skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Skills: Financial modeling & analysis, financial statement development, accounting, budgeting & cash management, controller functions

Resume/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/stephanienknight or email me for more details

Email: stephanie@seris.co

I specialize in working with early-stage companies to establish and scale their finance & accounting operations.

If your business has reached a point where it needs "grown up" finance operations to soundly manage cash and growth, send me a message! I'd love to discuss where your company is and where you'd like to take it.
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Why You Should Never Use Black on Your Website
Thoughts on MaidSafe and an Alternative Approach
The is fear bait and not a well rounded analysis, it belongs on FOX news and is completely sophomoric.

For example: (Peter Thiel) - believes in a theory called "memetic desire" which uses people's social groups to manipuate their wants and intentions. - Copy pasted will spelling error^

A theory is not something you believe in, Memetic Desire ( Google René Girard) is a very interesting psychological idea, I find it interesting , will the author paint me as having evil intentions as well..
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at present

Technologies: Python, C, SQL databases, Linux, UNIX (shell scripting with bash, sed, awk and friends, some prior sysadmin work too, UNIX C programming), Flask, REST, APIs, PDF generation (see xtopdf), many open source libraries and tools. Also worked on Java (servlets) earlier, and on Ruby on Rails on two projects earlier as server team lead / senior engineer. Was team leader for a successful middleware software product written in C.

Résumé/CV: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/p/about-vasudev-ram.html

Email: See http://dancingbison.com/contact.html

xtopdf: http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf

Blog posts about Python (many):
http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python

Blog posts about xtopdf (many): http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf

(The xtopdf posts are a subset of the Python posts, since xtopdf is written in Python)

Have both project and product development experience, in Python and C.

Author of published technical articles on Python, C, Linux topics at IBM developerWorks, Packt Publishing and Linux For You sites/magazines.

Other related links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329890

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/
As a code monkey myself, I feel your frustration. But I think we tend to undervalue the importance of those "Friday beers". We are selling technical products to non-technical people. People that need to achieve old fashioned trust with someone that seems to be in charge.

If we can be as good at those social relationships as the idiots currently doing it, maybe we can grab some of that power. How to do it? I don't know, but if we're so smart, we should be able to figure it out. I believe we can.
This is a good example of narrative trumping reality, and we geeks are every bit as susceptible as anyone else.

The actual thesis of the article is that Google is losing interest in archiving efforts. Perhaps true, perhaps partially true, perhaps false, or perhaps unsupported either way. Entirely valid and worth exploring.

The second thesis is that the Internet Archive is doing good work. Great!

The title, however, is “Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job”. A generalization which no article can prove or disprove. Just dogma.

Why must we make these leaps?
RINSE - www.rinse.com - Design District, San Francisco, CA

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've been growing our service at an exponential rate for the past year, and our customers love us! We have a number of open positions, and have hired a significant portion of our team via Hacker News.

FOUR positions:

1) Software Engineer
2) Special Operations Associate
3) Customer Service Specialist
4) Business Development Manager

Rinse is hiring Software Engineers to develop our functionality across the stack. We have hybrid mobile apps for both Android and iOS for our customers AND our drivers. We also have sophisticated web-based tools for our customer service team, internal operations staff, and vendors. Laundry is a surprisingly-complex logistical process, and so our customer-facing software is just the tip of the iceberg. We're solving problems like the Traveling Salesman and image classification, too. Our tech stack is approximately HTML5 / Backbone.js / Django / Python / Postgres / Heroku / Ubuntu, but we're a tiny tech team, so any newcomer will be able to shape architecture.

We're also hiring for a "Special Operations Associate" which is someone who may not have unique technical ability, but who has great aptitude and a willingness to work hard to improve our business. Analytical capability and attention to detail are important skills for this person. Bonus points for someone with an Industrial Engineering or Process Engineering background. This position is great for an ambitious analytical mind looking to join a "rocket ship" startup. Obviously, this position presents a significant growth opportunity.

Rinse has excellent customer service, and we'd like to continue improving it with a Customer Service Specialist. This individual will lead a team of customer service associates, while enjoying close support from our technology and operations teams. The ideal candidate will have managed customer service in a consumer-focused startup environment.

Finally, Rinse is looking for a Business Development Manager to "hustle" and cement new business relationships as we grow. If you like going out and meeting small business owners, this is your gig!

Any applicant who we interview will receive $25 in free Rinse credit... If you live in San Francisco, give us a try!

