skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING (preferably open source hardware) WORK - Remote or area around Cologne, Germany

I do electronics, rapid prototyping, mechanical prototyping and firmware work, and occasional desktop software and drivers. Entire workflow from idea to manufactured product or any subset thereof. Significant contributions to the reprap project. Prefer open source work (closed source costs extra). Ask me anything at kliment@0xfb.com
There is no tech labor shortage.

[ source : http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html ]

If there was a labor shortage, wouldn't real U.S. wages have been going up?

If I want a $5 Prime Rib Eye steak, and can't find it, is there a beef shortage?

Raise wages, and the talent will come.
Started on 30k progressed to 60k in London. People who stay in one place for more than 1-2 years without decent raises do a bad favour to everyone except for employers. Do move around and get what you deserve along with varied experience! Companies do shell out on contractors when there is a need and can keep them for years. I think it is some sort of misrepresentation that leads people to think that it is OK to pay less then 50k to a decent dev in London.
That tends to be the case mostly everywhere in Europe. For that matter, most places in the world outside the US (and Silicon Valley) tend not to pay software engineers very competitively.

I am from a fairly small central European country and programmers there barely make more than other professions; the salaries often amount to the national average.
With law you have to do a two year training course (so effectively two years of training) where they're usually sponsored.

Investment banking is often long hours (9-midnight) plus weekends. Many leave after a year or two or don't make it past 2 years (don't get their contracts renewed after analyst). Also, I'd consider those individuals to be some of the very smart; does this survey really allow one to filter how good they are at their job? There are different levels of software engineer from someone tweaking a wordpress blog template to someone writing assembly code on chips.

Also, what about google and facebook? They pay pretty well, don't they? Also, there are other companies like linkedin and oracle here too. No idea if they pay well or not (no info to base it off)

Working for government contracts as non permanent employee ?
> The flow of information between transacting parties is a fairly central problem of economics.

The prevalence of spammers and scammers is how this manifests on freelancing sites.

> the logical end point for a perfect free market is a thin gas of individual, rational agents

Is that like, the "heat death" of the market economy? (Of capitalist society, actually.)
It may be because of being able to read and formulate a response offline (Stallman seems to spend a lot of his time travelling, not all locations allow permanent wifi connections). It may also be a simple 'single firehose' approach - all tasks as email.
San Francisco, CA; PlanGrid (YC W12); Looking for engineers in SF

We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).
We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our twelfth team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico (this years location:http://i.imgur.com/kEiI2ej.jpg), and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
Seattle - Front-End Web Developer (Full-Time)

Full Circle
(http://www.fullcircle.com/)

technology.jobs@fullcircle.com

We are a small team of developers supporting a growing organic grocery delivery business. Originally started by a farmer right outside of Seattle, Full Circle now serves much of Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and we've more recently expanded to include the Bay Area.

Ordered from most important down to least -

You should be:

- super comfortable in HTML, CSS, and rudimentary javascript at the very least

- very familiar with jQuery, AJAX, and web dev tools like Firebug and/or Chrome Developer Tools

- familiar with Photoshop (or GIMP) as well as basic Wordpress usage

- comfortable using Git and a linux shell, e.g. bash

You would hopefully be:

- experienced with LESS, Handlebars.js, Backbone.js

If would be awesome if you were:

- familiar with Google Analytics

- capable in Ruby (Rails)

- experienced templating in PHP
Security Brigade - Mumbai, India

We're looking for talented Application Security Consultants who will be responsible for security assessments and penetration testing of application and enterprise environments as well as security research and development of security tools, processes and testing methodologies.

More details can be found at: http://www.securitybrigade.com/careers/security-consultant-j...

To apply for the job, take our quiz at: http://www.securitybrigade.com/careers/apply-for-security-co...
80k base, 130k last bonus. I'm 2 years into doing mostly Java, Python and C++ in a hedge fund. I left a small non-finance software firm where after a few years I was on 25k.
Poll: Full-time software engineers in Toronto, what's your annual salary?
Inspired by the poll of London, SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Base salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.

(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)
Less than 50k
50k - 60k
60k - 70k
70k - 80k
80k - 90k
90k - 100k
100k - 200k
200k+
SEEKING WORK - remote only, based in Connecticut

What I do: I'm a front-end web developer and designer, and work out of my own shop, Heta (http://heta.co). I design, develop, and customize WordPress themes, or convert PSD designs or HTML sites to WordPress.

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress, mySQL, ZURB Foundation (3 & 4), SVN for version control. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can show you live sites I've developed, and a premium theme I'm currently working on.
Use your smartphone to unlock your house
Synaptive Medical - Full time in Toronto.

