skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Skills: User Interface Design, Visual Design, HTML, CSS, Javascript / jQuery, PHP Bootstrap, CSS/SASS

Want to learn: MEAN Stack

Resume: http://bit.ly/1wRqDrw

Portfolio: http://bit.ly/1ts5542

Email: ibrahim AT ezzy.me

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iaezzy

Website: http://ezzy.me

7+ years experience in design and development for mobile/web-based systems, user interface/user experience design, and multimedia/graphic design.
Withoomph: Online logo design and creation
It happened again in Zimbabwe:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

And here is a list of it happening around the world:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#/image/File:Th...
Gradual and optional typing have become a pretty big idea over the last 6-7 years, as language designers have tried to retrofit type systems onto languages that weren't designed with them.

This idea has been showing up in industry (whether the designers call it "gradual typing" or not) with at least Hack, Flow, TypeScript, and Dart (which has optional type annotations).

You can find lots of references for useful underlying theory and research applications (the first paper that mentions "gradual typing" was Siek and Taha in 2006) at https://github.com/samth/gradual-typing-bib.

Typed Racket (http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/) is probably the best-engineered exemplar of many of these ideas, especially 1. installing run-time checks at boundaries between typed and untyped code, and 2. tackling problems of typing previously untyped code that uses rich class and interface patterns.
> The normal approach to writing scalable apps these days is the twelve factor approach

I've never even heard of this. I agree with most of this advice, but, I wouldn't exactly call it a defacto standard.
Everything already must expect it. Nothing in XML prevents "some text content <![CDATA[blah blah]]> other text content" from appearing in a text node. There is no obligation that CDATA must be the only thing in a text node. IIRC, many parsers will already return multiple nodes for text if you put an entity in the middle ("text &amp; text" coming back as three nodes), so you're already really and truly broken (i.e., not just "theoretically" broken) if you can't handle consecutive text-like nodes and merge them in some manner. This is especially true since you can entity-encode anything at all, so you already must be able to handle "hello w&#111;rld" properly anyhow or you've got a straight-up bug.
On Women, in Testing
Location: Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes and/or travel

Technologies: UI/UX, HTML (semantic/Schema.org/indie web/etc), CSS (SASS/LESS), QA, photography

Résumé: http://liamk.org/

Email: hello@liamk.org

I'm a generalist working as a front end developer. Especially interested in journalism and photo-based site UI. Also open to contract work in photography, especially towards reportage documenting the technology field or industry.
Hey there, you're so eagerly looking for engineers, maybe it is time to put some REM0TE in your postings? ;)
Boston, Software Engineer, Full-time.
embed.ly/jobs , jobs@embed.ly

Embedly is looking for a software engineer to manage our growing video analytics product. Your role will allow you to work with a firehose of real-time events data, build APIs, and create analysis tools to surface actionable information.

You would be joining a team of 9 fun people in Boston who like to work hard and have a good time. We are offering a competitive salary, equity, 401k, and health benefits. Shoot a note over to jobs@embed.ly with links to any social coding profiles you are proud of, Linkedin, and/or resume.

embed.ly/jobs#engineer
Slick. Definitely a need for this. Be more clear who you're marketing to though. Docs or Patients?

To be honest I think this is much more valuable information for docs because they are clueless in many cases regarding reimbursement amounts they should be getting for tests they perform in their practice and they would probably want this more to see what insurance companies are doing in their area with other docs to the point where they would probably pay for that info. Docs are under-served, especially in this new market, not patients - who are being over marketed to.

As I've been in healthcare for some time I know first hand that they ask for EOBs (estimation of benefits) a lot actually.

* I started a diagnostics healthcare company and many of the docs I talk to could use a service like this to help them figure out what they should be collecting on certain diagnostic tests, or if they can perform a particular kind of diagnostic test at all.
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone concentrated on compiling JS into an IL/VM type environment (Java, .NET) - so we could extend the <script> tag into other languages?

