skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> low-ball offers are the name of the game in Berlin, selling a dream of a bright future with no equity.

I was flown to Berlin to be interviewed twice. Once by a startup and another by a large organization that had the funds. I've got to agree with this. One of the big reasons that Berlin/Germany has the difficulty with getting talent that they do is that they actively try to undercut the market. They won't compete with the American IT/Dev market. The offer I got was 38k Euro/year while making $60k US. (Also.. remember German taxes for being "non-religious" and single are ~42%)

Another thing to note (from my experience)... They won't even consider you if you don't have a masters degree.
Development's well underway, this is not a test of the market. This is more of a "get ready we are about to go", sort of post. And feedback is always invaluable. We're collecting emails just to notify interested people when we do launch and to keep anybody interested updated on our progress once we do.
Sorry for the delayed response.

The molecules I was making took up to a week to build. All-day and overnight reactions made me impatient. I'd spend a day researching the procedure, then a day setting up and getting the reaction started. I'd come in the next morning and might have sludge or nothing or what I wanted. Then I'd wait a few days to have access to the equipment I needed for analysis and, most of the time, would have to start over. One week of work and nothing to show.

After a year of this, my research advisor kind of shrugged his shoulders and said "well, this isn't really going anywhere" and switched me over to help a grad student that was there. The lab notebook went on the shelf and they're probably still sitting there collection dust. No publications, no discoveries, no record of me even being there except the credits on my transcript.

I got the sense that this was just par for the course and, working in the industry for a couple of years, that looked to be the case. Work as hard as you can, paying attention to every tiny detail, and if you get nowhere ... oh well, move on.

Some people seemed perfectly fine with this cycle. Me? It drove me insane ... and out of chemistry!
Coal is being switched out for natural gas here in the US... as a specific example, in 2012, see Plant McDonough right next to Atlanta, GA [1]. As I stated before, the reason is in part due to the effects on air quality (an externality), not just price. For Atlanta with this switch over, it has proven air quality improvements (and no one was surprised by this since it was a coal plant operating full blast right there next to Atlanta!).

I actually agree with you on several points. Agreed that the economics are uncertain, and agreed that scrubbing is very useful, and is definitely worth the cost vs. a full switch over to natural gas (but that doesn't ignore the fact that a switch to natural gas happens for other reasons). And I agree with you that natural gas has higher variance (historically at the least), and higher future expected prices, particularly with exports.

[1] http://www.georgiapower.com/about-energy/energy-sources/natu...
Off-topic: there isn't a single tech term that has been such a turn-off for me as the whole 'Growth Hacker' thing.
This comment's sales pitch tone really comes to a crescendo around "Have you had a chance to look into dweet?", just FYI you may want to avoid this type of language in the future.
How to Test Android’s Parcelable Interface
Gilt Senior Software Engineer Kevin Schultz recently ran into an issue with Parcelable objects. In this post, he aims to help you avoid the same pitfall.
I'd be fine with a 6x6 office. I could tolerate a 6x6 cubicle. An open plan office would be a dealbreaker for me.

But if the cost of office space is an issue, much more efficient than an open plan office would be just letting people work from home.
Why is it relevant that he is Indian?
Sorry, the tone may have come across overly crass, but this is a topic that really irks me when people can't unsubscribe without a whole lot of BS.
Ideas for new apps posted on Twitter. Sorted by hot top and new. With upvotes
Sex is Fun: Should You Settle for Apathetic Sex?
Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself
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Commander has been around for a good while now, and is a pretty solid library. I really appreciate how easy it makes writing git style subcommands with good isolation of options/flags between the entry-point command vs subcommands.

example of a subcommand heavy CLI using commander: [mite-node](https://github.com/jdc0589/mite-node/blob/master/lib/cli/ind...)
An idea I had over the weekend was that if drones are going to be used in cities, they should first be used to find potholes. Then, once they are measured to be good at that (and the potholes are fixed), then we can talk about other uses, like finding burned-out streetlights, bad/missing street lane striping, and poorly-visible signage.
Yep, I feel very lucky to work with a designer who actually cares about UX, has a very good knowledge of how HTML/CSS actually works and everything that goes a long with that.

Made hiring a frontend person much much easier.
Due to RSI I have my mouse set to the lowest possible sensitivity, I'd like to see my settings merge with his
Location: outskirts of Ithaca, NY. I'm not relocating but up to 50% travel is possible.

