skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 16 people (5 engineers) across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)

We'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 1.1 million users and our annual run rate is over $2m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

* Reliability Hacker (Devops engineer)
* Happiness (Support) Engineer
* Backend Hacker

Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.

- we have over 150k monthly active users.
- 8000+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper
- we release changes several times a day - we have an entirely data-driven process,
with Einstein and Buffer-Metrics, our custom built a/b testing and
metrics tracking framework.
- Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic
Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
- More stats and stack details here:
http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2013/

We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.

If you're interested in coming on board, you’ll:

- work closely with Sunil on technical architecture and Joel on product.
- ship to thousands of users and iterate quickly
- work with our metrics team to make smart changes
- be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers on issues and features
- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing
with others
- be a Buffer user
- be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you have help and support from us
to move to where you want to be
- have experience working with another startup or building side projects
before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)

Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:

- we are totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have over 1.1
million users and generate $195k/mo. Ask me anything else!
- within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we have a formula
for the distribution.
- we're all very focused on self improvement
- we have daily standups where we discuss our current improvements. This could
be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging, exercise, learning
a language, etc.
- here's our culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03

Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency)

Equity: 0.5-1%

If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): http://jobs.bufferapp.com

- Email our CTO Sunil thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
You know that "rural" is where all of your food, energy and building materials come from right?
He was asked, sort of: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29539...

But the thread was immediately derailed in the next comment by some asshole saying he was glad the change didn’t go through, setting off the whole fiasco. It could have been a nice teaching moment, giving Ben a chance to explain his dismissal (which turned out to be logically reasonable if not tactful), followed by an explanation to a non-native speaker the importance of non-gendered pronouns. Instead, as it all too-often does, the situation became a complete shitstorm because some people can’t understand that “hostile” doesn’t require, or even imply, conscious intent. Mens Rights activists need to “lighten up”.

Naturally, said asshole is continuing to fan the flames: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29576...
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there's no question that the author of this article wrote it with linkbait in mind - calling bitcoin a ponzi scheme.

having thought about it - the argument that bitcoin is going to be worth a lot "because there are only 21 million" - we have to consider that bitcoin is just one of "n" virtual currencies.

while bitcoin may be limited, we already have 37 alternatives (at least) and there's no reason another hundred can't be started up within a year.

So, i see there will be a lot of virtual currency flying around, all of it as qualified as bitcoin (sharing similar source code) and the idea that it will all be worth 1,000 a unit (or more) forever just doesn't make sense.
> What are other examples that match?

The existing slavery that still goes on all across the world today? Slavery isn't limited to just the history of the US.

In fact, the article makes this exact point, and as the reason for the issue.

So when someone says:

"IT community is much wider than the USA and doesn't care much about quirks of history of USA as a basis for confusing things up."

they clearly didn't read the article and is ignorant of the issue being discussed.
Dude the NSA have their own fucking fabs. You can't outrun them on ops.
How many of those 'requirements' are because of powerful entities abusing the system?

What are the forces that have caused those requirements to arise with traditional currencies?

Did you mean inflationary spiral for Southern Europe? Or are prices for things dropping there right now? Not sure.. But again, a lot of what happens is because of constantly 'hacking' the system (raise the debt ceiling, print more money, etc.). Using that as the norm and presenting an argument against the 'hack ability' of the new system seems flawed. Maybe there needs to be better research into what happens, why it happens, and how it can be prevented. Inflationary currency most likely isn't the right answer considering the issues it has caused so far... Deflationary may not be either.
USB delivers 5V power and has 3.3V signaling levels, so any reasonable bus-powered device has to contain some kind of voltage conversion. Most common solution is LDO, voltage limits in USB specification even seem to imply that solution. Designing switched mode power supply that meets all the USB 2.0 (don't know about 3.0 but it is probably mostly similar) requirements on minimal voltage on input, current draw in various states and so on is not exactly trivial.
The author bought the ad-supported version of the Kindle and is now shocked — shocked — that the device is displaying ads.

This post really does add zero, if not negative, value to Hacker News.
Because your ear is not sacred. Welcome to human civilization! Sometimes you are going to hear things not meant for you. You will be judged on how you react when this occurs.
So instead of talking about the bikeshed, we should be talking about wagging the dog?

Tthat link is probably the most interesting insight so far in this discussion!
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We're looking to hire Android develpers and iPhone developers.

-- The company --

KeepSafe wants to solve the consumer privacy problems. We work to empower every user to be in control of their data. To do this, we need to make Privacy and Security Technology easy to apply for the average user on all popular platforms.

Our first product is a vault for Android and iPhone. Over 15 million customers use this product and but our plans are much bigger than that.
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We're a team of 9, all of us write code. We raised Series A from Floodgate and SV Angel in July.

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Cigital is hiring software security folks

What we do:
We're a software security consulting firm that helps build security into the SDLC. We work on a wide variety of projects involving static analysis, penetration testing, architecture review, threat modeling, etc. We deal mostly with the private sector and the types of applications we work with are varied from mobile to webapps to video games.