JavaScript has gotten so much traction due to the development of Node, which allows a common code base. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have Ruby/Python/Go/ASP.NET/PHP/<...> running on the browser & the server?
The Bay Area's Insane Rents, Mapped
Location: Orlando, Fl

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, UX, Design

Résumé/CV: http://cxms.me/cv-en

Email: james AT creixems DOT com

10 years of experience on front-end development and UX / UI design.
$60k/year is 1/3 to 1/2 a developer/sysadmin. If maintaining in-house systems based on open source equivalents of all of those packages would take more than 1/2 a headcount, then they are making the right choice.

And even if they could do it all in-house, that's a developer who's not working on the stuff that makes their product distinctive. Running your own email sending / file sharing / customer support tracking / project management / sales lead management software has a massive opportunity cost.
Flask API is certainly on pause while 3.1 and 3.2 are addressed yes.

After that it depends on what I feel is the most productive use of my time. Perhaps general purpose Python API tooling, that includes Flask as one of the options, or perhaps work on hypermedia stuff that I've got in my head.
Hi, We're Fractured Atlas http://www.fracturedatlas.org. We're a non-profit tech company that helps artists make their art while we handle the nitty-gritty.

We're badly in need of a UI/UX-type. We have several different tech products and each one has it's own look and feel. As we move along, we'd like the L&F of those products to converge rather than diverge.

We need someone to come in and be the authority on this sort of thing. Create a new Bootstrap theme to unify this stuff. Help us understand why this is good and this is bad.

You'll have a fair amount of authority and autonomy. Big features start out with prototyping/wireframing and this is where you'll be a big asset. Work with the biz to refine a feature before it hits the devs and becomes a thrashing boondoggle.

This position REQUIRES that you be at least familiar with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. We're good at teaching people this stuff (we run a fellowship program that teaches artists to code) but whoever comes in to this position will at least need some foundation to stand on. We'll do our best to train up the rest.

We offer all sorts of perks like a fun office, fun people to work with, and a management team that is truly willing to listen to feedback and react. A bunch of other stuff too.

NYC-based would be fantastic but a lot of us are remote so that might work too.

Email me to get in touch: gary.moore@fracturedatlas.org
Yes, I am well aware of the EFI support. But the status quo in terms of UX is hideous (barely above twm-grade), and it is currently next to impossible to use Plan 9 on a modern laptop with a touchpad.

In short, my view is that chording your way through rio using a three-button mouse is about as unfriendly as modern Gnome, and that someone ought to put a stop to that without such tomfoolery as porting another DE to Plan9.

Technological modernization won't win Plan9 new supporters, whereas UX modernization will, at worst, make it easier to use.

Edited to add: I have Acme running via plan9ports on the Mac, and even the simple addition of Cmd+C/V/etc. for copy/paste made a world of difference. I am positively thrilled with the notion of actually using it someday without constant fiddling with the Option key and my touchpad.
What if I manage my organization's domain and don't want to stick a social media link with rel="me" on the homepage to use IndieAuth?
Wickr is hiring Android and iOS developers in Newark, NJ. Email me your resume and I'll forward it to my manager. andy.triboletti@gmail.com
Moody's changes Amazon's outlook to negative
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Open for discussion

Technologies: Java, PHP, Symfony2, Play Framework, Spring MVC

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/machielmolenaar

Email: hn@machiel.me
SEEKING WORK - remote or onsite, Montreal

I am a full-stack engineer available for anything from driver development up to web and mobile work; I also organize refactoring efforts and bring best practices such as code review into companies. A discount is available for work which will be released under a free software/open source license.

