skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes Corp || Tokyo, Japan / San Francisco / Geoflexible || CTO

Yikes is a social media content creation company. Businesses need daily text content for their Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and blogs. We create that content at scale, hassle-free. Our customers are some of the largest ad agencies and brands in the world. We’re growing quickly and so far have managed to finance our own growth with our profits, but we’re looking to fundraise soon.

There are 2 people on the core team, and we coordinate a team of freelance writers who create all the content which we then sell to our customers. At the moment we’re doing this all by hand, and we need a generalist-type full-stack engineer to give our company some much-needed tech muscle.

The thing we need short-term is a web application which allows for content (text + links + images) to be input by our employees and passed through a workflow chain which ends at our customers. The thing we need long-term is a mechanism which allows our customers to be intelligently paired up with employees who would be a good fit for them- and also uses analytics from Facebook + Twitter + anything else to help us learn more about how to provide our customers with awesome, effective, engaging content. This is going to involve a lot of iteration and that’s why we need a new core member of our team instead of an outsourced partner or contractor etc. This is a green-field proposition: you can work with whatever tech tools you like. You’d be the guy or gal in charge and we will stay out of your hair about that kind of stuff.

We are two dudes from the US who’ve spent a lot of time in Japan – I live in SF now and my partner is in Tokyo. A lot of our clients are in Japan because that’s where we started, but we’re scaling up in the US now too. You can work from wherever you want, Tokyo included.

To make sure this works for everybody, we’d like to do a 3-month trial period starting in January wherein we’d pay you a monthly salary- and then, assuming everyone’s happy, you’d get a substantial grant of stock (co-founder level). This is pre-financing, so you’d be getting in on the ground floor.

TL;DR: We’re good at business and sales but we suck at tech, come and work with us, #hacktheplanet. Email jobs@yikes.jp with a resume or github link or both.
Check out the University of Waterloo's open source code for the project: https://github.com/sgreenlay/PYLONS
Nice!
It fixes most annoyances of the original Dune II, e.g. you can use your right mouse button to order units to move somewhere, and there is finally a production queue.
Anyone else getting compile errors with the latest clang on mountain lion?

num2int.c:82:21: error: expected ')'

sprintf(buf, "%"PRI_LL_PREFIX"d", NUM2LL(num));

^
> I'm short, Hakyll is awesome.

A good solution for the vertically challenged. :)
I'm a coding coach. I'm only 16 but I am the programming captain of my school's robotics team and I teach a small class.

I have to do just that to help the kids along, to learn, to fix small things and generally become more independent.

I love it.
What you're describing is very similar to a 1-1 with a lead/manager at a good company. Usually you'll meet once a week, talk about any problems you're having, and work through any hard design problems you're encountering. If the company is well managed, your lead will be very experienced and know how to help you become a better programmer.
"Remember Twitter story. When it was first started it was super buggy Rails app, that was down all the time"

For every one of these examples there are 10 where newly shipped code is not "super buggy".

I've stopped using many services because of their attention to bugs was poor. Business value diminishes quickly when your product fails all over the place. sure you can find examples of companies that pulled through even with glaring problems, but there are also ones that succeeded because of competitive advantage from great code, and i dare to opinionate that the latter has a higher success rate.

Should you rewrite entire code when it's bad? no, this is almost never the right move. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Seeking Work. Bangalore.
Python (pyramid/django/sqlalchemy/), couchdb, solr. Mostly a backend dev.
Can also consult on e-commerce and start-up team setup in India(Mumbai/Bangalore).
I couldn't agree more with all you've said. I've been coding for a while, but only recently had the desire to want to turn it from a skill into a craft. I relish the challenges that I come up against and delight in finding solutions to them.

Apart from the areas in which I know I'm deficient, I also want to uncover the unknown unknowns in my coding, since I am self taught and have doubtless developed poor habits along the way without even realising it.
250 * 30,000 = 7,500,000
Google ads crush Facebook ads in efficacy
Potato is a 65-person developer-lead agency based in London, UK with offices in Bristol, Amsterdam, Sydney & San Francisco. Our clients include Google, PayPal, a number of startups and other agencies such as BBH & Mother.
We're hiring for a variety of positions in a variety of locations, freelance & full time, including:

Senior Django Developer, London - http://p.ota.to/jobs/senior-django-developer-london/

Django Developer, London - http://p.ota.to/jobs/django-developer-london/

Django Developer, Bristol - http://p.ota.to/jobs/django-developer-bristol/

UX Designer, Bristol - http://p.ota.to/jobs/ux-designer-bristol/

Studio Manager, London - http://p.ota.to/jobs/studio-manager-london/

More at http://p.ota.to/jobs/
Amen to this.

