skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who thinks $140/hr (or whatever per project rate is) is too high, consider the following.

My CPA in a Midwest/Great Plains rural town of 10K people charges $175/hour. Her firm has 5 other CPAs. The town has around 20 CPAs total.

My attorney charges $90/hour for advice only. Nothing else. $90/hour just to discuss a problem (pro rated per minute) or BS. If there's real work to be done (contract creation/review, legal issues, etc), it's more. He's in a town of 2K people.

Auto dealers in towns/cities ranging from 5K to 200K population are charging between $90-120/hour for mechanic's labor. Not including parts/supplies. Oil changes at many dealerships range from $45 to $70. (Oil changes at mom and pops run $25-30.)

Dentists? I just saw an ad for a newly opened dental office in a metro area. Special for cleaning, x-rays and such was like $75 from a regular rate of around $350.

Electricians? $80-100+/hr easily for a good journeyman or master. Not including service call charge. That was in 2011. ( A good electrician rate thread from 2009: http://www.electriciantalk.com/f15/when-did-you-last-raise-y... )

$40-75 to mow your lawn. $40-50 to clean snow from your driveway.

Technologists make things which can bring in (or save) hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, but seem to consistently undervalue their worth.
While I have your attention, assuming SSD with typical 128k erase blocks, do you do anything special to avoid write amplification at the disk level when reusing pages? My understanding is that those are in-place updates from the filesystem's POV, so writing over 32k of old pages will cause 128-256k actual writes. One could avoid this somewhat with trim support, fallocate + hole punch (not portable) but you have to think carefully about alignments and grouping free pages into contiguous erase block multiples. That never struck me as being very practical. Have you thought about that problem before or tried anything there?
I'm not aware of any situation where a debt has been struck out because of this law.

Debts are usually struck out because of errors in contracts, statutory procedures, and other paperwork.

But courts usually seem to assume that a simple credit check counts as due diligence, and it's the borrower's responsibility to repay debt even if it's offered on an unrealistic basis - e.g. a credit card with a limit equal to a year's income, and an exploding interest rate of 50% or more if a borrower misses a payment or two.

Which is not unrealistic, btw. I know of one credit card company offering rates up to 99.9% compound to individuals with poor credit ratings.

Obviously they know most borrowers will default - and that seems to be the basis of their business model.
Whoa guy. I was thinking more about runaway overtime and release rush stress.
My guess is that Node is responsible for serving the HTML/CSS/JS that's used by the front-end, and probably providing an isomorphic Ember endpoint down the road. So probably in the realm of knowledge that a front-end dev would need, but not a front-end tool in that it doesn't run in the browser.
Yes, if you missed the webcast, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqVjT2xz_8
Massive discussion of these sorts of things here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8761343

Indeed, searching[0] for Fibonacci shows many, many, many discussions about this.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=fibonacci&sort=byPopularity&pr...
That's just making things up. Deja News could have ended up anywhere, including at the Internet Archive. The people running it sold it to Google in the belief it would be kept running. Had they not done it someone else would have.

The talk about entitlement completely misses that Google bought it only to prompty run it into the ground. If you do that in a market leading position to your competitors that's downright illegal in most jurisdictions.

That may not be applicable here, but you should be able to understand why this upset a lot of people.
Let's play some Game Boy
I'm guessing because:

1) A lot of middle class folk who buy houses see it as an investment, and they hope to seem some return on that investment driven by rising prices.

2) A lot of middle-class folk tap into their home equity to pay for major expenses (see HELOCs and 2nd Mortgages). Rising home values give homeowners more equity to tap into.
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Interesting company. Would you hire someone who knows Django but not RoR?

your email is missing an 'e' at the end of 'private' btw
Veniam, Portugal - Software Engineer - http://www.veniam.com/

Veniam just raised a $4.9M series A to build the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things (http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/veniam-picks-up-4-9m-to-tur...), and we are looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to help us.

Someone with entrepreneurial spirit who is different, drives change and shares our passion for developing cutting-edge products that people and businesses love and use everyday.

