skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area / Remote - Long or Short Term Projects

I am a Product Designer (Interaction Design/UI/UX). I have experience relevant to products from iOS & Android to Large Web Platforms.
I typically consult on or perform the following:

* Product management - strategy, best practices, team building, implementation.

* Product design - strategy, best practices, team building, process, interaction design, ui design, iconography.

* Front end dev - I tend to build most things I spec at the very least to a minimum in which there is no chance of fidelity loss from prototype to final product. I've also setup processes for growing teams and established best practices for new hires.

info@bvrgroup.us | http://bvrgroup.us | http://dribbble.com/dylanrw
Can you cite your reference on extremely limited government being bad at protecting the poor from the rich? I'd be happy if you could just provide an example of extremely limited government. From what I've seen, government acts as enforcer for the rich.
Singapore :)
iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA)

Do you think robots are cool? So do we!

iRobot is looking for software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers.

Here's a few of our 40 job openings:

* iOS developer

* Web developer

* Embedded software engineers
* We're hiring for "big embedded" (Linux and big cpus) and "small embedded" (bare-metal, small cpus)

* Software engineers for navigation, mapping, and computer vision
* That's multiple positions; you don't have to be an expert in all three. :-)

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

If you have robotics experience, great! If you don't have robotics experience, that's still great!

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but no robotics background is required.

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com
The article tells one story, and it is true, but it is not the story why Sweden has many billionaires. Many of facts mentioned in the article are quite recent reforms, and can in themselves not explain this.

I recall that in 1997 the social democratic government introduced tax exemptions for the very rich, put in front of the threat by Stefan Persson that H&M might move abroad otherwise

This old, Google-translated link to an article in Affärsvärlden (Sweden's "Financial Times") describes a more relevant piece to the puzzle.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&pr...
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (m/f) Berlin

SponsorPay fuels the app economy by providing smarter solutions for ad monetization and is the world’s leading value-exchange advertising platform. Our innovative solution drives the monetization of premium content on platforms such as Facebook, iOS and Android through brand engagement, user acquisition and direct response ad campaigns.

In an era when 90% of all apps in the Apple App Store are free, our solutions are crucial for publishers trying to generate revenue. Our innovative solutions help publishers to monetize their apps through smarter forms of advertising.

We work with thousands of partners including leading publishers Zynga, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and OutFit7 as well as renowned advertisers such as Coca-Cola, Samsung, Warner Brothers and Volkswagen. Moreover SponsorPay has been honored as one of the world’s top private advertising companies by OnMedia, OnMobile, Red Herring, White Bull and others.

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Istanbul, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. For our Berlin office we are currently looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer.

Your role
•	Design, develop and maintain an in-game advertising & monetization platform, based on RoR
•	Be part of a SCRUM team that focuses on one of the SponsorPay Products (e.g. our Mobile App Distribution Product or our Brandengage Video Platform)
•	Full stack development from the database all the way to the browser
•	Mentor and coach other developers
•	Help identify new technologies and techniques that can improve our apps or our development processes

Your skills
•	Passionate about software development - naturally you have your own pet projects
•	Experience driving professional Ruby on Rails projects in an Agile environment
•	5+ years software development experience, 3+ years experience with Ruby
•	OO design skills
•	Strong testing background (TATFT)
•	Very comfortable with Git and Github
•	Proactive with a focus on getting things done

Awesome Extras
•	Experience with high-traffic production systems with 1000s of requests per second
•	Experience with one or more of the MVC JavaScript frameworks (Ember, Backbone, Batman, Angular…)
•	NoSQL experience

What We Offer
•	Work in a team with more than 15 talented developers, a lot of them senior
•	Product driven environment
•	Casual work environment characterized by flat hierarchies, a family-like atmosphere and open discussion
•	Support and assistance in relocating from outside of Berlin
•	Competitive remuneration package
•	Fruit & free drinks everyday :)

Learn more about our development team at http://sponsorpay.github.com/
Visit us at www.sponsorpay.com/careers or write us via jobs@sponsorpay.com
slight offtopic:

In my internal app I am using https://github.com/scttnlsn/backbone.io and http://bookshelfjs.org/

it is very easy to create adapter for backbone.io which hooks into bookshelfjs on a server side.

hope this might be interesting for someone looking backbone syncing over socket.io
SEEKING WORK

Toronto, ON - REMOTE OR ON SITE
Web - HTML5/CSS3/JS(Angular, Backbone, Lodash)PHP/PERL
Mobile - Have deployed commercial applications on BB/Android/iPhone using phonegap/cordova.
Desktop - Assembly, C++, C, C#

Honestly? I can code anything you want on any platform.
The similarities between Lapa and Tile are scary. Coincidence or copying?
Let me put it in code terms. In the following template script:

