skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHP/Back end or Front-End Developer INTERN - Washington DC

The agency I work for, Engage (http://enga.ge), is looking for fall developer interns. We do everything from WordPress sites to our own products to custom web and mobile apps, and most of our work relates to politics/issue advocacy. We're particularly passionate about Internet issues (anti-SOPA advocacy was a big pro bono project for us). Right now we're gearing up to launch a new product so it's a pretty exciting time. Check out our portfolio here: http://enga.ge/work/.

Anyway, we are looking for a college student with back or front-end talent (PHP/MySQL or Javascript/HTML/CSS). Must be in the DC area or willing to relocate; foreigners welcome as long as you can secure a visa on your own (usually J-1 or F-1).

Also, note that we treat our interns well and hire them. In fact, one of our current developers used to intern here, as did I. And, management doesn't really care if you have side projects, which is always nice.

To apply, please send me an email directly to michele@engagedc.com with the subject "Developer intern from Hacker News" (I'm the technical project manager). Include your resume, GitHub/portfolio link and a brief description of why you want to work with us. Hope to hear from you!
Riot Games - Full-time in Los Angeles / St. Louis / Points elsewhere globally

Riot Games, developer and publisher of League of Legends, is looking for highly accomplished engineers passionate about the technology that excites and engages millions of players globally. Our opportunities run the gamut of Game Development, Big Data, eSports, Merchandise, Live Service Development and Corporate IT Systems. With 27 million players daily, we face cutting edge technical challenges at scale. Consequently, we’re an engineering organization that values “T-shaped” engineers. We are expected to make pragmatic decisions about the best tool for the job, thus a broad exposure to many languages and tools is vital.

Excited to improve the game engine behind today’s largest PC game? Interested in crafting the future of infrastructure as a service? Curious about the role of open source in the video game industry? Thrilled to participate in and cultivate a global engineering organization? We are. If this sounds like you, check out the careers section on the Riot Games website or apply directly:

http://boards.greenhouse.io/riotgames/jobs/10838#.U7Mi8Y1dWH...

Ok, corporate speak aside, League of Legends offers a pretty amazing and rare intersection of core video gaming and cutting edge, large scale, interesting tech problems. For those of us engineers who are gamers in our heart, this is a chance to work on something you’re truly passionate about. I feel quite lucky to work at Riot and am excited to have other other gamers join us in building games by players and for players. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up directly on Twitter or LinkedIn.

https://twitter.com/jaaronfarr https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaaronfarr
I guess not, since people decided to upvote!

Personally my favorite part is the logical the tie-in to Ansible, which I want to expand upon in a near-future edition.
An HTTP Resource is a lot simpler than you might think
Came here to say this -- thought, I wonder how much our view of the homeless in America is skewed by the "visible homeless" we see, day to day, living on the streets.

Anecdotally, an overwhelming number of the "visible homeless" in America have mental illness or at least behave in a unemployable manner.

I imagine there is another (larger?) slice of homeless that live in shelters/elsewhere and are less obvious and could function "normally" in society given the means.
I have the pleasure of being on the receiving end of a lot of feedback for SaaS and other web development projects, and one piece of feedback we constantly we receive is how much more signups / logins my customers see from adding social sharing buttons.

On a personal level, I use social sharing sign up and login buttons almost 80% of the time in place of regular buttons, and am very OK with doing that from a security perspective personally.
The interesting thing watching him play is that you attribute most of his game play to speed and balance due to his low center of gravity. I never thought he was that accurate because his motion when shooting doesn't seem very elegant.

I take that back after seeing this data!
SAN FRANCISCO - SR. ANDROID ENGINEER - WEARABLE INTELLIGENCE

We’re looking for a capable, curious and smart Senior Android Engineer to join our team. You’re a tinkerer and an aesthete, and you like to write code that gives mobile and wearable devices magic abilities. You have a passion for building great products that are robust and enjoyable, and you’re interested in stretching the boundaries of what’s possible on wearable hardware.

As one of our early senior team members, you’ll work directly with our co-founders team to develop software for wearable devices -- from our product suite to core framework components -- and help us ensure optimal performance for our clients. We’re growing, and we’d be thrilled for you to grow your career with us, be it into a team lead, manager, or architect.

http://wearableintelligence.com/

APPLY VIA:
http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/757
Right. Many Americans that have never been poor or spent any time with poor people have strong moralistic assumptions about poor people due to decades of anti-welfare political propaganda.
I've had similar experience with Prime shipped packages, and it's quite disappointing. I finally canceled my membership after their price hike to start a music service I'll never use.
It's actually more so we don't get into unnecessarily acrimonious arguments with one another.
Control systems engineer in the mining industry. Working on new technology development for mobile machine automation and other things.

