skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are interested in math in relation with programming, I really like blog at http://jeremykun.com

If you feel your math is too rusty to follow along, http://jeremykun.com/primers/ should get you started, and then just choose the topic in http://jeremykun.com/main-content/ ... or maybe the other way around :)
Location: San Francisco, CA (really San Ramon)

Remote: Onsite or Remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 14 years experience as a Linux admin / DevOps. Looking for my next challenge. Ubuntu / Redhat / CentOS / Puppet / Salt / Python / nginx / haproxy / security / pci compliance / automation / so much more!

Resume: http://zcentric.com/resume.pdf

Blog: http://zcentric.com

Github: https://github.com/mzupan

ServerFault: http://serverfault.com/users/23818/mike

Email: mike@zcentric.com
Location: Bangalore, India
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: computer vision, image processing, machine learning, general algorithms. Mainly C/C++, can also work with Matlab.

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/link2hemangshah

Email: hemang.j.shah@gmail.com

More than 9yrs of experience working on software research and development. Have co-founded a tech startup. Working as freelancers for a couple of years, but can take up full-time work either as freelancer or employee.

Looking for an opportunities where I get to work on problems bigger than what I can take up if I were on my own. Do connect with me on linkedin, or by email.
> so fraud is one natural hypothesis to consider

Why exactly is it 'natural' to speculate negatively using poorly formed logical conclusions? Those VCs that gave them money agreed to the valuation. Just because you disagree agree with it does not imply that there is fraud going on inside the company.
Having just read the story about the dentist who got into the dental software business ... who not turn plumber then write plumbing company management software? :)
I really have to rant about the idiocy of this law. For full disclosure, I am American.

They call it a "right to be forgotten," but guess what, I have a right to information (speech, press, etc.) that I think supercedes this supposed right which I've never heard of before this law. People need to learn to live with their mistakes and be more careful about their actions. If a person (to cite the specific example commonly mentioned) went into bankruptcy due to economic issues, poor investment or even 'bad luck' then that is a matter of legal proceedings and should be public record.

I can certainly understand things like nude photos, sex tapes, etc. but we already have legal means of dealing with those examples. Can someone convince me why this law is necessary and in the public interest?

Edit: Took out statement about Chinese censorship because people were attacking that rather than the substance of THIS law.
Plumbing can be hard work. Being on your back / knees for hours at a time day after will end up getting to you. Also, it sounds like your doing some of the more reasonably easy plumbing. Things are a bit more complex when you have to do things like figure out how to maximize water pressure after N different horrendous bend angles, etc. If you think of it in terms of software engineering, the plumbing you've probably done is probably through intermediate software work. You've set up some CRUD apps at this point (in the plumbing world). There's a reason plumbing is a trade and a craft...it can get very complex and the time they're charging to fix a trivial flush valve on a toilet could just as easily be spent on a commercial plumbing gig with some corporate client who is paying the plumber to set up every toilet in a small hotel (for example).
> So Linux 0.1 didn't really have any amazing contributions to computer science

That's a key point. Linus is not a Computer Scientist, he is a programmer. CSs advance the theory of computation. Progs make shit we can use.
I am still in my life phase where I enjoy creating software. But I enjoy creating something in general, so I might follow you advice later in my life.
I haven't but at a guess I'd say it's probably because Popcorn Time is a media app which makes it closer to any number of conventional HTML5 websites.

Whereas LightTable is an IDE, but the limitations of windowing and feature layout were showing heavily in it's interface. node-webkit to me, seems like it's good for a particular type of application interface, rather then something very general purpose.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto

Seeking short term contracts to supplement existing employment.

I am a human/machine interface developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx. I have considerable experience with Ruby and Javascript, years of experience with Rails, and extensive knowledge of client-side MVC.

I've made contributions to Ember.js, and have written multiple 10k+ LOC apps - starting with 0.9 up to the latest 1.6.1 (one was featured on Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/uniiverse-releases-direct-...). I am acutely aware of the challenges/strategies associated with migrating server side architecture into the browser, leaning down views, and fattening up controllers.

I am the author of an open source project called Quant (https://github.com/jdjkelly/quant) - a Rails API + Angular.js app to track "quantified self" data from every manufacturer willing to give it up. My work here was featured on The Verge alongside a similar project by the founder of Foursquare (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4392996/fitness-tracker-dat...)

