skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME with benefits (or FULL-TIME)

I mentioned a few days ago that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235860

We're looking to hire a couple more engineers who are interested in being part of a team but would prefer to work 24-40 hours per week instead of the usual 50+. If it sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

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About us:

The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

About 300 colleges and universities use our applications to acquire low-cost inventory and price textbooks competitively. Then millions of students visit our white-labeled sites to transparently compare the bookstore's offers against online competitors, and around 80% of students choose to buy from their local bookstore.

We're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems on the technical side, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck, and we're always looking for ways to provide more control to our support team so they can provide top-notch customer service.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us. :)
How to cope with sadness of a successful exit.
Is The Earth like Our Body - Impressionable?
How do we know that the number of people who work remotely are only 300-500? It seems to me that one of the big issues here is that Yahoo! has lumped together three types of workers:

1) Those who work remotely (not near an office)
2) Those who work near an office, and work from home 1-2 days per week
3) Those who work near an office, and have a regularly scheduled day off ("work from home") 1-2 days per week

I suspect that he may be right that there are only 300-500 of category 1. IMO, these are the people that are getting unfairly hit by this particular move.

Categories 2-3 need to be sorted and dealt with as appropriate. This move seems like a reasonable thing to do for Yahoo! to deal with them, under the circumstances.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or NYC

Skills: Java, .NET, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, AWS

nehalium@gmail.com | http://nehalium.com
Yes or it could be a site they visit regularly that has been hacked. Or a site that hasn't been hacked but that has JS from an ad network on it that has been hacked or let through a vulnerability. These are very scary hacks.

Update: I wrote up my recent experience of a shady advertising buy that appears to have spreading malware (likely via Java) as a goal http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5305092
Ah, but customers talk to each other, especially in this day and age. A company like GRPN doesn't really have an infrastructure advantage or technical advantage over other companies. It relies almost entirely on its network of small business customers. Turn off those customers and the sharks pick the bones of the company clean.

Edit: clarity
NASA TV just said that they will have a status update on the mission, at 11 AM Eastern time (so, ~15 minutes).
The pcDuino embedded computer board (1 GHz Cortex A8, $60)
Very nice. I wonder if Google ever goes the Yahoo route and spruces up their homepage to provide more info.
You are assuming that restrictive copyright should be a personal choice. That is not a generally accepted concept.
The majority has many legitimate claims to restrict the power of an individual, in general.
Elon just tweeted:
"Issue with Dragon thruster pods. System inhibiting three of four from initializing. About to command inhibit override."

Edit: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/307515784610058241

Edit 2: Follow-up tweet from him: "Holding on solar array deployment until at least two thruster pods are active"

Edit 3: Looking better! Latest tweet: "Thruster pod 3 tank pressure trending positive. Preparing to deploy solar arrays."

Edit 4: YES! "Solar array deployment successful"
Ummm ... I am gonna call this one - bullshit. What's even more painful is that this is on HN front page.
> a P/E of 9-10 is pretty low, compare it with other large companies and you will see

Only if your expecting growth. People like to use stat trading as if its simple. Just because a company is healthy and has a P/E ratio below 10 doesn't make it a buy.

In fact you can do some fun stuff with historic P/E values, implied volatility, realised volatility and price. Basically Implied Vol is what the options market (and other derivs) is suggesting the future value of the price will be. Realised is what it was historically, if you have the data points you can look at how the convergence of those worked. P/E is another kind of market sentiment, it suggests how much growth a company is expected to achive. When you look at sentiments vs announcements you can get a simplistic view of how sentiments have historically matched reality.

When you start looking at that, Apple is an interesting stock, I wouldn't suggest anyone to buy it based on these things.

Source: Desk 'geek' bitch for a very sucsessful greybox trading fund, who after two years earnt comparatively jack shit.
I think technically the judge hacked the adoption process.
Well she cannot babysit every employee, and I understand her and understand your point too.

Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, 9gag, and countless other sites exist upon the 9-5 of office workers who aren't actually working. The notion that office workers are more likely to actually be doing something of value is utter nonsense.

Any manager who doesn't know what their employees are contributing to the company is completely incompetent and incapable of doing their job. The physical location of the staff is irrelevant.