<div>@hello</div>

The generated code can be like (not including runtime lib):

var ___html = "";
var hello = hasown.call(data, "hello") ? data.hello : "";

___html += '<div>' +
safeString(hello, HTML_GENERIC) +
'</div>';

return ___html;

Which gives same effect as `with`.
Junior Achievement: Encouraging a New Generation of Entrepreneurs
Yes, and they are awesome! Ok, I am bias; I did 2 internships and then came back full time.
Interesting, do you have any other positions? Front-end stuff?
Writing as an ex-editor gone data-wrangling, I can only second this. I wrote for a student-paper and I would have loved the press release with the "zombie apocalypse". I then got to writing for a website. And there, I could have used some of these as well.

BUT: Most press-releases were discarded, without being read. They came in the normal pool-mail-address. And all the spam was there too. My advice would be, to take a little bit time, try to get hold of an editors real email-address and contact him/her that way.

You will dodge the gate-keeping troll, who's job for the day is to clean out the pool-mail-inbox.
would be a serious stretch goal
REMOTE. Full time.

Seeking experienced Java developers & project managers w/ scrum experience.

- Work from ANYWHERE, virtually alongside many of the best developers in the industry.

- Develop cutting-edge solutions for brands like Under Armour & Victoria's Secret.

Learn more: http://www.twintechs.com

Drop us a line: careers@twintechs.com
Completely separate issue from the technical issues - but how are people expected to find out that they need to do this. I have to assume there's a non-trivial percentage of the population that's not only uninsured but also completely disconnected from news and the internet. Does somebody contact them somehow to get them enrolled?
> When people share and rent things instead of buying them, does that mean we need to produce less stuff, requiring fewer jobs, ultimately creating less economic growth?

Hey look! It's our old friend, the Broken Window Fallacy [1]. It has been so long since I've seen it I've almost missed it.

Waste is never good for an economy. If it were, we could have an amazing economy by setting up factories and recycling plants right next to one another and skipping the output. That's massive activity, but zero productivity, and it's productivity that we want.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
Definitely. However the concern here is that people ignore the individual mandate's penalty. Precisely nobody wants that, and the hope was that the ease of signing up and looking for insurance via exchanges would provide a carrot or at least a smooth road to go along with the stick of the penalty. Whoopfail.
All startup investments absolutely are options.

You're betting that the limited amount of money that you put into startup will tie you over until the next funding round or until you hit positive cash flow. Runway is a race between the burn rate and growth metrics. You're betting that the fuse you lit is going to blow and not fizzle when it gets to zero.
I don't dispute that there is an impact but your example shows the real scale of it. Is rubber banding really such a great loss? Yes it's nice but what's the actual impact on the quality of your experience been?

Frankly most of the patents that have been enforced seem to me at least to have been pretty minor and relatively easy to workaround with little real impact on the user.
To put it in perspective, they could spend that money /differently/. Blackberry is worth just a touch over $4 billion

http://i.imgur.com/QcXiC9E.png
> it's nothing more than another tool that is going to be incredibly helpful for certain things, and not so helpful for some others.

sounds a lot like rails then, at least in its early days
SEEKING FREELANCER - Palo Alto, CA or REMOTE

PROJECT: Shopular (shopular.com) is a mobile shopping app. We have a lot of interesting usage data which we want to analyze and visualize. We are a small fun team and this project will get a lot of external visibility. Both roles have a chance of turning into longer projects / fill-time.

DATA AND VISUALIZATION ENGINEER: You can comfortably work with huge data files (GBs) and proficient in a scripting language like python/ruby to massage that data to get interesting aggregates and insights. You can visualize the insights using a package like D3js. Prior D3 experience huge plus, especially with visualizations on a map.

DESIGNER: You have experience building infographics and other visualizations. You are very creative, self guided and can take off from a concept/idea. Please point to prior work.

If you think you are a good fit for either role above, we'd love to hear from you ASAP.

CONTACT: join@shopular.com
I think you might be taking it too seriously.
Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust
Link? Would love to read up on that, if in fact it's true.
There may not be statutes but there absolutely is case law. In fact, I'm sure there are indirect statutes. There's just no way that the purpose of a for profit company is not to maximize profits to the owners of that company. There may be reasonable debate about where best to deploy capital but those decisions should be justified.
Actually I think that article points out my take on the matter. For most corporations, its duty is to maximize shareholder value; the problem is that too many people have forgotten what that actually means.
Hidden Costs of Urban Sprawl will Cripple Cities, Report Says
It is interesting that you are going from Java --> Rails rather than the other way around.
If you're in NYC, check out https://treatings.co to meet collaborators/potential job referrers over coffee
> It is all marketing. Notice how shiny Angular/Ember's site is?