Recently, I also contributed to the development of an iOS app, which is now in the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ticket-manager-by-uniiverse/.... I was responsible for integrating a credit card device reader with an existing checkout API, testing, and delivering a final build to the app store.

Languages and frameworks I've used: Ruby, Rails, Mongo, Postgres, Sinatra, Node.js, Objective-C, Javascript, Coffeescript, Sass, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3

Other tools in the box: Git, Zsh, pencils, pens, paper, Photoshop

Contact is in my profile.
Plumbers don't typically have multi-month gigs. Their overhead is way larger, which is reflected in their rate.
As an entertaining counterpoint, here's Kelsey Hightower's "Go for Sysadmins" from Gophercon where he repeatedly touts the "paste a link to your cross-compiled binary in an internal chatroom" benefits of Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41GffiXhN6I

I understand what you're saying and I'm a big fan of shell scripting myself, but dependency-free single-binary deployments are very, very convenient.

I upvoted this story because I find the topic interesting even though I don't really agree.
Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburbs) [REMOTE or ONSITE] - Will help with relocation to Philadelphia; also remote (Americas timezones preferred, must speak English)

Monetate helps digital marketers make their content more relevant. We turn data into action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM manipulation to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers. What we're looking for:

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here. We ship often (every two weeks), and iterate.

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - huge data sets, UX, 3rd party Javascript, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on.

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Open source - Google Closure, Python, AngularJS, Pandas, Redis, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical project teams are self-organizing and have full authority over (as well as responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Market rate salaries

* Funded by First Round Capital and OpenView

We've hired great people from HN before, and we're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.
Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ Send me a message if you have questions or want to apply: karl at monetate dot com
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Shutterstock - New York, San Francisco, Remote, Visa

We're hiring all sorts of software engineers and data scientists. We've got some pretty fun problems -- image search, video search, storage scalability, tons of behavioral data to mine -- and an awesome team. We prefer folks to work in one of our offices, but are always willing to consider remote superstars.

Take a peek at http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs
Sounds like people are consistently willing to pay money for Paint Colors; i.e., it provides real value to real people.

So why not focus on it?
Illustrating That Free Will is Impossible Using Ruby
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As our Marketing Lead, you will devise marketing strategies to grow and shape our brand. You’ll drive our brand visibility and own our communications efforts. You’ll run everything from press releases to industry events, taking charge of our growing presence in the mobile advertising industry.

The Perfect Candidate:

A clear and concise communicator.
Organized and proactive -- a strong prioritizer with an attention to detail.
Tackles tough questions with creativity and enthusiasm.
Strong writing skills and ability to create sparkling social media presence.
Creates inbound magic with dynamic, engaging content.
Comfortable working with product, engineering, and business development teams.
A bachelor’s degree, equivalent or upwards, is desired. Don’t let this hold you back if you have the skills/experience.
Bonus Points

Portfolio of superb marketing campaigns you’ve run and/or managed (developer marketing is a plus).
Existing knowledge of the mobile advertising and/or app ecosystem.
Rolodex of marketing tools to make your life efficient & our processes streamlined.
Figured out that Amazon’s 1-click patent could be circumvented if you do a “purchase on mouse hover”.
Requirements
Building relationships with the world’s largest app developers and advertisers
Working with the Business Development team to devise marketing best practices
Understanding our product inside and out
Creating and curating content for our communications channels
Gathering feedback about the product and how it can be improved
Building & managing our identity through press releases, blog posts, tweets and all relevant channels
Creating/practicing innovative and new marketing tactics
The Good Stuff

Intelligent, driven team members
Product-centric company
Learning environment where we encourage people to think from first principles and take the widest responsibility they can handle
Lunch everyday, Friday dinners, plus an abundance of customizable snacks and drinks
Awesome medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) and meaningful equity
24 Hour Fitness gym membership
Use the best hardware
Book/game budget
Exciting field trips for team bonding
Impromptu ping pong games
3D printer / maker culture
Hack days once a month
Sunny office in the Financial District of San Francisco
Company Description
Heyzap is changing the way we discover games, enabling game developers to grow and monetize their titles with Heyzap Ads. We work with thousands of mobile game studios, including the largest and most innovative game developers like King, Kabam, PocketGems and TinyCo.

Our office, in San Francisco’s Financial District, is in the middle of a new mobile gaming epicenter. We are backed by Union Square Ventures, Chris Dixon, Naval Ravikant, Ashton Kutcher and Qualcomm Ventures.
According to one of the reviews, it's the same book.
No, because your passion is not plumbing.