Interested? I'd be happy to answer any questions at sam (at) rinse.com.
Unite - Los Angeles, Toronto, Prague - Fulltime or Interns - http://unite.io

We're a stealthy startup looking for engineers to join our small and highly skilled team in our offices in Los Angeles, Toronto or Prague. We are building a global data marketplace, with a focus on advertising industry. We are growing incredibly fast — our servers handle 2000 requests per second and manage more than 700 million users (yes, that's 20% of the internet).

We are looking for experienced front-end developers and full-stack engineers. We use the Angular/JavaScript (with almost all ES6 features) on the front end, and Java/Cassandra/Kafka/Storm on the back end.

Feel free to ping me anytime at engineering@unite.io.
Sorry, but did you even read either article before posting your unintelligible conspiracy theory? One does packet parsing and the other verifies ability to assess webapp vulnerabilities.

https://github.com/USArmyResearchLab/Dshell
The title isn't offensive whatsoever, it's a brief origin story.
> Hang on, this article links to instructions on how to do some of the things it claims can't be done.

After confirming that the linked sources disagree with major claims from the article, I've flagged it. I encourage others to do the same, for the sake of truth and honesty.
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Beginner level at Ruby, Python, Java, Racket, HTML, CSS

Resume/CV:

BSc in Business, currently pursuing a second degree in Computer Science at UBC. Prior experience with founding a startup that did not take off, as well as a small one that sold to a competitor - both as non-technical founder.

Current interest is in learning technical skills via a computer science degree as well as working on small projects on the side. I'm looking for interesting programming work at a local (Vancouver) startup, and am willing to start work on a minor project in an educational capacity (i.e no pay).

For full resume, please email me thanks!

Email: gotrecruit@boun.cr
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Ok, so let me make it graphical for you: If the 'Y' axis of the graph is expenditure of energy or time and the 'X' axis is progress in understanding then a steep curve indicates a lot of expenditure for relatively little progress.

That's the 'informal use', as in, everyday communications such as, but not limited to comments in online communities.
Chicago. Full-Stack (primarily Python, Django, Angular) engineers.

KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) is a data search and visualization tool used by Fortune 500 companies to make better decisions using survey data they already have.

We're a small shop (looking for engineers 3 & 4), focus on user experience and design. Ideal candidate knows our stack, but more importantly is a lifelong learner.

email me at john@knowledgehound.com if you'd like to talk more.
This seems like awful advice to inflict yourself as a burden (pair programming, always seeking review and validation) rather than being self disciplined, autonomous and professional.
I think this a really nifty idea. Would love to know where the data comes from - are you aggregating it yourself?

Also, does it include a notification centre widget?
They have a high enough price point that I don't think they are subsidized.
Go Koans
> "It's ludicrous - people say, 'I'm here,' to announce their arrival, which is why we have it as a service.

> "As a small start-up trying to deliver value to users we don't think a multi-billion dollar company will be affected by this.

> "Life is hard enough without Goliaths squashing Davids - maybe they should focus on creating a better mapping service than Google or Apple than squishing a minuscule business."

The guy is being a real hypocrite, it's just not possible to brand an app "HERE" when another company makes an app under the same brand, and owns a trademark. It's not even possible that making a Google search did not come to their minds when naming their product, and they tried to fly with it.

Also, HERE Maps provides data for BMW, Mercedes, Garmin, Hyundai, Pioneer, Volkswagen Toyota, Oracle, Amazon, Bing, SAP, Flickr, Yahoo!. Is that better than Google/Apple? Yes.
Also, it's worth noting that "C++ provides a solution" is not "C++ solves these issues". Somewhere in any C++ codebase of significant size, someone has done it wrong and the compiler isn't going to tell you where.
OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and SpamAssassin
Native vs. Responsive
This is exactly what I needed; thank you very much!
Don't forget to block their web-wide beacons (a.k.a. "like buttons"), and lie about your birthday (useful information for identity thieves[1] -- remember how your bank asked for the last 4 digits of your social when you called them?). I still use them to keep up with some people I know, but with a somewhat fake name, a blank profile, and minimum searchability. I don't think using it unduly exposes me to identity thieves, creepy potential employers, and other not-Mossad threats[2]. I've used it since it required ".edu" addresses, and never clicked an ad, so I think I'm basically getting my money's worth.

[1] http://news.sciencemag.org/2009/07/social-security-numbers-a...
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thisworld...
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https://www.infer.com

- Team: ~35 people, ~10 engineers from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Google/Google Research, Facebook, Y Combinator, Microsoft Research, Palantir, Jane Street, IBM Research, Yahoo! Research, ... (https://www.infer.com/about-us)

- Investors: Red Point, Andreessen-Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures, Social+Capital, ...

