skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Miami, FL

Senzari.com - we are looking for REMOTE or ideally local candidates that want to disrupt the music industry and build the next big thing in music. We are working on a very exciting graph-based music platform and would love to hear from competent Java or Python developers.

We have two openings on our team at the moment - the first is for somebody that knows big data inside and out, preferably with a solid CS background and lots of experience with Hadoop/Cassandra and Java. The primary responsibility for this position will be to improve our recommendation engine and to help improve the overall quality of our platform. Experience with graph-based systems is a big plus.

The second opening is for Python/Javascript, and we are ideally looking for somebody that is really good with both. We are using coffeescript and backbone for our front-end, with Django for the REST api. Most of the data in postgres and some in Mongo. Experience building scalable sites is a must, and experience with polyglot persistence and distributed systems architecture is a big plus.

You will join a closely knit team that has been flying under the radar with this product for 1 year already and it is starting to pick up a lot of steam. We are very well funded and have great strategic partners (VH1, MTV). As far as culture, we are very pragmatic when it comes to technology and we are obviously very passionate about music.

Our compensation is competitive, excellent benefits, and of course we offer stock options. As if that wasn't enough we also get you setup with great hardware to build cool stuff on, with lots of free lunches and an absolutely gorgeous view from our office in Brickell Key, Miami.

Send an email to ctoivola @ our domain - would love to hear from anybody who is interested.
For what its worth, that line is clearly hyperbole.
Passbook Python library released
gsieling@wingspan.com
I agree, the Slashdot comment system really excels at high amounts of comments.
I'd assume it means that they don't give you a set number of vacation days, but instead trust you to take vacations when you want, for how long you want, as long as you're not taking unfair advantage of their policy.
Netflix

Los Gatos, CA

I'm still looking for SREs who want to help me run the biggest subscription internet video service on the planet with better reliability than the cable providers.

If you're interested mail talent@netflix.com and tell them you saw my post on Hacker News.

Here's the official job link: http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=NFX00315
I doubt I have the need to customize GMail to justify doing this amount of work...but this was a very well put-together guide that goes beyond just "how-to-replace-Sparrow" to showing the underpinnings of how e-mail works and the thought process behind a hacked-together interface and service. I'm bookmarking this as an example of a thoroughly useful and informative guide. Thanks for making this.
What's wrong with men in nursing? Or are they just half men, a bunch of fairies for doing 'women's work'?
His stuff is amazing. A ray marching ASCII obfuscated C thing is on my to do list.
What sort of barriers?
Most of this seems to come down to "Women feel uncomfortable in tech because there are too many men" which of course prevents there from being more Women in tech.

It's also possible that some of the pressure comes from other women , not just men. A woman might be considered weird by other women for wanting to hang around in an environment dominated by geeky men.

I know tech women who have been called dykes by their female pier group in the same way male nurses might be accused of being gay.
I'm aware of plenty of other phones having this. The thing is android seems to accept all their user feedback or something and their phone ends up looking and running like a cobbled together piece of garbage, seriously I try out the BEST droid phone when it comes out and its laggy where I can't even use it.. kind of ridiculous. Things aren't organized well, etc.

Any time my friend hands me his droid phone to text while hes driving its just a mess.

I'll stick with iphone. Theres a reason it takes features longer to get there I think, its because they actually need to really make sure they 'fit in' in really smooth cohesive way. if they just accepted every single suggestion or feedback from customers it would be just as cluttered as droid
Gamers? Why are they heavy users of the decimal module?
Antivaccine versus anti-GMO: Different goals, same methods
Go with sponsored search, its way more above board, people recognize it from Google and its easy to integrate into the search results (usually). That way you get commissions from people who book, you get money from people bidding on ads, and hopefully you can get commissions as a travel agent when people click through an ad.
Some tips for setting up an iPad development environment here: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
ClassDojo

FULLTIME or INTERN in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by over 4mm teachers and students to manage behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup with $1.6mm in funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. Paul Graham invested in us, but we didn't do YC.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/

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Or email jobs@classdojo.com. You can read about the work and environment here: http://www.classdojo.com/jobs

We are looking for:

* Full Stack Engineer

* Front-end Engineer

If you think you're a good developer but don't fit into those buckets, get in touch anyway.
People always complain that there aren't enough women in tech fields, yet no one ever complains about there not being enough men in, say, fashion. I've always found this odd.
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code that ties us in to financial markets.

