skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpatialKey - REMOTE

QA Lead

We’re looking for someone to lead QA for SpatialKey. We’re a small 100% remote team of ~15 people. We create SaaS mapping and datavis software. Our largest vertical is the insurance industry, where we sell software to visualize large amounts of data and assess the impact of natural disasters, like tornado strikes, flooding, hurricanes, etc.

You’d be in charge of QA for the entire product. You’d start off managing one other QA resource, with the expectation that you would grow that team as we need it. You’d need to be very hands on and able to automate much of the QA process. We expect you to be able to write code to automate tests and come up with ways to make QA more efficient. Coming up with and executing test plans, working directly with the dev team to dig into issues, etc.

We’re profitable and entirely self-funded, so no VC breathing down our neck. We’re building a long-term business and are incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished in the 7 years we’ve been at it so far.

Full job post: http://blog.spatialkey.com/2014/04/hiring-qa-engineer-at-spa...

More info about us on our blog: http://blog.spatialkey.com or see our 2013 year in review post: http://blog.spatialkey.com/2014/01/what-we-did-in-2013/

doug.mccune@spatialkey.com or jobs@spatialkey.com to apply
Your jobs page is 404ing. Also; tell Toby Andrew said hi.
So XSS attacks and phishing scams don't matter? People who don't want their family's credit card details and passwords stolen by thieves are weenies?
Hi, I work at Meteor. Our office is in San Francisco, CA but remote is ok for some positions. We're hiring engineers, designers, community organizers, recruiters, and more. Interns welcome, and we'll sponsor visas for great candidates.

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Meteor is an open-source framework for building powerful modern web apps. We have a single ambitious goal: create the best way to build application software, and make it accessible to everyone. The Meteor community is growing fast, with new production apps launching every week.

We're backed by top investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix, Y Combinator, Ron Conway, Maynard Webb, and others.
We've got a healthy attitude towards work/life balance, an excellent team, and a great office in SOMA (though some of the positions support full time remote work).

Join us -- help make the future of the web!

Learn more about Meteor at http://meteor.com, and we've got a detailed jobs page on http://meteor.com/jobs.
A comment by Udo mentions monoclonal antibody drugs.
Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a front-end engineer in NYC
Hey HN,

We’re looking for an experienced front-end dev to join us. You’ll work with us to build a mobile-optimized javascript app for our members to use while out on Groupers.

Who are you?

- You have 3+ years of experience building rich client applications with Backbone, Ember, Angular etc.

- Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and their client-side performance implications

- You’re comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk.

- You’re a fearless explorer - If there’s something you don’t know how to do, you’ll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

- You’ve used some of these tools and you can tell me why they matter (or why they suck)

- clojurescript
- react (or om)
- meteor
- es6/harmony modules
- component
- browserify
- gulpjs

Who are we?

We’re a tiny team based in NYC working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we’ve built out matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, and a real-time collaborative email client that’s better than Gmail.

We love open source:

https://github.com/Grouper/FlatUIKit
https://github.com/Grouper/Cuttlefish

And we have strong opinions on code:

http://eng.joingrouper.com/

I’d love to chat, just email me at tom@joingrouper.com

Cheers,

-Tom
Ya! ;)
I was excited for that. I've worked in languages that had an `is` operator, and it can result in very readable code. Eg:

if list is Array {

}

Much nicer than:

if Array.isArray(list) {

}
That discussion wasn't very extensive so we won't kill this one as a dupe.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indeed indistinguishable from malice...

You're treading on thin ice there, Google.
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates welcome.

Requirements:

* BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field.
Or related experience.
* Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
* Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of
Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, Scala
or Ruby
* Willing to work in Python, TypeScript, Scala and Java
* Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
* Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework

If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
How Zidisha (YC W14) sidestepped banks and took microfinancing peer-to-peer
PouchDB 2.2.0 Released
Worth reading their interview today on The Verge[1]. Seems like automatic tracking is providing far more valuable data than check-ins.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5666062/foursquare-swarm-ne...
I can't speak for Linux/FreeBSD, but NetBSD has been 64-bit time_t (all ports)[0] since 6.0, which was Oct 2012[1].

[0] https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/about/history.html
Have lunch with techstars ALEX ISKOLD in NYC
Do you have an API? I'd be interested in incorporating it into Storytella - https://storytel.la/
Couple notes:

They have a blog post about the results here: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/05/01/framework-benchma...

