skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boston, MA. TIM Group (previously youDevise) are hiring a Senior Operations Engineer / Sysadmin / DevOps.

We're a 100 person market leading financial SaaS firm with offices in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong.

We're a continually iterating self managed team doing awesome things with Puppet, MCollective, Ruby, Graphite, Logstash, KVM, MySQL, MongoDB, JVMs and continuous deployments.

We'd love to talk to you, please get in contact with any questions.
http://www.timgroup.com/careers/current-vacancies/senior-ope...
SWAMI SAYS: How to spend Venture Capital money (like a VC)
Time for VCs to Get Their Act Together- Thisisgoingtobebig.com -
This is not even slightly accurate and I hope most people can see your post as the trolling that it is.
I Fall For Windows 8 in a Big Way
SEEKING WORK: Remote or Main Line / Philadelphia, PA

Enthusiastic generalist, 50/50 split between a marketer and a front end designer.

Front end designer (HTML, CSS, js, learning python), WordPress developer, web marketing + SEO consultant, and tinkering entrepreneur.

Homepage: http://acoyfellow.com
some graphic work:
http://dribbble.com/acoyfellow, http://be.net/coeyman

coeyman@gmail.com
http://linkedin.com/in/coeyman
I haven't heard of it, I will look into adding it.

In terms of mysql error, the site is getting way more traffic than my simple hosting provider can provide. I will need to bumb it up.
How would you calculate what would constitute statistically significant results for each of these sites? How about any other site?
Another good user report is from Bryan Jones: http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2013/01/tracking-poi...
SEEKING WORK - New York, Boston, or Remote

I'm a designer and developer, with experience building responsive frontend apps and mobile apps.

Most recently, I designed and built the website for Backspaces (http://backspac.es), an app for telling stories from your phone.

I am very experienced with Javascript on the frontend and backend, and with libraries like Backbone.js and Socket.io. I am also experienced with Python, using Django and Tornado.

My portfolio is available at http://wylie.su

Email: me at wylie.su
One problem is the definition of a MOOC. What is it? (not the acronym, we all know that, I'm talking about the meaning).

1) Is it training? Competing with brick and mortar vo-techs and stackexchange and frankly just plain ole google?

2) Is it education? Competing with textbooks (paper and ebook) and brick and mortar college/univ and projecteuler and zillions of something-koan projects?

3) Is it socialization which is why everything gets deleted after it "ends"? Competing with a zillion internet social-type sites and facebook and G+ groups and even this site?

4) Is it presentation and puttin on an interesting show? Competing with MIT OCW videos and Kahn Academy?

5) Is it just signalling and raising awareness and showing off your hip-ness? Competing with the big social media sites, awareness ribbons (I want to buy a Chinese made $5 colored magnetic ribbon sticker to attach to my car to "raise awareness" of functional programming, either that or a colored bracelet, can anyone on HN help?)

6) Is it just a fad? Competing with "fill in the blank of memes".

For most existing products its possible to improve almost all areas, but if one product is optimizing area "X" above its possible someone reviewing with a focus on area "Y" is not going to be very happy. So you need to meta-mod review the reviewers or have some manner of tagging or something to indicate (the reviewers opinion of) whats good.

Above I was not trying to express an opinion, just trying to list the problem space, but I'll try an opinion based on some experience. If you want to optimize for #2 above in basic college math (calc, linear alg, etc) I claim you can't do better than MIT OCW's videos of Strang's classes (probably downloaded from archive.org?). But if you're trying to optimize for #4 above, then those videos are barely passable on a technical level (like if you can't read the blackboard at an overcompressed video level, why even release at that compression level? And some of the sound/mic needs work although its usable) and if you're trying to optimize for #3 above they're truly an epic fail not even really trying.

