skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you nailed it.

This is a good example of the adaptive cycle that's used to explain behavior in complex adaptive systems of various kinds. The cycle goes through up to four phases: rapid growth, conservation, release, and reorganization.

Rapid growth happens when a relatively unexploited resource is abundant (usually after a release/reorganization) and there isn't much competition. This is like a bare field - weeds move in quickly to take up unused space.

Gradually, competition heats up as more things get in on the action. This is where optimization starts to become important, because the ones that do a better job with what's available start to come out on top, at the expense of the less-competitive ones. Late in the process, you're in the conservation phase, where it's hard to change the entrenched winners because they have all of the resources locked up (can be money, nutrients, or whatever). In the field analogy, the bigger weeds shade out the smaller ones, until eventually you have large trees taking up most of the available resources. This phase is the longest-lasting of the four in general.

The system at this point is highly optimized and dependent on the winners of the conservation phase. At some point, these few hub elements get hit by a disturbance that shakes them up a bit, and the repercussions spread throughout the whole system. If it's a big enough disturbance, the whole system can fall apart due to the loss of the hubs. This is the release (so-called because the stuff that was locked up by the entrenched players becomes available again). In the field example, this might be a blight that knocks out the climax tree species, opening tons of space for new competitors and releasing the accumulated biomass in the trees for reuse.

At this point, it's a free-for-all to see who can get a toehold first in the new rich environment, and a brief period of reorganization ensues while that's being sorted out. In the field example, this is where all of the dormant weed and tree seeds that have been waiting in the soil sprout at the same time. This quickly transitions into rapid growth again, and the whole thing repeats.

It's also an instance of self-organized criticality, where a system tends to evolve toward a critical state (i.e. local disturbances can have global implications).

There are ways to manage this cycle to some extent when you're aware of it - primary among them is to deliberately introduce disturbances to shake up the formation of the conservation phase and loosen the connections that have built up. Basically, you introduce more randomness into the works in order to keep things from becoming overly optimized (or highly correlated, in the language of self-organized criticality).
Wasn't the shuttle part of the older tech that was built on air decades ago, but the rocket on earth built out of the last pieces of scrap parts?
Harvard University - Cambridge MA / Greater Boston Area

This is a somewhat strange job offer, it will not be like most other jobs posted here.

I am looking for someone to replace me as a researcher in Jennifer Lewis' 3D printing lab[0] at Harvard. Jennifer is a world leader in 3D printing of novel materials, and her lab has some of the most precise 3D printers in the world.

You will be the only software developer in the group, and will be responsible for designing tools that keep the printers running, tools that make other researchers designs easier to implement, tools that automate the printing process, and in general any tools you think would make the lab more efficient. You will be a part of world class research, and your work will directly effect the process.

You need to be a incredibly self directed person, as you will be the only software developer in the lab. Passion for 3D printing and the ability to work directly with the end users of your software are a must. Experience designing GUIs is preferred.

Most of the tools I've built up are in python, so experience there would be a plus. For an example of tools you would be working on, see this github repo:

https://github.com/jminardi/mecode

For more information contact me at jack @ minardi . org

[0]: http://lewisgroup.seas.harvard.edu
Inbox | https://www.inboxapp.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Mission) | Frontend (JS), Design, Backend (Systems+Ops)
Hi! We're "The Company Formerly Known As Inbox,"[0] and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for frontend engineers and designers and systems and infrastructure/operations engineers to join us.

Companies are building their core businesses around our email API right now, and that means we have to be reliable, up all the time, and fast. We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. That means big technical challenges to solve as we scale out our fledgling distributed backend. If you have experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code, this job might be for you. :)

Many people spend their entire days buried in mail clients which haven't significantly changed in years. That means many opportunities to tackle UX challenges as we build out our client scaffolds and create a new framework for the next generation of mail apps. (Ever meet anyone who really loves their email experience? We want to change that.) Sound exciting to you? Apply here.

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership.

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team.

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that.

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on tools like Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, Docker, and Debian. Go is likely to join this list soon. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* Our frontend projects use Coffeescript, React, (Re)Flux, WebSQL for offline caching, Atom Shell (NodeJS + Chromium), with a strong focus on extensibility.

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/inboxapp

* We're 46% women on our team of 13 (12 engineers), including 1 of 2 cofounders. We want to make that number 50%.

* Our sunny Mission office is more lived-in than tidy. Think art studio, not corporate.

* We're more likely to end up at the climbing gym or on a bike ride together than out drinking at the latest startup event.

* We have an open vacation policy and value personal responsibility and ownership.

Apply via Lever at https://www.inboxapp.com/jobs. Include a cover letter letting us know what draws you to the job. We welcome and encourage applications from women and people of colour.

