skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elance-oDesk announcing new name and the shift to online dating. Elove-oDate, double click on love.

https://www.odesk.com/blog/2015/04/announcing-new-name-new-s...
What's up Justin?! Spotted your name and then figured out it was you from comment history. It'll be interesting to see what happens over time, but I think that with the proliferation of mobile we could see something akin to Okta for consumers that gives them a page of icons to click on... like the apps on their phones. Chrome already does this (kind of), but people tend to be very habitual in the way they browse and I could see it go a bit further.
neither, I want BASICA and QBASIC. Do you have the 5 1/4" floppy drive. Will it read the 1.2MB disks or just the 360KB disk?
Parse.ly (http://parse.ly) - Fully Remote - Full-Time

Parse.ly has built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web.

Parse.ly's analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Next Web, and many more. In total, our analytics backend system needs to handle over 10 billion monthly page views from 400 million monthly unique visitors.

Our entire stack is in Python, and our team has innovated in areas related to real-time analytics, building some of the best open source tools for working with modern stream processing technologies like Apache Kafka and Storm.

Our UX/design team has also built one of the best-looking dashboards on the planet, using AngularJS and d3.js.

Some blog posts about our technology:

- The Magical Time Series Backend Behind Parse.ly Analytics => http://blog.parsely.com/post/1633/mage/

- Lucene: The Good Parts => http://blog.parsely.com/post/1691/lucene/

- Whatever It Takes: Building Elegant, Beautiful, and Timely Data Digests => http://blog.parsely.com/post/46/whatever-it-takes/

We are hiring a backend engineer and a UX engineer, with the only requirement being some experience in Python/Javascript. Apply via work@parsely.com (CV, github link, 1 paragraph intro), and make sure to mention this HN post!
You can argue if that if languages are merely tools, then sure, why not? But it leaves out things to wonder about and be intrigued by. I am not a fan of the idea that we cannot make interesting linguistic additions to our languages any more.

And certainly not isolated to English. I find internet lingo in non-English languages far more interesting than those in English (at least when we are talking about something else than simply using the English loanword), since the Internet is largely an English-written concept, other languages are finding its incompatibilities with English difficult and the solutions can be quite interesting.

I find the anglifications of languages to be uninteresting at best, from a completely linguistic standpoint. Take a modern item like a 'vacuum cleaner', called »støvsuger« in Danish, which literally translates as 'dust sucker'. This reveals a difference in how each language's speakers think about items, words and their meanings.

If all words are English, then the languages themselves reveal nothing about our differences and how we think. Moreover, it will cause us all to think in the same way. It's documented that speaking more languages helps one think different about approaching problems, even ones not related to language. It broadens the mind. Everything being English won't broaden the mind.
React has all these features already.
Except the Earth isn't actually shaped like this. Even less so, paths intended for running (or cycling). The numbers are dominated by real altitude gain, and anything missed or contributed by uneven road surface is minor by comparison.
New online code school costs nothing until you get a job
Like Product Hunt, but Autogenerated
I personally have adblock disabled on google.com because I want to support them and I see this: https://i.imgur.com/dEnFy15.png

The ads are not gone.
C++ is about RAII, dont confuse it with OOP.
Atomic Object - Detroit, MI - Ann Arbor, MI - Grand Rapids, MI
Developers and Designers - Full Time, on-site

We are a custom software design and development consultancy.
We do a full range of development from high level design prototypes, down to low level firmware on embedded devices and everything in between.
Want an idea of the work we do and the technology we work with? Check out our blog: our blog: https://spin.atomicobject.com/

Being an Atom:
Atomic doesn't ask that you know a certain language or use a certain process.
But we are looking for a certain kind of person—someone who embodies our culture and values.

Atoms give a shit about their work, their teammates, and their clients. We pull together.
Atoms are generalists who enjoy learning and doing new things.
Atoms are great communicators, able to work effectively one-on-one with clients and users.
Atoms are product developers, working on poly-skilled teams to create the most valuable product possible with the client's budget.

