skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Relic - Portland OR/Seattle WA/San Francisco CA (http://newrelic.com/jobs)

We make the best application performance monitoring solution, and deliver the only serious SaaS APM. >40K users can't be wrong. It gives deep visibility in production apps running on Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, and .NET (with more on the way) -- AND provides an open platform with which you can integrate customized plugins to monitor your entire stack (newrelic.com/platform) .

Making it easy for our users, however, is hard work for us. Our answer is to hire top notch people, give them whatever they need, and turn them loose to solve tough problems.

We're looking for a number of technical positions (check out the Jobs page), including engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1-B transfers and relos welcome.

We also take our company culture seriously -- Best Place to Work and all that, of course. But we also provide an unusual and exciting development environment, one where managers are working to enable developers, not the other way around.

More about us:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZL7mMI-CKU
http://newrelic.com/nerdlife

Come take a look at our jobs. http://newrelic.com/jobs
>If what we known to exist and understand can't explain all observed data (our thoughts and inner experiences) than we are forced to infer the existence of something outside our understanding.

Yes, but there is a difference between "outside our understanding" and "impossible to understand". There is simply no good reason to believe that consciousness is impossible to understand.
I totally understand the "I like C#" argument - that's a personal taste, and we all have personal tastes when it comes to languages.

What I don't understand is the "we can run it on one server, so Microsoft is better". The same sites could very easily be run on open source software on the same hardware or even less. I've never heard anyone, not even Microsoft, claim that Microsoft server software requires less RAM and processing power than open source software.
RJMetrics - rjmetrics.com/jobs Philadelphia, PA fulltime. H1Bs welcome.

We're helping some of the most exciting online businesses in the world make their data actionable and understandable.

We're hiring for developers, DevOps, account managers, customer success team, product manager, inside sales, and a VP of Sales.
Japanese Sidewalk Interfaces
Harlan, new Lispy language for GPU programming
On my home dev machine which is nothing to brag about (i5-750 overclocked to 4.2 ) golang was able to process that per second on a single core if you keep the static stuff prezipped in the ram.
Meanwhile millions of businesses are able to get it to work quite well. Ever use StackOverflow? NewEgg? Their server and tools revenue continues to increase by double digits. You think that's all media manipulation? Go search Dice for for the number of openings.

Just because someone was not able use the right tool for the right job in your instance doesn't prove anything. One of my friends used Windows Server to stream popular sports and got so much traffic that he got shutdown by Dish.
Ask HN: How can an aspiring 20 yr old jumpstart his career?
Hey guys,

I am a 20 year old who has almost completed a two year general education degree online and am still pursuing it online as I work full time. I'm also currently in the Naval Reserves, and I hold A+, Network+, Server+, and MCP-XP certifications. I've been working in IT supports for the last couple of years and have some good support.

I love reading articles on start ups that are doing new exciting things in the tech world, and would love to get involved in that sphere of the technology world. However, all the job openings I see are for engineers and positions of that nature, which I'm just not qualified or ready to do.

What suggestions do you guys have for me? I'd love to come work for a great company that is doing exciting things and launching a new product. I am extremely motivated and a hard worker, as well as a fast learner. Where can I find a job that will let me grow and be a part of something bigger?

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks.
Qualcomm - San Diego, CA - Application & System Administrator

To apply: http://bit.ly/10uvgbD

Qualcomm is always hiring but this post is specifically looking for an application and system administrator. The position is a 12 month temp req and while we're hoping we can turn whoever fills this roll into a full time employee after the 12 month period we can not guarantee that.

We're looking for someone experienced in enterprise application administration. Ideally in the ETL or BI space. The application you would be working with primarily would be Informatica PowerCenter [http://www.informatica.com]. The job posting gives a run down of the various skill sets we're looking for.

That being said the reason I'm posting this here is that we haven't had much luck finding a good fit for this position using the traditional avenues. I'm a big fan of the community here and I'm sure there's more than a few people here that would be right for the job.

This goes for all job postings, but even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, apply anyway. When it comes down to it, we're looking for talented, smart people with a passion for technology and an eagerness to learn. If that's you, we're looking forward to hearing from you.
Using Ghost.py and matplotlib to visualize JavaScript's Math.random function
This is an example of idea that would work in practice but being completely broken in theory (URLs don't have files nor extensions, although common URL looks like they do).

