skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco ~50% remote

I'm currently working full-time in SF and want to transition to part-time freelancing (20-30 hrs.) so I can work on my own projects. I'm ready to take the plunge for the right customer and opportunity. I am open to on-site work in SF with the freedom to work from home >= 50% of the time.

I have 12 years experience in web development and my preferred toolset includes Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Ember.js, jQuery, Git, Github, TDD, Rspec, Jasmine, Gimp, SASS, HAML, Heroku, AWS, and Apache Cordova (Phonegap)... I've launched 5 websites / solo startups and one mobile app where I did 100% of the design and development. I also worked with Pivotal Labs for 6 months and have the same philosophy on TDD, agile and quality.

I'm not posting my normal account details because I already have every recruiter in SF spamming me. Please don't contact me if you are a recruiter or for positions that require travel, are full-time or require 100% on-site.

Email me at sf.web.developer@gmail.com and I will send you all of my info.
FreeAgent | Full-Time | Edinburgh, Scotland

We're looking for Rubyists to come and work on our high-volume, much-loved app. We have an amazing team, great office with perks and we're situated in OFFICIALLY the UK's best place to live! -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/sep/29/travel-awards-2...

More info over on our site:

http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/ruby-engineer
I tried logging in to OpenPhoto with my Gmail address, and there's my profile photo pulled from my Google account. How can I be sure no tracks were created in the process of getting that image?
The problem I have with Image Sliders is that it is often unclear how you "backtrack" to an offer or ad you like. Then you end up clicking on something you don't want. It's an annoying experience.
Also flagged. Getting sick of the drama created by these anti-apple people. Maybe try to pick a more important cause?
What do you think about teleportation?
Honest answer, you're derailing.
Also, you can't have fingers on all four arrow keys at once, while you can with hjkl. It's not only more ergonomic in the sense that you move your arm less, but also because you move your fingers less.
Braintree - Menlo Park, CA or Chicago, IL

FULL TIME Developers, Designers, Security Engineers, System Engineers, Data Engineers

Braintree helps businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage. We're unlike others in the industry; we think and do things differently.

Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, scaling, security), and our team has 10% time to work on whatever they want. Developers use and love our product. Although we mostly work with Ruby, we also work with Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, .NET, Perl, and Objective-C

More about our people, practices, and software: http://www.braintreepayments.com/devblog

Apply at http://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-careers
Transcriptic: Core Developer or Automation Engineer

Menlo Park, CA

Transcriptic is the "Amazon Web Services" for life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

We're looking for highly talented full-stack web developers as well as combined background EE/CS engineers for automation integration and development. Experience reverse engineering USB based protocols is a plus.

We're a very small startup (you'd be #5), but well funded and have customers. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a really small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people. The codebase is mostly Ruby and Scala, with some Python.

max at transcriptic.com

https://www.transcriptic.com/
Vestorly is looking for lead engineer to join us in our NYC office.

Vestorly is a community to find a leading investment advisor through the people that you know and trust. We are disrupting the mindless flow of millions of people's investments to Wall Street brokers who do not have their client’s best interests in mind. Vestorly already has real users and real revenue after just 5 months since launch.

About You:
- You want to join a startup in a lead engineering position.
- You are more than just a “coder” you have some level of product/business sensibility.
- You have experience with web architecture design, RESTful architectural principles, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, TDD.
- You are active and fun to be around.

To apply send us an email to: hello [at] vestorly [dot] com
I don't consider you being normal. Most that do speak English don't understand programming. You're more likely to be the exception to the rule.
Well...

1. I didn't get the feeling that the author was claiming (here) that hjkl was so awesome, just saying, "hey, have you ever wondered why hjkl and ~home and esc key? Well, this is why."

2. It turns out that some of these original design decisions, made on systems with much more limited capabilities, are really efficient. HJKL, if you are used to it, is an order of magnitude faster than arrow key navigation when typing, because every time you want to use arrow keys you have to move your hand.

On the other hand, ~ being HOME is just historical cruft, as you say, and using the ESC key to exit insert mode is worse -- historical cruft that actually is worse and slows us down compared to, for example, using CAPSLOCK as many do instead.
You're not going to get hired if people think you're not there to get hired.
This isn't a new thing. One thing I did at Enron was to try and figure out the construction status of power plants being built I read a lot of small local newspapers, city council minutes, looked for job listing, and called subcontractors etc. The fun side of trading involves getting a view of the market which is beyond newspaper articles and reports.
In Safari, you have to enable Developer mode and then turn on WebGL. In iOS, WebGL is only available in iAds. WebGL is certainly a threat to Apple's marketplace, but it's also an essential component of HTML5. Hence my prediction that they will have to come around.
Do you guys use remote contractors?

