skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite. "I'm giving up everything in exchange for huge stock grants, a 7-figure base salary and industry wide recognition" does not allow you to say "you should give up everything in exchange for 100k and very little job security".

If they want to, sure, but nobody has a right to expect that from others, in the same way as founders have no right to expect the same level of dedication from employees without the same potential for reward.

[edited for minor punctuation]
Mountain View, CA - full time - hiring Scala Backend Engineer / Machine Learning & Information Retrieval Engineer / Full Stack Engineer / Mobile Engineer (H1B okay)

We're FortyTwo, a stealth-mode well-funded startup in Mountain View, CA. We're working on a consumer web product that will be released in the next 5-6 months. We started about 4 months ago, and are looking for engineers who can hit the ground running and work with our existing team. We use Scala, Play!, Akka and JavaScript. Check out our site for complete job descriptions, and to learn a little about us: http://www.42go.com/join_us.html. Also, check out our engineering blog to see about some of the problems we're working on: http://eng.42go.com/

• Backend Engineer:

Growing and scaling up FortyTwo’s backend. At this stage of the company it means going all the way from building clusters of services, optimizing concurrent processing, building data pipelines, working with various types of databases and implementing devops automations. We are building our systems on using technologies like Scala, Play, Akka, ZooKeeper and Guice.

• Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer:

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• Frontend Engineer:

Design and build high quality, modern consumer web user experiences. Our front-end engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (database, server, browser).

• Software Engineer, Mobile:

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Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java, Nginx, HBase).

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We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. This month I’ll specifically talk about our Software Engineer--Distributed Services position, 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 Dr. Seuss’s Birthday,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): We typically hire experienced software engineers for this position, since we screen for productive coding ability, a well tuned design instict and a practical balance between solving problems in a generalized way with an iterative development process. Expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus, but not required.

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It makes no difference how prevalent they are in common web apps, the problem is that the Java plugin is still installed and active for a large number of users.

This is not the attack sequence:

* site has pre-existing Java
* site gets compromised somehow
* site now infects users

This is how it usually plays out:

* site gets compromised somehow
* exploit includes a 0-day Java attack
* site now infects users

Literally 0 sites on the net could be hosting Java applets and that would make no difference; it's the number of active Java plugins that creates the potential for mass-infection. So long as you have the Java plugin enabled, you'll be exposed to this attack.
The strange irony whereby the place that has benefited more than anywhere on the globe by the reduction of friction in communication can't find a way to harness that same technology to improve productivity.
Washington, DC (Georgetown) - Pascal Metrics

The One-liner: We're trying to make patients safer by making hospitals safer.

We're a healthcare startup attacking the patient safety issues in hospitals.

We're looking for full-time Java Developers and UI/Web Developers to join and help us build out a software platform that enables hospital systems to
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Please checkout http://www.pascalmetrics.com/careers/

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Some thoughts:

"Companies move more efficiently if everyone is at the office"

Some companies do - companies that are geared towards physical face time. Many people work best like that - some don't. I'd say, more importantly, there are periods of time when I work better face to face with people - often a few week portion of a project, then there are other times when I'm far more productive getting stuff done working from home.

"that innovation happens faster if people work at the same office"

Yahoo's problem has not usually been innovation specifically, but following through on that innovation (how many things have come from yahoo's labs - yui, etc - that get half-hearted support, or then get killed?)

You can't tell me past leadership at Yahoo were all telecommuting. All those top-brass managers had plenty of in-office shared space facetime, and it didn't do a lick of good for them.

I understand Mayer is coming in and trying to change all of that, but I suggest changing people vs changing policies will get better results in the long run. I realize it's more problematic to define 'better' people, and policies are much easier to define, but they must realize they're also going to be excluding some otherwise great contributors because of the policy. Might these losses be offset by gains in productivity and innovation? Who knows?
Doesn't look like a whole lot of discussion.
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I generally like to hear how people work, but it gets a bit boring if it's all web developers & TED circuit guys, where it all comes down to "list of apple devices + GTD apps". I would love to see the setup of some people. A few screenshots would be nice, but a short screencast would be even better. Even if it's all pretty standard (e.g. Eclipse + Chrome, Sublime + Safari, Blender + XCode), I think one could learn a few things here and then how other people hop around between applications and accomplish tasks.

At least I think it would be interesting, it might also just lead to me freaking about because someone is doing it wrong (As Sartre said, hell is seeing other people google).
Very smart recruitment process ;-)
Blubolt, Bath, UK - Full Time, no remote opportunities, sorry.

We're looking for two PHP devs, and a designer / XHTML/CSS slicer.

For full details, see http://www.blubolt.com/jobs/

PHP Dev positions:

* Your role

- Predominantly eCommerce oriented

- A great chance to work on genuinely interesting code and projects

- Opportunities to get involved with all areas of development

- We contribute back to OSS projects, and if you’re inclined, you can get your hands dirty with C and Java development.