If you're running on EC2 and not dedicated hardware (probably most people reading this), be sure to toggle to the EC2 results at the top right of the benchmark.
The recent PBS Frontline documentary on the topic was excellent.
This is an area where Mozilla is ahead of Chrome in terms of support.

http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/

Not surprising, given Google's stance for other languages.
True. A dog is a good reminder that its time for a break. A dog forces you to take a walk 3 to 5 times a day, regardless if its sunny, raining or storm. This certainly has also a health benefit.
Wealthfront -- Palo Alto, CA

The largest and fastest growing online financial advisor. Our technology is awesome and the product does not involve tricking people into clicking on ads.

https://www.wealthfront.com/engineering

backend, frontent, iOS, devops, data
Can Being Transparent Give Startups a Competitive Edge?
What is computational thinking? Your future job may depend on it
Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?
Looking for a co-founder? Share with the HN community first what type of co-founder you are looking for and which skill sets you require. If you have an idea you already committed to, give a summary (market/pain point/solution minimum) and your progress thus far on it.

Are there other tools out there to find a cofounder? Absolutely! Should an entrepreneur exhaust all existing methods and look for new ones? You betcha!
Shutterstock - New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Remote

We're hiring all sorts of software engineers and data scientists. We've got some pretty fun problems -- image search, video search, storage scalability -- and an awesome team.

Take a peek at http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs
Remind101 - San Francisco, CA

We're building for teachers, so they can get back to teaching.

Highlights

- 15% of US Teachers

- 6MM monthly actives

- $19.5MM raised; Kleiner Perkins (led by John Doerr) & Social+Capital (led by Chamath Palihapitiya)

- Located in Soma, San Francisco

Positions

- Product Manager of Growth

- Full stack, Backend engineers

- UX engineer, Designer

- Android, iOS developer

More: https://www.remind101.com/careers#jobs
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK - Matillion Ltd http://www.matillion.com

Graduate developer role available in a fast-growing software start-up company that is looking to bolster an existing development team.

For more details see our website: http://www.matillion.com/about-us/careers/

To apply, send your CV and covering letter to jobs@matillion.com
I often just copy and paste the passwords from 1Password into Chrome for IOS. Chrome sync is the one feature that prevents me from using 1Password's IOS browser for anything but the most casual use.

Now if AgileBits could figure out a way to integrate with Chrome Sync, that would be something...
To add my anecdote of others, I feel magazines don't do as good a job with deep understanding as more 'academic' layouts. Is this a font & design issue hiding as a device issue?
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6689759.
So you're here pseudonymous then. (assuming you're HB). Interesting!
National Day of Civic Hacking to tackle community challenges on May 31 – June 1
Ha, ha. I too will throw stones into the ocean to get less water.

Say hello to trillions of $.
YP is hiring for 2 engineering positions on the Digital Markets team in NYC (http://jobs.yp.com/job/New-York-Software-Engineer%2C-Digital... and http://jobs.yp.com/job/New-York-Senior-RTB-Developer-NY/3929...) as well as a few other NYC-based roles (http://jobs.yp.com/search?location=new+york%2C+ny).
Yeah, seems simple. First, get a map of the entire world. Then, allow complete customization of every detail of it. Then, serve it at cloud scale.

The point here is that "Google" is no longer synonymous with "map" and that there is finally some choice in the space. This post by DoubleMap shows that going with an alternative at scale is more than possible.
Yes. While it costs a few dollars more than Amazon, you can buy it from the publisher here: http://www.packtpub.com/python-for-finance/book

Packt says that their ebooks are DRM free in the "Pactk Facts" section here: https://www.packtpub.com/about

Like other tech publishers, they frequently have discount codes on their ebooks, though $20 doesn't seem expensive if the information is useful.
I would argue that a good portion of snapchats use happens in extended conversations (for example, flirting). Adding the ability to quickly drop into video to share something will feel pretty organic and add to the experience.

It may not add to their original value prop, but it is a value add to the way people are actually using the product.
A cheap Bluetooth enabled Braille display would be a good option although would only serve a small segment of the population in developing countries. For more info see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display

All current models I have seen are over $1000, over $2000 for anything of a decent size. Something that could use Bluetooth to connect to old iPhones, low end Android devices, and windows computers running the open source screen reader NVDA could be very useful in countries where government does not subsidize the purchase of expensive assistive technology.
And thus Bay to Breakers was born
What about dependency injection in modern java - is Guice or spring still the de facto standard?
I expect this one will be better:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032441.do
In my view on `this`, changing the semantics would always harm the generality of functions as first class entities. In case I would assign a function to an object as a method, what would this mean for the semantics of `this`? Evaluating the this-object just as late as possible gives a general approach that isn't prone to fail. By changing semantics, we're always introducing some edge-cases, for which there would have to be special behavior and constraints to be defined. Even with binding there would have to be some constraints to be added. (We have been doing great things with the current implementation for nearly 20 years by now, so it can't be that wrong.)