*I am a Python/Django dev, temporarly(~2 more years) in Lima Peru and very familiar with the healthcare domain space.
Great idea, but many practical problems. Hope it's possible one day (preferably before I expire).
Ego-Driven Development
I personally like working that way, but I think I might split it out so that dropping an object only takes deleting one line from a file and not dozens :)
Top 5 Games For The New iPhone 5
One of the main characteristics of iPhone 5 is definitely the largest screen size, combined with a more powerful hardware, ensures better and more immerse gaming experience.
Guidebook is hiring Python+Django, Android, iOS Developers, and Designers
FULLTIME in Palo Alto, CA (we may open an SF office soon as well)

Guidebook makes a mobile app that helps people find their way around complex venues and events. You may have used our app at a show like PyCon, PAX, UDC, etc. We're also now beginning to publish guides to places where there is a lot going on like Universities, museums, etc.

http://guidebook.com/jobs/

More contact info for me is in my profile..
Agreed, beyond the issues the article points out I'm constantly going through this inane checklist if I think I saw something I liked.

Starts like this: Wait did that just say "..."? Let me go back

Then I look for thumbnails, then BIG next / prev arrows, then small ones, then little squares in the corner, then those microscopic circles, then if I still can't find it I just inspect the page.
Slides and video from Spike Brehm's tech talk: Building Single-Page Apps
Just started "The Connected Company" by Dave Gray.
for those on linux, here's a simple .mailcap that i use:

text/html; w3m -M -T text/html %s
image/*; feh -F %s
application/pdf; okular %s
application/msword; oowriter %s

(i also use procmail, with procmail-lib, to filter into monthly mailboxes, and the wonderful mairix http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ to provide fast search. in fact, for me, mairix is the most important part of all this if you want useful, fast email - but i haven't used notmuch so can't compare)
Kinect 3D Hand scanner
How Can You Make SEO Affordable?
Great!

One issue: on my Macs I've bound ALT + left/right (aka OPTION left/right) to change virtual desktops.

I unbound those keys so that I could try out your new feature, and it works great...very cool.

Not sure what you can do for guys like me who are in the habit of already using those keys. Also not sure what I can do.

I expect it will not be easy for you to provide a good way for me to customize my Flowplayer keys.

So, I wonder if it would make sense to provide a Flowplayer alternative to alt-left/right that users would be unlikely to remap. Ideas: +-, <>, []

What do you think?
You could potentially store them inside/along with a virtual machine image which would be capable of rendering them, and then document the crap out of the VM (which would require as few, and as simple, external interfaces as possible), such that it could be easily re-created/ported to future OSes.

I think quite a few places where continuity over decade timescales (especially in the embedded world) are storing VM images with the exact versions of various parts of the toolchain they use, to ensure compatibility.

And of course, there's plenty of precedent with things like the Hercules IBM mainframe emulator[1], as well as things like VMWare, Bochs, QEMU, etc.

I think I've come across old DOS games being re-released wrapped with dosbox or something similar as a compat layer for modern OSes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_%28emulator%29
Rails Rumble: Registration now open.
How blanket handled a Twitter hijacking
Thanks. I also found this, which I think I'll try: http://www.surdeanu.name/mihai/swirl/
For a framework it might be a nicer option, so that you can drop a module by only deleting the include reference rather than permanently deleting dozens of lines. Perhaps. It’s largely down to taste I imagine :)
I've read some of the comments below and it seems there's some form of consensus that Node shines for the websocket.io portion of the web stack. So likely real use cases for NodeJS will using it in conjunction with your regular website?
"(I think he wanted rid of "www." at the start of URLs too)"

I am rather surprised the "web." movement never really took off to replace "www.".

Just glad folks no longer include the "http..." part when saying URLs now on radio and tv, and are less likely to say "www." too.
Molly Fyde series from Hugh Howey. Loved his WOOL books, so giving this series a go. Like it a lot.

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas - just started this, and enjoying it so far.
What are the barriers exactly?

The heavy use of logic is a masculine trait ...

