skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on yourself only. But any extra hours you are giving to your employer, you are taking them from you. Even if you enjoy the work, you could be enjoying the work at home on a personal project (that may make you money, or famous), or gym time for your health, or family time, etc etc.

I'm not against doing some extra time if needed, but working overtime regularly with the 'I like my work' mentality is for me the wrong way of thinking, since anything you could be doing sitting at a desk for your employer outside the agreed hours you could be doing it for yourself.
Google taking requests to censor results in Europe
Keypr - Los Angeles, CA

Keypr is redefining the guest experience at hotels worldwide!

We are a startup in the hospitality industry. Our stack is Python/Flask/Angular/iOS/Android. We are looking for talented engineers to join our growing team.

If you want to change the way we do hotels, please send a short note to charles@keypr.com and tell us one thing you'd change. Be sure to include links to your code or any relevant work (GitHub, App Store, etc.)

Cheers!
Machine Learning as a Service: realtime sentiment predictions with ZMQ and NLTK
Whats the employment outlook for the brightest girls who stay in physics vs drop out of physics? Just trying to broaden the discussion beyond whats good for just the people who benefit by physics enrollment (perhaps specifically of girls).
With compiler optimizations turned on, it's almost guaranteed not to happen, because a and b are very likely to be stored in CPU registers.
How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise.
As used by bazqux.com, an RSS reader; I've been trying it out for the last couple weeks, and so far the core functionality has been rock solid, unlike any of the multiplicity of other readers I've tried since Google Reader died. (Unfortunately, the site's design leaves a lot to be desired, including any mobile-friendly version at all...)
MarcScott asked about Mac OS and the unix subsystem isn't the part on Mac OS that provided the emacs bindings for the apps.
'gevent' – Compatibility Module For The 'inotifyx' Python inotify bindings
TechTalkEurope
TechTalkEurope @Central Working

Hackathoncentral presents the first in a series of monthly Talks by leaders of the tech industry in cities across Europe.

The series kicks off on June 24 at Central Working’s new techhub in Whitechapel, east London.
First up: Barcelona, Spain’s premier tech city.

Three leaders of the tech industry there — Urs Rothmayr, co-director of Founder Institute accelerator; Carles Ferrer, general partner at Nauta Capital; and serial entrepreneur Martí Manent, CEO, Derecho.com — will provide a comprehensive briefing about the tech scene there.

Web: http://techtalkeurope.com
Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1n0iuLW
Hashtag: #techtalkeurope

Hackathoncentral presents the first in a series of monthly Talks by leaders of the tech industry in cities across Europe.

The series kicks off on June 24 at Central Working’s new techhub in Whitechapel, east London.
First up: Barcelona, Spain’s premier tech city.

Three leaders of the tech industry there — Urs Rothmayr, co-director of Founder Institute accelerator; Carles Ferrer, general partner at Nauta Capital; and serial entrepreneur Martí Manent, CEO, Derecho.com — will provide a comprehensive briefing about the tech scene there.

Web: http://techtalkeurope.com
Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1n0iuLW
Hashtag: #techtalkeurope
This reminds me of the US elections - there are strict rules regulating financing ads for a candidate, so candidates wind up running a lot more ads against their opponents: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83262.html. Just another victim of the laws of unintended consequence I guess.
Westlake Robotics - Seattle, WA. - Software Developers

What are we about?

We're a new team trying to use the best tools and techniques to move forward the state of the art in software development while making innovative software services to improve patient health and reduce healthcare costs. We respect each other. We work in small batches. We max out the RAM in our laptops. We drink coffee on Monday mornings and classic cocktails on Friday afternoons. We try to be cutting edge without getting caught up in meaningless buzzwords and flaky vaporware. We use effective methodologies without being dogmatic or cargo-culty.

What are we looking for?

That depends. What do you have to bring? We're staffing up an entirely new team with a flexible and changing set of technologies, so we're not rigid in specific job requirements. We just want talented people who care about making great software in an enjoyable and sustainable way. If that's you, please email westlake.robots@gmail.com or contact me directly. Contact info is in my profile.

Where are we?

Our office is in Seattle. As the team is still forming, we're hesitant to add the extra complexity of working with non-local talent at this time. My hope is that we'll eventually become a geographically dispersed team, but we're limiting our search to local talent right now. I have no idea if we can provide relocation assistance, but if you're thinking of moving out here, let me know.
Storefront - FULLTIME in San Francisco, CA -- Jobs: http://sfrt.co/1n0rS2j

Storefront is the world's largest marketplace connecting the best merchants with the best short term physical space. The press likes to call us the Airbnb for Retail, but we like to think of ourselves as making retail accessible.

