skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Borderfree, New York, NY Full-Time

We are the market leader in international ecommerce, operating a technology and services platform that enables U.S. retailers to transact with consumers in more than 100 countries worldwide, with more than two billion potential customers. Using Borderfree, U.S. retailers can rapidly develop their global ecommerce business across all dimensions. We take care of every single aspect of the international order lifecycle, including multi-currency pricing and payment processing, landed-cost calculation, customs clearance and brokerage, global logistics orchestration and international fraud management.

We are looking for Frontend, PHP, and Java engineers who are interested in building heavily intelligent and scalable solutions using the best technology available.

Our stacks include Play 2+ framework, Java/Scala, PHP, Angular, D3, LESS, jQuery, Heroku, Salesforce, Redis, Nginx, Solr, CouchBase, Git, SVN and more.

View our openings to apply: http://www.borderfree.com/careers
SEEKING WORK - Greenville, SC - Remote and Travel OK

I am a designer and front-end developer and my partner is a back-end developer and the past two years we have done projects ranging from redesigning the UI for a multi-million dollar companies to creating an iPad app for an investment firm to show off their products and portfolio to helping startups create their MVPs cost and time effeciently.

We specialize mainly in:

- Product strategy

- User experience and interface design

- Front-end dev: HTML(5)/(S)CSS/JS/Backbone/etc.

- Back-end dev: Ruby (on Rails), Python, and Ob-C

- Testing and scaling

Contact: josh[at]joshmlewis.com or @joshmlewis on just about any other service
Riverbed Technology, Cambridge, MA, Full-Time

Python/JS Guru

DevOps style developers needed to join a small but growing team at Riverbed Technology that is building out a new open source SDK and applications for customized visibility and control of the network infrastructure (see http://github.com/riverbed). This is your chance jump in and put your years of experience to work setting the direction of this new initiative of programmable infrastructure.

The strong candidate...
- Reads Hacker News before breakfast
- Tries out new packages just because they sound cool
- Enjoys the challenge of balancing "elegant" and "functional"
- Relates to fellow coding experts as easily as junior engineers
- Wishes there were more hours in the day just to code
- Understands that technical compromise can be a good thing
- Always wants to see the bigger picture

You will have the opportunity to work at multiple levels, from low-level REST APIs in Python to single page applications in JavaScript, from data analysis modules to new visualizations. This open source project will demand strong skills in API development, modularization, clean code, testing and documentation. You will be faced with the challenges of creating complex new features with a simple and usable interface that the non-coder can use and the advanced developer can extend.

This will be a fast paced environment looking to leverage new open source packages and methodologies, picking the right tool and the right library that can be leveraged by our customers.

Nuts and bolts required:
- Years of hands on development experience
- Strong programming and debugging skills in Python
- Strong understanding of OO principles
- Some experience with JavaScript
- At home in a Linux development environment
- Comfortable turning technical requirements into a functional specification
- Some network background - at least an understanding of basic network concepts

Bonus points:
- Strong design and architecture experience
- Experience with JavaScript / UI Frameworks such as extjs, d3, node.js, bootstrap
- Automation experience - unit testing, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins
- Strong networking background
- Exposure to cloud services

Riverbed Technology, Inc.'s Cascade office is located in Cambridge, MA. Riverbed offers excellent salary, options and benefits. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V

http://riverbed.force.com/careers/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0xi...
...deer shining I suppose depends on your state/local laws

Hey, spotlighting is a traditional hunting technique of my people!
Of Internet threats and cyberattacks: I would repeal Internet
I've been one of those VBA/Excel automators, and almost every project you get done causes layoffs. They're crappy jobs, usually, but it doesn't feel very good. Vive la productivity gains?
Sometimes I feel like I passed up a big opportunity not getting in on the iPhone market. Other times, I feel like the app market is like very packed concert where people get crushed and trampled, and avoiding it was a good move.
Thank you for your thorough answer.

And yeah not even the dermatologist can yet tell you whether you have a melanoma or not, for that an actual sample is required.

Perfect solution for early detection in my mind would be some sort of drug or cream that would highlight which moles are melanomas and then somehow allow of a system to see that highligh (ex. change for color)

But just wanted to say I am glad there are someone out there working on it.
Exactly. It is a business decision that each team makes. They need to decide if it is worth the extra man-hours and resources to appease a very small group of people who make a choice to turn off a big part of the web today. The best you can do is throw up a noscript message explaining why your app needs JavaScript.
Wow I hate VS so much, Eclipse is so much better! I guess it's just personal preference.

I like C# a little more than Java, but I cant stand assemblies. Jars are much easier to handle.

edit:

Troll? Not.

Like a very simple thing: quick watch in debug blocks the edit window? Really WTF?! I have to move it the second screen to see the actual code. I can name a lot of these small annoyances.
This is where deduping of URLs would really help.