Another opinion, if you want to optimize for #4 it would be hard to beat most TED talks. Obviously done by pro-level video and audio crew on a good (from a technical standpoint) set.
Interested. More details! Must I use Twitter to find out about an anonymity service? I guess I live in a dream world.
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I think you both (parent and grandparent comments) have good points. The fact of the matter is that there are numerous factors towards rankings [1] that interact in complex ways. Furthermore, unless your a Google engineer this is a black box situation, so nobody can ever be sure.

The fact is that social signals correlate well with search results [2], yet it is hard to show which direction the causation might be flowing [3].

petecampbell is right that body content keywords are important, as are backlinks. pknight is correct about the spirit of the article and the problem of over optimisation. However, the article did feel a little like the authors understanding was not fully up to date. However, that is the case for a large portion of bloggers and so it is no bad thing to reiterate it.

The key takeaway is: concentrate on making great content that people want to read, and many of them will share it (via social media, or by linking to it) and you will be off to a good start in both search and social. There are other factors, but doing this part right is the most important (and often hardest) step.

[1] http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
[2] http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/searchmetrics/press/ranking-...
[3] http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-improved-social-signals-cause-...
That's an interesting point, our homicidal mass killings have been directed towards innocent victims. If they were instead targeted killings of important people, I think a crackdown on high powered weapons would have been quick.
Bitcoin didn't start until 2009.
Awesome, looking forward to interning this summer.
Boston, MA --- Quanterix

Quanterix is looking for an engineer with experience writing scientific software analyzing fluorescence images.

Key Responsibilities:

- Prioritize, create, and own features for our single molecule diagnostics product.

- Work with terabytes of microscopy image data.

- Design new kinds of analytics to provide valuable insight into data that we acquire.

Desired Skills & Experience

- 5+ years of experience developing readable, fast-performing code using C# and .NET technology

- Experience developing algorithms to efficiently process large data.

- Self-starting, detail-oriented developer with good teamwork and communication skills.

- Previous work with fluorescence imaging, microscopy data or scientific computing is a plus.

- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodology is a plus.

- Mathematical background is a big plus.

- Experience with ImageJ is a plus.

More info at http://quanterix.com/about/careers/item/193-e-110-software-e...
Good grief! Do you want this team to build the computer from discrete components, then custom code their OS using dip switches too?
SEEKING CONTRACTS - Remote or SF

$30 to $70/h - team of 7 highly professional developers.

* iOS - check Quesli in App Store.

* Complicated Frontend (JS, jQuery, backbone.js, sass, less, CSS3, HTML5, etc.) - check http://MeetCute.org [not a single canvas there]

* Hardcore Backend (PHP, NodeJS, RoR, MongoDB, Couchbase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Any API integration, dev of RESTfull APIs, scaling, etc.) - Check http://Questli.com

If you are in Bay Area, I'll be managing everything Face-to-Face. Otherwise, remotely.

Email: danil[at]danil.cc

Skype: Kozyatnikov
After killing Reader, Google shuts down free GMail
You're exactly right. There's not much of a point.

I'm working on a new HTML template language and wanted to "see" what existing web pages look like to better inform our design. It's been very helpful for that.

Then I wanted to see if web pages have gotten more complicated over the years, so I added the Wayback feature. In terms of # of DOM elements and levels, it appears the answer is no, which surprised me.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting, even if it doesn't clearly solve a common problem. Would be curious to hear if people find it useful for other reasons.
I never related invisibility literally. To me, invisibility in design is when the user doesn't figure out the stuff, making all fluid helped by the evident UI. That's when the design becomes invisible because is not part of the problem. Tell me if you figure out your doorbell design, you wont because the design is not the problem so the aesthetics of your doorbell, the functioning and other areas become invisible. You just focus on actions.
> What is the actual effect of SCOTUS setting aside as unconstitutional duly passed acts of Congress?

That's like asking, what is the actual effect of a thunderstorm. The answer is, it depends.

At a minimum, if a government official were to attempt to enforce a law after it had been declared unconstitutional, almost certainly someone would challenge the enforcement attempt in a lower court. (If no one cared, the law wouldn't have ended up in the Supreme Court in the first place.)

