skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sendwithus (YC W14, sendwithus.com) is hiring two full-time engineers.

At our core, Sendwithus is a simple and highly scalable REST API to manage and send templated emails in real-time. Our API powers millions of emails each day.

We believe in product experience above all else and use continuous customer feedback to drive all product development. Our customers are hackers, marketers, startups, and enterprises alike – and we like it that way.

We're a close-knit and passionate team of 10, with offices in San Francisco and Victoria.

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Lead Engineer, Frontend - competitive salary, equity options

We're looking for an experienced frontend web developer to help architect and lead our customer facing applications.

You'll be responsible for architecture and technical design of all user facing applications, including our primary UI (the sendwithus dashboard), landing pages, and other public resources.

This is not a content or design role; this is a high-impact, high-ownership technical opportunity. You'll be leading our frontend team and working closely with our product team to ensure everything runs smooth and looks great.

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Engineer #6 (Full-stack, Python/Django) - competitive salary, equity options

You'll be working with our engineering team to implement new API features, and keep things running smoothly.

We deal with very large amounts of data every day, and our systems are constantly evolving as we solve new and more challenging problems.

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Email jobs@sendwithus.com to chat about either role.
Show HN: Share text and links between all your devices
Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Janelia Research Center
Ashburn, VA

Hi guys, my team is hiring a software engineer. I didn't want to rewrite the job description but here it is:
http://www.hhmi.org/careers/2348

Email me if interested: zenyh@boun.cr
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Local preferred, would consider remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Full-stack web: python, flask, kyototycoon, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (+Google closure libraries and compiler)

- Mobile: Android and pre-BB10 BlackBerry (in Java)

- Graphics: hobbyist-level experience with C++, Boost, OpenGL 3+

- Hardware: schematic capture and PCB layout of low-speed digital designs. Comfortable with soldering and re-working of high-density boards.

Résumé/CV: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/malexw (A more formal résumé is available upon request)

Email: alex@blinkenlights.ca
Periscope is a ton of fun to use, and I've had some wonderful experiences. The problem here is that it will be the first time a lot of people do livestreaming. Coming in and seeing these obscene comments is unsettling and certainly makes it harder to do the next stream. Think of those who might already be targeted for harassment, of voices that might be underrepresented, and make the tool more welcoming for them. This will not make the app unusable for others, rather it makes it a better experience for everyone.
They have some great docs at https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton and the community's great at http://www.reddit.com/r/crouton

As for replacing your ubuntu machine, the default distro is 12.04, but I'm sure you can install the latest.

I don't know about the amount of shell tabs you can have (as I use tmux), but my short experiment seems to hold up well.

The only problems I think you'll face is the scary 'OS Verification' at startup and limited memory (but can be solved by using a SD card). croutons are cheap to install so install, remove, install until you find your niche.
Transmogrify - http://xmog.com - Philadelphia, PA Suburbs

We’re a software shop located in the heart of Conshohocken, just a 5-minute walk from the R6 line. The team is a tight-knit blend of designers and developers and we are on the lookout for more engineering talent. If you have experience with these technologies, we’d like to talk to you! Email jobs@xmog.com and let us know you found us via Hacker News.

Preferred skillset:

* Modern Server-side Java (Jetty, Jersey, Guice, Guava, …)
* Client-side JS (Angular, React, Backbone, …)
* RDBMS/SQL experience (Postgres, Oracle, …)
* Android
* Ability to work effectively on a team and collaborate with designers
* A sharp eye for detail (you’re the kind of person who worries about error handling and edge cases!)

Nice-to-haves:

* iOS (Objective-C, Swift a plus)
* Server-side JS (Node, io.js, …)
* NoSQL (Cassandra, …)
* DevOps chops (AWS, …)
* Any other interesting software experience
It's software. Everybody knows how it works :)
SimplyCredit - Backend/Full-Stack Engineer - SF - Full Time

We are a VC-backed early stage fintech startup looking to fix lending.

