skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MeetMe - New Hope, PA (near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - http://www.meetme.com/apps/careers

See all public openings here: http://jobvite.com/m?3SzvEgwl

About Us: MeetMe is the leading social network for meeting new people in the US with over 1 million DAU. We've been around since 2005 as myYearbook, rebranding in 2012 as MeetMe. We've launched other apps such as Focal, Choosy, Charm, and Unsaid in the past, and are looking to continue adding more standalone apps in the future.

We use a wide variety of languages, generally using what makes sense. C, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Node.js, and native iOS and Android development are the most common.
MeetMe is a fun place to work. We hold a yearly developer retreat, as well as regular company-wide hackathons. We have a book club, board game club, and we even have a game room. And our summer hours last all year round.

While we aren't a new company in the time scale of the internet, we still know how to have fun. We just get the benefit of not having to kill ourselves working 12 hour days. =) This means you'll enjoy actually going home on time! We have many openings, both technical and non-technical. Here is a list of positions we are usually always looking for.

* Senior Android Developer

* Software iOS Developer

* Network Engineer

You can apply directly here: http://jobvite.com/m?3SzvEgwl

Or you can contact me at jlotito@meetme.com. I'm a developer, so feel free to ask specific developer-type questions.

You can also check out our Engineering blog here: http://engineering.meetme.com
"university students especially those at the best universities disproportionately come from better economic backgrounds and this seems to be true everywhere. In this case it doesn't seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich."

That is the argument used to introduce the fees. Once they are introduced, poor person chance to get into university gets even lower. Expensive University basically constitutes huge advantage for kids of the rich, it makes competition for well paid jobs lower.

Moreover, rich in Germany pay more in taxes, so they really pay more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
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This is one of the few paper issues of Byte I've saved for all these years, actually.

That magazine, along with 80 Micro, got me through grade school.
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In my opinion, if you're starting atom more than a handful of times per day you're using it incorrectly. Try nano instead!
Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
A few months ago there was an intense discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069 regarding the appointment of Condoleezza Rice on the Board of Dropbox.

The linked page was http://www.drop-dropbox.com/.

Looking at Crunchbase profile of Dropbox indicates that Rice continues as a Board member.

I am curious to know how many users decided to drop Dropbox as a consequence of the above.

Don't forget to upvote the post itself to get more people to vote on this.
I dropped Dropbox because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice
I continue to use Dropbox
I have never used Dropbox
I started using Dropbox after the appointment
The problem with Reddit for awhile now has been the default subreddits. How about no default subreddits?
I'm a student at a German university, and I don't pay tuition fees, but I do pay about 400€ a year in "semester fees", of which the two largest components are "student services" and a compulsory season ticket for regional transport; student union membership and some kind of insurance contribution are also included.
what are your favorite sources for these machined parts? i'm really interested.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

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I think it's a great idea. I think redditcoin failed because of copyright issues. Myself I had the idea for "hoinz" but never really pursued it, although I'd like to.

"Embracing the new spirit of cryptocurrency. Obtain hoinz from your reputations and contributions on various websites. Because you owe it to yourself."

http://www.reddit.com/r/hoinz (nothing there)

Things like moderation tasks can be paid in hoinz.
Is this before or after tax? 38 weeks seems short to me.
I don't need cheap BW but if they're going to offer it, is it a real offer it a bullshit rope people in offer? I have 20-25 "real" servers and a handful of VPSs from (good) providers that fulfill my needs well.

OVH's CEO, Oles, doesn't care about their big clients and happily changes the terms of their contract (in less than legal ways) to screw them. I'd rather not do business with them.
At first I thought that it was left there on purpose, but it seems like it may be accidental.
Social mobility in Germany is very low, doing consistently worse than e.g. the Scandinavian countries (I remember seeing sources claim that it is even worse than the US, but there seems to be no agreement on that).

However, as far as education is concerned, it would be wrong to blame universities. The German school system is very stratified, "locking in" a child's destiny at a young age. Via parents who understand this and fight tooth and nail to get their child into the highest tier of the school system, it leads to high correlation between parents' and children's academic achievements.
H1/O1 visas?
[Assumption: n is large enough to make the problem interesting]

If a sorting network (such as Batcher's} requires O(n (log n)^2)[Space] doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of trying to sort in-place?...since a traditional array copying merge-sort has 0(n)[Space] requirements.
And back then it was devoured, greedily, by essentially anybody who was interested in computing. We had BBSs but no internet; information dissemination was radically different than today.