Stack: I've programmed in just about everything, but lately I've been focused on deep Java, Hadoop, and cloud native systems.

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/paulhoule/

I succeed where others fail when it comes to Linked Data, RDF and generic databases that reflect the world of human experience. I've spent the last year developing tools and techniques that let me repeatably do in 24 hours what other people will put a team on for six months with a 30% chance of success.

I'm interested in developing systems that make subjective decisions, such as full text systems. I'm frustrated with both how most search systems ignore the TREC evaluation methodology but also with how academics are all to happy to beat their competitors by 1%. I'm looking for people to work with who need precision that users can feel.

Contact: ontology2@gmail.com (607) 539 6254
Meet “Cupid,” the Heartbleed attack that spawns “evil” Wi-Fi networks
Philadelphia, PA, USA, Remote, Contract

Stack: Ruby, Python, Zookeeper, Solr, Hadoop, VMWare, Javascript, Redis

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismacnaughton, https://github.com/chrismacnaughton

Contact: chris [at] cmacinfo [dot] com

I'm currently a systems engineer with experience as a Ruby developer. I have experience with AWS and DevOps at my previous employment and am currently working with VMWare to handle server virtualization.
I have extensive experience with Apache Solr and have worked with Apache Nutch and Apache Zookeeper in a deployment and monitoring capacity.
Should autism be considered a canary bird for the extinction of Homo Sapiens?
The language is sometimes tougher than the actual development! The descriptive language is all a work in progress and we'll be doing some more brainstorming on it.
Your account brings back gaming memories from the late 90's and early 00's. "Leaks" and pirated copies of games ruled the day, and only served to make us all even bigger fans/obsessed gamers. The idea that you were using/seeing something that hadn't been released yet was thrilling and made us all even more dedicated to gaming. Of course then we were all poor college/HS kids, but most of us eventually got jobs and turned into Steam customers.
The Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night
Microsoft hires its own chief economist, from Google
What they call "multi-tasking" is actually an inability to stay focused on one task due to a combination of procrastination and sheer boredom. So if you keep switching between writing a sales report, reading incoming email and conversing with your neighbor, congratulations, you may not be getting anything done, but you are multi-tasking!
I think the objection is to the lack of information presented on the single page site, which leads it to look like yet another email collector. I don't disagree.

I think more information about what I would be signing up to look at would help clear up any misconceptions about what's going on there.
Creating a Software Company? 9 Decisions You Have to Make
If you're interested in this, you should also check out the UMLS published by the National Institutes of Health.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

It's a very big semantic database of health terminology. Among other things, it has a subset called RxNorm that contains all currently prescribe-able prescription drugs.

I've been very impressed with it and I feel like not enough people have heard of it.
I work in such open office arrangement. The worse is when the two guys across your desk have their phones on a conference call on speaker phone and the echo of both come through as they speak, utterly distracting, I might as well just pack and go home.
Event tracking with Segment.io and Mixpanel and the effect on bounce rate
Location: Toronto, Canada, Local/Remote/Relocation, Full Time (for the summer, graduate in December)

Stack: Go, Docker, Node, Javascript, Mongodb, D3, Python for Data Sci, R (but I prefer Python :))

Github: http://tinyurl.com/pb8wgk2

Contact: dluna132@gmail.com, more info on request

I'm comfortable doing any role. I've worked on backend, frontend at a startup and done data related activities on the side or through online courseware I've taken (I've done a lot of this).

Ideally I'd love to work at a startup where I work on a mix of backend and data/ML roles.
Also curious about this - traveling any the world and partying generally aren't things people do when they're 'moneyless'
How does this compare to pumped-storage hydroelectric plants? Those usually have a conversion efficiency of 70-85% and can deliver serious capacity/power.

I guess good places for solar and mountains aren't always close together.
I did this about 3 years ago for about 4 months. Some notes:

Working for myself was great. I'm still amazed at the sheer number of things I made in that time. It was some of my best work, and I really want to get back to that time.

Freelancing isn't the same. It's better than being employed, but it's not complete freedom. It is a constant struggle to maintain a relationship with the client that is both congenial but not familial. When things get familial is when they start with the attempts to guilt-trip you into extra work or doing things against your principles. It would take an extremely generous deal, of the likes I doubt anyone would ever be willing to pay for someone like me, to get me to go back to working as an employee.