Newly formed Medical device start up in Toronto, young and growing quickly. We're building equipment and applications for neurosurgical procedures.

It's a great group of engineers with a lot of energy and applications we all believe in.

Current looking for people in many roles, such as:

- Software development
- Software test
- Scientific software development
- Embedded systems
- Mechatronics
- Optomechanical
- Systems
- User interface

Highly relevant areas of experience for various roles:

- Medical device industry
- Medical imaging
- MRI and MRI physics
- Spectroscopy and endoscopy
- Data converters (ADC/DAC)
- FPGA
- High performance interconnects
- Realtime systems
- Data streaming
- Signal processing (image and/or video)
- Neuroanatomy
- Surgical suite equipment
- Standards: ISO 13485, IEC 60601, ISO 14971, IEC 62304

Posting and application details at: synaptivemedical.com

(or contact me: simon at the same domain.)
Pro competition Economist Milton Friedman dismissed H-1B as a subsidy ... [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/72848/H_1B_Is_Just_An... ]

'Nobel economist Milton Friedman scoffs at the idea of the government stocking a farm system for the likes of Microsoft and Intel. "There is no doubt," he says, "that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy." '
The IGZO replaces the a-Si transistors, while the viewing angle, color stability, etc. depend on the LCD, color filters and the backlight.
Just to throw this in, but the original Max Headroom movie "20 Minutes into the Future" is not as bad as the Channel 4 / Cinemax music video show or (oh god) the American ABC series.

It's an interesting bit of proto-cyberpunk that even addressed things like digital avatars and real-time viewer feedback nearly 30 years ago.
SEEKING WORK, Calgary, AB, Canada. Remote.

Are you building a web-based product? Perhaps adding new features to an existing product? You're probably a hustler. You know what you're doing: you have a vision and you have a plan. Maybe you already have a team, but there's just so much to do and not enough time to do it.

This is where I come in.

I'm full stack web developer who loves working with small agile teams (of designers & developers), taking care of all technical details, across the entire stack, to make things work.

I'm a generalist polyglot programmer. I have experience with both front-end and back-end. I can take care of any aspect of development: be it designing a data model for the server side, tweaking css on the front end, or hacking javascript to make that rich UI. I can integrate all the pieces together to produce the desired result and make it work nicely.

I'm the kind of developer you'll enjoy working with. I'm passionate about teaching and learning. I care about what I do and will strive to make sure it is done well. I have a relaxed friendly demeanor and I enjoy working with others. I'm open to feedback and always looking for ways to improve myself and my work.

Get in touch with me via email: hasan.aljudy@gmail.com

I'd love to hear from you about what you're building and I'm happy to have a nice long conversation to see how I can help.

http://hasenj.org

You can see some examples of my work on my site. If you contact me via email I will show you another cool project I'm currently working on that's still in alpha stage and so I haven't put up a link to it yet.
Working out what are the 'details that are relevant' is perhaps a measure of knowledge in the field?
France is completely different, she is employed either hourly- a maximum of 35 hours/week- or employed daily, ie. 218 days a year (for starters).

EDIT: @nawitus:

Sorry but your data is totally useless for this purpose. 1) it's the whole economy, not just programmers and 2) it includes part time workers! To imply that full-time programmers in London are working on average less than a 40 hour week is so far from reality.
I also see a lot of contracts around 400GBP a day in London for front end folks, thats around the 100K mark per year.
Which is more valuable to Apple, its market share or its brand?
If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, and can't find it, is it because I'm not paying enough?

The fact that many SV companies want mythical beings to solve their engineering problems is an entirely different issue, but this does not invalidate their claims of a "shortage." It just means that they have failed to come up with a business that is capable of being worked on by the existing talent pool.
I don't think that's a good idea at all...in general I think wages are very good for software engineers, and working conditions tend to be among the best anywhere.
There is plenty of demand for good engineers and a world of opportunity. If you are not happy with wages, skill up, build a portfolio and make yourself into the type of individual people want. Unions are no good in my opinion, they are more trouble than they're worth, and the good people tend to get trapped by them. They just end up being another controlling force and they hinder productivity innovation etc...
The rest of the UK seems much worse.
If you think that's bad paid, come to the wonderful Spain. Graduates start with <= 18K€...
SEEKING WORK - London, UK and remote

What I do: PHP, Java and C#

I am a software developer with ~5 years commercial experience currently looking for new projects in London or remotely.
I build both web applications and back-end services, my experience has taken me from basic CMS sites to financial systems, large scraping/ data mining services and much more. Enjoy a challenge and startups.

Contact sean [[at thewebloft .[co.[uk
Any country needs to look outside its borders for additional top engineers.

