skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: San Diego, CA, USA (for now).
Remote: yes, preferred.
Willing to relocate: for the right opportunity.
Technologies: Android/Java, C/C++, OpenGL, SDL, Lua, Python, REST, shell, git, developing scripting languages, ActionScript, some iOS/Obj-C, and a bit of various web tech.
Resume: https://drive.google.com/open?id=145EEnY-nVrNnq89HPWnfJfzjaN...
GitHub: IonoclastBrigham
Web: http://blog.ionoclast.com/
Email: @see resume.

I have been looking for remote work so I could pursue my dream of being a well-to-do tech hobo and travel around when it's convenient. That said, I'm totally willing to relocate somewhere awesome for an awesome job with awesome people! Need a driven generalist to geek out on the minutiae of your project? Hit me up.
China Passes Mexico as the Top Source of New U.S. Immigrants
Thanks for taking an interest!

I personally wrote the code behind Sandstorm's "appdemo" feature, which is what the "Try it now" button links to, from the Etherpad front page. Etherpad itself is not written by me; it's written by many other great people.

See e.g. https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commits?author=pau...

I also wrote this blog post about the feature: https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-02-06-app-demo.html

Happy to answer other questions if you have them!
PennyMac (http://pennymacusa.com)
Moorpark, CA (Ventura County)

PennyMac is a leading national mortgage lender and servicer. Our Capital Markets Technology group is looking for local, on-site developers to help develop and support our pricing and best-ex systems.
We are a small team of dedicated developers who are always looking for better ways to do things.
We are currently in Moorpark, CA but are planning to move to Westlake Village, CA by the end of the year.

Our technology stack includes:

- Ruby/Rails

- Front end awesomeness with Netzke* and ExtJS

- PostgreSQL

- Python (for some backend services)

- Clojure (experimental right now - may replace some Ruby background processing jobs)

Here is a link to the official job description (good reading if you are having trouble sleeping):
https://rew12.ultipro.com/PEN1012/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?_...

You can apply on-line at the above link, or e-mail me at eric.litwin@pnmac.com if you are interested.

*We are the sponsor of Netzke development (http://netzke.org/)
Using water on an electric fire sounds like a dumb idea to me. But yeah, the MSDS does seem to say that...
Www.paulgraham.com on mobile devices
Gotham Dream Cars | Full-stack Developer (Rails/JS/HTML/CSS) | Part Time | Remote

So this is a bit of a different kind of gig/company. Not Silicon Valley. Not even really tech. But cool :)

GDC (http://www.gothamdreamcars.com) is an ultra-exotic car rental company. I started it about 11 years ago and have built it organically to a multi-city company renting out some of the coolest cars on earth.

A few years ago I dove headfirst into the tech side of things, taught myself to code, and built our entire tech stack myself - and it now runs the whole company. But I'm focused on other things these days and don't have the time to maintain / continue to develop the site, so it's time to bring someone on board to handle it.

It's not the most world-changing stuff -- essentially a CRUD app with a consumer-facing front-end and admin-facing back-end for managing the fleet, booking reservations, doing light CRM, billing, logistics, etc. But it's incredibly satisfying to work on -- every feature directly helps the employees in the office work more efficiently, helps the cars get booked more often, and helps our customers stay happy. It's step-by-step replacing manual processes and has a huge impact on the company, employees and customers.

If you're looking for some satisfying part-time, remote Rails/Frontend work and are interested in directly improving an interesting business that deals with Ferraris and Lamborghinis, this might be ideal for you. There's zero overhead here -- if you have an idea for a feature, you can go ahead code it up and push it live that day.

You don't have to be a senior Rails or JavaScript expert - you just have to be better than I am ;) (I'm a solid intermediate.)

There's a long list of fun features on my to-do list, so the first few weeks/months would be more involved as you bang out updates and get things caught up, then it would transition to maintenance, new features, new ideas, etc. over time.

