skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recurly is the best Pay-as-you-Go recurring billing subscription platform. We have just taken up residence in a new expansive, 15K sq feet, office space in the heart of the mission, complete with the quintessential penthouse and rooftop deck. We are close to 1700 customers strong, with 62 employees (most of which is engineering), as well as approaching profitability (profit at a startup?!). Our team enjoys the typical startup perks: competitive salaries, equity, catering, full benefits, allocation for training/conferences, and the best development toys. Check us out at: http://recurly.com/ & https://github.com/recurly

Open positions:

>> Director of Operations
>> Sr Full Stack Engineer
>> Sr Data Engineer
>> Sr Platform Engineer
- Design/develop cutting-edge products utilizing Ruby/Rails, Python, JavaScript, Node.JS, HTML/CSS
- Focus on end-to-end development

Culture:

- We work collaboratively & enjoy working as a team.
- We are pragmatic, opinionated, and considerate.
- Commitment to completion. Ship it!

Hit us up, we'd love to chat! Reach out to brandi@recurly.com :-D
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: SF Bay Area, Seattle, Boulder
Technologies: Linux/FreeBSD sysadmin, OpenStack, Chef, Perl (read/write), Ruby (read/debug), Python (read/debug)
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scassiba
Email: hn@cassiba.com
Apologies! Resumes can be routed to abby.wilhelmi@answers.com.
Yea pretty much. I don't know if I'd be comfortable with other people reading my emails.
Location: Ptuj, Slovenia

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, definitely

Technologies: NodeJS, Javascript, AngularJS, PHP, Linux, Laravel, Docker, SQL, C#, CSS, HTML...

Resume: http://meznaric.net

Email: meznaric@outlook.com
SEEKING WORK - [Remote / Onsite] [USA] Will only work with USA based clients. Refer to my profile for contact information.

- Python, Django, Flask.

- PHP, Laravel, Wordpress.

- Objective-C, iOS.

- C++ (embedded)

- Javascript / HTML / CSS / Bootstrap / Jquery

- Nosql(MongoDB)

- SQL (PostgreSql, MySQL, SQLite)

3 reasons why you should consider me (send me an email):

1. Five years of experience as an independent consultant. It allows you to leverage my past experiences to form a competitive advantage.

2. Full stack experience and understanding. From server to client. APIs (REsTFUl or not), mobile-focused development, robotics, embedded, websites, Apache, Nginx, and more. A wide range of different technologies allows me to assist you in making the correct technical decisions for your project.

3. Open source contributor (I'm featured on the front page of http://dweet.io/ ).

Maintenance contracts are also available for those clients whose software is set on a particular version of Django (from 1.3 and forward). This allows you to keep your system secure and updated while keeping costs down.

I know a lot of people in the industry. Feel free to save my contact details. Get in touch if you need help with anything. I will gladly do my best to point you in the right direction.

PS. Email me for referrals from past clients.
First Stellar Gateway Online
SEEKING WORK

(cross posted from the 'who wants to be hired' thread, since I'm actually looking for contract work more than full time employment)

Location: Boulder, CO, USA

Remote: Yes

Technologies: java, javascript, php, pentaho kettle, sql, perl, bash, APIs (I know, not precisely a technology), varnish, cordova

Resume: http://www.mooreds.com/Dan-Moore-current-resume.pdf / https://www.linkedin.com/in/mooreds

Email: linkedin@mooreds.com

I've been developing on the web from the database all the way through HTML and CSS for over a decade. Only unix technologies (no .NET experience). I love solving business problems--one of my last projects at work was automating some key business infrastructure around invoices and accounting. I'm looking for contract work as I want some extra flexibility for my family.
If you pay any attention to Microsoft, their business practices, news, reports, blogs, etc... then you would know the parent comment is pretty much spot on.
I think you need to get out and start talking to girls. The way in which you speak/type is really immature. (Yes I saw your other comment that is now deleted from the article).
> the search engine agrees that the information is no longer relevant and the person is not in the public eye

Unless I am mistaken, there is no "agreement". This law functions like the DMCA: when Google gets a valid request, the must remove the specified results and fight the removal from this position, if they choose to.