- Customers: Box, Jive, Tableau, Zendesk, AdRoll, Nitro, New Relic, Optimizely, and many more (https://www.infer.com/customers)

- Product: machine learning applications for non-technical users to help their businesses more effectively win and retain customers

- Looking for: strong engineers and data scientists excited to join an early-stage startup to help grow & shape the company

EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build on and extend our sophisticated model training pipeline that uses data extracted from the web and other sources

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- Create and shape the processes used to guide the engineering team to work together effectively

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- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related fields

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- Familiarity with Python preferred

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It's not advertising per se. Their mapping product is called HERE, and has been for a few years. It's not Nokia Maps or something else, but HERE. The web interface is at http://www.here.com and there's also native apps by that name.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-croatia-welfare...

The government program involves major local banks,
leading telecom operators, the four biggest Croatian
cities and several public utility companies. The
government will not pay the debts; the creditors
will simply absorb them.

Frankly in the absence of consumer bankruptcy laws it is clear why these particular creditors are willing to go along with this scheme, even though it will cost them some revenue, without much of a fight. These were likely amounts small enough, given the parameters of the debt-cancellation rules, that recovery was never a particularly practical option anyway. If the debt on the books of utilities or a bank is not good enough to sell to a third party and is not considered recovery internally then the accountants would be quite happy to simply have these amounts off the books and the corporations and governments probably reap more rewards in positive PR than the debts were worth.

The perhaps larger problem that I think is being solved here, besides the debt itself, is the bank account "blocking"[1] that appears to be a provision in current law that the government is not interested in changing. Once someone's bank accounts are blocked I presume that they are forced into the cash economy and that is bad for the government in lost taxes as well as citizens with respect to many things, including good old fashioned "getting ripped off".

[1] http://www.croatiaweek.com/over-300000-accounts-blocked-due-...
New York City, NYC NY Justworks - http://www.justworks.com
We are building a platform for people to administer every part of their business, starting with payroll, benefits, compliance and tax filing. We've also built out PTO tracking, some reporting/analytics features and a B2B payments feature. We aren't just about payroll.

We are a PEO, which means we coemploy our customers employees (similar to Trinet/Ambrose or ADP Total Source, if you've ever heard of those). Because of that we're able to do a lot of really cool things including offer health insurance at a massive discount, as well as bring many other benefits traditionally reserved for large companies to startups and SMBs. We're growing very quickly (35-40% month over month) and just raised a $6mm series A from Thrive, Index, a few others[1]. Our founders are former Amazon, Etsy and Groupon executives who have had successful startups in the past.

We handle payments and lots of very sensitive information (bank numbers, social security numbers etc.) so we need people who are comfortable working in that environment. Basically we're looking for senior level engineers to help build the foundation for a really awesome engineering org. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions (will@justworks.com). We're also hiring in sales.

http://www.justworks.com/careers/

Full time in NYC only, no contractors, no remotes, sorry.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/10/09/justworks-rai...
Your definition of net systemic advertising is rather different to mine. There are multiple products I wouldn't know about, and wouldn't have bought, without advertising. Yes, those adverts can be misleading, but they also give me the information I need to make purchasing choices.
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that's a very insightful comment on potential liability. it could indeed prove to be a problem in the event that the app misguides a user to a closed ER with a tragic outcome, especially in a litigious society.
I don't own a car and almost never miss it. Granted I would miss it slightly more often if ride-sharing services didn't exist as sometimes I'm too lazy to cycle, but it'd still be perfectly doable. I live in the US.
Note he said a couple thousand, not a couple hundred thousand.
Fair enough, i had not noticed a singular form.
same thing that confused me too. I estimated one subtask and all other tasks and subtasks of other tasks were estimated. This seems to be a case of preemptive overengineering.
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Location: Indianapolis, IN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C / C++ / Java / PHP / C# / Go / ASP.Net / SQL / Linux / AppSec / REST / APIs
Résumé/CV: https://larssorenson.com/docs/resume.pdf
Email: lars@larssorenson.com

You can visit my webpage (https://larssorenson.com) for links to my GitHub + LinkedIn for my in depth details.
I'm glad you're here to point out that I can't be a successful adult without a car. I hadn't realized that, but now that I'm clued in I can go buy one to fix the issue.