If you work for Yahoo you choice is either [optional: bitch and] comply or find a better place to work

No one is arguing with that. They are saying, however, that the end result for Yahoo will probably be much worse.
I think it was hidden behind the very last line:

"Penelope Trunk founded Brazen Careerist and two other startups. Her career advice runs in 200 newspapers. She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons."
Barca-Madrid, and by the way Mobile World Congress
Forcing people to be in the office will not boost morale and productivity. There's probably a reason why personal and "side projects" are being done by her employees. Their work probably does not motivate them enough for them. And there's nothing wrong with dedicating some time for activities outside of the company - if it makes a happier employee, I'd say go for it.
seriously. +1
click to play is not a security feature and will not prevent malicious plugins from running.
While I agree with your criticism that he's attacking a strawman, I don't think there is any conflict of interest if he poses an opinion that he is using as a basis for a book. Many people write blog entries in support of a thesis they are evolving into a book.
I don't like Mason, but I like this smart, classy, honest message. And he has a great sense of humour.
SEEKING FORTUNE, GLORY & ADVENTURE: Bespoke software for you made in NYC

These are two little projects I have done recently:

* http://streamjoy.tv/

* http://willholloway.net/makertime.html

* http://officespaceinct.com

My work history:

1994: Spend year dabbling in Visual Basic, get introduced to core programming concepts. Got obsessed with The Hobbit/Lord of The Rings and put coding aside.

2008: Took a college hiatus, 4 credits shy of graduation. They still let me walk, and I have a photo of me in a cap and gown and ostensibly receiving a diploma, which turned out to be a cheap placeholder containing an ominous threat to whomever failed to settle their tuition balance. Decided to put finishing college aside as way of burning my boats: entrepreneurial victory or destitution.

2008-2009: Sold fireworks, started and ran a global Facebook ads arbitrage operation. I've run many positive ROI ad campaigns with my own funds.

2010-2011: Facebook market changed. Switched to building products. Shipped and sold two Drupal based products.

Mid-2011-Present: Started reading Hacker News articles and comment threads obsessively, with a lot of googling to discover the meanings of terms like turing complete.

2012: Paid python consultant - built two products for client that are patent pending and am forbidden to show.

Year to date: Freelance gigs and afterwork keep rolling in.

The Future:

Flask/Python/Mongo/Elasticsearch/flat file architecture are my speciality. I am obsessed with automation and tools like fabric. When you are bootstrapping your own products you learn how to be extremely lean.

I work excellently remotely but will go anywhere the NYC subway system will take me. I make it a point to be highly available for communication.

To Other Freelancers:

I would love to ally with other freelancers to create a syndicate that would complement each others skills and/or bequeath job overflow to one another.

will@willholloway.net
Issue with Dragon thruster ... [Elon Musk]
Copyright is the bedrock of much of the Free and open source software I use every day so in that regard I think it's a great thing.

That doesn't mean there are not improvements to be made to its application in practice, or that copyright justifies the use of any number of unethical tools (like DRM).
> Keep in mind that functional isn't better or worse than OOP.

Ah yes, the ol "it's all relative" argument.
Search at every amazon website (.com .it, ...) at once
This search engine enables you to search a product in every amazon website (for every country) and tells you where you can find the best prices!
it's a common problem in the tech press. back in the day, everyone knew how to solve sun's problems too.
The practical bit:

"Instead, a technical expert could offer chances for the boss to save face when they are caught suggesting something that is a bad idea."

Which I think is a very smart technique with respect to all negotiations!
Austin, TX; NYC; Boston; or Remote - Front end Python web dev, and UI/UX designer for a Python data analytics startup

Continuum Analytics (http://continuum.io) is building a Python-based advanced analytics platform in the browser, named Wakari (http://wakari.io). We have a solid team that's put together a great product, but we need a few more great people to help us really make this thing shine.

The front-end web developer position is going to mostly help us build out the most cutting-edge data visualization and dashboarding UIs, as well as be a general JS/HTML/CSS guru. Some knowledge of the backend stack (especially in Python) would be great, and there is a good chance that we'll be targeting tablets and mobile HTML designs down the road.

The UI/UX designer will not just help us develop refined workflows throughout the entire application, but will also be heavily involved in discussions about novel data analysis and data viz interfaces. They will also be leaned upon to help us with print design, for marketing collateral. We are also involved with a number of other open-source efforts, all of which can use some more design expertise for their web properties.

Continuum Analytics is building some of the coolest backend tools for Python in Big Data and high-performance computing. We recently made some waves by winning a $3 mil contract from DARPA to build out a Python to x86/GPU compiler (http://numba.pydata.org), a distributed array/tabular processing system (http://blaze.pydata.org), and a next-generation interactive graphing engine for JavaScript + Python (http://github.com/ContinuumIO/bokeh).

We are a very young startup based in sunny Austin, TX, but with many devs working remotely. We have full benefits and have a very distributed workflow/infrastructure, relying on distributed collaboration tools.

Our founders are both technical but have a lot of business experience in the advanced analytics space. Our team is absolutely world-class, consisting of authors and contributors to core Scientific Python / PyData packages like NumPy, Scipy, PyTables, Cython, Chaco, and others. We are only a year old, but we are growing quickly and our products are gaining a lot of traction.

Email jobs@continuum.io and come join our team!