Critical thinking, deliberate problem solving, disruptive mindset, and excellent communication are essential qualities, as you will be working in an exceptionally talented team with know-how across different disciplines, constant learning, boundless creativity, and outstanding execution – always in tandem with our headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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Target skills:

* Node.js

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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript

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Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Java, Android, Python, Postgres, Lua, etc..

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Email: d at dakota.io

I'm a Frontend / Rails developer that is working on some mobile apps in my free time.
And it worked. Now they won't track 100 percent of the users, but they'll track "only" 95+ percent probably.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

Full stack freelance Android app developer. Have been creating Android apps for the past 4 years, 6 months as a freelancer.

Portfolio/Website: http://nicknicolaou.me
Location: Germany currently (Canadian citizen)

Remote: Depends

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Go, Frontend, Can learn whatever

Resume: http://john.ston.ca || http://github.com/DylanJ

Email: qdylanj on the google mails
Mutually Human - Grand Rapids, Michigan (on-site, full time)

http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/

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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software. We're looking to hire senior software developers and software designers at our office in Grand Rapids.

A little bit about us:

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- We aren't limited to any really specific set of technologies, which is a great
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Objective-C (and some Swift), Backbone.js (inside PhoneGap), Angular.js (with CoffeeScript),
QT, Node.js, and a good helping of Ruby and Rails.

- We practice a sustainable pace. We recognize that we each have lives,
activities, and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are
rare by design. Last year I worked an average of 40.408 hours per week.

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We pair when it makes sense.

- We offer competitive salaries, health/vision/dental insurance, quarterly profit
sharing, retirement + match, weekly catered lunches, and a top-floor office
with snacks, guitars, and your choice of standing or sitting desks.

- We run a makerspace in our building (http://grmakers.com), which gives us
access to lots of cool stuff like a laser cutter and 3D printers.

A little bit about Grand Rapids:

- 2.5 hours from Chicago and Detroit, less than an hour to the beach.

- Lots of great beer. Founders Brewery (a mile from our office) has 3 beers in
the Beer Advocate top 15. HopCat is a “World Class” bar on BA.
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- Low cost of living. I bought a nice house with a mortgage payment
30% lower than the rent of my 1 bedroom apartment in Mountain View.

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afraid to use more. You have some experience with web or mobile tech.

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I'm a software developer on this awesome team. If you're interested, check out our website:

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If you have any questions about our jobs or hiring process, feel free to drop me a line:

ej@mutuallyhuman.com
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We thoughtfully approach creative problem solving, taking the time to test and iterate, and quantify the scope of each API. You will be joining a team that takes pride in the quality of their code, actively embracing Ruby best practices for collaborative development.

We just closed a round of funding and are aggressively looking for additional engineers to grow our core team.

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The Position:

As a senior platform engineer, you'll be involved with everything from data delivery for our Angular and native apps, to interfacing with various data stores including Neo4j, PostgreSQL, and Redis. We do not expect that you're omniscient, so you'll be paired with a mentor who will help you grow and develop your skills. This is an opportunity to own platform APIs and grow the engineering team. You will be motivated take on new challenges and empowered to make decisions that will directly affect the platform and product offering. Join us, help create the future of NowThis.

If you are hooked, please check out the full position at Stack Overflow:

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OpenTable is a global company dedicated to continually solving new problems to help create amazing dining experiences. We enable restaurants around the world to delight their guests with every meal. We are the leaders in restaurant technology, constantly reinventing ourselves and the products we offer so restaurants can thrive and improve their businesses

Interns

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Most of our open positions are in San Francisco, but some are in London, Los Angeles, and Chattanooga, TN.
Impraise — Amsterdam, NL — Front-end developer, Full Time

https://impraise.recruitee.com/o/front-end-developer-a19c22b...

We're looking for a skilled Front-end developer to join us in Amsterdam and help us innovate in the field of HR.

We work with very advanced tools and technologies. Our current front-end makes heavy use of Browserify and React, and we're constantly improving our toolset and the quality and performance of our code. We use Ruby on Rails in the back-end.

