skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's very little of modern science that looks anything like an isolated hermit doing research on their own. Everything is heavily cooperation-based these days. Sometimes in a formal sense, of large teams or initiatives like the LHC, and other times in a more informal sense, like the large amount of dialog and idea-swapping that goes on around arXiv.org.

There's probably a bit more of the "lone genius" sort of work in mathematics, but even there, cooperative initiatives are probably the norm. Erdős was famously collaborative, and a lot of progress has come from group initiatives, such as the Bourbaki group. Nowadays, folks such as Terry Tao and Tim Gowers are pushing "massively collaborative mathematics" as a promising direction for mathematical research to go. The idea is that almost a whole sector of mathematics would pitch in around a wiki (e.g. the Polymath Project) to try to solve a major open problem together, rather than small teams competing to scoop each other on incremental papers.
I use APC. Perhaps their finish is thicker than others, or maybe I'm just high.

I usually get enough solder to wick up to a 0805 resistor to produce a reasonable fillet. I then give it a good tug with a pair of tweezers to make sure everything is good.
My iron usually has solder on it from tinning (not a lot though, I wipe it on one of those metal ribbon pad).
With IC's I can usually watch the solder reflow and the leg sink a bit.

All that said, I don't hesitate to put more if it's not getting a good joint. YMMV.

You're right about the solder mask, I had my terminology wrong: the solder mask is the plastic stuff that they coat boards in. I was thinking of the solder finish on the pads.
> Why do his blog posts always make it to the top of HN?

Because I like them. They are usually interesting and I even learned to recognize his nickname on HN because of quality of his writing. So I upvote.

Repeat that times 100 other HNers who think the same.
SEEKING WORK - Remote - Canada

So, according to my Mom, when couples have been living together for a long time, they typically take the next step in solidifying their relationship. I don't like letting my Mom down, so my girlfriend and I finally took the plunge and started a consulting company (while we bootstrap a startup).

I am half developer and half marketer. I am a web developer with an affinity for working with Python, PHP, WordPress, HTML5, JavaScript, CoffeeScript and jQuery. Front end is likely my biggest passion - I love building great experiences (including product support experiences) that generate strong word of mouth. And, I am a marketer who loves running tests, working with data, and spending as much time talking with customers as possible.

She is a marketer and writer with several years of experiencing managing marketing campaigns (utiliizing both digital and non digital medias), working as an information designer, and running public relations campaigns.

You can contact me at ghluska@gmail.com or visit my website at hluska.ca
Sonian - REMOTE; Full-time

http://www.sonian.com/about/careers/software-engineer-clojur...

Come work at Sonian and you'll be writing Clojure full-time, working
on interesting big data problems. The Sonian software stack comprises
multiple applications tied together with queues and rest interfaces,
focused on archiving and indexing over a petabyte of email. Everything
runs in the cloud (hundreds of nodes), and is thoroughly automated:
Want to check if your branch is good? Ask our IRC bot (written in
Clojure) to run tests on it! Tests passed? Ask the bot to merge your
branch!

Our team is fully remote, but we emphasize pairing with tmux and Skype
(and emacs!). In addition to Clojure/conj, a few times a year,
everybody gets together for a week in Boston to talk and hack
together.

We are also hiring for another Clojure position, with more of a
search focus:

http://www.sonian.com/about/careers/software-engineer-search...

(We're hiring Ruby/Rails devs, too!)
So I joined StartupPlays a while ago and checked out their "Accelerator" program. Does everyone else have a different experience than me? The place felt dead to me...like a ghost town with only a handful of active participants.

Was I just using the interface incorrectly and not finding the activity or something?
Yelp

INTERN OR FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

I'm a full-stack web developer at Yelp, and I definitely recommend the hell out of working here. We've still got the startup environment (kegs, dog, etc); we're located in downtown San Francisco, half a block from MoMa; we are in a unique position to do great stuff and solve hard problems while helping people find great local businesses.

I built our "Hot New Businesses" feature - http://yelp.com/openings/sf , for instance, you can find it on the homepage and in our mobile apps too - which crunches through our data nightly and generates a list of the most recently opened bars and restaurants in your city, complete with predictions of the day they opened on. It's a really useful feature, and we have so much data that I was able to build it without knowing anything about machine learning, data-mining, etc; imagine the crazy-useful stuff you could do here, if a knucklehead like me could make a feature like this.

For more info about what it's like to work here as an engineer, see a Q&A with me at http://officialblog.yelp.com/2011/07/day-in-the-life-of-a-ye.... , or feel free to contact me at jrheard at yelp dot com.

Here's a list of our open engineering positions:

Web Developer

☆ Develop cool and useful features for our 61M+ monthly visitors

☆ Expertise in JavaScript, HTTP, HTML/DOM, and CSS, as well as server-side chops in a language like Python,
Ruby, Java, C++, etc. We're on Python, but we're just looking for people who are really good at programming, so no worries if you don't have much Python experience.

Search and Data-Mining Engineer

☆ Tackle machine learning and information retrieval problems from our database of 22M+ Yelp reviews

☆ Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures; expertise in Python, Java, or C++ Back-end Engineer

☆ Build whole systems that are simple and scalable

☆ Expertise in your favorite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Java, Objective-C, or C++ Mobile Developer

☆ Create fun and useful mobile applications for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry platforms and beyond

☆ Expertise in C++, Java and other mobile languages

To apply, head to http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oyXeVfwo&s=Hacker_News
Device Testing for Responsive Sites
Columbia cybersecurity firm gets boost from Silicon Valley
Draftable - Melbourne, Australia - INTERNs

We're building the equivalent of github for business documents, which turns out to require a surprisingly large amount of cutting-edge computer science.

We’re hiring 4–6 students to work fulltime over the (Australian) summer and have ~1 spot left. Accommodation available if you need it. Read more at http://draftable.com/jobs
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SEEKING FREELANCER – REMOTE – Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Backbone.js), iOS (native)

GunpowderLabs is a web and mobile development agency. We’re based in Washington, DC, but we serve clients and hire developers everywhere.

We’re looking for several freelance developers to work on client projects with any of those core skills:

* Ruby on Rails
* Front-end (JavaScript/Backbone.js)
* Native iOS

About 20-40 hours per week per developer. If you’re interested to work for us full-time after a few months, that’s an option, but not a requirement.

If you’re great at any of those things, please drop me a line at anton@gunpowderlabs.com.
Get 1,000 users at the end of month for my startup.
How I Tamed MIT’s Computer Science Curriculum, By Scott Young
Great Idea! I could send photos this way to my parents. good job!
What's good in pivory?
The problem with the Citizens United ruling was that it was broader than necessary, so it became about more than just a movie.

The idea that foreign governments can secretly fund a massive Presidential campaign does not strike me as the intention of the First Amendment.
(Hence why I said "supposedly"; the claim, however, is trivially falsifiable, and I have yet to see anyone attempt to argue with it, despite I having been been posted around a bit last year. I realize that does not make it true, again hence "supposedly". Even if it was true at one point, it might no longer be.)
Knewton (Union Square, NYC, full-time) is hiring for the following:

-> Software Engineer

-> Infrastructure Software Engineer

-> Data Scientist

-> Adaptive Instruction Analyst

http://www.knewton.com/jobs/

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Knewton is building the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine, with the goal of making personalized and engaging education available to all. Knewton has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business.
This is an outstanding opportunity to work with and learn from the world's best engineers and data scientists.

=====

On a personal note: working for us means you'll get free dinner, drinks, coffee, the benefits you'd expect from a mature company (health/dental/vision, group deals on gym memberships, 401(k)), and the great perks you'd expect from a small company (our ping-pong tournament starts next week, our happy hours start every Friday at 5:01pm, and our vacation policy is limitless).

We're also pretty flexible about getting work done. We all work remotely to some degree (I work from Miami every other month, and we have devs in Hawaii and Colorado), and those on our team who weren't impacted by Sandy are working at coffee shops, libraries, and apartments across the five boroughs.

Feel free to ask me any questions @achompas on Twitter.
I second the use pomodoro technique, it's a great way to keep track of time.

Shameless plug: i wrote an online pomodoro timer http://yay.im/pomodoro
SEEKING FREELANCER - PHP/LAMP Development - Newport Beach, CA, USA (Orange County)

The Boras Corporation, widely regarded as the premier single-sport athlete representation firm in the world, is seeking a freelance developer to help expand the capabilities of our internal web-based applications.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable and experienced across the entire range of the development process, from designing and polishing the user-facing bits to hacking on the plumbing.

We are open to remote workers, but would prefer someone local because a developer who latches on to this work could justify a permanent, full-time position.

A large part of the project will be bringing online older tools and datasets originally built in offline tools (Access, FoxPro, etc.) via PHP/MySQL.

A love of sports, particularly baseball, is useful, but not strictly required. We take great pride in being the best in the world at what we do, and most of us have played sports at a high level. Regardless, from top to bottom, our personnel believe in doing whatever needs to be done for the team.

Obviously we're not your typical HN poster, but if it sounds like a good fit let us know at jobs at borascorp.com.

More information about us and our work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Boras
Novelty for its own sake aka fashion.
New York City's streets and bridges are FULL.

If the driver from another city comes to NYC, an NYC driver is no longer able to enter the city. No additional supply is created.

