skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not gonna write my life story on hn, but I have the exact opposite experience as you. I grew up in a blue collar family. No real white collar mentors or apparent options in that world. So I followed my dad into the trades. I spent my summers in high school as a plumber (apprentice) and became a full-time plumber after high school, eschewing college even though I was accepted to a number of good schools.

After a number of post-high school years of being a plumber it quickly became obvious what type of life this would lead to for me. In particular, the physical toll. You are often carrying heavy equipment or supplies up or down stairs or ladders. You spend your entire day working with sharp edges, saws, and electricity. Accidents occur all the time and any of them can be debilitating.

You also have to consider the risk of the impairment of others and what damage it may cause you. Let's say a co-worker in IT gets drunk at lunch and comes back to work. He may accidentally drop a table or even a database. That sucks for sure, but in the grand scheme of things, your life and ability to continue working aren't impacted. But consider being on a job site with others and the electrician gets drunk at lunch. He could accidently miswire something that could end up with a severe injury to you or someone else. The risks from the mistakes of others upon yourself is much larger in the trades.

There are lot of things that seem similar. New development is akin to new construction. Both have maintenance and service. But IT is essentially a virtual environment. The data is important to many people and can even have lives depending on it. But in the trades, it is a completely physical environment. There is no undo. There is no restore from backup. Mistakes can and do result in physical injury and death. It is the difference between coming home at the end of the day sulking that you had to do some user support and coming home minus a few fingers because you or someone else sneezed at the wrong time.

My dad is retired now, not by choice. He was on a rooftop holding an air conditioner panel. A gust of wind kicked up and he had the choice of either letting the panel blow off the top of the building onto others below or hold onto it. He held onto it. In the process, destroying his back. He was never the same. That doesn't happen in IT.
Location: California, U.S.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Android Native Development, Object Oriented Development, Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, Java, C/C++, SQLite, XML, HTML, CSS, Git and Linux.

I'm an Android Developer, developing mobile apps for phones and tablets. I have Android app project experience, including: concept development, project planning, research, algorithm development, programming, testing, debugging, publishing apps to the Google Play store and product maintenance.

Resume: http://compxpressinc.com/docs/kpcv.pdf

Email: ken dot compxpress at gmail dot com
Digital Reasoning -- Nashville // New York // Washington DC

Digital Reasoning is a leader in cognitive computing. We build software that understands human communication - in many languages, across many domains, and at enormous scale. Some tools/technologies we use: NLP, machine learning, Java, Python, Rails, Javascript, Hadoop, AWS/EC2, Agile methodology. We're expanding our team on several fronts.

All of our open positions:

> http://www.digitalreasoning.com/careers

A few that are directly on my team here in Nashville:

> Senior Operations Engineer: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH15/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

DevOps/Sysadmin on Linux in AWS/EC2

> Full Stack Developer: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH15/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

> Front End UI/UX Engineer: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH15/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

Web application development with Ruby on Rails/Javascript

> Data Analyst
http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH15/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

Teach our software how to read

Feel free to ping me (charlie dot penner at digitalreasoning.com) with any questions.
When this[1] RFC goes through most of those issues will be resolved. Even without them, ignoring edge cases ('foo'() isn't useful), it's still quite reasonable. The RFC linked above just improves on the design, it doesn't change it.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/uniform_variable_syntax
Location: São Paulo (city), São Paulo (estate), Brazil
Remote: Yes (has fiber optic connection)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Lua, C, C++, Obj-C, Android Java, J2ME, ...
Resume: http://coderofworlds.com/short-resume/
LinkedIn Resume (more detailed): http://www.linkedin.com/in/gamedesigner
E-mail: mauricio.gomes@coderofworlds.com

Note: Willing to work outside games industry, also finishing a flagship product in at most 3 months, won't start immediately.
Email:
Yup. Right now. Need to check a bunch of our pages and advertising campaigns and just can't. I was also supposed to launch a new ad. Can't do any of it.

Time to go for a walk.
Facebook employees have posters that say "Move fast and don't be afraid to break things". I don't think anyone's getting fired. http://www.aghanomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZuckPic...
SEEKING WORK (iOS / Android) - NYC or remote

I'm a full-stack developer that specializes in mobile - both iOS and Android. I've got a few apps in both stores, check them out at http://kurt.so

Fluent in Objective-C, Java, HTML+CSS. Experienced with .NET, python, and ruby on the backend. I have a few open source projects at https://github.com/kurtguenther

If you need an Android or iOS app, I'm your guy.

kurtguenther on gmail
There is nothing particularly interesting, most is just their customised WebKit. MK8 uses a bluetooth library, only modified to compile with MSVC. DS emulation uses Nanojit, but I couldn't figure out the snapshot they used to run a diff against.
Facebook is Down (9:15AM PDT, 1st August)
Passare - San Francisco

Software Engineer

Thoughtful Leadership

Are you a thoughtful software engineer who enjoys working on agile, effective projects? Do you have an entrepreneurial streak coupled with a commitment to hitting your benchmarks? Do you want to work with a prolific team? If your mind set matches ours, we want to talk to you!

