skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - Remote or in Philadelphia, PA

I am a software developer living in Philadelphia. I primarily work with Ruby/Rails but am familiar in varying degrees with other languages and technologies. I am open to working on any number of projects on a freelance basis. Due to my present employment, I am able to dedicate approximately 15-20 hours a week to any given project but may be negotiable based on other factors.

Languages: Ruby, Elixir, Objective-C, JavaScript, Python, R
Development Methodologies: Agile (stories via Pivotal Tracker), TDD, integration testing

Testing: RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara, Semaphore, Airbrake

Deployment: Capistrano, Passenger (typically in a Debian-based environment; I am also familiar with email server configuration)

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/orteipid

Github: github.com/orteipid

Email: orteipid@icloud.com
If only they did it back in 2010.
SUPER GAME JAM: a documentary series
I've seen atleast 10 "Oh look, Facebook acquired us" jokes today. Atleast this company put some effort into it.
I had to wear a tie my first few years of working. It sucked. I see dressing how I want as a sign of power, but I do agree with your overall point. Because I can dress how I want, doesn't mean I should look like a slob or unprofessional. I still wear nice clothes to work, just not corporate drone clothes anymore.
Can you point me to one such perf benchmark? Thx.
So, can we expect OpenGL on Xbox and Windows RT in the future?
Bike share data in New York, animated
Exactly. The carousels on The Verge and Polygon are just awful. The only good implementation of a carousel on mobile (in my experience) is the one on GSMArena, which has large prev/next buttons.
Team productivity? What is team productivity other than the aggregate of individual productiveness? You could argue that open floor plans help bring the weakest programmers up a bit, but at the cost of bringing down your strong programmers down. Presumably your stronger programmers are more productive, so even in this argument it brings "team productivity" down.

I have worked on a code base for the last 6 months in which I am the sole committer. A lot of my coworkers are the same. We have brief sprints where we are in each others' faces, the majority of the time we only need concrete pieces of high-context information from each other that have nothing to do with serendipity.
Chennai, India

http://www.ivivacloud.com

Help us build our SAAS Smart Workplace Solution.

Our software typically integrates with real-time subsystems in buildings (think lighting systems, security systems, AHUs, CCTVs etc...) which we monitor and control as part of what we do.

We need a full-stack developer. We have interesting problems to solve.

Mail me at <haran at ecyber.com>
If you're deaf, how do you transfer the vibrations of the phone to your senses? Sleep with the phone on you somehow?
All I found was his public statement. It's an assertion that he's pro-equality without any mention of why people might think otherwise.
what? is .NET open source ? if it's open source is it a free software ?
>the problem is people
At home I have a Chromebox machine that I only use for online banking and no other purpose.

My other machines are used for the usual consumer Web activities, including Web site administration. I'm wondering if perhaps I should modify my approach to do the admin only from the Chromebox... which brings up the classic tradeoff of security vs convenience.
Let's keep this thing lighthearted, I don't want to read about Lovecraftian horrors at 5 o'clock.
Node.js and Real-time.

WebSockets are a real blast to work with in Node.js. Some libraries to get you started:

SockJS - https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node

ws - http://einaros.github.io/ws/

engine.io - https://github.com/LearnBoost/engine.io
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we are actively hiring for:

1) Summer Developer Interns (4 month paid position)
Come build cutting edge games in HTML5 or Unity, or help us tackle backend challenges like scaling and working with big data.

2) HTML5/CSS3 Developers
Are you a CSS wizard? Do you love making games? Help us build the best HTML5 games on the market!

We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android and Facebook.

For full job descriptions and to apply, visit our us at http://uken.com
I just took it for a testdrive and it was an absolute pleasure. I tried to scrape all job listings at https://hasjob.co hoping to find trends.

There is one small pain, the output is being printed to the console and piping output to file is not figuring. But it did fetch all the pages and printed a nice json.

UPDATE: there is a logfile setting to dump output to file
I use them as well and have had no issues; however just because two of us have had no issues, it's not much of a data point.
The problem is that it is VERY hard to do a conclusive study on this. Never mind that a low dose radiation study would take many years: the hard part is that you need to randomly select half of your group to use only non-radiating (non-functional) cell phones. Good luck finding a group of volunteers for that.
ZDoom, GZDoom and their Mods. Are They any Good?
Untap your potential with SwiftKey ‘Flow Hard’
SEEKING WORK - remote

Expert in web scraping, big data, and webapps. Java, Ruby, JavaScript.

https://machinepublishers.com/portfolio

http://linkedin.com/in/danhollingsworth

dan@machinepublishers.com
Shark Punch announces pivot to "cat games"
Cambridge, MA (Boston area) - Harvard University

This is a really cool opportunity, and I hope we can find someone on HN. If you are interested in the job, or even just want to tour our lab please reach out to me at jack#minardi,org

Mechanical Engineer, 3D Printing

Description

The Jennifer Lewis research group at Harvard University is looking for a Mechanical

Engineer interested in precision stage design, extrusion systems and precision

deposition systems. The principal activities of the Lewis Group involve 3D printing of

functional materials for use in printed electronics, optical materials, light-weight

structures, and microvascular architectures for cell culture and tissue engineering.