Another example is JavaScript itself.
A Massive Chart of Every Superhero’s Powers Ever
"You are just being lazy"

Why is this a value judgement? Making an interface work with and without Javascript takes more time - that's a given. Surely it's up to the team working on it to decide if that time is better spent on something else?
This is exactly why all of Obama's pre-election rhetoric about privacy is coming back to haunt him now. It's easy to sell "change" when you don't have to implement it.
Graph Traversal with Clojure
Weddington Way - San Francisco, Full Time, H1B Transfers

Weddington Way is a rapidly growing, venture-backed San Francisco start-up building a new collaborative shopping experience for wedding parties. We are passionate about creating a fun, collaborative and rewarding experience for friends coming together around one of life’s most important events. We've seen 5x growth in revenue from 2011 to 2012 and are on track to see the same type of massive growth this year.

We are hiring a full-stack engineer. If you are a kick-ass engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment where you have ownership over the software stack and the metrics that drive the business, then Weddington Way might be the place for you! This is an opportunity to be an early engineer at a fast-growing startup. There is a LOT of room to jump in and have an impact very quickly. And then there's the opportunity to grow as the company grows.

Our current technologies include Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Solr.

You can find out more about the role and apply here: http://www.weddingtonway.com/jobs/software_engineer
Why are you trying to hijack this thread with these mentions of eating and sleeping and so forth? If this conversation truly doesn't interest you, then go read another thread.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or in-person (Austin, TX). We are looking to ramp up for the second half of 2013. We currently have bandwidth of 200-225 hours/month. We specialize in backend development (web sites & web applications) and increasingly full-stack development.

We help busy startups and non-technical founders implement their visions.
Email: theo@rebuiltbits.com
> JS should not be required on grounds of security, not just privacy. Sites should not have to run what is essentially unsafe, privileged, arbitrary code

JavaScript is by far the most heavily sandboxed, restricted code in common use. If you think it's harmful to have JS running on someone's site you need to learn more about web security.
>"I agree, he could easily be using a JVM-based stack"

Maybe but believe it or not, there are people who HATE Java (that would includes me)
Do you just work out of the IAC office or are you owned by IAC?
Yeah! Exactly. We're including that in the form of a broadcast. Public broadcasts will appear like "James is at the pub" and then there's an option to join

But we're working on making this less creepy. Might shift more towards what you were saying

Thanks!!
"They", as much as many others around the world have not trusted him for a while now. I don't think anyone has burned through so much good will. I would even argue that it was a quicker burn than Bush's after 9/11 because it was simply based on solidarity and empathy.

That being said. Those societies that are now disenchanted with him and America are naive fools who need to wake up and smell the stench. America is not your friend. We are an abusive friend, at best. The worst thing about it the relationship is that because we are never held to account or responsible and get away with anything and every abuse towards our "friends" like the spoiled rotten brat we are; we never grow and learn how to actually be a true friend or even civil. Friendship is a two sided relationship; this is a cry for help, please smack us around and shame us deeply so we can be humbled and build back up a sane character.
Thanks for this. It is a highly informative comment, especially regarding big data algos.

Extending the 'hole' analogy, do you think the watchers / algorithms could complete reasonable extrapolation on you if your group of closest acquaintances all decided to disappear from the network?

Perhaps even this more extreme measure would be fruitless as each of your friends has a fingerprint that they 'remove' from their respective unique graphs. Your group's disappearance would be a larger void, but each member's tendrils would carve out unique telltale gaps.
I'm not a huge fan of Java either, but sometimes it's important to get past that and either try and work with a language that's extremely effective for some deployments, or consider that the JVM supports quite a bit more platforms than just Java.
Some of it may be dissonance - people (especially in the open source community) have been proclaiming Android as open for so long that anything that challenges that idea must be denied.
ënimai - www.enimai.com - Mountain View CA - Full Time, (H1B Transfers)

ënimai develops hardware and software that pushes the boundaries of what is possible with computers. ënimai believes technology should be magic.

We are looking for extraordinary programmers.

Programmers who, true to the spirit, can work with any programming language to solve the problem at hand. Generalists who can become specialists in any field. Experts in fields where we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Algorithms, computer vision, machine learning, math, robotics, ad-hoc wireless & Bluetooth, mobile (iOS/Android) and very low power embedded systems. The team has previously built very successful products at Apple, Amazon/Lab126, Google etc.

You will be challenged and pushed to your limit. You may have to rewrite your favourite C++ library to work in a system with 8KB RAM or scale it to massively parallel machines. You will be responsible for every bit of memory you allocate and every CPU cycle you burn.

You will be rewarded with better than industry pay and equity. However, the biggest reward will not have dollar figures attached to it. It is the feeling you get doing what you do best and making an impact in this world.