DO NOT apply directly to our website. Email your resume to dirtyb1t34@gmail.com

We're all consultants so we tend to travel a fair amount. As I said, the work is varied and you can really focus the type of work you do based on your interests and skills. It's definitely a fun place to work. The people here are really smart and there's lots of room to grow your skills. We're looking for everything from interns to principal consultants and we have positions open all over the place including:

• Northern Virginia
• Boston, MA
• Santa Clara, CA
• New York, NY
• Bloomington, IN
• London

You can read more about the jobs here: http://www.cigital.com/careers/jobs/

Cigital is hiring software security folks
Context is everything.

To American audiences, that's obviously satire. Standard fare for the actor and the host. It's definitely, deliberately, over the top and uncomfortable in a Sascha Baron-Cohen kind of way, but we know when we are making fun of ourselves. The combination of exceptionalism with schadenfreude is always ugly, and gross exaggerations of both, well, satire.

Outside of the US, where the players aren't as well known...maybe it's not clear satire. Where folks are quick to judge (often rightfully) American bluster...yeah, it makes him and the studio audience sound like colossal jerks, and people might add it to their mental list of examples proving that Americans suck.

But what does that have to do with the UK? :)
Not really a slam at all. Customers choose MarkLogic to replace Oracle and DB2 specifically because it "handles data differently".

"Schemaless" aka "Schema on read" is the biggest difference between Only "SQL" and "Not Only SQL" systems. Scale-out on commodity hw vs. scale-up on shared storage is another. Customers often choose MarkLogic instead of other NoSQL systems because of it's ACID capabilities, ability to run multi-statement transactions between multiple databases (including Oracle and MarkLogic in the same transaction) and a multitude of enterprise capabilities from government grade security to point-in-time restore.

Read more: http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/architecture/inside-mark...
>Right now, the truth is that a negligible percentage of Bitcoin users care about its use as a currency (with the biggest exception being silk road type illegal uses). Almost everyone is focused on the price appreciation, and when that finally falters, it will collapse.

Or people will start using it as currency. That's already happening to some degree - it won't take much to tip it over into a viable currency for everyday use. With the games governments are playing with sovereign currencies, I think it's more likely we'll see the collapse of the RMB, euro, or dollar.
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Since when is dirty laundry exclusively about bad behavior?
(see http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirty%20laundry : private information that causes shame and embarrassment when it is made public) The OP thinks doing something that should be private in public is bad behavior, which is ridiculous.

@Diane: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827823 (edit) or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827673
What number of people do you think qualify:

1) Have 5+ BTC
2) Recognize a QR code on a TV broadcast
3) Think to pause the tv broadcast, decode the QR code and send BTC
4) Completely unaware of the 1000s of news articles and broadcasts about the soaring value of BTC

Maybe he sent it to himself, maybe someone else was just very generous, but no one purposefully sent 5BTC without knowing it was valuable.
Inflationistas at Bayes
> Apparently he had contacted Github before exploiting but they didn't show any interest in fixing the issue.

If this is true... sounds like business as usual at github. I don't get it, it's not the first time they refused to do jack shit and proactively fix reported security issues before they were used in a high-profile demo exploit.

Then again, it doesn't impact their bottom line since nobody switches or cares when that happens aside from a few days of noise, so why would they?
SEATTLE, WA. A plucky startup is dragging the manufactured goods supply chain into the 21st century.

Our job is to help manufacturers organize product data to help moving the goods - catalogs, inventory, supporting documentation, orders, and so on; all stand to benefit from solid data architecture with increasing accuracy, reducing cost, and real-time analytics.

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Your first task, should you chose to accept it, is to create a wholesale catalog & ordering web app on top of our existing back end data API. We expect half of the usage of our products to come through this web app (and the other half through the native apps).
You should also add that everybody wants to have well payed job. Question is "Which move would be better?". I think problem is that Ukrainians split in two roughly equal parts: pro-EU and pro-Russia (Yanukovych would not win recent election otherwise) and it's almost impossible to have	consensus.
>won't come cheap

>$300-$400/hour

That doesn't sound too bad actually, I expected an order of magnitude more.
Let me put your poor benighted heart to rest and let you know that 100% of the crowd is in on the joke. Anytime someone gets up and starts shouting "USA!" in American media, it's a joke. Never in my decades on this planet have I ever seen any American chant "USA" in any venue that mattered (sporting events do not matter.)
Interesting that the mere mention of "fiat currency" invokes tin-foil hat. Whether Bitcoins can survive the volatility is indeterminate. If it does survive, however, and becomes an alternative to (avert your eyes) fiat currencies, the impact will be far greater than another obscure fiat currency suddenly being used.
For my own curiosity I completed the gasoline end of the math above. Hopefully I didn't botch any of it. If so, please correct me:

According to Wikipedia¹ the energy of gasoline is ≈11.8 kWh/kg at a density of ≈0.74 kg/l, giving us 8.7 kWh/l. For California, using the $0.85/l price, we get $0.10/kWh (rounded from $0.09770) for gasoline. Norway, at $2.45/l, gives us $0.28/kWh.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_content
"Hitler is correct in this speech"
- "He was responsible for killing X million people"
"Ad hominem!"
a fiat currency is just a currency without intrinsic value. it's not a derisive term, you'll find it in any introductory economics textbook.
Honest question: why are bitcoins scarce? I understand that the supply of real bitcoins is limited, but what is preventing all of the other cryptocurrencies from taking off?
Facebook is the 21st century tech equivalent of cigarettes
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The engineering team is still small (8), and there's a lot of interesting stuff to do. Happy to talk details.

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The biggest argument for not investing in Bitcoin is that anyone who is familiar with technology history can see that it is too early to pick a winner. Bitcoin is better compared to something like TCP/IP. The winner is likely to be something derived from it, probably something that hasn't been invented yet.
Well, gee, that's an awfully good question there, Mike. I dunno, I'm just spitballin' here -- I guess maybe you'd want to try to show that you're in some way better than them? Nah, of course not, what a ridiculous notion that'd be.
Bummer you have to pay import duty when importing from Norway to Sweden.
"And people like me, who pretend to themselves that they have a reasoned investment thesis, will say fuck it, and cash out in hordes."

That's a pretty accurate summary of what I did 20 minutes ago. I'm actually pretty optimistic about BTC in the long term, just don't want to ride the roller coaster in the short term.
> However, I suspect that this is the same as has been reported from many source, and submitted many times

Your suspicion was correct. And it might just be technically wrong anyway as salford states its anechoic chamber is even quieter.
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From what my parents told me, during the communist Bulgaria people have been quite happy with the "jobs assignment" process.

After graduation from college and if they are not going to continue their education they were given a list of available positions so they can pick few and they are placed according to their grades if there is a competition for a given position.

On the other hand, the less meritocratic positions(like blue collar jobs in factories) were often subject to placement-by-bribery. Many would like a position where they can steal stuff for themselves.

The seemingly meritocratic system gave them feeling of security but obviously the system was not working that well so the communist state collapsed and when it did, my parents lack of sense of the capitalist system left them in a limbo state. Those stealing, bribing folks did quite well in the communism-to-capitalism transformation period but many well educated people could not adopt and moved to well established capitalist economies where the meritocracy existed(at least they were finding jobs based on their credentials). However, at least my parents, never grasped the idea of entrepreneurship. They just don't have the basic instincts for doing a business and they failed miserably when they tried to start one. They are still working for other people.

If the North Korean government fails, probably the turmoil will last for generations, until new culture emerges through a new generation of young people who can have an idea about how a capitalist society works.

PS: We were from a discriminated minority, so maybe it was easier for the native Bulgarians however the North Korea seems to be much worse even than the last days of the communist Bulgaria.
There is some truth to that. NK is only nominally socialist, however, its actual ideology is 'Juche', military-focussed totalitarian isolationism with a massive cult of personality around essentially a royal family of dictators (even having a dead former leader assume a nominally powerful position forever - the Eternal President!)
KA probably receives too many applications. Even when, some time ago, I was happy to volunteer for free, I just got an automated email and no response. Perhaps because of visa issues ? Or maybe there is too much supply because who would not want to help change the world ?
If its anything like the MoD when I worked for them then they were probably still waiting for the sign PO to go through...
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Agreed on your first point.

(no sarcasm intended) Are you saying that a currency that cannot be controlled (e.g. the money supply controlled by something like a federal reserve) is more dangerous than one that is?
It never is socialism's fault. Never ever.
PS several of my former students who didn't end up in academia are making way more money than I am. Academics don't compete for professorships to get rich. If I wanted to make money I would be in the private sector. I chose academia because I value other things above money: the ability to work on problems that interest me, the ability to mentor smart and interesting and curious students, the ability to control my own destiny, and perhaps above all else, to spend my time interacting with smart, interesting people who are also not driven by the pursuit of wealth.

To be sure, a tenured professor's salary is comfortable (unless you are in NYC, SFO, Tokyo, London, Paris, etc), but it is also has a definitive ceiling. It's not like you can work double the hours and get double the salary. Even if you generate a great discovery, the salary increment, if any, is comparably modest --- orders of magnitude smaller than for example the bonuses one gets on Wall Street for a successful quarter of sales of shady investments to unsuspecting investors.

As an illustration: A colleague of mine who's at the top of his field just negotiated a raise, (using a competing offer from an Ivy League school), and do you know what his raise was? ... He got an additional $15,000 per year to his salary of around $140k. After taxes he'll get around $600 or $700 per month extra. Now tell me again about the riches of being a tenured prof? If he was working in the private sector (Wall Street, or consulting, or medicine, which he could easily do given his skill set) he would be making integer multiples of this salary.
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