We are a very small team (I am the only employee). We will add one or two engineers to our team in the coming months and are looking for people who will focus on strategy or on infrastructure.

No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

More details at http://amacapital.net/careers.html
Ask HN: Review This Week In Domains
I recently started a weekly newsletter that sends out the best curated content about domains. What do you guys think about it? All feedback is Welcome.

http://www.thisweekindomains.com/
Appeals to history are silly aswell because the whole industry. Software has less history than Coca Cola!

I mean, traditionally, there were less than 100 programmers world wide. No-one has any problem with ignoring that.
Dialing back the cleverness
Here is a clickable link, http://www.thisweekindomains.com/
Working remote is always a grey area. We reasoned that since we were not taking up employment in Brazil or being paid by a Brazilian entity, we didn't need work visas. The primary purpose of our trip arguably was tourism, so we all got tourist visas. I would probably not broach the subject with the embassy, though.
What are the barriers exactly?

Programming is about most gender-agnostic industries there are: there's no heavy lifting of anything (except figuratively speaking) and you don't need to deal with that many people so it doesn't basically matter if you're a man, woman, or an alien.

It certainly is that programming isn't for everyone, men included, and the current bias seems to signal that significantly more men are interested in programming as a career than women.

The heavy use of logic is a masculine trait which might contribute to the outcome in the case of programming, but similarly the heavy use of aesthetics and social interaction in cosmetology is a feminine trait which might contribute to the outcome of the gender distribution for that vocation.

You can bring the horse down to the water but you can't make her (or him) drink.
'Net pioneer Kleinrock still out on cutting edge
I think part of it is that sites want email addresses for their users.

Making the email address part of the protocol lowers the bar for sites to join the ecosystem.
My thoughts are that a logical change will be a smartphone that without peripherals will be just what a smartphone is today. I also think that we will have a "station" that is a monitor, keyboard, and mouse that all wirelessly connect to the portable device when it is in the near vicinity and is turned to "computer mode". All the extra data storage that towers have will be wirelessly linked in a base home server that sits on the desk next to the other peripherals.

I love a desktop because it is a stationary place I can always count on, but as soon as that becomes more easily replaced and can still run games and media editing at the same scale, I will keep my desktop
Growing body of research? Most, if not all, of this stuff was determined decades ago, circadian rhythms are far from a new idea. This is a lazy rehash of some of the more respectable findings from the scientific end of 60s/70s new-ageism.
1. Causation (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-...)

2. The Boardman Tasker Omnibus (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boardman-Tasker-Omnibus-Peter/dp/189...)
> The UI of reddit ... was so superior

You can't be serious. Reddit is horrible to get around and horrible to read. It looks like a mass of disorganized text. Slashdot is far easier to understand how the flow of comments go and what is a new story and what isn't.

I can't find anything on Reddit.
I don't really see why a dislike of hospitals, excrement, and old people would hold women back from working in the tech industry?
vi/vim allow you to use the arrow keys for navigation if you want to. The choice is yours. I prefer keeping my fingers on the home row, and so I find hjkl to be much more efficient, especially on a laptop where the arrow keys aren't usually physically separated from the rest of the keys.
Password/hash thefts have been happening for as long as there have been systems with passwords. What changed recently is that we now have centralized services with huge numbers of important accounts. There are more service with large number of accounts and more services that affect multiple aspects of your digital life. When someone steals hashes from those, the press and people are more likely to notice.

I think most people overemphasize the importance of the particular authentication scheme used and overlook the problems created by extreme centralization of stuff.
There was probably triumphalism because in nearly all large arenas the lines for the women's room are routinely much longer than those for the men's room. So for the men at Strange Loop not having to wait was normal, but for the women at the NKOTB concert it was a highly unusual, pleasant surprise.

No, I don't have statistics to prove this, but it's been the case throughout my 30+ year life living in various places throughout the US. The only time there's typically a longer men's room line in my life is at tech gathering, and it's usually still not the kind of wait where people give up, as often happens to women I know.
Whoosh Traffic

Austin, TX

Full-time Python web application developer needed.

http://whooshtraffic.com/careers/
It's unfortunate vi uses arrow keys are in a non-intuitive layout. Still - it is a good idea to steer users away from arrows, inclduing to disable them in default files if you're mentoring.

If you introduce new users to vi on a keyboard that supports arrow navigation in insert mode, they're likely to build a habit of navigating around in insert mode, a very bad habit to have.

Transactional interaction is fundamental to becoming adept with vi. Modal editing is such a good thing that vi has remained part of the unix canon, despite all of the things that are wrong with it (not least of all - unintuitive arrows).