Apply at http://enimai.theresumator.com/ or drop us an email at stdin@enimai.com
I think if they had opensourced this from the beginning their kickstarter campaign would have been even more of a success
I don't see what the anecdote about the other person has to do with your story. It seems like you're citing it to try to imply that Linux can be expensive, but that's not really a valid point based on that anecdote. Their software costs were $0/mo of that $3000/mo. Linux has nothing to do with whatever reasons they had for such expensive server costs. There is no question that whatever their server costs, they would have been even higher if they had been Microsoft based.

Secondly, I'd disagree with your assertion that the customer doesn't matter. Customers may not care when they're using your SaaS product, but my company is in the market for new support software and we looked at yours but because yours is Microsoft based, it's disqualified. We are looking for a self hosted solution. So you lost at least one customer right here. I'm not making this up, this all happened a couple weeks ago prior to this blog post.

EDIT:

PS - I liked your previous blog post about A/B testing, so it's nothing personal I just think this one is kinda bogus.
Possibly because it's actually pretty cost-effective. You need at least two machines for availability. But you get more bang per buck by making those two machines bigger than by adding a third.

Until you hit the limit of what you can do on commodity-ish x86 servers, and would need to start buying Gucci kit from Sunacle or IBM or whoever, at which point your CFO is going to start crying like a baby.
Who will stop Google?
It's become clear that the way I want to interact with information, and the way that the industry is moving are disjoint. I have no interest in the browser as an application platform; the current state of the web is barely useful for me. I find applications built on the web stack in every instance inferior to native ones, but the economics dictates the triumph of the web page.

Oh well. At least I'll always have Emacs.
Adzerk - http://www.adzerk.com/job-openings/ - Durham, NC

We're looking for software engineers, both senior and junior. Our needs are all over the place, from UI to data warehousing, so there is a lot of skills you can bring to the table and many areas to play around in. We've got 10 people on the team right now and we are planning to grow!

Adzerk is a Durham, NC startup that’s helping content publishers make more money from their ad inventory by building a revolutionary ad serving platform. We serve ads for reddit, stackoverflow, and other sites you've probably heard of.
I've said it and been laughed at but the App Store is a shovelware market. A tiny fraction of apps gain enough volume to offset their low prices, and of those many are the result of paid downloads (tap joy).

There is a pervasive delusion that launching an app means immediate access to a lucrative market, but the reality is that it's highly competitive with extremely low returns.

If you are looking to make money off a mobile app (not establish saas mobile extension) rapidly launch MVPs of your apps to see if there is any demand. Don't invest in perfect designs and ux until you've validated that there is a user base worth investing in.
Whispersync Automatic Conflict Resolution: GameCircle to All Androids
> Typical worrisome cases are when a malicious script scrapes credential forms or the tracking of mouse cursor movements / page scrolling for advertising analytics.

You do realize that the only way JavaScript runs on a page is for the remote site to choose to include it, right? If you don't trust their JavaScript why would you ever put sensitive information in a form and submit it anyway?
not only Germans feel like this.
An Apple-1 Personal Computer
Pact Coffee - London, Full Time Lead Developer
pactcoffee.com

We're opening the world of small-batch, fresh roasted and better tasting coffee to a global audience, not just those lucky enough to live in Shoreditch. Join an incredible founding team and help the world fall in love with coffee again.

We face a huge array of creative challenges in tying together a physical product with its digital counterpart. In doing so we’re looking for an experienced Lead Developer to help confront these as part of a great founding team. This requires a strong technical knowledge (especially in Ruby), a creative approach and the ability to work with the right languages and tools for the job. You will be joining the team to lead on all things tech, and as such, we’re looking for a generalist with Ruby experience, who will both guide and work on features and tools across both product and operations.

Generalist: Our stack is currently made up of Postgres, Rails, HTML, CSS (+ SASS) and JavaScript. Due to the challenges we face, this list is constantly growing and evolving, and we’re looking for a Lead Developer who’s comfortable in our current stack, but has the technical breadth and knowledge to change and move things forward as our needs develop.

Creative: You will help define product direction and be the voice for technology in the room. We want to re-approach classic e-commerce challenges in innovative and exciting ways. Be it applying cutting edge research to make sure people get the right coffee for their palette or experimenting with Arduinos and electronics to make sure they never run out; a strong technical background combined with an ability to think creatively are essential to us fulfilling that ambition.

Technical chops: You will be leading on forward thinking solutions which will likely push you into areas unknown! You’ll need to be comfortable with the stack we already use whilst also being able to pick up new skills and tools quickly in order to lead the team forward.