Job Title: Mechanical Research Engineer, 3D Printing

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop precision stages for new 3D printing systems from consumer to industrial grade use

• Improve upon standard FDM extrusion systems for plastic printing

• Develop commercial and scalable methods to dispense custom inks, gels and other materials

Position Requirements:

• Passion for working with 3D printing and mechatronics systems.

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or other relevant field.

• Knowledge and experience in CAD design and design for 3D printing.

• Hands-on experience developing working mechanical systems, either through prototypes or real world applications.

• Experience with design for manufacturing, injection molding, and other manufacturing techniques is a major plus.

• Self-directed and focused, requiring minimal supervision to execute on goals.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to converse fluently to a range of different team members.

• Keen interest in scientific research and applying it to real world problems.
The maths looks wrong; the distribution of clicks is only relevant if the total number of clicks stays the same.

Essentially a carousel gives you a "second-bite" at your customer, i.e. the second image is a chance to convert those customers who haven't already been converted by the first image.

Imagine you have two images one which converts at 40% and one which converts at 20% - but each image converts completely different groups; by carouseling the images you could end up with 40%+20% conversion.

In practice you won't because of overlaps, drop-off from people who never see the second image, etc. but it's definitely possible to exceed the maximum conversion of an individual image.

(obviously you should A/B test for your circumstances)
iOS Lead at Line-Up, London
http://lineupnow.com
Line-Up is rethinking mobile event discovery

Who we are looking for:

A Product-obsessive
Are you focused on the ‘doing’; the creation of an app that you have developed to engage and delight the end user?

Best in Show
Does the thought of the next release being featured in Best New Apps keep you striving for higher standards? Can you picture yourself at MWC picking up the prize for Best Overall Mobile App? Can you be focused on building the first truly global mobile events app that could be in the hands of billions?

Team Player
Sure, you love to code. But do you also love being part of the product creation process? Pouring over analytics, user feedback; seeking and expecting critical review of your work and working with the team to iterate regularly to create the best app around?

Skills and experience

- Expert-level Objective C
- Experience building consumer facing iOS apps
- Experience with JSON REST APIs
- Knowledge of RestKit and AFNetworking
- A passion for processes and best practice
- Strong, analytical approach to problem solving

About Us

Line-Up is a personalised What’s On app. A mobile-first ‘Time Out for the 21st century’ that offers unparalleled user experience and is powered by World-leading technology.

- One of the UK's top events app, launched in Manchester in December 2013 and shortly to be launching in London and rolling out across the rest of the UK.
- Featured in Apple’s ‘Best New Apps’
- Our automated event listings technology also powers What’s On for global media brands
- Seedcamp London winners and funded by top angel investors
- Based at Warner Yard in Clerkenwell

Apply

Send examples of your work and your Github profile to info@lineupnow.com.
They're an absolute boon to Web designers where different stakeholders in the client organisation can't make up their bloody minds. There comes a snapping point where a carousel is suggested to avoid insanity.
SEEKING WORK - remote, based in Austria

I'm a JavaScript & Frontend Developer with a strong interest in data-visualization, product management, and mathematics. I'm currently looking for the next interesting client project. Throughout my 6+ years of industry experience I've created a couple of popular open source software projects ( heatmap.js [0], nude.js [1] ), launched several web products, and consulted companies with their web strategies (don't hesitate to ask me about my portfolio)

I love to work on anything web-related with interesting challenges and aspects that haven't been done.

say hello at hn-contact@w-labs.at

[0] https://github.com/pa7/heatmap.js [1] https://github.com/pa7/nude.js
Sorry for the delay.

Well, as a matter of fact I am quite positive and one of the things I realized when I was depressed was that I was quite good at hiding it (until it reached a point when it was no longer possible) from family, friends etc...

I think I understand what you say by 'see what I have accomplished' but as you realize, a great part of 'depression' is just the inner feeling of worthlessness of all that one does and one needs someone (some people) to support him.

Everybody needs a life apart from what one 'does'. Everybody is worth another person's love, time, respect and support, just because of himself.

I do hope you find help. And try to get a good professional also.

All the best.
I guess there are a couple of lua implementations. However, this pushes some logic on to the client side - (generate hash, get number of hashes, set the appropriate bits) which the server should ideally handle. I have experimented adding native bloom filters here - https://github.com/devendralaulkar/redis/tree/bloomfilter Basically they reuse the bit operations internally, and set multiple bits in a single command.
> But living in the middle of hundreds of others just teaches us to ignore everyone.

