have a strong product sense and excellent technical judgement.

Here's some recent articles about how we're improving people's lives every day.
* http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/30/help-for-reaching...
* http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2011/09/22/201...
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3540289

More detail here: http://howto.berecruited.com/pages/jobs
Or email us directly and mention you're from HN: jobs@berecruited.com
It works fairly well with rapportive, sometimes when scrolling you may see overlap.
Palo Alto (California and El Camino), Engineers, Full Time

Udacity is leading the way in massively open online courses. We started with http://www.ai-class.com and took the lessons learned from that experience to build http://www.udacity.com/, a website delivering quality higher education to people all around the world. We have new and exciting technology and classes in the pipeline and we need great engineers to help shape this movement. Check us out at http://www.udacity.com/ and feel free to send me a message if you're interested/have questions ih@udacity.com.
The goal of this piece is not to teach people how to use git, but to give a way of thinking about git that will hopefully help new git users understand it better. It ended up being more of a wall of text than I had hoped.

Feel free to fork it:

https://gist.github.com/1951984
OpenStack Training: A Student’s View
Seattle WA (Full time, H1B)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Although AWS has MANY open positions, this one is mine and I'm very excited about it. Very new team, about to make our 1st production release within the month.

We're focused on better tools for cloud developers. I want the experience of developing on AWS to be magical: less manual touch points, less upfront investment to get started, and overall happier users of AWS. If you're the kind of person that writes little scripts to make your job easier, or entire tool chains, then I'd love to talk with you.

We're programming in Java and Ruby, we use Git, and we're really excited about what we'll do next.

Here are the job descriptions:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?keywords=166013
http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?keywords=166014

Happy to chat, you can reach out to me at troutman@amazon.com
(+1) that's about as far from 'pleasant' as you can get, IMO
RentMineOnline - San Francisco

We bring resident referral programs online leveraging leading social networking sites.

Our company services the multi-family residential real estate market and has been in business for 5 years. In 2011, RentMineOnline was voted the "Best New Company in Apartment Marketing," and has participated both in SeedCamp (2008) and FbFund (2009) incubator programs.

We are looking for talented and energetic engineers of all skill levels to help us grow our company. As a member of a small team (2 in-house developers and 4 remote), you will have the opportunity to see an immediate impact from your efforts in all areas of our business.

How we operate:

Our server stack is Rails 3, REE, passenger, nginx, MySQL, redis, and ubuntu
On the front end we use jquery, jquery-mobile, and prototype
Our code lives on github.
We integrate with Amazon Services, Facebook Platform, LinkedIn and Twitter.
We deploy daily, often multiple times a day
We're always evaluating technologies that can help
us operate better, faster, and smarter.

Desired Skills & Experience

What you need:

Strong work ethic
Ability to write clean code and tests
Exerience with a web framework - Rails preferred but not required
Understanding of relational databases -
you should know how to write a non-trivial join or select
At least some shell experience - a command line shouldn't be foreign to you

Nice things to have:

1+ years of rails development
Experience maintaining your own server
You've rebased more than a few git branches
Facebook platform development
Intermediate statistics/machine-learning
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
"Sorry, locations outside the U.S. are currently not supported."

Well, I'm sure it's a very nice interface.
I've also got boomerang in there too. You've got an heroic job on your hands ;)
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Columbus or Cincinnati areas, or the possibility of a travel / remote combination.
My specialties are Ruby, Rails, and javascript/jQuery, but I also have a great deal of experience with Asp.net MVC.
Over the past year or two, I've primarily been doing Ruby and Rails development for 2 small startups, intermixed with some consulting work as a Team Lead and Ruby/Cucumber mentor at a large financial company.

Email: adam dot albrecht [at] gmail

http://adamalbrecht.com/

http://github.com/adamalbrecht

https://twitter.com/adam_albrecht
The guy who had his business destroyed before ever going to court? Yeah, what a jackass that guy is.
You can learn part of a bit from a fact that doesn't divide the population neatly in half: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#Ex...
I think Google should just experiment and dabble in every single niche in the internet field.. just push the envelope. Start a dating site to compete with Match. Start an auction site to compete with eBay. Start a ticket exchange to compete with StubHub. Just throw a bunch of stuff in the wall, and I'm sure a new billion dollar business will emerge.
At the same time, the world is full of ideas, and a pretty tiny fraction of them are any good. The world feels especially full of ideas these days, since a lot of folks now fancy themselves "creatives" (that is, people who come up with ideas without having to get into the yucky business of actually executing on them).

Here's the real challenge: What deserves your five minutes in the first place? Many intellectually bankrupt ideas benefit from the notion that both sides of an argument should be considered. This is partially why we have dumb ideas like "intelligent design" floating around -- they get their oxygen from the mistaken notion that both sides should be considered, when in truth the issue is much more one-sided, or should be. Because ideas have power, there is an incentive to pitch such ideas and to persuade others with them, however hollow they may be on examination. There is value in talking about "clean coal", even though no such thing actually exists in the world.