You realise how absurd it is to say that just because a project has a nice website it is all marketing? I genuinely thought you were being sarcastic and agreeing with me before your next sentence!

> Open source mindshare is not determined by technical superiority! There is plenty of marketing, hype, and fashion that controls it.

There's a degree of hype around anything that requires publicity to bring it to people's attention, but that doesn't justify trashing valuable projects with lazy generalisations. I have watched dozens of Angular and Ember talks and demos by this point and have never once thought "wow this is a load of hype and fashion, nothing to see here". Listen to Yehuda and Tom from Ember being interviewed and tell me those aren't guys that genuinely want to make app development better.

> Big paintbrush here...

No kidding! I'm not aware of any devs that intentionally wish to make their lives a misery in the way you suggest.
Toronto, Canada - Full-Time Test Engineer @ Top Hat

Top Hat builds software for modern educators to help them make every lecture count. We have over 350 universities and colleges using our software with over 100K active students. This is high impact stuff! You excited yet? Good, keep reading...

We are looking for a Test Engineer!

Why: Because we are a rapidly growing dev team / company and are looking to make sure that our QA team has the proper resources to keep the app running without bugs and showstoppers.

- We are looking for a smart, motivated person that can learn and adapt quickly (Obviously)

- We are all about automation, so you need to have at least a few years of automated testing experience (through work or personal projects.)

- You will need to wear your management hat to manage the testing team to produce superior automated tests

- Write and maintain integration tests in Python using Lettuce

- Write and maintain a load testing framework.

- Manage the complexity of testing infrastructure and focus your efforts on the important things

- Evolve our current Continuous Integration system to be more robust

- Gather data from production systems to diagnose undiscovered problems

- Be really passionate about testing and know how important it is! We are looking for someone pro-active not re-active

What's cool is that our client side app is built on a fairly sophisticated JavaScript framework and makes use of JQuery, backbone.js, and all the usual suspects. The server side is written in Python on Django, with a MySQL database. In addition we use Node.js and SockJS for our real time components. Our systems all run on Amazon web services. We have a lot of moving pieces! Hence, why we need YOU!

We think the best sign of a good Test Engineer is interesting projects they've done on their own time, not just things they were assigned by their boss or in university. So please showcase any cool side projects, open source contributions or community involvement.

Some cool things make that Top Hat pretty awesome:

- Outstanding company culture, with a team that is super smart, highly motivated & stoked to be a part of a company that is changing the face of education.

- Our investors' portfolio companies include Salesforce, Yammer & box.net. We're in good hands and in good company.
- Competitive health and dental benefits

- We are looking for people who want to grow with us and are in it for the long haul.

- We are one of the top education technology companies in North America (named one of the Top 50 Companies to Watch by Deloitte Consulting)

We also have a Top Hat! Yes! A real one that you can wear. I know... we think it's pretty special too.

-------------

Send your applications to matt (at) tophat dot com

Hit us up on Twitter too @tophat
This is more of a "long tail" of cheeriness :)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (IN, US)
Full stack web dev, C#/Asp.net/web api/ SPA (knockout/durandal lately), Also lots of ecommerce/marketing/SEO experience

I love taking on unique projects, but feel free to inquire about anything.

My linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bejmorri
A lot of people don't realize the country code part and will start putting in the phone number (cough me), and then I get the error and go back but I have to retype the number. A little nitpicky maybe, but still a bit frustrating.
Gracious Eloise, New York, NY http://www.graciouseloise.com
Gracious Eloise is helping people to connect at a deeper level through handwriting. We have developed patented technology to replicate handwriting.

Some product and technical problems we are working on solving:

- improving our handwriting recognition algorithms
- shortening the processing time of handwriting samples
- creating new product features for our Gracious Professional service (where
people can write notes in their handwriting but using a computer)

We have openings for new engineers:

full-stack: https://gist.github.com/jlinder/2e923fc7ecd49fff7562
front-end: https://gist.github.com/jlinder/7fd3363cbd9eef039c0f

If you're interested, email us at jobs@graciouseloise.com with some things that tell us about you: link to GitHub/LinkedIn/StackOverflow profile, resume, links to previous projects, or something else interesting!
It could be true but how come snap chat is worth so much and not what's app. Is it because they have actual revenue model while snapchat's value is speculative?

I don't really understand how valuations work. I read somewhere that they intend to make money by flash sales which I think is a really good idea for low priced products but it is not clear if they will make the money off transaction or allowing the product to be sold on their market place.

It would be great if investors could shed some light on what they think is so valuable about the company in which they are investing so much.
Custommade (http://www.custommade.com/) - Cambridge, MA

Full-time devs. Frontend Backbone.js / jquery. Backend Python work, would likely be working with Django. Looking for more senior people, as well as a tech lead for the team.