Hobbyist computer magazines in those days were what we had, except for user groups.
> This entails that everything that the laws of physics require a physical object to do can, in principle, be emulated in arbitrarily fine detail by some program on a general-purpose computer, provided it is given enough time and memory.

But here's the thing: arbitrarily-fine detail may not be good enough. So much of physics ends up being chaotic, to the point where, well, "A consequence of sensitivity to initial conditions is that if we start with only a finite amount of information about the system (as is usually the case in practice), then beyond a certain time the system will no longer be predictable." [Quick quote from Wikipedia - it explains it better than I can.] The brute-force "just simulate everything" approach only works if you can get information about the system at a deep enough level to mitigate the sensitivity of initial conditions - and if there is no such "deep enough" level...
Hacked Security Plugin Firm Stored Customer Passwords in Plaintext. Seriously?
It happened in the UK. Fees started at £1,000 in 1998, rising to £3,000 in 2006 and then 2010 (?) fees rose to £9,000.
I don't know, VS loads pretty quickly and is generally fluid, though it has its shortcomings. Eclipse on the other hand starts up the same way it behaves: slowly. It's much more full-featured than VS or Qt Creator though (at least last time I tried it).
In some parts of the UK, you mean :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23279868
I'm not sure that it sums up anything.

* Non-profit? free

* Profit-based company? Pay for it.
I think it's an interesting demonstration of the rather sad fact that despite hardware today being many, many orders of magnitude faster than what was around e.g. 2 or 3 decades ago, it seems software has only gotten increasingly inefficient, so there's a huge amount of processing power and - if humans are being kept waiting, their time - being wasted because of this; this is a text editor, albeit a featureful one, whose resource consumption is disproportionate to its capabilities. It's what happens when countless abstractions are piled upon one another, with little regard for the consequences of doing such a thing.

Even Emacs is smaller, and it's just as if not more customisable/featureful.

Here is a nice rebuttal to that "premature optimisation" myth: http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451

From personal experience, by the time a system gets too big/slow, the inefficiency is usually distributed throughout so that it becomes more difficult to single out one component that's causing it, and there is no easy way to optimise such a system short of redesigning and rewriting it - it can be said that the problem is because "the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts."
It's about nutrient imbalance, not simply excess of nutrients across the board.

You can have, e.g., a high silicates and low phosphorus situation driving this particular diatom, simply because phosphorus is not the limiter (as I have already stated is the case for diatoms). If you had a different nutrient balance, there would be competition with other organisms, so no growth in the first place.

Whether it's reproductive or vegetative growth is irrelevant, because the mechanism of competition is the same: it covers surfaces and outcompetes other colonies.
I remember when I started university the cap was £3k per year in England I believe. That was one of the reasons I chose to go to Scotland - no tuition fees for EU students (the fact that students from the rest of Britain have to pay is another matter...). However, the tuition fees were/are still lower in Scotland, around £1700 a year.
Generalist software engineer for hire. You need an MVP, I can build it. You need a website, I can develop it. You need a script to automatically deploy your project, I can code it. No job's too big or too small.

I have prior experience developing software for Western Digital and Accenture.

Tech stack: Strong Python scripting scripts, being familiar with web development using Django and Flask, data scraping with Requests and BeautifulSoup, and devops with Ansible.

I have some minor front-end experience. Currently toying with React.js and d3.js. Hit me up at my email (in profile), or on skype at wei.yen.22

Github: https://www.github.com/yen223

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lee-wei-yen/39/ba9/aa6

oDesk: https://www.odesk.com/users/~0102637248711c1f27

Keywords: Python, Django, Flask, Ansible, Postgresql, Linode, web development.
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That's a very different argument. That's "we will colonize Mars because it's our dream", not "we will colonize Mars because the benefits in technology payoff are worth it."

People climb Everest because it's their dream, because the intangibles are worth the tens of thousands of dollars to them. Chile and Argentina subsidize their colonies on Antarctica because of dreams of land.

But even Denmark hasn't figured out how to make Greenland profitable. It continues to subsidize life on that island. That's about 60,000 people who would love to be self-sufficient. Is the problem only that they are insufficiently excited? Or that there aren't enough people there? How many more do you need?
WeSnipp – Social Snippet Community
I'm a little surprised that both SILE and Patoline [1] both seem to stick with the TeX formatting tradition of \begin{foo} ... \end{foo}. Is this really the best way to express layout? Or is this so that users will feel comfortable with new systems? I would have thought that taking a cue from some of the markup systems like Markdown, ReStructuredText, ASCIIDoc, etc. might have been a consideration. Just curious about this design choice.

