skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
11" Macbook Air with a "base-station" where you can go to plug it in for times when you just have to have more screen real-estate.
Celebrating introversion is a reaction to the cultural notion that extroversion is the ideal. It's unfortunate that you (and presumably others) get getting the impression that it's being put forward as better. I don't think the likes of Susan Cain are saying that. Let's recognize instead that not everyone is the same, and that a Procrustean approach is stifling and counterproductive.

I'm sure that there are some people who want the pendulum to swing their way. That can serve a purpose of raising awareness, but should never come at the expense of stifling extroverts.
πfs: The Filesystem of the Future
YpVr=

Yank line, Paste below, Select line, Replace with ‘=’

Yank the current line, paste it below, replace all characters with ‘=’. Or in other words make a Markdown heading. You can replace ‘=’ with any other character.

Hey, nifty, I didn't know that.

Hey, wait, I do that every day, exactly like that, and have been doing it that way for years. I just don't think of it as YpVr=, I think "make an underline" and it happens.

This is why I like Vim so much, it seeps into my brain and I forget "how" to use it, and just use it.
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Web Operations Engineer (DevOps) at PipelineDeals (http://www.pipelinedeals.com)

Work at a well-established small company that’s almost 6 years old, bootstrapped, profitable, and proud! PipelineDeals LLC is looking for a full-time Operations Engineer to join our team. You will be in charge of managing all services running at PipelineDeals.com, from developer testbeds to the production infrastructure that tens of thousands of customers use. We need an individual to help build and maintain the supporting infrastructure, as well as ensure a top-notch experience for our customers.

Environment: We use leading-edge tech for our product -- Percona MySQL 5.5, Xtrabackup, Redis, Kiji-ruby, HAProxy, and Chef to manage it all. We are very progressive about our technology use and are always striving to deliver the fastest and most reloable experience for our customers. We believe strongly in metrics, testing, continuous integration, and working fluidly and harmoniously with our engineering and product teams. Everything we write is designed for simplicity and maintainability. We take security very, very seriously. All our code runs in the cloud (AWS).

You should have:

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- Advanced experience in systems administration, packaging and installer technologies.

- Experience with Amazon EC2 and the AWS stack (we use fun stuff like S3, ELB, ElastiCache, EBS, IAM).

- Experience with Chef, Puppet or another configuration management system (we use Chef).

- Experience administering MySQL and InnoDB deployments.

- Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Excellent organizational skills.

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- Have opinions on the right way to do things, and are comfortable sharing them, respectfully.

It would be great if you have any of the following:

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- Experience deploying and running build and test automation tools (we use Buildbot, Cucumber and Jasmime).

- Knowledge of web application server configuration (Nginx and Unicorn).

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OMGPOP CEO Lashes Out at Former Employee, But Why Are We Surprised?
I fail to pick up the relation. The Church Turing thesis is an unproveable statement arguing that a turing machine can compute every computable function. It also notes the equivalent ability in mu recursive functions and the lambda calculus.
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I have a full-time job doing .NET web development but I've really enjoyed learning Python & Django over the last few months and I'd like to get some more experience. If you are in need of a freelancer for junior-level Django work, please email me (in profile).
Not a fan of CurVe, had a look at it but decided to roll my own. :)
A friend of mine has just told me yesterday he had seen in a shop the new ultrabook Asus Zenbook and he's thinkin about buying it: http://zenbook.asus.com/zenbook/?c=original
The 13" model he has seen should be 1.1kg, 7hours battery and 1000euro (even thought the normal price should be 1200), so it's cheaper and lighter than a MBA 13".
Has anybody experience with this ultrabook? especially with linux?
Thanks -- that's what I was afraid of. Guess I need to dig up my old PC laptop and make it work.
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I've most recently been a fulltime Product Manager, but have put together remote contract design and engineering teams for early stage startups as well as 10 years experience of doing freelance frontend engineering (Javascript, jQuery, CSS HTML5), full stack dev work (Django, PHP), UX design and more.