A bit about our stack and some of the tasks at hand:

* Rails (currently on 3.2, moving to 4.x)

* MongoDB (but that's gotta go, so we're moving to Postgres)

* Stylus for CSS

* Haml / Slim for HTML templates

* JavaScript (currently mess of jQuery - TBD which framework we'll move to)

* Git-based workflow

If this sounds interesting/fun, take a look at the site, shoot me an email (contact info in HN profile) and we'll discuss.
This was about TCP but I've seen it used (or abused) in other contexts. This can lead to other undesirable effects. For instance, being liberal in what you accept may make your system less secure (larger code base to manage, more features to consider, especially features users are not actively using, ..)
Boeing 787 Dreamliners have an int overflow bug
I like Etherpad but unless you give us a reason for posting this here that is HN-related, it should be flagged.
You also wrote the pull request adding the button to etherpad.org.
That's a nice thing you can do for yourselves as US citizens. What can I do as a non-US citizen to help out? I don't want to see your large-militaried country become an authoritarian regime any more than you do. :)
Acelio bridges the gap between applications and infrastructure. Since applications can only perform as well as the infrastructure they run on, truly reliable performance can only occur when cloud infrastructure is more responsive to the needs of developers and their applications. Acelio software removes and prevents resource contention among applications from the infrastructure without being invasive to applications.

We are looking for talented engineers.

http://acelio.com/ or jobs@acelio.com
I found this script a couple weeks ago and was very useful for the minimal docker image I was creating. In some cases you have certain constraints when accessing s3 and this script is helpful in those cases.
Google "goldman starvation" for one such example.
Sorted now, thanks
"But I also wish that I could cure cancer with a single magical kiss, and that I had my very own pet dragon"

This kind of condescending response doesn't do science or scientists any good. It's actually actively harmful. Don't do it.
Recurly (www.recurly.com) - Full Time in San Francisco & Boulder

We're growing fast and hiring a bunch of engineering talent:

- Front End Developers

- Support Engineers

- Sr. Ruby Developers

- Ruby Technical Leads

- Lead Systems Engineer

- Payment Rails Engineer

More info on our jobs page: https://recurly.com/jobs/#positions

Anyone with questions can contact: rich@recurly.com
You just nuked your service in my opinion. Not sure who's going to appreciate this posting except very very small guys, anyone serious will not want to do business with you.
Realize that this is the exact same level of verification as superliminal neutrinos, except at a vastly decreased level of rigor. At this point the overwhelmingly likely explanation is that there is some phenomenon at work which we don't understand or haven't properly accounted for, not that there is new physics afoot.
I went on a backpacking trip where I took my phone but didn't look at it. Isn't this the same thing? It seemed prudent to have the possibility to find cell service and get an exact GPS location, even though I likely only had coverage in a couple of spots over the course of a week.
> They've sued the NSA, and the case has been running until this year (not sure if it's finally dead, though): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_v._NSA

It's worth mentioning that the EFF sued the NSA long before the Snowden leaks were revealed. They've been fighting this fight far longer than most people realized just how important it was.

They've also been involved in suits against the NSA after the Snowden leaks as well, but it's not even like they just jumped on the bandwagon. They've been committed to this fight for ages.
Healthify | New York, NY | http://healthify.workable.com/

Healthify is looking for a full-stack web developer with expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails and a frontend web developer who is excited to help us deliver modern UI/UX to an industry and population in dire need of it.

We are working on real problems affecting the lives of populations that have been forgotten and marginalized by the tech industry for far too long. You will help define how the healthcare market delivers on the promise of reform and have the potential to lower the trillions of dollars we spend on healthcare. Your programming will have an immediate and dramatic impact on countless lives and organizations dealing with social needs.

Our job site is healthify.workable.com
Our website is healthify.us
4.There is no "patent litigation crisis", just increased media coverage of litigation that is more or less in line with historical rates.