It's unfortunate that there's no block of unused letters in the vi keylayout - nowhere to put an asdw directional layout with harming key functions.
The Immortality Paradox
You have just used the "Tone Argument" which derails the argument. It's a common response (it's in Derailing for Dummies http://www.derailingfordummies.com/complete.html#angry ). Please try to stay on topic.
Example from the article: at a conference, the audience thought the author is a recruiter because she's a woman.
http://my.ya.ru/
But it never actually took off.
It's an easier point to address that than talk about endemic sexism in tech.
Am I getting this right, that there is no attempts what-so-ever to monetize the series? Well, if the only intention of the series is "to get the word out" that Jerry Seinfeld is still around, then it is definitely a success.

At one of Seinfeld's Late Night Show appearances, the way he described the process, seemed as if he had a full professional crew, cutting and editing working on that project. Somehow I am not really surprised, that a professionally produced show, with a decent hook (cars/coffee), well known guests and an entertaining host - that doesn't need to be profitable - is successful on the internet.
Ticket Evolution

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey; Postion: Ruby/JavaScript/Erlang Engineers; Email: rsosinski@ticketevolution.com

Ticket Evolution builds software and services that handles the real-time execution, clearing and settlement of event ticket trades. If you ever purchased a ticket to a sports game online or called a broker for seats to a concert, chances are our system was used somewhere in between. We recently closed a Series-A round and launched our newest partner cheaptickets.com.

We use Ruby on Rails, JavaScript with BackBone and Knockout, and PostgreSQL day-to-day. We are also starting to dive into Erlang and Riak and are looking for engineers who are comfortable getting out of their comfort-zone. Besides working on challenging problems, we also sport a 40-hour work week, have a laid-back office, and pay market salary along with equity and health insurance.

If you are intersted in learning more, email me directly at rsosinski@ticketevolution.com
The efficient way to do this is probably to setup multiple machines in parallel.

My line of thinking is that you go out and buy three identical machines.

Spend the two days messing with everything and get a laptop just the way to like it.

Make a disk image of the first machine and write it to the other two.

When something in the machine breaks, open one of the spares and restore work files from backup. For me this would take less than an hour.

When you get to the last laptop buy three new ones.

If it takes you two days to do this initial setup you should have to do that fewer than once every three years or so.
I continue to use 'hjkl' to navigate in vi(m) because using the arrow keys requires me to move my whole arm. This is an awkward movement that requires time for my fingers to find the arrow keys. When using 'hjkl' to navigate, my right hand is always on home row, ready to either navigate or start typing. When typing in non-vi text boxes (such as this one), I do this movement, but I don't like it.

I do have an inefficiency: I move my hand for the escape key (which I should remap to caps lock, but I've never gotten around to it in the past decade), but I pivot at the elbow. It's far less awkward.
Startup Accelerators, UK, Europe, France, Germany, Spain - updated July 2012
How many fashion publications and forums do you read a day?
Amazing. It reminds me of the Scanner Darkly movie - I really enjoyed the way it was done, but haven't seen any other movies done that way. It's pretty unique.
Because if there were more women in programming I might not have to deal with people doing a double take as they walk into my office and saying 'oh I expected you to be a guy!'
"Another Day of Life" by Riszard Kapuscinski and "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer.
You're using the "Tone Argument" derailing technique: http://www.derailingfordummies.com/complete.html#angry

Try to see what she's angry about first. Sometimes people are angry at what they think are gross injustices. Maybe she has a point.
Scribd - San Francisco, H1B, INTERN are welcome
Scribd (social publishing, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've now hired FOUR people from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month, and one the month before ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

☆ Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

☆ Javascript (we use coffeescript)

☆ iOS or Android

☆ Machine Learning / Data mining kinds of problems

☆ Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, analytics

☆ Devops / building infrastructure and scaling the site

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We're looking for full-time and intern hires (junior year or older). Visas and relocation are no problem. See more at scribd.com/jobs. Most jobs are onsite in SF only (with relo), but for devops roles we do hire REMOTE.

Feel free to apply by emailing me directly: jared at scribd.com. I'm one of the founding engineers here and I love meeting other hackers!
New Relic, Portland, OR/San Francisco, CA/Seattle, WA

New Relic is looking for several developers to work on our world-class application monitoring product. If you have experience in Ruby, C, Java, Android, or Objective-C, you should check us out.

We’re a very fast growing pre-IPO start-up and we care about our culture.

