skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boston

Backend-leaning full stack web developer and Pythonist.

I've worked on large Python, PHP, and JavaScript codebases and am very familiar with SQL and CouchDB.

I have a ton of production code on Github:
http://github.com/mwhite

Some things I've done are described more at http://mwhite.info/portfolio.

I'm open to all kinds of arrangements.

Email: m@mwhite.info
Salt Lake City, UT -- Lucid Software (Lucidchart / Lucidpress)

Lucid Software is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Our first product, Lucidchart (http://www.lucidchart.com), is an online diagramming application with 1M+ users. We recently launched our second product, Lucidpress (http://www.lucidpress.com), which is an online layout and design application. Lucid is a startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress run with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucid your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable.

Requirements: - Talent - BS degree

Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Scala or Java - MySQL or other relational database - NoSQL databases - Cloud computing (AWS)

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress are powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements: - Talent - BS degree

Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Javascript - Google Closure compiler/library - CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation - jQuery - Native app development on Android and/or iOS

All applicants email resumes (and links to recent projects) to jobs@lucidchart.com.
Educreations (http://www.educreations.com) - Full Time in downtown Palo Alto, CA

Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance. We believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.

Educreations is the easiest way for teachers and students to record lessons and share what they have learned online. Millions of teachers and students in tens of thousands of schools are using it to learn from each other anytime, anywhere.

We are an alumnus of Imagine K12 and we have received funding from Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels in the education space.

We are looking for some sharp, passionate people to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We've set out to make a dent in the future of education and if this sounds like something you're interested in, get in touch.

We are looking for:

Strong Python or Objective C Engineers
Visual Designers

http://educreations.wufoo.com/forms/join-educreations/
Privacy and Surveillance
I'm not arguing against you. I just don't write any code that has to deal with people's names, so that's just not a problem that I face. I fully acknowledge that lack of Unicode is a big problem of Python2, but it's not my problem.

A Unix filename, on the other hand, might be any sort of C string. This sort of thing is all over Unix, not just filenames. (When I first ever installed Python3 at work back when 3.0 (3.1?) came out, one of the self tests failed when it tried to read an unkosher string in our /etc/passwd file.) When I code with Python2, or Perl, or C, or Emacs Lisp, I don't need to worry about these C strings. They just work.

My inquiry, somewhere up this thread, is whether or not it would be possible to solve both problems. (Perhaps by defaulting to utf-8 instead of ASCII. I don't know, I'm not a language designer.)
Awesome Responsive Screenshots
My impression is that not trying in itself is (to a degree) an effect of being poor. I feel people often forget that poverty affects the mind as much as the physical reality, and that makes the whole issue a lot more complicated.
SEEKING WORK - Remote OK - British developer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

I love working in Haskell and Scala, and I also have experience with Django. I've done some data analysis work in Python and as a maths student I became a dab hand at data modelling. I'm a fast learner if you need someone to work with a mature code base, and if you need to get an MVP out the door it wouldn't be my first time doing that either.

Contact me at nathan.cook@gmail.com for more information.
Just to hoist things up thread, all your link boils down to is the software you link using a very inclusive heuristic (something like the size of a transaction with BTC-e).

So this particular 'accusations.txt' doesn't mean very much.
Really? Settlement for virtual goods? So everybody, take special care that people don't use your website to bid on imaginary goods you control, else you can't take it down without compensating them.
A new Dual EC DRBG flaw
SEEKING WORK - Remote only. (Based in Tel-Aviv.)

My name is Ram Rachum, and I’m a freelance software developer. I help businesses solve their problems using software, mostly by developing web-based applications.
I work mainly in Python and Django.

On the technical level, it’s my responsibility to have high problem-solving skills; to design a good architecture for each project I work on; to implement that architecture quickly and effectively; and to be experienced with the languages and frameworks that I’m using, so when a problem comes up, I don’t have to spend 2 hours to research and solve it but rather just 5 minutes, because I’ve seen that problem dozen of times before.

On the project-management level, it’s my responsibility to communicate clearly and honestly with the client and my collaborators on the project; to understand exactly what the client wants to build as we plan together how to build it; to always keep the client updated about progress; to have an owner mentality and make decisions with the best interest of the client in mind; to own up to mistakes when they happen; and to always get feedback as early as possible from the client and from the users, so we know we’re not wasting time going into blind alleys, and we’re spending time only on features that the users are happy with. My email is ram@rachum.com . Send me an email and say hello.