From reading that paper, the raw numbers look bleak to me - pretty much all of them doubling over the last 10 years. My only hope is that the AIA is actually causing the inflation in patent lawsuits the paper claims. There does seem to be some evidence in it that it is.

I also don't find looking at percent of patents in force very useful. Even if that number remains flat, the number of patents in force increases. What I'm interested in is how many businesses are getting screwed over. If that percent remains flat but we had a huge upswing in patents granted it would be tragic, and it would be hidden behind the 2% number that doesn't really matter.

Also, "historic rates" goes back to 1923. The software sector has not existed for nearly that long, and making comparisons to a very different economy doesn't seem that useful.
Virtulus | Cambridge, MA | www.virtulus.com

We're building a location-based, smart mobile search engine that delivers the right information at the right time and place, without having to switch between a hundred different apps on your phone to get the information you need. In some sense we want to become a search engine that can search "inside apps" by indexing content within APIs. Co-founders are both MIT EECS PhD graduates.

Please write to us for more details: info@virtulus.com

We're looking for

* back-end engineers who have a passion for location-based services and huge graph databases. Our software stack uses Python, Flask, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis and running on AWS

* front-end engineers with a good sense of design and experience developing iOS native apps and/or responsive HTML5 apps

Prefer Boston area candidates, but we will also welcome exceptional candidates from the Bay Area (the founders may consider moving the company there in the future).
GoDaddy | Product Manager - Managed WordPress | Sunnyvale, CA or Phoenix, AZ | Local

GoDaddy is investing heavily in their people, culture and products but we have a long way to go.

We launched our managed WordPress hosting product a year ago and have had hundreds of thousands of customers sign up since, making us the biggest hosting company for WordPress in the world.

We're looking for sharp product managers with knowledge of the WordPress product and industry to help us continue to build a world class product.

I'm also hiring for a senior rails engineer on the marketplace team.

Email me direct at ned@godaddy.com
Walt Disney Animation Studios ~ Burbank, CA

If you're reading this then you're looking at a super-rare opportunity. We're looking to hire a CTO!

We also have opportunities for Linux-savvy software engineers. Disney Animation is a great studio working on cutting-edge animation tech.

We are a primarily a Linux, C++, and Python shop.

Shoot me an email (my username @gmail.com) if you're interested, and please apply online:

http://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/open-positions

Here's a sampling of some of our publications in case you're interested in some of the areas we've been exploring lately:

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/publications
Then how was John Titor able to reboot society with an IBM 5100.
One other possibly-cool thing is that any open source web app, when packaged for Sandstorm, can get a "Try it now" button of your own. That's what I explain at https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-02-06-app-demo.html but I figure it's worth stating clearly here in a comment, to save people a click.
This is me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471926
True!

https://github.com/ether/ether.github.com/pull/21
We've had some really amazing interns and ask a lot from them. As Akshay says, they basically have the same responsibilities and opportunities to make an impact as full timers. It's awesome that they get a lot out of it too. We'll miss you Akshay!
I first heard about the programmer mentioned in this article in Michael Lewis' "Flash Boys," which goes into great detail about how places like Goldman let high-frequency trading firms into their "dark pool" to make money off arbitrage by being able to make orders faster than anyone else, and then steering their customers into their dark pools rather than executing the trades in the way most beneficial to their customers. I find that sort of thing to be rather unethical at best -- if I hire a broker, I expect them to buy and sell stocks in the way that best benefits me, not whichever one benefits some high-frequency trading firm the most.
I wouldn't say pip's the worst, but NPM outshines it in my opinion.

Some useful features include:

* `npm --save $PACKAGE` - installs a package, adds it to your dependencies list. Python's equivalent is `pip install`, `pip freeze` to get the installed version, and a manual edit of the requirements file.

* Production dependencies & development dependencies. Python either has to use multiple files, or `setup.py`, which is vastly more complex.

* Installation of modules within the source directory - no need of a virtualenv. This isn't always good news, but it's generally pretty useful.

