skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this relationship has the makings of a codependent relationship. When you combine a man who is probably insecure since he searches for dates on craigslist and a woman with a litany of mental issues you generally have a codependent relationship. The insecure man needs to feel "needed" and the women needs to be "saved". Most of these relationships do not end well and lead to long-term unhappiness for both parties.
Cool :) Great to know.
Neat article!

I was googling for examples in Google Maps, and came across the corresponding article on open street maps[1], which is a nice supplement.

[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
I don't think the situation is as bad in the US, but the fundamental issue of "getting paid benefits to not work" has rarely been balanced on any useful scale with a system that says "are you working already? here are some useful support services?" (child care, medical, extra cash, etc).

We seem to only have systems that provide benefits/services to people who don't work at all. Going back 20+ years, I worked (at a burger king!) with someone who ended up quitting because it was 'better' for her to be on our state's welfare program. Why? If she worked, and earned more than (IIRC $120/week or something) then she would lose all her benefits, which added up to far more than she could buy on the $120/week she might earn working at BK.

What struck me then that would make far more sense is to offer a sliding scale of benefits, but phase them out if you didn't work at all. She could have stayed working at BK at, say, $120/week, and in return received another $100 in benefits, have been far better off, but instead, the system deemed it better to have her earning nothing, and living off the state for $150/week.

My numbers are probably off some - it's been 20 years since we had that conversation, but it was one of the first times it struck me how backwards our regulations and policies are. It's not gotten any better in those intervening 20 years.
Writing code frees us to think in new ways
Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
I have never seen an app like this. Interesting concept maybe do the same for Japanese or maybe Arabic?
SEEKING WORK (Remote) - Android developer. Several well-known apps in the marketplace, 10 mil combined installs. Email gcuyycdv@receiveee.com for more info.
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How does Net Apps measure browser market share that they get such huge difference for IE, which they put at 54%, compared to StatCounter who puts it at around 30%? To me the StatCounter numbers seem more accurate.
I recently started using C#, having not programmed for windows in years, and have to admit I'm greatly impressed by it. It really feels modern, well designed, and very flexible and powerful, in too many ways to list.

Unfortunately, I'm finding the .NET libraries that I'm using not quite so well designed - Working with windows forms specifically. Fortunately, a lot of the third party libraries seem pretty well designed, though seems to be a general love-affair with overly verbose XML configuration files. Perhaps I'm just spoilt by the elegance of UIKit (well, most of it), and the clear benefits from a ground-up design.

I know there is Mono for other platforms, but don't know how well it is supported/what the performance characteristics are like, but it seems a language that would really, really benefit with a truly platform-independent (i.e. not a thin win32 wrapper) set of libraries; GUI and otherwise.
Diagnosis of mental illness is done by interview. There is no objective lab test demonstrating a "biochemical imbalance" in the brain. Diagnosis is subjective.
PipelineDeals - Seattle/Greater Philadelphia Area (Wayne, PA)/Remote

Join the team of happy hackers at PipelineDeals! We’re looking for talented Rails developers in the Seattle or Greater Philadelphia area (remote work ok, for the right type of individual)

Perks:

* Join a progressive, 6 year-old company that is fun to work at, bootstrapped, profitable and proud. The stuff you will work on will be used daily by tens of thousands of users across the globe!

* We encourage and promote learning on the job. We have Video/Prezo Fridays, where we all hang out and watch a presentation from a conference, or present ourselves, about various subjects like TDD, architecture, SOLID principles, Ember.js, etc etc.

* There are quite a few large projects in our future that will be quite interesting to work on.

* Reimbursement for conferences or meetups you would like to attend, books you want to buy, screencasts you want to watch. In addition, you will be invited to attend our yearly Summit meeting, where the entire company gets together in a wild location.

* Great benefits package: 401k, full health coverage, dental, vision.

* Very competitive salary, and lots of room for growth. Our goal is to ensure you are comfortable so you will be productive.

Requirements:

* Must have at 2 years of experience working directly with ruby, either with a company, or via open source. Past contributions to open source projects, or maintaining your own, are looked very highly upon.

* At least a year’s experience working with Rails, either on your own or at a previous company.

* Experience with jQuery, Backbone.js or Ember.js, Coffeescript

* Solid familiarity with git or other distributed version control system.