- You will have the opportunity to actively input your ideas both on existing projects and on all future bespoke developments.

* You are

- A great full-stack developer, experienced in PHP (our codebase is nice and tidy, written for PHP 5.4), Javascript, and preferably have a better than passing knowledge of XHTML and CSS

- Familiar with MVC development, and other nice acronyms like SOAP, XML, and all those other fantastic web technologies

- Potentially interested in learning Flex and AIR, if you don’t know them already

- Good at picking up shiny new tech, quickly, such as Apache Solr, memcached, and non-RDBMS storage!

- A self-starter with spiffy organisational skills

- Based locally to Bath or within a short commute

* You will be

- Helping develop our eCommerce solution, bluCommerce

- Working within our development team, on things which interest you

- Working fairly autonomously – we don’t micromanage – we trust our people

- Growing your skill set as the business grows around you

- Working in a vibrant office environment where developing first class solutions in an enjoyable atmosphere are far more important than a suit and tie.
> Your brain doesn't say 'well, you've been fired from the company you worked for for 5 years, but hey, at least you have fresh drinking water'.

You should maybe look into getting a more compassionate brain.
Fogus, you say that you use an iPad when you are on the move. Do you edit your .org files with the iPad? If yes, how do you do it? On a virtual server with a ssh client?

I organize my whole life with Org-mode. I use it as a todo list, project management tool and agenda. I also use it to write documents and scientific papers and presentations, which I export to .tex.

Not being able to edit my agenda from an iPad is really what prevents me to buy one (I would probably also buy a bluetooth keyboard).

There is mobileorg, but I think it is not maintained any more, at least the iOS version. I could also ssh to a virtual server, but I'm not comfortable having all my agenda files on such a machine, because of security and privacy concerns.
Exactly. The article assumes the most important thing is the company at all times.

Just because there are people that are willing to give up everything for a company, it doesn't make it right for companies to expect everyone to be like them.

This just shows how wrong our society is. Corporativism in it's true form.
Microsoft Strikes Back At Amazon With Windows Azure Community Portal
Sure, but shouldn't the consequence be to do more, instead of less?
Not every debt is settled with 100$ / month, but it's a start.

There are some arguments that any charity is doing more harm than good, but I always feel that's a reasoning too cruel to follow.
Ajax, Effects And Validation using jQuery
One question that I can't seem to find the answer to is, is Yahoo! willing to pay relocation expenses to those telecommuters that have been asked to come into an office? Or is it basically, "we don't care if you live in Des Moines. We want you to move your family to San Jose and come into the office"?
What if that middleman is providing value?

Despite the rise of the Internet, a bunch of new artists who were probably in diapers when Napster came out continue to sign up with those middlemen.
An evil person with e.g. a stolen SSH key can escalate privileges on a machine without needing the user's password. It's not simply about sudo working as designed, it allows bypassing sudo's user authentication entirely.

I can think of a handful of corporate machines (e.g. web servers) I've had pubkey access on where sudo allowed the real admin to gain root from the same account via sudo.
"use my content however you want! "

Cool, so I can clone and automatically scrape your blog, copy to other blog site with about page names altered, but I'll keep your picture, just change the name? Then I'll put advertising on it, build up a following then sell the whole site? Thanks!
What usually happens is that a private equity firm may purchase a public company and turn it private again.
I can recall Burger King being one of those companies, but they've re-entered the market as a public company again
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Much better said than my original point - thank you.

They will not succeed without the thousands of people working beneath them. But most likely they'll have a decent golden parachute - probably several times the value of many of the employees they're forcing the hands of.
It's a refundable credit, meaning that the government will reimburse the company for VFX work above and beyond its tax liabilities. How is this "tax jurisdictions competing" and not a direct government subsidy?
http://www.bcfm.ca/faq/#pstc4
There are multiple applications I use at work that require java to be active with reduced security.
Welcome to my world whenever I read "Motörhead" or "Blue Öyster Cult".
Some items of note:

1) They tout 2 successful exits out of 22, and feel compelled to say that one of those exits was "1.5 times the organization's initial investment". Seems like lackluster result rather than shining success.

2) They mention Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (a government agency?), that has "contributed $1 million to our organization". If it is a contribution, can this be viewed as another 11% (of the total $9M fund) on top of the 8% fee?
Mexican authorities confiscate cannon used to fire marijuana over the border
Well, ya. I should have said previous link.
SpaceX 2 Dragon struck by problems after reaching orbit
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There's other keyboards that have (similar, I think) mechanical switches

http://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards
Software that can do this could also just wait for you to run a sudo command and then install a rootkit before the timeout is reached. Or it could keylog your password.