* Recursive dependencies. There's no global version of a module - your dependencies can in turn require different versions of other packages, without clobbering each other.
It was a FUD attack on something that really couldn't have been a trap legally or intellectually.

I guess the sticking point is that I don't see how it couldn't have been a trap legally or intellectually. X exists. X is patented. Making a clone of X and using that clone in critical technologies is a risky strategy, unless you get an explicit legal guarantee that you won't be sued. It happened to C#, it happened to MP3, it happened to H.264. All very similar situations.

Now, you may say that C# is different than MP3 or H.264 because you personally reviewed MS's patents and you personally guarantee that none of them actually apply to Mono, so we're all in the clear. That is awesome, because as most software developers are not patent lawyers, we lack the ability to do that ourselves. We just know that some people said it's a problem, others said it's not, and MS itself was silent for quite some time. But it's not the same as an affirmative statement from MS saying they're not going to sue other C# implementations for patent infringement.

You are right that MS may have gotten a bit more attention than another company would have in the same situation. If so, it can be reasonably explained by that old "fool me once" quote. But even so, the whole situation could have been diffused by MS if they wanted to.

Now we are looking 6 years later and well things have really opened up in C# and mono?

They seem to have. To be honest I haven't been following the developments of the past couple years in great detail because it seems like the "C# on Linux" ship has already sailed.

And that's a damn shame. I think C# is a great language. It fits a niche that still isn't really filled in the Linux ecosystem (although that niche is getting smaller and smaller as time goes on and other technologies develop).
My take would be that there are complications from the myriad reasons these related tasks may be taken. It is possible to have a general purpose tool that works in all cases. It may not be the best performer in all cases, though. Hence, my joke on knives.

My question back, do we have evidence that it is us making it complicated?
Not a direct reply, but to put some scale around the numbers:

20,000,000,000,000 kWh =
20,000,000,000 MWh =
20,000,000 GWh / 8,760 hours/year ~=
2,283 GW average steady-state generation, globally.

A typical utility-scale nuclear reactor produces around 0.5 GW.
Single Drive Shipping, iOS App, Traction Control and Thermal Overdrive
Nava - Washington DC

I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcare.gov. (Mostly Stanford, Google, Y Combinator folks) We've learned a ton, and see an opportunity to create software that radically improves how our government serves its people - we've started our company, Nava, to chase that vision.
In the last 6 months, we've launched 2 major projects:

- App 2.0, the new insurance application for healthcare.gov. It's processing 70% of apps coming through the marketplace, and: converts 35% more people than the old app, gets them through in half the time, is mobile-friendly (20% of apps), sits on robust, scalable infrastructure, etc etc. It was the first system that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service) ever hosted on Amazon AWS.

- Scalable Login System (SLS), the new identity management system for healthcare.gov. Sadly, the main achievement here is that the system is actually up and available, unlike its predecessor. It's now saving the taxpayer $70M in annual maintenance costs.

Here's a Wired article from last summer about us: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/

We're just starting on a few major new projects that have a huge potential to improve our government. We have the technical experience to do things the right way, and the relationships and trust inside government agencies to get things done. Our momentum is strong, the problem is important, and we're looking for good people.

If you're the type that would get fired up about reimagining broken government experiences and technology, please drop us a line at jobs@navahq.com, we'd love to hear from you!

Specifically, we’re looking for:

- a product manager with a technical background

- a senior devops engineer

- a senior full-stack engineer
Like it or not, there still exist many important and frequently used programs which are only written in fortran. People absolutely should be interested in maintaining a fortran compiler.
Opower is hiring! (San Fransisco and Arlington, VA)

We are looking for top notch engineers and managers to join our team on both coasts! We are a saas company, changing the way people are thinking about their energy usage, and we're just getting started!

