skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VividCortex, Inc. (remote, Charlottesville, VA)

About Us: Our products help our customers measure, analyze and understand system behavior at a very deep level. There are good tools in the application and network layers, but usable tools for servers and databases are practically nonexistent. We’re fixing that, focusing first on tools for MySQL.

DevOps Brainiac

Our backend systems and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL, Cassandra and other storage technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment. We're looking for someone who can switch in and out of a couple of developer and sysops roles -- writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Chef recipes, and so on. We're a small team, so the real job description is "we need another backend/infrastructure engineer."

Front End Brainiac

The web app is backed by PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by a lot of JavaScript, using up-to-date technologies and frameworks. There's a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex user interface that's key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We'd love to find someone who can hop back and forth between the PHP, D3, Angular, etc., and it's even better if they've got some design sensibilities and can help shape the product's features and functionality too. If you've got the latter skillset, then the PHP coding is optional.

Email us at jobs@vividcortex.com if interested.

https://vividcortex.com
Another approach that can work in big organizations: make sure that your boss knows that, if they ignore your advice, the responsibility for the decision is theirs, not yours. In a C.Y.A. organization this is often enough. Be sure to have written proof -- when it hits the fan, people tend to have selective memory.
dMetrics, NYC

Be part of a team that is revolutionizing how computers analyze text.

Interns and Fulltime positions.

http://dmetrics.com/careers

jobs@dmetrics.com
> I don't see what's wrong with that, asking the author if you can use his work is just good etiquette, I'm sorry if that's too much work for you.

Yes, it is too much work; it's often not even possible. This is the problem of orphaned works, where the authors are gone or missing and nobody knows who they are, etc, or the work was published anonymously, etc.

Tracing down the authors of works produced seventy or eighty years ago is actually really difficult. You should try it sometime before casually dismissing the concern as being born of laziness.
The parallels in this story to unplanned conception in conventional marriages are so obvious that I wonder if they're deliberate. Many children are brought into the world under exactly the same emotional/psychological circumstances.

In any case, you didn't read the story carefully enough. They went back to court, both of them, to confirm they were both willing to adopt. Had the partner objected, the adoption wouldn't have happened. You're going to have to find something else to find objectionable in this story. :)
I believe Leo. If it actually happened though, I bet Leo would ask himself why if someone else made a million dollars off the material, why didn't he? In other words, what did the other guy do that Leo failed to do?
I wonder if they can post one bond that meets the requirements of all 50 states somehow... that seems reasonable, the issue is which party they would post the bond with.
Tapad, NYC. (Software engineers: primarily scala, javascript)

We're pushing the envelope on writing high-performance and pragmatic software in Scala. We're in the real-time ad-tech space, which means that we make decisions on lots of data, very quickly (95th percentile latency ranges between 5-15ms on 100k qps for one of our main services, and we can maintain the same stats if we take down half of our servers). We also are rebuilding our analytics platform to provide ever-richer insights into this aggregate data.

If you're a front-end wizard{,ess}, we also have interesting and challenging work for you! Create intuitive visualizations of key performance metrics. Make it simple for account managers to tweak dozens (hundreds?) of possible settings in our backoffice app. You will be instrumental in driving design decisions.

tl;dr -> engineering-driven organization with fantastic people and growth.

Say hello -> toby at tapad dot com
And, one last update (my edit window has passed, sorry):

"Pods 1 and 4 now online and thrusters engaged. Dragon transitioned from free drift to active control. Yes!!"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk
I still cringe every time I see the transportation startup's misspelled name (Ueber/Über) as Uber.
Harlem Shake on a plane.
What's really sad about this is that many government resources have certificates that the browsers available to their users (i.e., IE 6/7/8) don't trust, so the users are conditioned to blow through the clearest warnings they will ever get.

eg, here's the DoD global phone book (in case I want to email somebody). Server requires CAC token from the client, but the client's browser doesn't trust the server!

https://dod411.chamb.disa.mil/

I don't even know what to call this level of broken, Chomsky-esque?
I learned about RaphaelJS recently and used it (along with some jQuery code) to make a very interactive county-by-county map of data our company is interested in displaying for marketing purposes.

I've heard about D3 (http://d3js.org/), but haven't had a chance to use it in my work yet. Can anyone offer comparisons with its SVG rendering performance & capabilities?
There's a religious element in the "cult of vim" that proposes that one is not a professional programmer unless one joins the cult and becomes proficient at vim. This is followed by implications of code quality and capabilities. None of it, of course, is true. I am not and don't think I attributed any of this to you. If I did, I apologize.
I think the best one was

http://william.gibson.usesthis.com/

followed by

http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/

Then it is a toss up between

http://jason.rohrer.usesthis.com/

and

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/

I tend to skip the ones that go straight to 'Apple blah'. Yes, I'm addicted
Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life
Austin, TX - Python/Django Backend Dev

Help shape the future of the travel industry at Andrew Harper. We are currently converting our existing framework into a more flexible and robust platform in order to generate and serve more relevant insights to our travelers. Join our small, high-caliber team as we attempt to leapfrog the industry standards and bring travel technology into the future.