I am often asked to do work outside the sphere of popular development tools, including assembly language, Modula-3, Forth, Lisp, et cetera. Unusual and interesting problems are what I like most. (Automating testing on an S/390 with tcl3270? Sure! Modernizing ancient Delphi code? Why not? Converting a C# codebase to F#? Great!)

julian@cipht.net / http://www.cipht.net/
As I understand it, it works by exploring different codepaths. So you just assign each computer to work on one seed file or codepath. Each as different as possible covering the largest area possible. After awhile then decide what paths are the most interesting to explore and reassign.
That's what I thought as well. I guess I was not that off course. But I would still need to refresh the very basic Lisp I used in college.

In any case, learning 6502 asm seems like a must like you say. I'm gonna have to try to learn a bit.
Context: worked in a high-tech company, no longer a start-up, but still growing very well. In the US, almost everybody had left at 6.30, most people at 6.00 pm. In France, as a white collar, you are expected to work until 7.30 pm minimum, often 8.00 pm, and I was.

Still today, my friends in France say that when they try to leave at 6.00 pm for whatever reason, they get jokes like "you're taking half a day off today?"

Start time was about 9.00 am on both sides. Lunch break was outside the office in France, at usually 45 minutes long. Usually a bit longer on Fridays, maybe 1:15/1:30 when no pressure. Shorter in the US, at my desk. Maybe just a company thing. The longer lunch with colleagues in France was much more efficient at fixing issues than the 20 minutes at my desk, since we talked shop a lot even though we relaxed.

Bullshit work, unnecessary meetings was about the same both sides.
News of Google breakup by EU is false, doctored by lobbyists
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Grit and Cognitive Control better indicators of Success than intelligence
There is also Spring Boot, which is very similar to Dropwizard. Both wonderful frameworks.
Um, I think the smoke and mirrors is in this explanation, which deliberately ignores a lot of things. The Federal reserve system raised interest rates in the past to deal successfully with inflation, and lowered them in the last few years to deal with deflation, and discourage hoarding of money, which happens when companies sit on their cash "until they see demand" which never materializes, lay off their workers who then spend less etc. When every individual acts in their own interest they collectively exacerbate deflationary spirals, runs on banks etc. -- in an economy with a centralized money supply this needs to be mitigated. In a society with decentralized money issuers, this is less of a concern - eg if Detroit goes bankrupt, others can swoop in and pick up the slack.

In short - no, there is no hyperinflation about to happena and in fact the US is able to borrow money and sell treasuries at record low interest rates compared to other countries. So, did the Fed also fool all the treasury market participants AROUND THE WORLD who go long US treasuries during its open market operations?
If anything, this article points out one thing to me: spend your time doing what you love. If that's work, great. If you love your family or life outside of work more, do whatever you can to spend more time with them. Sacrifice by finding a stable, well-paying yet not "exciting" job that enables you to avoid 12 hour workdays that are normal.

If your significant other says you are spending too much time at work, that means you should make the choice over what is more important. You always have a choice.
I really enjoyed this book on the discovery and definition of electromagnetism.

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics (http://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-...)
That advice is a bit dated honestly, Solr is fine but the current "best practice" if you will is to use ElasticSearch.

Not saying you can't do it with Solr or that Solr doesn't scale, it does. You'll just have an easier and more fun time doing it with ES.

Couple of related/examples:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/6/how-hipchat-stores-...

http://exploringelasticsearch.com/github_interview.html
I only skimmed the piece, but it has a self-contained TL;DR at the bottom ("morals").

If I were to make my own abridged TL;DR, it would be "aging is a human tragedy that we can and should fix"
I found that switching to googles DNS fixed those issues for me (I'm on the south shore).

There is still the occasional delay, but its similar to the ipv4 service from Comcast.
Keplar Agency - Amsterdam, Netherlands - INTERN - Full time Ruby developer

Keplar Agency is looking for a full time or freelance Ruby on Rails developer and/or trainee. We're closely related to music industry within Amsterdam area and are proud creators of "Amsterdam Music Festival", "A State of Trance", "I Am Hardwell" and many other large applications in such a fast paced environment. Moreover, we're currently building large scaled applications for clients like "Randstad" and "Max Havelaar". Our projects' base is continuously increasing with our own custom built applications and tools as well.