Check out www.opower.com/careers for openings and also feel free to email me directly at heather.cassano@opower.com.
Hillary for America (HFA) | NYC | Frontend, Backend, and DevOps

Our engineers will be building the next generation digital organizing platform for the 2016 race. Right now we're a small team, but we have many spots on our technology team to fill. It's so early that we don't have a great job site yet. Here's a little bit of info about us:

Our Chief Digital Strategist, Teddy Goff, is from Obama 2008 & 2012. Our CTO, Stephanie Hannon, is from Google. I worked Obama 2012 and more recently came from Optimizely to HFA as the Director of Frontend Engineering and Optimization.

If you haven't worked on a campaign before, it is quite a unique experience. If you're interested, email your resume to kylerrush at gmail dot com and let me know what kind of role you're looking for!
> I dislike slacktivism like this. I feel that it's damaging because it wastes attention and effort that could be put to good use.

I don't think it's a waste of attention. This is also something you should share after you've done -- the hope is to raise awareness. In addition, they want to put faces to the constituents who are against privacy violations. Ethos is a valid appeal.

"Slacktivism" is a word that devalues small contributions on the part of constituents who might otherwise do nothing to express their voice. Behind every group of "slacktivists" is a passionate group whose goal is to make unheard voices apparent. To decry "slacktivisism" is to decry the work of those people, to say it doesn't matter when in reality it has a measurable effect. E.g online activism against SOPA/PIPA, Aaron's Law, these are outgrowths.

> become an informed and educated voter who actually votes... Encourage others to do the same. It's literally the only thing that will fix these problems.

The people running these campaigns are doing exactly that, encouraging people to vote if they can. Barring that, signing petitions is the next best thing. Anecdotally I've become better informed because of projects like these, and in doing so become a better voter.
Grooveshark music streaming service shuts down
New ACLU app for recording police auto-uploads your footage
edit: my karma https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9471929&goto=threads%3...
Theranos - Palo Alto

Visit a lab for a Doctor’s appointment recently? Two vials of blood is a lot isn't it? Theranos is looking to completely redefine healthcare by solving speed and accuracy issues of current lab testing by combining SW engineering and life sciences using 1/1000 less blood than what is typically drawn today; our process have results in Doctors’ hands in as little as 2 hours allowing them to provide significantly more accurate treatments in a timely manner.

https://www.theranos.com/news/arizona-bill-signing

An advanced stage startup, Theranos primary stack is .Net - We are looking for engineers who want to make a positive impact in healthcare. Also looking for embedded, Senior iOS & Android developers.

VISA & Relo assistance (for those already in the North America) - Sorry No remote – No International Relocation.

What’s it like working @ Theranos? http://vimeo.com/107759726

For more about each position: http://www.theranos.com/careers/software-development

email michaelw at theranos dot com
Zesty (YC W14) | San Francisco, CA (or remote) | https://www.zesty.com/jobs

We're hiring Rails and Ember engineers.

If you’re interested in building the kind of back-end systems that power Uber and Lyft, Zesty is a way to get in on the very ground floor of an engineering team with similar challenges. You’d be one of the first 5 engineers to join and would work closely with our founders.
edit: my karma http://i.imgur.com/rjNrXTc.gifv
The Rubber Duck Effect
Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Perl, Java, C, Rust, Go, SQL, MongoDB, UNIX/Linux, Git, Some Front end experience

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ptuso9voxcy1r6z/GSquire_Resume_Cur...

Email: garrettsquire @ Google's email service
> Cooking and programming are horrible comparisons too.

I think that was part of their point
I've had issues with NPM in the past due to having a proxy server on our network, and dealing with some absurdly arcane errors t oresolve it. The only package manager that I've ever had a problem with.

That said, I don't tend to use node.js, so NPM's virtues illude me.
>Obama's constitutional law idealism may have been severely corrupted by the pressures of his current role, but it's still there.

Really? I have two words for you: Predator drones[1]. The sitting president of the United States, who has actually ordered drone strikes against American citizens who surely have Constitutional rights, joking about droning more American citizens. Whatever bit of constitutional law idealism was there was either an act or long since gone.

[1] https://youtu.be/WWKG6ZmgAX4