This mobile version even has two versions of the canonical tag [1][2]. All HN has to do is read that tag.

[1] <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/germans-lov... />

[2] <meta name="canonicalURL" content="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/germans-lov...
> ...and you are the only person your company can find to maintain your codebase.

Why should this be? Plenty of companies have teams of functional programmers.
To be fair, the post is titled "My start-up is Microsoft-based..." not "Here's why your start-up should be..." I feel like he just wanted to make a fair case that Microsoft isn't impossible to deploy as a viable solution for a start-up. In start-ups versus say...a corporation , there is a write-off of Microsoft pretty much out of the gate. I agree with most companies, there are certainly a stack of reason why not to use it. But, its nice to see someone putting some personal reasons out there why Microsoft tech isn't useless to a new, fledgling company.
South Korean Cheetaroid Wants to Join the Cat Robot Race
It's basically what Google Now uses to figure out your home and work locations and prepare directions and traffic for you.
Apple applies for iWatch trademark
"Filings in Japan and Russia spark rumours that company may be preparing to introduce a wearable technology product"
It does sound a bit as if you were using a node.js stack on top of a Windows operating system, which I wouldn't exactly call a Microsoft stack. In which case there is really just the question of what you know better, linux ecosystem or Microsoft...
All of those decisions were made with quite a bit of community input. The people who claim they were not are the people who disagreed with them.

Firefox had to be switched to a faster release model to keep pace with Chrome. That's what competition does. Firefox adapted and excelled. Some extension developers took a while to catch on and understand the new process. But as there are 6 weeks of time to test each new version and generally extensions don't change unless there is an API change, it's not much of an issue. Any commercial developer that falls down on this is simply irresponsible.

The status bar is there and shows up whenever it needs to (during loading or hovering over a link). There's no need for it to be there the rest of the time. Any old-school extensions that had UI elements in the status bar simply moved to the toolbar.

The protocol is shown in the URL bar whenever it's something besides http (so for ftp, https, chrome, etc). http is redundant as it's assumed. Same reason we don't use it when giving web addresses via other media.

You can still disable JavaScript in the about:config window and using all kinds of extensions to add UI elements if you want a quick toggle. It's being removed since it's not very useful anymore as much of the web requires JavaScript. Lots of developers don't even bother testing sites for when JavaScript is disabled anymore (nor do they really need to as no one disables it except a core group of a couple million geeks and these folks know that if a site breaks, they need to whitelist it in NoScript).
Forbidden Technologies - Wimbledon, London, UK

We're still looking for an R&D manager to take over the technical lead and management of a growing team working on developing FORscene, the market leading professional cloud-based video editing system.

Technology is a combination of C/C++ for video compression and processing, Java for editing interfaces (Web applet and Android), and python for everything else.

Wimbledon has good transport links, and ideal for anybody based in the South-West of London and not wanting to commute into the city. Competitive salary and share options (we're a listed company - FBT on AIM).

See http://www.forbidden.co.uk/company/jobs/ for more details.
Write. Publish. Become known.

More than ever, companies want evangelists with a following. They want outgoing people who can take complex processes and make them understandable.

The day of the lone-wolf-computer-whiz is long gone. Today is the day of the charismatic team builder, who is wiling to look past the "cool", and see the long-term solution with the best ROI. If you can justify your decisions in a set of 3 to 5 slides and get your team behind you, all the better.

Apply for EVERY job you like, not just the ones you think you are qualified for. You never know what part of you resume is going to light the eye of the recruiter or department director. Many, many times, the job that "requires an BA" does not, and simply requires a driven individual who believes that can and is willing to stand up and say it.

There are no obstacles but those we place before ourselves.
SEEKING WORK | Remote only.
Full stack web developer (Rails, HTML, CSS, Sass, jQuery, CoffeeScript, MySQL, Ubuntu/Linux, nginx/Apache..), I also understand Inbound Marketing / SEO very well.
I love building MVPs, so if you got an idea that needs to be implemented, get in touch : ramesh at rameshjha.com
Ayn Rand on Living Rationally
Sucker.

Microsoft cannot be trusted. They'll change the game out from under you at some point and you'll have no recourse, because you're depending on Microsoft's proprietary software.
Have you tried the nightly builds? My Keon ran significantly faster with them. Unfortunately, a few things were still a bit broken, so I reverted to the normal builds for day-to-day use. Still, there seems to be plenty of room for software-based improvements on modest hardware.
SEEKING WORK - San Antonio, TX or REMOTE - keyston [at] conceptual-ideas.com

Full-stack software engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in backend development as well as Android Development.