More details about me: http://ram.rachum.com/cv/
Why not just come out and say it? The radio network is owned by Hal Turner who is according to wikipedia a "Holocaust Denier" so therefore nothing that is presented on his network should be listened to by the upstanding moral citizenry.
Microsoft retrenching into "IBM mode" under the new CEO.
SEEKING WORK - remote. I live in the UK.

WILL WORK FOR BITCOIN

Full Stack Developer 5+ years.

+ Responsive HTML5

+ Javascript, Node

+ Ruby: (Like Rails. Love Sinatra.)

+ Linux, Nginx, Git...

I like writing lightweight maintainable code & finding creative solutions.

http://thehack.github.io
"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed" -- Preamble of the declaration of independence

It is going to be very difficult to motivate people to change something... until a big part of population is starving I believe...
I pretty much intentionally "fail" my MOOC courses. I have a full-time job plus a lot of side projects. I spend what time I can on Coursera but I sign up for more courses than I could possibly have time to complete.

But I've still learned a lot, and I've been using some of the stuff I've learned in those side projects.
> I insist that C strings are indeed arrays of bytes, and we cannot use them to represent text correctly at present

OK, maybe I do see one small point to argue. A C string, such as one that might be used in Unix, is not necessarily text. But text, represented as utf-8, is a C string.

It seems like there's something to leverage here, at least for those points at which Python3 interacts with the OS.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python/Django/jQuery, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I have a research background, data analysis, playing around with NLP right now. I run a django dev shop, currently taking gigs for it. Here's my portfolio:

* http://www.cloudshuffle.com/

* http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html

Contact details in my profile or the link above. Here're some examples from my portfolio:

* http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com - Turbotax CPA Select, to help select accountants.

* http://www.ecomarket.com - An online marketplace for ethical and eco friendly products.

* http://www.teaspiller.com - An online marketplace for tax experts. [Recently acquired by Intuit]
* http://www.knowyourbank.com

* http://www.hypedsound.com/ - a music sharing platform, working on V2.

* http://www.garnishbar.com - social network, to share mixed drink recipes

* http://www.fratmusic.com - an online radio streaming app serving over 1.3 million uniques a month. * http://loudfarm.com - A music event site.

* Wisekangaroo: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xpnngdyfgkgz8y2/1OnDFiIkiV - Find a tutor. Working on relaunch in a new avatar

* http://fertilityplanit.net/ - A niche social network for women to privately and securely discuss fertility issues.

Github: http://github.com/sidmitra

Homepage: http://www.sidmitra.com
The computer you bought 2 years ago didn't increase in computing power in that time. A computer from 2 years ago is not worth more today.

But wealth in a deflationary currency does.

The rest of your argument about curtailing consumption is an irrelevant tangent here.
SEEKING WORK - remote

-iOS Developer
-Python Developer (Django)

GitHub: https://github.com/vially

Contact: developers [at] appnific.com

Website: http://appnific.com/
SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton in the UK. I work a lot with Python (often with Django) and JavaScript (Node.JS and browser) to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. I can build prototypes or full apps on my own but also happy to work as part of a team (and I have a bunch of great people I work with if you need help putting together one)

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, JavaScript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV.

Some recent projects:

- The software and technical design for a "magic mirror" that was used at London Fashion Week. Behind the scenes it was built with 15 network Raspberry Pis with camera modules. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/london-fashion-week

- An iPad app for a medical company for quick lookup of drug interactions. This was built with HTML5 and made use of Angular.JS. I can show you more of this one on request.

- A web app for a training company to provide complete courses online combing video, slides and quiz's.

- Lead developer on a team building a collaboration application featuring a RESTful API and browser and mobile clients. See http://thisisdrum.com and see also a talk I gave on some of the tech[1]

- Head pose estimation from a video feed for a interactive store-window display (it superimposed masks over the faces of customers as they looked through the window)

I can show you more of these on request

Some stuff I've made:

- Listeron, simple email discussion lists. http://listeron.com

- I recently added Generator support to the CoffeeScript compiler: http://almostobsolete.net/coffeescript-generators.html

- A location based app: http://head2.me

- An open source JavaScript library I wrote: https://github.com/dharmafly/jsonpatch.js

- The Amazon Glacier support I contributed to Boto (popular Python library): https://github.com/almost/boto/tree/glacier/boto/glacier

I'd love to talk about your project. Please do get in touch!

Web: http://almostobsolete.net/

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@almostobsolete.net

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

[1] http://asyncjs.com/hypermedia/
SEEKING WORK - Remote/London. May consider relocating.

