skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because it won't.

95%+ of people are totally ignorant on the matter and would happily walk off a cliff. The shareholders know that.

If you look at most corporate mentality, it's not about doing a good job. It's about maximising return to shareholders and if doing a shitty job and getting away with it pays off then that's what will happen.

It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission here from a business POV.

(and yes this attitude thoroughly disgusts me but it's prevalent and unavoidable)
To a lot of the comments going with some variation of "His business aren't that successful and/or he is propped up by government contracts" I would say that it is really easy to look back in hindsight and say Tesla/SpaceX aren't a big deal but I think Tesla did for the electric car what the iPhone did for the smartphone. Also maybe it is just PR but I really see many other private companies launching/developing rockets.

As the public face of these companies that are so awesomely nerdy Elon Musk gets the public credit for their success just like he will take the blame for their possible failures.
I'd be interested to see what happens to people's scores if the colors are sometimes changed to not match (Stroop effect).
My 19 year old daughter has a big collection of video game music she uses to stay in flow while she is studying, also. She is rather fond of the stuff.

I don't, but I do appreciate that sometimes a long instrumental piece is better background for working than a "sing along anthem" type of music.
But you also have five years more experience in designing software, organizing code, debugging, etc. All things that are largely tool agnostic.
TeleSign | https://www.telesign.com/careers/ | Marina Del Rey/Los Angeles, CA (Belgrade, Serbia)

- QA Automation Engineers

- Senior Software Engineer

- DevOps

- Release Enginner

- Technical Writer

- System Administrator

We're primarily a Python shop. Open positions are for backend/service platform development and deployment.
IBM Watson | Multiple positions | Pittsburgh | Onsite | Full-time | Citizen; Visa for well-qualified candidates | Scala; Java; Angular.js; Bootstrap; Python; Ruby; Watson Explorer

IBM Watson in Pittsburgh has several open positions as of this posting.

http://ibm.biz/watson-pgh-jobs

* Watson Technical Product Manager

* Watson User Interface (UI) Junior Developer

* Watson Quality Engineer

* Watson Support Explorer Engineer

If you apply, please ensure that you apply fully by clicking the link in the email you receive later today. People frequently miss that step and leave their application incomplete!

I’m the software engineer tech lead on the Watson Explorer connectivity team and former consultant with the product's Professional Services team.

We’re looking for folks versed in Java, Scala, and the Ruby on Rails stack. The UI positions are heavily focused on Angular.js and Bootstrap. QA leans Python. We're in new development mode right now, so if you like to start from nothing, you'll like what we're doing.

We do things like TDD, real actual pair programming†, kanban, agile-ish planning (IBM Design Thinking, not some convoluted buzzword bullshit), automated builds, “use the right tool for the job even if it’s not an IBM product”, and daily stand ups that, for the most part, never run past 15 minutes.

We like to have fun, too, having regular board game lunches and evenings, hosting meetup events, weekly communal lunch cooked by one or more of our fantastic cooks, and managers that are incredibly full-of-clue and treat us like the adults we all are.

We try to keep our interview process as bullshit-free as possible. If we think you look good on paper, we’ll reach out for a phone chat and give you the details on a pretty open-ended code test, where you’ll implement a simple library. If we like your solution, then we’ll invite you for a live culture fit and technical interview, in-person if you’re near or remote if not. This process has given us a ridiculously low turnover.

† no, really. We shoot for 50%-75% pairing, otherwise known as “pair when it makes sense”.
Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA (onsite) - RedOwl Analytics
We're hiring rockstars to help RedOwl explode through our Series B fundraising round. We need Ops Engineers, Field Engineers, Acct Execs, Acct Managers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists. Email careers@redowlanalytics.com with your resume and interest!

www.redowlanalytics.com
CommercialTribe | Mid-level Javascript Developer | Denver, CO – Full Time – On site

CommercialTribe is a social learning platform that enables sales reps to teach and learn from one another. Headquartered in Denver, we’re a proven start-up that has passed the initial product development phase. We’re currently working with several brand-name enterprise customers that have validated our market opportunity. Now we’re beginning to scale.