We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/a-very-harry-potter-pro...
Or and r2d2 engagement ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/r2d2-engagement-ring/
Or a portal one: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/not-your-typical-engage...
We're a small, tightly knit eng team. Boilerplate about stack / team here: http://engineering.custommade.com
Various Engineering Positions open: http://www.custommade.com/careers/

-------------------

We're funded by Google Ventures and a ton of others: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/custommade-ventures so paying you well is not an issue. We recently raised an 18 million series B! We're growing, and with that comes scaling challenges. But it's all part of the fun.
We have a great team and a great environment that focuses on customers and product development. When I'm working on product stuff, I get to collaborate with product / UX / support people day to day to build a product that meets a real business need, and makes everyone happy. But when I just need to bang out some code, people leave me alone. When I'm working on platform or architectural stuff, I get great advice and feedback from my coworkers. Expressing opinions and having discussion is encouraged.
Friday afternoons are refactoring / innovation day to scratch your good code itch. Work / life balance is great. Bureaucracy is at a minimum.

Devs get a macbook pro, a huge thunderbolt display, and an Aeron chair.

We love contributing to Open Source, here is a list of what we've released so far, with more to come: https://github.com/SawdustSoftware We also regularly participate in and sponsor the Boston Python group, which is the largest python user group in the world. I've spoken there twice so far. We also often help stream the event for them, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/bostonpython/
Tech blog here: http://engineering.custommade.com/sawdustsoftware/

You're a low-ego programmer who is always learning, has pushed code to production innumerable times, and doesn't cringe at the prospect of collaborating with a team of non-techies every so often. You know the modern web stack well, and specialize in at least one part of it.
Get in touch with our hiring person at ellen -at- custommade-dot-kom. Let her know that "Mali" sent you.

==================

If you have any eng-related questions, you can guess my work email.
Pay 1.0-2.5% tax penalty for not having Insurance

Pay 10-15% of your pre-tax income for a plan under Obamacare

I don't think it's going to work out that great.
Spiegel turned down Facebook already and they have tens of millions of cash with a license to burn. A buddy of mine that went to Stanford with him recently quit his Wall St job to help them work on monetization schemes. No chance they sell in the foreseeable future.
Just name and email here, but I guess I'm paranoid enough.
I'm torn on this, I didn't think Instagram was worth 1B until my 16 year old niece told me the only things she used was Twitter and Instagram.

If you tell me Snapchat is what all the kids are using I'm going to give it some leeway - though I still think there's a lot of greater fool investing going on.

My biggest concern with these services is the seemingly fickle nature of their audience. Even if they're able to turn the service into something profitable - how long can they maintain it?
I'm super worried, as I am full on addicted to ThinkPad keyboard/hardware. I used an external usb thinkpad keyboard with a work provided macbook pro, and using same usb thinkpad keyboard plugged into my actual thinkpad to type this reply. I can't live with out my trackpoint (little red dot/nipple for you non-TPers out there). I'm really worried about the direction Lenovo is heading, but so far they have been atleast semi-cautious with the T/W series thinkpads.
I would also be keenly interested in this answer.
You conflate autocompletion provided by the browser, based on values previously submitted in identically named fields, and autocompletion against values provided by the server.
This isn't just 'imperative, evented programming' though. It gives a clear answer on how to separate your code into concerns, although I agree that there isn't much forcing you to follow good practices.

The problem with the typical 'jquery-type' programming was that apps were essentially an ad-hoc collection of (sometimes massive) event handlers. I think the problem boiled down to:

* there wasn't much experience and consensus on how to organise javascript code (split it into module etc.)

* the DOM is global, meaning you can register event handlers to anything from anywhere (To make matters worse events bubble up and down the DOM tree)!

It seems like people immediately resorted to extremes to solve these issue - basically trying to abstract away the DOM and even javascript completely - whereas the solution could be something much simpler and subtler.
SEEKING WORK: Remote (single developer)

Ready to work on a project or ready to join a remote team as well. Experienced in full-stack development with Java, Grails, and Rails.
The goalposts have already been moved to March 31st, 2014 and could be delayed further. What's the rush?
I'm not surprised that I'm getting smeared by a sock puppet on HN, but I'll try to use it as a chance to clarify myself in more than 140 characters:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JustinSchuh/posts/SiSd4T9fgXH
Of course people will enroll eventually, but the first ones will be the ones with the most to gain. It isn't guaranteed that individuals won't eat the penalty and enroll when they need it, but you can guarantee that people who benefit with little or no cost to them will be want their benefits ASAP.

My point was mostly that if their "experts" can't think critically about the incentive system the program creates, what else will they be surprised about? Adverse selection? Insurer bankruptcy and industry consolidation?
Hey did you guys present at Demo Camp at UofT?