skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I assumed these were coming from out of the country. Do we know that they are being mailed in the US? If that is the case the postal service almost certainly knows which post office these were mailed out of.
Perhaps we're talking past each other - I'm certainly not saying Go should be Haskell (I've never even written a Haskell program!). Go's designers are clearly not stupid, and many people seem quite satisfied with their design choices. But that doesn't mean they "had full awareness of every language feature available in the alternatives", and even if they did, smart people are still susceptible to the blub paradox.

As for use in production, I agree that it can be a fair barometer for "utility", but I strongly disagree that it's a good measure of "quality" (as in, technical design choices). We live in a path-dependent world rife with network effects, so quality per se just doesn't matter all that much, and non-technical factors like "being backed by a major corporation" can matter a lot. I'm sure there's more Visual Basic in the wild than Go, but I'd hardly use that to argue that it's a superior language, or that Go proponents are "abstract language tourists".
Would be great to see some screen shots of the admin interface.
Is micro-learning the future of online education?
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The requests change depending on what you need. You may need help hiring or with a key introduction. Whatever it is, you need to ask in order to get it.

The "asks" are the requests.
SEEKING WORK - Remot - PST - US Citizen - Seattle (USA)
Experienced (10+ years) in Operations; in the Datacenter and in the Cloud.

I have worked in the Datacenter as well as in the Cloud. I enjoy working in a team environment and use Chef (and Docker) to help build a (rebuildable) infrastructure.
Github: http://github.com/damm
Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/scottmlikens
Email: smlikens@gmail.com
Tesla Motors, Stationary Storage Group, Palo Alto

Our Stationary Storage product offers battery storage systems that can attach to power grids, commercial areas, or residential systems. As the need for and the available sources of energy increases, efficient and smart energy storage is quickly becoming the only solution for meeting these demands.

We are have several open positions for firmware and embedded software within this team. Finding the right person for the group and then defining a role for their skillset is more important to us than listing several generic job descriptions. If you are passionate about this field and technology, feel free to contact us.

Below are some specific skills and experience that we know we will need (we do not expect all of these in the same candidate). I've clustered them into two groups of skills, but we'd be happy to have a candidate with a blend from both clusters.

Embedded Firmware

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- Embedded C

- Realtime operating systems and applications

- Low-level embedded experience with linkers, bootloaders, drivers

- CAN bus

- Embedded TCP/IP (driver level)

- Experience with power electronics

- Familiarity with electronics, schematics, PCBs (can use an oscope)

- Design for safety critical systems

- State machines

Embedded Linux

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- Embedded linux application deployment

- Protocol buffers

- Golang

- Zigbee

- Industrial or utility SCADA protocols like modbus and DNP3

- Experience with power electronics or the energy industry

- General networking: ppp, ssh, vpn, iptables

- Code generation + DSLs

You should be interested in, excited about, or experienced with the Energy Industry to apply for this position. Our team is a small part of the company but we are working on becoming a larger part. These positions will have a significant impact on the design and behaviors of our next generation Stationary Storage products.

At this time, we are not looking for interns or people working remotely.

Please email tcasebolt@teslamotors.com for more information.

If you are interested in other positions at the Tesla (for example working on vehicles), it is most helpful if you have a position in mind that you are interested in and I can forward your info on to the right people. For other positions, please see http://www.teslamotors.com/careers
We’re a YC company building financial services tools. We're already cash-flow positive, and laptops, and office snacks, and etc. and so forth. and general good things. Here's what's awesome: we have non-technical customers paying us for an online tool. Everyday, our clients call and email to say that we're making them happy. And that feels great.

But there's one problem: parts of our product are a little bit ugly and a little bit confusing. We're rapidly adding new features, and we're quickly outpacing our design capabilities. In short, it’s time to hire a UX/UI designer.