> To compare that to Chinese oppression (you get shot in the head and your family gets a bill for the bullet) is perverse.

"Chinese oppression" is not an all-or-nothing thing. Comparing this to aspects of Chinese oppression may not be fair and may be calculated to provoke an emotional response, but it is not equivocating it to all the oppressive actions the Chinese regime is responsible for.
Different VCS is suited to different things. Perforce is great for gargantuan codebases with strong oversight requirements. Git is a poor choice if you check in lots of binaries. SVN is pretty widespread and supported natively by a lot of tools.
It's hilarious, if anyone else was caught infiltrating senate computers .. but the CIA f'n seriously they were trying to interfere with a torture investigation .. ridiculous where are the repercussions what country am I living in?
Mukesh Ambani: An unloved billionaire
Might be worth mentioning the use of Doppler shift of the known patterns of spectral lines associated with elements to get information about radial velocity of e.g. a star being observed.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l4_p7.html

Hyperfine splitting of spectral lines in hydrogen gas caused by the interaction between electron and neutron spin allows you to map the hydrogen in our local Galaxy.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/h21.html

As parent post says this is pretty standard astrophysics, just find any reasonable text in your local library. Or just Google 'astronomy .pdf' for a huge range of handbooks and presentations.
Thanks Astashov for the very comprehensive guide.
Answers - St. Louis or Mountain View (VISA) Mobile Android Developer
The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of the Android and Google Glass applications, the backend API systems and various supporting tools.

You will work closely with product and engineering management to satisfy user interface requirements, and work with QA to design tests and walkthroughs. The engineer will also work closely with the iOS team to provide consistent feature set and user experiences across different platforms.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement new features in our Android mobile app. Responsible for thorough testing of the Android app in different devices Contribute to business and marketing strategies towards the goal of million downloads in 2014. Contribute to the design of UX and UI in the Android app Contribute to the UX design and the technical implementations of the new Google Glass app. Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation Mentor junior engineers in company standards and development practices to help them become quality software developers Requirements:

3+ years programming experiences with Java 2+ year programming experience with Android Detailed understandings of the Android ecosystem and the challenges in testing. Proficient knowledge of the database technologies. MySQL preferred. Proficient knowledge of the LAMP stack development. BS in Computer Science

Preferred: 5+ years experiences in JAVA 3+ years experiences in Android 1+ year experience in LAMP development MS in Computer Science.

What's the gig: Develop the technology that powers 180+ million monthly unique visitors Collaborate within a team of fervent technology enthusiasts Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded Compensation:

Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)

Resumes/questions can be routed to abby.wilhelmi@answers.com.
SEEKING FREELANCER

Songspace (https://songspace.com) Nashville TN or remote

Songspace is building a new data management system and songwriting tool to power the next phase of the music industry. One part creative app for songwriters & artists (think Evernote) and one part content management system / API for labels and publishers, we utilize the creative process to aggregate assets and data (recordings, lyrics, and copyright ownership details, and music metadata) for music enterprises.

We're looking for designers for the following positions:

Web Designer

Android/iOS Designer

UI/UX Engineer

For more information visit https://songspace.com/open-positions-at-songspace or email chris@songspace.com
Downtown Palo Alto, CA

Complete is looking for a lead Android engineer.

We are a new, fully funded startup located in downtown Palo Alto. Our goal is to empower people to accomplish more by providing the motivation, information and connections needed to complete tasks.

You will be joining our founding team to lead the development of the Android product in a small, experienced, fast-paced team. Complete's technology stack is cutting edge, utilizing and supporting Open Source projects.

http://www.completeapp.com/

Requirements:

- Passionate about UI and UX

- Experienced in building consumer apps

- 4+ years of software development experience, 2+ years of Android development

- Deep understanding of Java and Android libraries

- Loves open source

- Ruby/Python/JavaScript

- BDD & TDD

Apply: join@completeapp.com
Right, the FBI doesn't like the competition.
1) You can file bug reports against .NET and they get fixed. (Typically very slowly, but that's enterprise vendors for you...)

