skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dimagi (www.dimagi.com) - Boston (technically Cambridge), MA and Cape Town, South Africa

Role: Software Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder

Dimagi is a rapidly growing social enterprise based in Boston that develops and deploys open source health and logistics systems primarily for underserved communities in developing countries. At Dimagi, we take pride in our work and keep the big picture in mind. We’re an inclusive group that has diverse experiences and interesting stories and insight to our work around the world.

With Dimagi, you can work in a fun and stimulating environment, and have the chance to travel and explore. Most importantly, you will truly have the opportunity to make a difference in places that need it most. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, keeping us all honest about what we're in it for.

We're looking for talented programmers who want to generalize across the stack, or specialize in one area of our mobile (Android), web (Python, Django, CouchDB, Postgres), and front-end (KnockoutJS) platforms.

For more information, check out our careers page at http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers.
Terminal.com - San Francisco - Engineer

Simple, fast, powerful computing environments
Yes. I've commented on this sort of thing before, but my preference for OpenBSD over other things really boils down to the Just Works factor, and the simplicity and transparency of the system. I usually find that getting things going on OpenBSD is straightforward and well documented, which saves me time and aggravation. The offline factor is handy for my work, and OpenBSD really shines here.

I think the more interesting question is why OpenBSD over Linux (which distro?) or FreeBSD. For me, this comes down to preference for simplicity, an absence of weird abstractions over top of simple things like networking, and confidence in the quality of the base system. I like FreeBSD and happily use it in several instances (freebsd-update is pretty great for online updating), but have had very mixed results with Linux systems (mostly debian and ubuntu). Sometimes things work, and sometimes I waste hours trolling through internet forums trying to figure out how to make it do what I want.

Really though, if you want to know what the difference is, you should just try it. Pull down the ISO, fire up a VM, do the install, and then try to get some work done. Take the time to read the man pages for afterboot, pkg_add and rc.conf.local, and you'll be on your way. The worst that could happen is you don't like it..
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML/CSS, Javascript/Jquery/Ember/Angular

Github: https://github.com/enilsen16

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdnilsen

Resume: http://tinyurl.com/eriknilsen

Email: erik@erikdnilsen.com

I am interested in learning and working new technologies and services.
"you have problem with your gov and your laws, not bitcoin or tip4commit."

"In some countries it is illegal to send unsolicited emails about services."

No, that sounds like a damn sensible law that I do not want to see changed, thanks.
I wish "podcasts" weren't a thing.

What I mean is, a podcast is nothing but a regular file served from a web page. That's it.

And yet, by maintaining this false category, the end user is funneled through all manner of ridiculous and frustrating extra steps and wasted time just to ... wait for it ... download a regular file.

Every major media creator that has made their audio content available as a "podcast" makes it near impossible to simply grab the file. This has created a huge amount of confusion among non-tech folks who think some kind of special thing is happening when they click whatever weirdo pseudo-streaming "let's cycle through 8 different 250-character URLs before we feed the data to your browser raw" button ... "what app should I use to listen to this podcast ?" "how do I get this podcast onto my iDevice", etc.

I should be able to fetch/wget any podcast without doing major surgery on a webpage, downloading an intermediate XML file and then wading through it until I see a link.
Khan Academy Open Source Projects
Between an hour long daily commute, the gym, and a life toiling away in a lab, I consume 4-6 hours worth of podcasts a day. I haven't seen anyone in this thread mention Stitcher Radio. Stitcher is by far the easiest way to consume podcasts, and is easily my most-used app.

As mentioned earlier, I think the increased prevalence of 4G/LTE wireless speeds have led to this renaissance. Also, it is now much easier to produce and distribute a podcast. The fact that advertisers are willing to shell out $5k for a 30 second ad spot certainly helps encourage the production of quality podcasts. Podcasts also provide an avenue for content delivery to those who are terrible writers, but incredible speakers.

