skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. The Norwegian oil companies are, in fact, swimming in money (mainly due to high oil prices), but getting oil up from the North Sea in 2012 is vastly more complex than drilling a hole in the ground and attaching a hose to it. There are lots of incredibly smart and dedicated people working in these companies.
We R Interactive - London, UK

Come and make games with us!

We're blending a mix of game, film and TV production to create innovative social games.

We care a lot about building high quality games are are looking to hire some junior to mid-level software engineer generalists to come to our office in Clerkenwell and work on both server-side and iOS game development.

We'd love to hear from you if:

* You are collaborative and upbeat with a strong work ethic. We have a lively, busy atmosphere in an open plan setting and we want somebody that will relish working in this type of environment.

* You're interested in taking a real-time stream of real-world data and turning it into a game. ;)

* You are well-versed in game development on iOS or would like to work on our back-end services. We're currently using a wide range of technologies including PHP, Cassandra, Unity, Redis, and Node.js.

* You have a passion for gaming and are motivated by a strong desire to make great games. Be prepared to learn rapidly as part of a team that is focused on excellence in games development.

* You believe you have good intuition on product design.

* You feel like you there is anything else that you could offer us!

I currently work there and can be contacted on sebastiani+hn@werinteractive.com. Feel free to drop me an email with any questions or your CV and any relevant development accounts (github, stackoverflow.) The email which will get you directly to the lady that handles recruitment is estellar+hn@werinteractive.com
My employer does this in-house, by pairing a programmer up with a more experienced programmer or architect in roughly the same field, and having them review the programmer's work on a regular basis. I bet there's many firms with a system somewhat like this.

That said, if your team does peer code reviews, you get a lot of that coaching that you ask for, directly from your team members.

In fact, if your workplace doesn't have any way by which you can regularly collect feedback on your work, I'd be very worried. If nobody cares about the quality you produce, chances are small they care much about what you do at all. In any sufficiently important team, code reviews are a must in order to guarantee a sufficient level of quality.
SEEKING WORK - Berlin/Germany or Remote

I am a frontend web developer (3+ years of freelance experience) and working with:

HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js

I also hack stuff for the backend:

Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, MongoDB, HAML, SASS, Node.js

References:

- http://jqapi.com (Alternative jQuery Documentation)

- http://usejquery.com (jQuery Showcase and Blog)

- https://github.com/mustardamus/ketchup-plugin (jQuery Form Validation Plugin)

- http://nodeknockout.com/teams/mustardamus (Came in 3rd for the Nodeknockout 2012 in the category Utility/Fun)

- https://github.com/mustardamus/ (much more)

Links:

- http://mustardamus.com

- http://twitter.com/mustardamus

You can find my email address in my profile.

Cheers, Basti.
No apologies necessary - and your point is great :) Good investors definitely add to your network -- the definition of "smart money" (vs "dumb money") is that you're taking on a partner who's going to help you in more ways than just paying the bills. Thanks for writing up your experience Cherian and good luck with Cucumbertown. Looks like a cool site.
You won't see unmanned drones flying at US civilian airports. Nor, in most cases, anywhere in US civilian airspace. Drones aren't allowed here because we don't know how to safely integrate them into civilian airspace. There's a controversial effort inside FAA to come up with rules for UAVs and it's going very slowly and carefully. The arrogance of us flying drones in Djibouti and Seychelles civilian airspace when we won't let them in our own airspace is pretty amazing.
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I've been approached by 2 people to mentor them in coding, and neither worked very well, but it was primarily my fault. In one case, we just had a lot of communication problems for a few weeks (probably mostly my fault) but expectations weren't set on both sides early on (regular times to meet, goals, etc). In the other case, we ended up discussing things a bit more and decided that's not what he was really after.

That said, feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to discuss it, and perhaps we might be a fit (or I might know someone who is for your needs).

http://phpmentoring.org/ is a site set up to help people match up with each other, but I've no idea what sort of success any of them have had.
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That’s kinda beside the point, you know. We already have all that waste. We already have to deal with it somehow. There is no avoiding it. So we might as well add to it.
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Boston, MA.
TIM Group (previously youDevise) are hiring a Senior Linux Sysadmin.

We're a 100 person market leading financial software firm with offices in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong. Rated one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK by The Sunday Times (http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbtechDetails.a...).