This is an important point. For many of us who have worked in startups, "open office plan" really just means "team room". I enjoyed working in open office plans in smaller companies since it basically just meant 5-10 engineers sitting in the same space.

Last year I worked for a mid-size company of about ~200 employees, most of whom were crammed into a gigantic factory like space with endless arrays of fluorescent lights lining the ceiling.

The experience was among the most distracting I can remember. This was in no small part due to having to overhear loud conversations between people in different departments, such as marketing and sales, which require much more verbal communication than engineering. if I can help it I will never work in a similar environment again.
You can read more here

http://www.asp.net/open-source
Kifi looks cool - the Chrome extension image link is broken on /install btw.
Blogspam, but... Wow, Derek Smart. There's a name I haven't heard in a while. And talk about knowing the rage machine...

EDIT - nice long, recent piece on Derek Smart http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/14/3553620/the-redemption-of-...
Barcelona, Spain - Typeform - Full time workers, no remote

Typeform is a startup in sunny Barcelona, creating the next generation of forms and surveys on the web. We are heavily focused on great UX with the user in mind and we’re now looking for the best frontend
developers Barcelona and Spain has to offer us to help us build a scalable and maintainable frontend.

As a frontend engineer at Typeform, you would be responsible for creating and innovating on every cornerstone in the frontend platform at Typeform. This means you should be exceptional at writing Javascript (with Coffeescript) that works without any problems in the most popular browsers (at least IE8 and up!) but also HTML and CSS that works excellent for all our current and future users.

You should have a solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns. You should know OOP from the inside out and would be great if you have a great desire to innovate, learn about new technologies and also be ready to take a part in the building of the product.

Currently, we use (but not limited to) the following technologies:

* HTML and CSS

* JavaScript for web and backend (using Coffeescript)

* PHP

We have the following requirements for you as a developer:

* Multiple years of experience with frontend development

* A strong will to learn more about the technologies you use

* Expert OOP programmer

* Experience in writing automated tests to ensure functionality and quality

* You love Git without any borders

* Making yourself understandable in the english language in a business situation (medium / high level of english)

* Know how to develop web application for cross-browser/device usage

* Good understanding of graphics programming

* You are a highly flexible individual that likes to take a pro-active role to innovate, learn and participate in a exciting startup, in a exciting city that plans to do great things

If one or more items below matches you, you’re probably the guy/gal we’re looking for!

* Expert in TDD or similar methodology

* Familarity in working Agile

* Degree in computer science

* Knowledge in PHP/nodeJS

* Good knowledge about UX

Please fill in this questionnaire to apply for the job position:

https://jobs.typeform.com/to/e7NNgU

We're also looking for a bunch of other people! So if you want to work for a startup in Barcelona, look at our Jobfluent page ( http://www.jobfluent.com/author/typeform/ )

If you have any questions or just want to chat about the future of forms online, feel free to contact me at victor@typeform.com
Love this, been using Scrapy for all my scraping needs.
I believe the GUI is run locally, but if it was run as a web application from the developers site it would only be able to scrape sites accessible to the public internet.
bitcoin price aggregation deamon in Go !
We are 313.9 million individuals, not some group of settlers who died centuries ago.
Use Google Maps to wander around inside St Pancras station
Someone should write a series of articles about this issue from the POV of Javascript/browser clients. There, UDP isn't available at all, and we also have to deal with quite a bit of pain in terms of differences between platform implementations.
so... what's new here?

Posted 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516

and posted 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412044
It's using jQuery, so no. It'll not be the last one I'll ever need.
Mute Cloud Monitoring Notifications With Suppressions
That's not too bad. I tested with http://i.imgur.com/QwjjRHS.jpg (a vector cartoon of Peter Pan) and it came up with a reasonable set of tags (beach, vector, tree, cartoon, etc.)
Highly relevant: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
I want to thank most of you for making this one of the funniest threads I've seen on HN.

Your theories as to why corporations and the people around us succumb to societal pressures pushing them to take on disingenuous facades of unfunny silliness for profit and attention are deeply profound -- April Fools!
Really? Gmail is more pure than it's ever been IMO. Here's a screenshot I took today: http://i.imgur.com/iVZ306S.png (I've been using this account for 6-7 years.)

Chat has been apart of Gmail for a long time, and it's always been easy to turn it off. I barely even notice the Google+ integration, usually it's just pulling in profile stuff for the right sidebar.

Now, Gmail not opening quickly has been a common complaint for many years, and seems to usually (but not always) correspond to the account having a lot of mail (usually in archives.) But that's more of a complaint of using Gmail for years and years. Certainly, they should upgrade their architecture so it isn't as much of a problem.
Toronto, Canada or REMOTE

Questrade is growing our front-end mobile development team with full-time permanent and 1-year contract positions.

