skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Rails Developers

Green River (http://greenriver.com) is looking for more developers to join our team. We're a Southern Vermont-based consultancy which was founded in 2000. We started writing production apps in Rails in '05 and have grown to a team of nine developers, two project managers, and a UX designer. We focus in the areas of Education, Health and the Environment. We have many great projects such as a scoring system Starbucks uses to facilitate the inspection of 90% of the farms they buy coffee from[1], an archive of all the LEED certified buildings in the world[2], and storytelling software for people with memory loss[3].

If these types of projects sound interesting, we'd love to hear from you. You'd have the option of either working out of our beautiful Vermont office overlooking the Connecticut River, joining our new Cambridge-based team, working remotely, or some combination thereof. Significant experience with Ruby & specifically Rails a huge plus, but if you have experience with other web technologies, still get in touch.

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[1]: http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/sourcing/coffee

[2]: http://gbig.org/

[3]: http://www.timeslips.org/
It's not that simple. PM is trying to profit by innovating, CL is trying to profit by maintaining a monopoly position. They're entitled (legally) to do that, but they're not entitled to do so without losing the goodwill that they rely on for customers to give them their listing for free.
I'm writing a parser and I noticed that my code turned out quite a bit simpler when I decided to rename a class to "Tokenized" rather than "Tokenizer".

In the case of C#, Java, et al, I think limiting the type system to “expressing allowable operations” is due to habit and custom rather than something intrinsic to language.

In my mind, the purpose of a computation is to create new/more structure so that, on the surface, your program ends up being a series of simple queries rather than a bunch of messy computations using complex algorithms. Classical OOP in which the constructor does the computation and the methods do the querying on the new encapsulated structure seems to be a good fit for that. This is subtly different than treating methods as allowable operations because we’re not concerned with transforming the structure, just asking easy questions about it. So in this way, OOP à la C# is very similar to FP à la Haskell.
San Francisco, CA - Android Engineer (Senior, Mid Level and/or Junior)

Doubledutch (doubledutch.me)

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Craig Newmark, the Principled Jerk
I believe your initial instincts were right. You offer one model and say "that's it." If demand takes off, just like the iPod, you start expanding into the premium and lower-end markets as you see fit.

There has to be a sweet spot for TV sales these days (32"? 37"?) and that's all they need to do. You then update the ATV puck to have the same internals and let customers know if they want a larger set, buy it on their own and use the puck.
Clearly people are still finding value on CL. Hacker News readers are in a demographic that views the internet and the web VERY differently from how people who do not create internet services for a living view them. We care about a completely other set of factors then they do.

We don't bookmark facebook.com we rely on the browser history, having typed it in to the address bar once. They use google to search for the link to the facebook login.

They hear that CL is the biggest site for classified ads, so they post there. They don't care that padmapper will put their apartment on a map, they don't care about other sites.

CL did the hard work of attracting the people to the marketplace. Padmapper is not doing any of that hard work. It is my opinion, if you're doing the hard work of building the community and attracting the users, then you'll agree with CL on this issue. If you're a repackager, then you'll side with padmapper.

If your business idea is "Some corner of Craigs List with a better UI" then by all means, build the UI and then convince people to GIVE you their data.
Ann Arbor, MI (or remote)

Looking for an amazing developer to join our small in-house team. You'd be working with me on client work (being the CTO and dev team for startups), internal projects, open-source projects, and even your own side projects. If you want to check out some of our existing open-source projects, see http://os.alfajango.com.

I have a pretty good network of developers, and so I usually just work with people I know, but I like the HN crew, so I figured I'd put this out there.

Requirements:

An unbridled, unfettered, bursting passion for learning, building, startups, and open-source. This doesn't necessarily mean you already have your own open-source projects or side projects or whatever, though it helps.

We use mainly ruby and javascript (front-end and back-end) and git, but we also like experimenting and welcome new experiences.