We are looking for an experienced engineer eager for a defining role in building a company. As first engineer, you’ll get to call the shots on how to set up shop, help build out the team, guide product development, and write code that actually impacts people’s lives in a positive way. You’ll work directly with the founders and round out an early team with deep experience in data science, business development and consumer lending from their work at companies Kaggle and FICO.
If you’re itching to build a new platform and want to make a mark on company culture, all while fixing consumer lending, then we’d love to hear from you!

Salary / Equity: $70K-$125K / 0.7%-3%

Apply telling us a little about yourself here - https://angel.co/simplycredit/jobs/58688-software-engineer

or email us at jobs@simplycredit.us
Good alternatives?
1 Gigabyte? Try 20 Megs...if that.
I don't see how this is any more likely than a teetotaler taking cash bribes for information.
Not if you're running to run.
That's not much of a mess. I read "semiweekly" just as often.

Also, word composition doesn't necessarily need to be associative ;)

biweek/ly- once every two weeks

bi/weekly- twice every week
David Beazley releases Meẗal, a python decorator library powered by umlauts.

https://github.com/dabeaz/me-al
Please don't say "no rem-ote", "non-rem-ote", or anything of that ilk. It's awfully annoying to those searching the page for rem-ote jobs. Note to everyone else, if it isn't rem-ote, don't mention the word.
Cheers.

*Edited to add dashes into the key word I knew someone would comment on that but I've been too busy to come back and edit!

P.S. this wasn't personal attack on Jason (jnovek).
(To note, I have limited experience with using Redis. My questions may be stupid.)

As far as I can tell, most of the advantages of Redis come from the fact that it's all held in memory and so access is fast. Is networked access to other parts of the cluster quick enough that it is quicker than storing the data on one computer, partly on disk? When would one want to use a Redis cluster rather than something stored on-disk and cached in memory?
Location: Malta

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: maybe

Technologies: JAVASCRIPT, ANGULAR, NODE, JQUERY, CSS, HTML, LESS, GIT, BOWER, GRUNT

Résumé/CV: view at davidemezzetti.com

Email:davide.mezzetti@hotmail.it

about: I'm specialized in front-end-development with modern technology. I'm also a full-stacj developer based on javascript.
Location: Malta
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: maybe
Technologies: JAVASCRIPT, ANGULAR, NODE, JQUERY, CSS, HTML, LESS, GIT, BOWER, GRUNT,
Résumé/CV: davidemezzetti.com
Email:davide.mezzetti@hotmail.it
about: I'm specialized in front-end-development with modern technology. I'm also a full-stacj developer based on javascript.
Repeat after me: JS is the compilation target we have.

The sooner this idea dies, the sooner we can solve the actual problem of being locked to an insanely high level VM

So, the sooner we stop making actual things, we can take a step back and start making a thing that makes things?

By all means, try to solve this problem. But if the history of the web has shown anything, it's that it's extremely difficult to entirely reboot anything. JavaScript is all pervasive, and an alternative is going to have to come up with something brilliant to displace it. I haven't seen it yet.
Absolutely, I made a comment making a similar point when they hit 1.0

The Meteor marketing team seems to want to entrench themselves in every naive tech company they can and I can't believe that there could be so many Meteor users here with enough experience to comment so stridently on it.

My experience with Meteor was that my current company hired someone (who is/was literally writing a book on Meteor) to be the lead dev and they built a whole dashboard application in Meteor.

I arrived 6 months later and began working with them on that application and another Express app that they flat-out refused to touch.

I found that though Meteor was easy to pickup and figure out at a surface level, that it got very complex very fast when you started down the path of making a large application with lots of moving parts. Performance was terrible and there were always strange quirks and assumptions that Meteor would make that needed to be worked around later (one instance was their use of random string _ids in mongo which weren't valid ObjectIds).