For the HN crowd, I suggest checking out the Startup Podcast by Alex Blumberg of Planet Money fame (http://hearstartup.com). It's a brutally honest, often painful portrayal of a completely inexperienced guy ditching his comfortable life in order to start a podcasting company. Listening to him pitch Chris Sacca will cause you to scream out "WTF!" in sheer frustration. But good for Alex -- he's taking a risk that most only dream about.
Location: Ukraine

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at the moment.

Technologies: mostly front-end stuff currently - JS/Coffee, sass, backbone, node, react. Past: python, java, android/j2me.
Played with Go, Elixir.

Résumé/CV: http://gothy.me

Email: dmitry.utkin@gmail.com

Interested in building web projects from top to bottom, user experience, solving highload problems.
In terms of credibility and association you might want to see the Senate of Canada hearing on bitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNGFZDO8mM

The US Internal Revenue Service has published guidance on the treatment of bitcoin for tax purposes, and New York has passed bitcoin regulation.

Like these rules or not, in most countries bitcoin's legality is completely clear. There are some that consider it illegal, but most _explicitly_ do not.

I personally purchase almost everything with bitcoin including groceries (Amazon Fresh). I do nothing illegal with bitcoin, and I report my income and capital gains. There is no question as to my bitcoin's provenance, I purchase bitcoin from a public exchange, and keep records of these transactions as I would for stock or a large amount currency exchanges.

I do this because I like bitcoin, because it's very convenient to do these types of online transactions, and because there are essentially no transaction fees. I do not hold funds in bitcoin long for these uses (basically cash transactions), but separately I occasionally hold bitcoin for investment speculation (full disclosure I am not currently holding any bitcoin for investment). However that is unrelated to how I typically use bitcoin on a day to day basis, and I do not recommend bitcoin investment to anyone without a very high volatility tolerance (Although unlike stocks it is easy to hold very small amounts of bitcoin for the learning experience).

In other words it is a completely normal monetary/investment instrument, albeit a new and interesting technology. As for scams I have yet to hear of any bitcoin scams that are not simply cash based scams already common in existing currencies, and I see far more news these days about startups, government review, legitimate ideas for new uses and novel innovations enabled by bitcoin's technology than regarding scams.

Technology that relates to money concerns people, and rightly so. Every bitcoin user I've ever met started as a sceptic, both in terms of the technology and the concepts of money. However, these people then learned how the technology works and become more literate about how economics and monitory theory work, and only then did they start to see and accept the innovation.

The politics and morals of people associated with bitcoin are an entirely tangential discussion, and as with any group it is probably not a good idea to generalize.
Mindfull News – Adventures in consciousness
Emigration tends to be from poor countries to rich countries.

In my experience the poorer people in rich countries tend to be less in favour of immigration than rich people in those countries.
You could do it by going to the U.S. to give birth, assuming that the other countries of citizenship didn't then deny it to the children as a result.
Fun fact: mitsuhiko also asked a fork of Tip4Commit to remove his projects. Now their page states [1]:

> This project has been disabled. It doesn't accept donation and it will not distribute tips.

> Reason: Project author request: https://github.com/sigmike/peer4commit/issues/110

On the other hand, Tip4Comment has only this notice [2]:

> Project maintainers have decided not to notify new contributors about tips and they probably don't like this way of funding.

[1]: http://prime4commit.com/projects/129

[2]: https://tip4commit.com/github/mitsuhiko/flask
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What part of you needed to write a function was unclear? o.O

Counting an array is a safe operation.
Yeah, HipChat definitely has its own issues. The notifications are kinda crude and the integrations aren't as good as in Slack.
there are normal people on this thread ;)
I would perhaps say that Adam Curtis has a great knowledge of recent history, rather than understanding. His work portrays history as an unending sequence of conspiracies. While I greatly enjoy his work, I would in no way consider him an historian. More of a political artist than anything, in that his work relies primarily on implication, association and inspiration, rather than empirical evidence.
Interesting tutorial. Never had to deal with this problem but might in the future. Thank you
I am pretty confused about your comment, care to explain?
Any child born on US soil is a automatically a US citizen according to the Fourteenth Amendment. Even the children of illegal immigrants and tourists automatically gain US citizenship at birth.
are you single? ;-)
Except for Siri (and presumably Google), you have to actively press a button and trigger it to listen. It's not constantly listening and uploading.
> A quick Google search suggests it is not at all obvious to many how to do a parametrised query with an IN-clause using PDO.