The challenge usually will lead to the lower court's issuance of an injunction prohibiting the government official from continuing with his or her attempt to enforce the law. Disobedience of the injunction is punishable as contempt -- as in, the U.S. Marshals will arrest and jail the disobedient official until the contempt is purged. (I don't have time to go into the details of the contempt process.) I can't remember that ever happening, because the Court's power to declare a statute unconstitutional is essentially universally accepted as a practical matter, even though some theorists challenge it from time to time.

Sometimes the Court rules that the unenforceability is retroactive; this can create practical problems, but institutionally the Court is fully aware of that and takes it into account.

Other times the Court will say that the unenforceability is prospective only, that is, existing actions aren't to be disturbed.

Incidentally, the article by Pickerill (not Pickerell) that you cite doesn't support your view. The article lists the various ways in which Congress has deferred to the Court's rulings, that is, acceded to the Court's authority. For example, Congress might amend an unconstitutional statute to fix the constitutionality problems, or it might repeal the statute entirely.
"We tried 1 week and 2 weeks iterations. Neither worked out. With short iterations there was a constant pressure to get shit done and technical debt accumulated like a huge garbage heap. It is impossible to squeeze a good solution into a short timeframe."

This is the most common Agile failure mode I've seen. You have to finish by the end of the iteration, so you're very heavily biased toward ugly hacks and Rube Goldberg machine coding. Elegance never fits in a sprint.

The last total Agile Kool-Aid drinker company I worked for also coincidentally had the most massive shit heap of code I have ever seen in production. It was a heterogenous mix of VB.NET, Ruby, Java, shell scripts, and Python running on Linux and Windows (and a bit of Mono on Linux), all glued together with duct tape and chewing gum. The Scrum Master was really proud of it, called it a Service Oriented Architecture. He could make pretty charts of it that made it look good, but if you lifted the hood it looked like garbage and required at least 10X the Amazon EC2 footprint it should have required. It was probably also a security nightmare, and was definitely hell to maintain.

That experience really destroyed my interest in Agile, since I could see very clearly how the problem was emergent from Agile's short sprint and exclusively deliverable-focused structure. The programmers were actually decent coders, and it wasn't really their fault. (Except maybe the heterogeneity...)
Nashville, TN - PassportParking

We are bringing parking into the 21st century. Always building and inventing and have a product that has an actual revenue model. Small team where everyone is highly driven.

We've got a programming challenge out there to weed out people that won't put in the effort to join an amazing opportunity.
http://passportparking.info/PassportProgrammingTest

Shoot me an email if you want to chat.

brad.powers@passportparking.com
http://passportparking.com
It can't. And no, I didn't pay $750 either (closer to $100). Because Humble Bundles aren't included either.
Seeking Consensus on Cyberdefense
I'm afraid its just a joke
Of course, that's an average covering every man, woman,
child, pensioner etc. People in paid employment are
paying at least double that (in tax).

That $10,000/yr is just the monthly insurance premium. The patient still has to pay for things out of pocket. Because his premium is so high, I'm guessing GP has a very high deductible, eg $5,000, which is paid out of pocket. Then there's the copays, scripts, and misc fees.

I currently have awesome coverage (by USA standards) and still have to pay ~20% of visit out of pocket.

Actually, that last part I'm guessing. Because of the back and forth game played between insurers and providers, I get confused, and haven't expended the effort to figure out the actual monies exchanged.
It's the value of the games you have, not their purchase price.
Insane the capitalism world we living in. Now you can sit down for hours and rightfully argue with someone whether big pharma company is saving more live than killing.
Podio - Copenhagen, Denmark (Full Time)

Podio, now part of Citrix, is a collaborative work platform that is already empowering hundreds of thousands of people to work the way they want to by building their own apps, without any technical skills. See https://company.podio.com/ for more info.

We're hiring for several different roles, including:

- QA Automation Engineer: As the first QA Engineer, you’ll be working on build & test infrastructure, as well as maintain test automation for both web clients and mobile devices.