Meteor tries to do everything for you and when you want to do something different, you have to go find some esoteric knowledge to hack around some core architecture or pattern. They don't play well with others and any questions or criticisms I had for this Meteor evangelist usually resulted in abstract arguments that boiled down to me needing to change my entire way of thinking about web apps to work with it effectively.

One of my arguments was "hey, where are all the other meteor devs? what happens if you leave or get hit by a bus?" which was also deflected somehow or made to sound ridiculous...

4 months later they leave to start their own consulting company and try to get themselves hired as an outside consultant for whatever rate.

I rewrote the entire application with a MEAN stack in 6 weeks with more features, better performance and a decoupled architecture and we've never looked back.

Admiral Ackbar would recognize Meteor for what it truly is... but unless you've got a Jedi or 2 on your team you'll want to be double and triple checking your needs before moving forward with Meteor.

</dissent>
Datafiniti - Data Engineer and Distributed Systems Engineer, Austin, TX

Data Engineer

Data engineers form the core of Datafiniti. You’ll be responsible for turning customer needs into usable data in Datafiniti. You’ll also be responsible for developing tools to help monitor and improve overall data quality. You should be familiar with data structures and basic algorithms, as well as have experience in 1-2 programming languages (Javascript a plus).

Distributed Systems Engineer

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you’ll be responsible for developing, expanding and managing a highly-scalable architecture that handles our web crawlers, database and other applications. Familiarity with the following technologies will help in this role: Cassandra, Ruby, Erlang (or another functional language), Java, AWS, and Chef.

https://datafiniti.co
It was literally titled the April Fools Day Special and on a day where the pranks vary from annoying programs that mess with my keyboard input to annoying news articles that mess with my sanity. I wouldn't have driven down to that dealership it they were giving away junkers or Bugatti Veyrons not to mention a BMW.
GoDaddy - Sunnyvale, CA and Phoenix, AZ

We are looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer to help us build our next generation e-commerce product, a key component in expanding our 13+ million customers' digital presence.

Our Online Store product is built on a solid foundation using open source software, lightweight agile processes and tools to optimize developer happiness.

Come join us!

https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=onAg0fwX
Grid-scale storage
Domino Data Lab | San Francisco or remote

We make a PaaS for data science that helps sophisticated organizations build, share, and deploy their analyses and models faster. We have a growing number of sophisticated enterprise customers, and we are growing our team to keep up with the demand for new functionality.

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers, and for an Infrastructure/Ops Engineer. Our stack is mostly in Scala, and we make heavy use of Docker under the hood. It's a complex product — job distribution, a revisioned file store with support for large files, containers — so we need people with serious tech chops.

Apply at http://www.dominodatalab.com/careers or email jobs@dominodatalab.com
Bzzzt: Opening the door with Websockets and Raspberry Pi
Or it can mean they don't like only being able to target a very restrictive sandbox that is defined by a couple of very powerful corporations. Or both.

But Firefox is in control of its sandbox. It has provided a lot of native API access that other platforms don't have.
This is my favorite today so far

> With the research ongoing, many at CERN are already predicting that the Force will awaken later this year.
Plus, a Parse coupon for joining the waitlist!
Location: North Idaho

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (especially to Seattle, Chicago, or SF)

Awesome at: Ruby, CoffeeScript, PHP, and C.

Technologies: Rails, Sinatra, Backbone,js, MEAN, Meteor, LAMP, and a lot more

Languages I've Used: Python, haXe JS, Java, Scala, Nim, OBJC, C++, C#, Swift, and lots more. Polyglot with 200+ GitHub repos.

Current Loves: Opal (who said ruby was dead?!), Celluloid + Reel, Clojure, Nim, RethinkDB, and Crystal

GitHub: https://github.com/k2052

Site: http://k2052.codes

Email: k@2052.me

I'm a polyglot that loves learning and breaking things (what better way to learn) I have built my own frameworks https://github.com/eldr-rb/eldr, https://github.com/ryggrad and written books https://leanpub.com/u/k2052, http://buildYourOwnSinatra.com. I attack projects that interest me with tremendous energy, and I find most things interesting.
Good grief. Are you seriously comparing the text in a huge, boldly coloured and centred button with an undecorated link outside of the main UI element and claiming they have equal weight on the page just because the basic text height is the same?

