skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Branch Metrics, Palo Alto, CA. We are an early-stage VC-backed startup helping apps grow their user base organically. We've developed a neat set of techniques and technologies to help apps grow in ways that were impossible before!

We're a small, very high-growth company, with an exciting place in the market and an amazing team. You'd play a vital role in the success and growth of our company, would have ownership over a large part of the business, and would be part of a small, fast-growing team in a huge market. We're at a point now where we have tons of customer demand and not enough features to satisfy them!

Our stack:

- Servers in Node.js, backed by Postgres
- Deployment on AWS with Docker and Ansible
- iOS SDK in Objective-C and Android SDK in Java

Our team: 2 coders, 1 sales/operations, 1 sales/design

What we're looking for:

- Great frontend or backend developers – particularly, JavaScript ninjas!
- self-directed, good communicator
- full-time employee willing to work out of our Palo Alto office

What you get:

- competitive salary
- serious equity
- health
- lunch
- open vacation
- the opportunity to be in the ground floor of a rocket ship – to have a meaningful impact on the business, to work closely with the whole team, and to help us grow to an amazing place, together

If you're interested, I'd love to talk - dmitri@branchmetrics.io.
>>> Meanwhile large corporations have increased power and influence acquire/stifle competition.

Actually most large corporations tend to shrink in poor economic times. They also tend to lay more people off, reduce spending and hiring and hunker down to weather to storm. I could post a dozen stories about company layoffs over the past 5 years. Many small and medium sized companies who have smaller workforces, will simply go under.

Target laid of 1,100 employees in January
Cargill laid off 900 employees in March of this year
Microsoft just announced it would lay off 14% of its employees in July
Intel laid off 1,500 employees in April of this year

When the economy is poor, people don't get poor and corporations get rich. It simply doesn't work like that.
Please Stop Saving Me A Click
In git, a cherry pick essentially just looks at the diff specified by that revision, then applies that diff as a new commit. The system doesn't record the context (unlike with a merge where you at least know the parents).

darcs system is way too complicated to get into in a short comment reply, but the basic idea is that if you cherry-pick a commit you get all the context along with it. That's because darcs stores a series of patches rather than a series of tree states.

One nice thing about git's way is that since it's just pulling a diff, you can cherry-pick from anything, (e.g. add a remote that's a totally separate unrelated project) as long as the diff applies cleanly.
Thanks for taking the time to share your story; it's inspirational. I used to do things like what you did -- just approach people out of nowhere and offer to work for free, I guess I've lost that drive as I've gotten a bit older.

Since I'm currently self-employed, but business is a bit slow atm, I may be in a position to do something like that. I've been building sites, scripts, mysql dbs etc on an amateur level since I was 15, so I think I could pick up this stuff quickly.

I will take you up on the offer and email (is it username @gmail?) you as I could definitely use some guidance from someone who's been there. First I'll be doing more research to get caught up so as not to waste your time. Thanks!
For the Canadian startup scene, this is rather sad news.

GoInstant was started by Jevon MacDonald. Before starting the company, he ran a popular Canadian blog called Startup North.

The team, I believe, was still based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I wonder if they'll relocate now?
Tandem looks interesting.

However a cursory look at the source reveals that it actually uses the diff-match-patch technique and not OT, which is fine for plaintext, but ultimately a bad choice for Quill...

To be fair, I have not investigated the implementation more.
SEEKING WORK - Boston/Cambridge MA or Remote

We're a full-stack Ruby on Rails consultancy based in Cambridge MA in Inman Square.

Tech:

Ruby, Rails

jQuery, Javascript, HTML and CSS

Git for version control

Minitest or RSpec for testing

Deployment using Chef, Puppet, Capistrano

Payment integration with Paypal, Stripe, Balanced and others

We've experience with API integration from a variety of sources, and specifically lots of experience with building eCommerce platforms with physical inventory fulfillment and/or digital downloads.