Interested in applying? Check out our careers page: https://atomicobject.com/careers
Same here. I spend nearly all my time in Firefox and Emacs. My main laptop has been a MBPr, but more for the hardware than for OS X per se. Lately I've been trying a 1st gen Chromebook Pixel. So far the experiment is going really well. If that continues I might upgrade to a Chromebook Pixel 2 LS as my new main machine.

Basically I want a Linux laptop that "just works", with MBPr quality (or better) build, screen, and keyboard. One obvious choice is the updated XPS 13. A perhaps less-obvious choice is the Pixel.

Having said all that, Emacs for ChromeOS could have some advantages, e.g. battery life, not needing to "break the security seal" by putting a Chromebook in developer mode, and not needing to chroot (although that's quite easy and ~30 minutes).
npm, Inc - Oakland, CA (remote ok, H1B ok)

www engineer, registry engineer, support tech, cli engineer

If you program in JavaScript, or use a frontend framework like Ember or Angular, you have probably used "npm install" to get new modules, or install tools to help you get your job done. We are the company behind npm, dedicated to improving the experience of JavaScript developers all over the world by reducing friction. We are hiring for all four of our teams:

- support: "npm loves you" is our unofficial motto. Taking good care of npm users who run into trouble is central to our mission.

- CLI: maintain and improve the npm command itself. With over 3MM users, we get a lot of feature requests and edge cases.

- www: we get 5MM page views a month, and a bunch of new features are in the works.

- registry: more than 50MM fresh downloads every single day, we are a big, high-traffic distributed system.

The CLI, the website, and major parts of the registry itself are all open-source.

We are not a typical startup. We believe that working sensible hours and taking care of ourselves and our loved ones is the best way to ensure long-term productivity. We care deeply about making tech a more inclusive and diverse place to work.

For more details on the jobs and us, see https://npmjs.com/jobs
Here's the full cluster spec: http://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec

Looking forward to seeing it taken apart by aphyr.

Congrats to Salvatore and the rest of the redis committers!
Isn't this just the linguistic equivalent of micro-optimization, though? There's tons of grammatical (e.g. differences in the subjunctive between verbs that use the auxiliary etre or avoir) and spelling oddities (le hanche but l'hôtel) in French, but, thank the lord, at least they've been able to keep "formage" from being an accepted alternative spelling of "fromage"!
That's a pretty funny double entendre.
How Technology Is Changing Criminal Linguistic Evidence in Court
First look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's take on the modern browser
Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis (1984)
Start building dynamic web pages by using firebase along with webix
Http/df – Free Your Website from the Internet
Second Spectrum - Los Angeles, CA, Shanghai, and Boston, MA - http://www.secondspectrum.com

Big data has come to sports, and Second Spectrum is using it to transform the sports experience, for everyone from coaches and players to the most hardcore or casual fan. We have trained machines to understand sports at a level of sophistication that exceeds that of most collegiate players. Using this machine understanding, we deliver analytics software that is helping ten NBA teams win more games, is enabling national broadcasters to tell better stories, and
will give every fan their own personal sportscast. We have recently signed deals with ESPN and Fox to deliver content for their broadcasts, starting with this clip that appeared on NBA Countdown: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12510250, and extending to interactive products that the broadcasters will use on air.

We are looking for a variety of engineering roles, including full-stack, UI/UX, mobile, machine learning and computer vision engineers. The responsibilities range from sophisticated UI design that supports detailed but intuitive analytics, to front-end interfaces that will appear on national sports broadcasts, to scalable backend infrastructure that supports robust video streaming, to ML and CV engineering that enables the semantic layer that understands the game. Our software stack is based around Node, Go and Python.

In addition to the engineering roles, we’re also hiring a product manager who will guide our engineering and design efforts in order to deliver our technology to all our customers, ranging from NBA coaches to casual fans of the game.