You seem frustrated monetarily, yet seem to enjoy your profession.

Honestly, find a new niche for your services and keep working hard and doing your best in your current field. As long as you are following your dream/passion the end always justifies the means.
Location: 1 hour from London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Node.js, PHP, MySQL (I'm happy to learn new technologies)

Resume: http://www.chrispattle.com#cv http://github.com/pattle

Email: chris.pattle@gmail.com
Answering this properly would require a nice mix of philosophy, economics, and a discussion of value. Not sure if I can even come up with a tldr (after I thought about it for a bit)
NGP VAN - Washington, DC - Engineering Director, Senior Developer

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and new media products available.

We are a rapidly growing company that built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the country distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools for labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and international political parties across the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the vast majority of Democratic candidates from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing new media platform has recently become the most-used platform by Democratic campaigns as well.

We have a several spots open in DC - most of them are focused on our public facing products that run on a combination of node, angular, mongo, dynamo, drupal, and a touch of ruby now.

The positions offers competitive compensation and a strong benefits package. NGP VAN prides itself on being a progressive workplace; we have a fun and inclusive company culture, including blowing off steam on a softball field, drinking in the office on Fridays while watching team demo videos, shooting at each other during Friday Fragfest, enjoying periodic company retreats to warm places with beaches (including Jamaica or Dominican Republic this November), and casual Friday every day.

Coderwall: https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van
Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply.
How much you get paid for a job isn't solely determined by how difficult it is. It is determined by supply and demand (and difficulty is one of the ingredients in supply). My impression is that unions and licensing also severely limit the supply of plumbers in any one location, making it a high paying job.
BloomReach - Mountain View, CA - http://www.bloomreach.com

We're a fast-growing startup tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their high quality and relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it. $41M raised from NEA, Lightspeed and Bain Capital.

Check out all of our engineering positions here (including new grads, technical project managers, front-end/back-end and data scientists): http://bloomreach.com/careers/

Specifically, I'm hiring more Inside Sales/SDRs at BloomReach (named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area).

Our Inside Sales/SDR role allows for much more creativity than other companies and offers great opportunities for growth. We're looking for smart, ambitious, strong communicators that can grow into other positions at BloomReach.

Interested? Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oD04Wfwn&s=HN
Secure Mission Solutions - REMOTE

We're looking for a senior developer to join our team.
We are a team of about nine developers plus a full-time DevOps person. We work from home and communicate via text and video chat. We work 40-hour weeks with flexible hours, but we try to overlap as much as possible with 10am-4pm Eastern Time. We are currently working on about eight different projects, each written in one or more of five different programming languages. These projects are small, ranging from one to three developers each. Everyone works on at least two different projects, so we all need to be competent in more than one language. Some of us started as system adminstrators and later became software developers. Others are pure developers with solid Unix/Linux skills.

We're looking for someone who meets the following qualifications:

- Either 5 years experience as a developer or you can show that you're an exceptional candidate

- Comfortable with and enjoys working in C/C++ plus at least one of the following: Python, Java, PHP, Perl

- Experience developing in both Linux and Windows

- Knowledge of version control software (Git preferred)

- Proficiency writing automated tests

- Doesn't mind working on more than one project at a time

- Continues to improve your development skills and don't just rely on what you already know

- Able to work autonomously but not afraid to ask for help when you need it

- US citizen, live in the US and are able to obtain a security clearance

The following experience would be a plus:

- Familiarity with MIT Kerberos (big plus)

- Other programming languages: Ruby, Clojure, Scala, JavaScript, etc.

- Relational databases, especially MySQL or PostgreSQL

- Agile software development

- Computer security (CISSP or Security+ would be great)

- Web page design

- Mobile application development

- System administration experience

If you are interested, please get in touch: pjewing [at] securemissionsolutions [dot] com
Attention to all listen
Location: London

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: For the right position, definitely!

Technologies: Objective-C (iOS), CSS3/HTML5, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, git, SQL, video and motion graphics

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u134h3gb7mhc8ho/Sam%20Piggott%20-%...