We're a continually iterating self managed team doing awesome things with Puppet, MCollective, Ruby, Graphite, Logstash, KVM, MySQL, MongoDB, JVMs and continuous deployments.

We'd love to talk to you, please get in contact with any questions.

http://www.timgroup.com/careers/current-vacancies/system-adm...
Old post on my now defunct blog on Static Sites. Had a look at quite a few.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk9w8r0zjkkwpqi/static_sites.md
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.
Seeking work, hardware/electronics/embedded software dev. Prefer remote, based in Cologne, Germany. Short term projects preferred. Experienced in robotics, mechanics, electronics, 3d printing. Contact at kliment [at] 0xfb.com or Kliment on Freenode IRC
Wasn't uranium-based nuclear energy supposed to be very cheap, too, and then it turned out it wasn't that cheap? I worry the same will happen with thorium.

Also how much safer is it? Can it be set-up just a few KM outside a city? Is there any dangerous waste to deposit at all?

I do think that if we are to continue research in nuclear energy it should be based on Thorium, rather than uranium, but in the same time, I would much rather have the focus of the energy industry be solar energy right now.

I hope countries in the future are powered 70-80% by solar, and 20-30% by other sources like nuclear energy (at least until we figure out how to store solar energy cheaply for night use), than the other way around. And we can only get there fast if we have the industry's almost complete focus on solar energy, and have them invest billions into researching it and lowering the cost of solar panels.
I would like for a site to exist where I can go and find an expert on whatever I need and consult with them over whatever communications method they prefer (Skype, Google Hangout, Phone, etc). The experts would work for tips/donations, an hourly/15 minute fee, wishlist items, credits, bitcoins, barter, etc.

If anyone is interested, I have a more detailed roadmap for this idea, a couple of domain names that would work as well as technical and financial resources at my disposal. One of the domain names is ExpertHour.com, which I think is decent enough. I don't necessarily want to co-found this with you, but I might want to commission it or invest what I have for a very small return. Email me if you want to know more.
I agree. The temptation to roll over existing changes when inheriting a new codebase can be overwhelming at times, and the only sensible way that I've found to deal with it is to consider the impact to the schedule and how that ties into the overarching business need for whatever it is that you're working on. Without a bit of discipline here, I've found that it's way too easy to start working on things that don't advance the project towards its overall goals.
There's a company called Software Carpentry ( http://software-carpentry.org/ ) that runs workshops for scientists but they might do the same for other programmers or have an idea of who might.
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Pelican <http://getpelican.com/>; is a Python-based static site generator with a very active community behind it. It has a good mix of features without being overly complicated. Check it out!

(Disclaimer: I'm a Pelican project committer.)
Octopress FTW!
Don't forget to consider the cost of externalities (environmental damage, health costs), which probably roughly double the true cost of nonrenewable fuels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_cost_of_electricity_g...

Also, as for the comments that oil is still king in terms of absolute price, keep in mind that we probably peaked around 2004:

https://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2008_fot...

In my mind, we crossed the peak when diesel became more expensive than gasoline, because that meant that availability/exploration became the primary cost instead of refinement (because diesel has more energy and is easier to refine).

In fairness, we won't reach peak coal for at least several more decades, but my guess is that the externalities associated with coal will become unpalatable once a category 5 hurricane takes out New York City or Florida is under water. Or, when disaster relief crosses say 50% of the government's budget.

I forgot to mention that I'm against all new nuclear unless it can burn waste and plutonium. Partially because I saw the reactors underwater outside Omaha and realized that we are only a human error away from a Fukushima event here in the US.
I can't be the only one who stops reading articles when the entire first section is contorted self-congratulatory masturbation?

This is up there with The Next Web always vainly touting what they "told us" in the last article.

Give me something interesting. Don't tell me how great you are.
> They partied too much and studied too little and now they are overqualified and underemployed.

If they studied to little they are hardly overqualified. Someone in the position you describe seems to be at a point where their own perception of their qualification, based on the fact that they did somehow get a degree, is inflated compared to their qualifications as perceived by potential employers.

"Overqualification" is a strange term anyway. It's not that a potential employer wouldn't want someone better than strictly necessary for a job. It seems to have more to do with some people expecting a certain "baseline" of job offers once they have a degree on paper, despite their actual qualification perhaps not warranting this.
CPU cores may no but on the up, but GPU cores certainly are.

Iirc my gtx 670s have 1344 cores each, compared to 4 in my 3770k.
Seeking work. NYC/Boston local. US Citizen, will happily travel on-site if deemed necessary PM/team.