You can't waste five minutes of your life every time someone says their ideas at you. So, what do you do? I suppose my approach is to try to develop a filter, to try to focus on things that are actually worth thinking about. But honing that filter is a challenge in itself, trying to keep oneself intellectually honest, trying not to indulge in parochialism. This is a tough subject, there are no easy answers.
Yes these aren't the codes similar to nuke launch codes but rather algorithms, and software that provide a method of controlling the ISS' attitude.
You'd still need an access code (presumably and hopefully not on the laptop) to be able to control it.
The guidelines do specify a few things that might be interesting enough that they'll get upvoted, but still don't belong here -- "most stories about politics, crime, or sports", for example. Unfortunately, some people vote without reading the guidelines; it's up to the rest of us to use the "flag" option accordingly.
Mountain View, CA - fulltime or intern

Room 77 - https://www.room77.com

We're changing travel search by giving people full transparency in their search for a perfect hotel stay. Using the staggering amount of data we've collected and analyzed, we'll actually find and request the best hotel room for you.
Some projects you'll work on:

- computer-generating views from any room in the world

- building the first deep-text hotel search engine (eg. search "eiffel tower views" in Paris or "jetted bathtub" in New York)

- super-fast search across all major providers (we show Expedia results faster than Expedia)

- finding better ways to extract and expose data like hotel freebies and fees

...and many other things that contribute to a fast, easy travel planning experience.

If you're interested in information retrieval, machine learning, NLP, or computer visualization, you'll have a great time solving brand new problems and creating a genuinely improved and useful hotel search.

Check out our jobs page: https://www.room77.com/jobs.html?s=HN
A government protects two things: itself (the bureaucrats and politicians) and their backers, bribers and friends (the private mega corporations).

In order to protect itself, though, it has to balance the demands of the second, with what its' voters, the general public, wants.

That's why:

a) government is problematic

b) but it's still better than no/much-less government = big corporations rule directly with their clout
Yes, he meant birth date.
Definitely agree, the problem is that most bizdev founders seem clueless about what their job really needs to entail.

Just as Enterprise Architects often make crappy startup founders because they can't think down to the low level details of hacking, VP level biz dev guys make terrible founders because they can't hustle like a low level sales guy will.
Telemetry and commands for spacecraft at NASA fall under ITAR compliance (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...). Basically, this means that command and telemetry information must be safeguarded against access attempts by a foreign national. There are NASA employees who aren't US citizens that are not permitted to have access to this sort of information without explicit permission.
Actually, he provided 'delete link to content' access to the content and so if 10 different links with 10 different names were used to access the same content, then the content companies would have to click 'delete' 10 times (once for each link) before the content would be deleted.
Yammer pulls down $85 million in venture funding
Parse: New Usage and Analytics Graphs
It will be very interesting to see whether or not there is an upward spike in media purchased. Although I have a feeling that there will be none or close to none and that any "spike" will be considered statistical noise.
Exactly what I was looking for!

But please, please start charging for your product. I don't want this product to disappear in a year when you run out of funding and still don't have a sustainable business model.
The other collaborator here. I started with a similar client called web-irc, to make a better open source web IRC client. I combined forced with thedjpetersen because his tech stack was almost identical. And it looked better, to boot :-)

Tech used: Node.js, node-irc, socket.io, Backbone.js, and MongoDB for optional message logging on persistent connections.

Feedback and contributions welcome.

This article is linked to the github repo, but you can use the client directly here: http://ridezap.com:3000/
This solves half (and only half) of the problem that Uber is trying to solve. A feedback/rating system is fantastic if the consumer has choice. Unfortunately, the iPhone app does not have the ability to help consumers choose a taxi driver when they're standing on Broadway at 2 am with their arm in the arm---they're going to take the first cab that shows up no matter how awful it may be.

In fact, the whole idea of the taxi bargain is that you pay a fixed price to get a minimum standard of quality --- enforcing the minimum standard seems likely to be a more productive avenue than increasing the average.

A more direct solution might be an app that submits complaints to the Taxi & Limo Comm'n, since the fear of losing a medallion is far greater motivator to most taxi drivers than the prospect of being named on an awards list. (Again, for Uber and similar systems, reviews do matter to drivers because consumers choose.)
The Trouble with Non-Investor Investors
As one of the folks working on this (I did some of the iOS programming), I just want to say that I had a blast working with Mat and Sean.
Same impression here. Love the out of focus background image. Great effect.
You are ignoring the growth in supply that would happen because of the re-issue.
There's a big algorithm involved in commanding and controlling the Space Station .. fire your rockets one way, the station ends up somewhere else in orbit, and so on .. so I'd say this is quite an accurate report, actually, since the stolen laptop had the algorithm onboard to calculate when and where to fire boosters to attain certain orbits, and so on.
JavaScript / Ruby Developers
REMOTE WORKING ENCOURAGED

We're hiring JavaScript and Ruby developers to help us build social software for conferences and events. We're based in Seattle but YOU can work from anywhere. Full benefits, great salary and equity. Our team includes core backbone.js committers and we're working on some fantastic open source projects in support of the same (come meet us at JsConf this year). We've been profitable for over a year and are growing quickly.

http://www.pathable.com/careers-at-pathable/

Apply here:

http://jobsco.re/ADjuWq
Mobile Second Cup - MiPad 3 rumours, Facebook's mobile ads + foursquare
"Also, let's say you have it narrowed down to four people, but the last bit of information is common to all of them."