When people talk about employees at large tech companies being in a disconnected bubble of delusion, this is the kind of thing they must mean.
Codecademy | NYC, TN Visa,

Product Engineer Engineers at Codecademy are full stack (MongoDB/Rails, Go, Backbone + React) along with insights on product.

We're building the easiest way to learn programming online, teaching everything from basic language syntax to rails and angularjs. (and more in the future).

Job description at: http://www.codecademy.com/about/jobs/software-engineer

Or email me: kelvin@codecademy.com if you're interested in hearing more.
Yeah, clustered Redis, announced today? Sounds like a joke to me!
Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Android Development, Object Oriented Development, Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, Java, C/C++, SQLite, XML, HTML, CSS, Git and Linux.

I'm an Android Developer, developing mobile apps for phones and tablets, with published apps in the Google Play store and full life cycle software development experience. My Android app project experience, includes: concept development, project planning, research, algorithm development, programming, testing, debugging, publishing apps to the Google Play store and app maintenance.

Resume/CV and Email: http://compxpressinc.com/docs/kpcv.html
> The whimsy of Vonnegut betrays the truth that too many of us suffer from too little time in the day to create genuine, shareable moments with one another.

Except that so many of those genuine moments can't be created with any sort of precision. They happen exactly because they are outside of what was planned.

We suffer from a lack of time because we have too much crap planned or demanded of us. Abstracting away all the small things sounds wonderful, but it's exactly that pursuit of efficiency above all else that is killing us.
Non-Technical

Location:NYC

Remote: Willing

Willing to relocate: Yes, international pending position & location SEA pref.

Role: Financial Director, Project Manger.

Résumé/CV & references: on request

Email:zachary.kettman@gmail.com

I enjoy providing support services for creative and productive environments. Traditional or Scrum, whatever the methodology I ensure teams are well trained and measurably productive, and the metrics in place are sound. I have experience with international teams, and remote projects and working with teams to communicate often and well.

About me:
I was raised in Porkopolis, educated in
the Windy City, and have found a home in Brooklyn. Along
the way, I have made lasting friendships across the globe
and have been fortunate enough to find someone to share my
life with. I aim to continually improve the people, places,
and organizations I encounter.
Javascript Developer | UtilityAPI.com | Oakland, CA | Solar job

==Description==

We are a white-label SaaS that is used by solar and energy efficiency companies to collect their customer's utility bill and usage data automatically. You will be in charge of writing tools, scripts, and libraries that collect utility data from utilities. Often these utility data formats are complex and unique to each utility (pdf bills, xml data, csv data, etc.), so you will need to be very clever in collecting and parsing a huge variety of formats. Also, these scripts can break unexpectedly when utilities change their interfaces, so being able to update them quickly is important. You will be working in our office at the SfunCube in downtown Oakland. Our current codebase is well organized, documented, and tested.

==Experience Required==

No education or certification requirements, but you do need to be able to convince us that you know and have experience with:

* Javascript (not JQuery, vanilla javascript)

* Regular Expressions (we use them heavily)

* Python (basic knowledge)

* PGP (basic usage)

* Other (side projects, hackathons, hobbies, stuff you do for fun)

==Compensation==

$100k-$120k depending on experience.

==How To Apply==

Email me, Daniel Roesler, a cover letter and a PGP-encrypted pdf resume. Please include links to your github, bitbucket, or personal side project website (for reference, mine is daylightpirates.org).