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Ha, no. Just shoot me an email (in my profile) and we'll talk.
How come I can't find this job on http://hockeyjobs.nhl.com/teamwork/jobs/jobskey.cfm?s=unix
Not really. Astronomy generates nearly endless amounts of data (although they are no longer likely targets of haressment) and the other groups would be posting plenty of video (mostly recordings of police stops, howtos, etc).

And while 16 year old sexting would be considered cp I highly doubt they would be uploading it to any such networ, if only because they don't want others to see them.
I have used high and low-res VR and stereoscopic devices. It's not really that bad using a low-res one, latency is a much bigger factor. High latency causes motion sickness and overall crappy response/experience. That said, 1280x800 is actually pretty decent, and allows for high frame rates (try rendering even 1080p in stereoscopic mode at 60 fps -- not an easy feat.
Is this relevant in this site? It's not related to Apple... please kill it soon...
Ensighten

Location: Cupertino, CA (or remote)
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Multiple full time positions (http://ensighten.com/company/careers)

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Internet Marketing Illuminati Exposed - John Divramis Internet Business Blog
He's acting like a total douchebag (Craig).
We're talking about Digg doing this as a differentiation. It is not commonly used because it is very heavy in IO and CPU for individual users (though a site like reddit could take a shortcut just by periodically ramping up some spot high CPU instances and batch generation correlations between users on every subreddit, then staling that until the next run), and sites like Reddit and previously Digg ran on stacks that greatly limited their ability to scale for this.

Regarding music taste, if the system knows that you have a strong correlation with a number of users who like classical but periodically explore new music, what they like will likely be something you might be interested in. This, in practice, is exactly how music discovery happens in the real world (that the discoveries of the people you share musical tastes with are more likely to interest you).
TribeHR raises $2.5M in funding from Matrix Partners, Relay Ventures
Agreed wholeheartedly. The customer is often wrong, stupid, and has no idea what they want.

Harsh words but they ring true.
Is it that simple? If the license that those sites have is invalid - and it would be - then they're committing copyright infringement, and CL has an explicit license to go after those.
“…companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”

I can get behind most of that, except for this bit:

"If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial".

I don't buy it. This smacks of "if you build it they will come." You still have to get the word out to your customers that you have this amazing product, and/or you still have to get your customers to come looking for you (top of mind awareness, etc). Sure, it's easier to market if your product is awesome, but an awesome product isn't going to market itself (some specific scenarios related to viral marketing aside).

I certainly won't argue against trying to build kick-ass, awesome products (we're doing so at Fogbeam Labs!) but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of marketing strategy and a wide variety of tactical marketing initiatives.

Maybe it's not as simple as "best marketing wins", but we know the best product doesn't always win either.
How many Kickstarter projects have actually shipped a finished product?

A serious question, not a jab. It seems "success" in the world of Kickstarter is defined by achieving a funding goal, not necessarily producing anything.

I'm very tempted to sign on for this one, but I've already kicked into a handful of projects, none of which are anywhere near shipping or this price.
This billionaire wants to use dinosaur DNA to build a real-life Jurassic Park
Understanding and Protecting Your Computer from Infections.
Kind of a no-brainer, when you're trying to circumvent your population's security and break its encryption, to attempt to buy off people with related skills.
Zapier (YC S12), The IFTTT For Business Users, Launches Developer Platform
> no one is complaining about low presence of men in female-dominated industries.

Do you actually know that?
Thanks for the info. So it's about the same resolution as the current generation of existing video headsets, but with a much wider field of view.
I'm tired of having this argument over and over again, so let's approach this Javascript issue from a different angle:

It is bad practice to couple content (the "what") with functionality (the "how"). The content itself should not depend on how it is displayed. From an engineering standpoint, this makes your code unmanageable and unmaintainable in the long run. These stupid shortcuts of forcing users to have Javascript on just to display content only cause me minor inconvenience, but it will cause you much more harm when it's maintenance or upgrade time.