2) The tools they used to find & fix the bug are all based on fully-specified, documented, and supported mechanisms: ildasm and ilasm are stock .NET tools, and ilspy is using Mono's IL decompiler/compiler library.

3) You can compile an app against your own builds of any of the standard libraries if you want (including mscorlib, with caveats) and run it, so a fix like this can be deployed and maintained as much as you like, even if it's not Great Engineering.

4) This hand-patched DLL wouldn't corrupt any other app on your system, and you can ship and version it yourself, so it wouldn't break as a result of a system-wide .NET hotfix or anything like that. .NET's fully-specified ABI also means that it will work across all supported platforms.

5) Mono is open source, so you could always ship against mono and mono's mscorlib (both open source, naturally) if you absolutely can't wait for a .NET bugfix to ship AND you're unwilling to patch the dll yourself.

People love to bitch about .NET, but it actually provides a really good ecosystem here. Very little of it is truly a black box, the spec is extremely readable and precise about the things it covers, IL disassembly is extremely readable, IL disassembly fed through a decompiler like ILspy/dotPeek is doubly readable, debugging is straightforward even without symbols, and recompilation/patching is trivial because everything is well-specified and there's a robust open source library for it. (Even if there wasn't a library, you could just use the standard ildasm/ilasm pair.)

Oh, and you can compile native no-kidding C/C++ to .NET targeting the same instruction set and get all the benefits of the above. If you want to.
NEW YORK CITY / SYSADMIN (FULL TIME) / FOG CREEK

Your application will be read by a real, live Systems Engineer.

Fog Creek Software is looking for experienced, unstoppable Systems Administrators. On our team, you'll work with top-notch developers and support engineers on the infrastructure behind our SaaS applications, FogBugz and Kiln On Demand. You'll build tools and automation that will run the environment while you sip lattes. You'll help tune the infrastructure and help plan for future growth.

HOW TO APPLY: http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/SystemAdministrator/
Wait, I get what you're saying (0.5mv^2), but isn't it relatively straightforward to get constant thrust from constant energy in other situations? Laser --> lightsail, for example.
XBMC Is Getting a New Name – Introducing Kodi 14
Location: near NYC

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: No, but will be moving into NYC soon.

Technologies: Various *nix, AWS, Apache, MySQL, SQLite, Python, Java, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, Git, Mercurial, Bash, Rsync, Cron, learning Android and Django

Resume: Available upon request.

Email: Contact me through my website: thekthuser.com/?page=contact

Interested in Full Stack, Back-end, Systems Administration, Android Development, General Software Engineering
29th St. Publishing (29.io) in New York City is looking for an Engineering Manager and a Senior Product Designer.

A little bit about us:

29th Street Publishing is building a mobile app platform that changes the way publishers produce, showcase, distribute, and monetize their work. Mobile app design is an always-evolving practice — we are constantly reinventing new ways to distribute and frame content, which requires deep collaboration across our design and engineering teams. At its best, our work disappears into the background and allows the publisher’s own content to shine.

More details can be found here: http://29.io/jobs
How come nobody in the media is calling this treason? We're talking about a government agency hacking and spying on the US Senate. This is like a Will Smith movie plot about the government "bad guys".

"Improper access"? Are you kidding me? I guess Manning was a fool for not "apologizing" for his "improper access". That would've definitely saved him.

What's worse is that even after Feinstein accused them of hacking and spying, they still did it afterwards [1]. And if they get away with it now, they will most definitely continue to do it.