If you enjoy writing clean code and working on tough challenges, let's have a chat!
This is hyperbolic. Facebook isn't evil, selling ads isn't evil and they have no intention or incentive to violate anyone's privacy.

They don't sell secrets about your life, they allow advertisers to target ads based on demographics, location and categories of interest. This does not mean they say "Hey advertisers, Jane Smith likes to do drugs with her friends and take embarrassing pictures. Sell her stuff!". It's more "Show my ad to women between the ages of 18-24 in Portland, OR who have an interest in rock music". It's just boring, not evil and not an invasion of anyone's privacy. Mailing lists have been segmenting audiences for decades, often with much more personal information, and no one is freaking out about it.

The facebook model of advertising is stupid anyway. They have the potential to use unimaginable amounts of information to infer who is most like to buy what from whom. Instead of using it to the fullest extent, they let advertisers select their own targeting criteria based on tiny sample sizes and gut intuitions about who their ideal customers are. You have nothing to fear from this, it's just advertising, same as it's always been.

If you don't like using facebook, just don't use it. The sky won't fall, the dead won't rise and the sun will come up tomorrow. They aren't doing any more harm than any other corporation, and the use of their product isn't any more requisite than any other product.
If he gives access to his contact list, yes.

But I can't see a situation in which Facebook turning on a mike to record conversations is not a huge violation of privacy.

Do they do that?
Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility)

We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Here's a testimonial we received last week:

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I just want to say thank you a billion times to Khan Academy. My Geometry midterm was this Tuesday. I was worried, because I barely passed my Algebra one last year. Enter Khan Academy. It was great practice, as they had a good amount questions where you had to manipulate on screen variables, rather than just answer multiple choice questions. This stood out to me, as my school gives tests with these types of questions and no other review site i found had them. We got our scores back, and I was the only person in my class that got an A. It's not really an "inspiring" story, but hey, I figured I'd share it anyway.

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Mia might not think so, but her story does inspire and makes me happy to go to work here. Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who are thankful for our free, high-quality educational content. Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.

A few things we're currently working on building right now:

– Major improvements to our iOS app to let students practice skills on the go (or in a classroom with iPads!) [1]

– Improved knowledge models so we can better know what you know and don't know [2]

– Infrastructure improvements to make the site more reliable and faster for our millions of visitors every month [3]

– Better tools for our content creators to allow them to make thousands of engaging, interactive exercise problems without knowing how to code [4]

You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.

==================================

We're especially looking for mobile designers/devs but we have a handful of other positions open -- take a look and see if anything suits you.

Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to ask me here if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.

[1]: http://www.kasrak.com/writing/khan-internship/

[2]: http://mattfaus.com/2014/05/improving-khan-academys-student-...

[3]: http://www.alangpierce.com/blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-aca...

[4]: https://github.com/Khan/perseus
I've got a medically sensitive daughter and this is a cool idea. Where does the data come from? Are you protected in situations where someone might drive to a now-closed ER?
Also: time. Imagine a fellow (me, as a student) who hasn't got a washing machine and does his laundry every other week at the coin launderette, which takes several hours, including the time spent on public transport. They could save up the several hundred bucks for a washing machine and buy one in a year (student, limited budget, or just simply poor), or buy one on credit now. As soon as the thing is installed you have two more afternoons each month to get more productive work done. What would you choose?
You might want to check out red#matrix (http://redmatrix.me/).

There user accounts/identities are federated. It is easy to switch to another node.

The "standardized platform" is the ZOT-Protocol layer.
Greek trend? I can remember quite a few american banks doing just this recently.
I tend to agree, but really nobody will respect your privacy but yourself, which is why this should be on your own hardware (or at least on a VPS). A small box under my couch hosts my site, cloud storage (owncloud), and if I could get away from it the RSS feed that basically is facebook, and it's quite nice. It was too hard to set up, though, which is why sandstorm looks great.
Paying off your mortgage is a significant drain on resources when house prices have been driven through the roof by speculation and inflation. (See also the Bay Area.)