We value:

* Work/Life Balance

* Respect

* Engineer Code Ownership

* Experimentation

Check out http://newrelic.com/about/jobs for more details.
The 2-3 year wait on getting a patent issued can be an eternity in software while a competitor has ripped you off soon after you released. Anyone who has been in that case would gladly trade a term of half the length for a granting that took place twice as quickly.

I think software needs a new kind of protection, that issues faster, makes it easier for other people to search, and expires sooner.
USA: New York, NY

VP of Product and Product Manager openings are going to be publicized soon. In the mean while, please reach out to me directly if you're interested and feel qualified for such work. I can be reached via: eugene(dot)radin(at)maxifier(dot)com

Here's a bit about our company:
Maxifier provides unrivalled technology and services to enable media companies to unlock, harness and maximize the value of their total inventory.

Headquartered in New York, with offices in the UK, Japan, and Russia, Maxifier has managed more than 70 billion impressions for leading publishers and media companies, empowering them to deliver maximum value and ROI for their clients.

Thanks,
Eugene
To be perfectly clear, I am not saying that conferences are sexist. I'm not denying it either, but I'm trying to make a slightly different point, which is that when a group is overwhelmingly underrepresented, members of that group might fear that they will feel uncomfortable if they join.

I can't really speak for women (for that matter, in 1965 I was too busy potty training to join any golf clubs). But I do wonder whether a certain number of them might look at the industry and shy away even if they haven't been personally exposed to any hostility or overt discouragement.

Just a conjecture, I am not speaking from data or anecdotes.
Comment to Win Brilliant “A Studio Life” Posters
Oh, come off it. It's not in the least hard to understand what she's talking about, and it's objectively no worse than any other self-indulgent post that gets fawned over here. Come back when you have a critique grounded in content rather than form.
It's never far into an argument about big power taking more when blind defenders revert to the tried and true classic, BLAME THE VICTIMS.
Even without the "temper tantrum" sentances, people would find something else to disagree with.

These debates are often not logical or rational.
Same here... 31494, and I completely stopped reading Slashdot right around the time I discovered reddit.

What did it for me was the much higher volume of stories on reddit. So much of the time, I just didn't care about the Slashdot front page. This is still true on reddit, but at least with more stories there's a better chance of a decent hit rate.

That said, even reddit is getting less interesting these days.
It was constructive because she then to do something constructive about it.

Compare and contrast to the story about John Orwant throwing his mug at a wall at a Perl conference - and single handedly inspiring the start of the Perl 6 project.

But then that's ok. He's a guy.
The biggest problem with Mozilla's Persona is the branding of it. Until they are able to get a handle on the branding-related issues, it can't get off the ground:

* Logo is ambiguous and looks like a generic button

* "Mozilla" in the name instantly steers away other browsers

We've implemented it on LinkUp (https://www.linkup.com/account/), love the technology, and REALLY hope the adoption of it takes off - but until I can explain it to a user in 2 sentences, it won't claim the throne.
Landing Page For Campaign Against Upcoming App. What do you think?
Hey guys,

there is going to be an app that I am going to proceed against.
This is the campaign's landing page I came up with.

What do you think?

http://s12.postimage.org/6q91cex9p/landing_page.jpg

Cheers,

stopmana
I stopped reading /. long ago due to the embellished story descriptions tacked onto the submissions. They are very judgemental, trollish, and became too trite for me to read any longer. As others here have mentioned, /. has some serious groupthink, and it is visible via the predictable submission summaries.
Happy 15th birthday from user #872. Back when Rob Malda started you, it was such a thrill to read the posts of far-flung techies whose interests went beyond what the real "tech news" press was covering. It's almost painful to go back now and read what has become of you. There are only so many racist trolls one can encounter before it ruins the whole experience.
I like the idea but I am not familiar with dynamic columns in maria. Is it possible to query dynamic columns in a way that map to a column slicing operation in cassandra?
One thing I find weird is that it doesn't display the full URL in the URL bar, only the domain and the page title.
Yuck. Different strokes, I suppose.
Braintree launches instant underwriting
For work: Quine's Word and Object; Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language; Plato's Republic; and paper after paper. (I am a philosophy graduate student.)

For pleasure: just started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Even the PDF is Foxit which means it is nearly the same as Chrome except for the UI.
I don't really see how that is a barrier to entry.
I did with my kindle, until I rolled over one night. The screen has such a pretty pattern on it now. All the time.

Now I read my kindle books on my phone.