[1] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140731/18065928080/cia-s...
It's fun compared to Obj-C
Not sure about driving but in college athletics they call the professional amateurs "student athletes", no (direct) promise of 10K a month though even if the schools get insanely rich off of it.
On the otherhand, when I was shopping for auto insurance I asked my Lyft driver what he pays and he says he has the state minimum and pays ~100$ / month.
"The committee has been working since 2009 on a comprehensive history of the agency’s antiterror program during the George W. Bush administration"

That makes it sound like the investigation is politically motivated, which I find disappointing. It seems highly likely that some of those practices continued under Obama, and if there's any hint of political leaning in an investigation like this then most people will just ignore it as more partisan bullshit.
Of course, a mission like the CIA's does not exactly lend itself to strong oversight.

The issues of which you speak, seem like inherent challenges to making effective yet responsible intelligence organizations, rather than just garden variety stupid choices.
Voxel8 - Boston/Cambridge MA - Sr. and Jr. Software Developers

Elevator Pitch:

Voxel8 is a startup company that is bringing novel materials to 3D printing. We will embed function into the typical shapes of 3D printing. Our materials, based on research by Harvard SEAS Professor Jennifer Lewis, allow us to print embedded conductors, wires, and batteries into the normal matrix materials of 3D printing.

We are looking for both senior and junior software developers to help us with a variety of tasks needed to get our hardware product to market.

We are currently working on a new slicer written in Julia. We use the Marlin firmware running on an Arduino to control our printer. We will need to develop mobile applications to communicate with and control the hardware. We also need to develop new CAD software to allow our users to design objects using our unique materials capabilities. This means we are looking for people interested in:

* 3D printing/3D Scanning

* Computation geometry

* Embedded systems

* Mobile development

* CAD Software (possiby Three.js/WebGL based)

* Closed loop control systems

* Python, Julia, Javascript, C, GL

Bonus points for people interested in software, hardware, and materials science.

If more than one of the above sounds interesting, please reach out to me! My email is jack@minardi.org
I felt like the first Avengers was a let-down and now I realize why. Joss Whedon is amazing and not someone you put the kinds of restrictions on that Marvel apparently does. I'm kind-of surprised he took the gig but I guess its success worked out for him, so that's good at least.
Indeed, and for those keeping an eye on the scene... an exploit for newest firmware 5.1.0 was just released a day ago or so. http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid...

Keep an eye on the work MrBean has been doing to MarioKart8 - http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBean35000vr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S4ZhmanOeM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbZXqxIV7I
Nimble Storage:
Essential Functions:

Influence the overall vision and direction of the product and provide valuable technical input.
Responsible for working on new initiatives and features in CASL file system, Protocols and Performance.
Work with the CTO, product management and architects to crystalize new product requirements.
Create architectural and functional specs and other design documentation.
Responsible for designing, coding, testing and debugging components in Nimble Storage’s data services group.
Work with other data services teams, QA, customer support and platform team to solve complex customer and release issues.
Provide guidance to management and participate in technical communication with customers.
Work collaboratively and guide other engineers.

Requirements:

BS in CS or EE required. MS degree preferred with at least 10 years of experience in software design and development
Must have very strong system programming background with C/C++ for large enterprise class software.
Must have proficiency with data structures, algorithms and multi-threaded programming
Must have in depth knowledge of OS internals.
Must be capable of debugging issues in multi-threaded and clustered environments.
Prior experience in leading one or more of the following areas is a huge plus:
Data-path on large and complex modules.
Distributed Systems, Clustering or HA
Memory management, Virtualization or De-duplication
Replication, QoS, Storage Protocols (iSCSI/SCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS).
Performance tuning and modeling
Use of Performance analysis tools e.g. Oprofile, gprof.
Experience in developing enterprise software products, passion for quality and excellent software engineering practices.
Experience providing technical leadership to small-medium size engineering teams is a plus.
Ability to write clear and articulate functional and design specifications
Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and take on a variety of roles as needed
Ability to convert vague project ideas into detailed high level and bottoms up effort estimates.

http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php
I would stay away from the lot. They are like bad Michael Bay movies with costumes.
Possibly the worst piece of allegedly humorous writing I've seen this year
Inside the Stressed-out, Time-crunched Patent Examiner Workforce
In situations like this, you can report the bug to Microsoft Connect:

1. Submit bug report.
2. Wait six months.
3. MS tech will post a comment, "this will be fixed in the next release".
4. Wait two more years.
5. Bug report will be closed as "won't fix".
I was careful to say "highway system", by which I meant the IHS. Yes, local governments fund local roads out of property and other local taxes, but a) Everyone depends on their own local roads, even if they never drive, walk or bike on them, not so mass transit b) Local gas taxes are hard to make work because it's possible and tempting for gas stations to locate in the lowest taxed locality.

Even so, your own link says 50% of state and local roads are funded with user fees. The IHS number is around 70%, even with 1/6 of the gas tax redirected to public transit. If you doubled the user fees and eliminated all other sources of funding, the IHS and the state/local road system would still thrive. Not so most public transit.
Hi there, I worked on retrieving and distilling this dataset at Sift Science. To address your concerns: Yes, time zones are accounted properly. And yes, the number of data points is significant.

As I've said earlier, you can see in the users count that fraudulent users are indeed the lowest at night (which makes sense, since fraudsters sleep as well). However, we are looking at the "fraud rate" (#fraud / all users in a given hour). I'm not sure what you even mean by "misrepresent" the data. The data speaks for itself.
"Already, sRGB’s FF0000 is quite definitely on the orange side of neutral (I tend to call the sRGB primaries “orangish red”, “yellowish green”, and “purplish blue” for clarity when trying to explain technical aspects of color to non-experts)."

I did wonder about that, especially when desaturating "pure" blue produced a kind of lilac, and when I got a cyan (rather than green) after-image from "pure" red.

Thanks for confirming.

Out of interest, where would you say neutral red, green and blue fall in the sRGB space (or are they out of gamut)?
Any chance you can share the source in a gist or something?
Kensho, Boston, MA (Cambridge): FULL TIME Software Engineers

Kensho is a small engineering team [0] in Harvard Sq. making financial analysis more accessible, intuitive and beautiful [1]. We primarily use AngularJS and Python, but that is just implementation detail.

Software Engineer (Site Reliability/SRE) | https://kensho.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk07nw/
Architect, scale and automate our site and computing infrastructure while watching out for bridges and hop-ons; you're gonna get some hop-ons [2]

Software Engineer | https://kensho.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk07n1/
Rapidly developing low level abstractions for distributed time series data is right in your wheelhouse.

A willingness to play bughouse and shoot zombies is a plus.

All of our openings: http://bit.ly/Hj4hJz

Matt

[0] http://kensho.com/#team
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/05/07/can-ken...
[2] http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/joke-15.html
I'm a huge fan of Objective-C - it's been around for ages (it actually predates Java) and it's design makes it enormously flexible. That said, it has it's problems: many people dislike the "brackets everywhere" syntax and it's compatibility with C constrains the compiler (you can actually write C in the middle of your Objective-C, move pointers around, etc.) In Objective-C, you can write code that looks fine at compile-time but still crashes the app, which is bad for us developers and bad for iOS as a platform.

Swift can be used to write first-class, native apps just like Objective-C and even used alongside Objective-C in the same project. It includes features borrowed from other modern languages (Rust, Go etc.), like generics, tuples and explicit optionals. Many of the features of Swift are designed to ensure that the compiler can catch issues at compile-time. It's much more difficult to write code that will crash a Swift app.

As a seasoned Objective-C developer I'll probably reminisce about the good old days when I swizzled methods and did all sorts of bad things, but it's a good move for the platform :-)
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35 Practical Steps Men Can Take To Support Feminism
Hey HN, I've built a solution for one of the many online privacy concerns: permanence of private data.

The more I used social media, the more I realized I only cared about the instant gratification aspects. Likes, reposts, replies, etc. Then I forgot about the post. If that was the case, why was all my stuff still online? Enter: Turtleseed.

I'm looking for 100 beta users who may feel the same way.