skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Denver, Colorado (USA)

Remote: Yes!

Willing to Relocate: Not just yet, but perhaps in a few years. Totally up for periodic travel to the home base, expect me to bring a cot.

Languages: C/C++/Python/CUDA are my bread and butter with a whole gaggle of other with lesser experience (Haskell, Scheme, Javascript, HTML5, CSS).

Technologies: Linux Systems Enginering, GPGPU, signal processing, HTTP, Nginx, Apache, Flask, Pesto, AJAX, SQLite, etc, etc. (If it's out there I've probably at least poked at it a bit.)

Desires:
I consider myself a generalist, so I'm interested in a pretty wide range of stuff, but if I had to be more specific then I'd say I'm interested in exploring machine learning more in depth in particular and high speed distributed computing in general ("big data"). Also interested in some of the big architecture work that goes into a website on the backend, cluster computing, message queueing, load balancing, etc.

Resume: Email me yo!

Email: smcallis (at) gmail (dot) com

Education is in signal processing, but I've done a whole bunch of work in software engineering, high speed software development, numeric computation, systems programming and more. I consider myself a generalist and I enjoy functional languages and making software go fast. "Backend" developer would probably not be an inaccurate description of what I do.
love python and was looking for an interesting video startup. Wish you guys were in NYC though.
Show HN: Privacy – PGP Messenger
Cambridge MA - Sysadmin in a DevOps world

Smartleaf is a small, profitable, and privately held company which helps some of the largest firms in finance manage portfolios for their clients. More details can, of course, be found in the obvious place:
http://www.smartleaf.com.

We are looking for an experienced general sysadmin to join the IT/Ops team. This is a full-time, on-site position with shared on-call responsibility.

This team handles everything that could possibly fall under the IT/Operations umbrella in a small company. On the operations side, we keep the company delivering the service our customers are paying for. Linux servers (mostly Debian, a few Red Hat-ish Oracle servers) at colo data centers run our software. If it's mission critical, we manage it ourselves, from DNS through load balancing to web servers, databases and storage. We've been committed to reducing workload via automated configuration management for a long time -- so long, in fact, that we wrote our own deployment system and GPL'd it. Now we've moved systems automation over to Chef.

The system runs 24/7, but we have an available maintenance window every weekend. Every night is a fresh re-deployment. The monitoring system is in charge of waking one of us up, if need be. Long term, we need to wake up about once a month.

We make sure that everyone can telecommute; it beats going in on a snow day.

Our technology stack includes Debian Linux, Chef, Oracle, Ruby on Rails, C++, Perl, git. We use RequestTracker for ticketing. Routers and firewalls are from Juniper. Our employees mostly use Macs, with a bare handful of Windows desktops to support. There are no Microsoft servers
at all. We are interested in teaching you what you need to know and learning new things from you.

You must have:

* significant Linux/UNIX systems administration experience - 6 years or longer

* preferably with Debian or Ubuntu and a Red Hat-style Linux distribution

* the ability and desire to track down problems and solve them

* solid organizational skills and time management

* a desire to learn

* and the ability to teach

* good shell scripting and one or more of Perl, Python, or Ruby

* strengths in several areas that complement our other team members

* excellent written English

* an existing legal right to work in the USA

You must be:

* clever, competent, and kind.

We offer a competitive salary, fully paid healthcare premiums and three weeks of vacation plus holidays. Office hours are flexible and partial work-from-home can be arranged. We are nice people.

Please send cover letters and resumes to future@smartleaf.com in plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about an interesting technical problem that you have solved, in a way which makes us excited to learn more. If you ask questions, we will answer.
Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No.

Technologies: Technical/marketing writer, ergo Microsoft Office, Google Docs, HTML. :)

Resume: LinkedIn @ http://tinyurl.com/ly8g2sw or http://www.hiretechnicalwritertoronto.com

Email: jonathanacohen@gmail.com

Experienced technical writer and marketing writer. Online/Web help, print/PDF documentation, press releases, Web site copy, FAQs, white papers.
>>Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down.

This seems to be almost universally true for any online community. As a userbase widens, content quality and even social dynamics become diluted to some extent towards a general population baseline.