But the quote isn't saying they want 5% engineers; it is saying most available engineers are not satisfactory. This does not have much to do with top 5% engineers naturally being restricted in number.
If you are based in London and you're not working in finance, then you are getting screwed over.
Great job with http://nsfw.in . I was just thinking about service like that yesterday! Nice execution too.
I'm afraid you're a turkish version of this:

http://cs315425.vk.me/v315425324/23a8/YO1aa12hSp0.jpg
I think most people have taken it to mean GBP, but I wish it was explicit in the description.
http://www.coinhandle.com - a personalized handle for your Bitcoin address.

Think Bit.ly for bitcoin - although you can administer your Coinhandle address if your Bitcoin address ever changes.
I make 25k in Brighton as a graduate. Most of the jobs I applied for were 18-22k.
Beast Creature "Creatine" Review
I see similar work has been done for Scala. Amongst other things:

https://code.google.com/p/scalaforandroid/

Does anyone with Scala on Android experience know if it is bogged down by the same size and performance issues? I assume they are running against the same problems on parallel tracks. Just curious.
I have given a link and quotes from a newspaper. I am not a supporter of government, police or later protesters. That's it.
how did you get such a good twitter account, but without any tweets on it except for a month or two ago?
There are landline phones too, you know. Stallman was a hacker since before people were carrying cell phones everywhere, I'm sure he'd manage.
San Francisco, CA - full-time JavaScript devs

Zaption (www.zaption.com) makes hybrid learning easy. We're a web platform to help teachers create interactive video lessons.

We just raised seed funding and we're hiring for our first employees! If you're interested in education, a master of JavaScript (we run a Node/Mongo stack), and want to take on a big role in a small company, this is right up your alley.

Learn more at http://www.zaption.com/jobs and apply by emailing jobs@zaption.com
Choosing a university degree to maximise your salary is a counter productive waste of opportunity. Become a generalist where command line foo is your super power, not your day job.

People hire to get stuff done. They have zero interest in your qualifications. They have every interest in your github repos. One cool project trumps your degree.

Employment offers plenty of scope to increase your salary. What it doesn't offer is much space (unless you work for decades to earn it) to study anything for the sake of it. That's your current opportunity: you can choose to study something for the sake of it, like Mathematics & Philosophy, History of Computing or Smart Geometry.

Don't put yourself in a box. Plenty of other people will be trying to do that for you.
Potato is a 70-person developer-lead agency based in London, UK with offices in Bristol, Amsterdam, Sydney & San Francisco. Our clients include Google, PayPal, a number of startups and other agencies such as BBH & Mother. We're hiring for a variety of positions in a variety of locations, freelance & full time, including senior UX designers in London, Mountain View & Bristol UK.

http://p.ota.to/jobs/
New York, NY: Classic Specs

We are a startup which designs eyewear in Brooklyn, NY. We sell affordable frames ($89, frames+lenses). Our bigger business, however, is designing eyewear for fashion brands. We have a number of exciting brands in the pipeline and are growing our team. If you are interested in fashion - and using technology to innovate in that space - then send me a note!

Our team is small, so we wear many hats. Our site is in Python+Flask, with some PHP.
On the backend, we've written tools to manage customers' eyewear prescriptions, manage orders and inventory with our lens laboratory, and give our employees great tools for taking care of customers.

We're also looking for UX developers and designers who can understand a brand's aesthetic and create an eyewear website based around that. This will entail everything from a responsive website to, for graphic designers, print collateral that goes in the packages we ship to customers.

I am the first engineering hire, so you'd be an early employee on the team. We want folks who can help out on backend infrastructure tasks and help us grow as we take on new brands.

If this sounds interesting, email me! jay[[at]]classicspecs.com
If you could take a horse and teach it to become a unicorn, then I'd say yes.
WhaleEye SEO Spider - http://www.whalei.com

I created the same thing a year ago. I underestimated the CPU load and number of pages on many sites (especially e-commerce sites). It doesn't take many crawls to quickly fill a db.
Well, I feel like an idiot for not knowing it was a British production.
Any word on fluxless solder vs TIM? For kicks I am going to over clock and need to know if I should gird my loins for delidding.
If you don't have to make use of your health care, then the primary cost would be increased healthcare premiums. Which are largely borne by the employer. So, while the actual expense would be higher, it's also rolled into (and already accounted for) by your increased salary.

Now, if you require treatment and have come from a more civilized place (e.g., much of the rest of the civilized world), you're in for, shall we say, a real treat.
Do standard merchant accounts not let you do that sort of thing?
> Not necessary. Engineers are usually smarter to not to think that way.