Hiring:

UX, software engineers (Stack = Rails, AngularJS) and other non technical roles.

Traction:

To date we have successfully launched over 1,000 retail experiences. Our customers are entrepreneurs and we are humbled by the opportunity to work with this dynamic group of people.

Funding:

We recently completed a $7.3m round led by Spark Capital, investors of Warby Parker, Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPop and others. Other notable investors include Troy Carter (Lady Gaga's former manager), NAS, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tom Glocer (former CEO of Thompson Reuters) and Vikram Pandit (former CEO of Citigroup).

Storefronters:

Storefront has alumni from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, Berkeley, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Google, Trulia, Yelp and other awesome institutions. We are looking for YOU to join this dynamic group of individuals.

Technology and Company:

Our stack is AngularJS, Rails and Bootstrap. We solve difficult problems in matching, build processes for offline + online, we are building a large transaction platform (deals can be $100k+) and we have the opportunity to work with our customers who are hungry, hustling entrepreneurs. If you are looking to work with an incredible team disrupting a $100bn+ market, apply. Please put [hacker news] in the Subject line of the Application so we can pay special attention.

About you:

We are looking for candidates with the following characteristics:

* great communicators
* initiative
* ownership
* passion

We give a lot of freedom and responsibility to our employees.

About Me:

My name is Ron Lai and I am the VP of Product. I enjoy mentoring my team and providing people opportunities to grow. Pls learn more about me @ https://linkedin.com/in/ronaldlai

Jobs @ http://sfrt.co/1n0rS2j
Nah. "I, Officer So-and-So, have reviewed the footage and it shows a violation of <statute>."

No different than reporting a blood alcohol content reading off a machine, really.
Client Feedback On the Creation of the Earth
Nobody running HN gives a shit about whether links will irritate Scribd, for what it's worth.
Contact your local organisations for people with hearing impairment and ask them for details of "speech to text" people.

There is an oddity in the UK where a person with a hearing impairment can get speech to text paid for, but they are the client and they get to control what happens to the text. It would be useful if text to speech paid for by the state and used in public meetings was automatically given to the meeting as a whole as well as the person as an individual.
JotForm http://www.jotform.com -- San Francisco -- Technical Support

JotForm is an online form builder. We help 1.5 million web sites with their online forms. Be one of the first employees of our new San Francisco office.

Do you love helping other people? Are you good at CSS and HTML? Please email your resume to me at aytekin@jotform.com
StackSocial - Venice, CA

We are looking for Senior Engineers, Front End Engineers, and QA Engineers to join the StackSocial team. You'll be part of a small, but growing team, working hard to build a first-of-its-kind native commerce platform.

StackSocial was founded in 2011 and is headquartered steps from the sand in Venice Beach, CA. We’re both a native commerce platform that distributes relevant products to our partner network of top tier publishers, and we’re a marketplace for people to discover, share, and buy innovative apps, gadgets, and online tools across the world.

Join us now and you will be a key developer working on a product that touches millions of users, and you will be joining an early stage, profitable startup. We just need you. If you enjoy working in a fun, collaborative environment, then send us an email at: careers@stacksocial.com for more information.

Or, apply online:

Senior Engineer (Ruby on Rails): http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&...

Front End Engineer:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&...

QA Engineer:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&...
All of the "no big deal" comments are really startling to me. If you bought a desktop PC where you couldn't write anything to the hard drive outside of your one allowed directory without voiding the warranty, you'd take some serious issue with that. Is "but mobile!!!" an OK justification for taking away control over hardware that people own?
A brief note on performance: Ur/web has been in recent rounds of our project and has performed exceptionally well. For instance, achieving 112,807 Fortunes responses per second on our Peak Hosting hardware:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=pe...

And the code for the same:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
The Good Creative (a book)
And they also respect robots.txt.

None of these things in isolation necessarily makes what the IA does entirely legit under current copyright law; they effectively operate in something of a legal grey area. But add it all together and not many people are going to get upset--especially given that they'll remove material if asked to do so.

There have been a few legal cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine but not many considering the scope of what they archive.
Posting non medical sources, especially from the opinion section, is less likely to convince me.
> You're human beings and you are only supposed to live for your own enjoyment!

How does what you're advocating differ from pure selfishness (perhaps restricted by the requirements to not to hurt others)?
The Internet Archive really needs to update its website. It's not 1998 anymore, you know. I couldn't easily find how to view the book. Then I realised you can only "borrow" it and it is already "borrowed", so it is currently unreadable and tells me "this title is currently checked out."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654148

You already know why it's spam.
Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.)