Yes and no. I started spending time over on NeoGAF which has 141K members. Not nearly the size of some larger subs, but pretty good. The quality in content isn't massively scholarly, but it's far less juvenile than Reddit can be. This is largely due to the heavy moderation the forum uses. Which is likely the major flaw in Reddit. It can be a place for "good content" while also trying to be a more open form of discussion.
Chris: I've been following your work since I backed LightTable on Kickstarter. I just want to say congratulations and keep on truckin'.

I've been programming professionally for about three years. When I got my first job, I spent days setting up ruby/rails/zsh/vim/git. I was seriously dumbfounded. I could not believe that programmers (in 2011) actually worked this way. And I was even more perplexed that the main tools for reasoning about my code were print statements, browser reloading, and unit tests (so, so many unit tests). This is "the pain we forgot", except it's recent enough that I've never forgotten it.

Thanks for your work. I'm looking forward to a better programming for my kids. And hope to support any way I can.
Over engineering a solution, still it has identified people with more money than sense. Of course aiming it at macbook owners and you can assume there are plenty of those in your target market.
Customers use Dropbox, it's difficult to move them off from it.
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This has been around for years already.
I dropped Dropbox for an unrelated reason
that is one of the great part of being human: diversity of thought. it's a shame most people are convinced that they are "right", and assume there can only be one right model. Leads to people trying to establish these monocultures, which usually fail (over time).
You are not mooching, but you are not being squeezed as much as possible.

If you spend $5 a day while earning $5000 a month, it's better to have one person who really loves the country and wants to stay paying income taxes, rather than 100 staying and paying VAT.

The typical government member in my experience tends to think in terms of "people will just pay more" rather than "they will go somewhere else".

EDIT:
Moreover: how should a government discriminate? If you are working for a company in Norway you are probably earning better than someone working for a company in laos.
If both of you are residing in vietnam, should I expect the latter to spend more in VAT than 50% of the vietnamese college graduates ?
Yeah, I'm just not sure why anyone would drop it over that specific appointment. It's already clear that DropBox can read your files for shits and giggles.

If you have privacy concerns, you're going to pick something where that's not possible anyways.

Maybe someone can explain this to me - is it just partisan political crap?
That makes sense. Added.
What are the most mind-blowing tricks used during any war?
OnApp - http://onapp.com - London, UK - On Site

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OnApp is all about helping service providers build their own public clouds. We build software that helps hosting companies compete against Amazon by providing a turn key Cloud and CDN platform. We are well funded and have big clients such as major cloud hosting companies (Dediserve, VPS.net etc.) and big telcos on our Cloud and CDN platforms.

We have more than 500 individual hosting providers running our software and we want to cluster them all to bring a compute federation so users can spin up a cloud server of any scale anywhere in the world. We've already done this for the CDN market: http://onapp.com/platform/onapp-cdn/

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Our dev stack comprises of Rails, Git, Postgres, Redis and Ansible but there's plenty of other technologies being used like Python, C++, Java, MySQL and more.

We are actively looking for Rails Developers for our London office to help us develop the OnApp Compute Marketplace. If you are interested, email me directly: suhail@onapp.com
Building a high-speed rail network has nothing to do with our "model". It's 50 year old technology with commercial use before man first set foot on the moon.

There are a dozen countries with it. Spain, for example, has a few thousand miles.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_rail_lines
My web dev company uses Google Drive for everything and we use FreeBSD exclusively. You can access it all from the Google home page. In Chrome, there's a button on the tool bar.
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Why do those philosophies have to be mutually exclusive? Can't you apply principles of social welfare to the public sector while allowing entrepreneurship in the private sector?
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, AngularJS

Resume: email me!

Email: glik22@gmail.com

Interested in frontend, backend, or full stack work.
Location: HYD, INDIA
Remote: Yes!
Willing to relocate: Yes!
Technologies: Android, Java, Web Development
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=135714191&trk=nav_r...
Email: apoorv.1190@yahoo.com
I am a highly sophisticated but passionate engineer who loves to build and deploy code. Happy to answer any shit via email!
The "And Light Table" section leaves a lot to be desired. I get that it's not abandoned but development.. used to be active on it and now?