Have experience with AngularJS and mobile development?

Review the full posting and apply online: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...
I'm surprised this article doesn't place more emphasis on the surprising quality of GMail's spam filter. Especially in the early days it was a major differentiator from Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, maybe even more significant than the difference in storage capacity.
It looks to me like pinch/zoom doesn't work. Not a big deal, but I wouldn't call it perfect until it's flawless on a tablet and phone.
For me, their 2FA is essentially unusable. It uses a UK SMS gateway (no Authy / Google Authenticator support) and out of the 20 or so times I've tried to set it up, only once has the code actually come through to my phone. I've had an open support ticket for 6 months, 3 months since the last reply.
I am also having problems with placing this whole thing in my worldview frame-of-reference. As a matter of fact, I'm a gay-friendly man from Germany with friends and family who are gay.

Thus I could, in the future, theoretically become a Mozilla Corporation CEO.

But Mozilla has offices in many South-American countries as well as in Ireland and Poland. Those are _very_ Catholic countries, where homophopia is quite widespread, sometimes even the norm.

So should Mozilla also do something about that? Or is it sufficient that the lower-level homophobes within its structure will not pass the Gesinnungstest and thus cannot rise beyond a certain level?

Also, I hold extreme pro-gun-control views. Would that influence my (theoretical) chances of becoming Mozilla CEO in the future?
Because voice and language have so much redundancy built in that dropping few packets will not degrade perceived call quality. On the other hand, waiting a quarter of a second to receive lost packet definitely will degrade call quality.
Christianity. There were plenty of racists back in the day who used the bible to support their views:
https://www.google.com/search?q=biblical+support+for+racism

Though you could step beyond my/the parent comment's literal words to get to the gist of the point: While they deserve some sensitivity because they are a product of their religion/upbringing/culture, they don't get a free pass (google "moral relativism" if you want to see a mess of discussions about this).
Number 2 is totally accurate. I can't tell you the number of stupid questions I have fielded by our Junior devs, just because I'm in their site line.

I have the unique experience of having been both in offices and an open floor plan (most recently) for the same company. I can unequivocally state that I was more productive with an office. Junior devs had to measure the opportunity cost of coming to my office before asking me a Googleable question, I'm fairly certain one of them doesn't even use Google anymore.
This was highly atypical for a game jam, which is part of why it failed so spectacularly.

Here's some of the major organized game jams, if you'd like a better picture:

Ludum Dare: http://www.ludumdare.com/

Global Game Jam: http://globalgamejam.org/
The mirror to git exists since quite some time. It's a read-only mirror though.
Testing it out as a user, the slide transitions didn't feel as responsive to swipe velocity as I expected. In particular, if I swipe even a small distance but quickly, I expect to trigger the transition. I just tested it with iOS and Android, and they both seem to do it at least for left-to-right transitions of home screen pages, and Android does it for the top menu.

From looking at [the source](https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/blob/master/slick/slick....), it doesn't seem check for velocity; it just applies a distance threshold. Have you considered having the threshold respond to swipe speed so that faster swipes over shorter distances trigger transitions?
They were considerate i guess and they asked a lot of questions.

Not sure if they did anything useful but they certainly looked more interested then GoDaddy.
I hate open office plans. I want my privacy. if I need to hike up my skirt and and adjust something I want to be able to do it. if I need to call my gynecologist I want to be able to do it. If I want to surf the web I don't want anyone looking at my screen. I don't want people to be able to see when I floss my teeth. I would like an office with a door. Barring that, a cubicle with high walls and a door. Barring that, a cubicle with high walls that isn't missing the fourth wall. Barring that I want to get the hell out of there.
Management that does an open office is doing it because they're cheap and don't trust employees to do work if they can't see you. All that other stuff is pure horseshit.
I never trust shared hosts provided by a registrar. I have my own blog software running on AWS and I am the programmer and only user. The fewer people involved is better security but that's not generally possible for the average person. At least I can't lose both the domain and the content.
Reliable UDP is the best of both worlds (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sigtran-reliable-udp-0...), and most decent networking libraries use that over TCP. You can make reliable and unreliable requests as needed and very required for any close to real-time game.

Enet is an open source version (http://enet.bespin.org/). But lots of industry platforms use it like Photon if using Unity or RakNet native direct. A network library not built on reliable and unreliable capablities (RUDP since running TCP and UDP same time is overkill) is going to be slow and overkill and you'll have to rewrite it (unless you are doing turn based). HTTP/S access also needed for other basic messages for states and setup etc.

RUDP is the best base of multiuser virtual environments that we have so far until protocols like SCTP (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2960) but those probably won't happen widespread, so RUDP it is on top of UDP and you don't need to write a library/toolkit/server, there are plenty. It is like writing TCP only you can pick and choose which messages are important/reliable/prioritized.