We work with modern tools common to the Ruby community and keep looking forward to improve our workshop. We focus using Rails, Middleman, RSpec, Sass, git, Chef to great extent and, from time to time, we use JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS to spice things up. We're keen to extend our knowledge in the very near future with technologies like Go-lang, Elixir, Docker, and anything else that sounds promising. We're a small team of 6 now, but continuously growing projects' and customers' base demands expanding and allows us to look into cooperating with other great minded developers keen to learn, teach and grow with us.

More information could be found at: http://keplaragency.com/jobs/ruby_developer and http://keplaragency.com/jobs/ruby_traineeship. Don't hesitate to contact us directly at jobs@keplar.nl to learn more or just to let us know you'd be interested in joining any position. (And mention Tom, so I could pick it up myself)
Gargantua is a spinning "Kerr" blackhole in the movie. The nearly maximally spinning blackhole is central to the movie plot as it is the reason Miller's planet can be in the orbit it is claimed to be, tidally locked to the spin direction of the blackhole. And the "accretion disc" is not really accreting into the blackhole but is just in orbit around the blackhole, cooling off. The accretion discs and the polar ejections we know from astronomy are energetic medusas that'll fry anything that so much as glances in its direction.
How come some countries have a negative -10ms *latency?
One book that I recommend to anyone looking to improve their communication skills:

Systematic Theories of Argumentation
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam041/2003046181.pdf

I took a course in college which focused upon the different ways you can perceive or approach an argument. The lessons learned apply beyond the scope of debate and argumentation, and have changed the way I look at all interactions as a form of negotiated communications.
One Codex (YC S14) – Genomic search and data platform. San Francisco, CA (https://www.onecodex.com).

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==== About Us ====

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We’re a software and biology start-up building a global data backbone and search platform for genomics – an essential piece of infrastructure for a world in which we increasingly understand health, disease, and our environment by transforming biology into data. Our first application area is pathogen detection – working with doctors, epidemiologists, and public health officials to identify and characterize the bacteria and viruses that threaten our health. And already, we’ve attracted users at many of the top public health and research organizations across the globe.

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==== About You ====

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We’re looking for talented software engineers to help us build towards our vision for a global genomics data network and enable widespread in silico diagnostics. Specifically, we’re interested in folks with a passion for and depth of experience in one or more of the following areas:

1) Full Stack Engineering: We will be building everything from developer-facing APIs to easy-to-use end applications for doctors and public health officials. You care about everything from elegant APIs to compelling data visualizations. Python experience preferred (we currently use Flask for our web backend).

2) Distributed Systems: We’re building systems for organizing and indexing billions to trillions of genomic fingerprints across the entire tree of life. You’re passionate about data structures, efficient computational solutions, and distributed systems (and don’t mind the occasional bit twiddling). We’ve built some cool initial tech in C, Nimrod, and Python (probabilistic data structures, Docker pipelines for reliably running bioinformatics workflows, etc.), and are excited about the extensive greenfield opportunities here.

3) Genomics / Computational Biology: We are tackling hard problems at the intersection of microbiology, genomics, statistics, and computer science. You have research experience or another strong connection to these fields, understand current bioinformatics tools and approaches (and their limits), and have worked extensively with next-generation sequencing data. Ideally, you also have some intuitions and strong hypotheses about how bioinformatics tools can scale for petabyte-sized reference sets.

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You’ll be one of our first hires and directly shape our technology choices, product, and business. If you’re interesting in working on large-scale data challenges of both scientific and societal importance, please send us a note at careers@onecodex.com or reach out to me directly at nick@onecodex.com.
If it entails repetitive strain syndrome, I'll pass.