I had a schedule problem. I woke up when I felt like it, I worked until I was exhausted, and repeated the next day. This meant I was working on about 7 hours of sleep (the least I've ever been able to run on for an extended period of time and still feel good, so that was a plus), and 18 hours of work, with brief breaks for food, showering, etc., fit into the cracks around the edges. Yes, that adds up to 25 hours. My schedule was constantly shifting. There are several good and bad things that came out of this. It isolated me from a lot of people, which was good for work but bad for my psyche. It kept me out of the rush hours, which was great for everything but made me hate weekends when all day is rush hour in Philadelphia (I live in the DC area now).

I didn't have a marketing plan at all. If I did anything, I was posting to my poorly-followed and poorly-maintained blog. I think I posted ONE project during that time to HN. Now that I'm significantly more engaged in marketing, I'm seeing much more traction with my projects, even though I don't have anywhere near the same amount of time to focus on them.

"If you build it, they will come" IS NOT TRUE. You have to advertise. How you advertise is up to you, but I will tell you that paying for Google AdWords is far more consistent and reliable than trying to play the Show HN lottery. You can make plans off of ad traffic. You can make corrections. Show HN is a one-shot deal, and if you don't get it right the ONE time everyone is paying attention, then you'll likely never get it again.

Finally, 4 months just isn't enough time. It's enough time to build something, but building the thing is only 20% of the work. Ideally, I'd want a year to get everything done right.
Totally isolated TLS unwrapping server
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I am an Indian citizen travelling to London soon.
Congratulations!
Good Luck at Kaggle.
Your car is a giant computer – and it can be hacked
Ask HN: Who's struggling with their developers?
Hi HN:

I'm doing research to figure out who's struggling and who's doing really well with their development team.

If you're struggling to get good results from your developers, can you share details of the problems you're having here?

Seems like communication (getting information about work done) is one of the biggest problems I've seen. I'm curious to know what else people struggle with.
Chicago is the 6th densest metro area in the country, ahead of SF, Pittsburgh, Portland, and DC.

Houston is a sprawl city. Chicago just happens to be plopped in the middle of some of the most naturally arable land on the continent. :)
Decloud: Be your own Dropbox with Bitcoin
Please see this example - http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413
Fandango Goes Live with Node.js
Was it todoist.com ?
I do not believe Valve had much control over that. They needed to report it (failure to do so might get them in trouble with regulators, insurance, and all that crap), and once they do they don't get any say in how the investigation or prosecution is handled. Even if Newell refused to testify, chances are this wouldn't hinder prosecution very much... plenty of other evidence to stick it to the kid.
Example here: http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413

* Got root in the countainer.

* You "know" where that is mapped to on the host, because it is based on the UID of the container which is set as the hostname.

* You configure a trigger to run a script, using that knowledge.

* Code happens on the host, outside the container.
Great! If that article would contain setting up custom hosts without using the HOSTS file (local DNS?), that'd be awesome. I don't like those ugly IP-addresses.
Ask HN: Djigzo Email?
Djigzo email encryption has been around well before the Snowden disclosures (I think I first looked into it about 3 years ago). I'm curious if any researchers have done any analysis on the underpinnings and foundational approach. While the package list is relatively short:

postgresql postfix openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless tzdata-java ant ant-optional mktemp wget libsasl2-modules symlinks (Debian packages list)

Some of the selections provoke curiosity on the fundamentals; postfix vs qmail, Ant & Tomcat (maybe I'm just leery of any Java in general today).

I would have thought with all of the concern around privacy in email Djigzo would have garnered an uptick in attention, but searching HN for references yields nothing. I have no ties to the project, but am curious of others impressions on it.

edit
Link to project: http://djigzo.com
Maybe because it's still quite prevalent in India
Sort of related: how do people handle images when using markdown documents for local/offline storage?
Building a Better Button
You're right, it's not relevant at all, it may only evoke bad sentiments. I'll edit it.