If you're interested in joining us, our jobs email is is work@secondspectrum.com. I'm also available for any questions you might have at noel@secondspectrum.com
Hadoop Resource Management: YARN
I note that you have no response to this.
https://webflow.com (YC S13) - San Francisco, CA - VISA OK, REMOTE could be an option. Salaries range from $70K to $140K depending on experience and location.

At Webflow, we're building software to give superpowers to the 99.75% of the world that doesn't know how to code. We push the boundaries of what's possible in a browser-based app, and have tons of interesting (and hard!) engineering and design challenges yet to solve.

We're hiring exceptional people across the board, including front-end engineers, back-end engineers, product designers, devops, sales, and customer success.

Our hiring process is super simple and fast - Skype chat with the CEO, then set up a short-term (2-4 days) paid contract at a fair hourly rate to work on a real project that you ship to production, then we fly you out to meet the team, and make a decision right away.

If you like what we're doing at Webflow, and you can see clearly see yourself contributing in a meaningful way, please shoot me an email to vlad@webflow.com so we can get started! Instead of the usual resume/CV application rigamarole, let's just start with a Skype chat instead :)
Let's hope this doesn't melt before it gets off of the ground - it's an exciting concept that not many seem to embrace.
I reply to these posts on HN relatively frequently these days. These sorts of accusations about Mongo are out of hand, and not congruent with reality. I say this as someone who used MongoDB extensively.

I don't have time to address all of the problems, but let's look at #1 on his list:

1. MongoDB issues writes in unsafe ways by default in order to
win benchmarks

This is objectively false. At the time, Mongo chose to turn off write confirmations by default -- this was clearly documented in many places including introductory documentation. Surely no one would have deployed a database without even a cursory skim of the docs, right? The notion that it was done to win benchmarks is baseless. Furthermore, in response to the community's reaction, the default was changed.

This is a recurring problem with the complaints about Mongo. You cannot use ad copy to evaluate a database (or any product for that matter, but definitely not something as important as your primary data store). You must read the documentation. You must do a trial run and make sure it will meet the needs of your use case.

You can't be upset about the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do.
Better ‘cosmic candles’ to illuminate dark energy
To save everyone else the trouble of transcribing it, the link in the email is http://doodle.com/u9r5hz2br8g8w8qd
Berlin, Germany - ChartMogul

ChartMogul is SaaS analytics for Stripe, Recurly, Chargify and Braintree. Venture funded by Point 9 Cap, founded by Zendesk's head of EMEA and growing fast.

https://chartmogul.com

Open positions:

CTO

Senior DevOps Engineer

Web Developer (website)

If you're interested in learning more see https://angel.co/chartmogul or contact Nick at nick@chartmogul.com
On reddit /r/andoid and /r/apple both show each other's posts (mixed together)
A radio station of “on-hold” music
I'm using NoScript to block JS on ekjeacheblog.com. Except for the "subscribe to our newsletter" box, the page is blank. If I allow JS on that domain, all seems to work.
This is not an advice, but just a comment. I think many software engineers would KILL it if they worked for small mom and pop shops, or small practices. They could help turn many $500,000/year businesses into several times that revenue. Plus they would have WAY more autonomy then working at startups and tech companies, which in my opinion are just factories.
That's one of the things I like about the Java ecosystem. The tooling is very mature. Heap dump analysis is easy and being able to connect to a live JVM, either using JMX/remoting, Thermostat or Oracle's Java Mission Control, makes it almost painless and easy, almost, to look at your JVM internals and see what bottlenecks you might be hitting.

I don't know how to get the same kind of information on Ruby, Python or node.js but I'm pretty sure it might involve some gdb and debug symbols. No idea.
> The best example of what happens when such a mechanism isn't in place is the "biweekly" and "irregardless" mess in english!

What mess would that be, exactly? Those who care about English tend not to use terms like this. Conversely, correct French is replete with special cases and arbitrary deviations from consistent logic.
Looking for remote / offsite freelancing gigs.