Website: http://www.lachmann-tech.com

Please contact erika.angeles at lachmann-tech dot com
Where do you work now that you're not at-will? In the US, the vast majority of software/tech jobs are at-will; the exceptions are unionized shops (not common in tech) and people who have personal contracts (also not common except for senior executives). So presumably you're not in the USA?

Here's the questions I think you should ask yourself:

1. How likely am I to lose the new job? Is the employer stable (both financially and also in the sense of making rational decisions)? And related: how much more stable is your current job, really?

2. If I were to lose the new job, how hard will it be to find another one, and how similar/appealing will the new job be? If you're in a hot market and getting constant recruiter outreach, or if your current company would be happy to have you come back, then risk is low.

In addition, of course, you should balance the full package of alternatives; not just salary, but also career direction, personal growth, happiness, etc.
a new spy algorithm is going up
This makes me think it'd be handy to embed git into a desktop application and use it as the datastore. But I suppose the GPL prevents this unless the app is open source.
Location: Vancouver, WA

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes, but not to Cali

Technologies: Ruby/Rails & associated, primarily. *SQL, &c. Have probably played with some of everything. Backend preference but can do front-end. Interested in doing more mobile but don't currently have much experience with it.

Resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2177102/resume.pdf

Email: victor@luft.io

GH: @victorluft
Location: San Francisco
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JQuery, HTML/CSS, all sysadmin
Resume: http://www.many9s.com
Email: eric+hn@many9s.com
☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - Web developer (mainly Go)

☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - Objective-C/Swift developer

☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - .Net developer

Splice.com : we treat music like source code. Platform for music creators to backup, collaborate and distribute their music. We interface directly with the DAWs and track music like source code (version control for session files and dependencies, analysis etc..)
VC backed by USV, True Ventures and others.

We care about changing the way music is made, shared and discovered. From an engineering perspective we care about code quality, architecture decisions made at the team level and self improvement. We are looking for great engineers, not language specialists so don't worry if you don't know Go for instance.

Our recently started engineering blog: https://blog.splice.com/category/engineering/

Our perspective on finding the right job:
http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at...
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

Location: Northeast Ohio.

PHP Full Stack developer. I really don't want to write a full resume out here. I'll do/ learn anything. Currently working (salary, full benefits) for a large state university where I develop their Drupal CMS, manage the codebase, interface with clients, etc. I also do work for a private company that does affiliate marketing.

I need a job that will better my career, as I fear stagnation in my current environment.

I'm familiar with API's, third party service integration, cloud setup, data migration. Is there a general catch all term for "I do web stuff"? I haven't encountered anything in my wheel house that takes more than 3-4 days to figure out. Most recent was working on an HMAC API in Symfony2 for an Angular frontend.

Buzzwords: PHP, HTML5, CSS, SASS, LESS, JS, Drupal 7, Angular, Yii, Symfony2, Yii2, Postgres, MySQL, Apache, Git, SVN

Lesser Buzzwords: Grails, Objective C (iOS), Java (Android), PhantomJS
The company I work for still uses an AS/400. I hate it.
Which is fixed with a name change.
Location: Baltimore, MD

Remote: I'd prefer to work onsite, but I've done remote before

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript (Angular, JQuery), PHP, *nix administration, database administration (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo)

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VnSX6VHpsPASjrwwyxA_PFtw...

Github: https://github.com/john-sparwasser

I love new technologies and learning new things.
"Again" seems to be a quite loaded headline. I don't use facebook, is this a common occurence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAVY6-zQXoM
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (South Bay preferred)

Remote: Local or remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JS/jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, iOS/Objective C