Edit: forgot I can't edit it -.-

Remembered why it was relevant: Since tuberculoses is still a problem in India, they already assumed that he may have tuberculoses before the diagnosis (he was coughing heavily and had signs of an ulcer). But not only did they keep him working, he was still in a tightly packed office with all the others.
I was surprised with how long we were able to get away with the simplest setup: everything in one server. It was about ~2 years. I'm very glad I didn't introduce complexity in the setup from the get-go.
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Starting out in web development in my early teens, I was full-stack by necessity: the types of things I wanted to build required me to do everything. I'm naturally curious in all things engineering, which is probably why I took such a diverse collection of courses in college: networking/devops, operating systems, assembly programming, C++, etc.

Above all, I love learning new technologies and ways of doing things, and my professional development career has included a broad array of learned technologies (see the list on my portfolio), sometimes where I picked up a language/framework I didn't know for a single project just because it was the best way to do it. I really enjoy this kind of continuous learning.

For the majority of the first half of my career I was designing everything in additional to full-stack development, but without proper design education. Part of my latest endeavor is to fill in this weakness and really get into UI design and develop my front-end skills above generalist-level to deliver greater user experiences. I'm finding designing and developing interactions and experiences to be very personally rewarding.

A desirable position would be primarily in design and front-end development, but as I do have experience and enjoy full-stack challenges, I'd say something like 60:40 front-end:back-end would be a happy combination of challenge. A position/company where I could develop these skills and feel part of an influential team would be quite awesome indeed.
Aaron Tomb on DARPA’s Crowd Sourced Formal Verification using games
Why Is The Sky Blue?
Try the Batcache plugin
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I would also like to mention that I would like to find people interested in collaborating to extend this code further :)
Also see <https://github.com/sindresorhus/chalk>
I've seen interns being hired from the USA. It's a hassle, but not really a "huge pain in the ass"
I guess it's a habit because whenever I told that story I was asked how he got tuberculoses in the first place (It's virtually extinct where I live)
Me too. There were a few "Who's Hiring" companies where I went through multiple interviews- I even got a verbal offer from one- only for the companies to just stop responding to me.
Impressed, very very useful. Thanks!
Not sure what the definition of open-office is. In our office, we have gazillion cubicles (the classic valley office). No sound proofing. And people of a team don't sit near each other. This means that you can end up with sales guys around who are constantly on the call and meetings. What's worse is that they keep pitching the same lines over and over again and you have to listen to it. It makes you empathize about a sales person's job but you end up hating your job and never want to step into office.
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Python (Django, Flask), Bash, HTML, CSS, Processing, Java (basic), Javascript (front-end)

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Contact info is on resume

Currently working in IT, but looking to move to a developer position. In addition to programming, I'm proficient in graphic design (Photoshop) and music production (FL Studio). I'm bilingual in Spanish and English and consider myself an honest & sociable person. Feel free to contact me even if you just want to keep in touch.
I don't get this.

It's not hard to download a JavaScript or css file and put them in app/assets.

What warrants the additional complexity?
Do you have some ideas for an alternative? Is it plausible, for example, to extend CoAP to cover MQTT use cases?
I have worked in cubes, private offices, shared offices, and open offices. For productivity and thinking, I found the physical barriers were proportional to the thinking. For communication, in any of these, company IM worked quite well most of the time, and when it failed, face to face worked out.

I strongly advocate for private or team-member-shared offices at any chance I get. It's just that much better.
pip install scipy in the terminal should work
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Resume: Please contact me for my resume

Contact: Vissa7@gmail.com, irc.freenode.com #csharp nick: smiles

In 2010 I help start the local hackerspace, and since then have been working on a multitude of technologies. I am a linux fan boy that runs lubuntu and debian for all my OS needs. Charlotte is a .NET city so most of my dev experience has been .NET focus on C# language.

For the past 2 year I have been working along side senior developers. Learning and improving my skills while diving deep into understanding of OOP and design. I have work on many private projects with a team of 6, collaborating remotely with the use of Bitbucket and Github. Using development methods such as scrum and TDD.

I am looking for a entry level position with a company that has a solid dev team. I am willing to learn any language or framework to get the job done, and can hit the ground running. I enjoy coding back-end software, and working with a team focus on producing good clean code.
I really like docopt (http://docopt.org/) which also comes as a CoffeeScript / JavaScript version.
>So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices?

I worked for about 8 years in Japan. Hell yes they leave productivity lying on the floor, and not just with the open offices.
Why the need for Node.js? Couldn't this simply be a static site? (I know there are tons of these, but most are "blog oriented)