skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Fix for crappy Logitech mice?
I love the Logitech "Anywhere MX" mouse except for the shoddy quality. I go through about one of these mice a year and judging from the Logitech forums this has been a design problem since day 1 that they have no intention of fixing (button stops working reliably).

Has anyone hacked/"modded" one to fix the button problem? Just replacing the button with another cheap one is not cost effective. I'd like to fix it once and be done with it. My time is expensive enough that going through the warranty hassle is not cost effective.
where is the problem? which startup has been killed by patents? given that the US has the most successful entrepreneurial system - what exactly makes this a huge problem?
Codero Hosting - Overland Park KS and Austin TX

Codero is looking to hire a Front End Engineer well versed in the art of Javascript. Experience working with Angular, ember, backbone would be desirable.

And if you know how to handle PHP and/or Python that would be a huge plus. We want those that are highly motivated and can knock out high profile projects.

Check out our job postings on:
http://www.codero.com/company/careers/

Or feel free to email me your resume, tmartin@codero.com
I'd also like to throw this out there -- I'd really like to see HN require "location" as part of official HN job postings.

Very few post where they are located, and then I have to go to the company website, and sometimes even the website doesn't tell me where they are, and I end up searching for them on Google maps!
NYC - Full Time - Full Stack Engineer

Tailor Brands is combining combining design and technology to make the world a better-looking place. We've helped hundreds of thousands of people create their own logos and brands through our automated process.

We're looking for someone to join us with 2+ years of experience shipping production-level code (ideally having some experience with Ruby, Rails, Ember). Our office is located in New York, NY (23rd and 3rd). Drop us a line if you're interested or need a new logo ;)

For more info: https://www.tailorbrands.com/jobs/positions/developer.html
Show HN: ReviewKatz, a tool for keeping track of Play Store app ratings
Thanks, very appreciated !

I am downloading lightbot right now. Will test with kids during the week-end :)
Addepar is hiring a Security Engineer. On-Site only in Mountain View, CA

This engineer will be responsible for reviewing our current code and future code, suggesting improvements to ensure that we are using secure engineering best practices, implementing security mechanisms in our software, finding security bugs and potentially fixing security bugs that have been discovered. If you review code through the eyes of a hacker and have a passion for building with a security bent, we’d love to tell you more!

Here is the job listing : https://jobs.lever.co/addepar/7d09481c-d1f4-4271-a385-95f0e9...
Seriously, because getting into the website is one thing, getting into anything that uses an API is something else altogether.

Google and Github both require the use of app specific passwords if you have 2FA on. Which means that accessing anything that uses the API is no longer a matter of username+password+token, it means username+password+log into site+generate huge and ridiculous password that is only shown once+save that into the app.

It's a pain in the ass. Massively.
SEEKING WORK: Remote & NYC Metro

I am a web technology and digital strategy consultant focused on helping clients build leads, increase sales, and save money with web-based technology. I have knowledge and resources in a wide range of disciplines in order to achieve any web related goals a business of any size may encounter.

My expertise comes from 15 years of working in many roles with a diverse range of clients from small businesses, to venture-backed startups, to Fortune 50 companies, on 2 coasts. Skills include programming and managing programmers, designing and managing designers, and translating the needs of stakeholders and executives into effective web technology solutions.

Full-stack web development is my core ability and I will leverage specialist resources in tech I don't personally work in. Here are keywords: UX, UI design, optimization, frontend, Python, Django, HTML, Javascript, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, AngularJS, PHP, Wordpress, MySQL, integrations, Salesforce, marketing automation, split testing, systems, devops, wireframes, prototyping, product management

My consulting business: http://rwds.co (that is ".co")

My LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronwhitman

Email ron+hncontact@rwds.co (".co" not ".com")
The SR-71 had an automated celestial navigation system that could get a lock in daylight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro-...

(The big disadvantage is that it can't see through clouds, of course)
How a Russian Syndicate Scammed Us for $25K
see this article for well-written explanation: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-01/risky-debt-...
Just how undervalued could it be with a market cap of 13.37 billion yuan ($2.15 billion)? And it appears to have been going up 10% daily since March 27 when it launched (it's up over 1000% already).

And if it was so incredibly underpriced... why was it so underpriced?
Why'd they give up on the war against homosexuality, then, too? Or the war on mixed race marriages? Or universal suffrage?
>> We don't have medical alcohol, so it's not the same thing.

Yah, we do. Addicts in the UK are given maintenance IIRC.

Alcohol is also used in cases of methanol poisoning and various other emergency treatments, though that's not quite the same thing I guess.