I'm not sure why this is such a difficult concept to grasp.
I've started using Zeus recently - just fantastic. +1 for the positive recommendation.
SEEKING WORK: San Francisco, CA (Remote OK!) -- Technical Architecture for Websites & Web Apps, UI/UX Design, Interactive Installations, Audiovisual Engineering, Creativity & Innovation.

Full stack developer. Javascript, Node.js, Redis, Amazon ec2 & S3, etc -- see links below for a full list of skills.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespollack

http://jamesbpollack.com
The point stands, though. There's certainly variance between the accomplishments of specific individuals, but each little innovation builds on the last. Each breakthrough is dependent on the ones that preceded it.

Even an inventor working in solitude is collaborating in a way with all the inventors, discoverers, and authors who influenced him.
SF/Montreal/remote: Sr iOS Engineer, Lead Eng, UI Eng

Bunch is the home for interest-based communities on mobile.

In a world of frictionless sharing, our interest feeds are noisy. Bunch is changing that. It’s the place to share and discuss your #1 passion with like-minded people.

We're in private beta, have 1.3 million pre-signup, founded by ex-BandPage and Match.com execs, and have VC funding.

Check out our intro video: www.joinbunch.com

Email andrew@joinbunch.com to chat
An interesting tidbit from the article:

"Accel decided to pump $50 million into Tenable, a staggering amount even by venture capital standards and the biggest investment that Accel has ever made in a North American company...Its investment in Tenable was five times more than its original Facebook stake."
Tagline is "food porn", picks up appropriately-tagged pictures from Instagram. Safe for work.
I know this is childish, but all I can think about it is, how if we slide much further into tyranny how fun it is going to be to shoot down everybody's unmanned drones in defense of freedom.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125367616595333125.html
San Francisco, CA

LearnUp is seeking Founding Engineers.

We are solving America’s skills gap by allowing job seekers to learn job skills online directly from employers. We are a small team, well-funded, and addressing a real problem. We’ve already established partnerships with leading employers such as Staples, GAP, Whole Foods, and Safeway, and the California Community Colleges have committed to roll out LearnUp to nearly 3 million students.

We are looking for full-stack Ruby on Rails engineers to join our Founding Engineering team. This is a key technical position with a huge impact on technical and product direction. The best fit would be someone with a strong understanding of web technologies who is entrepreneurial and enjoys shipping and learning on a daily basis.

Our current technologies include Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Javascript, SASS, HAML, and AWS.

We offer competitive salary and sizable equity stake.

You can email me personally at kenny@learnup.me

More info about LearnUp at http://learnup.me/about

More info about the job at http://learnup.me/jobs
Yep it's titled "Food Porn" - and look to have just photos of food.
But not, presumably, those pertaining to electronic communications.
I always thought about the engineering complexities of sending someone to the moon that I overlooked the operational aspects of managing such a trip. This article was enlightening.
I think Camillo is trying to point out that the UK is not a republic (banana or otherwise) but a Constitutional Monarchy.
How Manpacks boosted their average order size 84% and reduced churn to under 2%
Yeah, that was in fact the gist of the next sentence in the essay.
4G, not so quick
ClassDojo

FULLTIME 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.
I doubt a patent attorney would consider that irrelevant, and it's not irrelevant when you're discussing corporate conduct.
What Would You Even Do with a 48-Core Smartphone?
When contexts collide: Sorry I was laughing during your funeral.
Why do his blog posts always make it to the top of HN

He writes well.

He often makes interesting points or expresses a provocative (in a good way) POV.

He has been a notable contributor to HN, trying to keep the discourse here civil and high-signal.

Good for him if he has a Coffescript book for sale. I'm not a Coffeescrpt fan, but I'd bet this book is good.

"Link bait" is perhaps the last thing that comes to mind when I see a post from Reg.
CSS Animations Between Media Queries
It won't. Most of my work doesn't require precision pointing, but when it does, it really does.

I often think that the need for precision pointing in everyday basic tasks is a problem that will be overcome by the constraints of tablet design. The rest of the precision pointing can stay in their specific domains.

I would very much like a traditional drawing table that is a high res touch screen, with a mouse and keyboard, and a super accurate variety of stylus-like tools, with unlimited modeless multitouch. Without menus or gestures, I could use my eyes or just my sense of place and touch to find the tool I want from my own organizational method. Like the good old days. But even with that, I still would like a virtual cursor with a mouse-like pointer - it's just too useful.
Really.

131 Criminal liability for making or dealing with infringing objects
(1) Every person commits an offence against this section who, other than
pursuant to a copyright licence,—
(a)makes for sale or hire; or
(b)imports into New Zealand otherwise than for that person's private
and domestic use; or
(c)possesses in the course of a business with a view to committing any
act infringing the copyright; or
(d)in the course of a business,—
(i)offers or exposes for sale or hire; or
(ii)exhibits in public; or
(iii)distributes; or
(e)in the course of a business or otherwise, sells or lets for hire; or
(f)distributes otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent
as to affect prejudicially the copyright owner—an object that is, and that the
person knows is, an infringing copy of a copyright work.