Our clients use our product for hours at a time. This is their tool for getting their jobs done. It is their workflow. We want it to beautiful and intuitive. It should be easy for a new client to learn, while at the same time, it should make power users feel like they’re flying through their day.

You must have experience with The Struggle of Application Design. And frankly, you should enjoy this struggle, because it’s hard to get things right, but really rewarding when you do.

What would your first day on the job be like? Well, we’ve got a product live right now that processes several hundred orders per day. You now own the design and you will be responsible for improving it. Changes could be simple, like, ‘make this button blue’ or it could be more elaborate like, ‘add tooltips and a new customer tutorial,’ or maybe you might want to redesign aspects of the site from scratch. Ideally, within a couple weeks, clients should be telling us that they’ve noticed small, nice design improvements.

List of Responsibilities: - Design - Usability and Utility are more important (at the moment) than purely visual appeal. As a team, we frequently meet with our clients to learn how they’re using the product. A good candidate for this role will be able to speak to users and feel out their feelings.

List of Skills: - UI/UX design experience - Responsive design experience (a lot of our clients access our site on their phones) - HTML/CSS is great. At the moment, we’re using a lot of Bootstrap. Pixel perfect designs are not (yet) crucial; usability is paramount.

We’re in San Francisco on a trolley-filled street in Union Square. We’re small (3 in-office employees) and we’re still building a culture. If you have ideas for how to build a blissed-out company, we’re all ears. Thinking of moving to San Francisco, but not yet ready to commit? Talk to us.

Send an email to fintechw14@gmail.com telling us about yourself. Include a resume and a portfolio if possible.
I would strongly guess it's a fixed set of product images they're training against, possibly attained by massive scraping. Another part of training or processing might consist of a reverse image search API, like TinEye, and gathering metadata from the pages containing the result images.
Why we need Chapel for large-scale parallel computing
We (https://www.blossom.io) are using Dart alongside JavaScript (CoffeeScript) right now.

You can call JavaScript code from Dart and vice versa. https://www.dartlang.org/articles/js-dart-interop/

This was a great pragmatic stepping stone for us as we moved from a JavaScript only code base to a much saner development experience thanks to Dart.

Related write-up: http://news.dartlang.org/2013/04/why-blossom-is-switching-to...
A Simple Rack Console
> Perhaps my expectations would be different with a different title

Hmm yes, I will think about it. Ownership is Rust's most important and unique concept, so an intro to ownership _is_ an intro to Rust. I will think about how to make this more clear.
> paulg: @joe_blau www is just static html. You're probably thinking of news, which didn't change.

- https://twitter.com/paulg/status/484028786120216576
I have a 13" MBPR, and I just plan to use it with an external monitor all of the time. Even 15" seems small. I figured most people with laptops as their primary computer attach a display unless they are on the go, so the 15" might not make too much of a difference.
No, no I surely know they do freeze for valid reasons. You are right, we usually dont hear about those instances.
Imperfections in an art form like Glitch are the substance, not the dirt. Same way, imperfections in JS make it so much fun to work with, for the sufficiently insane. Taking a puritanical approach to programming and weeding out the imperfections leads to a very boring language. I understand the business argument, but creativity requires a certain amount of chaos, no? Or it depends on your theory of creativity I guess. Fair enough.
What's missing from this article, is a discussion about ideal sleep TIMES.

Yes, yes, yes!

Personally, I feel better rested after 6 hours of sleep if I get to sleep by 10 than 8+ hours of sleep if I don't get to bed until after midnight.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara, CA

* Ruby and JavaScript developer with focus on Data Visualization, d3.js, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails

* Can work across the stack, decent eye for design, author of two popular jQuery plugins

* Have worked with startups, two YC companies, worked remotely, built many MVPs and live applications

==============

Recent projects:

- Fast growing, RoR based classifieds site for general aviation: http://www.PlaneBoard.com

- Building dashboards and managing data visualization, reporting for a hedge fund

- Misc visualizations in d3: http://www.bytemuse.com/post/k-means-clustering-visualizatio... http://www.bytemuse.com/post/centrally-located-us-state-capi... http://www.bytemuse.com/post/sochi-winter-olympics-medals-by... http://www.bytemuse.com/post/drought-historical-rainfall-cal...