Alot of programmers can't do FizzBuzz either. If you can't figure out how to iterate and count an array on your own...

I'm sorry but I have 0 sympathy.
Keep on trollin'
Correction #1:

> By "3 million, in the UK" do you actually mean "2.5 million, worldwide"?

Correction #2:

> Tabacco is also only 5 million worldwide.

Note the use of the word 'also'. It means in addition to.

> It's right next to the number you intended.

Why bring it up, if the numbers are right next to each other? Who's being pedantic?

> And you keep acting like his number is wrong.

His numbers are wrong, if the point being my numbers were wrong. If he knew about both sets of figures, would he have still quoted 2.5/5 million? No!

I've not tried to make the figures out to be larger than they are. I made a mistake with where they apply.

Just because I didn't link to a set of figures (can't link to everything), doesn't mean they're not correct.

People are acting like I pulled the numbers out of my ass. And apparently I'm prone to hyperbole (see nagrom's comment).

> Tabacco is also only 5 million worldwide.

The dude can't spell 'tobacco'. That's nitpicking!
I sent you an email but did not hear back from you.
You might not get cash stolen, but might still worry about getting carjacked
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in SW Ontario, Canada

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan

Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told, _kohanz_ was one of the few that I would still continue working with. He is skillful, honest and up front, knows what he is doing and does his job very quickly and within the time frame promised at the beginning."

Experienced (10+ years) developer of software for medical devices and scientific applications, many with an imaging component. Have architected and led teams to deliver on software for systems in both diagnostic and interventional contexts. Comfortable working in an FDA-regulated & ISO 13485 compliant quality system.

I excel at iterating research or early-stage prototypes (e.g. MATLAB developed by researchers) into commercial-grade software ready to impress the right audience (clinicians, investors, etc.). Developing scientific applications involves a high degree of uncertainty and requires an engineer that actively participates in all phases of the SDLC (e.g. requirements gathering, risk analysis, etc.). My ability to communicate has always led to my role as the technical point of contact for researchers, clinicians (surgeons, radiologists, etc.), and senior executives.

One of my current freelance projects is creating a software application to drive the receive/transmit of a novel ultrasound transducer and then scan-convert the signal into an image in real-time. Outside of the medical domain, my development projects have included an automated stock-trading engine (including backtesting suite) and various sports analytics software solutions.

Technical keywords: C++, C#, Java, Matlab, VTK, ITK, OpenCV, GPGPU, Rails, R, Python, and more.
If you're concerned about electrolytes, I just invented a much better solution - just wringe your t-shirt after a ride and pour the water into a bottle, you'll have all the ions back
Issues with touch events
Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, definitely

Technologies: Python, Django, Lisp, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL and so on.

Resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30009304/My_CV-2.pdf

Email: timofei dot shatrov at gmail

Looking for software developer job, preferably in Europe, but anything goes.
> It's funny that people seem to be accepting always-on GSM network connectivity of the electronics in control of their cars

Shit, I'm not. OnStar freaks me the fuck out; one of many reasons I'll never buy a GM car.
I'm a big fan of the DOS nostalgia podcast: http://www.dosnostalgia.com/?cat=91 It only comes out once every few months, but the interviews and discussions are awesome if you're nostalgic for DOS & early home computing topics. The interview with Jim Leonard/Trixter on the early days of the PC is my favorite so far: http://www.dosnostalgia.com/?p=329 It's also a fun podcast because the host grew up in the Soviet Union so you get a different take on what was happening in DOS compared to the west.
and has all the electrolytes...
Nothing in this post or at the linked site explains what the hell your company does!
Yeah but in EEA you don't have to explain just how you're a Computer Systems Analyst and not a software developer
Location: Chicago, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Web, LAMP, Linux, Adobe, Photography, Financial Trading Systems, and Email Marketing Systems