[1] http://patoline.org/
When I say "QoS", I'm referring to the quality of service of the other tenants sharing that uplink until you blackhole the DDoS. From my perspective running a VPS slice, there are periods where my uplink just dies—and there's nothing that can be done to "smooth" these away at the hypervisor level.
Vimeo - NY, NY

https://vimeo.com/jobs

2013: The Year We Did More Cool Stuff - https://vimeo.com/82576921

TECHNICAL:

- Sr. Engineer, iOS

- Sr. Engineer, Internal Tools (HTML, JavaScript, PHP)

- Director, Data Engineering (Hadoop, Vertica)

- Director, Product Management - Mobile Apps

- Product Manager, Connected TVs

- Lead Designer, Web

- QA Manager, Functional Testing

- Associate Engineer, Entry-Level

NON-TECH:

- Manager, Web Analytics

- Sr. Associate, PR

- Copywriter

- Associate, Display Media Marketing

Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.

Feel free to reach out: tyler at vimeo dot com.
they said it was for Xen before last weekend, no? (didnt read the article, assume they said it was for xen)
First Scotland, Now Spain
Front Row Education (https://www.frontrowed.com/) - San Francisco, Fulltime

== Position ==

Early Full-stack web engineer to join fast-growing education startup that changes how hundreds of thousands of kids learn math. Email jobs@frontrowed.com

== TL;DR - Reasons to care about working with Front Row ==

- A mission you can be proud of: kids using Front Row improve twice as much at math
- Tremendous impact on a small team
- Flexibility on what you work on, and autonomy over your schedule
- Effective & exciting tools: Clojure, Haskell, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, Ansible
- Be part of a growing success: in just over a year after launch, we are in more than 6% of all US schools

== The Business ==

Millions of teachers around the USA are struggling to help 30+ students in their class learn math because every student is in their own place. In a typical fourth grade classroom, there may be students learning to count, students learning to add, students learning to multiply, and students learning how exponents work - and one teacher somehow needs to address all these needs.

Thousands of teachers use Front Row every day to save hours of time and make sure their students are growing quickly. Front Row active users have been growing 100% a month for the past 8 school months.

== The Role ==

As one of our very first engineers, you will be part of a team of developers who are passionate about their vocation, take pride in their craft and who push each other to grow as professionals. You will strive for pragmatism and 80/20 in your work. You will be using tools that provide you with the most leverage and make you most effective. By working really smart, you will produce more than the average developer ever will, but without the crazy hours.

You will work in an effective team that plans, executes and reflects together. Because we’re a small team, everything you create will go into production and be used by students. You will never do unimportant work: every contribution will make a clear and tangible impact on the company’s trajectory. Your personal success will be directly aligned with that of the company.

Most importantly, your work will have purpose: Front Row is a mission-driven company that takes pride in making a significant impact in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.

== Benefits ==

- Competitive salary
- Generous equity option grants
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Food budget
- Work from home up to 1 day a week, extremely flexible work schedule
- Team meal outing every week, and half-day event every month (trip to Sonoma, BBQ, etc)
- Equipment budget
- Flexible, untracked vacation day policy
- Working from Runway - one of the best startup coworking locations right in the heart of San Francisco

Email jobs@frontrowed.com to tell us a bit about yourself if you would like to apply.
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Full Stack Engineer w/Ruby on Rails Focus

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QUICK INTRO
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NextChapter (http://www.nextchapterbk.com/) is seeking Ruby on Rails / Angular.js developer to join the team and help us push the product to the finish-line! If you want to be part of a startup that's right on the cusp of launching, without the risk associated with starting from scratch or working completely on your own, this might be just the right fit.

We have a working product with attorneys signed up and ready to start paying. With a clear path to revenue, pre-orders from current beta testers and a founding team full of ambition & tenacity, NextChapter is ready to take this bootstrapping startup to cash flow positive within months, with your help.