[0] A certain large company recently launched a product of the same name, so we're going to change ours soon. Roll with the punches, eh?
Why would an employee work for less than the value they are creating?

When two parties are negotiating a deal which creates value, both parties want to capture as big a share of that value as possible; the outcome will depend on the relative strength of their negotiating positions.

Let's say you have a machine that can make hot dogs for $3, and a concession at a sports event where you can sell hot dogs for $8. You're busy that day, so you hire me to take the cash and hand out the hot dogs.

The combination of your machine and my work generates $5 of value for each hot dog sold. If you capture all $5 I have no incentive to work; if I capture all $5 you have no incentive to lend me the machine. So how much will each of us capture?

If you have time and you can find some third party willing to do the work for $0.50 per hot dog you'll have a strong negotiating position - either I accept $0.50 per hot dog or you have the other guy do it.

On the other hand, if it's at the last minute and you can't find anyone, and there's another guy offering me $4 per hot dog, I'm in a much stronger negotiating position.

The amount of value an employee creates represents an upper bound on how much value they can expect to capture - job market competition provides the lower bound.
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, most cities on the east coast
Technologies: C# / .Net, Django, Angular, Git, *nix
Resume: howard.io
GitHub: https://github.com/a-out
Email: richard [at] howard [dot] io

I'm Richard Howard, a generalist developer and problem solver currently working remotely for a large US technology corportation. I take a keen interest in all aspects of business, and love communicating and cooperating with others (in person and remotely). I recently wrote a complex internal monitoring system in C# / .Net, with an ASP.Net / AngularJS UI, and had a blast doing it. I've been moving toward more functional C#, and would be very open to transitioning to F#.
I'm not a lawyer - is this a done deal? With FedEx they were working full time, right? If someone is driving for both Uber and Lyft, isn't it hard to say they should be an employee of one or the other?
DataStax | REMOTE | Software Engineer | https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oy1KZfw2&s=Hacker_News:_Matt

DataStax, the company that powers the online applications that transform business, is looking for a talented full-stack Developer to work on the OpsCenter - DSE (Monitoring team). This position will be located anywhere in the US.

We hack in Python, Clojure, and JavaScript. And Cassandra of course.
TATCHA • WEB SOFTWARE ENGINEER • SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Email careers@tatcha.com.

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ABOUT US

TATCHA is a young, innovative luxury beauty company based in San Francisco with a focus on E-Commerce excellence. We're growing our web team to build out the next generation of innovative features for our website and tech ecosystem to delight our customers all around the world.

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ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY

• Modern LAMP/PHP stack
• ExpressionEngine and Magento
• Grunt/Compass/SASS asset pipeline
• jQuery/Angular.js frontend

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ABOUT THE POSITION

TATCHA is a small and growing company, so you would be joining as a key member of the team, owning features from inception to deployment to maintenance, and being responsible for major parts of our web infrastructure.
On our web team, you would be deploying features to our customers on a daily basis. Here's an example of some of the challenges we're building for right now:

• Introducing live interactive audio and video skin consultations and checkout assistance in the browser.
• Building and iterating on beautiful interactive brand introduction web experiences on desktop and mobile.
• Revising our fragment and full-page caching structure to deliver static and catalog pages lightning fast.

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SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of professional experience building websites and web apps
• Fluency in HTML/CSS/Javascript, ideally also in Bootstrap, jQuery, and Angular.js
• Familiarity with Grunt asset pipeline or comparable frontend frameworks (Sprockets, Rails, etc.)
• Experience with full LAMP stack or comparable (e.g., RoR) environment
• Proficiency in maintaining a modern webdev pipeline or willingness to learn; our pipeline includes scrum, Trello, git (BitBucket), Cloudflare, zero-downtime rollouts, and sync and setup scripts

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We're looking for creativity, intelligence, and initiative, and we care about that much more about that than experience with our specific stack. If you're interested in joining a fantastic team to own and build our next generation of web experiences, please write to us at careers@tatcha.com.
I would be less concerned about hackers than old-school espionage. That's actually my biggest concern with large-scale data collection in general: if the US government requires data to be collected, that means mechanisms exist within private enterprise to collect and share the data. Hostile state actors can then use classic espionage tactics (false flag ops, social engineering, romance scams, etc.) to infiltrate those organizations and gather the data themselves because it's already being collected and shared in an aggregated manner.

I guarantee there are state intelligence agencies (both US and non-US) with "assets" at Uber with access to this information. This is bread and butter espionage - plant or recruit employees at private companies with access to the information you need.
This seems like the case of a very specific problem for a large network. I don't believe that in a typical home or small office setting this would have a bad effect.
> I'm curious as to whether this borderline religious anti-C++ attitude is common in the Java/Android ecosystem, or an outlier? I found it really bizarre.