If you are going to be at PyCon in a few weeks, come by our booth and learn more about the company! If you are going to be in Austin for SXSW, we'll be at the Door64 Startup Showcase on Friday March 8th, and we're one of the sponsors of the Austin Data Party on Sunday March 10th, so come see us then!
1. A subtle discussion of "work-life balance", i.e. how women aren't suited to have time-consuming careers.

2. It's an opportunity for linkbaiters to occupy contrarian or coarse viewpoints (Forbes, Slate, etc.)

3. It's a way for people to pretend like they know anything about managing Silicon Valley tech companies by chiming in on this.
Yeah this Ancel Keys' shtick is great marketing from the paleotards.
How are they going to change the date without having a path to superuser access already?
Fantastic read fogus!

I love discovering gems thru reading The Setup
A random CC0 publication doesn't get HN publicity
Your example is actually a pet peeve of mine. SQL is not at all a nice DSL for working with relational databases programmatically. When you think of it as an API, it exposes one method that takes one gigantic string parameter. API design doesn't get much worse than that.

A sane relational database API would let you compose and extend arbitrary queries, which has profound implications for the way you can write your program and abstract away repeated patterns.

[Arel](https://github.com/nkallen/arel) has the right idea in terms of API, but a poor implementation (lots of things are not truly composable where they should be). [ScalaQuery](http://www.scalaquery.org/) purports to have the right idea, but I haven't tried it, and it's very Scala-centric.
People on HN are very quick to pull the conflict of interest card. People who write books about telecommuting unsurprisingly believe its a good thing and have a negative reaction the a major company cancelling it.
Nothing can ever be free if you use the logic that "People are allowed to donate in support of my work"
It's interesting that you can give away your copyright to another entity (if it's a "work made for hire") but you can't give up your copyright completely to place a work irrevocably into the public domain.

What if I create a legal entity, have it hire me to make a work, and then dissolve the entity? (That's mostly rhetorical; I expect the answer, if it exists, is messy.)

EDIT: answering my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works
SF, CA; ecommerce technology leader

OUR CHALLENGE: ecommerce today is stuck as a metaphor of offline retail. Online replications of the offline world may have extreme scale, but are highly disruptable since they are based on brick and mortar paradigms not actual customer/brand relationships. iTunes was the best online record store imaginable, but Spotify is quickly disrupting it. Amazon is a (very, very well run) giant Wal-Mart – ecommerce can be better than massive-scale superstores.

Our software changes the online retail from "superstores" to multi-year, high-value brand/consumer relationships. We do this by facilitating long-term, multi-SKU relationships between brands and customers. The first market we are targeting is household products – because it’s huge, underserved online, and going through rapid channel shift (and, the multi-SKU element works incredibly well in this niche).

MISSION STATEMENT ePantry's mission is to shrink the environmental footprint of American homes by making sustainably produced household products the most convenient option for busy consumers. Our technology provides each individual with customized ongoing delivery of branded sustainable consumables (e.g. soap, laundry detergent, paper towels) simplifying the process of never running out of the products he/she needs. You will enjoy buying toilet paper!

WORTH KNOWING

* High-friction (private) MVP reached $200k run rate in first month with $0 marketing.

* Annual ARPU >$500

* $40 billion niche with <2% ecommerce penetration

* Well-funded by the entrepreneurs & investors behind Hotwire, Friendster, Everfi, and Citysearch

* @RocketSpace

* Niche ecommerce works: Alice, Dollar Shave Club, Manpacks, Quidsi, Zappos

* Team of 4 full time. Founder was employee #1 at twice startups that raised over $100mm

\TECHNOLOGY LEADER: Experienced full stack web developer, knows his/her way around ecommerce, managing teams, lean-loving, not scared of big companies, desire to build something awesome. eco-warrior-ness not required. All titles (CTO, co-founder) are on the table for the right person.

You Get: Competitive cash, above-market equity, full benefits, flexible/fun environment, passionate team, and to leave the world a little better than you found it.

CONTACT Would love to brainstorm about our challenges/opportunities over a coffee/beer any time. sl@epantry.com
That is indeed a good point. However it won't prevent the ideas of hijacking little league sites that your employees may visit which would be maintained by one web designer one day a year, on that employee's home computer, which then goes on to use it as a vector to attack the company.

Yeah. Technology to hack someone is getting better by the minute.
How does Stripe mitigate PCIDSS requirements?
And Yahoo decided not to do it. ( For a lot of reasons only they would know )

We all know why: It is a stealth layoff. It's an easy way to cut some staff (many of whom will leave for greener pastures) without the negative market news of cutting staff.

It is important to the rest of us, however, as it's held as some sort of qualitative change for excellence. That it is proof that remote work doesn't work/office work is better, etc. We've seen dozens of articles using this as proof of...something.