Disposable income drives the economy. If people are cutting instead of spending everyone loses - except property loan lenders.

Affordable housing frees up money for new businesses. Second to education, it's one of the strongest prosperity generators.
The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge
Or its because the advertisers want to get more than one use out of the ad?

The Super Bowl is not the only "big game". In fact its not usually even a particularly great game, and its never a rivalry. So saying "Big Game" instead of "Super Bowl" means they can use the ad again, and maybe even for another sport!

Or its a conspiracy theory. That works too.
And how do you expect to afford a loan if you don't have money to put aside?!

The trick is you need to live somewhere. If you can't have a loan, the money goes to rent.
The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Full time, INTERN/H1B) - http://climate.com/careers

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====== What we do =========
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Our mission is to build great software for farmers.

We use a combination of weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, satellite imagery, and weather simulation to provide data and insights to those farmers.

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===== Who we’re looking for =====
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Specifically we are looking for two full time positions which I'll describe here, though there are roles open across the board which you can check out using the link at the bottom.

Engineer on the Geospatial team

You will be building out our imagery infrastructure.

You will be building software to pull and index terabytes of images fast and reliably.

You will help provide high resolution imagery at sub 200ms speed to farmers that need it. (this is my team)

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Engineer on the Climatology team

You will work with best-in-their-class climate scientists to implement and productionize their weather models.

Specifically you might work on several interesting projects including weather data reconstruction to provide more accurate predictions and readings to farmers who's farms may be spread over several counties.

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====== Why I love it ======
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– I think Climate is poised to make a huge impact on farming.
– I am surrounded by a group of super smart people that care about the work we are doing.
– I get to tackle challenging problems everyday.

I am on the satellite imagery team and I am really excited about the work we've been doing, I am happy to talk in length about it over email at skhalsa@climate.com.

If you are interested in the two positions above, please email me directly. Otherwise apply through this link and you will be put in the pre-screened pile: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=oVwpZfwz&s=Hackernews_Satshaba...
yep there are also a lot of situations in enterprise where you don't exactly know how your code will be used in near future (in <5 years it could grow to exponentially more customers using it compared to soft releases to select test customers).

Because of that I'd say.... it's not like I see a lot of people get raked over the coals for it, but there is definitely some organizational disappointment when a silly scaling bug crops up in production[1]. I think as a mature dev it is proper to internalize as many performance-related techniques as possible so that you can write more performant code with each subsequent project. Sometimes it doesn't even affect the amount of initial coding hours, it is just one of the freebie gains that comes with experience.

[1] Many more such bugs would probably occur if the company didn't occasionally get around to load-testing, so that should be part of CI or dev cycle if possible.
People were excited to be part of something new an add to the overall discourse of humanity. Then it became a question of "How can I monetize content?" which require pumping out low-value content just to try to make a few bucks.
Two things about this I really like:

* The automagical guessing of missing estimates. Propagating the estimate for a subtask to other subtasks at the same level makes a lot of sense for a first guess, if I'm any good at task breakdown. The propagating up to the "aunt/uncle" tasks (i.e. siblings of the parent) is a bit stranger - seems like it should dramatically underestimate most top-level tasks, and I'd worry about the anchoring effect. Still, it makes it very convenient and quick.

Have you thought about visually distinguishing autoguessed estimates from manually entered ones? At least for leaf tasks, I'd like a reminder of what I have left to estimate. (You could propagate up the "degree of guessedness" to parent nodes, but you probably wouldn't want to, or it would undermine the usefulness of guessing in the first place.)

* The visual tree structure is nice. I like how the horizontal arrangement puts a natural limit on how deeply you can nest, and therefore discourages overplanning :)
You're assuming the friends gave the information knowingly.

Most people have no idea what modern image recognition and data mining techniques can do, and many don't understand what they are really agreeing to when they let some on-line service scan their address book.

I've never quite figured out how compiling shadow profiles doesn't violate all kinds of data protection laws in at least much of Europe, but our regulators seem to be gunning for Google at the moment rather than Facebook.