F#
C#
Xamarin (iPhone/Android development)
ASP.NET MVC
Websharper
Livescript/Funscript

http://www.perfectshuffle.co.uk
SEEKING WORK - Remote, I'm based in France

Full stack web developer, specialized in the back end with PHP, PostgreSQL/MySQL and Redis. I also do quite a bit of Go. I'm not afraid of the command line and I know how to configure the tools I use.

I have lots of experience with high performances requirements (sites that scale, millions of users and billions of records), cloud based solution (ec2) and web scrapping.

I love a good challenge, let me know what your problem is and I can guarantee we will find a great way to solve it :) I may not have the most buzzwords but I'm efficient and get things done.

Contact me at vthivaut@gmail.com
You had a stroke of luck by falling in love with computers. Did you do that because you knew it would pay off down the road?

My story is similar, only I decided to study communications and didn't do much computer stuff for half a decade. I quit halfway through my master's because I hated what I'd seen of academia. Faced with the need to make a living, I started doing freelance webdesign/development. I've done very well for myself ever since.

I didn't choose to go into web development because I knew it would be lucrative (more so than finishing my degree even). I also didn't choose to become a geek and tinker with computers at an early age.

I got lucky, and I'd argue that you did too. We're lucky that our passion is in demand.

That said, I worked really hard. I started out with clients that were way out of my league, and spent many nights frantically learning as much as I could. It wasn't just luck. But luck played a big role.
Android Engineer at Clue, www.helloclue.com, Berlin (relocation and visa assistance offered)

Use your powers for good to help change the face of fertility/period tracking. It's not your standard cycle tracking app - we turn to our good friend Science to make recommendations to women about where they are in their cycle, and what that means to them. They more it's used, the more it knows about you, and the more it can help you.

We've got a great iOS app, we've got thousands of active users, we have funding, but we need an Android implementation to take us to the next level. That's where you step in! You'll have plenty of control and freedom to make this a properly native Android app.

Interested? Curious? Contact me directly at josh@helloclue.com
There's a big difference between my agreement with a private company which allows me to use their webmail service in exchange for scraping my data for ad use and agents of the state watching everything I do with the expectation that this data will be used to harass, fine, detain, prosecute, or execute me or my family. The distinction here is that state entities are granted authority to do things no corporation can.

TL;DR - Google doesn't use this data to kill people or rig elections.
From Wikipedia:

"A coffee shop there, in Boston, Massachusetts, combined a milk shake with coffee and called it "frappuccino". When Starbucks bought the shop, the Coffee Connection, it bought the trademarked name."

"Many of Starbucks' competitors, in the United States, in the Philippines and elsewhere, have begun offering drinks similar to the popular and trademarked frappuccino and called them "frappe" with or without the accent, some which do not include any coffee"
SEEKING WORK - Tehran, Iran.
Will work for bitcoins.
PHP (Yii, ZF), Node.js, Mysql, Mongodb, jQuery, Linux, Git and relevant tools/technologies.

emilsedgh@kde.org
FULLTIME - Assembly (assemblymade.com) - San Francisco

We're hiring Front-End, Ruby, and Full-stack Engineers to help us build foundational pieces of the Assembly platform. You would have a direct hand in shaping the future of work and unlocking the power of independent creators. Assembly's collaborative platform enables the creation of a new class of open source software products; where anyone around the world can help collectively build, retain ownership, and receive proﬁt for their contributions.

We’re currently a small 4 person team in San Francisco that has recently secured a healthy financing from top-tier investors which will enable us to tackle the enormous challenges of creating a ‘meta’ company (a software company that creates software companies). We believe in progress over consensus, strong opinions weakly held, moving fast is best even if it breaks things, and we make what we measure - but you'll have the opportunity to add your own lessons to that list. We work alone and we work together; meaning we believe the best know how to get things done on their own, as well as how to work in a team. Everyone on the team is responsible for self directing their work and has a tremendous impact on our shared success.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

* Understand pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.

* Strong opinions on testing & code quality.

* Over 3 years experience with Ruby.

* Experience with Heroku, ElasticSearch, Postgres, or Redis a plus.

WHAT WE OFFER

* Free meals.

* Flexible work hours.

* Open vacation policy. We don't count days.

* If you're sick, just stay home and get better.

* Stand up desks, mac book pros, cinema displays...Buy or build your ideal work environment

* A sunny office space.

* Competitive salary and equity package.

* Health, dental and vision benefits.