Location: Paris, FR

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Angular, React, JS, SASS/LESS, all things frontend, Node.JS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbenadda/en && https://github.com/mbenadda

Email: me@mbenadda.com
YesGraph http://yesgraph.com - Full Time, local to Bay Area

Email me: ivan@yesgraph.com

YesGraph solves an existential problem for companies: growth. We use machine learning to do social graph analysis. We can rank a users contacts to recommend who a user should invite. This boosts invites and referrals and helps companies grow.

We're a small team of 4, mainly engineering. We're hiring a Product Manager and 2 engineers.

I was growth lead at Dropbox as a PM, so I know that job well. We're hiring one because I want to focus more on sales and marketing. We're a developer facing service, so if you know how to code you know our audience.

For engineering, we have openings for mobile development and machine learning. Depending on your experience, you can lead our data team. For mobile, we're building drop-in share flows that will immediately be used by millions of people.

More about us here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/yc-backed-yesgraph-raises-a...

Email me: ivan@yesgraph.com
SEEKING WORK - Philly or remote

Full stack web apps, ReactJS expert (using since released in 2013), built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops.

Clojure, ClojureScript, or short term javascript/reactjs

I have an isomorphic clojurescript app in production

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz
Location: Funchal, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: PHP (CodeIgniter, Phalcon), Javascript (Vanilla, jQuery, Mootools, AngularJS), MySQL, Subversion, Git.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/elvispt. Please send email to request a resume.

Email: elvispt [at] gmail.com
Just a thought... If your goal is to learn- remote is not a great idea.
SEEKING WORK - remote (I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Software Engineer working with full stack JavaScript applications over the last 3 years. I work mostly with Node.js, Redis, Express.js, PM2, CouchDB, Babel.js and MongoDB.

Github: https://github.com/a0viedo

LinkedIn: http://ar.linkedin.com/in/aoviedo

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9PXm1VeoiQjV0UxTnFCT2NfZE0...

Email: alejandro.oviedo.g AT gmail DOT com
I think the Académie Française is doing a very poor job. In Québec we have the Office Québécois de la Langue Française, which is much better at finding French equivalents to modern technology terms. A few examples:

- Cloud Computing -> Infonuagique

- E-Mail -> Courriel (vs. France's mél... how the hell do you pronounce that)

- Hashtag -> Mot-clic (it is indeed a keyword, "mot-clé" that you can click)

And a whole lot more...
I don't dislike RAII: it's a useful construct. I use it occasionally for automatic cleanup of files, memory etc.
Whistle Labs, Inc — San Francisco, CA — Full Time

Whistle is the world’s first technology company dedicated to helping pets live longer and healthier lives. Through intuitive devices and a comparative database of pet health information, Whistle is creating a new standard for preventative care and fueling groundbreaking insights to transform veterinary medical research.

We're looking for a Senior iOS Engineer with a strong background building top-notch mobile experiences on iOS. You’ll work with our mobile team on our iOS apps, building fun and intuitive interfaces for our pet-loving customers.

If you're interested in learning more, check out http://www.whistle.com/careers/senior-ios-engineer/
How do you account for the failure of past civilizations? What is different this time?

I'm all for optimism, but optimism and ignoring problems are very different things.
Zoomer (YC S14) – SAN FRANCISCO OR REMOTE

Zoomer is building a new take on food delivery - a platform to handle an extraordinarily high volume of concurrent deliveries from restaurants that already deliver (i.e. pizza, wings, sandwiches, etc.). We’re bringing much needed change to local high-volume delivery restaurants that are still doing delivery the way they’ve always done it. Our restaurants and their customers love the service, and our order volume is surging. You’ll make a real impact working to build and scale Zoomer as we continue to grow to new restaurants and territories.

We have amazing investors behind us, including Y Combinator (S14), First Round Capital, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Eric Ries, Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo and others. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground-floor - we’re making key hires to build our core team. You’ll have a ton of impact – lots of freedom to evolve our platform, stack, and apps. We follow strong dev practices, put an emphasis on testing, and deploy rapidly.