NZ copyright law isn't structured like US copyright law; it recognizes "primary" and "secondary" infringement like our law does, but its criminal law is is broader; for instance, creation and sale of circumvention devices is an offense directly under Section 131 of NZ Copyright Law, not some wacky add-on law like the DMCA.

Obviously, most countries don't have exactly the same laws as the US.
RightSignature | The easiest, fastest way to get documents
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Santa Barbara or San Francisco

Rails/JS Engineer

Design Junkie

We're a small team of hard-working, smart, friendly, and fun entrepreneurs and programmers looking to add an energetic and talented developer and/or designer to our group.

RightSignature is a bootstrapped SaaS company with serious users, solid revenue, and rocket-ship growth. We focus on building the most elegant electronic signature product on the market while also creating a fun, profitable, and sustainable business. Check us out: https://RightSignature.com

Contact joinus@rightsignature.com if interested.
Nimble Storage | San Jose, CA | Full Time | H1B welcome

Nimble Storage is one of the fastest growing storage systems company. http://nimblestorage.com/company/awards.php

Looking for system software development and test engineers with expertise in C/C++/Java/Perl. Please check careers page for specific positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email resume along with job position to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com
Vine, NYC, Python Platform Engineer, Senior iOS Engineer, Devops/Systems Engineer (ec2), and Product Designer

Vine is turning the world into filmmakers. We're taking the techniques perfected by our favorite storytellers and making them easy to use for anyone with a mobile phone. And just like them, our work is never done. We genuinely love what we do. We want to speak with you if you do, too.

We are hoping to add a few new members to our team that can help us succeed in our mission. We'd love to speak with you if you excel with any of the following:

- iOS development and building highly customized, pixel perfect layouts for the iPhone
- Experience building high scale platforms in python or similar (especially on ec2). We use flask+gunicorn+gevent but are open.
- Deep experience operating and automating large ec2 deployments
- Product design

Our product isn't live yet but you can view some of the posts on twitter < https://twitter.com/search?q=vine.co&src=typd >.
There is definitely a pop-culture around programming - but specifically around web application programming; the culture of "web developers" often reminds me a lot of high school social dynamics.

What I've found is that the older and more experienced programmers, such as yourself, have graduated out of that social vMeme and embraced their craft as a "problem solving" one - not one specific to web development, or mobile apps.

I identify more with incisive problem solving than I do with a specific area of problems - while I professionally make my money in the realm of distributed systems and web applications; I also enjoy (and apply) quite a bit of my own learning in the subjects of:

* Psychology

* Maths

* Carpentry

* Mechanics (I use much of what I know about fixing/building cars in the building of my software!)

* Writing

* Many others &c...

So, yes, while I agree there is a pop-culture I wouldn't necessarily say that it is defining of the individual. I built my own business specifically because it was so difficult for me to find a job writing software in Python and Erlang - the status quo was (and other than Ruby On Rails) and still is PHP in my industry. I define my move from running a consulting business building "web apps" to building a high-tech startup, where the "web app" is just 10% of solution to the problem we are solving, as my graduation from pop-culture programming to the more general "problem solving" culture.
check out TaskUp (https://taskup.com), now with cash rewards for getting things done!
(disclaimer: founder)
Programming is like building a house - except that no one talks about themselves as being a "house builder".

There are carpenters, electricians, HVAC contractors, general contractors, landscape architects, plumbers, cabinet fitters, tiling contractors, painters, carpet installers, roofers, architects, etc.

Each one takes a pride in their own craft and together they build house with (hopefully) the minimum of squabbling and turf wars.

One day the process of solving problems using computers will be like that, right now we are in the dark ages.
I disagree, <g> element can be animated with JavaScript as easily as e.g. <div>. You just change the value of transform attribute. Rotations can be handled easily once you understand how matrixes work.
And Apple added a lot to the original.
Postgres 9.2 highlight: range types
Love it. A much better idea than getting my wife's parents on Facebook just to see pics.
Glad you like it! And thank you very much. The "send photos to parents" is definitely a top use-case so far.
What are companies like yours thoughts on people who don't have much "portfolio" work, but have been working on a side project that seems to at least superficially match your goals and mission?

I have been working on a project (web and iOS based) with a couple of friends and we would describe ourselves similarly. We've put a lot of work into it, but that is pretty much the only public work I could show you.
The challenges facing startups serving K-12 education
S.C. governor's post-breach data encryption claims are off-base, analysts say