Fairly outside the normal HN crowd but I like to keep in sync with the wider tech world.
Funny enough, I trust the same thing of the food I eat when I'm visiting countries with no FDA equivalent. It's almost as if the market disincentivizes selling bad food.
He was a sight to behold. At least 5 kilos overweight (as a professional football player!) and he could dash in front of defenders in front of him. I saw him 2-3 meters behind a defender during a 10-15 meter sprint where he ended 2-3 meters in front of the defender at the end.

Really explosive!
No worries, it wasn't a complaint as much as a PSA for the fairly large percentage that still uses Snow Leopard.

> That is like complaining that something doesn't run on Windows 2000.

Ha,I wouldn't go that far. Macs running Snow Leopard still account for around a whopping 25 percent of active Macs.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac-os-x/23622/why-mac-users-...

All my Macs are capable of running Mavericks, but one of my MacBook Pros that I use most often still runs Snow Leopard (most of the time) because its version of Exposé is superior to Mission Control and Quick Look (aside from URLS) has vastly superior compatibility with nearly all video codecs I throw at it with Perian running in the background. Apple killed that for newer OS versions and no one has made a workaround yet.

I've also found that Apple decided to degrade things like Safari in the Mavericks update as well. For example, Safari lost it's separate window download manager which is I use very often to monitor download speeds, drag and drop files, urls to, etc. that doesn't work at all or isn't practical with Apple's downgrade. And, Safari 5.1.10 and Snow Leopard is very fast. I see very little difference and even some advantages to 10.6.8 in speed here and there to this day compared to Mavs 10.9.3.

Apple also got downgraded the Activity Window in the versions of Safari that run on Mavericks as well which I use all the time to easily root out video downloads and snag them for offline usage that many of the video download extensions and apps miss.

But the overall main thing I can't stand is the horrible downgrade of Quick Look. I use Quick Look as much as I breathe and for Apple to eliminate its compatibility with so many codecs in one broad swoop makes the advantages of Mavericks not worth it for me. If someone can get Maverick's Quick Look fixed to work with Quick Look extensions and have it be on par with Snow Leopard, I'm more apt to move away from SL.

Theres other things I can do in Snow Leopard that others simply cannot do in Mavericks as well, but I covered some of the main points. And, yes, I take extra steps to secure my machine since there are security issues using older versions of apps and OS.
Damn it now xycombinator.com is out of date.
Android L release offers 36% more battery life
> the real color wheel below, in all of its glory, showing colors you will never see on a rainbow produced in nature.

Magenta? sure, everyone agrees is a bastard color- but cyan is on the rainbow in the spot labeled 'blue', and _your_ blue is labeled 'indigo'.

CAN'T PROVE ME WRONG IMMA COLOR EXPERT
"religious insights" he says ...

"religious delusion" I'd say.

IMHO, thinking that science and religion would not be in conflict is just an even worse level of delusion.
I thought it was a good collection of historic developments -- military involvement and spending, the history of the Internet, the history of (domestic) surveillance, the revolving door between government and corporations, somewhat obliquely advertising and changes in the financial system -- but it could have done a better job tying it together.

I already knew most of history and would have preferred to read a much more thorough treatment of the parallels and/or relationships between these topics and agents.
Job listings are the only promoted content. They're distinguished by the lack of vote arrows.
Great to see a cricket comment.

I wonder how he would've fared against the present day Akhtars, Akhrams, Donalds, Steyns, Warnes or Muralitharans.

Would older greats have stood out as much faced with the technological and biological advances of the present day?
Oh yes, you're right, on the browser. On the server there's absolutely no need for Node.js.
You might be waiting a while. Last I heard, they were delayed due to delays in Intel's next generation chip production:

http://techreport.com/news/26041/rumor-intel-broadwell-proce...
As of now, no.. I am working on a project to simplify FB birthday wishes and almost half way there..

Github prof - https://github.com/avinoth
I type it all when I come to a browser I've never used before ... and then it's always a few seconds of "wait, what was the domain again? was it .net or .com or .org?"