I mean Light Table is a great IDE but it just needs so much done. It feels like 95% complete in every corner. The vim keybindings are buggy, Python plugin lacks proper virtualenv/custom python support, performance is not quite there either... I forget all the issues I encountered back when I used it but there has been very few releases since and it's super concerning to just see what was once an extremely active project slowly go in maintenance mode.

Please, quell my fears. You guys put together an amazing Kickstarter and used to put out so much in terms of updates and feature updates; I don't see that anymore.

With all that said, best of luck with Eve, sounds awesome.

...
Edit: I think these graphs are pretty telling.
https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/graphs/code-frequen...
Web Designers Who Want to Become Web Developers
Would you mind elaborating on the disadvantages? Also what are the advantages in terms of pricing, how much less is it costing you?

I'd also be curious how much maintenance, setup, etc., work you estimate is involved.
Online.net (ponytelecom.eu) seems to be the new favorite since OVH at least makes a vague attempt to prevent it.
The description of Eve seems pretty vague, which I'm sure is intentional, but it'd be nice to get a bit of clarification.

It sounds like Eve will essentially be a visual programming language, similar to the many others that have come across Hacker News.

Chris - is Eve a visual programming language? If so, what makes it better than all the others that have tried and failed?
Help.com - http://help.com - Software Engineer - Austin, TX

Backed by $6 million in seed funding, Help.com's team of customer service and technology experts is setting out to build the next generation of customer service software. Our goal is to give companies the tools they need to delight their customers at enterprise scale. We want to disrupt the customer service software market by providing companies (and their customers) with tools that are powerful and simple to use.

At its core, Help.com is a technology company and we are looking for talented engineers at all levels to join our growing technical team in Austin. Our technical stack consists of Node.js on the backend and Backbone on the front-end.

Skills we like to see:

* Proficiency in JavaScript and familiarity with common libraries * Hands on Node.js experience is highly preferred * Skilled in front-end development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
* Unix/Linux basics * Experience working through cross-browser compatibility issues
* Strong problem solving skills
* Experience working with Git

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If you're interested, check out http://help.com/jobs. More about what it's like to work with us can be found at http://help.com/#were-hiring. We've hired people from HN before, so mention how you found out about us.

Feel free to email recruiting {at} help {dot} com with any questions.
Awesome - is there a decent sync client for Tahoe-LAFS though? I'm currently an OwnCloud user but I'd really like to try this option as I have several servers I could use for storage and mirroring, but they'd have to have encrypted storage.
If any other company, that deals with our personal data, were to appoint a board member well known for being pro warrantless wiretaps, I think people would consider moving as well.

The drop-dropbox.com has its arguments pretty well presented really.
Voting and karma is Reddit's biggest flaw because as you said "Voting in an open system only works to reenforce the viewpoints of the majority of voters." Subreddits can be ruined by any small influx of SRSers or whatever sub is annoyed for the day. The only subs that are actually good are the heavily moderated subs.
I dropped and then signed up again because I needed some way to sync my 1Password data from my laptop to my Android phone (I was previously using iCloud on an iPhone). Annoying, but I sleep fine at night.
The title is in-accurate and should be changed to "Digital Nomads caught in mistaken police raid". They are not cracking down.
I'm dropping Dropbox but haven't had a chance to rescue my data yet.

It's not specifically about the appointment of Rice, but in general the whole collision between my data and foreign (US) politics, given the privacy disclosures in the past few years.

I already have Owncloud set up on my own private server for less money than I pay Dropbox each month and that kind of setup allows me to share files publicly online (and use owncloud to host sites) as well as even an in-browser text editor to alter the files. I can host and edit a website using nothing but Owncloud!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...

Except for some "slave states" as I've taken to calling them, you can buy ammo mail order, often with a statement of age or perhaps a photocopy of your drivers license. Powder, bullets, cases and primers by mail, although there may be limits to the amount of powder you can hold before the BATF wants a license, safe(r) storage, etc. And similarly your local fire department prefers or may demand limits.