As I understand it it is oriented around three buttons -- I suggest that that might be achieved with multi-touch (I can see how it might be difficult to distinguish "hold-one press two", and "hold-one press three" -- but I don't think it is insurmountable to achieve a lot with proper multi-touch and some smarts).

Are you saying my assumption is wrong?

(My only idea of ACME (apart from starting it and looking around casually) is Russ Cox' "Tour of ACME"-video posted to HN a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533156 , and the "ACME paper": http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.pdf refereed to by Rob Pike in a /. interview: http://beta.slashdot.org/story/50858).
Well, honestly said, the 10k was reported from my memory. The SACD player in the test was indeed a 10k player.

You are right that good dacs are available for less (a few hundreds). But my points were the results of the test. I tried to keep out my personal opinion. Opinions about vinyl or digital usually end in flamewars.
Cool project overall. The IndieAuth part is especially intersting. Hadn't heard of that before. Any metrics on its adoption?
How to Escape New York During a Catastrophe
Apple tumbles three percent in one minute of trading
Web Console for Lazy Django DevOps
How to E-Mail a busy person
Disco: Maximizing Lawyers Through Technology
Major thanks to Github and Feedly API's which make it really easy.
Hell yah! I'm forwarding your comment to my peeps there.
Most of my work has a single highly specific consumer: me. I'll restyle websites to remove distractions and improve clarity, focus, and readability. I do this very nearly as casually as breathing now (Chrome, Element Inspector, and Stylebot FTFW).

If you'll apply those styles to a page, you'll find that:

* Links are colored. Blue colorblindness is quite rare. That's arguably a far better choice than the orange/red links I'm seeing more frequently now. For myself, I find underlines distracting.

* On hover they're underlined and the background cover shifts.

* On click, foreground and background colors are inverted.

Your point on :focus vs. :hover is probably well-taken, though those have been equivalent for my use.

I've encountered a number of sites with disappearing sub-menus (themselves an arguably broken UI element), where the rule for visibility is :hover of the/a parent element. Which means that when the pointer moves off the parent and onto the submenu, the submenu disappears. LinkedIn has been exhibiting this recently.
> Everyone you, and I, know is probably going to suffer and perish.

Not probably, definitely. It's a fact of life.

The question is not, 'will I die?' but 'will I live?'
SEEKING WORK - remote, 5 hours ahead of San Francisco - part-time (up to 20hrs per week)

I'm a Ruby on Rails developer with 5 years of experience. I recently co-founded a startup (http://hdwr.co), but am looking for some part-time work until we raise money.

I enjoy fixing bugs, auditing code for security issues, profiling and fixing performance issues, increasing test coverage and speeding up test suites. So I would also be more than happy to help out in those areas if you have any technical debt that you would like to pay down.

GitHub profile: https://github.com/ndbroadbent
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ndbroadbent
Blog: http://madebynathan.com/

So please send me a message if I can help you in any way: http://madebynathan.com/contact/
What the heck did I just read?

It just looked like some really bad article writing program which mushed content from Wikipedia and other search terms.
Are you studying in the US?

No, Tunisia, 2nd year of CPGE (Maths/Physics), French curriculum.

What's different about these four?

It's just the names, what matters is the equations themselves I believe, the names only reflect their history (except for that third one indeed, it seems like a description but that's the actual name used[0] )

0.http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/%C3%89lectromagn%C3%A9tisme_d...
Haha, that would be an honour! Bandcamp in general is a good source of tapes, lot's of lovely music that needs more exposure!

And again, http://fangsandarrows.com/ is great if you're curious about sub-communities like these.
"One thing that's tricky about V6 is the fact that without NAT all your boxes are internet-reachable unless you have a firewall."

Maybe OSes will need to stop assuming their underbellies can be soft and implement some real host security.

Naaahhh... hell will freeze over first.
And most likely exacerbated the negative externalities. Each pencil company wants to sell as many pencils as possible, just because. Most organizations try to grow not shrink.
Site is down. Anyone have a cached version?