Programming Languages: HTML(5), CSS(3), PHP, Python, Ruby, C/C++, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, BASH, Processing, Makefile, TCL, mySQL

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherbrueck

Email: chrisbrk1 at the gmail

hmmm...does this form xss??? j/k
Help fix the legal industry – Clerky is looking for employee #2
I personally am frustrated by sites that do this. The blogger example is particularly good as to why. I keep triggering it when I'm simply trying to scroll down an article or pan over an image.
Bitcoin has no value. It has a price, but not a value. Dutch tulip bulbs, 2008 Sacramento real estate devlopments, Pets.com stock all had prices at some point, but their value was always less than its price.
FundHub: A new perspective on funding and investment – Early access
i consider myself a fairly smart and technical human being, but a good photo storage solution is something I still haven't figured out. I want all my photos on an external drive that is also backed up to backblaze. But I also want that external drive backed up to dropbox so that I can access my photos from my phone. Between dropbox wanting to auto-sync my phone pics, itunes backing up my phone, lightroom's photo library management, my external drive issue, etc, I'm at a loss how to organize everything.
Not really DevOps, but it's my main ("desktop") OS. I know it well, it's pretty damn secure, and it's an excellent development environment - good docs and lots of features that crash bad software.
Kittens are nice, but I don't think they should be automatically posted to everyone.

Not all of the time, anyway.
I was riffing on an idiom and your apparent interest in hemp.

The use of the idiom in this situation would be something like "If industrial hemp production is allowed in the United States, I'll eat my hat.", meaning that you don't think it will ever happen.

So I was joking that if it did become legal, because of your appreciation for the material, at least the hat you would have to eat would be made out of hemp.
I don't think the second part of your comment is correct and the fact that this situation about tip4commit and discussions around it makes it to seam correct forces me to dislike it [tip4commit] even more. I mean, there isn't really "two armies" fighting each other: "old world" vs "bitcoin-ish world" with completely polar ideologies, there's no black and white. So when someone on one side is doing some ridiculous nonsense it doesn't make the other side automatically "the right one" and vice versa. Even not being part of Bitcoin community I personally think there's quite real need in "cultural revolution" of some sort, because what you are calling the "old world" isn't really "old" one as you surely understand yourself: it's quite significant part of the only world we are living in, and it is as full with nonsense as the "new, revolutionary" one.

I mean, there truly is quite a lot things that one can disagree with about the "old" world, maybe even somewhat forcefully, in "Gandhi's way" rather than "Kant's way". So when somebody associated with the "new" world behaves stupid he causes much more harm for the supporters of all kind of "cultural revolutions", because makes them look like a bunch of idiots no matter how different from each other their actual beliefs and reasoning may be.
I don't know if this is retro "computing" but the Internet History Podcast is cool.
Jeff Hawkins on the Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks
You might enjoy reading http://arachnoid.com/sailbook/
Sugarcube - San Francisco, CA

(www.getsugarcube.com)

We currently working on shipping our first product - a wireless HDMI cable for all your portable devices. It lets you seamlessly stream from any device and OS (iOS, Android, Win, Mac, Linux, etc..) to a HDMI enabled screen.

Get in touch with us if you are passionate about:

- ARM based mini-computers,
- the Android platform / boot2gecko,
- Go,
- Wi-Fi,
- and building beautiful, simple and fun products.

Send an email to jobs [at] getsugarcube.com with your resumé (or CV) and tell us about your passions and what "simple" means to you.
Yes, John and Fran Allen wrote the first optimizing fortran compiler and developed most of the optimization techniques and analysis used by subsequent compilers.