OK, this is Poe's Law territory. You're trolling us, right? Because otherwise you just wondered aloud what possible barriers there could be to women joining our field and then exposed yourself as one of them.
Simple Social Analytics for Facebook Pages.
You need to be more specific. What do you think about the color green? How about the number three?
There is no way to make that assumption irrelevant. In absolutely no way is programming a perfect meritocracy, and social factors come into play just as much as any field. If the pervading attitude is "men are inherently better at this task," why would a woman want to enter the field?

Besides, if programming ability could be accurately quantified, there wouldn't be a constant stream of articles on how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff when hiring.
I've noticed that top comments on HN are frequently meta (about the article's writing or author, not the article content) or flat-out disagree with it more often than on Slashdot. Readers here also tend to actually RTFA much more often before commenting.
>But then that's ok. He's a guy.

Yeah that was obviously the implication. A guy tossing a fit in the bathroom would be just as randomly nonconstructive.
> Applicants would have to prove they had a UK presence and pay a higher fee.

HAHAHAHAHA yeah no thanks, I'll stick with my .com
Rather than using your gmail password with offlinemap, albeit protected by keychain, I suggest creating an application specific password for offlinemap. See
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=1858.... This is actually required if you switch to two factor authentication and still want various apps to access your google data.
Names like .gov.uk currently have special status. If something ends .gov.uk then I know it has that special status that separates it from .co.uk. The implication is that it's vetted.

Allowing non-special commercial entities to claim their own .uk names will undermine this. government.co.uk is currently squatted but is obviously a commercial entity and not the Government. What will happen when government.uk gets squatted? What about all the other combinations?

Allowing direct .uk registrations will increase confusion and reduce security.
>Women aren't biologically inclined to not like STEM fields (which I sadly see is a popular sentiment).

True.

> The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture.

Ehm... not always. I've found that there is a cultural bias that the STEM fields are considered asocial and culturally women/girls have been raised to dislike asocial activities.
Robo-Cops Could Help Injured Officers Get Back In Action
Paid back. Paid back. Pretty sure paid back, though I'm less familiar with that situation (who AIG's counterparties are/were is irrelevant).
First, I'd like to say that you've made a very good job!
My suggestions (I'll try to focus on things that haven't be already suggested):

* Try to get rid of this image slider. It's difficult to pay attention with this huge thing moving.

* Your logo is a button equals to other buttons on your page. It's quite confusing to me.

* Try to work with tables only when you're really want to make use of a table and not as a way to organize your layout. You'll find out that this approach will help you to save a lot of time to maintain your website.

* Make use of standard icons: I saw some icons in 3D and others that are really similar to "cliparts".
Let Me Bring You Down to Speed
You missed out "attention to detail" from your expereicne
;0)>
We can't start a crusade against sliders while Comic Sans still draws breath
Let's switch from talking about race and gender and use the words "Insiders" and "Outsiders" and think of a big structure, we'll callit "The Keep."

I think the first and most urgent job is to change cultural assumptions amongst the insiders. If they are thinking that outsiders aren't biologically inclined towards living in a keep, not qualified to maintain a keep, &c., that's a huge barrier, a moat if you will.

So we remove that. The next problem is that even with the moat gone, the outsiders fear being uncomfortable inside, whether from being one of a very few outsiders amongst a lot of insiders or from other outsiders resenting them moving into the keep.

I think it's important to remove those sources of discomfort and to actively encourage outsiders to consider moving inside so that we get all of those who woud like to come inside but fear unpleasant consequences.

After that, I don't think we need to try to convince people who like living outside to come in. Let them be happy outside! But I do think we should remove barriers to coming inside and encourage coming inside to counteract any fears of negative consequences for those who would otherwise like to come into the Keep.
They've resolved it in planning (http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/02/mozilla-personas-renamed-to...), but the implementation just hasn't been completed. Yet.

"To sum it up:

* BrowserID renamed to Mozilla Persona

* Personas renamed to Background Themes

* Themes are now Complete Themes"
I find the content and focus different between Slashdot and HN--probably driven by the underlying demographics.

Slashdot tends to focus on stories that low-level IT workers and geeks care about: you see alot of sysadmin stuff, political activism from a geek-liberal point of view, oddball stories, etc. Basically, the IT equivalent of cat pictures. I believe the demographics skew to high schoolers and bearded gnomes.

HN, on the other hand, has more entrepreneurial, business, and hardcore science and technology stuff. The content tends to be more high-level and more useful to those in the know. The demographics are Y Combinator types (mainly naive recent college grads) with a mix of Googlers, VCs, other high-powered industry players.