>> We don't really know how many more or less people will need medical care after the legalization of many drugs. However, in my experience, it will most likely be many more than we estimate now.

It'll still be cheaper than the prisons, the militarised police etc etc.

Of course, like you, I'm not naive enough to think those things will just go away.

>> I'm unclear why the reason I need to legalize drugs is to appease a criminal from not robbing me.

>> If heroin is as bad as you describe (creating addicted criminals that want to rob me), why again should it be legalized?

Legalising would help you be less likely to have a criminal rob you by not pushing up the prices of their addiction to the point they feel they have to do this.

But we're talking here about your demand that we not fund any healthcare or rehab once we have legalised/decriminalised. This is all part of the picture of helping people to recover and contribute to society rather than casting them out and saying "you fix it", which has a long history of not working.

I mean, you're just kind-of OK with legalisation, not outraged at the billions spent in your name on making everything worse, but you're demanding that not one red-cent be spent on helping people? Sick dude.

>> You aren't really making a good case, sorry.

There are not many cases that can be made when someone has already decided that everyone else in society is not their problem.
From what I understand, the patent office essentially is not empowered to say "no" to a patent request. The most they can do is keep sending it back for revisions, but if you have enough money and lawyers, you get to basically wear the examiner down or get a different examiner more willing to let it go.

An outright rejection process would go a long way to fixing some of this crap.
Lime Brokerage | NYC | | Full Time | On Site Only | Senior Engineer: Quantitative Analysis

We are looking for someone enterprising, able to quickly assimilate new technologies, and enthusiastic
about the financial services industry. An understanding of concurrency and distributed computing – for
example, the actor model, such as that provided by Akka – is necessary. Familiarity with statistics or
linear algebra – whether applied to finance, bioinformatics or machine learning applications – is a plus.

Skills of interest: Scala, concurrency and distributed computing, Akka, linear algebra, probability, experience with financial risk analytics, web dev experience

Perks: working at an awesome company, healthcare etc., good vacation and compensation package, opportunity for growth

Please submit resumes to jvictor at limebrokerage dot com -- and feel free to include a Github URL if you have one!

http://www.limebrokerage.com
Yeah, I'm a little let down this isn't in C++. Also, I'm not sure how open .Net actually is but it is cross platformish so not a bad choice. Though I imagine that .Net and Java would have share the same sort of performance issues.

But if its your preferred language and framework then I say have at it. It's your project you should be able to enjoy working on it.
Legitimate bulk email is not a thing you want to have decentralized - the anti-spam efforts of the past 20 years or so have made that all but impossible.
Location: Shanghai, China

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: strongly dispreferred

Technologies (that I have used in a paying job): Linux, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Java, HTML/CSS, Javascript

Played around with: Erlang, Clojure, Android

Resume: on request

Email: gmail - thaumasiotes

English level: native (US)

Mandarin level: HSK4

Seeking a more-or-less entry level position (1-2 years experience). I am happy to learn new technologies, so don't hesitate to get in touch for something I haven't listed.
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.

Rinse is hiring a senior Software Engineer 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 / AWS / Ubuntu, but we're a tiny tech team, so any newcomer will be able to shape architecture.

We'd also be interested in taking on a summer intern if the right student is still looking for an internship.

Interested? Contact sam (at) rinse.com!
Same-sex marriage doesn't result in higher risk for offspring with serious disadvantages.
> It's a pain in the ass. Massively.

Compared to someone gaining access to your Gmail (and the rest of your Google platform services) account or Github access? Hardly.

I agree its not perfect, but its relatively painless for the benefit obtained.
Author appears to not be aware of the upcoming free SSL certificate service from Mozilla, the EFF and more - https://letsencrypt.org/
It's not germane to this discussion. The previous poster only brought it up to draw parallels between a straight person being for allowing gay marriage and a non-smoker being for legalization.
CIRECA, Cambridge MA, Image analysis, cancer tissue and cells using visible, IR and machine learning, INTERN, REMOTE and VISA welcome.

(1) Experienced Java application developer. Experience creating Java-based standalone applications or java plug-ins. Experience developing multi-threaded applications and well-performing user interfaces using Java and/or C++. An ideal candidate is capable of creating a complete Java application from scratch. Experience developing for/with ImageJ or Fiji or other imaging applications a plus. Should have strong software architecture skills, be self motivated and be able to deliver robust, bug-free software.

(2) Senior MATLAB application programmer/toolbox author. Experience creating MATLAB GUI's using Handle Graphics, m-files and MATLAB objects. Experience with Java and creating Java Widgets for use within MATLAB GUI a plus. Should have strong software architecture skills, be self motivated and be able to deliver robust, bug-free software.