==For Solar Skeptics==

In the last few years, the solar industry reached "grid parity", which means that the unsubsidized installed cost is now cheaper than buying power from the grid. That's why this industry is the fastest growing industry in the country. This isn't some subsidy-dependent industry anymore. We work hard and we make real money (while conveniently also saving the planet).
Why HTTP Is Sometimes Better Than HTTPS
Dollar Shave Club - Venice, Los Angeles, CA - https://www.dollarshaveclub.com

Dollar Shave Club is a men's lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that offers BS-free razor subscriptions and other bathroom products.

We are looking for smart, passionate, and dedicated individuals to join our amazing engineering team. We have to following open positions:

Full-Stack Developer

Android Engineer

Javascript Engineer (Ember.js)

Other open positions and contact info can be found at: https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/join-the-team
LShift – Is your organization riddled with the Cancer?
Location: I'm in the NYC area, but I'm also willing to relocate to Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Portland, Seattle, D.C or SF - or other places, depending on the opportunity.

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Angular, JavaScript, Django, Python, HTML/CSS/SASS, jQuery, Java, MongoDB, SQL, assorted webdev tools (grunt, bower, etc)

Résumé: http://davestess.com/assets/resume.pdf

Portfolio: http://davestess.com/

Email: davestess at gmail.com

I paused my job search to create http://www.gtdecision.com/, a tool for fantasy sports fans to follow player news (made with the MEAN stack). The fantasy sports communities on Reddit really enjoyed it and the site now has thousands of users. I've since improved the site in accordance with user feedback - my main focus is to create products that people enjoy.
Homesnap - Washington DC Metro
http://www.homesnap.com/about/jobs

* Android Developer
* Web Developer
* SQL Server Developer

Help Wanted. Email me directly at jobs@homesnap.com
Its an old riddle: what is the length of the coastline of Britain? Measure it by miles, you get one number. Measure by inches, another number. Measure the line that wriggles around every grain of sand at the waterline on every beach, you get 10X the number.

I think races are counting from inflection point to inflection point or something. Still, its arbitrary.
I'm not even really sure what you are advocating, we all already use libraries, and helper functions, and understand data types, and use generics to map the same function name to multiple types. Fold/reduce are words that are in our vocabulary and if you want to fold a list, array, vector, the result is very well understood by most people. If you want to fold a tree, while conceptually its still the same, the actual "twiddly bits" are very different. And that's not something all of us want or even need abstracted away. It really depends on what level you are working on.

If I'm writing a rest api, abstractions just make everything simpler, but sometimes I'm working with something new or I'm doing something custom and those abstractions are actually bad. I need to talk to the computer not the compiler.

Additionally not everyone thinks about programming the same way, I prefer whole word function names, I know guys that they could care less what things are called, they know what the code does all the same, they might be better developers than me, I'm not sure, but I know that their way of understanding a code base has very few corollaries to my way of understanding it.

Vocabulary about an abstraction is still an abstraction, and abstractions can be immensely useful in certain contexts, but they aren't always useful.
It's funny because I actually kind of like it.
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: front end tech so JS, CSS, HTML, jade, CoffeeScript, gulp, grunt, node, stylus, sass, less, angular, backbone, MEAN stack, TDD, HTML5 Canvas etc.

Resume: available on request.

Contact: http://jh3y.github.io

Github: https://github.com/jh3y

Open to different types of opportunity whether it be development or consultancy or anything else you come up with. Looking for somewhere that understand developers. Remote ideal. Check out my code/site and hopefully hear from you!
I suppose couchbase would prefer benchmarks like their previous ones where they overwrote the full ten field document with a single new field since they don't have an update operation.
Singleton Driven Development [pdf]
Grammatical gender in German isn't really arbitrary; it is usually determined by the word's suffix (though there are plenty of exceptions). For example, computer is grammatically male in German, like most words ending in -er.

Things can get complicated if a loanword does not have a suffix that exists in German (or is reasonably close to an existing suffix). In this case, you may get regional variations (that can be pretty random) or the grammatical gender of the German translation of the loanword may be adopted instead.

Examples of feminine loanwords: E-Mail (because the word "Post" in German is feminine), URL (because words ending in -el tend to be feminine).