Tutors w/o industry experience are useless. And virtually no one with the experience will do the tutoring outside the work.
I work in a small psychology research lab in a university. I am one (the senior) of only two programmers. I work here because I am passionate about the problems I get to work on, as well as the freedoms afforded to me. Since I am in this situation, code reviews and pair programming are of limited value to me, although we do them so I can help my junior colleague.
> Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard.

I like the optimism in that "maybe" at the beginning of the sentence.
Ruby-binlog based MySQL replication listener
Server engineer @ Wordnik

Fulltime (remote possible), SF Bay Area

Wordnik is looking for a senior level engineer to help develop our public and private API system. You will help build out our Application cluster, which requires nuts-and-bolts knowledge of high-performance application stacks.

Required Experience
High-performance programming experience using Java, Scala preferred.

Expert in OO design and "practical abstraction"

Deep knowledge of multi-threading programming, understanding of Java Concurrency framework, Scala Akka framework

Asynchronous programming with Akka, Comet or Websockets

Experience with GIT, ANT, Ivy, Maven, sbt

Exposure to ORM techniques, document storage engines
JAXB/Jackson annotation mapping

Working experience with Linux and Mac OSX

You'll Do Even Better With:

Scalatra experience

Configuration/tuning Jetty, Netty

MongoDB/other non-relational database production experience

Development experience with a high-traffic, consumer Internet application/platform

Interested? send a note to ivan@wordnik.com explaining why you're the person we're looking for.
Shopbop.com - Madison, WI USA

- Software Development Managers
- Senior Software Developers
- Software Engineers

Primarily a Java-based e-commerce platform, heavily investing in SOA architecture and scalable sytems. Experiencing rapid business growth and seeking to support that growth by building out our development team.

http://www.shopbop.com/ci/aboutShopBop/careers.html
Online communities are useful, but not what I am looking for. I already have access to online communities. Coaching is different - it is more personal, more focused, and is based on a longer term relationship.
Data Scientists, Mobile Game Engineers, Big Data Engineers, Ruby on Rails Developers, Tech Writers, QA -- you name it!

FULLTIME jobs at ngmoco:) in SAN FRANCISCO, CA!

ngmoco:) makes social games. Some are more fun than others. But with your help, maybe they could all be super fun. :)

Apply here: http://www.ngmoco.com/careers/positions/engineering

I've been there a month, and it's a fun environment. Feel free to email me (in profile) any questions you have.
Yep. Happened to be the first of the month.
I will check out that site, PHP is one of the languages I work in regularly. Thanks!
Actually I agree with this, perhaps we're just debating cause and effect. Developers in my experience do hate putting together html email due to the wonky client constraints and as a result often say to marketing "its a mess, I don't want to touch it, find a e-mail making program / service to do it".

But is that the cause or the effect?

Rather, are email clients still a mess because developers don't have much interest in topic? Even gmail has strange html/css rules, if google pulled that with chrome there would be pages of developer outrage here on HN, almost no one seems to care about gmail's html rendering, or enforcing a spec/compliance for email clients, developers are apathetic about it.

What I'm saying is, developers don't like working with html email because its a mess, but its a mess because the development community as a collective doesn't seem to care about it, at least not enough that there is a concerted effort to fix it.
Palo Alto, CA - Sherpa

We're building predictive intelligence into your smartphone.

We provide users just the information they need right as they need it and simplify task completion on the iPhone. From telling you 20 minutes before you leave for work that there is a major accident on your typical route, to automatically surfacing key information at the right location -- like your hotel reservation as you approach your hotel -- we simplify your life and help you focus on what's important.

It is really only in the past year that what we are doing has become possible on a large scale. This is because background location is now available and with it we are able to build models of the user and connect key bits of information to the user's current state (think position).

We would love to show and tell you more!

We're looking for great people to join our small startup backed by top VCs.

Specifically:

Backend Software Engineers

The deep technology problem we face is information retrieval and machine learning. The user models we build help us make predictions and determine how and when to present information.

iOS Engineers

We’re looking for iOS engineers that can build beautiful experiences and effects, and squeeze performance out of the system.

Please email me at wferrell AT getsherpa.com with your resume.
Skype - Palo Alto

We are a startup unit inside Skype inside MS delivering very large scale services to transform portions of the Skype P2P network into a server based system. While we work in MS and engineer systems with C++/C#/Azure and nosql backends, our team is a *nix-centric group of hackers who have used erlang, rabbit, mongo, redis, etc, etc in production systems.

While we are not a startup, our org is run by a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits who just likes to get things done, and our culture reflects that. We also have the usual suspects of catered lunches, dogs barking in the office, free caltrain, and even a good bit of node.js lurking around.

We need hackers and engineers who know how to balance beauty with pragmatism to get systems shipped, and who find deep joy in creating beautiful systems that make a real difference in the world.