Please contact Stan, sremiszewski@cireca.com
Love that Sharpe ratio!
The current backlash against surveillance may change that - or so I hope...
Transitmix | San Francisco | Front-end and Back-end Engineers

http://transitmix.net/jobs

We're rebuilding urban planning tools -- the stuff cities use to plan the streets, zones, and transit. We launched a better bus route planning tool in January and already have 28 cities using it plan their transit networks.

We're hiring for two roles:

- Software Engineer. Someone to dig into bus optimization algorithms, wrangle gps and ridership data, and manage geospatial web services. You'll have a lot of leadership around this and we're flexible about the language (our existing codebase is ruby and python).

- Product Engineer. Blend javascript and design to build great UIs. We've put a lot of effort into building an easy, beautiful app for a complex domain, and you'll be in charge of keeping that standard.

Email us at jobs@transitmix.net
How to make your Blogger blog mobile-friendly
Dash (https://paywithdash.com) | Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Generalist) | New York, NY

- Ruby on Rails, Go, PostgreSQL on AWS
- Git, TDD, SCRUM
- Experience building and scaling REST APIs
- Experience w/ the entire stack - JavaScript/jQuery as well as ActiveRecord/Database/SQL

Dash is a new way to pay at bars and restaurants. Using your phone, you can check-in at a Dash venue, view your bill, split it with friends, and pay with one tap.

The industry and subject matter we're in couldn't be better. You are literally scaling a system and product that helps people consume more Jalapeño Poppers and Bud Lights.

Full-time, local only. Apply at jobs@paywithdash.com or https://angel.co/dash-1/jobs/58265-senior-rails-engineer
About us
www.honest.com

Locations: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. While e-commerce direct-to-customer shipping has been our largest success, our retail partnerships are rapidly growing with our products now in Target, Costco, WholeFoods, and Nordstrom.

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Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- RabbitMQ is our main queueing system
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
====================
Positions Available:

--Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid. Sr.)
http://thehonestcompany.theresumator.com/apply/xP2fAG/FullSt...

--Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, Sr.)
http://thehonestcompany.theresumator.com/apply/2S988b/Senior...
your relationships? the difference you make to other people's lives? how kind, funny, generous, intelligent you are?
If you like this, you may find bashmenot useful. Among other things, it includes GNU bash functions to work with S3.

Documentation:

https://bashmenot.mietek.io/reference

Source:

https://github.com/mietek/bashmenot
LegitScript - Portland, OR and Dublin, Ireland

We fight fake pharmacies with ruby!

We make the online health product sector safer and more transparent for individuals and businesses. We analyze and report on rogue online pharmacies and dangerous health products. Our services include monitoring, investigative reports, online pharmacy certification, and health product classification. Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks. Our clients include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Twitter and the FDA.

We have open positions for software developers in both Portland and Dublin, and are also looking for a full time DBA.

http://www.legitscript.com/about/careers/
i guess its called "circuit breaker" in stock market terms.
Blacklane - Berlin, Germany

- Software Engineers: iOS, Android, Web (polyglots are welcome)

- UI/UX Expert, mostly for mobile

Company helps with relocation and Blue Card (working visa) for non-eu citizens.

If you want to talk to engineers (preferable): timo.roessner (at) blacklane.com or alexey.denysov (at) blacklane.com

If you still want to talk to HRs: career@blacklane.com
Deca Technologies - Phoenix, AZ - on-site - EDA Software Engineer

Deca Technologies is an electronic interconnect solutions provider that offers wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) and fan-out wafer level packaging (FO-WLP) services to the semiconductor industry.

Deca's software engineers develop next-generation electronic design automation (EDA) tools and manufacturing software that enable Deca's unique approach to wafer level semiconductor packaging. EDA software requires cross-disciplinary skills and knowledge related to the semiconductor packaging technology and the complex CAD tools used during the design process. In addition, manufacturing systems require skills in high-reliability distributed systems that perform compute intensive tasks across large server clusters. As a software engineer, you will work with a team on developing and supporting EDA tools and distributed systems in a fast-paced environment. We need our engineers to have a passion for learning new technologies and the drive to tackle new problems as we transform the electronic interconnect industry.

Our technical stack consists of Python and C/C++ for high performance portions. These systems run in distributed configurations, both local high reliability clusters and cloud resources. Deca Technologies offers software engineers a chance to apply their skills to a new field and learn a vast new domain.