Resume: http://www.hire.gs

Email: gabe [at] hire [dot] gs

I'm a web developer with 7+ years of professional experience. I love to be challenged with a problem and be given the opportunity to design and build the solution. While my main expertise is in front and backend web development, I've also been building iOS apps for the last 9 months. I'm good at quickly grasping new technologies or languages and using them to come up with creative solutions to business problems. I'm currently employed, but I'm open to new opportunities, networking, or fun side projects.
Show HN: Pick a movie you like and discover others  semantically
Looks like it's back up, we can all be social again.
Location: Netherlands, near Zwolle
Remote: Possible
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Common Lisp, Web (including PHP and WordPress), Java. Basic knowledge of a bunch more. On the list of things to learn are things like Haskell, Erlang and OCaml.
Resume: --
Email: i+hn@joram.io

I'm a student currently inbetween my first and second year, strongly doubting whether or not I should continue or if finding a job is a better option. (I strongly prefer learning things myself and am not too fond of the direction of the program.)
teach me master.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Ok

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Objective-C, reverse engineering

Resume: Available upon request

Email: enzo.matsumiya at gmail

--

Great interest for low-level stuff (drivers, kernel, asm, etc) be it development, debugging or disassembling. I'm also an infosec enthusiast.
>Try to bring same argument with just people [...] laying laminate floor.

Sure, lets. But before we do, let's see what the average pay is for a floor layer [1]: the median annual wage is 35k.

Floor layers aren't professional laborers - and they sure as hell aren't paid like they are!

How about a tile setter? That requires some more skill, right? 37k[2].

So what's your argument again?

[1]: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472042.htm
[2]: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472044.htm
Location: Austin, Tx

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: R, SPSS, C, C++, Perl, MATLAB, familiarity with Python and SQL

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jbow0iti7t8no6j/GRaoResume.pdf

Email: raog at utexas edu

I have PhD in psychology (speech perception) and a BSc in computer engineering.

Stats are my jam yo. I am particularly interested in probabalistic and non-parametric approaches.
All things considered, it's remarkably rare that the general consumer facing parts are down.

Developer APIs are something else.
Out of curiosity, what sort of things would bring down a site as big as Facebook like this? I'm sure they have many checks, balances, and methods of ensuring a code change wouldn't impact the site (to this extent) - and they are distributed across many data-centers, so I wouldn't think that would cause it to go down.
Famo.us | Full Time | SoMa, San Francisco | Hiring for Engineers & Marketing Community Manager

https://jobs.lever.co/famo.us?lever-source=hackernews

www.famo.us

We are reinventing web apps from first principles.

Front-end: if physics, UI, 3D modeling is your thing, give us a look.

Back-end: if tooling, performance testing, CI and code releasing, distribution is your thing, give us a look.
Jos Stam has an excellent selection of papers related to modeling fluids for graphics:

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pub....
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Remote: Remote or on site

Willing to relocate: Yes (preferred)

Technologies: iOS, Objective-c, Swift, Ruby on Rails, Android, Java

Resume: I've been freelancing for the last 5 years. You can see some of my portfolio at http://www.hotrodsoftware.com but if you'd like more info please get in touch as I'm working on getting a full portfolio online still.

Email: kieran at hotrodsoftware.com
This is one of these very simple yet useful ideas. It's much more likely my subscribers will respond to one question by clicking than by having to reply my email.
Location: Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: Australia, New Zealand, Parts of Asia, West Coast US

Technologies: Python, Clojure/Clojurescript, JS(clientside), *nix, MongoDB, SQL, Redis, Hadoop/Pig, HTML/CSS

Resume: Available on Request

Email: BrianEatWorld@gmail.com

In addition to dev work, I have a strong background in Economics and Data Analysis. I am looking to get further into development, preferably Clojure/Clojurescript, but more than happy to leverage my other talents if valuable. I have a thing for Windows Phone Development, so it'd be awesome if you have projects in that space.
Such a simple yet awesome solution. I'd love to see A/B stats on response rate because it looks like you would get a hefty increase.
Game Scrypt - Software/Crypto/Math Experts - Berkeley, CA

Contact andrewljohnson@gmail.com

We are building the future of P2P games, using a new cryptocurrency. Looking for both co-founders and employees. We have an insanely good team (ex-NSA, Google math nerds and programmers), and we've been at it about a month. Everybody on the team believes we're building something very special.