About Us

Passare is a funded early stage startup. We seek engineers to grow our software team on an exciting, green-field project to deliver an industry-changing B2B application, followed by a B2C ‘social’ component that will affect the legacy of peoples’ lives. Applying Agile development practices, coupled with Ruby-on-Rails, and using the best tools available, we are quickly building a great product and a great team.

About You

We’re interested in finding the right person. It’s better to find someone with the right attitude and aptitude; we’ll invest in your skills if it’s not a perfect match. We expect a positive attitude towards difficult challenges, whether code or schedule based. You must be self-motivated, enjoy working in a team environment, and love building something that will change things in a positive way.

Required Skills / Experience

•	2+ years professional experience, preferably at an early stage company
•	Enough experience with Ruby on Rails so you can hit the ground running
•	Experience with one or more applications in a production environment with real customers
•	Working knowledge of agile development practices
•	Understanding of the basics: OO software, Linux, SQL, NoSQL, and basic sysadmin skills
•	Experience with one or more cloud computing platforms
•	Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
•	A computer science degree or equivalent experience

Bonus – One of the following

•	Delivery of one or more mobile apps, for iOS or Android
•	Knowledge of database scaling
•	Web analytics experience

Benefits

•	Competitive compensation plan including equity
•	Great location in San Francisco’s financial district with easy access to BART
•	Medical and dental benefits

This is a full time, salaried position.

Contact Jonathan@passare.com
..and US productivity is up...
Hey, thanks so much for the tip! I appreciate it, and I'm going to look into both.
Recent Grads! Join LaunchHub to help Solve Industry Shaking Problems w/ BigData. Palo Alto, CA

> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/1081-recent-grads-join-lau...

===

"Competitive compensation, Elite experience required. Work w/ High Traffic clients, Machine Learning, and next generation user interfaces."

About LaunchHub

===

- A SaaS-based program for Marketers, specifically providing data analysis for apps

- Helps very high traffic clients, TB of data, analyze and implements Machine Learning to help marketers improve their ROIs.

- “We take historical app store data, app engagement data, and marketing data and we model out installs, engagement, and revenue.”

- 2 customers with Top 200 apps in iTunes

- 12 team members, 5 in Palo Alto and 7 remote.

- Product site: http://www.getlaunchhub.com/

Required Experience

===

- B.S or M.S in Computer Science or Engineering from a top university (they gave me a long list found in attached Job Description)

- GPA 3.5-4 (unless a good reason why not) or Strong experience

- Employment at Experience Companies(Google, Facebook, Apple, LinkedIn, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, EBay, Netflix, Twitter, Horton works (yahoo), cloudera, rackspace, IBM, Oracle, HP, Adobe, Walmart Labs)

- Knowledge of Javascript (Angular) and related web technologies like HTML, CSS

- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities

- Awareness of cross browser compatibility issues

- Understanding of client side performance characteristics

- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL

- Bonus: Experience with C, C++ a plus

- Bonus: Experience working with backend systems

Notes about the Job

===

- Dashboard environment will be the Angular Javascript framework.

- Knowledge of CSS is valuable.

- Develop interactive directives/elements

- Write API specifications and documentation

- Integrate the frontend using REST APIs

- Work closely with our product and design teams to define feature specifications

The Process

===

- Pre-Phone Interview

- Phone Interview

- 1 or 2 technical interviews

- Onsite to hire

Compensation & Benefits:

===

130K - 180K ('Competitive')

Apply here:
> https://www.angularjobs.com/apply/1081
Location: Palermo, Italy

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no
(Fluent/Native English Speaker, U.S. Citizen, E.U. visa)

Technologies: Fullstack: PHP 5.5, Laravel 4.2,
Javascript/jQuery, MySQL, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS3, git flow

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

Email: chrispecoraro@gmail.com
Ridiculous or not, Tcl works like this. Everything is a string.
DueDil https://www.duedil.com - London, UK

DueDil is one of the fastest growing, most exciting startups in the UK. We recently closed a $17m Series B financing round and are expanding our engineering team rapidly.

We've been hailed as the next big thing by Wired, The New York Times, Gigaom, TechCrunch, CNN, you name it, they like us.

We're opening up and connecting data to change the way people do business. Whether it's fraud prevention, due diligence, market & competitor research, or decisions about risk, lending & credit, we believe that better data-informed insights help businesses act better, and faster.