When it's really just a way to save some costs -- even if longer term it hurts the company.
Yeah, I thought the Dragon looked a bit driftier than usual, after separation. Glad to know it's alive and talking, if not necessarily in good health. Let's hope they can nurse it back.
The author of the piece, Penelope Trunk, has a well-established pattern: write a highly flammable headline followed by a long, off-the-cuff piece intended to grab attention and generate page views via controversy de jour.

The article does not even broach any of the important issues being discussed around telecommuting: trust, productivity, team gelling, etc. But instead takes advantage of a recent controversy and adds a little spin from Trunk's tired routine in order to generate page views and comments.

She once wrote that travelling is a waste of time (for her, but she projects it to everyone). After reading this a few years ago, I actively started to dislike this person immediately.

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/08/17/4-reasons-travel-fo...

Let's discuss the actual message of the post. Two paragraphs in I'm already in full rage mode. Giving up your life for a company is ok? I understand dedication, even the occasional extra few hours, but what Mrs. Trunk is proposing is literally living at work, which we all know is unmaintainable and unhealthy for most of us. Research has shown that there is a tiny portion of the population that can get 4 hours a sleep and maintain 16 hour days, but that's only about 1% of us. The rest of us have bodies and lives to maintain.
Anyone come across Bromium before ( http://www.bromium.com/ )? I think some of the 'micro-virtualization' ideas they describe sound really interesting. I believe it was founded by some of the people behind Xen.
Just because people debate it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. See http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html for example.
Feel free to email! That way you'll definitely get invited when we launch fully.

With regard to timeframes -- it really depends on what we discover during the beta. There are no major, obvious blockers right now, though.
Seems like 1.) they let their users know about a month ahead of time and 2.) they were only a secondary aggregator of existing content that wouldn't be lost by them going away.

Your point still stands, that's just a poor example.
> They are a search engine

Yahoo's search has been Bing for almost 3 years.
Building yourself a language parser from scratch
well from the terminal

$ date 010101011970
date: bind: Permission denied
date: settimeofday (timeval): Operation not permitted
[15:45:41][dazza@imac.internal:~]

From System Preferences you can indeed set the date back to 1970:

$ date
Fri 2 Jan 1970 00:56:44 BST
[00:56:44][dazza@imac.internal:~]

but there is a little lock that you might need to unlock (with a user password).

This does seem like a security issue on OSX.
>Family historian Stephanie Coontz writes that today’s workforce is so demanding that families can only handle having one person in the workforce. She shows how the average work week does not allow for people to take care of children, which means that one partner needs to drop out of the workforce and take care of kids.

No, no, no, no, no. This is not the way of the future, or even the way of today. This is a throwback to the past. Yahoo has a productivity problem because of incompetent management that cannot measure productivity, and sees butts-in-seats as the only way to start. They are regressing. Because of their dysfunction, they are trying to solve a problem that better companies already solved years ago.

A person simply cannot work productively for 12-16 hours a day over a career. You start to see diminishing returns at about six hours, and after nine or ten, the only reason you're still there is social climbing. And because you know you're not going home early no matter what, because you basically live at the office, you will naturally take breaks, screw off, and procrastinate. Working 8 to 8 for an Asian megacorp, I have seen it so many times. On the other hand, bankers, management consultants, lawyers, and startup founders who actually work hard 12-16 hours a day do not and cannot do it for a long career, they are running a sprint not a marathon to maximize short-term earnings in the hopes that they will reach their finish line, achieve "f--- you money" and be able to retire before they burn out.
Minneapolis, MN - Full-time - Operations Engineer

BestBuy.com is looking for top Operations Engineering talent to continuously transform our infrastructure using leading open-source technologies. You will have the ability to help shape a best-in-class operations team. We focus on agile operations with a devops culture. You will have the ability to work at large web scale to support a multi-billion dollar ecommerce site.

Responsibilities

- Manage a multi-origin, zero-downtime, highly scalable web infrastucture.

- Build, scale, and secure www.bestbuy.com infrastructure, focusing specifically on a fully automated Linux environment

- Design, develop and improve automation and tools for systems management, including development of scripts for our fully automated environment with Opscode Chef

- Develop operational practice for technologies like Opscode Chef; multiple Public Cloud platforms; Basho Riak; Cassandra; Tomcat; Apache; Nginx; Sensu; Splunk; Graphite; Solr

- Perform zero-downtime deployments accross multiple globally distributed origins.

- Focus on building solutions from scratch or using leading open-source technologies. Focus on quality solutions that may be open-sourced, like Opscode Chef cookbooks, via the Apache 2.0 license.

- Participate in a L2-L3 rotating 24/7 oncall schedule. Rougly one week out every six, schedule frequency may change by team size.

http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Operations-Enginee...