That said, I suspect some Slashdot users have migrated to HN, which would explain a lot of recent changes at HN.
EXTRA NOTE: for the first position, i.e. game developer, there is a full-time junior staff position available.
How much different is this than the laws governed in US today?

If someone is downloading copyright protected movies / music, the MPAA / RIAA respectively will come down on them and subject them to fines.

Now, I don't know anyone that has actually been convicted of this, however, there are accounts.

Any first/second hand accounts?
I think you missed the point on that by a bit. See the point was men don't generally become nurses as often as women, because of the social stigma that it's a woman's job.

The way I figure there is no biological reason why a girl wouldn't want to expand her mental capacities via technology and programming. It's strictly because it's seen as a nerdy guy stuck in basement thing, then the brogrammers came out and people realized it's also a guy-that-views-women-as-objects field. Yeah, those brogrammers really helped the cause.

Went off on a bit of a tangent there. Sorry.
>4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the only purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative products using the Software, and otherwise use, or allow other persons to do so, the Software without written consent of the Rights Holder. The User may make a modification of the Software solely for his or hers own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications. The User shall not be entitled to distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use such modifications, except as for his or hers own use.
>4.2. The User shall not be entitled to reproduce, distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use the Software for commercial purposes (including for payment), including as part of software product collections without written consent of the Rightholder.

I hope Yandex die.
Wireless charging explained
The full rework of Hipstamatic
SEEKING FREELANCER - San Diego, Remote

Looking for front-end designer

We've got a lively social community we've created as an iOS app and we're looking to build a web interface. It's built on Rails and the backend is already up and running. We need a front-end designer who can create front-end design for the social community (mostly following, groups, chat and profile pages).

We're looking for someone who is an excellent designer and who is really good at jquery/javascript. Also, we're looking for someone who wants to help build a growing community of people helping each other by extending our presence to the web.

Please send me a portfolio and a resume/CV. Also include your hourly rates. Send to heydave at gmail.com . Thanks!
how does it compare to mairix? http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/

(notmuch is mentioned in the original link, btw)
Your phone will soon be your doctor
Gotta love Hollywood. Turning an A&R executive into an expert on technology startups.
quantum entanglement
To mitigate, install f.lux on rooted iPads and Screen Filter on your Android tablet.
History of things
These days it seems like there’s another new gadget every other week, whether it’s a phone, handheld device, tablet computer, laptop or some other hi-tech innovation.
SEEKING WORK - NYC, Remote

Expert at building scalable backend APIs (10K+ RPS, 500K+ concurrents, 50M+ users) in Java and Python with massive datasets in SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc) in finance, online advertising and consumer apps.

Well-rounded, flexible and professional.

Passionate about writing extensible, readable code and building fast, stable systems.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelrmoss
michael.moss@gmail.com
Are there any reasons why your conversion rates are low. Are there ways you could optimize your site to increase conversions.

Maybe you are heading in the wrong direction with advertising?It might be better to stay on the path you were going and focus on increasing conversions??Look at how booking.com and how they convert, might give you some ideas.
It's also poor writing. It was a third of the way through the article before she clued us in about what she was actually mad about. It very much read as if she were angry about the restroom situation.

However, this isn't especially relevant to the real point of the article.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/SF/DC/ATL/BHAM

Specialities: Java, Ruby, Javascript, iOS, UI/UX

http://www.UrbanCoding.net is seeking our next web or mobile development project. We have working experience in insurance, finance, and education. Application development is the only thing we do. We do not do blogs, product pages, landing pages, etc unless integrated into a larger product project.

To learn more about us and see if we might be a good fit for your project, please see our Project and Pricing Guide at https://docs.google.com/a/urbancoding.net/document/d/1fOigUG...
One thing I appreciate about Slashdot versus HN is more people with expertise in a broader range of science and engineering fields. HN is very good in certain areas of technology and business, but has relatively few civil engineers, physicists, climate scientists, chemical engineers, astronomers, etc., so the comments on those kinds of stories end up drifting more into speculation. On Slashdot, there are usually at least a few really good comments on the story from people with expertise in those areas.
I don't understand why you get mad at me, clearly you are not the one without your phone/contacts/emails not working. Just to make it clear, I really like Apple, is just that I expect them to keep doing well what they used to do well. The tech support is not giving any help and people is not being able to use their phones (in my case, a work tool and also the only way to keep connected while on the go) for a week with no answer whatsoever about this issue.
Fines are for civil offenses.
A crime can be punished by jail time.