There is a working contact form on my somewhat outdated site here: http://www.zenjiweb.com

(I'm recovering from a back injury at the moment, so I can meet w/ folks in NYC but can't work on-site for more than a few hours at a stretch.)
I think the lest keyword would better be used as a special exception block with only a single catch all exception handler.

I hope the user base isn't too large to prevent fixes like this.
I use a Lenovo X220 with an SSD and a 15" MBP (also with an SSD). They're both fantastic machines. The Lenovo lets me use Linux with pretty much perfect compatibility and has the best keyboard I've ever used. The MPB similarly has the best trackpad I've encountered. The main unexpected advantage of using OS X has been the presence of readline-style keyboard shortcuts at an OS mediated level (in any text field). Once you get used to that, using any other OS for incidental typing (in search fields or forms) feels slow.
App idea: Twitter client with a breathalyzer.
Thanks for the tips..

> Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread

No worries. :)
All of the major historical changes of worth in terms of law and procedure all arose from doing things that were socially judged wrong but in hindsight we see they were right.

I feel copyright is one of those. I want to see the individuals that make the creative digital goods I consume well compensated and happy, because they make amazing things. But simultaneously, I realize my duplication of that good costs no one anything except potential lost sales and fractions of a cent of electricity.
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http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/18233/senior-software-...
I hope we'll be getting rid of these april fools stories tomorrow?
With all due respect, I don't think you've offered any kind of explanation here.

Why is it more respectful to be dressed up if they are? You've simply restated that it is without explanation. What makes a polo shirt more respectful than a t-shirt?

You say there are reasons for the tradition, but you don't say what they are. Traditions may have reasons but they aren't automatically good so it would help the debate to actually know what you thought they were. Note that I didn't say anything to minimize the importance of tradition in general.

Nobody is disputing that people do treat each other differently because of how they dress. The question is, what's behind it?
Like attracts like?
My questions is of course - Why not Jekyll?

Is this just for people who have a JVM, but don't have ruby on their box, or are there significant advantages other than just the programming language and environment?
I often select PostgreSQL for my clients, generally strictly adhering to the relational paradigms and letting the web caching layer keeping out the performance problems. PostgreSQL installations I saw are almost never tuned, except few paramers like effective_cache_size and the use of a separate raid array for the transaction log.

Scaling I saw is done vertically : faster hardware, more memory, SSD in raid 10. One of my clients tried once an horizontal scaling (with C-JDBC) but reverted back and bought a monster hardware.
Thanks a lot for the valuable insights.
I don't think it matters what came first. CoffeeScript has had a great effect on hearts, and minds because you can use it. It matters that CoffeeScript exists because people can wrap there head around new concepts and ideas. Only once people really understand an idea can we determine if it's good, or bad.

Fat arrow is well understood in the JS community because of CoffeeScript, and that is one reason why people are pushing for fat arrow to be accepted. I personally think CoffeeScripts has had a very large impact on the idea.
NFY Interactive is a San Diego based web development firm seeking qualified candidates in the Pacific time zone for a fulltime remote position. You would be a part of a fast-paced, highly skilled company with projects in web development, content management systems, PHP framework development, API construction/consumption, and mobile applications.

We are seeking candidates with at least 2 years of experience developing in the commercial arena. Qualified candidates must have a solid grasp of the following:

- HTML5 and CSS3 with progressive enhancement

- LAMP Application Stacks and the Linux command line

- Object Oriented PHP Programming within a structured framework

- Basic MySQL database design and query writing

- Ability to work quickly and efficiently remotely, communicating via email/IM/video chat

Beneficial but not required:

- Custom CMS Sites

- Javascript Enhancement using jQuery and/or Prototype.js

- REST APIs (Creation and Consumption)

- Web Application Product Cycles (from design to launch and post-launch maintenance)

- Mobile web development

- Billing systems and payment gateways

- SMS

- QR Codes

We are looking for full-time candidates which are ready to go to work and can fulfill job tasks which are available now. This is a remote working position, so candidates must be capable of working from home and managing their own time. Ideally we would like applicants from the San Diego area, but will accept resumes from anyone in the Pacific time zone. If you are the right person for this job -- please send your resume/cv and examples (code, github or portfolio) to careers@netfinity.net, or apply on our website at http://netfinity.net/about/careers

Absolutely only United States - If you are an overseas development firm please do not contact us.