===========================
====== What we do =========
===========================

Real-time logistics optimization (EZPass for Ports).

On the left side of the problem, we track every ship on the water so that we can make predictions about the impact of a bunch of things on the rest of the supply chain (this mostly manifests itself in us being able to help companies save a bunch of money on demurrage. One company we're working with, alone, spends 6.5 mil every month on this). On the right side of the problem, we let truckers know when they need to arrive at a port in order to wait in line the least amount of time (so that they spend more time making money and less time waiting). Right smack dab in the middle, we optimize port throughput by scheduling all the right people to do the right thing at the right time.

===========================
===== How we do it ========
===========================

Web/data stack -> Clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails (along with hadoop/EMR)

Mobile -> Currently building iOS app, android in the near term

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

===========================
====== And the rest =======
===========================

We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z)!

Looking for help on mobile, frontend, and data science sides! Would be thrilled to find a CTO to grow the tech side of the company with me, but I'm also happy to find engineers who know their shit who just want to build great things.

If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!
Ulnar nerve is the ring and little fingers, right? (I can't use armrests due to that.)

I use a Kinesis contoured keyboard with ESC on the thumb cluster (where DEL is on the default Kinesis layout).
The point is that the selection of defendant is what this is all about. Amazon could equally well be subject to an antitrust case.
JavaScript – The Better Parts
... nor should they be. I was learning calculus in elementary school and writing the Putnam in high school. No matter how hard they tried, there's no way the schools I was enrolled in could have given me those opportunities. What prodigies need it not opportunities in school, but rather schools which are flexible enough to let them access opportunities outside of school -- in my case, starting my days at Simon Fraser University and packing my high school courses into the afternoon.

Not to derail from the article's point too much, but there are schools / programs specifically for talented youth - although they are not everywhere (sounds like there were none wherever you grew up). I know of one high school where a large number of students write the Putnam. I think it is important to have these schools / programs because pursuing opportunities outside of school is not always possible / easy for disadvantaged youth.
These are great heuristics, but having spent an awful lot of time writing, I find that---on occasion---there's reason to violate them. But I suppose every great rule is defined by its exceptions.

As an aside, glad to see this focus on the technical aspects of language and not some growth-hackery marketing spiel.
In grad school I once saw $8K+ for an introductory chapter of standards document. Even if my lab was willing to pay that price, I considered that price to be unacceptable by any standard. So I instead found the same document on a public FTP server of some professor in Brazil. The internet is a wonderful place.
Quite coincidentally, I was just now reading an interview with Brewster Kahle, from NewScientist (23 November 2002) - back when the Wayback Machine had only 100 terabytes archived.

He said: "I guarantee that in the future researchers will curse us for having missed something absolutely critical. But only people using the archive can tell us about mistakes in what we collect. There is a cheaper alternative concept, called 'dark archiving', which means that we should not give people access to them. But preservation without access is dangerous - there's no way of reviewing what's in there."

But later on, he mentioned that: "AltaVista was the first Internet search engine that tried to be a complete index of all the pages. But what really got me was that they threw away the original pages. That grated, no end."

Aside: Kahle was one of the founders, with Danny Hillis, of Thinking Machines - the company that created the fabulous 'Connection Machine'.
Location: San Francisco or Palo Alto, full time

BrightRoll (http://www.brightroll.com) is looking for all kinds of engineers, especially server side hackers to work on composing internal services into public, REST APIs (we take the Fielding dissertation seriously). We value functional programming, distributed systems, fault tolerance and high availability, backed by all kinds of languages and persistence schemes. We are serious about scala, erlang/elixir, ruby, node, and store stuff in SQL, nosql, and sometimes in plain old files.

Our culture is one of uncompromising transparency and GSD (the good kind of GSD, where anything that blocks us from getting stuff done is prioritized). We value risk taking, learning from failure, provide superb compensation and benefits, as well as having a laid back office culture (I personally practice Hammock Driven Development fairly regularly). Feel free to apply via the web site, and let us know hacker news sent you, or contact me directly (phamilton at brightroll dot com). Thanks!

See http://www.brightroll.com/careers/greenhouse.php?gh_jid=6250
Regarding that last bit, I think you discard it too quickly. What I read him as saying is that putting people in the category "genius" is a shallow understanding, and that he's arguing for a deeper one.