Portfolio: http://www.samdoesth.at

Email: piggott.sam@gmail.com
Are there emotional no-go areas where logic dare not show its face?
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Not to worry. Just the NSA deploying a MITM attack. The bugs will be ironed out soon and your transactions will proceed smoothly as before.
It sounds like you're talking to the wrong "potential" clients. You don't "ask" for your hourly rate, you tell them. I've found the best way to get new clients is through networking and referrals. It requires the ability to sell yourself but if you lack that skill it's something you can learn.

I recommend Brennan Dunn's book Double Your Freelance Rate. It's not as much about your development skills (but you should have those down too) as your ability to manage the project, meet expectations, and relate to the client.

With dev vs plumber, do whichever you most enjoy.
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Plumbers on craigslist are, for the most part, doing lots of little 1-2 hour jobs. That means that there is likely lots of potential empty space in their calendar. They're probably lucky if they pull 20 jobs a week, so the rate has to go up to make a living.

IT work like you're talking about is probably going to be minimum of two weeks at 40-50 hours a week, so you probably have to pull 2-3 jobs a month. So the rate you have to charge to make a living, and the expectations of people hiring goes down as well.

Its the same effect as why I am paid $35/hr for an IT job (plus benefits, so lets say $45/hr) for a regular job, but wen we bring people in for contract work, we never pay less than $125/hr.
No, look up the rocket equation.

Let's say your rocket is a mass driver, throwing rocks out the back end with electromagnets. You need two things: one is an energy source to power the electromagnets, like some kind of nuclear reactor, and the other is a big pile of rocks.

The big problem for a rocket is that it's not just carrying the payload and reactor fuel, it's also carrying that big pile of rocks. For a given exhaust velocity, the faster you want to go, the bigger that rock pile has to be, which is even harder to push, and the challenge just multiplies. If you're trying to get to another star it's practically impossible.

A reactionless drive would still have the nuclear reactor, but it gets rid of the big pile of rocks. Now higher speed no longer means you need a bigger rock pile, it just means you run the nuclear reactor longer. You'll need more reactor fuel but with the mass driver you needed that plus the bigger rock pile. Now you just need more reactor fuel, and that's relatively minor.

So yeah, it'd be a huge technological breakthrough, if it actually works.
So I looked up this concept and stumbled upon this article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...

Admittedly, this is about an India-based call center, but I think some points still stand.
I expected this argument, but could not expand my post because of 2000 characters limit.

More often than not I do not need anything complex (like high pressure gas piping)

And ask you plumber to "plumb" CRUD app in a evening after watching couple youtube videos and try to plumb PVC piping and see what is easier.

I am not talking about commercial anything. I am talking about very simple household stuff. All this practice/license/etc arguments are not really valid since it takes significant practice to be a good developer too.
Having had the privilege of working with 2 different AS/400 systems (one a v4 and another a v6), I can say these guys are really bullet proof.

Rarely are the OS level issues -- almost all of our issues have been hardware (hdd's failing, not surprising though), or our vendor app messing up (too frequent to be happy about, but hey, it's written in RPG V, so can't complain too much).

The problem with learning to work with an AS/400 system is that they are ludicrously expensive to get your hands on -- So I am very glad to see something like this out there in the wild.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python/Django/Mobile/Front-end, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I've worked a lot over the years with AWS, and have a lot of sys admin experience with config management like Ansible, Chef, Docker. I have a research background in data analysis. I also have experience with Golang, Angular, Clojure.

Contact details in my profile or the link above. Here're some examples from my portfolio:
* http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com - Turbotax CPA Select, to help select accountants.

* http://publish.saxo.com - publishing platform where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.

* http://www.ecomarket.com - An online marketplace for ethical and eco friendly products.

* http://www.teaspiller.com - An online marketplace for tax experts. [Recently acquired by Intuit]

* http://www.hypedsound.com - A platform for music artists to share their content from various networks.

* http://www.grapevinelogic.com - A platform for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators.

and many more

Github: http://github.com/sidmitra

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Location: Jacksonville, FL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Linux Admin, Web Security, Shell Scripting, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, jQuery, HTML/CSS. Willing to learn anything!

Learning: Puppet, Jekyll, RoR, ELK, CoreOS.

Resume: http://adamboulware.com/

Email: see resume
The solution here is SSL everywhere, at all times. We should be just as concerned about Time Warner and Comcast having access to our private browsing.

It'd be nice to have an intermediate step between HTTP and CA-validated HTTPS. Yes, my ISP could theoretically MITM me, but it'd at least allow websites to prevent casual snooping.