Product: You will help define our product roadmap, speak to customers and lead on the implementation of user facing features. You should feel comfortable in proposing and validating ideas before going ahead and building them out yourself or with the team. Once those features are live, you should be at home making data-based decisions about their future direction and flaws.

Autonomous: Though decisions are made as a team, you’ll be in charge of making sure we deliver on all things tech. As a small team, everyone needs to be comfortable working together whilst also taking individual responsibility and ownership for their area. As an e- commerce company, tech sits at our heart and as such your role is mission critical to the success of the business. You should feel comfortable with this. Ultimately as the company’s technical voice, no­one will tell you how to run things or which tools are best for the job, that’s up to you!

Interested? Email stephen@pactcoffee.com
Once you look past all the Reagan PR the image is even worse than it ever was. The very nature of our the challenges we are facing today as a society can largely be traced back to his throwing open the doors to unrestrained abuse across society. The problem with excess is that it is exponentially unsustainable.
Fun In The Woods With The XP Camper V2 Prototype
It's just an app
Soocial is shutting down its sync service
Is “double hashing” a password less secure than just hashing it once?
It is not the first time this has happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
What? A Firefox OS Smartphone?
We are part of IAC
I hope I'm not the first to break it to you, but it's not just America. That's the nature of the beast, I am constantly confused as to why people are surprised when they centralise all power under the control of a small group of people and that power is co-opted by other forces they likely initially sought to guard it from. There's just no getting around that, it's like shoveling earth into a pool and wondering why the water level rises.

You want to stop the flooding? Put the shovel down.
How do you find integrating mono hosted apps with the Linux toolset. Do you use anything like chef/puppet/ansible?

(Sorry If you've answered in the article - I can't read stuff on WP at work)
In that case porting FROM it should be simple. TO it would be hard if you're using all those fancy features of your current DB. That's why I eschew all the sirens from Oracle DBA's of "oh... but Oracle can do that too!" Keep database activities in the database and application activities in the app.
From priceless quotes like "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut..., there was always the impression/worry that the Reagan administration was a bit trigger-happy and Western Europe (particularly West Germany) was about to be turned into an atomic wasteland at any time.

Of course the actions by the administration were more constructive than the rhetoric but I certainly grew up in fear of imminent nuclear war.
The final paragraph seems to answers his question with the statement that it is simply "what he knows best". And in fact the rest of the article backs that up with his lack of information about alternatives (as many of the comments here point out). There is nothing wrong with going with a solution because it makes you more productive for your small problem, but trying to make any conclusions beyond that seems forced. I am 100% sure that there is someone who could write the exact same article, but instead they use a single Linux box with PostgreSQL, emacs, etc because it is simply what they are comfortable with.
Ha! This is a good idea. Actually I'd count it by the employee pay/cost being soaked up in the meeting instead of an arbitrary rate. So in your case say the average per hour cost to the company for an employee is £50, and there are 10 people in the meeting for an hour, that meeting cost the company £500. It can keep meeting sizes small as a motivator to keep costs low ;)

(I've seen several $20,000-30,000 "meetings" before that accomplished nothing)
Shameless plug: See also, "How do functional languages handle random numbers?" - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/202908/how-do... .
KnowItOwl - New York, NY. Full-stack engineer/CTO. Fulltime.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer/CTO to love the hell out of this problem. You'll be the 4th member, and technical lead, of an incredibly talented team with a track record in insurance, startups, consumer marketing and design/UX. We have had a successful alpha phase and are already revenue positive.

http://knowitowl.theresumator.com/apply/

Do you want to solve:

A problem with scale. Insurance is a $2 trillion industry. That’s 36 times larger than Google and Facebook combined. Insurers pay their aging sales force a mint to sell insurance the old-fashioned way (with paper, face-to-face). We’re going to change this.

A problem that’s socially important. Nobody’s helping people figure out insurance – and that’s bad. Under-insured medical problems contribute to over half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures. We’re going to deliver social impact.

A problem in desperate need of a new approach. The consumer problem in insurance is deceptively simple: insurance is hard to sell because people don’t want to think about bad things like death and illness. Insurers just throw money at the problem: advertising, hefty commissions, pushy sales agents. We’re introducing a new approach.

We’re looking to build our team with people who understand the importance of what we’re doing and want to apply their talent and energy to solving a Big Problem. We’re searching for Davids ready to take on Goliath. Come join Virgil and the KnowItOwl team to bring the $2 trillion insurance industry into the 21st century.