You should have 4-6 years of programming experience, and at least two years with Python and Django. Familiarity with RESTful API construction and deployment would be nice too. Our core products are/will be HTML5 web applications, so comfort with best practices in HTML, CSS and JS is required. Most of all, we're looking for a creative problem solver that can use more than one set of tools to create solutions.

About our company: Andrew Harper travels incognito and at his own expense in search of the world’s most enchanting places. His reviews of exclusive hotels and restaurants are shared with subscribers in his monthly publication of the Hideaway Report. Subscribers also enjoy exclusive benefits, support from travel experts and the collective intelligence of the Andrew Harper travel community.

Contact us at jobs@andrewharper.com for more information.
Short algorithm, long-range consequences
SEEKING WORK - Toronto or Remote

Bioinformatician looking for work. We versed in life and computational sciences (biology and computer science double major). Worked with data across organisms (arabidopsis, human, c. elegans, parasites). A lot of experience working with biological data and their APIs. Can also work on non-biological projects -- interests include HCI, UI, UX.

bioinformatics / computational biology / biology
contact la.garon[at]gmail.com
Use "logout" to leave the shell.

Thanks, tcsh. Now I remember why I don't use you.
Did you pay attention to the problems mentioned by the NSA director? It's hard. Much much harder than making a application to share status. Much much harder than even making an application that searches big data for new drug possibilities. There are classes of problems that are unsolved even at the technical level, much less the human one.
I actually thought about this a while back when I saw the Build Order tab displayed after a match that shows each player's build order up to around 30-40 supply. This technically should be possible since a replay has all the data for that, but I haven't looked into it more yet.
However, they're probably building to the URL spec which is what they should be doing.
What bank do you use? Not sure of BofA has this.
Ah, The good old Thread.sleeep(10000) to make it feel extra secure
London, UK
Flooved www.flooved.com

Web Designer (full or part time / permanent or contractor)

Confident, trendy and bursting with positive energy? Work with us. Flooved is a Ed Tech Startup with VC backing and the best customer segment - uni students!

We are just starting rebuild from scratch so we need an awesome person to design everything - website and book reader.

We are located at the BBC Media Village offices at White City.

If this position sounds interesting, please send your resume or ask any questions: tomasz@flooved.com

Kind regards,
Tomasz Jureczko, CTO
Comedian?
Stack Overflow Careers Localization API
This is really nice.

I'm working on a non-plaintext programming language that just needs a structural editor like this. I'll drop you a line.
That doesn't mean we don't get to question the rules. And... to consider our individual choices.

In my case, I started feeling like I was working for a parasite. And... I didn't particularly want to continue working for a parasite.
That would be about 38K searches per second. Does this include Google instant searches?

Google search results show a time value for each search. E.g.: About 2,210,000,000 results (0.12 seconds). Is this time machine time per search? This number is often around 30 ms, give or take a factor of two. If so, each machine can handle about 30 searches per second. If so, 38K searches per second need about 1000 machines. Sounds a bit too low... so my interpretation must be wrong at least somewhere.
DO IT.

PS: how about more of the non-computer ones like the baker and the coffee maker.
Etsy is hiring internationalization and intl/frontend engineers in Brooklyn : https://www.etsy.com/careers/
Dragon is now in active control and out of free drift. Tweet from Musk. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/status.html
Sure, but now you're utilizing the keyboard and mouse together, and, as you said, it isn't necessarily faster. That's an argument for sticking to the mouse. It's mostly justification. It isn't an argument in favor of consistently preferring the mouse to the keyboard.
I misremembered, I meant:

> various portable drives
Steve Mann: What I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
nuCourse (http://nuCourse.com/careers)
Garden Grove (Orange County), CA

Wholesale distributor of mobile accessories.

Hiring developers and non-technical positions.

#152 on most recent Inc 500 (fastest growing private companies in US).

Great place to work. Warm, friendly, exciting, growth potential, good work/life balance.
Where is the stuff about the creepy invasion and abuse of our privacy?