On desktop machines getting root is almost useless, you have all the sensitive information on the user account. Unless the attacker wants to install a rootkit in the kernel or open raw sockets or stuff like that. But if they can run arbitrary code with your UID you've probably already lost anyway.
The Fallacy of the Security No-Man's Land
People seem to think it's an issue with the solar panels on twitter. It's looking like the solar panels didn't deploy.
How do you define traction?
Another thought here - if they kept telecommuting staff, it would actually be a bit easier to keep some of these people 'in line' or 'on message', because the threat of losing a nice 'work from home' position is greater than forcing people to be in a tech-rich metropolitan area, often just blocks from lucrative offers, and trying to mandate stricter working conditions.
I continue to ask what the big deal? Remote work doesn't work for everyone and every company. That is a hard fact.

And Yahoo decided not to do it. ( For a lot of reasons only they would know )

And yet the internet is making a big fuss about it.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / Bay Area / Remote OK

I'm a fullstack web developer who enjoys working on all parts an app, from frontend to backend and even some sys admin. I've been building projects for myself and several companies for the past 6+ years. I'm most familiar with the following technologies: PHP(CodeIgniter), Python(Django), Javascript(node.js, backbone, angular) and MySQL/MongoDB/Solr. I just left my employer where I was lead developer for 2 of their largest sites to begin doing contract/freelance work again.

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Correction, new Oracle Java Virtual Machine exploit.
Even the underlying idea (essentially mercantilism) is questionable.

While it can clearly benefit certain special interests (hence its popularity), it simply cannot benefit a whole society on net. Rather than repeat the whole argument, I'll just cite Adam Smith (a guy who was much more moderate than often portrayed by modern partisans), who showed in no uncertain terms that subsidies and tariffs make a nation poorer.
SF, CA -- full time -- backend and frontend for a mobile security shop.

Lookout is a large player in the mobile security space, continually ranking near the top of antivirus detection lists, and we have a good shot at being the mobile security shop. We're looking for people to work on security aspects, to work on Android apps (including who can dissect C code at the core of the app), as well as people working on the server teams, both front-end and back-end engineering as well as Platform and Infrastructure.

I'm on Platform and Infrastructure, and I've been working on the Ruby 1.8 -> Ruby 1.9 upgrade, post-deployment monitoring (Graphite to Nagios to email), security vuln assessments, and more. Queer-friendly, trans-friendly company, women in significant leadership roles through engineering and beyond. Email me at lee.butterman@lookout.com if you want to chat.
User googles for 'digital camera nokia review' and ends up on a site containing a specially crafted 1x1 pixel Java applet. User doesn't even know it's there but due to the 0-day exploit, the applet can now download a remote executable to the user's machine and execute it. User's computer is now part of a botnet and all the user did was perform an innocuous google search.
Thinking Mobile-First with Zurb - Foundation 4
Foundation 4 is the newest release of the popular responsive front-end framework by Zurb. Foundation 3 has been downloaded and used by numerous developers.
Why some of us are happier than others?
Rethinking Yahoo's homepage
Nest
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we are currently looking for individuals with any of the following skill sets:
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this is so ridiculous it is sad that it will receive a huge amount of comments and drive traffic to this utterly ridiculous post.

First of all, I don't believe Mayer or Sandberg are asking/ demanding/ or hinting that employees need to give up everything. The economics of the job market and organization health don't really back that up (whether you're 'changing the world or not'). Second - as many people are mentioning here - the demand and economic returns to different employee levels completely skew the "Mayer gives up everything" - she (and Sandberg) also receive completely different benefits and calculate their commitment/ lifestyle tradeoffs with a totally different set of inputs & outputs from the hypothetical Yahoo! front-end guy who has been off-siting for 18 months... the whole thesis is beyond comprehension. The author of this post who "lives on a farm homeschooling her 2 children" has lost touch with reality/ is actually quite smart at driving page views, but is nonetheless wrong.
Mayer is surely not giving up everything. She's using her wealth to balance things out in ways her employees cannot:

"Alas, with her blink-and-you’ll-miss-it maternity leave and her new policy banning working from home, it feels like Mayer is throwing darts at working parents everywhere. Her stand is even more egregious considering she’s apparently built herself a set-up most moms can only dream of: a nursery — paid for out of her own pocket — adjacent to her company office. “I wonder what would happen if my wife brought our kids and nanny to work and set ‘em up in the cube next door?” wondered a husband on AllThingsD. His wife, a Yahoo employee, will soon have to stop working from home."

Source: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/how-yahoo-ceo-marissa-...
Yeah, you're right. Though I can see how it'd be kinda annoying for others, we definitely find it really useful to hear about the things people wish Stripe did differently.
This is reminiscent of the Taoist virtue "to hold fast to the submissive is called strength." Or in other words, if a person never competes, he can never suffer defeat.
Because "clear as a bell" is not a legally recognized concept.
It is, however, the beginning of the UNIX world
Show HN: I built utter.io in 10 days.  MVP FTW.