It's a well known result of theory and practice among people who start delving into more provably safe languages.
Visidraft (www.visidraft.com).

Contact me directly and mention you saw us on HN: Andrew@visidraft.com

We are leading the revolution in Architectural, Engineering and Construction (A/E/C) Sales, Project Management and Design by fusing 3D CAD with Augmented Reality.

Our team is small (CTO, CEO, three contractors) and we need to expand!

Headquartered in Cheverly, MD (1 Mi from D.C.) we are hiring part time with the possibility of full time by January. Remote work is fine for iOS and CAD positions however we prefer +- 4 hours from EST.

Positions:

Lead iOS engineer ($70-90k):

- Needs to be able to turn our C++ into Obj C

- Needs to know iOS memory management like no one else

- Experience with 3D rendering (OpenGL preferred) is awesome

- Experience developing/implementing APIs also huge

- Fluent English and with excellent communications required

A/E/C Sales & Business Development ($70-90k) Must be in the D.C. metro area

- Must have extensive experience in A/E/C as Architect,
Project manager, Construction Engineer or A/E/C sales/BD

- Must be expert at developing presentations and speaking to large groups

- Ideally have a large network of stakeholders in the A/E/C market

- Must be an amazing negotiator

3D CAD Modelers ($50-70k)

- Needs to be expert in texture baking and polygon optimization

- Should be expert with 3D Max

- Experience with Revit, Sketchup and AutoCad is major perk

- Fluent English and with excellent communications required

For every position, applicants need to be self starters and take general direction.
Person A says "I have a brain tumor!"
Boss of Person A fires person A for poor performance.
Person A sues company of Boss of person A for firing due to a medical condition.

From my limited legal knowledge, it seems like this is the argument for why they try to avoid outside of work knowledge being viewed by those in a hiring/firing/promotion position over you. It is kind of a joke, because if you are out for 8 weeks for chemo, clearly something is up... but somehow just knowing something is up is different from knowing you have cancer?
Sense - San Francisco or Remote | https://sense.io

We're building a next-generation platform for data science and big data analytics built by and for data scientists. We're a small team, venture backed, and located in San Francisco.

Fullstack Engineer - We're looking for somebody to help accelerate development across our entire stack. You should have experience building complex JavaScript web applications and developer-friendly REST APIs. You'd be a core member of our team with the opportunity to make a massive impact. Our stack consists of AngularJS, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker, Firebase, and lots of data science tools. Strong JavaScript/AngularJS/NodeJS skills a must. Experience in data science and Hadoop/Spark a plus but not required.

Compensation: Significant equity and competitive salary. We're located in San Francisco (SOMA) but have a office culture that supports remote team members.

Want to chat? Email tristan@sense.io.
He's looking for a cofounder
Or, in most companies, you don't get any extra day off at all, but you're allowed to take two 15 min breaks per day. Which doesn't make a difference in practice.
Hehe wow it's funny to see my words written by someone else, I've come out of the other end of this, for three months I'd be surprised to be alive in the morning after nights of wakin up to chest pains (when I was 22 and relatively healthy). Like everything it can change you, it gave me a different way of seeing the world and I can slip back into that cold mindset to consider things when I need a bit of distance. It also gave me even more appetite for doing fun things and staying true to my natural, childish disposition :)

I'll never forget the ceiling of the apartment I spent so many nights waking up in pain seeing, or the sun shining on the wall in the mornings as I thought "oh, I'm alive!"

Best of luck to you too friend.
Program drones with a simple Python API
Do they give out awards for that sort of thing? "Best slider of 2014"

The backend is using Node.js for the server and parser. Everything is in MongoDB and hosted on Heroku. I really love that stack for rapid prototyping, this project took me roughly 3-4 hours from start to finish.
ISPs Using Man-In-The-Middle Attacks to Block Encryption
What are the implications of using a laptop on a public Wifi where you don't control the router? (Or a friend's house, or anywhere else where the router isn't yours).

OS-level firewall, I guess? Which maybe you should probably have anyway?
Perl Advent Calendar 2014
But of course no one uses either when there's Atom/GitHub's favorite: CSON. https://github.com/bevry/cson
Webinar: So You Think You Know the Cloud
I do not think anything you say here contradicts what I originally said. Yes, there are economic reasons why this makes sense, probably having to do with labor compensation.

Having said that, please excuse my ignorance on system administration but, how does running a virtual machine that pretends to be a Linux/x64 box... on top of a real Linux/x64 box saves anybody at least some time? As a software developer who drank the Java kool-aid back in the 90, at least the "write once, run everywhere" mantra did make some kind of sense in those terms, but this other example is genuinely beyond me.