=============

Email: cmpolis@gmail.com

Blog: http://www.bytemuse.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrispolis

Github: https://github.com/cmpolis

Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/238672/cmpolis
This helps shed some light on some of that information: http://yclist.com/
Summertime In The City
Mediafly is hiring passionate backend, frontend, and QA engineers in Chicago to grow our team. We have pioneered Mobile Apps as a Service for some of the largest F500 customers in the world, and are looking to grow our team to match our incredible revenue growth.

Backend engineer: http://www.mediafly.com/careers/back-end-engineer/

Frontend engineer: http://www.mediafly.com/careers/front-end-engineer/

QA engineer: http://www.mediafly.com/careers/qa-engineer/

Looking forward to hearing from you!
So every screenshot I take on my iPhone is automatically imported into SnapUp / sent to your server?
Location:Princeton, New Jersey
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Mostly have played around with C++, Java + libgdx, Python
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8l9eirp75anq8ue/AADZWDGXUflfzI6d1fAXUUUEa
Email: BrianJHillman@gmail.com
Location: Sacramento region

Remote: Yes (currently working remotely, but I'll consider on site as well)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full stack LAMP web developer. JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Python, HTML(5), CSS(3), etc.

Resume: www.pauldessert.com (full PDF available upon request)

Email: pauldessert@gmail.com

I also have significant experience in graphic and film production and development. Photoshop and the Adobe Creative Suite are second nature to me.
Coinbase - San Francisco, CA (REMOTE, INTERN, VISA) http://www.coinbase.com

We're looking for full-stack engineers, two executive assistants, compliance investigators, sales and BD, recruiting staff, as well as other roles.

Check out http://www.coinbase.com/careers for a list of the roles and to apply.

Coinbase is a platform that facilitates the easy conduct of the digital currency Bitcoin for consumers and merchants. This includes the buying and selling of Bitcoin, secure storage of Bitcoin in the cloud, and a suite of merchant tools.

We've raised over $30M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures and grown from 8 to 33 full time employees this year.

Here are some of the things we're building:
- Storing hundreds of millions of dollars of people's money securely, with the best hackers in the world probing your systems daily
- Integrating fiat money connections into dozens of different countries and providers, the KYC checks that come with this, error handling, race conditions and arbitrage people use to try to abuse it
- Building wallets across many platforms, mobile, web, sms, etc, dealing with offline/online situations, different devices, and cultural UI differences around money
- Using cryptography in novel ways both offline and online, such as our cold storage solution which makes use of key splitting
- Our own custom bitcoin client, which transmits binary data across a distributed system to 100+ peers at any given time, and runs across 15 different servers to accommodate over 1M users now on the platform and will need to scale to 20M users in the next year or two, and implement each new BIP protocol as it is adopted.

If you're an engineer and want to get a head start in the application process, check out our test here: http://istest.co/coinbasecodetest

If you have any questions feel free to contact us at jobs@coinbase.com.
Show HN: Whiteboard- Focus on the tasks that matter most in your day.
Location: Washington, DC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: SF bay, Seattle, DC Metro area
Technologies: Node.js, Angular, PhoneGap, .NET/C#,
Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, variety of others
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zach-cowell/31/812/709
Github: https://github.com/zachcowell
Email: zachcowell [at ] zachcowell [ dot] com

Full stack engineer. Would prefer an Angular/Node stack for my next gig. Recently built an iPhone app that leverages MongoDB / Angular / Node / etc. View it at zachcowell.com/violations .
>Perhaps I have selective memory, but I've never seen Linode lower prices, they just keep upping the specs on the lowest tier.