The definition of a bit is something which removes half the possibilities. If you have 4 people and acquire a "bit" of information that breaks them into two categories, one with 4 people and one with 0 people, you, by definition, in fact have 0 bits.

Fractional bits are not only possible, they are by far the common case. With a lg2 in the definition of the bit, it's pretty uncommon to have integral bits.

Critical insight: What we call a "bit" in a computer and a "bit" in information theory are related but not the same thing. You can't have a fraction of a bit stored in your computer's RAM, the words are meaningless. It is best to simply flush your idea of what you think a bit is and start over again from scratch when studying information theory, then when you are comfortable with it the connections will become obvious. Starting from the RAM side is actively harmful.
From page to screen: the rise of the video book trailer
The Fab Restart (Pivot) +1 Year
How Pinterest Changed Web Design
In a basic conception Pinterest is an online pin board. Pinterest is a typical pin-board styled social image sharing website. Site look like mini web page with features like “re-pin”, “like” and “comment” button at the bottom
San Francisco, CA

OnSports (http://www.onsports.com, jobs@onsports.com ) is revolutionizing the sports world. We're a fast-growing mobile-first startup and we are catering to sports fans by letting them create and participate in discussions about the teams and players they love. We love what we do and we love what we are building. Everyone discusses product and is empowered to build what they think is right for our users, the fans. Challenging problems excite us and we value engineering.

We're looking for a product minded iPhone Developer to join our team. We're still very early in our product's lifecycle and growing rapidly. You'll be joining our team at an early stage where you can influence product decisions and grow the company.

Requirements:
. Must have developed and built at least one brag-worthy iOS application
. Must have an entrepreneurial and product oriented mindset

Perks:
. Work with a talented team in the heart of SF amongst the most exciting startups in the world
. Free meals

Join us and change the game! Email jobs@onsports.com
Getting Started with DevOps and Chef (Podcast)
Actually, when the government protects failing business with money or laws, or when the government gives advantages to businesses with money or laws, it's all OK by republicans etc --despite breaking all the supposed "free market" rules.

It's only when the government protects citizens with money or laws, that's it's called "socialism" and evil.

Personally, I find it odd that a US government will protect certain business from natural competition. Isn't that anti-American? Anti-capitalism? Anti-competition? Protectionist?

It was never about a real free market, that's just what it's taught at school. It has always been the case that who has the money makes the rules, and has the government do what he wants, including crushing smaller competition.
You do not need anything from Apple to write or sell apps for the Mac, either, and I do not think you ever needed that (early Macintosh, say before the phonebook edition of Inside Macintosh, may have been an exception, as the information you needed simply was not out there. You also would have needed a Mac to write the floppy disks that most software got distributed on (there was some distribution over the Internet using Kermit))

It is true that it is way easier to write programs using Apple's (free, at the moment) tools, and it sure helps to have access to a Mac, if alone for testing, but you do not _need_ either. In that, it is not that much different from Windows. You can write Windows (Win32 or .NET) tools on Unix, but I would not advise going that way.
> Initially I didn't like the genetic bottleneck created by just having one pair (i.e. that they should go back and get more now that they know how to care for them, perhaps as a swap) - but then I realized the original source on the island was probably a single individual, so they are all probably virtually clones anyway.

That's probably a problem when trying to save any endangered species. Given the challenges (and time investment) of animal husbandry, I'm surprised that cloning of endangered series is not more common. Even if the clones are genetically identical, at least they buy you some more time to save them.
Newbie philosophy meets graduate of computer science.

The mind body problem is from Decarté. it's old, dead philosophy these days.

this idea was explored in Japanese cartoons in the 90s. I started asking and answering these questions when I was dealing with puberty.

I guess... what I'm getting at is... this.party has been over for more than a few years now.
Very interesting development. You can already pay by card in NYC so that functionality isn't going to be anything exciting for riders.

However, the opportunity for apps is huge- right now there's just a dumb TV terminal in the cab that plays the same horrible videos over and over. I've been working on a taxi-based app (http://www.taxono.my/ - I'll stop mentioning it in every post I make soon) that would go fantastically into a Square-attached tablet. But I'm not sure what they'll allow and what they won't, at this point. I imagine there might be a hefty fee involved...