I knew John and it was that work that led him to design an instruction set optimized for compilers that was implemented in the 801. I'm less aware of George's contribution. Perhaps you could enlighten me.
It's a cool hack -but they forgot to ask for permission from the people they "collect" money for.

And when asked, they refuse to remove the code and instead spew out asshat logick...

Thanks for fucking with OSS, guys!
Location: Luxembourg (GMT+1)

Remote: Yes

Relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure, Java, Prolog, some JS, Delphi, VB, R...

Github / CV: https://github.com/dmichulke/

eMail: dmichulke@hotmail.com, replace hot by g.

Focus on Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Quantitative Finance...
Modernizing the codebase? I think 'simplifying' is the right word. If OpenBSD is anything it is simple and easy to understand, but it is not modern. That's why it is secure.
What's the difference between that and any other type of media on the internet? Take YouTube videos for example. An MP4 video file is also "nothing but a regular file served from a web page," yet YouTube doesn't include a "download" link for any videos on their site.
I don't think PDO supports this AFAIK.
I strongly disagree with this advice.

There is no faster way to suck the emotion out of a relationship than to put a schedule at the center of it, and hiding behind the excuse of the schedule is just deferring responsibility.
"No 14 year old", really? In some private schools I know, that's how you're expected to talk to your teachers, and fourteen-year-old kids are certainly able to learn to do it.
Chicago Pile 1 – The First Nuclear Reactor
As long as Disney and Mickey Mouse exist, that 70+ years will be extended ad infinitum.
try to get 10 customers and then email them and ask what they like/dislike about ur startup
Namco, Atari, Gottlieb/Mylstar, and Williams/Bally/Midway (now held by Warner, I think) actively enforce the rights on these old ROMs. Not as sure about Sega, Data East, Taito, and Konami.
Yeah sure, I use Podcast addict. It let's you search and subscribe and either stream or download for offline playback. It also works with your chromecast.

Here's my list (warning it's long and some may no longer be alive):

- active time babble
- retronauts (there's a run of the show from 1up.com that's dead, and a new run that's in progress)
- 2 dudes and a nes
- all gen games
- ANTIC - the atari 8-bit podcast
- arcade and retro.com
- arcade hunters
- arcade impossible
- arcade outsiders
- arcade repair tips
- arcade tired
- armchair arcade radio
- brokentoken classic arcade
- cactus jacks arcade podcast
- catridge freaks
- chicken lips radio
- completely unnecessary podcast
- factory sealed
- famicom flashbacks
- floppydays vintage computing
- game boy crammer
- gameroom junkies arcade
- gaminghistory101
- genesis gems
- guys games and beer
- hardcore gaming 101
- how I started my own arcade
- insert coin
- jmac's arcade
- knights of the arcade
- last coin at the arcade
- lazy game reviews
- matt chat
- nes podcast
- nintendojo
- no quarter
- one man & his mic
- player one podcast
- radio free nintendo
- retro asylum podcast
- retro computing roundtable
- retro gaming roundup
- retro junkies minies
- retro junkies network
- retro obscura
- retro rejects
- retro rundown's podcast
- retrobits podcast
- retrocollect fm
- retrocore
- retrogaming with racketboy
- retrograde
- retrospin
- sprite castle
- super arcade theater
- super gamer arcade
- tadpog
- ten pence arcade
- the arcade (there's 2 of them)
- the atari 2600 game
- the c64 take-away podcast
- the colecovisions podcast
- the intellivisionaries podcast
- the mustache arcade
- the nes club presents
- pinball blahcade
- retro junkies super show
- the retro league
- retro tech addict's podcast
- retrobits podcast
- tone control
- vgmpire
- watch out for firewalls
No, I've never taken psychedelics. I don't need them. My mind is already operating at full capacity without them. When I notice that something bothers me, I think about it, sometimes for a month or so. Eventually I will find the answer to the problem.
On the other hand, as far as I know most systems don't bundle security features in their standard allocators. I'm not sure any non-bsd system does.