* Back-end web work experience (mostly in the enterprise, though I do work with startups):

Django since 0.97c

ASP.NET MVC 3 for a Fortune 500 company (contact me for the case study)

Did an entire Rails-rework for a ticket-reselling site that does 150MM annual revenue. Streamlined purchase system decreasing annual expenditures in the low 7 figures for a low 6 figure project.

* Mobile Development:

iOS and Android work with 4.5 stars and in the 1-5 million downloads range. Case studies available.

* Experience prior to freelancing:

Full-timed at one of the big tech consultancies in Cambridge before branching out into my own shop with 2 fantastically skilled, intelligent guys and an administrative assistant.

* Generic language skills:

Somewhere between proficient and advanced at C#3 and 4. Intermediate with 4.5 (Full-disclosure: w/r/t async, I'm a little less than top-notch)

Proficient at F#.

* Front-end:

Front-end work is done by my partners Matt and Nicolas. Their portfolios available on request.

* Budgets:

We usually take projects between 20k and 200k, entirely dependent on scope mind you. Pretty flexible depending on the viability of future work.

Contact information available in my profile. Generally, what we like to do is talk about the project requirements (our best clients have a RFP but if you don't have one that's totally okay!), preferably in person if possible. Within 72 hours, we'll get back to you with a proposal where we can par down feature-set for an MVP to cater to your budget. Mutually agree, sign the statement of work and kick off.
Cellular Sales - Knoxville, TN

Help us make the process of selling a cellphone easy. Along the way you'll get to deal with the challenges of replacing a fast growing companies legacy software without bothering the customers and sales people.

We're looking for junior/mid-level developers, a configuration/release manager, and a leader for our QA department.

We use mostly .NET, but we're also exploring our options and no technology is off the table.

Contact steve.barbour@cellularsales.com
Andrews McMeel Universal / Universal Uclick, Kansas City, MO, looking for a full-time software engineer.

We're an awesome, closely-knit tech department with a core web / design / scripting / app development group of 7 people, looking for an 8th. We work on websites like GoComics.com, Dilbert.com, Doonesbury.com, and ThePuzzleSociety.com. As you may have deduced, we're a comic and editorial syndicate with focuses on both B-to-B and B-to-C channels. We own syndication rights to Dilbert, Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, FoxTrot, and tons more.

You gotta know your POSIX/UNIX environment, you gotta love building and scaling websites, and you gotta love learning and incorporating new things. We use a lot of Ruby and Perl, along with some Java, Node, and Objective-C.

Hit us up at http://www.amuniversal.com/amu/AMU_Careers.htm!
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Internships. Find a great company w/ top-notch developers who aren't too stuck up or arrogant to give proper advice.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Columbus or Cincinnati areas, or the possibility of a travel / remote combination. My specialties are Ruby, Rails, and javascript/jQuery/Backbone, but I also have a great deal of experience with Asp.net MVC and iOS. Over the past year or two, I've primarily been doing Rails development for clients, including several startups, intermixed with some consulting work as a Team Lead and Ruby/Cucumber mentor at a large financial company. Recently, I've partnered up with another great developer to form a small small consulting company called JetCode here in Columbus. Look us up!
Email: adam [at] jetcode.io
http://jetcode.io/
http://github.com/adamalbrecht
https://twitter.com/adam_albrecht
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, https://kentyde.com/

KenTyde is a hedge fund startup with a 3-year track record. We're looking for a full-time developer to become the 5th member of our team (no remote). We mostly use Python to develop our own trading platform, on top of Linux, CouchDB, Redis and ZeroMQ. Mastery of the Dutch language would be a big plus; experience with the finance world is not a requirement.
Thanks for the mention of my blog on the Hacker News. I just which there would have been a link to the earlier posts. The post got harder and more complex (with the helicopter pushing the limits of what could be considered easy to follow art tutorials for beginners).
that was minutebox.com, but they seem to be acrossio.com, focusing on internal/enterprise (can't figure it out from the site too much).
Enterprises are changing because their customers want more. More services, more products. This drives the business units to try to deliver, and often they need better tools. But when the IT department becomes the bottleneck and the roadblock to delivering, people look to other methods like cloud based solutions. Or they just push for their own initiative internally and try to convince IT later.
But either way, enterprises need to move faster because the rest of the world is.
The current system is broken and if they hope to stay in business, they'll adapt.
Not because developers hate IE6, but because their customers want more features, and their best employees will move to better jobs.
i think your parent comment miswrote a period for a comma, so you aren't disagreeing.
From poster child to whipping boy
Algorithm based art
Try and read the earlier post. I think they do explain the approach a lot better. I don't intend to make you into the next daVinci but enable my readers to create decent game art or at the very least better looking place holder art for their games.
What are you talking about? China has almost 5000 miles of high-speed rail that runs over 150mph. Japan is hard at work on replacing their "slow" 186mph trains with 310mph maglev trains.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20512131