Personally, I would suggest the introduction of another variable, providing a "sticky this", which would stay bound to the this-object of the scope, the function was declared in. But what would be the reserved word to be used for it? (This would have to be restricted to arrow-functions, since there would be inconsistencies when assigning a method to an other object.)
I'm not looking, but I want to say that having a co-founder had one of the largest impacts on my business. Things move more than three times as fast and with more focused eyes on the problem space creating a better product. I estimate that to get to where we are in 4 months would have taken over a year as an individual.
The problem is that unless you live in a major metropolitan area no one you know in real life uses Foursquare. So it's really only useful to track your own check-ins and find places to go. I was always ok with ignoring the social aspect of Foursquare (Oh, hey, a guy I used to work with 7 years ago is checking in to some place, great to know).

But now the thing I use Foursquare for, checking in and finding places nearby are in 2 apps. Before it was ok if each part was good not great because having them both together was a win. But by splitting them the places nearby app is now directly competing against Yelp and Urbanspoon and others.

I'm not installing 2 apps for this, so the check-in part will likely not be done by me anymore. I might still use Foursquare proper, but only if it is better than other similar apps.
I kind of can't believe he called Angular easy to learn. One of the most common things you hear about it is the steep learning curve, which is not helped by the docs (the skimpiness of which is another frequent lament). In my experience Angular is learned by Googling problems you have, which are then explained in Stack Overflow posts.

As an aside - this is something I've hardped on before, but I just really think it is not helpful to anyone to use examples whose names are so abstract:

ng-click="foo = 'bar'; blah(foo + bar + '!!!); shazbot = nanoo && nanoo"

This is meant as an example of something you should not do. But it's nonsense - it's quotes and semicolons separated by meaningless names. Of course that is the point, but in turn that is my point - give a better example, one that models something one may do in the real world but should not, so that the person reading the example actually understands what not to do. Instead of that, something like this:

ng-click="shoppingCartId = 52; initCart(52); var myShop = new Shop();"

People know what shopping carts are. "shazbot" and "nanoo nanoo" are whimsical references to an old sitcom. Entertaining to the author, perhaps, but not helpful.
I'm sure many people don't use the bar for anything other than searching, but I often use it as its own interface, when hacking around with REST work. I'd hate to have them remove it.
Kabbage - San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA - http://www.kabbage.com

Kabbage has successfully created a new market niche in providing short-term cash advances to small businesses via a completely-automated underwriting system. After linking Kabbage to a marketplace account, accounting system, or business checking account, users can have funds in their PayPal account in minutes. Data science and machine learning approaches underlie the underwriting model and provide a fertile bed for deeper understanding of (and potentially further products targeting) the SMB ecosystem.

Kabbage has received a metric ton of good press and awards from TechCrunch et al, the fintech industry, and the founders have been on Bloomberg TV and Fox News several times. Investors and board members include former Yahoo! CEOs, Square co-founders, UPS, and a veritable who's who in the VC community -- http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kabbage

Badass .NET jockeys sought in Atlanta, and badass data scientists sought in SF. Familiarity with the entire stack not necessary if the ability to learn it quickly is demonstrated.

Stats:

- Stack: ASP.NET MVC / REST WebAPI / EF / SQL Server
- Employees: 80ish
- Office doors: zero
- Responsibility, ambition, development pace, salaries: all high
- Provided hardware: MacBook Pro Retina (or PC equivalent), plus as many Thunderbolt displays as you dare daisy-chain
- Lunch, snacks, drinks, parking: free!
- Kegs: 2
- Patents: 2 (plus four more applications)
- People who've beat Ghosts n' Goblins on the multicade cabinet: ZERO AAARGH

I am an alumni of the company and therefore do not speak in an official capacity, but I'm happy to answer your questions or give feedback on your resume: rj@rjcantrell.com

More position info: https://www.kabbage.com/company/careers (I would rather you send me your resume, but if you contact them directly, tell them RJ sent you)
I saw his tweet about Dragon Mk 2 but had no clue what he was talking about with the trampoline comment. Now it makes sense.
I'm gonna make an assumption that you (and many people on here) sit all day and probably don't exercise intensely regularly, eat healthily, or sleep very well.

I don't think "RSI" by swiping on a screen is your most pressing health concern.
How do I contact you? my email is in my profile.
Feldstein, not Goldstein. Mad, not Screw. The original NYT title is in error, since corrected.

There is a percent of my youth related to "Spy vs. Spy", "The Lighter Side of..." and of course, every parody. Classic.