To me it has more to do with a tech company being able to put together an A-class team to serve a large number of customers that would not stand to pay the salary of a single full-time B-level IT guy if their business model depended on it.
Did you contact Comcast about this issue? I know some of the folks involved with the IPv6 rollout there and they are VERY focused on making the IPv6 experience as painless as possible.
Location: Budapest, Hungary

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies and skills: marketing and sales of new products (anything IT-related), growth hacking

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: ddebernardy at gmail dot com

MS in Telco Engineering, MS in Marketing and Management; bilingual English/French, adequate German; lived in over a dozen countries.

Experienced in marketing and sales; in defining, refining, launching and growing new products; in software engineering (PostgreSQL, PHP, Ruby, JS); and in network engineering (network architecture, financial extranets).
You can't just switch this stuff out overnight. Give it time and Amazon will probably run most of their FCs off Kiva robots, but there will also be some FCs that don't adopt them because their items are too large, oddly-shaped, or other reasons.
> Wonder if there's some standardized "XML Basic Profile" that's a as minimal as possible

If you ignore Schema (and all the WS-* stuff that requires them), the rest is as simple as it comes, even if you include DTDs. Which is why XML is used in a number of roles and people at one point thought it was the best invention since sliced bread.
Streamroot | Fulltime | Paris | pluginless Peer to Peer assisted video streaming technology. www.streamroot.io

We are a French startup planning to revolutionize the world of online video delivery. We have participated in Le Camping Paris and Techstars Boston accelerating programs, and are growing very quickly !

Our Stack : JavaScript. NodeJS, Redis, Mongo, WebRTC

We are looking for :
- an experimented Scalability Engineer who will help us scale our trackers to sustain millions of concurrent connections.
- A Media Player engineer to build and adapt our p2p module to all the major web video players, on desktop, set top boxes and mobile.

More details on the postions here :
http://www.streamroot.io/jobs#dev1
I've never seen that for "cadres" - it's always a day rate ("forfait jour"). Maybe it was for non-cadre office workers? Like call centers or something like that?
> That kind of makes economic sense (because customers have a big appetite for computing power... just as long as they do not have to keep those pesky sysadmins on the payroll), but from a purely technological point of view is craziness.

...which is part of the reason why you're seeing people in Linuxland rediscover things (LXC) the BSD community (Jails) have known for ages.
The Python library cgkit already supports Aqsis, Pixie, and 3Delight, by the way.

Cycles is also free, open source, and cross-platform, and Cycles seems to be both further ahead than either Aqsis or Pixie and moving faster. However, it could use someone to make a Python interface for it.
Demac Media - Toronto, ON / GTA

We're mid-sized ECommerce shop that works exclusively with Magento / Shopify. We're always hiring, specifically for LAMP experts. Our company is founded by 2 software engineers and as such, its everything you would expect being from being engineering focused (video games, height adjustable desks, axe throwing, beer, etc etc)

http://www.demacmedia.com/careers/

If you're in Toronto or the GTA area, look us up. We're moving into a brand new space right on Yonge St, across from the Eaton Center in February.

Email hr at demacmedia.com
Condolences to Ezra's family. He'll be missed my many lucky people whom he influenced.
Condolences to Ezra's family. He'll be missed by so many lucky people whom he influenced.
It's certainly not JUST and only tech. I weigh in on everything from design to business to HR. I'm not a CEO, but a large part of my contribution is certainly business strategy and tactics. I'm decently well-read in starting start-ups and have started a couple myself. I care a lot about strategy and it's a lot of what we talk about.

It's just the two of us. Thanks so much for the link. It really does point me in the right direction.
Managing Broker Kyle Rank’s View on How to Succeed in Real Estate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole would seem to indicate that there's a non-zero travel time through one.

> However, in 1962 John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller published a paper showing that this type of wormhole is unstable if it connects two parts of the same universe, and that it will pinch off too quickly for light (or any particle moving slower than light) that falls in from one exterior region to make it to the other exterior region.
Sense - San Francisco or Remote | https://sense.io

We're building a next-generation platform for data science and big data analytics built by and for data scientists. We're a small team, venture backed, and located in San Francisco.

JavaScript Engineer - We're looking for somebody to help accelerate development across our entire stack on a freelance basis. You should have experience building complex JavaScript web applications and developer-friendly REST APIs. Our stack consists of AngularJS, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker, Firebase, and lots of data science tools. Strong, demonstrable JavaScript/AngularJS/NodeJS skills a must.

Compensation: Competitive. We're located in San Francisco (SOMA) but have a office culture that supports remote team members.

Interested? Email tristan@sense.io with portfolio or resume that demonstrates NodeJS/AngularJS experience.