But you or everyone else on the JS bandwagon don't need to listen to me - I'll "temporarily allow" only the minimal amount of scripts on your page to see what I want to see and I will move on. You will need to live with this code during the next update cycle.
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Interesting point, I believe PadLister can simultaniously post to CL and PM, which may now violate this as well.
Don't worry, Palmer Luckey has already stated that higher resolution is a top priority for the next version, and it's definitely achievable. The small high-resolution and low-latency display panels necessary are just starting to become more available. The race for retina displays in phones is helping a lot there.
Wouldn't that still be a derivative work? I know the AP considers it so.
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Our first title is a cooperative multiplayer 3D action-RPG. Think Diablo on Facebook. But free-to-play, and no big download. No obscure plugins, either -- we use Flash, but you wouldn't believe it. Adobe says they've never seen anything higher quality in Flash.

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We're in closed beta. Let me know if you want to give it a test drive.

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That wasn't so hard to avoid the guaranteed s*storm that would obviously emerge from claiming one sex was smarter than the other.

Also, taking discussions seriously is exactly the reason why I come to HN. I'm sure I'm not alone.

That being said, those two links where interesting although they left me with even more questions than when I began. On one hand it's claimed that

"The mean IQ scores between men and women vary little."
then
"gender differences tended to disappear on tests for which there was a male advantage and to magnify on tests for which there was a female advantage"
then
"These tests have been complied over the years so there is no sex difference."
but then oops,
"some researchers have concluded that men have slightly higher IQ scores than women"

I'll blame that on Wikipedia I guess.

To be fair, the research of the second link seemed a lot more serious. I'm no IQ scientist so I won't try to guess things I don't fully understand but it was a good read.
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Multiple Locations including:
San Francisco, CA
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Non engineering positions also in China, Korea, Santa Barbara, Chicago, Los Angeles etc.

We sponsor H1B.
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They do complain about it, they just don't do it on Hacker News! My wife teaches preschool at Stanford's Laboratory School and they often talk about the teacher gender gap and what they can do about it, especially at young-children education conferences and the like.
Lucidchart - Salt Lake City, UT

Lucidchart is a rapidly growing tech startup looking for great backend software engineers to join us at our headquarters in Utah. At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications requiring highly available, secure and scalable backend services. Talent and ability to learn are more important than years of experience.

You may have seen Lucidchart demoed during the second Google I/O 2012 keynote: http://t.co/sd6GgZvy

We're hiring BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, PHP, MongoDB and MySQL. At Lucidchart, your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly reliable and scalable.

Requirements: * Talent

Recommended experience: * Have built large products / applications * Scala or Java * PHP * MySQL or other relational database * NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially desirable) * Opscode Chef or Puppet * Cloud computing (AWS)

We're also hiring FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. We build killer graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. Lucidchart is powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet, optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements: * Talent

Recommended experience: * Have built large products / applications * Javascript * Google Closure compiler/library * CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation * jQuery * node.js * Native app development on Android and/or iOS * Facebook APIs

All applicants email resumes to jobs@lucidchart.com.
What data does HN keep on you? Also I fully agree with non-revocable licenses for discussion forums. Having all of someone's postings disappear because they leave in huff is damaging to the site.
1. google twitter and facebook - would be enough for me.
2. when we talk about security things I hope it will be fixed anyway. I hope.
Yep, it was a license purchase, sorta (I was in batch 2). From their website at the time: "you’ll be able to purchase the limited version of Phusion Passenger Enterprise Edition for the price that you think that it’s worth. Get it while supplies last." Followed by a big green button saying "BUY ENTERPRISE LICENSE TODAY".

BUT, right below that it said: Actually this is really a donation. The "enterprise" name is just a joke.

Wayback Machine Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20081210192914/http://www.modrail...

edit: removed some asterisks that were causing a display issue.
I think it's because men working in female dominated industries don't think of it as an injustice that requires an organised social movement to set right. They do what they want to do and just don't give a monkey's. Much like all the female programmers I know.

It's just the blog-people I ever hear raising this issue.