We’re looking to hire:
- Front End Developers
- Full Stack Developers
- Data Engineers
- Data Scientists

We’re based in London, UK, offer relocation assistance and VISA sponsorship.

For more information see http://duedil.careers or email careers@duedil.com.
Public transportation outside the city of Chicago (PACE + METRA + northern and western L extensions) is part of a unified system with Chicago, and is huge, heavily used, and critical (as opposed to hardly existing.)
I run LightTable and PyCharm both side by side throughout the day as of a almost a year ago and I definitely feel the opposite. LightTable is much more responsive for me.

Although switching to an SSD made PyCharm a lot faster.
Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility)

We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Here's a testimonial we received last week:

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

Thank you Khan Academy for igniting the passion to learn everything which I usually neglected and missed during my academic carrier. Though myself should be blamed for that, the conventional classroom teaching and limited access of study material is also important factors. Now while teaching my students I am equally enjoying the materials. I sincerely hope Khan Academy should reach to every single child in the world. Thank you again for the magnificent en-devour.

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

Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who are thankful for our free, high-quality educational content. Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.

A few things we're currently working on building right now:

– The next version of our personalized learning dashboard [1] to make the UI more consistent across subjects and to help people learn better

– Improved knowledge models so we can better know what you know and don't know [2]

– Infrastructure improvements to make the site more reliable and faster for our millions of visitors every month [3]

– Better tools for our content creators to allow them to make thousands of engaging, interactive exercise problems without knowing how to code [4]

– A major revision to our iOS app to let students practice skills on the go (or in a classroom with iPads!)

You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.

We're especially looking for new product designers (of all types) but we also have many engineering positions open as well as some positions for a teacher and contract question writers.

Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to reply here if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/58354379257/intr...

[2]: http://mattfaus.com/2014/05/improving-khan-academys-student-...

[3]: http://www.alangpierce.com/blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-aca...

[4]: https://github.com/Khan/perseus
https://beta.facebook.com/ is up
Looks good, except that Olive should be a dark yellow-green instead of a dark blue-green as it is in this palette.
https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png
"Nationwide in 2011, highway user fees and user taxes made up just 50.4 percent of state and local expenses on roads. State and local governments spent $153.0 billion on highway, road, and street expenses but raised only $77.1 billion in user fees and user taxes ($12.7 billion in tolls and user fees, $41.2 billion in fuel taxes, and $23.2 billion in vehicle license taxes).[3] The rest was funded by $30 billion in general state and local revenues and $46 billion in federal aid (approximately $28 billion derived from the federal gasoline tax and $18 billion from general federal revenues or deficit financed)."

That a direct quote from here:
http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-user-fee...

Which cites its source as the, "U.S. Census Bureau, State and Local Government Finance 2011."
10 Cardinal Rules For Life according to Facebook
O'Reilly Media - Community Manager, Web Operations & Performance Projects - San Francisco, CA & Sebastopol, CA

The Community Manager is the face and voice of the company externally and feeds back the learning needs and demographics of our customers internally. Practice Areas are main areas of editorial content and audience development at O'Reilly Media, currently organized as follows: data, web operations and performance, and programming (development and open source).

The Community Manager has a thorough understanding of the issues, technologies, tools, and skills that bring communities together. The CM strengthens the O’Reilly brand and association with specific areas of technology by demonstrating thought leadership, engaging in community outreach, and building personal relationships. Day-to-day responsibilities include participating with the community through a variety of social media channels, representing O’Reilly at meetings and events, organizing online and in person events, analyzing feedback and actions, and creating/curating supplemental content.

This position reports to the Senior Marketing Manager and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working out of corporate headquarters offices in Sebastopol, CA (2-3 days per week)

More Info Here: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=q319VfwS&...
@pessimizer, if you are interested:

1. You can provide me with your disposable one-time Gmail address (needed for GA).

2. I will send you my real name, give you temporary access to Google Analytics account for the website and some selected Google-translated pages from it. Possibly provide more information if needed.

3. You can support that I am not a shill in this discussion and that my claim about the law in OP affecting me is true.
Down in Germany. The developer status page is down for me too

https://developers.facebook.com/status/
SEEKING WORK - Remote or London

Full stack Python and Golang developer

Freshly graduated from UCL: MSc in Web Science and Machine Learning

24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit willing to work on:

- Data analysis

- Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)

- Web development (HTML CSS Javascript)

- MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)

contact [at] romainstrock.com

More info: http://romainstrock.com
That's huge! I'm looking to partner with a few companies to put together some case studies - before / after. Right now, I'm using this one-click answer concept for people who sign up for early access to this and I'm getting a really great response rate like you.
Location: San Diego, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Django, Node, JS/HTML5/CSS/LESS, R, git, linux
Resume: http://tuome.la/resume.pdf
Email: wb@tuome.la

I'm a full stack freelancer looking for new projects or an opportunity with a small or midsize company. Ecommerce is my specialty, email me if you think I can help your project or business.
Whisper - Venice, California

Whisper is an anonymous social network that is revolutionizing the way millions are interacting and expressing themselves online. At Whisper, we believe you can only truly be yourself when no one else is watching, so we've built a cloaking device for your thoughts. Untraceable, invisible, no restrictions: The first fully free and open forum where you can speak your mind without fear. Finally. There are no limits to Whisper's potential -- and yours.