I know, I know, you don't do that. Nope, no one does. Everything is fine and dandy. Smile every one, no problem here.
Swearing is actually good for you
Seems like Stripe and the rest could help themselves by being easy to set up and use (that is, if they provided examples or various scenarios).
thx matt and the google search team for doing this. it's nothing new for technically inclined people, but every little bit helps. helps for what? teaching people to worry about the right aspects of search and the impact on their business, instead of worrying about bullshitphrases that were planted in their head by a SEO agency key account or a blogpost from 2008. so well yes, thx for doing this. i will send it to my clients (and tell them to click on the bubbles, even though they don't look clickable)

now an anecdote (because i feel like telling one): this week started for me with an interview that finally got published http://werbeplanung.at/news/marketing/2013/02/interview-mit-... (it's german) in that interview i claimed that

* 80% of everything written about SEO and Google is bullshit

* that all the rumors, tipps and trends are actually hurting business

* that we should treat SEO as a numbers based craft of constant optimizations

* instead of the esoteric bullshit art it is currently

* and, if search traffic is important for the success of a business, they must rid themselves of external (agency) dependencies and develop internal structures

nothing to far fetched i think. everybody knows the SEO vertical is full of bullshit, i just took some time to estimate a number (based on a random sample of collected blogposts (that at least one person tweeted about))

yeah, i got a lot of angry emails, skype messages, linkedin messages, xing messages after the interview was published.

most of them mentioned at least one of these words

* pagerank
* whitehat
* blackhat
* grayhat
* linkjuice
* panda
* pinguin ...

so yeah, thx google for educating people about search. keep up the good work.
Writing online: 1% value, 4% entertaining rubbish, 95% no redeeming features
The Last 6 Times Tim Cook Has Talked, Apple's Stock Has Dropped
But that doesn't mean that alongside the warning the computer can't try to get a new IP address by itself, even if it won't fix the problem 100% of the time.
How much does it snow in japan? Well, this much.
Unbelievable Photos of Snow in Japan
I use hdf5 as the file format for my project. I'm not at all a hdf5 expert, but I know it supports: partial reads/writes, extending data sets, and transparent compression. It's a nice file format and it's very easy to use from python (and matlab, C++, R, and others).

I read the article, and blz looks interesting. What is it aiming to provide that is missing from HDF5? (Speed?).
I worked for a company that implemented a similar technique and it had positive results. The main features of one of their web based software products was a report generator. The report was quite complex and included a lot of calculations based hierarchical relationships of entities in the system. To build this report by hand would probably take hours, but the queries and calculations were all highly optimized and could be run by the server almost instantly.

Many users complained that they didn't like paying so much for this feature because it didn't really seem to be doing very much. Instead of trying to educate each individual customer about all the intricacies of the report they just added a dialog box that would display for ~10 seconds and step through a few fake progress messages. People stopped complaining about paying for the report, and I would assume that is because the progress messages made them feel like something complicated was happening.
Culture drives creative works, and creative works drive culture. It's harmful to the progress of civilization to limit the use of works too severely.

That said, I can't sleep in, eat, or drive good feels, so I'd like to derive benefit from what I create, at least while I'm alive. Unless a post-scarcity world happens in my lifetime, in which case I'll offer up all my work with minimal restrictions.
It's more of a jab at Illinois (that state seems to have more than its fair share of known corruption issues) than government in general. "If it had been the state of Illinois versus say Apple, would you say the same thing?" Yes.

Some Government regulations are in fact reasonable, even a libertarian such as myself can concede that.

Someone else pointed out that Square doesn't really hold funds, they transfer them. (I haven't verified this statement.) Even if this is true... they still have access to a lot of people's funds and could very easily steal them.

Your other points are also spot on.

UPDATE: I was a little surprised myself that the net karma score for the parent comment was positive.

UPDATE 2: "I don't even understand the motivations behind posts like this." To be a little snarky I guess and to raise eyebrows and questions. At face value, little value is added by the comment... until someone replied and added to the discussion.
"We write programs & formulas to deliver the best results possible"

There's a slight oversight, it should be: "We write programs & formulas to deliver the most profitable results possible for this quarter"
If I had to guess, I would say it was the opposite. The page was loading too slowly, so users would click submit a second time. So the popup was added so the users know their first click was received and the page is loading.

Seriously, users will resubmit forms if the next page doesn't respond in a 1000ms - 1500ms.
The creators of Common Lisp knew what Alex is talking about. Lisp is, of course just as dynamic as Ruby, Python or Javascript, but it exposes lower-level details about data structures and memory allocation iff the programmer wants them.

Features that come to mind include preallocated vectors (fixed-size or growable), non-consing versions of the standard list functions and the ability to bang on most any piece of data in place. There are fairly few situations in which a CL program can't come within a factor of 2 or 3 of the performance of C.
Eclipse Juno SR2 Ships (performance issues addressed)
Yeah, I didn't mean mad max worlds literally, as much as I meant "a darker period of 'civilization'", or a loss of knowledge/ability/technology.

That's interesting thought you have though, of building society on "energy consumption" (labor, work, joules, whatever) whether it be slaves or oil. I suppose you could say it boils down to physics.
This lacks class regardless of how useful the software may be. And yes, it does matter.