We also have an opening for a full-time iOS developer.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Seattle, WA, USA.

Looking for some side work as I build http://adventurous.io. I work mostly with Android and Grails with some experience with Backbone.js. My current work involves building Android apps with backend services built on Grails / JMS / PostgreSQL / PostGIS / EC2. I also have a sysadmin background and would love a chance to do any DevOps work (esp. with Puppet) or anything related to VoIP.

Resume and contact info in profile.
My thoughts exactly. My first hunch was: Pincus (CEO of Zynga) put him up to it (or called him out, "how did you ever hire this asshole?"), and Porter jumped at the chance to please his new boss.
New York, NY, Brooklyn

Hiring for tons of engineering positions (front and backend) as well as design, etc. see: http://www.etsy.com/careers

Etsy is the global handmade marketplace. Our mission is to empower people to change the way the global economy works. We see a world in which very-very small businesses have much-much more sway in shaping the economy, local living economies are thriving everywhere, and people value authorship and provenance as much as price and convenience. We are bringing heart to commerce and making the world more fair, more sustainable, and more fun.

My contact info is in my profile, feel free to contact me if you have any questions. http://www.etsy.com/careers
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Leisure-focused todo app. Looking for someone with experience with Scala, Lift, MongoDB to help with web and mobile (iOS, Android) development.

I'm in Paris, but remote ok. If interested email me at davideberretta //at// gmail com and we can chat
I suppose all the different firewire cables on my macs are a "feature" of apple's fast development.
Pierce said no such thing.

Frist, he said he wasn't joining because they wouldn't let him keep ownership of his prior work. They publicly announced that all developers were joining, forced him to make a decision quickly, and refused to negotiate. They in effect forced him out of his job. Him losing a game he built was not a "minor detail".

Second, he did not call Zynga evil because of that. His actual words: "When an entity exists in an ecosystem, and acts within that ecosystem in a way that is short-sighted, behaving in a way that is actively destructive to the healthy functioning of that ecosystem and the other entities in it (including, in the long term, themselves) -- yes, I believe that that is evil. And I believe that Zynga does exactly that."

Politeness and grace do not require you to bend over and take it. They do not require you to shut up when your conscience insists that you speak.
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The FBI, CIA and NSA already do this. Both domestically and internationally. American agencies have been reading UK email for years.
Latex: The fetish thing.

LaTeX: The typesetting / document preparation system and markup language. Pronounced: /ˈlɑːtɛk/

Just to throw in some facts :-)
Does this imply Linux is not an operating system?

Because it runs in the browser. See, for instance:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

or my own

http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/
Highgroove Studios (http://highgroove.com)

Atlanta, GA or Remote

Ruby and Ruby on Rails Developers

We focus on Back-end Ruby on Rails Development, using an Iterative/Agile process. Learn more about the position (http://highgroove.com/jobs) and check us out on github (http://github.com/highgroove).
New York (NYC)

Developer, Designer, or Developer Evangelist

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn to code. Since our launch in August 2011, more than 1 million people have started learning the basics of languages like JavaScript. We've raised more than $2.5m from Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, Ron Conway, and others, and we've built out an awesome team of 9 that's committed to changing the way education works.

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Email us at jobs (at) codecademy (dot) com or check out codecademy.com/jobs.
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Because an investor who thinks things like "just another hacker who doesn't understand the business aspect of a start-up" is likely to interfere with how a hacker-founder wants to run the company later.

In courtship, you should be grateful when the other person says something so egregious you could never stand to be with them. They just spared you a lot of trouble down the road.

Your view would make sense if founders didn't have a choice because all investors thought the same way. That's the world we used to live in, but not anymore.
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Come work on the most ambitious project of your life. Matygo is building the flipped classroom platform. We enable any person, school, or college to deliver provably better learning at scale by combining decades of research and the techniques Khan Academy and Udacity have popularized into an accessible web platform. The goal is to move forward how education is delivered around the world.

Having just closed a seed round with some top investors, we are looking to expand our founding team with first hires in Software Engineering and UI/UX design.