Previous Startups

(Lead Developer): http://www.pearanalytics.com

(Lead Developer): http://www.pickgrapevine.com/

Languages: Python,PHP, JavaScript, Java, Scala,HTML5,Less,Sass,ActionScript 3/Flex

Frontend : JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Backbone.js, Handlebars),HTML5,Less,Bootstrap

Backend : Play!,Django,Kohana,Codeigniter,Node.js,Php

Environments: LAMP stack, NginX, Linux,Wowza

http://rakeagency.co/

http://1lacrosse.com/custom-shafts/design-lab

http://ihaveinternet.com/portfolio/

http://github.com/kclay

Pet project - a Scala driver for RethinkDB - https://github.com/kclay/rethink-scala

Hourly and Contract(short/mid/long term) Jobs welcomed
Nobody "owns" the soil, not really. "Ownership" is a fiction--nothing more than an implied agreement between you and a big enough group of other people that if someone tries to displace you from a particular patch of soil, the group will forcibly remove that person. The U.S. governments (the federal and states) don't "own" the soil within the borders of the U.S., but have exclusive jurisdiction to enforce ownership agreements on U.S. soil for no greater or lesser reason other than the fact that they can defend those borders against outsiders.

It is interesting that you mention slavery. No amount of bleeting about "natural rights" will keep armed people from enslaving you, as has happened countless times throughout history. Your "right" to freedom is nothing more or less than your agreement with a sufficiently large group of other people that they will defend you against people trying to enslave you. The history of slavery in the U.S. actually exemplifies this. The 13th amendment didn't end slavery. Constitutional recognition of peoples' inherent right to freedom didn't end slavery. Union soldiers burning down southern cities ended slavery.
Senior Rails Developer

DevOps Engineer

UX Designer

All positions full time in Cambridge MA. Remote a possibility for the right candidate.

ActBlue powers the fundraising of the political and social left. If you’ve ever given online to a Democratic candidate or organization, chances are you’ve used our software. We are growing like crazy! We need a few more good software engineers who want to influence politics and online organizing. ( https://secure.actblue.com )

We use best in class tools and methods:

• Backend: Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis

• Frontend: Bootstrap, jQuery, Sass, D3, Highcharts

• Operations: Chef, Rackspace cloud and AWS

• Tools: Github, Tddium

While this is a list of what we currently use, we are open to hearing from great people who come from different stacks.

You'll be an essential contributor to a small team of professionals in our Davis Square office. You'll have significant responsibility right out of the gate and a voice in designing our architecture. We offer autonomy, responsibility, an amazing workplace (full of people geeking out about politics and tech all day) plus these benefits:

• Extremely competitive salary

• 401K matching

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision benefits for you and dependents!

• Unlimited paid time off

• Public transit pass (Charliecard or Commuter Rail)

• Professional Development (conferences, classes, etc...) 100% paid

• Choose your own computer setup

• Family friendly flexible schedule

• Healthy and not-so-healthy snacks

Some neat things about us:

• ActBlue is a political non-profit that is well capitalized. This gives us the freedom to explore new electoral technology without influence from big donors or investors.

• We are an established 9 year old organization. We have a startup / political campaign mentality without the pressure and long hours. Sustainability is valued.

• Our employees have lives outside of work. We have parents, dog owners, marathon runners, RC plane pilots, Artisan Asylum members and german linguists.

• We sponsor RailsBridge Boston, a workshop designed to encourage more women to become Ruby developers in Boston.

ActBlue is the software and operations engine that powers the fundraising for thousands of Democratic and progressive campaigns and committees. In the 2011-2012 election cycle we moved over $175 million for nearly 5,000 campaigns with an average contribution size of $48.90. Our fundraising software is used by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and countless Senate, House, State and Local campaigns in all 50 states.

To start the conversation email techjobs@actblue.com and copy me at nate@actblue.com
Just wanted to chime in with my 2 pennies to say I agree 100% with this article.

My feeling is that if social interaction is core enough that it needs to appear on every single page of your site (or at least on core, highly trafficked pages) then the common way of doing this sucks on two levels;

1) Depending on other websites to load content? Madness.

2) Depending on JavaScript to execute core functionality? Pointless.

I have solidified my thoughts better here: http://tosbourn.com/2013/01/development/replacing-social-med...

I have also written up how you can get the functionality without the JS in this github repo https://github.com/tosbourn/nojs-socialshare
OCaml, F#, Haskell all come to mind. Regarding total type inference, I am not sure though that any of those can do completely away without some manual type annotations. I still like to declare type annotations (especially in Haskell, the syntax in ML is a bit too ugly) for top-level functions.
I can't help but feel like you're trolling. Eclipse is a slow, bloated, feature-laking pile of crap. I honestly can't believe anyone would prefer it to, well, just about anything else. I've used it and I get by on it when necessary, but in terms of preference its at the bottom of my list.
Could not agree more with you.