What is with all the crass language that has become so pervasive in this industry in recent years?

Why the need to express yourself so poorly?
I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo

You can't say that and not provide more details.... You are obligated now.
It probably just increments by some fixed amount each second, but it seems like a statistic they would have an estimate of.
Or does it just resemble one?
First of all, seems like the various project teams had a last minute snag in terms of compat, but they managed to get it out the door a week late. Nice work guys!

First impressions, performance issues seem to be greatly alleviated, but I still get a lot of flickering on win7 64 when I move views around within a perspective.

Overall, it's nice to have the performance back, but Juno still does not feel complete to me because of the ui glitches. Here's to hoping 4.3 arrives with polish. It might seem like "that's just gui stuff" but when I'm focusing on a complex problem at 3 am in the morning my IDE has to be absolutely invisible to me as I jump between the tons of languages and resource types that I manage with it. Eclipse has always been so good with that.

I feel guilty that I've been complimenting it lately with SublimeText.
Does anyone know an alternative to stripe for switzerland?
I bet your bank has a great API for this as well :)

Balanced abstracts away this batching process and giving you events and nice json objects to deal with rather than parsing the batch file that eventually gets returned.

You could make the same argument for the card processing, if you really really wanted to you could bypass Balanced/WePay/Braintree/whoever and deal directly with the bank but for most people your time is better spent getting on with your core business.
Field Papers allows you to make and print atlases and annotate them in the field
That one was on here recently wasn't it? It's close but it's not the one I'm thinking of. I wish I could remember! Thanks though.
I believe that works should enter the public domain after a few years.
While we're talking about this, does anyone know what might be causing this slowdown that my buddy is running in to when using Raphael to run an infinitely repeating animation?

Details are at this stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15098456/raphael-gradual-...
My bad.

To fix my blunder:

Delete rest of the current word (and go to insert mode when applicable)

Vim: ce -> ST2: Ctrl+Delete

Delete current word (and go to insert mode when applicable)

Vim: caw -> ST2: Ctrl+D, Delete
"Maybe more disciplined people can work slowly enough at a keyboard, but I find it difficult still. When I really want to think about something, I still start with paper."

With me it is a drawing. Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, doodles, phrases floating around distributed spatially by the degree of affinity. I find paper/pen just a lot quicker for that. Nowt posh just Biro and A4 copy paper or a sketchbook. I find the fashionable Moleskine paper to be too thin so I use artists sketchbooks or an Alwych notebook

http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/legacy/blog/notes/white-van-driv...

clipboards are important. A local discount art materials shop has A3 clipboards (6mm thick) aimed at sketchers going for £4. Must get.
That makes this even sillier... The popup stays open claiming to be authenticating, while the main page has already returned with the error message "Your sign on was unsuccessful. Please try again..."
When I was much younger (high school) I used to stay up all night with friends, code, drink Coke, eat unhealthy foods - for fun. No exchange of currency involved. Then I would go and sleep until 2PM. Now I can't do that any more.

The other point is that even activity that is generally considered healthy, like sports, when forced upon you by various means, is going to be a negative. Forcing someone to run adds stress. Running because you enjoy it and want to run reduces stress.
Do you get upset when someone uses a flat head screwdriver to open a paint can? Surely that was not its intended use, but tools can be used to accomplish a larger set of tasks than the original itch they scratched.
Boyfriend Pushes Girlfriend Off Cliff/Insane Rope Swing And Promptly Gets Dumped
Boyfriend Pushes Girlfriend Off Cliff – Insane Rope Swing
I totally second this. The learning curve for Raphael is so much less steep than D3 and there's some really nice functionality built into the framework. The only (small) qualm I have is that it's a relatively bulky package, but you definitely can cut out pieces that you don't use that are unnecessary.
I think that the value of your editor was not in efficiency --if we define it as "data entry speed". I think it had a lot more to do with a sensible user interface that was accessible and yes, "efficient", for someone --anyone-- to get into. It used that peripherals and accepted UI norms available at the time and it did so well enough to be successful.

vim is a cult based on metrics that are not significant drivers in the context of building a software product or company.
We're working on it! :-)
This is completely false. The effect on revenue is not used to make launch decisions for ranking changes.
Watches: A Rant about Customer Service
Introducing Django Migratron
I think many of these attacks could be prevented if we controlled outbound connections more carefully.
Why you should test your code over ipv6
They determine who belongs to the "best and brightest" by looking at wages.

An alternative hypothesis is that in an industry where getting a raise means switching jobs the H1B program is successful in suppressing wage levels of foreigners.
Where could one find more technical information? Eg. how on earth they search through a 100Pb index and deliver me answers in 0,3 seconds... Do they actually search through the whole index (eg. using some kick-ass sharding or something like that to spread the search over 100000 servers or something...), or "cheat" in some way?