Contact f00biebletch at gmail.com if interested, this is the best corporate opportunity you'll ever find - stable funding, creative thinkers, risk taking encouraged, no politics, just delivering great systems.
The Motley Fool

FULLTIME/INTERN in WASHINGTON, DC METRO

The Motley Fool is always hiring passionate developers who want to help the world invest better. We write our code primarily in C# and Python, but will use anything if it helps us achieve our mission.

We are currently enrolling developers in a unique tryout program; details are here: http://culture.fool.com/2012/11/09/do-you-have-what-it-takes..., or learn more about our awesome culture on our blog: http://culture.fool.com/.
The on-screen keyboard reminds me of the good ol' days of ZX Spectrum (each key had a command assigned to it, you typically wouldn't type the commands but press the corresponding button)

http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/zx-spectrum_keyboard.jpg
With respect I disagree.

While I understand entirely why the Enterprise as is was originally commissioned (dick waving with the USSR) the kind of missions the US Navy performs today require more flexibility and less brute force.

Now the Enterprise's speed is, even today, still damn competitive. But to get her ready to sail with her crew complement, supplies, and other logistical issues would likely mean she couldn't be used as part of a fast reactionary force.

She would be wonderful at long drawn out conflicts but how many of those does the US intend to take part in in the next fifty years? Any?
Power consumption only drops to about 50% of the daytime peak at night[1]. Unless you have somewhere to store that solar, you have to plan on "other sources" producing at least 50%, and more likely significantly more. I consider Utah to be a pretty sunny place, but it is still cloudy nearly a third of the year[2].

Sure, you can couple wind and solar, but that still doesn't help when we get a valley fog inversion for most of January that reduces sunlight to 30% of already short days and no wind is blowing anywhere nearby. Utah doesn't really have the spare water capacity to use it as a potential energy store, either.

The point being that, as great as renewables are, without a way to cheaply store vast amounts of renewable energy or a way to shuffle energy from great distances, it isn't going to work on its own. We need a solid baseline, which, of course, is coal today, but I'd much rather keep looking for better nuclear.

There's a lot of energy in those bonds; I have a great deal of confidence we can find a way to leverage it without all of the nasty side-effect. We just need to get past the knee-jerk reaction of "nuclear is bad" and to a better place of "today's nuclear leaves a lot to be desired, but it doesn't mean tomorrow's will"[3].

1. http://www.mpoweruk.com/electricity_demand.htm

2. http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Utah/sunshine-by-month...

3. http://www.quaker.org/fep/CES1.html - You can see that Nuclear is far less deadly than coal, but, when things go wrong, it costs a whole lot more than coal.
Zynga Stock Dives as Facebook Keeps Backing Away
Need your opinion about my video and project
Do you require CS Degrees of your employees?
For a recent example, google discussions about the CPU in the iPhone 5. It has two cores but a hugely improved memory bus. That makes it comparable in speed to some four-core phones at the same clock speed.
I already saw the camera and i liked it, less shiny, closer to the matte look i like, so article dismissed. Btw linkbait alert, really not enough substantial material in the article to consider it.
Network Giants: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company
This is fantastic.

The thing I like the most about ruby is how much thought is put into code readability and programming experience.

My favorite features of this release:

1. Keyword arguments: I can stress how important this is for code readability and also prevents some bugs.

2. Refinements: This is going to make code easier to maintain and more "custom". I can't wait to add a few things we constantly use on String etc.
Is that even valid C code?
They're doing it because by removing the reactors the ship will be essentially destroyed.

More details on the process. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/01/us/enterprise-scrap/index....
PlaceIQ is hiring a data scientists, a systems/dev ops software engineer, a junior software engineer, and a product lead.

Based in New York, PlaceIQ aggregates and organizes location-based data to better understand the context of a place and time. We've got great momentum, top-shelf clients and partners, and tons of interesting data to play with!

http://www.placeiq.com/jobs/
People in southern Utah used to go climb the buttes to get a better view of the fireballs from the Nevada nuclear bomb tests. Not sure I'd use what people used to do as a standard to measure against.
Trendiction, Luxembourg, Europe.

We are crawling messageboards, news and blog sites on the web.

We are constantly looking for new team members (Full time):

* Production Operations / Systems Engineering
* Big data engineers
* Front end engineers

http://www.trendiction.com/
This is something I'd insist on paying for. Investment in a relationship like this goes both ways, and having a coach that was not incentivized to continue would be a deal-breaker for me.
Show HN: konec: Public key crypto with OpenSSH RSA keys (Overnight project)
https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus

Simple. Quick deployments. Python/django based.
Deploying Mongodb clustered shards with Ubuntu in the cloud
It is bizarre to need node.js to install a Javascript component.
SEEKING WORK remote or in Austin, TX

I'm Vitorio, a skilled user experience and interaction designer in Austin, TX.