Yep, usually "new" is all I get before it's near the top of the list. Sometimes I even use the "bookmarks" menu, but that's pretty rare.
SF - DATABASE SUPPORT ENGINEER & SOFTWARE ENGINEER - MONGOLAB - FULL TIME

Database Support Engineer

We are looking for a Database Support Engineer to join our support engineering team to focus on ensuring each database in our fleet of over 100,000 is fast and scaling properly.

In this role you will work on challenging performance-tuning cases and will support our users by learning the way their applications are using MongoDB in order to make indexing, data modeling, and/or platform sizing and configuration recommendations.

As you advance, you will have opportunities to automate and productize performance diagnostic techniques and best-practices. Check out our open-source tool Dex, which can automatically recommend the correct indexes for slow queries.

In this role, you’ll be exposed to every major cloud provider and infrastructure technology. We currently run on Amazon, Google Cloud Platform, Joyent, Rackspace, and Microsoft Azure and have integrated with all of the major Platform-as-a-Service providers (Heroku et al.).

In addition to checking out our website (https://mongolab.com/welcome/), you should look at our open-source tools (http://mongolab.org/) and our blog (http://blog.mongolab.com/).

APPLY VIA: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/745

Software Engineer

We are looking for a Software Engineer who will join us in scaling MongoLab from managing well over 100,000 databases to managing millions of databases at ever-increasing levels of complexity.

As our newest team member you’ll be exposed to every major cloud provider and infrastructure technology. We currently run on Amazon, Google Cloud Platform, Joyent, Rackspace, and Microsoft Azure and have integrated with all of the major Platform-as-a-Service providers (Heroku et al.).

You'll become an expert in MongoDB, cloud automation, and MongoLab's suite of automation tools (some of which we open-source), and you’ll use your passion for finding solutions with the best tools for problems developers face in our community.

We’re building these tools with Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB (of course).

APPLY VIA: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/744
They still use ECU, but I'm not sure it's comparable across generations of instances, e.g. an m3 with more ECU than an older m1 instance of similar size seems at times to be slower.
What do you think they should be?
The corollary of that argument is that it's also hard for statisticians to disentangle individual brilliance from being the focal point of a team whose other parts are also massively better than their average opponent.

Of course, you have to be a truly exceptional player for Barcelona to build their team around you for several years, but I still doubt Messi stats would stand out quite so far above other top European forwards if he'd been, say, a winger for 2010-14 Liverpool instead.

It would be interesting to see how well the statistical advantages for Messi and Ronaldo hold up in matches which are relatively even contests (internationals, late stage Champions League and El Clasico) as opposed to their clubs' routine thrashings of weaker La Liga teams. I'd expect the goals (and shooting efficiency) to remain high but some of the other advantages might not be quite so evident. The article does cover his goals and assists contribution for his recent World Cup performances, but that's one stat and an acknowledged small sample.
You can do:

Host hosta hostb hostc
HostName %h.mycompany.com
User usera

I believe this isn't a super-new feature -- every ssh version I've run into client-side in the last couple years has supported it.
There is also an aspect of overcoming obstacles. The article intensely focused on the point that these guys had to leave their families and travel hundreds, thousands of miles to become miners. By definition these were the guys with the psychological makeup to survive, thrive in changes and challenges. So now they're stuck underground, but the population is already self selected for to be the peak achievers of a "can do attitude" in their culture... These dudes are old school tough.

If you just picked a random collection of cubical dwellers out of an office, they would not be intensely self selected for toughness and psychological endurance like these guys... they would be toast in a scenario like that.

I won't pretend I've ever gone thru anything like these guys, but in my .mil reserves time a long time ago, you don't volunteer to join and go to basic training unless you self selected as the small segment of the population who can survive basic training. So no anxiety needed. If you couldn't hack it you wouldn't be here to begin with, and that calmness gives strength, sometimes unnatural strength, when you need it. This sucks; but I can do it, that is the mindset. But again, I emphasize these guys are both tougher and have gone thru far worse than I've ever seen, I only caught a taste of what their life is like.

This is the aspect that is sometimes not understood about personal growth thru suffering. Its not the suffering or the pain that is the point, or going thru the motions of a ritual. Its the toughness.

There is a startup aspect to this. Old lion says something like "do it and fail at it, you'll be better off having failed". New lion is all WTF. The intentional rational cultivation of toughness, that is the point the new lion might not get.
Product Management 101
IAC can what it likes but disclosing this while its own investigation is still in progress could lead to him getting a better result than he deserves ie he might say my employer did not follow the rules so I am claiming unfair dismissal and win compensation.