* Team "Workations” where we all travel somewhere for a week for a change of environment

We’re located in Mission, San Francisco, CA. It would be great if you are local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost) but we’ll also open to telecommuting as long as you are located in the US and it is legal for you to work here.

Please apply by sending any work, resume, github username to jobs@assemblymade.com
SEEKING WORK - London, on-site (Central) / remote

Github: https://github.com/mickeynp/
Blog: http://www.masteringemacs.org/

Jack-of-all-trades full-stack Python developer with a wide gamut of experience doing both backend and frontend development work. Past work include: workflow & digital asset management system (Django/JS); enterprise-scale release management systems; large-scale ETL and web scraping; business integration work; report generation and other RDBMS CRUD apps (Oracle, MSSQL, etc.); writing modelling software for the train industry; and much, much more.

I am often called upon to do esoteric, non-Web development tasks; be it integrating disparate systems or helping a business out with failing projects by picking up the slack and learning tools and domain knowledge on the fly.

I am also more than willing to work with non-Python languages.

Used to working in high-pressure, client-facing environments.

I am available for on-site work in central London and remote work elsewhere.

Contact me (see e-mail in profile) and we can talk about you and your business's needs.
Thus far, they've made correct but initially mocked decisions on the necessity of floppy drives, optical drives, Ethernet ports, removable batteries, and physical keyboards.

This may be another such case.
SEEKING WORK - Quebec, Canada - Remote

Web developer : Rails, NodeJS and angular.

Mobile app for Android and iOS with Phonegap : https://github.com/dsimard/grunt-angular-phonegap

Email in profile.
I am happy to see the debate get moved forwards in a constructive manner.
The name may have passed into the vernacular, but it was invented for the particular drink that Starbucks now sells in 1992: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/12/07/frappucci...
What's with all the Academic credentialism? I've just read the entire thread and there are an incredible number of people who seem to think whether a person should be taken seriously or not is largely determined by if, what and where they studied in college.

http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html
In the U.S., many credit cards offer double the warranty period as part of their service.
Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

Localytics is hiring:

- Mobile Engineers
- Rails Engineers
- Front End Engineers
- Backend End Engineers
- DevOps Engineers

About Localytics:

* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over a billion devices

* We have the best buzzwords: Big Data + Data Visualization + Mobile

* We are passionate about and have deep expertise in the technologies we work with including: Rails, AngularJS, D3.js, Scala, iOS, Android, Mapreduce, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, Column Store Databases, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were recently named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.

* We are located next to Park Street Station on the Red Line.

We love candidates who:

* Prefer startup environments.

* Are passionate about technology.

* Enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies.

Successful candidates may help us with:

* Web application development - Help us expand our analytics and marketing automation offerings.

* Prototyping - We still do a significant amount of customer development and R&D.

* Writing automated tests - Help us expand our code coverage and improve our Continuous Integration system.

* Writing background jobs and data processing - Move data and perform calculations using cron, Sidekiq and Ruby.

* Front end development - Expand our CSS framework, build screens and libraries in AngularJS and build charts, graphs and other cool visualizations using D3.js

* Back end development - wrangling big data using Scala, AWS and several storage technologies.

Candidates of all experience levels encouraged to connect with us: jobs@localytics.com

We love posting on the who’s hiring thread. One of our last hires came in through December’s posting.

More details:
http://www.localytics.com/
http://www.localytics.com/company/localytics-jobs/
Creating a self-correcting alternative to JavaScript's setInterval
Normally I'm not a particularly big fan of trademarks (eg, Facebook was a term Zuck took that was already established to describe college year books, he shouldn't have been allowed to get that. It's also somewhat descriptive, which is another no-no on trademarks). Frappuccino is a pretty unique (and meaningless) word that Starbucks spent considerable monetary resources to acquire from George Howell [1] and further used its marketing budget to ensure it had meaning in the consumer mind.

I think if they don't want the word associated with Alcoholic beverages I am pretty sure they are right to ask this guy to cease and desist. Also, if they don't, and for whatever reason this guys beer becomes popular and loss of distinctiveness occurs, they may lose their trademark via abandonment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Howell_(entrepreneur)#St...
when employment becomes less scarce, women may be more likely to opt-out of the labor force

We've been in that situation for 5 years in the US. What you're describing did not happen—declines in labor participation among men still exceed women by a significant amount.

One explanation I've heard is that since women earn less, but do "the same" work, it's cheaper to keep them on vs. men. I have no idea if that's correct or not, or if it is, explains the difference.
Marijuana goes in sale in US Colorado