I've known too many arrogant engineers to believe this is true.
Except that this isn't the truth. H1B imported engineers aren't the best in their field, working for top wages. They're middling-low, working for below-average wages. They pull down wages for the entire software engineering field by about 6%, say the studies.

If H1B's are really the best software engineers in the world, why are they being hired for less than the average wages in the U.S. for average engineers?

I appreciate that there's a persistent media myth that H1B is about getting "top" engineers, but this has been thoroughly, totally debunked and should be roundly mocked whenever it shows up.
To answer you questions...

1. Hardly ever. Then again I am not doing anything amazingly special or complicated. Just standard business apps.

2. That experience is worth double what theoretical education is. So make sure you DO STUFF and stick it up on github. Write a blog about what interests though. Writing a blog is great at improving your language skills. Also take some presentation skills courses while you can as it is all about selling yourself and your MSc won't sell you sorry to say.

3. Zero. Nobody cares what uni you went to unless you are going into fields like medicine. Your experience and previous work (again stick stuff on github!!) will help more than saying you got a first from Cambridge. The exception might be places like Google but I don't know anything about working for Google :)
Remote-work-friendly companies can capitalize on that.
Do you see any performance issues. How long have you been using this setup ? Just wondering if the SSD's on the air can handle the extra I/O without shortening its life drastically.
For example: Max Headroom[1] portrayed by Matt Frewer[2] doing vocals in the video[3] for "Paranoimia"[4] by Art of Noise[5] (1986)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(character)

2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001242/

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YubzvkNh77w

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoimia

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Noise
> If you sleep in on a Saturday until noon, you'll probably tend to want breakfast food when you first wake up.

It's 9am on a Saturday here and I just ate two slices of cold pizza. Not everyone desires "breakfast food" first thing in the moring. :)
Why Do You Want To Be A Hedge Fund Investor?
If you're finding Photoshop difficult try Fireworks. It's easier for basic web stuff like gradients and simple shapes.
Can Biotech Bring the Chestnut Back to America's Forests?
For those wondering, that's pretty typical for a staff engineer at Google (ie, about four promotions or 6+ years from fresh grad).
http://PlayByLyrics.com - Searches and finds music by entering some songtext, possibly combined with the artist, album or song name.

I'm also thinking of selling this to companies like Grooveshark, Spotify, or a lyrics website. I really like the website myself and use it a lot, but it doesn't get a lot of traffic. It has some potential though, I'm quite sure of that, and if I ever continue serious development there'll also be an app. And yes, I know the design isn't very great, but it works for me for now.

If you have any interest, contact methods are on the website (see the "about" link at the bottom).
who gives a shit about a logo
I believe (IANAL) that once you have a priority date, you keep it even if if you switch jobs.
I have an MIS degree and have had no trouble working alongside CS grads my entire career. Likewise for my family member with an Engineering Technology degree. I don't think there is that huge of a gap. It is still about getting your foot in the door and doing things on the job.
Since you're open to remote employment, I guess that "break in" period could be done with a tourist visa ;)

[and yes - you can pay after the person leaves and/or to the foreign bank account...]
web.airdroid.com does that. It is a tremendously useful addition in their case, because most of their users already have devices with a camera.
Very cool, but it's not obvious how to submit a site for crawling.
Hacker News is too much about becoming rich to have much love for Stallman.
Id...id...id...id....idiot here t-t-t-t-oo!
"The beauty of the Lisp language" by Marvin Minsky
I stumbled over it few months ago and the issue was that readdir(), used by rm on the box I was using, by default alloc'd a small buffer (the usual 4KB) and with millions of files that turned in millions of syscalls (that's just to find out the files to delete).

A small program using getdents() with a large buffer (5MB or so) speeds it up a lot.

If you want to be kind to your hard drive then sorting the buffer by inode before running unlink()s will be better to access the disk semi-sequentially (less head jumps).
Bonuses, and especially stock or option grants, can be difficult to reasonably evaluate. If you're at a large company, forsee staying there through your vesting period, and the stock value is reasonably stable, it's rather more a sure thing.

Being an early/mid stage hire at a startup with a high probability for failure, transition, or dramatic restructuring may well make both bonus and options grant promises little more than wallpaper.

And for a typical young engineer starting out with little experience in either negotiating such terms or understanding how they work and the associated probabilities, making a rational and accurate assessment is at best difficult.

So: no, they're not something you'd completely ignore, but (as with other forms of indirect payment, compensation, revenue, etc.) they make determining fair market price rather more difficult.
Stupid article. The author thinks "Information Science" qualifies as a STEM subject.
The results are statistically insignificant.
Every time I get to an intersection I can hear my Grandma's voice telling me, "You can be right, dead right"
is £50k enough to live in London on your own? (i.e. a one br flat)