We have early angel investments, a compelling demo, and a very active GitHub repo.
Apple appears to have built its own content-delivery network
Colors – A nicer color palette for the web
SEEKING WORK/ FREELANCE - Remote
I am a Python/Django developer with 3 years of experience. Interested in application development, Web Technologies, Open Source Software.

Blog: kannan4k.wordpress.com
Twitter: twitter.com/kannan4k
LinkedIn: in.linkedin.com/in/kannanponnusamy/
Email: kannan4k@gmail.com

Technical Skills:
Programming Languages: Python, Jython, Java
Framework: Django
Cloud : Openstack
Why when I ask someone to help with simple case they still charge me like they are working on high pressure gas pipe?
I don't know if i'm getting downvoted because I haven't posted the source for the info or something else, but here is the link to an interview:
http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/07/22/rkn/

You'll have to google translate it, which is the reason I haven't included it to begin with.
Understory - http://www.understoryweather.com - Boston, MA

About Us:

Understory isn't your typical company using an agile social-based platform that mobilizes advertising with real-time commercial insight -- wait, actually, we aren't a advertising company at all. Understory builds weather grids that create real data and use it to provide analytics to enterprise companies so that they can see how to respond to severe weather disasters. And maybe, just maybe, help humanity along the way with better thunderstorm, hail, and tornado predictions.

Understory currently is a team of five people and, with our recent funding of $1.9 million, we are adding some new members to the team. Our team works hard, but also takes time to let off steam -- playing board games, heading to the local climbing gym (company provided membership), and having a beer around the Understory kegerator.

Our team is excited as we are currently deploying weather stations out in the field and receiving our first datasets, come join us on the ground floor of building a completely new data set and platform that has a huge impact on everyday life!

If that sounds like something you are interested in, check out our positions!

* Back End Engineer * Data Scientist *

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Back End Engineer

Blend open-source technology with proprietary hardware to deliver real time data to customers quickly and efficiently. Build the robust interface between the weather stations and the web so that not a single data point is lost. Be on the ground floor of Understory - as we are building out our software team and make the technology choices that will be the structure for our platform. Work with our data science team to implement algorithms that predict thunderstorms and their outcomes.

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Data Scientist

Use statistical, signal processing, and machine learning techniques with our proprietary sensor data to help solve the current data sparsity problem. Use findings from our local grids to improve the picture of nation-wide weather effects. Explore the business opportunities for such high density data in the current market of sparse data. Join the team that will revolutionize weather data.

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If you are still interested after reading all of that and think you would be a great fit for Understory, please see the full job descriptions at http://understory.theresumator.com/ or email me for more information at info(at)understoryweather(dot)com.
Two Sigma - NYC - Front-end dev

I lead the UX team at Two Sigma. Currently, we're three people with diverse backgrounds (engineering, HCI, humanities) who have come together to take on the challenge of making every interaction with Two Sigma software more fun and productive.

We're looking for talented front-end developers with an eye for design to help us out on the exciting road ahead of us.

jeff.hendy (at) twosigma.com
I am a recovering software developer that had a terribly failed startup. We raised venture capital, had angel investors, and just totally blew it. I'm 29 at this point, was 27 then. I had to let go of a team of developers, maybe 3 of them, they had family, it was heartbreaking. I still talk to most of them. I went through a really dark period.

Few months later, we still hadn't raised any money to keep things going and I find out my wife and I are expecting. I basically say, 'Fuck it', I need a real job. So I apply anywhere that would even possibly want me, and I end up interviewing at a Mechanical Contractor as a Project Assistant. Just pushing paper for Plumbing and HVAC jobs.

Two years later, I'm running my own jobs, and working directly with union pipefitters and sheetmetal guys. Here's my advice.