Yes, exactly. I'm saying that is the standard way to do it in the VPS market, in part because until D.O. most of us were self-funding, and it's way easier to pay for double the compute resources than to deal with a 50% cut in revenue.

In the "cloud" market where amazon is, the standard way to do it is to directly lower prices.
Palantir Technologies - Palo Alto, CA - http://www.palantir.com.
The Internal Tools team at Palantir owns continuous integration, artifact & dependency management, build tools, source code management, and much more. We use a combination of open-source software (e.g. Gerrit, Jenkins, Ivy, Gradle), third-party enterprise software (e.g. Atlassian Bamboo and Stash), and in-house magic to develop robust and scalable systems.

For more info or to apply: http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m80000002...

Do you have any questions? Drop me an email at jscalisi@palantir.com
But some women are...

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-supe...
We're building a platform to Show & Tell for makers and developers. It's not meant to replace Show HN, but re-imagines the experience on a smartphone. The idea is that Demo Day is Every Day. We put out a prototype to see how people use it, and now tailoring the experience for makers this summer http://tipcast.com/makers

Looking for feedback and willing participants!
On the contrary, I went to PostgresOpen last year and got quite a bit out of it. As a then-new PgSQL user, it really opened my eyes to gotchas, new stuff, ways to configure things, etc. Being narrowly focused allows a much further in-depth set of sessions. Arguably, I might have gotten more out of it than SCALE this year, with SCALE being so broad. I'd have no reservations about attending a similarly narrow conference in the future.
What kind of issues do you see still with modern C++11 code?
VCE is hiring unicorn jockeys globally: http://UnicornJockey.com

VCE is a privately held company, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, in order to accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure.
Not for long if their market share keeps slipping. Alienating developers doesn't help the situation.
Please don't disable the play-controls in embedded videos.
I usually read the newest page, but usually it has a lot of 1-point stories, and many of them are almost-spam or almost-dupe.

Another user proposed a newest page with a >2-points filter (someone else think that it’s interesting). See for example http://hnapp.com/filter/d3a308f2ac9a071c0bf174e0c1a8fd22
October 2 2012 is a long time ago.
Hmmm. Never thought of that. If it's cool enough tonight I'll try an experiment with a cast iron skillet and a small boule.
Location: SF Bay Area (SOMA in SF to be exact)

I am looking for part time/ contract work while I bootstrap a startup I am working on called driveless http://www.driveless.co

Remote: Prefer to be onsite at least once a week. Can be on site anywhere in reach of BART or Caltrain in Bay Area 12-16 hours a week.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:
Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Web dev (html, css), postgresql, AngularJS

I'm a generalist full stack software engineer.

I specialize in frontend web development (raw JavaScript, jQuery, Angularjs, debugging cross browser compatibility issues, etc.)

and Ruby / Rails back ends backed with postgresql data stores.

I'm open to learning new things as well.

Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/31iqml/
Github: https://github.com/williscool

Resume: On Request (contact in profile)

Email: in profile
Software Engineer at Zoomforth.com -- San Francisco, CA - Full Time, Local

We're building technology to make it easy for non-technical people to make multimedia-enhanced business messaging. There are lots of people whose impact is much greater with the ability to build messaging that includes photos and video, for sales, recruiting, or leadership, and we're striving to build the best product we can in that space.

We've got our foot in the door at several enterprise companies, and have closed a few larger deals. Our product is evolving -- there's a lot still to be imagined and built, in addition to the clear stepping stones to bigger sales with new enterprise clients.

We're looking to bring on our first engineering hire. We use Python+Pyramids as our framework, with a great deal of javascript including backbone.js and jQuery. Our persistence layer includes mysql and elastic search on top of AWS.

We're hiring experienced developers at either full-stack or front-end positions. We are passionate about making good software, and bringing an experience to our users that they love. If you think you can help us build that, apply via email at engineering+hn(at)zoomforth(dot)com
Check us out at https://zoomforth.com/about.