Tesla is hard at work selling electric cars and making a profit. Google has a self-driving car that works. People are solving problems. Getting hypersonic jets to work would be great.

Now the problem of getting people to adopt any of this in the US? Engineers can't solve those problems. Someday the US will finally get a real high-speed train, but it looks like Japan will have maglevs first.
I have really internaized this recently; more specifically I have made sure to think about my code from an outsider's perspective and address complaints this person might have.
It is insane to build a craft with powerful weapons and not reserve guaranteed capacity for landing spots, including backups at other times and locations from main flight plan.
SEEKING WORK - US west coast (Washington) - Remote preferred or local

Speciality is responsive iOS and Android apps built with Cordova/PhoneGap that work beautifully on multiple screen sizes and devices.

Expert HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript developer (including jQuery and jQuery mobile), and PHP and Node.js on the server.

Also proficient using Photoshop to build the artwork needed to go in an app, and to list an app on the App Store.

http://jimbergman.net/contact/
I print a few pages a week, scan something occasionally, and almost never fax, but I like to have the option to do these things. When I but a cheap-ish all-in-one printer, I specifically avoid HP. My expectations for cheap-o printers are low, but the last two HP printers felt way too flimsy, they installed too much bloatware, and on the last one I could never get the scanner to work. I've had much better luck with Brother and Epson products.
SEEKING FREELANCER(S): New York City well-funded startup (Midtown Manhattan). Remote work is possible.

I need:

1. Dev Ops: Node.js/Mongo/Redis/nginx/AWS backend programmer with good dev ops experience. Video experience helps (Transcoding, knowledge of formats, knowledge of storage techniques). Prefer someone that has scaled a cloud-based network globally before and understands the idiosyncrasies of caching and file propagation on such a network.

2. iOS developer: For cloud-based video sharing application. Must have good experience with AVFoundation. Any experience with video encoding or editing is a plus. Shaders a huge plus. But I need someone that understands how to send said video and other media across a wire using REST and sometimes more lower-level networking techniques.

Send email to ian_at_brabble.com.

Thanks! Please forgive any mistakes above I pounded the descriptions out very quickly.
I don't consider that off-topic. Personally.
>They replaced the excellent System.IO namespace with the Windows.Storage namespace, which doesn't give you access to much of the computer's actual storage

For security reasons. You can open a file picker, but you can't just spider directories on the hard disk, because Windows 8 has quite restrictive sandboxing.
SEEKING WORK - SEEKING FREELANCER (Designer) - Wishing to build bridges to the Berlin design world with code for design swap. I am NYC based and preferably designer would be Berlin based. With over 10 years experience I am working on full stack jQuery/Python/HTML/CSS apps right now with an emphasize on scalability using the Brubeck framework. An ideal project could be taking existing PHP prototype and rebuilding it in Brubeck with a distributed architecture in mind. But any code for design swap would be considered. You can find me at my username dot com.
Thanks, mate... The key is trying it with easy steps and not dive into the complex helicopter.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web+Mobile UI designer and front-end developer.

4+ years of experience with designing usable interfaces with a focus on increasing user conversions. Designed patio11's site which increased his conversion rate and profits:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/04/19/ab-testing-is-frustratin...

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...

Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/Jquery. Knowledge of Ruby, Rails, BackboneJS, Git and Heroku.

Portfolio: http://www.madebyargon.com

Pricing: $45/hour

Email: inlith@gmail.com
The last few flights I've taken, 60% of the ticket price has been taxes. I understand the need for taxation, but that seems a little absurd to me. It'd be a really quick way of slashing ticket prices...
I don't know about Djibouti or Seychelles, but depending on their air traffic level, it may be similar to certain testing areas in the US, less dense and intense than something like LAX.

Not saying the drone operators are playing fair and safe, just making room.
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