Positions:

* Backend Engineer

* DevOps Engineer

* Android Developer

* Mobile UX/UI Designer

* Web Developer

* iOS Developer

Some of the perks are:

* Competitive salary and equity packages

* Relocation support

* Open vacation policy. We don’t count days

* Health and dental benefits

* Free meals and snacks aplenty

* Work on a product that receives more traffic in a day than most major US websites do in a year

* Beachfront office in Venice, CA that is a hop, skip, and jump away from Abbot Kinney, Santa Monica, and the other cool LA landmarks

More info at whisper.sh/jobs
Looks like the service is coming back online now. Every other request works at this point.
Nice App Tony. We've been using Temper.io and promoter.io for NPS on support and a few features. We would love to use it at Airbrake.io
Definitely sounds like a good idea. Man, there are so many improvements I wish HN would make, but everytime I see a good idea, it gets completely ignored, downvoted into oblivion, or removed by the mods.
Senior Software Developer (Full Stack) - REDFIN San Francisco

Redfin is a technology-powered real estate brokerage with a huge and impactful mission to change the real estate industry in consumers' favor. We're a blend of top real estate professionals and software engineers who wholeheartedly believe that first-class customer service and cutting-edge technology is the ticket. So far we’ve helped over 20,000 people buy and sell homes, saving them over $100M in fees, and doing it all with a 97% customer satisfaction score.

We have opportunities on several teams within Redfin:

Customer Engagement: As a senior developer on the Customer Engagement team, you will be responsible for writing features and running experiments to drive more users to Redfin's brokerage. Our team has a very broad reach - we touch almost every part of Redfin's codebase, and we own our features vertically, from the database schema all the way up to the end-user experience. We run A/B tests to bring customers face-to-face with our agents – and turn the winning combinations into real features; we keep our finger on the pulse of the conversion metrics; we understand our business’s needs and build features to address them, and much more.

Search Experience: As a senior software developer on the Search Team, your job is to make searching for a home as easy as finding a hipster coffee shop in the Mission. The Search Team takes an incredibly complicated home search process and brings it online into an addictive, fun, and delightful experience.

Who you really are : You are a developer who thinks like an end user, who knows that 90% done is only half done, and who can build rock-solid code that will withstand millions of users hammering on it. You love beautiful, simple user interfaces, and you constantly wonder what you could have done to make your last project simpler. You love working with a smart, talented team, because you know that makes you better. When you disagree, you disagree constructively, with respect for everyone else's opinions and ideas. More than anything, you share a passion for our mission to radically change the way people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives.

The Tools: Our website is built with Java, Spring, JSP, Postgres, Hadoop, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, JS, and various other tools/libraries. In production we run on Linux. On our desktops we mostly run Mac and Windows, but some opt for Linux. We use Eclipse, Maven, Git and Bamboo.

What you'll get from us: Support and resources to continue learning, a brilliant team with which to collaborate, an office in downtown San Francisco close to all the action, and a commitment to your career so you can grow with the company under a management team that has experience building start-ups into profitable, publicly traded companies.

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3LVuAgwv

Another Senior Developer position in Seattle: http://jobvite.com/m?3BYuAgwo

Current employee myself and the benefits and people are great:
http://www.redfin.com/about/jobs
And all the companies that decided to rely on Facebook Login for their website take a breath and think 'oh fuuudge'.
Well, since technology grows non-linearly, so does our perception of resource usage. A megabyte is effectively meaningless when we talk about gigabytes of RAM or terabytes of hard disk space. Many websites nowadays require a megabyte download or more. I don't think it's odd that people treat 8MB as effectively "free", and I think it's a good thing because it allows us to liberally experiment with interesting new technologies (like Go) instead of hacking together obscure Unix commands like we used to.
8 tips on how to best manage distributed teams
I just noticed it too: http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6a...

Note: I'm in New Zealand, and I still can't access it.

Sorry about the screenshot I still haven't figured out how to share images directly via ownCloud.
Giraffe Dies After Hitting Its Head On Low Highway Bridge
Maybe it's another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.
Having a Great Idea Isn't Enough