P.S. I think around 25% of my coworkers have cars, and we live in the US making six figures.
It is certainly not the case that cost == price, I agree. Price is determined by supply and demand. But if you change the cost of mortgages, you probably change their supply curve and hence the market clearing price. To argue that raising the cost of mortgages doesn't change the market clearing price is make a pretty strong claim about the shape of supply and demand curves.
Vast majority of humans can't comprehend how to rate any thing on more than good/bad scale. Even less people understand how you could rate some thing on 1-5 scale where whole range is in "good" category, so 1 is a somewhat good mark.
One of the most obvious examples are schools. In my country before reform we had 1-5 marks. 1 and 2 were not considered valid mark but rather an absence of any score. So instead of five scale we had three scale. And since 3 was a placeholder for "passable" actual marks showing quality of the work were 4 and 5. And of course in time were invented unofficial corrections + and -, then ++ and -- etc.

So when adults with 20-30 years of supposed experience of grading quality of work can't use even a simple 1-5 system then it is obvious that general population will fail at grading even more spectacularly. And thus we have 4.5 out 5 as "awful" score :) .
Too late, I'm afraid. That horse has literally* bolted.
The world has decided on what "steep" means now.

* http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_...
It would be good to keep talking about it, I think, and work to reduce some of the social/moral pressure around debt-paying--no one should injure (e.g. through overwork) or kill themselves over money.
"there are cases of vegetarians endorsing mcdonalds" - more likely, that account did click 'like'. however, paid publicizing of past likes that way is slimy and users didn't give any meaningful consent to it.
We're moving into an area whose terminology I'm not as familiar with as the underlying concepts, but what I recall, yes, the actual big-o of a -single- operation, if this is implemented strictly and used as a single ended queue, has a worst case bound of O(n), and a best case bound of O(1), and an average case of O(1), and would be described in big-O terms as "amortized O(1), worst case of O(n)"; much like an arraylist (where the general case for adding at the end is O(1), but when it's full, is actually O(n) as we create a new array and copy elements over, but we describe it as having an amortized cost of O(1)).

Or put another way, for n enqueues, rather than thinking of each enqueue taking one operation, think of it taking two, one now, one deferred, for a still constant enqueue time. On a dequeue where the right side is empty, you have n deferred operations 'stored up', that you then use to reverse the list, and then you use one operation to take the head. So while that -particular- operation actually uses up n+1 operations, the amortized time across the entire sequence of operations so far is constant. And so while you may not have real time dequeue performance of a single operation if implemented strictly (that is, in the worst case, where the right list is empty), the act of enqueueing n things, and dequeueing n things, leads to a total time proportional to n, leading to an averaged constant time per operation.

Now, that said, if you treat it as a double ended queue, there is a worst case in the strict implementation that runs in O(n) per operation; that's by inserting onto one end, then alternately pulling off one end, then the other (so that for every dequeue, we have to reverse the remaining list again). But that's extremely degenerate, and is more egregious than describing quicksort as O(n^2) due to its degenerate case of an already sorted list (since that's far more common a use case than inserting always on one end, and perfectly alternating your dequeues).
In the United States, there is a huge difference between owning your house outright and through a mortgage. As a leveraged investment, homeowners are more home speculators, requiring ever increasing values to be profitable.
Up until the last decade, this had been a great engine of wealth creation for the middle class.
It's highly unlikely FB would want to so directly call out the value they get from controlling your privacy.

Additionally, the value of mined data decreases when you start taking members out. Given the massive number of FB users.

They're generating an avg of almost $1/mo/user, but that's probably heavily skewed towards users that have more money to spend. And while I'd personally spend a few bucks a month for such a service, it's seems unlikely that there'd be enough adoption to make a difference in how FB goes about privacy.
Why is the remote work limited to people in PST? If a potential candidate is in Iowa, couldn't the requirement just be "Are you ok working 10am-7pm your time?"
Anyone's whose been involved in a corporate bankruptcy would quickly disabuse themselves of the idea that there is or should be any moral qualms about filming for bankruptcy when you're legally entitled to do so.
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not currently

Technologies: C++ (Microsoft VC++/MFC), Web (HTML/CSS/PHP/JS), C# (Unity3D and .Net), OpenMP/MPI (C++)

Cursory Knowledge: iOS (Swift)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=91467456

Email: tylermac1 (at) gmail.com

About Me: I'm a junior developer looking for a little more cutting edge work in the software world. I currently write C++ for proprietary CAD software to interface with CNC mills. While at my current company I have written a few custom web apps to help save thousands of developer hours per year. I also have experience with distributed computing with MPI and parallel programming with OpenMP. I'd like to transition to more of a back-end developer role and am an incredibly motivated individual.

I have remote experience working/managing developers/artists with a company I co-founded in college (Mantis Digital Arts).