* Enough SQL to understand what rails is doing in the backend.

* Willingness to learn every day, and present what you learn to the team. We love learning here.

* A good sense of humor is a strict requirement. Company culture is very important to us, and we are absolutely NOT a bunch of straight-laced, profit-driven, cubicle-sitting curmudgeons.

* Remote work OK, but it is highly preferable if you are located around the Philadelphia or Seattle area. You will be expected to be at the office sometimes. We do get lonely.

Interested? Email a link to your Github account (or resume) to careers@pipelinedeals.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
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SEEKING WORK - Remote with onsite visits (based in asia/pacific)

Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, RubyMotion

- Web developer since 15 years, startups since 2007, as founder and employee

- Expert-level Ruby and JavaScript

- Created of RubyJS, an open source project that Matz the creator of Ruby endorsed. http://rubyjs.org

- Speaker at Ruby and JS conferences around the world

- Commits to Rails/HAML, jQuery

- 6 years Ruby/Rails, 2012 focus on JS and CoffeeScript

- Writing highly performant code in Ruby and JS

- Remote consulting/freelance since 2 years, currently in
Asia/Pacific (UTC +07:00)

- Excellent at kickstarting projects and getting your MVP out.

- Open for onsite visits

More information and contact info on: http://hasclass.com
Providence, RI (full-time or intern) or remote (part-time)

Care Thread (http://www.carethread.com) provides secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for healthcare providers in hospitals. Care Thread's mobile and web apps deliver real-time information detailing patient status and treatment to every member of the care team, addressing communication gaps to eliminate unnecessary costs and reduce medical errors.

Our products are built around a real-time messaging and notification framework, using tools including node.js, Python, CoffeeScript, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL.

We're looking to expand our team by adding web front-end developers, mobile developers for iOS and Android, and back-end developers, as well as a system administrator who's comfortable with PostgreSQL databases, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, and VPNs.

If you'd like to build the next generation of healthcare software, please contact us at jobs@carethread.com.
I believe this kind of service would work better as an email newsletter. I wouldn't mind receiving a weekly/biweekly email with hot deals relevant to my interests. I think you should push deals to the people (i.e. email) instead of pulling people to the deals (website). A bare minimum would be an RSS feed although I think email would work better in this case.
Marking the birth of the modern-day Internet
That was more about integrating Ubuntu with Android, though. I think they want their own OS for mobile.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based in Colorado, USA)

I write code for both sides of the HTTP request as well as both sides of the USB cable. My current project involves d3.js, node, LLVM, and custom hardware. Somewhere between frontend and embedded, there's probably something I can build for you.

I primarily work with:

- HTML5, JavaScript (CoffeeScript), CSS, jQuery, Backbone
- NodeJS, Python, Flask
- C, C++, Linux, Git
- PCB design, AVR & ARM microcontrollers
- among many more

See some of my projects at http://kevinmehall.net. Shoot me an email: hnfreelance@kevinmehall.net
Thanks a lot, @nwh!
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

French technologist and marketing guy based in South East Asia (Manila, Philippines). I have been CTO/co-founder of a few startups and agencies, based on technologies such as Rails, PHP and Erlang. Love to implement awesome front ends (Coffeescript / Websockets etc...) and scalable backends.

I've also worked with many startups and big agencies on marketing and UX issues.

My LinkedIn : http://ph.linkedin.com/in/julienmarie

My email : jm at producture dot com
Seeking freelance work. Key skills: Full stack asp.net mvc, javascript, coffeescript, SQL, Azure, c#. Very strong SQL and data skills.
Maybe, but I'd be much more excited about using my docked phone as a computer than yet another mobile OS that won't be as good as Android.
Not to be offensive but advertising on Reddit is basically trolling for cheapskates. Sure you may get a little traffic but they don't buy anything. I know from experience.
Yup, it's next on the list of features. I would love to get an idea if people are interested in it or it's just me. I've been having this idea for a while, just this holiday, I'm able to get around doing it. Your feedback is encouraging. Thank you.
Looks great. Reminds me a little of Duolingo http://duolingo.com You might want to check them out to get ideas for improving your app.
We Need More Operating Systems
check out youtube, there are plenty of gource videos

A year ago I made a video of 6 years of development in my company and all the techies were so happy seeing the code grow and change :)
London, UK. (INTERN ok)

Django Developers at Wildfish, http://wildfish.com

We're an independent London based Django consultancy looking to expand our team. We work on web applications for startups, other clients, and our own hairbrain schemes. We've mostly been working with freelancers, but are now looking to start putting together a permanent team to take things to the next level. We're all developers, so understand the things which are important and which aren't.