Incompetence or deliberate mistake?
Probably because it shouldn't matter. Labelling some of the Partners as 'Founders' would be akin to saying they're 'more equal' than the others. Besides that, everyone here probably knows who they are anyway (or can trivially find out).
I fail to see how it is T-Mobile's job to decide what services a user "really meant to subscribe to".

If I want horoscopes sent to me each morning and I'm willing to pay $9.99/month, it isn't T-Mobile's job to determine that I should be protected from myself.

That said, their website UI around billing is horrible.
I find it interesting that red and violet are almost an octave apart.
Not everything is as easy to port as strlcpy... Implementing a correct arc4random on Linux is quite non-trivial
I'm in favor of direct cash giving, I donate to GiveDirectly. I don't know much about homelessness in New York, but in San Francisco a large majority of people who experience homeless will do so in a temporary way. I'm in favor of direct cash giving to them too.

I'm more skeptical of the efficacy of cash for the chronically homeless, who often suffer from debilitating conditions like profound schizophrenia that intuitively one would think would need to be treated first. I say this with compassion, I live at the edge of the tenderloin and have a number of neighbors who are homeless and ill. That said, intuition is one thing and experimental results are another. I think it's an experiment that should be tried, and if a donor wants to do it I'm disappointed in an organization that would get in the way.
Your explanation helps, however, I'm starting to think FP is hard to understand due to my lack of programming experience. And this makes me wonder why would anyone in their right mind try to offer it as the first programming language to teenagers.

The different contexts you're describing look similar to the global/local variables with the same name. For example, I had this problem in C, where I defined a global var and wanted to modify it inside a function. Which failed, because a local var with the same name was created: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19214293/unable-to-modify...
So in this example, 'immutability' was precisely what I didn't want in my program.

Can you please provide a concrete example where this 'feature' is useful?

Also, you're saying "A mutable variable is an actual location in memory". What about the name of immutable variable in FP? How is it implemented? How/where its value is being stored?
Patreon. The crowdfunding site for ongoing projects.
San Francisco, CA.

Software Engineers: Full-stack, Mobile, DevOps

Yesterday we were featured in SFGate with pictures of the apartment we were working out of but, as of today, we have a beautiful new office on 9th Street, South of Mission.

A vibrant community of artists and musicians are already using the site and it continues to grow. We just closed our Series A round. We're in that moment of transition where the site has stopped being a project written by two enthusiastic roommates and becomes a real company. This means that there's a huge amount of work to do on every level of the stack. The existing site is written in PHP, but we've already started adding Node.js services to do the heavy-lifting for new features. As our third full-time engineer, you'd help us figure out the technology stack we use as we grow.

More information at http://www.patreon.com/jobs . Also, check out the talk our founder Jack Conte gave at XOXO Festival about the vision for the company at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9NjntTUJ1Q

and feel free to email me directly, jesse@
Thank you the point which all the down votes on my comment seemed to have missed! no wonder sv and start ups seem to have HR disasters every other day - they seem to lack even basic understanding of employment law and best practice.
> However, with this: I get how can be usefull for data directly in the code, but how this work with data that come from somwhere? If i feed a CSV with numbers, what happend when some is 0?

The same thing that happens in any language; have a validation layer which checks whether the incoming data is zero or not. If it is, then do something appropriate (eg. print an error and halt), if not then you can safely pass if to your non-zero function.

See http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blin...
> That little side note there makes no sense at all.

It makes a lot of sense if performance of Dart VM is about 1.5x or so faster. It is especially good for some of the math (or SIMD related things).

> You could remove all types from a TypeScript file and it'll probably run fine on any existing JS VM that supports ES6.

Right, so does Dart. So they are the same there.
I had an attempted break-in and the police (UK) did indeed dust for fingerprints - and they caught the guy.
What kind of job are you applying for?

If you were applying for a software development job, I would not. It's likely to be seen as a sign of an unhealthy ego.

Also if you're applying anywhere with a good reputation, most people that you're working with could also probably be in Mensa if they wanted to.
Similar thing in tennis with Federer and Nadal.

Nadal's stats on clay is incredible. He's lost just 11 matches and won 270 odd in the last 9 years.
That is very true, yes. And if you think the middle class like the lower class, talk to someone of the opposite political persuasion for awhile. The opposite party view will clear the mind of preconceptions and rationalizations which prevent seeing the same attitude in members of your own party.

(edited to add, and needless to say the example of middle vs lower doesn't mean any of the other classes like any other class very much)
There is some unparsed PHP in there:

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