What can we offer?

A competitive salary, full medical coverage, a flexible environment where we actually care about not burning people out, and a commitment from us to help you reach the top of your game, whatever that means for you.
This is from 2012, can a mod update the title?
It's #1 in the market it cares about, which is "people who spend money". And that doesn't appear to be changing anytime soon.

That sounds like hubris and arrogance to me. Are you so sure that won't be changing anytime soon?
They're complaining that Go doesn't even reflect the state-of-the-art of 30 years ago.

Clearly that was a very deliberate choice on the part of the Go creators, not the result of oversight or ignorance. I suspect they simply didn't want to reflect the state of the art 30 years ago, 20 years ago, or today. I don't find that at all surprising, because people who want to get things done often like very simple tools which stay out of the way. To each their own though, and I'm sure the go creators would be very happy to see other languages used instead of go by those who prefer more features, more complexity, state of the art from 30 years ago, etc. I do find myself puzzled by the hostility it generates though - it is just a language, one of many, and about which some very ordinary claims are being made (easy to learn etc).
Regarding performance: it will get much better once browser have implemented http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-shadow-dom-20140617/. Shadow DOM is not easy to polyfill (especially because of some issues in how the browser's C++ objects were presented to JavaScript as prototypes.)

Regarding IE failures -- do you have any more information? All of the elements should be cross platform. It would be great to file these issues at https://github.com/Polymer, if you haven't already.
What other apps can we make client side only that traditionally require a server side component?
Are there specific implementation models or areas or systems programming that favor (or have come to use more exclusively) Rust or Erlang?
Spectacular Sports Visualisations
No, I'm saying awareness of the actual causes of computer issues like Cryptolocker can be very helpful in preventing such infections.

No one in the general public is going to know how to protect against "hackers". "Don't open attachments if you aren't expecting them from someone" is actionable advice.
Demo Framework: A distribution pretty much guaranteed to blow their minds
Are all YC founders' usernames orange?

Wouldn't that have the same effect as a voting ring?
1. If you Sign Up and click "Get Feedback" on the designer's profile page, you will see some notes the designer left about his pricing. Then you put together the materials needed for the feedback request (images/notes) and offer a price based on the designer's guidelines. If the designer accepts your request, you'll get charged once the designer delivers the feedback.

2. You should agree on that with the designer when you are requesting the feedback.

3. It really depends on the designer. Some people might tweak your designs on Photoshop/Illustrator, others might send you hand drawn mockups or just notes. Our designers have been curated by the community, based on the quality of their previous work and so you should expect insightful feedback. Also if you're looking for something specific, like Photoshop edits for instance, you should mention that when requesting the feedback.
> For me the RYB model just seems more intuitive. It just feels natural that green would be a bluish-yellow. It still seems odd that red and green can be combined at all, much less produce a pure yellow.

But that's just what the CMY(K) model says. The CMY(K) model is the meaningful one in everyday life. In actual reality, with human eyes observing physical light filtered by pigments, blue is just cyan with a little magenta in it, and red is just magenta with a little yellow in it. The truth is, in the real world, you will never be able to make cyan or magenta if all you have is yellow, red and blue paint. But you will be able to make red or blue if you have yellow, magenta and cyan paint.

I think this might just be a case of people insisting to use less precise but more familiar names for colours, maybe. Maybe in English "cyan" and "magenta" sound like strange colours while blue and red sound more familiar and comforting. But insisting on using blue instead of cyan actually restricts your ability to draw colours.
Start with the online tutorials. They are vastly better now than when Android first shipped.

If you have no Java experience, but have some OO programming experience, start with Eckel's Thinking In Java, and keep that handy as you do the tutorials.
The bulk of the document is written in LaTeX, and it is possible that they used the listings package to write the code samples. See section 2.10 of The Listings Package document for variable column code samples. In more regular code snippets, the results can be very nice. http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l...