Our office is in London Bridge, so you'll need to be within occasional commute distance of there, but a mixture of remote on site work seems to work best for most of us, so that's fine too.

These are some of the technologies we're working with, so please mention any experience, skills or interest in any of them:

- Python
- Django
- Testing (TDD, nose, django-webtest, factory-boy)
- gevent, gevent-socketio
- Ubuntu Linux server admin (Linode, AWS, Fabric, Salt, Nginx)
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- Django CMSs (Django CMS 2, FeinCMS, Mezzanine, others)
- HTML/CSS/Bootstrap
- Javascript (and any frameworks)

It's more important that someone can demonstrate they know their stuff rather than have lots of commercial experience necessarily, so please include any links which might show that (other projects/Github/HackerNews/SO, etc).

We'd also like someone who's interested in helping us build the profile of the company but contributing back to the community, including paid time contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts, and developing our own internal infrastructure or cool things you or we may dream up.

Please email contact@wildfish.com with your details and salary expectations. Would possibly also consider those interested in part time work.

Thanks!
Reminds me a bit of SpeakerDeck...
Any idea how to get your head around the tonal part of the language? I took three years of mandarin in high school and a year as an extension as an adult.

I still struggle with the tones.
It feels very much like being there. It probably feels even more so when you are working the controls. Perhaps this could be provided to shut-in invalids, or as tourism. Rather than flying their bodies to the other side of the world, customers would sit at home controlling copters over the Internet. That would require adding some automated evasive protections.
From the Windows/Client UI side, I think you may want to check out WPF. Winforms is exactly what you said, a thin Win32 wrapper in .Net (which is why I found it easy, already knowing some C Win32 APIs and MFC). WPF takes some times to wrap your head around, I still haven't done it, but it seems like a better way to go.

Of course now we have Windows 8/WinRT so who knows what's going to happen to WPF.
Largely true in my experience, but without hanzi you're illiterate in China. Definitely a plausible thing for a short visit, but if you stay for a longer period I think it'd be very paralyzing. This comes from an experience I had traveling with a friend when I was a beginning fluent reader and speaker and he just a speaker. Over the few months in Beijing his confidence deteriorated and he ended up staying at home ordering the same food from the nearby market every day. I think his illiteracy contributed to that.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Human/machine interface designer/developer.

From scratch experience and interface design, from the napkin to nginx.

Frontend: HTML5 (Haml, Slim), CSS3 (Sass, Less), JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Handlebars)

Backend: Ruby, Rails, Mongodb (Mongoid), Postgres

Design: Pencils, pens, paper, Photoshop

NOTE: I am not available to do any work relating to social networks, online marketplaces broadly, and will have to review any consumer-focussed work before I can confirm availability. If you're working on a b2b product we're probably game though.

Contact is at http://robotfuture.net/
Spiceworks, Austin, TX. Full-time http://www.spiceworks.com/jobs/

We're hiring all types (Analytics, UI, Test-Automation, Generalists) of developers and at all levels at the moment.

Responsibilities: What will I do?

* Looking for all levels of experience

* Contribute to the design and development of product features as well as major components

* Contribute to the innovation and evolution of the Spiceworks suite products

* Work directly with our growing community of over 2 Million IT pros as well as experience developers who are experts in the industry

Qualifications: What does it take to do this job?

* Looking for all levels of experience

* Object Oriented programming skills with Ruby-on-Rails ( Python or equivalent)

* Application and/or Web Application experience is a must

* Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Prototype) and Ruby-On-Rails

* Solving large-application/user-level problems, performance, scalability, etc.

* Skilled with distributed software (native or webapp)

* Some experience with SQL is desired

Email me at sajana @ spiceworks . com if you're interested!

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Called the “Facebook of IT,” Spiceworks innovative model combines a network management app with an online community of over 2 million IT pros around the world. Our goal is to simplify “everything IT” by helping our users do their jobs, share tips and tricks, and connect with the tech vendors who sell them products. And, given we’re growing by over 2,000 users a day, it’s no wonder we’ve been called the “fast growing social business app” in history!
"Flight to Substance" is something I think a lot of us are interested in, but it isn't always obvious how to do it. My take on it is that you need to find niches which are underserved and where you can do something really meaningful. I think there are quite a lot of these.