Core technologies: Scala, Sproutcore (and Ember.js)

We care a lot about team culture, great compensation, and inspiring workplaces. Learn more and see our openings: http://start.matygo.com/careers/

No remotes unless you are in San Francisco (we travel to SF quite often). Feel free to ping me directly with any questions: paul@matygo.com
Good work. Have you seen libevent, perhaps you can borrow some ideas.
My reply tweet:

>Loved Draw Something, saddened by your acquisition. Disgusted by your tweet Have deleted Draw Something. Will never use Zynga Games.
That is not an "oddball" waiver. Saying that creative people continue to own what they owned before they took the job is a common contract feature. I know we have that in the IP agreement that our developers sign -- anything they explicitly list as theirs continues to be theirs.
Thanks for the detailed response. I thought it might have been inspired from Haskell or Ruby, but was surprised to find out that C# has a similar syntactic feature. So I was curious if there was an "official" etymology. Sounds like an amalgamation of all of the above.
I recently went for a Dell XPS 17" with the monitor resolution upgrade (1920*1080). I bought an SSD separately. I wanted something to code on and screen resolution seemed like the most important thing for that.

I've been pretty happy with it, but I've never had another laptop, so I can't really compare.

It's reasonably weighty: I've walked half hour journeys with it, which makes my arm ache. You'll likely want a shoulder strap if you're going to be carrying it around a lot.

I also usually take a mouse along with me. While it's mainly for gaming, it's very helpful for coding as well. If you're a VIM or Emacs expert maybe you'll disagree.
It is awesome... When I read operating system I immediately started looking for processes and, lo and behold, there are processes [1]. And they work very intuitively too...

[1] https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/ECMAchine#processes
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there and relocated over there about a year ago and have been very happy with it. We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation / visa issues.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.
We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers. Everything we do is aimed at solving problems for our customers, if it doesn't help our customers we're not interested in doing it.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

(This is a repeat of my January post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413911) since it still applies, including the keyword "H1B" because while it's not in the US we'll similarly assist with the Dutch equivalent if relocation is needed)
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or you can get in touch with me directly, details in my profile.
I started having serious RSI symptoms at 19. I was on the computer probably 16 hours a day between my CS program, work, and rec time. My elbows became swollen and painful to the point I couldn't sleep. I took ibuprofen for a while to help, but eventually the amount it took to alleviate pain caused a mild overdose (2800mg in 24 hours is bad juju). Every doctor I went to see told me the same thing - you're going to have to get away from the keyboard. I was fairly certain I'd have to switch careers entirely.

The thing that made the difference for me was paying attention to how I treated my body. You can spend a lot of money to prevent RSI symptoms, but the most important things for me was an egg timer. I started taking 5 minute breaks every 45 minutes to stretch my hands and arms. Now I use AntiRSI (http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/) to do the same thing.

The most significant change to equipment was my chair and desk. I invested in a good chair that I could adjust easily - elbow height (and rotation) and seat height in particular. Being at the correct height and angle makes all the difference.

I bought a zero tension mouse (http://bit.ly/HAZYov), which seemed to help with my mousing hand, and had a MS Natural Keyboard at the time. I've since moved on to a kinesis that I like a lot.

Exercise also seems to help - I'm an active rock climber at this point, and it's helped my posture and arm strength.

To the general 'what if you lose function of your hands', I think there's hope. The most important things we do as programmers isn't typing. It's solving problems. If you can still do that and you can communicate those ideas effectively to others, you'll have a lot to offer.
What's New in HTML6?
Prior art from Palm, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTqa-0uea1w
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Software Engineer, Front-end Developer

Thumbtack is hiring awesome software engineers to transform the way services are bought and sold online. We're Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.

Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering. We have extensive benefits, including a in-house chef, a gorgeous office in SOMA, and money to spend on Thumbtack services every month.

Our delicious food culture was recently the top story on Inc.com.

Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

Or email chris at thumbtack with any questions.
I'm not talking about for the benefit of the company. I am talking about for the benefit of his fellow employees who took the deal. His article does not put them in the best light.