- Senior DevOps Engineer: Experience in building, deploying and operating large scale systems. Tools of the trade: Chef, Ganglia, Munin, Nginx, MySQL, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis, Cherrypy, Python, Rails.

- Frontend Developer: Hands on experience in latest web browser technologies (object-oriented JavaScript, HTML, CSS), MVC-frameworks (Rails, Backbone, Angular or SpineJS) and automated integration testing (Cucumber, Selenium, Capybara and PhantomJS).

Our ideal teammate:

* Will want this role to be a keypoint in his/her career. This is an opportunity to join a company and a product that is very innovative and where growth is accelerating.

* Has several years of industry experience; start-up experience is a plus.

* Has hands-on experience in at least some of the technologies we use.

* Enjoys working in a lean, agile, test-driven environment.

* Is passionate about technology and keeps on top of trends.

If you're interested feel free to get in touch.
Right, but the "value" then is a fairly fluid metric based on what people will actually pay and the like, so it is just a rough estimate.

If they even did get the purchase date of the product, correlating that with every steam sale is probably nigh impossible.
Can you not see that what you are saying is completely different?

This is analogous to sealing off a section of your fuel tank which can be unsealed if you pay more. Modifying ecu software is not equivalent.
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Indianapolis, Indiana

Web Application Developer
http://www.imamuseum.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Job...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) seeks a talented Software/Web Application Developer to work
as part of the IMAlab - a collaborative creative team in order to implement innovative web-based software applications.

http://www.imamuseum.org/about/ima-lab
SEEKING FREELANCER - I'm in the UK but REMOTE is fine.

I have a few projects on the go at the moment and could use some ad-hoc support on Rails development and deployments.

Please get in touch BSWOOTTON at GMAIL if of interest.

Please note, I can only operate on an estimate + fixed rate basis.
Mostly? Americans using fossil fuels.
InspiringApps - mobile app dev shop with a mix of client and product work, located in downtown Boulder, Colorado, and work from home 2 days a week.

We do a lot of work in Titanium, so we're mainly looking for Javascript developers interested in building iPhone and iPad apps.

See more at http://www.inspiringapps.com/about/jobs/

PS - I'm the one holding the champagne bottle on a hike. That's how we do it. :)
Responsive Web Design is Not the Future
Because some will still buy the old at the inflated price.
Oil spills, I would imagine
Proxyquireify proxies browserify's require to inject mocks
browserify v2 version of proxyquire.

Proxies browserify's require in order to make overriding dependencies during testing easy while staying totally unobstrusive.
SEEKING FREELANCER - I'm in SF, you can be remote.

Looking for some part time help building out CameraLends, a peer-to-peer camera gear lending site that I launched on Hacker News three months ago. Stack is Rails 3.2, Bootstrap, HAML, SCSS, query running on Heroku. Ideal fit would be comfortable quickly turning design mocks into responsive HAML/SCSS and building out basic RESTful features. Rate/amount of work is negotiable, potential for regular work. Email adam@cameralends.com with a link to your Github profile and your favorite photograph if interested!
Of course not, that's an absurd exaggeration.
OP and developer of Steam Gauge here - this is my first python project, and I welcome any suggestions / criticisms / advice. If you don't have a Steam account but still want to check it out, feel free to take a look at my profile: http://mysteamgauge.com/search?username=monkeyagent

Here's the summary I posted over on the Steam forums:

What it is:

Steam Gauge will let you get a summary of all the games/apps/etc listed for your Steam account via the Steam Web API. It returns information about those games including hard drive space requirements and cost (base store value, not what you actually paid).

Features:

-The list that is constructed allows you to individually select/de-select apps.

-There is a graphical representation of collection percentage selected vs total.

-There are pre-built options to select only a given app type (game, app, movie, etc).

-The app table allows you to sort the list by title, id number, hard drive space, type, and cost (just click the headers).

-If you don't have a vanity username set up, you can use your steamID64 number instead.