He's no doubt laughing right now at the irony of the NYT's mistake.
Quick google search brings up that it's available here: https://www.u-cursos.cl/usuario/9553d43f5ccbf1cca06cc02562b4...
Project Glass bill of materials reveals it costs just $80
This might all be hocus-pocus, as evidenced by this quote:<p>Moreover, a Google spokesperson has now denied all these estimates, calling them "absolutely wrong." However, the spokesperson did not provide any further clarifications or details.<p>Still though, I find it interesting that people are valuing early Glass access at $1500, meaning the value comes from<p>1) Cool factor of early adoption
2) Practical factor of early development
3) Respect for Google's R&D
4) Amount of Glass's value in their life
Thoughts on Computer Science graduate school
My personal solution is to use https://pinboard.in for all of my bookmarks.

The thing this doesn't provide me are bookmarks (such as banking, servers, etc) that I need to keep more secure than a public site (even with privacy settings). However, most of these types of items are saved in 1Password.
MacRumors 2014 Blood Drive
One would expect that digital formats are more conducive to this. You can theoretically cross-reference and amend notes and you are not constrained by the margin. Perhaps Fermat's Last Theorem may have been proved centuries earlier if he had had access to a digital book reader.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Looking for smaller, part time type jobs. Possibility of "swapping" work for charitable donation. Java, Python/Django, and light front end (I am not a designer). Interested in getting my hands dirty with spatial technologies as much as possible.

Projects: http://davidwilson.me/projects.html
Email: david@davidwilson.me
Worth remembering the Yogi Berra quote: "Not all who wander are lost."

I think he meant it more generally than just walking around, but a nice reminder nonetheless.
Pain points for me: The package management and upgrades.

If I'm not mistaken (perfectly possible, I'm really no expert and only browsed OpenBSD documentation here and there)

- you have no decent binary packages
FreeBSD guys online complain a lot about the current pkgng changes, but the direction is great: Build from ports, install binaries elsewhere.

This is something I really really like, since I tend to avoid building stuff on production machines and since I don't want to (even temporarily - and that means you have to clean up!) pull in pure build time dependencies. FreeBSD solved this for my use case with pkgng and the ability to easily host your own repository. I have a build machine and run portshaker/poudriere to create exactly the (binary) packages I need. Installation on the targets is a breeze.

- consider the heartbleed issue

As far as I understand the OpenBSD project issued a patch (as in text file) and told you to rebuild the related parts of your base system (or everything)? FreeBSD has binary updates for these kind of things.

I'm not trying to bash OpenBSD or promote FreeBSD, I guess the general idea behind this post is that I'm interested in the project OpenBSD, but feel that running OpenBSD would probably too much tinkering than I'd like (cough I guess I'm saying that I'm lazy?).

But maybe, maybe, I'm wrong about one or both of these "issues"? Maybe there are 3rd party helpers that make everything very, very easy (just like portshaker/poudriere on FreeBSD are tools I install from ports, i.e. not part of base)? I'd be happy to be enlightened.
STXXL: Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7680242.
I'm probably not the most common user, but this completely breaks Foursquare for me. I use 4sq to keep a list of restaurants I want to check out, keep a diary of where I've been, and look for nearby places.

Back to synced plaintext files, maybe?
Calling all video geeks: Help SpaceX clean up its soft landing video
The 17% figure also includes dog walking. For myself, the midnight walks with my dog have been very rewarding. Giving me time to think about things and reflect on the day. Although there are a good number of dog owners who see walking their dog as a chore, which is not the right attitude to have for being mindful.
I haven't really used neither frameworks for anything but a few test project for myself, but I don't get the comment on "HTML mustache style".

The {{}} is in both frameworks. I hate it, because it doesn't go well with the template rendering in a lot of server side template languages.
It's nice to see Nimrod making it pretty high up on the list of the fortunes benchmark. I still have not had the time to properly optimise my framework (Jester), or to even write code for the other tests, but I am currently working on a new async module which will be a lot more competitive (an experimental version of it already made it into the latest Nimrod release, see http://nimrod-lang.org/news.html). In any case it's nice to see that others are creating their own Nimrod frameworks to compete with mine (thanks idlewan :) ).
I can only tell you from the last 30 days. I am in NYC1. I've had perfect uptime on my production server except when I had to patch for heartbleed.
While this is certainly possible, I'm surprised to hear it. I thought my reading was progressing at the same pace but then noticed that I took a week to finish a book that I'd otherwise finish in a few days.

Perhaps your eyesight is better than mine and you are able to use a smaller font (which permits more content per 'page'). The problem for me is that legibility suffers at lower font sizes.
Well said. Pigs get slaughtered, too.