Contact: craig.bishop@decatechnologies.com
Have a tough decision? New Picwhich iOS app uses crowd opinion to help users pic
Hey everyone. My Co-Founder and I just created a new iOS called Picwhich. Picwhich is a fun social media platform for users to showcase their options via pictures and poll others to get definitive results on which option is best. Users simply take or upload a pic of two options and then post it to the community to see the results and help them "picwhich" option is best. Users can also upload single images to be voted up or down, which is helpful in situations where you want to know what your top profile pic or selfie is - users will review your pics and you can see how many likes it receives compared to other pics you uploaded. Not only that, but we feel that details matter and we go beyond just reporting likes by breaking down who liked their pics by gender and age. We feel this is valuable information that helps people understand who they are appealing to and lets them make more informed decisions.

I understand there are a lot of apps out there but we have spent a great deal of our time going through everything in painstaking detail to create a quality product and provide instant utility for everyone. We are different because we have programmed Picwhich to reward its users who contribute to the app by reviewing pics by featuring their content more frequently on the home screen and larger in the gallery section. We also feel there are much broader applications for the app, but of course this will ultimately be determined by the users and the content they upload.

I could go on and on about the app but I would love it if you would take a look at Picwhich and let me know what you think. We're looking to grow the app and would appreciate any feedback people provide.

http://picwhichapp.com
Nepotism.

IPO stocks are artificially rationed to maintain a daily 10% gain in order to control liquidity and reduce volatility -- and, more to the point, the IPO price is low for the benefit of investors.

In practice, only those with the best connections are able to participate in the daily trade quota rationing.
Product Hunt (YC14) - Lead Product Designer - San Francisco or close by.

Product: www.producthunt.com - Imagine if reddit and the appstore would have a baby - that's Product Hunt

Vision: Nowadays the tools and knowledge to build awesome things are available to everyone online. The only thing stopping people from reaching a significant audience is distribution. We want to enable people worldwide to build awesome stuff and be able to reach the right people.

Right now we are a mix between reddit and the appstore but On the long run we want to rethink how new products get launched and distributed in general. At the moment our main focus is tech/startups but we are expanding into other areas like games, books soon and more in future.

Role: We are looking for a product (not just visual) designer who wants to have a say in how this could happen.

Expectations:

* You have a very strong visual design background (web and mobile)

* You have a very strong product thinking background

* You can write basic frontend code (nice to have)

http://www.producthunt.com

More infos on that role: https://angel.co/product-hunt/jobs/55058-senior-ui-ux-design...

If you are interested feel free to reach out to me directly (andreas%%producthunt.com) or submit via AngelList - whatever is easier for you :)
GlobalSign is looking for Mid level to Sr Backend Software Developers located in Boston, MA - Portsmouth, NH - or Maidstone, UK

GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com) - one of the Internet’s original Certificate Authorities. Over the years we have issued millions of trusted Digital Certificates to people, servers and mobile devices for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled solutions and applications. Our identity and access management portfolio includes access control, single sign-on (SSO), federation and delegation services to help organizations and service providers create new business models for customer and partner interactions.

We operate in small teams - tightly integrated with product management. In these development roles, you'll be working to build out new products and services to expand our PKI services portfolio. We're looking for individuals with solid fundamentals - exposure to lower level coding like C/C++ is important - but also looking for those who have skills to build scalable systems in higher level languages. Interest / experience in internet security and/or building high capacity backend systems is a huge plus as well. For more info, please see the posting here (note, the posting only mentions Portsmouth, but we're looking for roles in Boston and Maidstone as well):

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/globalsign/senior-backend-soft...

Any questions you can email me at lancen.lachance at globalsign.com
And all of a sudden Blue Origin looks to be in the lead in the (very long) race to suborbital passenger flights. Scaled/Virgin seemed to be a lock in the beginning, but have been squandering their lead. Until yesterday, I'd have thought underfunded but competent XCOR might beat out VG.
A Conversation with Richard Dawkins: This Is My Vision of “Life”
Interesting idea but not really necessary if you live in an area with even a moderately sized home schooling community. In the Portland area I think the biggest co-op serving this need is http://villagehome.org/. It's working great and costs less than a private school (and can be nearly free if you're willing to give back by teaching).

I was home schooled for a few years in the '80s, and even then we had a co-op and decent sized community where we got together regularly to learn from some bright teachers.
"unlimited vacation" ... yeah we all know how well that works out
Body Visualizer
... right, which is why I listed all the other reasons you might not be able to install a python package.
Who is buying it, by the way? What is the probable source of their money?
add it to the list

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools