skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Willing to travel.

I'm a web application engineer and independent programmer. I'm working as a developer because I like ideas behind websites and websites when they are simple, fast and easy to use. I'm self-taught and resourceful.

I'm a PHP and JS programmer, sometimes I also doing design or server administration. I know how to create a web-app from scratch and get it running on production. I'm confident to work in a team.

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Back-end

Symfony2, Doctrine2, Node.js, Mongodb, Twig, Behat

Front-end

Backbone.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, Socket.io, UX, HTML5, CSS3, Jasmine

Tools

Mac, Git, Vim

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webiste: http://jules.boussekeyt.org/hire.html
email: grdnlndn(at)gmail(dot)com
So a gaping security hole that compromises all data is less important than using a deprecated interface?
Get a "standard" non-junior engineer job at Amazon/Google/Facebook.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or SF Bay Area, travel negotiable

I'm a generalist engineer strongest on front-end. Most of my recent projects have included AngularJS, jQuery, and Rails. I have been writing code for 2+ years and am familiar with lots of frameworks and CSS toolkits like Bootstrap and Foundation.

I also spent lots of time writing media queries for mobile and tablet responsive designs.

Email address on profile.
13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display (late 2012).
256GB SSD. 2.5GHz i5. 8GB RAM.

I was about to buy a Macbook Air with similar hardware, but the Retina Display got me and made me spend a few bucks more. Totally worth it!
Really, to "act casual" in areas with lots of tunnels and trees and other cars of similar make and model and color. Or to get off the road quickly somewhere underground (parking garage?) and leave the vehicle, though that has difficulties as well long term (CCTV being a major one).
With adding the keyboard backlight, did they get rid of the Thinklight at top of the screen?
I don't like the salary survey posts because I doubt their validity, and haven't voted them up.

But I can't say I'm a fan of your reasoning here. Software developers are probably poorly served by the idea that they should be accepting lower income in the service of building up the ideas of their employers.

Annual salary is not "blowing smoke"; it's a tremendously important consideration.
Bad question - false dichotomy - but here's some advice that's probably worth what you pay for it ...

Work on finishing things. Find a small project, start it, get feedback, improve it, then finish it.

It's the act of getting things done that will drive you to acquire the additional skills you need. You will be judged by your accomplishments, so make sure you have many to show.

Make your finished projects clean, clear, and usable. As you get better, tackle bigger challenges.

But here's the deal: Always be finishing them.

(Yes, sometimes things should be abandoned, but if you're doing that a lot, ask yourself why.)
I just want to clarify that it wasn't really homework. This was for an open ended final project during the last third of the class where we got to choose to work on anything that interested us.
Thanks – yes, the PrtSc key is a little…odd. I was wondering about the PgUp/Dn buttons as well, as they are in this stupid location where they absolutely don’t belong. Why do you find the keyboard backlight helpful? So far, I found the ThinkLight to be more flexible.

Guess I’ll wait a little longer and see what the future brings, hopefully a 4:3 notebook with seven full rows and no touchpad </dreaming>.
Discoverability and system integration are huge problems, sure, but Cordova mostly addresses these concerns.

The reason everyone always cites for going native is "performance", but, tbh, it seems like most web projects don't pay attention to the same level of detail as native apps because the web is so much faster to prototype. I bet if devs spent the same amount of time working on perf and loading states on the web as they did on native, the performance argument would have much less impact.
You clearly have no experience dealing with NHS purchasing.
Custom laptop by DevilTech. I don't recommend them because of bad customer service (it takes long for them to answer to emails etc.), but the hardware has been solid. Bought it 1.5 year ago, so it has an i5, 8GB ram and 128GB SSD along with Nvidia's crappy Optimus technology. I'm pretty satisfied though, as the laptop has a FullHD glare screen and everything I want in a laptop.

At work I use EliteBook and iMac.
Lenovo has some dedicated shops, at least in Germany. What is ‘your area’?
Work: Chromebook Pixel

Hobby: 11" MacBook Air; Early 2011-ish?
I think the title has a typo. Should be "How Did Work-Life Balance in the US Get So Awesome?"
JavaScript Adult Mode
Macbook Air 13" (2012) 8GB RAM 256 Flash
The lead sentence is:
"The United States faces a growing economic challenge — a substantial and increasing shortage of individuals with the skills needed to fill the jobs the private sector is creating."

This is a position paper from one of the greatest users of H1b visas on immigration reform. It's worth about as much as the fox giving advice on how to build henhouses.
So then is a 2.1 considered impressive?
Desktop, i7 3770, 6gb RAM, HD5970, RAID of 3 1tb drives and a 64gb SSD that I run Linux off of when I need to get real work done.

Laptop is a ThinkPad x121e that desperately needs replacing.
Echoing the comment that w1ntermute's made after your's, Lipitor/atorvastatin wouldn't freaking exist as a drug without the system where it costs so much in the US during the period of patent protection. According to Wikipedia, it was first synthesized in 1985 and approved by the FDA in 1996; that period is well into the "you won't recover your drug development money without the US market" phase.

But don't worry, if the usual suspects are successful, we'll all be paying peanuts for drugs in due course. Pity there will be no effective antibiotics against many resistant drug bacteria strains....

(The thing that really gets me is how many of these advocates for an end of medical innovation as an inevitable outcome of their nostrums will find their own lives cut short in due course due to it. Ideology trumps self-preservation.)
> The chances of self-taught web monkeys in companies that are loss leaders making multiple of the salary of PhD level automotive software engineers...

It's not about how you learned it, it's what you know and what you can do. Some of the best programmers I know were self-taught. They keep learning and getting better everyday, and that pays off. It seems silly to write them off based on how they learned.
> Inflation have been crazy for the last decade, salary is finally starting to catch up, especially this year.

Not really. Housing prices raised significantly in a few markets (the SF Bay area a prime example), but inflation has been average for the past decade. That makes sense considering we had a recession, it canceled out high inflation years like 2007.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infla...
But first, how about we let capital usurp the political system for its own ends? That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
Atlanta, GA

TourBuzz (professional photography platform).

1. Computational Photography Expert

2. Senior Full-Stack engineer (future VP Engineering/CTO track)

We are a polyglot shop and use tons of technologies: PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Java, Clojure, Lua, Obj-C, ActionScript, Postgres, AngularJS, EmberJS, Flash/Flex, ElasticSearch, Heroku, AWS, Chef.

Our team is 6 strong presently. We are bootstrapped and profitable. Competitive pay with great work-life balance while you work on interesting, cutting-edge SaaS applications.
Any help would be much appreciated!
No, you need a National Insurance Number to work, you need to have permission to work in the UK to be paid.
The uninsured patient, maybe. If you ran the math on the average marginal cost to the consumer for atorvastatin (Lipitor), I'd imagine it would be much, much lower. For one thing, the patent has expired and Lipitor now has substitutable generics available. Even before that, consumer co-pay for brand-name drugs is rarely more than $50 (usually much lower), and that gets whittled down further as you can convince your doctor to write a larger prescription. It's also tax deductible if you set up your HSA or FSA appropriately.
At home, I'm running a MacBook Air 13" (2011) but with Fedora 18 installed directory on it (no VM or Bootcamp). Love the hardware of Mac but not particularly fond of their OS. Absolutely love it.

At work, I've got a Dell Latitude something-or-other running Fedora 18 as well.

Linux is yummy goodness.
Yes, household income is important, but remember what the household data infers.

You say household income is stagnant and people think "wages haven't increased", when in fact wages have increased, it's just that there are fewer wage earners per household.

That's an important distinction that points to very different solutions.
Re-Thinking Engineering Education
Why would anyone avoid telling others how much they make? For example, I make £32k (£1900/month) and I pay £800/month rent.
MacBook Air 11". The best computer I've used.
ITA had a small staff, and was not Lisp-only. They were hiring people to do Java work >5 years ago.
MySQLi or PDO will not automatically solve almost any of the security issues found in this search.
Careful! Consulting hourly rates and salary are apples/oranges comparisons. Even in a really well-run consultancy your utilization might not break 80%. You're responsible for your own benefits and for self-employment tax. And you're doing all the work (or paying to outsource it) that your employer would have been doing for you --- sales, marketing, bookkeeping, receivables, payroll.
Thanks for pointing that out. Will look into it
The source code says "Copyright 2013 Google"...?
SEEKING WORK - The Netherlands/Europe/Remote

Wireframing, Responsive design, HTML, CSS3 (Less & Sass), Bootstrap, Gridset & 5+ years of WordPress experience as well.

Portfolio & Contact: http://lauriliimatta.com (more recent work samples available via email)
This might be something along the lines of "I inherited my bad behaviour from my father; my mother still has got hers."
I agree it is important to know both data points.
So another way to frame Microsoft, Facebook and Google pushing for immigration reform - would be that they want to import all of the 10x programmers from the rest of the World?
SEEKING WORK - Remote or London.

UI/Visual Designer. Everything from wireframes to polished interfaces. Web and mobile. I'm taking on a couple more clients for June and July time. Portfolio at http://zanderbrade.com
Where in this article is it acknowledged that the mechanics of supply and demand are radically impacted during a recession?

Where in this article is the rate of employment and remuneration of STEM workers compared to the mean employment rate and remuneration of all American works?
As someone who's been hit by a car twice (neither were my fault), it's also a good reminder that cars simply don't belong in urban areas with a sufficiently dense population. I still don't get why most American cities still don't reach a tipping point then go whole hog in making certain parts of cities pedestrian and bike only.
Lenovo ThinkPad T430s
Maybe Racket is closing this gap.
HP EliteBook 8540p 8GB ram
But isn't Australia 60% more expensive to live in than London? I know salaries are sky-high, but I'd heard there were living costs to match...
DocuSign - San Francisco and Seattle (Relocation possible)

DocuSign is -- according to our marketing department -- The Global Standard for eSignature. We help people and businesses close deals faster, save paper, and save money. We're trying to get everyone to DocuSign everything that needs their signature, and it's going pretty well: We have 37 million users and are adding 60000 a day.

So, to keep up, we're hiring for pretty much everything (Even if it's not listed! Our careers site is not always up-to-date). Our stack includes C#/.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Node.js, Objective-C, Java, CoffeeScript, PHP, and a bunch of other stuff I haven't dealt with yet. We like automation, continuous integration, and TDD, and we try to be as agile as we can.

Here are some relevant highlights:

Senior iOS Engineer - San Francisco

UX Lead, Mobile - San Francisco

Senior Node.js Engineer - San Francisco

Senior PHP Developer - San Francisco

Senior Systems Engineer - San Francisco

Director/Architect, Enterprise Applications - San Francisco

Technical Director of eCommerce - San Francisco

Senior Director, Web Applications Product Management - San Francisco

Manager of Technical Publications - San Francisco

Automation QA Engineer/SDET, multiple positions/platforms - Seattle and San Francisco

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations - Seattle and San Francisco

Data Security Engineer - Seattle or San Francisco

Senior Deployment Engineer - Seattle

Database & Storage Operations Manager - Seattle

Operation Center Engineer - Seattle

We're at 221 Main in SF and 1301 2nd Ave in Seattle. Both locations are two floors with awesome views.

If you're interested, go to http://www.docusign.com/company/careers or,

Email me: deyton.sehn at docusign.com
Your girlfriend is probably not near the same park where the protests started. People are literally rioting on the streets - there are photos all over Facebook and Twitter documenting this.
It still doesn't check if a particular id belongs to the user, so you can delete all the items in the table. But I agree that's different kind of problem :)
I wasn't sure what "Information Science" was, so I used Google. Cornell, probably an above average department, was the first hit.

As far as I can tell from the course descriptions, graduates of this program are not preparing to invent the next generation of technology breakthroughs:
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/academics/degrees/ba-college-...

A Cornell undergrad wanting to be a hardcore technologist, would major in "Computer Science" in the College of Engineering. But that would be more effort.
> I am from Europe but have friends in Ukraine..

Ukraine is in Europe.
Thanks for the link. I'm of the view though that redis offers better and more convenient implementation.

cheers
Yeah, saw it on your site. Small world!
Detroit's Decaying Old Train Station Has 5 New Windows and No One Knows Why
Wow, that was some pretty interesting history, thanks for sharing it.
I know that it's not statistically sound, but as an informal straw poll I don't know why people are so eager to put this down. "Kind of tired", "don't trust them", "mostly fantasy" - these seem like oddly agressive phrases to me which probably reflect personal anguish rather than a desire to see the facts.

If we take the $300K+ figure as an outlier, what I see are pretty much peaks at around where I get LinkedIn spam telling me I can make $x. [Edit: to clarify, by "peak", I am referring to peaks if you were to plot the responses in a histogram, not a dollar amount.] I'm going to guess which peak someone is likely to fall in varies with factors like years of experience, when you entered the workforce, how often you changed jobs, luck or whatever. Then I see a significant amount making more and a significant amount making less. I don't think that's all that unbelievable. I don't think it makes sense to overemphasize that the poll is informal and not scientific - the poll still tells you something, even if not really that much, so why dismiss the messenger?

This reminds me of when I lived in Seattle, worked for MSFT and used to read "Mini Microsoft" threads around bonus/promo time. People would post level/base/bonus and how they were evaluated. That too was unscientific, but the company was pretty standardized around titles and how well you could do at bonus time, so it didn't take much to figure out that most of the data was probably accurate - and seeing that, even if it was totally unscientific, served as a reminder of how the place worked and where you fit into it. But then you got a lot of commenters who I think were bitter, jealous, or in denial that it was possible that the guy down the hall was doing better than them. So in a reactionary fashion, they start attacking the other posters, calling them liars, non-employees, whatever.
One should be able to compile a web app into a downloadable package, with capabilities to run the app completely offline. Until that web will always be second best to fully native. Performance is getting close enough though.
> London cost of living isn't so bad.

Really? London has the highest rent and house prices in the UK.

The average rental for a 1 bedroom flat is about £1200 a month, if you attribute that to the average UK salary of about £26k that's about 70% of your take home (monthly) pay.

I agree that the other costs are mainly in line with the rest of the country, although the tube is very expensive (buses are much cheaper)
It appears that the deal doesn't apply to eBooks, as there is no place to enter the code. Also, they have gigantic red text informing the potential purchaser that they don't offer Android or "normal" eBooks (PDF, ePub, etc).
This machine, Asus Eee PC. 1015PX? Atom N570, 2 GB RAM.

Work: i5-3330, 8 GB RAM. No SSD, just spinning platters (~2 TB storage, much of it unused)
>> there has been a large shift of two-parent (where both parents worked) to single-parent households.

Do you have any data to support this? My understanding is that it has been the exact opposite, with women entering the work-force in large numbers in the past two-three decades. And as far as I know, men have not been leaving the workforce, except in relatively rare situations where they become stay-at-home dads.
15" 2011 MacBook Pro. I'll probably go back to a Thinkpad with Linux for the next one, if Apple keeps tabletizing OS X.
Currently way out in the boondocks (zone 8). I'm looking to move into Zone 2/3 East London (Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area) to be closer to work. There are quite a few flat shares available for £500-600 pcm, which is my budget. That leaves me with £400/month to live off, which is good enough I suppose.
Asus Zenbook UX-32VD, upgraded to 10GB of memory ($30) and swapped the disk for a 256 GB SSD. It had a suspend issue at first (late 2012), but a kernel upgrade fixed it. SSD helps battery life--up to 6 hours at low load. There is some convenience in the 1920x1080 display matching my external display at home, though I'd rather go higher res in both.
New Camera Sensor Eliminates Need for Flash
I just got a 15" MacBook Pro w/Retina display a couple of weeks ago. i7, 16Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD. It's replacing a 7 year-old MacBook. I'm expecting to get 7 years out of this as well. I'm still at the "new machine" stage where everything just "pops" - not even a hint of delay. The 15" screen is really nice, highly recommend it over the 13", yet it's still portable and not as crazy as some of my friends who have 17" MBPs.
I used to have an Acer with an IR port at the front. So when I was demoting it to the media server duties, I thought I'd try and piggy back on that IR port to control it with the regular TV remote. It was a good hack and it actually worked, but I forgot ... to test it from a distance. Apparently the IR receiver, even with the decorative cover removed, wasn't sensitive enough to pick up anything from farther than 1 feet away. Likely, by design too.
Buses in London are a lot cheaper, it's £1.40 a trip, but the trips can be much longer than the relative speediness of the tube.
Totally agreed. This is neat, but I can't see myself signing up for it.

Inspired by Candy Japan (http://www.candyjapan.com/) I was researching how to do a "Lego of the month club"; a service that would send you a grab-bag of Lego each month, for whatever purpose you wanted. Different price tiers for different part counts, etc. Unfortunately, I could never figure out a good way to do it other than just buying a bunch of sets and randomly picking from it to make bags for people.
New York, NY

Kidura

Kidura leverages recent advances in machine learning and data analysis to provide a platform for understanding and visualizing data sets. At the core of the Kidura platform is an algorithm for representing an arbitrary data set by a graph whose connectivity reflects the structure of the original set of points.

We are looking for a great software engineer to join our team as its first employee.

While we do obviously use specific languages and technologies, the emphasis is on hiring someone super smart.

Desired Skills and Requirements:

- Excellent implementation skills in a variety of programming languages

- Understanding of machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics and data mining

- Familiarity with network programming, distributed systems, GPUs

We are also possibly looking to someone who can help with the non-technical tasks.

Please visit http://www.kidura.com/front_pages/careers/ and/or contact us through http://www.kidura.com/contact/contact/
The search obviously doesn't find all cases, but is a good start.

While there's nothing technically wrong with the example given, I might argue that since that won't work in all cases, it might be better to enforce a more rigorous policy of SQL query cleansing, or using bound params. Although this example is so simple I might not.

Then again, the fact that $_GET is even available at the location the query is taking place means this is most likely a type of design that I abhor, that PHP makes easy. Put actions in functions or methods, and then call them.
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired FIVE full-time people and TWO summer interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (we recently switched to Coffeescript and are loving it)

* iOS

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, big data, analytics

* DevOps and web infrastructure

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We are always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
I currently use an entry-level 2012 MacBook Pro, which is abysmal. My ideal setup would be a Chromebook Pixel for home and a fully-maxed retina MBP with a 512gb drive.
Given the graph on that page, I wouldn't interpret it way way. At best, it's highly misleading.

I support immigration reform for top talent. I just have a low tolerance for BS.
For a hard STEM degree, a 2.1 is considered about what you should get at minimum if you have done enough work, and a first is good. A third most likely not worth having and you will have to explain in interviews why you didn't do any better, most likely. A 2.2 is "okay" but won't help you much in finding work in general. That's how I have come to understand it anyway.