I am currently available for research and design engagements, and also for ad-hoc design questions by the hour.

If you think your current site and onboarding flow and app design is okay and just want someone to make it prettier, make the logo pop, etc., that's not me.

If you want more users to sign up, users to stick around longer, users to pay more, heck, users to pay at all, that's me.

If you don't have a site or app yet and want to know what you need to know to make sure you don't have these common "let's just build it we'll figure it out later" teething problems, to have your app designed well from day 1, that's really me. I love those kinds of engagements the most. You'd be my favorite.

Ideally, we'll do a small research engagement together to figure out what you need, and then a proper, full design engagement. But, every project is unique; contact me and let's talk: http://vitor.io/

Not sure what you need? Never hired a designer? Just want to have a structured conversation by the half-hour or hour? Consider signing up for UX office hours instead, there's no obligation: http://uxhours.com/

Will also barter UX for art or development; front-end, Python, Node, or AWS (via Python or Node) are all of interest.

I've founded three startups myself so far, so I have some idea about what you're going through: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214065#score_1214439

And, one startup has found me through HN, so that's something.
EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Fulltime

EventMobi (http://www.eventmobi.com) is the leading mobile web platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. Our mobile event guides, real-time interactivity features and the first ever social / gaming layer customized for conferences and tradeshows have been used by over 1000 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 8 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded team of 16 and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

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We're to grow our engineering team as our platform expands and we're looking for start-up minded software engineers who want to build extremely fast and see their code in production and in use by millions of people right away! We use a lot of new tech (Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Redis) in production and we're trying to innovate what is possible one the mobile web.

We're also looking for more experienced engineers to help us build our core platform as we add on other features and services. This means helping architect our multi-tiered API, our data consistency solutions syncing data between multiple devices and global nodes, architecting our scaling solutions, etc.

To have a better look, check out our careers page!
http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/
Literally Canvas: An Open Source, Embeddable HTML5 Drawing Widget
SEEKING WORK. San Francisco CA
I've been writing iOS apps, fulltime, for 5 years now. I enjoy creating unique, compelling interfaces with core animation and OpenGL. Prior to becoming a freelancer, I worked at Zynga as a senior engineer. You can find out more about me at http://casselmanconsulting.com or shoot me an email at tcasselman@casselmanconsulting.com.
I am also self-taught. I was lucky to have many mentors in my professional life, but I also had the foresight to know that I should use my skills as an autodidact to teach myself the things that lie beyond the endless tutorials and self-help programming books. There is genuine value in those things, but they only take you so far.

I think it's wise to study the great open source projects of the world and, if possible, to contribute to them. It is also wise to continually take on projects and challenges just outside your current skills and comfort levels. Who says you can't write a database? A compiler? A video game? Your first attempts may not be professional quality or even usable outside your own little world, but they will help you grow.

A programmer wakes up in the middle of the night and asks "gee, I wonder if I could boot Linux inside a web browser on top of an emulator written in JavaScript?" An average programmer says "Ha! Maybe if I were a wizard." A master knows that anything but attempting it is an excuse in mediocrity. And then Fabrice Bellard shows us all what can be done when the shadow of "The Great Wizard" is cast aside and replaced with the pain and slow but inevitable rewards of real work and productive failure.
New York - Full time or intern Rails devs

Aidin's mission is to bring transparency to the healthcare system and empower patients with data to make more informed decisions on where they receive care. We're backed by the best institutional investors in both consumer internet http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/aidin-seed-round/. Aidin was born out of Blueprint Health (3% acceptance rate), a Techstars affiliated healthcare IT accelerator. We're surrounded by amazing talent as we currently reside in Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com/), a highly selective co-working space housing the best startups in New York.

As a software engineer on a small team, you'll touch on every aspect of the technology related to the company. It’s a broad job description and we’re looking for someone who loves being part of a fast-paced, constantly evolving work environment where your opinions and decisions will seriously affect our technical direction. We’re looking for a technology generalist with interest in specializing as necessary - It's more important that you love learning and can adopt new languages/frameworks/APIs very quickly.

There are few companies poised to actually make an impact on people's lives, but Aidin is one of them. Join a team of people committed to leave a lasting impression on a part of healthcare that one day, we too will rely on. We couldn't be any more excited about what we're doing, and so is the tech community! http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/meet-the-three-most-fund-ab...

For more info email mike@myAidin.com, or feel free to contact me (info in profile)
SEEKING WORK - Remote / will travel

Competencies:

Node.js / JavaScript (expert) * CSS3 / HTML5 (expert) * Git / Unix environment (intermediate) * Java (intermediate) * Python (novice)

Looking to build some smaller projects, but willing to discuss pretty much anything. Have shipped multiple MVPs in under a week. Feel free to check out my GitHub https://github.com/Weltschmerz or drop me an email wltsmrz@gmail.com .