* If interested, email janine@nextchapterbk.com *

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DESIRED SKILLS
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Our ideal candidates will have the following skills:

• Ruby 2.X
• Rails 4.X
• Postgresql
• Javascript
• Coffeescript
• Angular.js
• or other Javascript MVC frameworks

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ADDITIONAL EXPERTISE
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• GitHub experience working with others in a team to fork & pull
• Experience with Balsamiq mockups and Trello for project management
• A firm grasp of object oriented analysis and design
• Startup experience a plus

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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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NextChapter is a legal startup helping attorneys prepare bankruptcy documents online. "Turbotax for Lawyers"

Bankruptcy is not a fun thing to go through but there are 1.5M bankruptcies filed each year. These individuals are paying attorneys a flat fee of $1,500 to do the work, but NextChapter is taking the pain away from both the debtor and the attorney. They do this by making the TurboTax of bankruptcy software, streamlining the process of filing a 75-page form to using an intuitive online system.

NextChapter saves the average attorney 50 hours & $12,000 per month by offering per-case pricing, cloud-based access and most importantly, an intuitive navigation platform.

Check us out online:

• Website: http://www.nextchapterbk.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextChapterBK
• AngelList: https://angel.co/nextchapter/jobs/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextChapterBK

Read an article written by founder, Janine Holsinger on the Legal Startup market and posted on popular legal blog, Lawyerist - http://lawyerist.com/74528/legal-startups/
OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent)

At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first sensor network is for wireless signal [1] where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/
Email us: join@opensignal.com

[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...
[2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...
[3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/
UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English
This Woman has just re-invented blood tests
Uva transitioned from a state school to a state charter school in 2005 reducing its state funding.
For most people it's that you are only familiar with what you grew up with. I was lucky enough(I guess) to grow up in a country where calling for an ambulance was a no-brainer, never ever seen a single medical bill for anything, and also where I've personally called the police about problems I've witnessed - all interactions with officers were polite and I wouldn't hesitate to call the police again. That's why it's so hard do understand for me that there are places like the US where it's not the case, and calling for an ambulance can put you in massive debt - it's just upside down when I think about it.
This is the core of my question. Is there evidence that lowering fees does increase participation in university from poorer people and does this still hold true if the fee paying can be deferred?

More to the point, does it increase participation of poor people in the best universities and the best (as reflected in higher salaries) degree programmes?
SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a search engine for tickets and live events.

Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
So you die gradually? Hard to say. But looking just at the body, I see it degrading functionality and sliding, like senility, into a non-functional state. Dead.
"You" already has this problem and we can deal with it.

Pronouns often need disambiguation anyway.
Beyond Light Table
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> 2. The huge editor software file size. I am not leaving
> 400mb for "yet another text editor"

I don't know why you'd care about this, besides reasons of dogmatic principle. Disk is the cheapest thing in the world. Any benefit that can be had at the cost of larger artifact size, especially for things like consumer applications, should be taken, IMO.
It's a different market: individuals vs businesses. If it takes a developer 10s longer to find documentation, zero shits are given. If the website can't accept orders because the queue keeps crashing, the company credit card is going for a walk to get the problem solved. A direct and measurable impact on the bottom line, and a visible effect to decision makers are two very nice properties of a good business.

Your product does look really nice, btw.
While I agree with all of the benefits of DSL writing, I kind of feel like DSLs in Ruby are a bit silly now. There is always a thin line between "lots of function abstraction" and DSL (e.g. a shallow embedding is pretty tough to distinguish from... well, just a library) and that line is even thinner in the fast-and-loose world of Ruby DSLs.

It's a vague enough question to lead to nothing but religious wars, but I really want to push people who are interested in (e)DSLs to consider their implementation in typed languages. Haskell is, of course, a favorite of mine, but you can achieve similar things in Scala and the ML family. You can even go much further using something like Idris, mostly by using its stronger dependently typed system.
Technically not all university education is free in Hungary. If you don't get the required grades to get in but your grades are above a certain threshold you can pay tuition fees and go on the course.
Well they do, but indirectly, via higher income taxes (because higher pay).

The Dutch school system uses what you're suggesting actually; the government offers scholarships to all students, which is effectively a (low-interest) loan; if you finish your education, that loan or part thereof (depending on whether you took an extra loan, it's complicated) is forfeited, i.e. you don't have to pay it back. The remainder can be paid off in monthly terms, but the amount you have to pay off is determined based on how much money you earn.

If you are unable to get a good enough job to pay back that loan, it's forfeited after 15 or 25 years (I think it used to be 15 and they upped it recently).

It's kinda complicated though, and they had some heavy cuts in the system a while ago due to the economy - which IMHO is a huge shame, since a lot of students won't choose a higher education now, causing university studies to only be in reach of the rich once again.