And this stuff is stable, lasts a long time. My father has several 25 pound casks of powder he or his father bought before or after WWII that he's still reloading from, and ammo manufactured in WWII is still being used (although a lot of it has corrosive primers, requiring much more thorough cleaning).
Author of linked piece replied to an email from me, the radio piece was this one from February 25, 2014 of WFAE from Charlotte (the first part is also pretty interesting - about HAM radio):

http://wfae.org/post/ham-radio-update-food-babe-vani-hari

That radio program mentions this blog entry from Feb 14 2014 and the blog often covers issues from the POV of a skeptic:

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mat...
I love Dropbox. It works better than anything else I have tried.
Differential Equation vs. Difference Equation to Model Nature
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I dropped Dropbox immediately after their first "anyone can enter your email without a password and access your data" security flaw.
For ruby, there's Pry [0].

[0]: http://pryrepl.org/
Thanks, that helps. I was wary of it in the first place, but now I know I'll stay away.

I do love the idea of OwnCloud, and I've tried it a few times in the past. But it almost feels like they are paying more attention to making a "virtual web desktop" with the new file editing stuff, and less attention to proper file syncing. I've tried to use them for syncing in the past on my CoLo file server, and on a fast machine in my home, and it's just too slow and buggy for now. I wish I was a competent programmer so I could contribute in that department.

Late edit: I just realized you took my statement about BitTorrent's "open nature" to mean open source or protocol. I apologize, I didn't mean it that way and should have worded it better. What I meant was "open for all to see what you're transferring". Basically, the contents would be easy to snoop from what I understand. Sorry about any confusion.
Most states require only a driver license to buy a rifle, no purchase permit required.
Hey quick question - are comp sci courses in Germany taught in English throughout?
:,( You can buy brownies before or after, no?
On struggling to understand the Watch
A stable in-place merge sort is actually reasonably easy to implement if you happen to be using a linked list - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/lists...

I think it's interesting how choice of data structure affects algorithm characteristics.
One criteria of intellectual brightness, it seems to me, is the ability to recognize oneself as the primary source of one's own suffering and misery.)
This get's into some really complex cost benefit analysis. They directly pay more in taxes with that extra earnings. However, something like smoking has negative externalities so a specific tax on smoking is justifiable. But, education has positive externalities so subsidizing it is justified.

Consider, a doctor might make more money but the value of the lives they save is greater than their income. So, it's really a question of how much should the state subsidize education.

Anyway, the direct costs of education might be paid for by the state. But, the opportunity costs are paid for by the students who could be working and getting paid vs going to school. So, even at 100% tuition reimbursement students still cover a significant fraction of the cost of a collage degree.
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That's a pretty sweeping statement. Education impacts all things, voting, social norms, behavior, social sentiment... all of which impact how politicians act. In addition the politicians themselves go through the public education system.
Location: Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Resume: Please email me

Email: codyhansen92 (at) gmail (.) com

Just graduated from college in May, but I've been working as a web developer for the past 2 years. Looking for any position where I can continue developing my development skills and learn new things!
If I had caught the limit of just one per customer, I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of signing up. This would be useful to me, but I had plans that required 4-5 instances, and no desire for the more expensive offerings.

ramnode has a roughly equivalent offering for $2/mo (8/q)
(Case study) 7 Steps to get $26,572.90 and 3,846 new subscribers
If they want to reach a billion people then they're going to have to live in a world of touch screen (and maybe voice).

At NDC Oslo this year there was a keynote by Luke Wroblewski on user experience on the web. There's a video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/97305189

The key takeaway was that a significant percentage of people are using their smart phones with either only their thumb or their forefinger. Many people don't even have a computing device with a traditional keyboard and full-size screen. That talk got me thinking about this question: what would programming look like if you only use your thumb?

I don't think you can write off these interfaces, rather I think we may need to start to really think about separating creation of core components of software and then orchestrating the interaction of these components as a different aspect to developing software.
While a large swath of people believe that conservatives hate women and people that aren't white, this is not the case.

Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. These three things are completely separate qualities. Some people may exhibit several of these qualities, while others do not. I imagine this is why you are being downvoted.
>It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views.

And the deaths of tens of thousands of people.