We started a foundation that builds web and mobile services, on open source software, which are used to fix poverty. This area was essentially not considered a market when we started, so the threshold to get started and recognised for doing something useful was relatively low. As a non-profit foundation we could also take investments from those that wouldn't invest in your ordinary tech startup.

We aren't doing this work to get rich, but there are a lot of other benefits. We have very patient investors and we have a lot of freedom in implementing our vision as we see fit. It is also pretty amazing to be working on software and services which actually make a real difference for those that have it the worst.

One of our core services, a mobile phone field survey application, have been used recently to do baseline surveys for all public water points (wells etc) in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. Providing data that just didn't exist before. 30 people go out on motorbikes for 3 months to collect data and come back with tens of thousands of surveys. This data is then used to drive national policy on rural infrastructure improvement. This stuff makes a real difference. And we have agreements in the works which will make this type of data collection possible all across sub-Saharan Africa, with our tools that are used by governments, NGOs and multi-lateral organisations such as UNICEF.

It feels like working on stuff that matters. It is both technically interesting and there is a lot of work to be done. I am sure that in education, healthcare, government, public infrastructure and other areas there is a lot that you could think of that could be improved, which you could get unconventional funding for to do.
Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java), PHP Developers and a Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Linux, Nginx, HBase, HAProxy, Memcached, and OpenTSDB)

TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers at every layer of our technology stack. http://tumblr.com/jobs

We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs.

Happy New Year,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala, you will design, create and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application. Being a productive coder with architecture common sense is a must, but expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus.

* Search Engineer (http://bit.ly/TcOdt8): Real-time search and architecture are your forte. Using your large-scale experience with building and innovating search backends, you will help take our search infrastructure to the next level.

* Front End/PHP Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You are a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

* Site Reliability Engineering Lead (http://bit.ly/Uyy04u): As the team lead, you are an inspiring software developer with a passion for the highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems that make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users.

About Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/about)

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr empowers millions of users to create and explore content. Tumblr now hosts more than 87 million blogs and 39 billion posts. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and a love for open source. As engineers, we are focused on building technologies that advance massively scaled websites. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.
> When I feed the poor, they call me a saint,
> but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
>
> - Dom Helder Camara
Makes more sense...

Oh yeah, changeable font would be nice as Chinese characters are mostly about pattern recognition. And as you know, they have the stylized and abstract way... Clerical, regular, etc. This can sometimes lead to confusion to newcomers as endingsvare more fluent, angled, etc.
If you're using C# or similar, the only reasonable choice is to always use Mono.

Just use the cross platform and open source runtime, as you would for any other language, and pretend that .Net doesn't exist.
TripAdvisor: Newton, MA

Come help me build the future of travel.

Contact info is in my HN account.
Obj-C: infer types like a man, man
The New Rules of Fitness for 2013
Monetate - (Philly suburbs) Conshohocken, PA - No remote, but we will help you with relocation.

Monetate helps internet marketers make their site more relevant. We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on

* Open source - Google Closure, Python, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Funded by First Round Capital and OpenView

* Market rate salaries

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com
Look at a demo of Rosetta Stone. Haven't touched it recently, but it should be able to do most of what you want.
29 seeking work, 0 seeking freelancers. Looks like a buyer's market at the moment!
Sd - Subtle Disruption | New Delhi / Remote

At Sd we are designers, engineers and aesthetes working on products aimed at uncovering latent needs and desires. We aspire to develop a model that sits at the intersection of disciplines and brings together great people from all over to build interesting companies. We believe innovation often charts its own path and we thus adjust ourselves accordingly by being experimental and lean in our approach.

Our ideas seem not bound by verticals or geographies. We are light–packers, risk takers and tend to be driven a bit differently. We are made up of not employees, rather co–founder caliber individuals. We are school, degree and work experience agnostic. What is important to us is: integrity, energy/personality and intelligence (in that order) to apply please visit http://subtledisruption.com . You can also follow us at http://twitter.com/sdisruption

Wishing the HNews community a very happy and prosperous 2013!