-If game information is missing from the database, it automatically adds that id to the list of apps to update in the next database refresh (simply using Steam Gauge helps make it better).

-Finally, you can export the results of Steam Gauge to a csv file, so you can manipulate the data however you wish.

Requirements:

-For now, your profile needs to be public.

-Javascript must be enabled on the browser.

-If you use a relatively modern browser, the whole experience is going to look/work better.

Limitations:

-The hard drive values are based primarily on the published requirements (where available) and is otherwise based on manual data checks of game install size.

-The database still isn't complete, especially for new games, and weird exceptions. It should still be helpful for general estimates, but the precision is limited to the data available.

-The mobile layout still needs a little work but should function properly.

-The "Value" column represents the base cost of the game, not what an account owner paid.

Future plans:

-Add more game information including genres, controller support and multi-player capabilities

-Add submission flag for games with missing/incorrect data to help crowdsource what I can't scrape
So this is what has been making Google maps sporadically zoom! I have been wondering why navigating around a Google map on my iPhone means that it zooms every now and again. I tend to make a lot of fast and small movements which must get interpreted as a double tap and then a drag.

Funnily enough, I don't have this problem with Apple maps as I suppose their sensitivity is less.
SEEKING WORK - Remote
-We're a small team specializing in iOS development, previously worked for a mobile development giant based out of NY.
- We have an in-house designer and a backend dev and we also do Android.
-We are looking to build you an app at a very affordable price (15$-20$ per hour depending on the type of work) in order to build up our portfolio.
Get in touch with us at neolithapps@gmail.com
SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam or remote.

I'm an experienced visual designer working with startups for the last few years. I've just finished my 3rd Startup as a co-founder and now looking for some freelance or interesting opportunities.

Here is my dribbble account http://dribbble.com/nephronim
If you have any questions email paul(at)nephronim.com
New York, Remote-friendly

Arc90

Front End Designer/Developer: http://arc90.com/jobs/front-end-designerdeveloper/

Python Web Developer: http://arc90.com/jobs/python-web-developer/

Server-Side Java/JVM Developer: http://arc90.com/jobs/server-side-web-developer-with-java-sk...

More info: http://arc90.com/jobs/
Look again, I'm sure you'll find it ;)
DC - Webs

http://www.webs.com/Careers/

- Build and ship user-facing code in a fun (and family-friendly) work environment.

- Contribute to open source: https://github.com/organizations/websdotcom

- An actual consumer web business in DC!

We're looking for JavaScript, Rails, and Java developers to come help small businesses compete with the big boys. We build tools that help them build websites, online stores, and do online marketing. Our main product is an in-browser website design tool that lets users build beautiful html5 sites really easily.

We have interesting challenges in the areas of:

- RESTful APIs and service architecture

- Innovative user interfaces (MVC js, etc.)

- And, of course: doing interesting things quickly with large volumes of data.

Interested? Contact me: adam@webs.com
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Furthermore, most operating systems already have enough of the basics installed

Maybe most operating systems do, but most laptops and PCs don't. Like 92% of laptops and PCs. Which makes your comment seem divorced from reality.

Worse still a lot of programming guides assume you have a linux variant which is so far from reality it's painful to watch. Though it's got a lot better recently as the ruby/python package managers are a lot easier to install on windows now.

A year or so back I was having a discussion with another HN user who was running free Python programming workshops. He actually ended up specifying no windows because it took so long to get everything working on them.

I suspect the more novice a programmer, less likely they are to have a Mac. You will only have a mac if you're rich, a programmer or your parents are rich. It's not an entry level OS. Let's not even pretend about linux.
Google Earth helping writers break the dictum of 'write what you know'?
There are many profitable businesses going after the healthy / natural food market. You just need to change your business and marketing to go after that segment.

Additionally it's not as simple as "you can't store that in a warehouse". If you do the have the time to buy fresh vegetables (y'know every day or 2)and if you don't have the time to make them, then you can't eat that form of diet.
Just how much do people hate Windows 8?