I do think that paragraph should have been substantially longer, and I suspect it got trimmed for print. But what he's trying to do with it is to summarize the rest of the article.
That's a good point. I wasn't in the business of writing the compilers, just using them. At my University we had Ada for free (I studied with Mike Feldman, listed below); I don't know what the licensing was for it to the school.

But, you know, this was heavy iron. At work the compiler ran on VAX, compiled to 1750A. Who wants that besides DoD? So,there was probably a x86 back end, I don't know. But still, we were buying extra memory modules and processors for the VAX just to get it to be able to handle the compiler. No way that was going to be running on the boxes of the day (where 'the day' = 1990-4 time frame). Even then, we were "submitting" jobs - you'd start a compile, go to lunch, come back, and maybe, just maybe have an image ready to go.

Okay, so let's say they engineer it to somehow require low memory so it'll compile on a PC of the time. Then what? The prevailing opinion was pretty hostile to Ada, even within the DoD community where it was being used. People didn't want Ada, they weren't clamoring for it, the only market for it was for the programs where it was mandated, and programs would often do whatever they could to get exemptions written for them. Maybe it was different in Europe, I don't know. But at the time it was considered to be bloated, 'designed by a committee', with a lot of unnecessary features and limitations. I don't agree with that assessment, and of course there were people with different views on the subject, but it was a pretty hostile marketplace. Most of the positive press for Ada was accompanied with praise for heavy process - waterfall, design first types stuff. That didn't appeal for a good reason, and it is hard, without experience, to recognize that the language did not require working that way. Heck, we did iterative development with it long before XP and Rapid Development were coined. The average consumer just did not want Ada. Are you going to go into a company strategy meeting, suggest giving away your very expensive compiler that won't really work well on the machines of the day, risking your career? It was a different world, we didn't talk about gaining 'mind share' and the like back then. Things like gcc, while available, were openly scoffed at, except by the uber-nerds. I tried to push gcc early on, and just got laughed at. OF COURSE we are going to throw money at Microsoft; that's what responsible businesses do.

As I stated above, Feldman was initially my advisor in grad school; he was pushing Ada adoption very hard - you can see where that went. Dismissing all of that history and experience with 'ridiculous' is pretty hostile and condescending, not to mention unthinking (I know you didn't say that). We may be gray beards, but we know a few things too! :)

It was a language before its time. I guess it's a 'shame', but there is plenty of room for a free, strongly typed, engineering language. Perhaps Rust is it, perhaps something else is. I don't blame 1980s companies for not operating as if it was 2014.
After thinking for a while, I found that there is no true answer. If we are not dealing with normal calculating, every answer should redefine the calculating system or value in a tricky way. The simplest answer I can tell related to the addition of decibels is like this:

function add(a, b): return 5

But it is just not so fun.
My girlfriend sponsored a refugee from Darfur. His name is Guy. He's on a student visa and he is currently a student at the College of Lake County just outside of Chicago, Illinois. She is constantly fund-raising his life because he is not allowed to work.
The website looks amazing ! I'll show her tonight and will come back to you for more feedback.
Thank you !

More info about Guy:
https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeSupport
https://fundly.com/help-a-darfuri-refugee-study-in-the-us
I had a larger comment typed out, but I think it would detract from my point, ignorant comments like this make this industry a far less pleasant place to work.

Consider the notion that not everyone involved in 'nosql', including some of the SQL industry leaders arent doing so because they are too stupid to realise what you find so obvious.
I've had a really positive experience working for a startup. I was the first engineer hired and it's been amazing to see a company grow from 4 founders to over 100 people. Naturally I'm biased because it all worked out splendidly but I'm really really glad I did it. Sure, it's a risk but I think it all boils down to weighing up the risk with how much you think the founders and the business can succeed.

I think engineers are in a better position now that the London startup scene has matured as there is no stigma attached to being a part of a startup that didn't work out. I think a lot of employers value those experiences and the lessons learned!
Cipherli.st – Strong copy-paste SSL configuration
OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent)

At OpenSignal we are using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we are all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first[1] is for wireless signal where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal[2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper[3] showing the potential of this approach.

If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...
[2]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...
[3]http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/
Former "Anonymous" member switches over to Singing
The Mars Trilogy – and especially Red Mars – has to be some of the best hard sci-fi ever written.
Even the best automated solutions rely on recognising someone who is speaking clearly and precisely, ensuring that every word is well spaced and completely clear.

There are no automated solutions that can universally do a good job of transcribing natural speech from people who aren't specifically "speaking to be recognised", if that makes sense.

Maybe one day, but not yet. It's a problem waiting to be solved, so the reward for the first who can really crack it will be substantial.
Economists suck at predicting economy.