Help us build cutting-edge technical solutions to:

- tough logistics problems, quickly routing orders to optimal drivers in near-real-time.
- on-demand prediction and forecasting models
- scalable compute and data infrastructure
- multiple mobile apps - for restaurants and drivers - on both iOS and Android
- range of complex real-time frontend interfaces

Our stack: We have an AI backend service that handles order routing, multiple mobile applications – for our drivers and restaurants, and several Ruby on Rails applications for customer-facing/internal services. We’re using Angular.js and CoffeeScript on the frontend. Our data team uses Python.

The roles we’re hiring for:

- Ruby on Rails and Frontend engineer (Angular.js) engineers
- DevOps engineer
- Artificial Intelligence engineer
- Data engineer
- Data scientist

If this sounds interesting and you'd like to learn more, please apply here: http://www.zoomerdelivery.com/#jobs
I am a Computer Science student looking for a summer internship in Web Development, back end and front end. Don't care! I am very passionate about creating useful applications and learning.

Location: NYC and Houston. Would need a paid internship in NYC.

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: If paid.

Tech: JavaScript w/ some Node, some PHP, some Rails. Some experience with front end frameworks (been focusing on JS itself lately), and learning more every day!

Resume: http://a.pomf.se/zdycxj.pdf

Email: juansoto@fastmail.fm
500 Startups Announces New $5 Billion “Five Unicorns” Fund
I am a full-stack web developer and consultant with over 7 years of experience.

I deliver high performance web solutions, from personal blogging sites to robust, intelligent, real-time web applications.

When I'm not busy, I like to fly airplanes and climb tall rocks.

Location: Italy (until July), then back to the States

Remote: Preferred, likely mandatory

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Django, Python, PHP, WordPress, Ember.js, JavaScript, InfusionSoft, HTML5
Cordova/Phonegap, among others

Résumé/CV: http://www.ryannevius.com (more info available by request)

Email: See website

StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/3518452/rnevius

http://www.ryannevius.com
Nice trick.
And is showed me how we are all sensible to phishing attempts.
There are still lot of Google ads on download sites that are extremely misleading and look like download buttons. http://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ad8....

As I wrote in another comment, even YCombinator invested in a bundleware company and PG defended it, so I guess the problem is deep rooted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9283176
Here's an interesting question: How do the French decide on gender (and hence the article to use) of imported English words (same question can be asked for many of the European languages that have grammatical gender, e.g. German)? This Guardian note provides some answers (http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-125...), in French imported words are mostly masculine.

Some examples I pulled from this (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-3917...) thread for the gender of Internet in various languages:

* Spanish: Generally assumed to be masculine but the Real Academia Espanola page lists it as "amb", i.e. undecided gender (http://buscon.rae.es/drae/?type=3&val=internet&val_aux=&origen=REDRAE)
* Russian: Интернет - masculine
* Welsh: rhwngrwyd - feminine (but that's because "net" (rhwyd) is feminine, itself borrowed from Latin neuter rete, retis "net.")
* Czech: masculine
* Hebrew: masculine, although the more commonly used "net" (reshet) is feminine.

It's commonly taught that grammatical gender in languages (at least in IE languages) is semantically meaningless, i.e. they are just arbitrary classifications. this may not be totally true. If you have 10 minutes this article (PDF file: http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/gender.pdf) by Lera Boroditsky has an in-depth discussion on this topic.

French and German native speakers: Can you provide examples of English borrowed words that have feminine gender?
I didn't mean to single out almonds -- as you say, virtually all of California's agriculture is water-guzzling, and only sustainable because farms with seniority get substantial use-it-or-lose-it discounts on their water bills.

We need to end this across the board. If you can't produce something in the valley while paying a fair price for water, you shouldn't be producing it in the valley. Make something else, make it somewhere that's not drought-prone, or raise your prices to account for the water that goes into producing the product.