I'd further suggest that creating apps for clients is incredibly profitable. You don't necessarily need sales on apps to make money. Businesses, organizations, and people have problems that they are willing to pay to get solved with an app. Take your time selecting the right problem and you can make a good living and enjoy what you're creating at the same time.
BabyList, San Francisco CA, Full time

BabyList (http://babyli.st) is an online baby registry with a large and rapidly growing userbase of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. The baby industry is massive and ripe for disruption. We recently raised seed funding, and are now looking to bring on our first key hires.

We're looking for a senior developer. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery. We're looking for someone who has a lot of coding experience and expert-level fluency in at least one programming language (you don't have to be great at Ruby right now).

We're offering meaningful equity and a competitive salary.

Email me at natalie@babyli.st
If you arrived faster at a citation of Poe's Law than actually reading and considering the things I said, you are doing Internet wrong.
I don't think that would have had much of an effect on their fundraising. The boards design was not close to completion at the time, and the funds were actually used to build the prototypes that enabled them to get this far. They've been really transparent and open, but I would agree that would have perhaps saved themselves some work by letting the community find and troubleshoot bugs earlier.
Proof that Windows 8 is a viable competitor to the infamous Duopoly
>It seems a lot of MS stuff, used properly, scale well and easily, making it particularly suitable for single founders or small teams where they don't want to devote a lot of time to ops (while still keeping it in-house).

This is the thing, I've regularly scaled MS, almost RAD tool technologies to multi-thousand request per second scenarios. Normally for in house things, so I've had the benefit of warning for demand.

But it gives me the nicety of fast to dev tools, the fact maintaining C# code is almost pleasurable at times, with good performance.

Sure some custom C in Linux kernel land system will be faster, but the price performance is really good.

Comparing MVC 4 to Ruby on Rails and Django for a new project, the performance of MVC4 was an order of magnitude better under load.

But at the last HN meetup I went to in London they were taking an informal survey of languages. Despite having Erland and Lisp mentioned, the hosts didn't ask about C# or F#, despite my knowledge of at least 10 people there heavily in to it, I'd have guessed at least 30 people must have been.

You also get some bizarre comments, a friend of mine who spends most of his time in just one nameless language, half ask/told some people that Asp.Net doesn't scale... Some people have a religious zeal against it I think. Which is a shame, C# is a great language, and if people want to 'stick it to MS' go contribute on mono instead of bitching about MS!
Warning: zooming in and examining each component in detail is a huge time suck. Lot's of fun though.
My NSA signature, plagiarize as needed
We recently were at the same crossroads (choosing between "github" v/s "bitbucket" v/s own-hosted git repositories). I ran through the various options for own-hosted git repositories: (1) Gitlab, (2) Gitolite, and (3) Stash (10-user license for $10)

We ended up installing Stash as it seemed that it would reduce administration+maintenance by a tad bit (GUI + knowledgebase) and would be supported by a company responsible for bitbucket. Stash has been a pleasant experience so far.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Looking for work. I can do webapps, mobile web apps, backend stuff like scaling, architecture, big data, nosql etc.

I can also do advanced stuff like ML, NLP and search infra (Solr, ElasticSearch)

You can contact me at backoder@gmail.com.

Available immediately. I can send my skype ID if anyone is interested.
They were at OHS talking about how they were going to open-source it when ready for production, and their kickstarter even said "All board design files will be provided as open source once the Parallella boards are released."
You spend half the time allocating memory, deallocating memory and checking error return values. I gave a couple hundred interviews at twitter, people that picked C wasted a ton of time not solving the problem.
Bell Labs: The Unix OS - Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, Aho, and More
The 2013 Rails Rumble is On
What niches would you recommend?
Allow me to rewrite that first paragraph:

> If I could, I would repeal the assembly line. It is the technological marvel of the age, but it is not — as most people imagine — a symbol of progress. Just the opposite. We would be better off without it. I grant its astonishing capabilities: the instant production of inexpensive goods and the pleasure of knowing your parts are no longer hand-crafted and thus can be replaced with identical parts. But the benefits are relatively modest compared with previous transformative technologies, and it brings with it a terrifying danger: job loss. Amid the controversy over artisans no longer being able to dominate their craft and tightly controlling who can and cannot become an apprentice, this threat to the established, time-honored way of doing things cannot stand!

Lather, rinse, repeat with: the printing press, radio, robotics, or any other new technology. There are ups and downs, but trying to stop progress is like shoveling back the ocean with a fork. You can move with the tides or drown.
http://blog.creativecommunity.co.in/
Honestly stop whinning so much. Javascript is just as important a part of the web as CSS. Would you complain if sites broke because you switched of CSS? Likely not.