Join the union in their apprentice program. You'll be paid well to start with - you definitely, definitely won't starve. You might not be making $150 per hour, but you might make $30 per hour all week long, plus the opportunity for overtime. It'll take a few years, but you'll end up becoming a Journeyman, and that means more like $40-$50 per hour, all week long, with overtime potential, incredible benefits, and more. Working for an established mechanical contractor will help you get more steady paychecks and if you're good, you'll end up becoming a foreman running larger jobs. The foreman that managed the last project I was on - it was a $2M job - made $65 per hour, plus opportunities for overtime and doubletime.

It's dirty work. You'll be so tired you won't have time for coding like you used to.
http://isitup.org/facebook.com

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

http://is-it-down.com/
just use http://beta.facebook.com ...
I found that when I went to Yakushima I saw a lot more of the things you see in anime (even just stuff like the shapes of the buses) compared to Tokyo. I suspect that just like with novels or movies, a lot of the time creators set things in the world they grew up in as kids, so the world you see through media is the world as it was 20 years ago rather than now. Tokyo changes rapidly, whereas the countryside is similar to how it was.

Is the anime-fan subculture really looked down on in the US? Here in Europe it seems to be growing a lot, part of a general status upgrade for "nerdy" interests.
MedTech Exchange - Atlanta, GA
We are a new company who is looking to eliminate the inefficiencies in implant surgeries. Help us make medicine better.
We are looking for a talented front-end developer with experience in:

* Bootstrap

* jQuery

* Less/CSS/Object-Oriented CSS

* HTML5

* Responsive design

* Understanding of UX principles and best practices

* Angular.js

* Single-page Application Development/Design

We are also looking for a back-end or full-stack developer with experience in:

* Play Framework (Java/Scala)

* MySQL

* REST

* Object-Oriented Development/Design

* RabbitMQ (or other message queueing technologies)

* Automated Testing

* Linux Administration

Join us and have the opportunity to design and implement the look and feel of software than can disrupt the medical industry. Interested? hiring@medtechexchange.com
The linguistics behind the climate change debate
The barges being focused on Google Glass was just a rumor wasn't it?

They could be demoing all Google projects and ventures. Robots, 3D mapping phones, Project Loom, etc.
I wonder who's pet project this was and if there were any consequences inside the company for its failure.

It really did seem like a dumb idea from the beginning. I had a hard time seeing myself take the time to go to a pier to get on a floating flagship store. Even in SF where the port is integrated with the city I couldn't see myself doing it.
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co. Graduates welcome.
The Dream Is Dead. Google Sold Its Barge
Location: Hyderabad,India

Remote: No

Willing to relocate:Yes

Technologies: Django,Git,C#,Xamarin.OSX,Spring MVC

Resume: http://in.linkedin.com/pub/rashid-khan/4b/b64/542

Email: rashood.khan@gmail || rashid@imrashid.com
Canonical - Ubuntu - London, UK

We are hiring a London based Front End dev/prototyper to work on Ubuntu mobile platform in our London office. Strong JavaScript/HTML/CSS and ideally QML/Qt skills.

* Works within a team to collaborate in the design and delivery of prototypes
* Implement prototypes based on wireframes
* Rapidly iterate design changes
* Design animations and transitions in collaboration with the team to support the prototype
* Work with research to ensure prototypes are testable and instrumented accordingly
* Prototyper will work on a number of platforms including HTML 5 and QML (QML experience desired but not essential, will train)

Please email me at jouni.helminen@canonical.com
IMS Health (Tech & Apps) - Seattle, WA

We're building a global, secure healthcare PaaS using modern technology (Docker, Kafka, Redshift, etc) to enable applications which put our petabytes of unique healthcare data into action.

Looking for pragmatic hackers at various experience levels who are interested in solving hard problems in an entrepreneurial environment. Specific background isn't important, but some exposure to "big data" type things and building service oriented things with modern functional hybrid technologies (C#, Clojure, Scala, etc) is helpful.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/63900/platform-softwar...