We are seeking an experienced mid level javascript developer to join our team in developing a MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular.js and Node.js) stack application.

Interested? Find out more - https://www.commercialtribe.com/javascript-developer
SimplyTapp Inc. Austin Tx.

Mid to Senior Full-Stack Java Developer

Company:
SimplyTapp Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. SimplyTapp are the creators of Host Card Emulation (HCE) which provides cloud based mobile payment solutions for banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers.

Newly created position responsible for working closely with the developers and infrastructure.

Qualifications
5+ years experience creating Java (version 7+) applications and server side software
Takes pride in writing clean code that is easy to maintain
Familiarity with tools: Git, Gradle (or Maven)
Web knowledge: premisisI Design and service consumption, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JUnit
Databases: MySQL, Oracle
General Linux server (CentOS/RHEL) familiarity and knowledge
Experience writing unit/functional tests and an opinion on reasonable code coverage

*Outstanding benefits.

This is a full-time position in Austin, Texas. Principals only, please no recruiters

Please email inquiries to Jobs@SimplyTapp.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote Only (Madrid,Spain)

Stack: Java, Groovy, Objective C, Javascript, main web frameworks(Angular, Grails, Play, Dropwizard,Spring), MongoDb,MySql,Orient DB

Full stack developer with over 8 years of experience. I'm comfortable coding in Java and Groovy on the server side as well as hacking Javascript at the front-end and whatever lies in between (DB, NoSQL, messagging, search, map/reduce).
Three years of experience developing iOS applications (objectivec)

Contact: matteo.fiandesio at gmail dot com
LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/RM5RjY
Tubular Labs | http://tubularlabs.com | Mountain View, CA

Tubular analyzes the engagement of 290+ million viewers and track 1 billion videos across 30+ platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Vine, Instagram, AOL, and Yahoo. Our data empowers Video Teams to refine their video content strategies.

Right now we're looking for:

* Front Engineering: AngularJS, CoffeeScript

* Production Engineering (DevOps): Python, AWS, SaltStack

* Backend Engineering: Python, Cassandra

Interested: Contact david@tubularlabs.com or submit online (mention HackerNews for priority consideration)
Chartboost [https://chartboost.com] | San Francisco, CA, USA | Full time | Onsite | Many open positions including Software Engineers, QA Automation, Product Managers and more

Chartboost [https://chartboost.com] is the the world’s largest mobile games-only platform, helping developers grow their audience, monetize, and make better data-driven decision. We’re profitable, backed by Sequoia and have a ton of traction in our space, currently being used by 90% of the top grossing iOS and Android Game Developers.

Our technology stack includes Scala, Spark, Python, AWS, Git, Kafka, Cassandra, multiple NoSQL storage solutions, Jenkins, Puppet and more. Experience with our stack is a bonus, but not required for all roles. And... you’d get to work in our new office [http://www.officelovin.com/2014/12/11/chartboosts-new-san-fr...].

We're hiring Scala and Spark Developers for some new and exciting data initiatives as well as for our AdServing team, serving up 20 billion+ request per month. We’re also hiring seasoned Python Developers. Our full list of open roles can be found here [https://www.chartboost.com/jobs], but we have many more openings coming down the pipe.

If you’re interested, feel free to apply directly or reach out to talent@chartboost.com.
I will fight anyone who tries to tell me that a auto-playing video with sound enabled is not just as annoying as a small static image on the side of a page. Even when I'm somewhere with a limited internet connection. [sarcasm]
This is one area that the Go ecosystem leaves me wanting a bit more. Idiomatic Go says that my package should be go-gettable, which AFAIK just uses `go install` command after fetching dependencies.

Is there an idiomatic way to include build options/tasks, while remaining go-gettable?
The key quote:

<< After careful consideration, we've decided to transition Shyp couriers, the individuals who complete pickups at our customers' homes and offices, to W2 employees. This move is an investment in a longer-term relationship with our couriers, which we believe will ultimately create the best experience for our customers.

Here at Shyp, we have three different roles that make up the workforce that creates the awesome Shyp experience that we’ve become known for. We have couriers (handle pickups), satellite van drivers (take items to warehouse) and those in the warehouse (handle packing and shipping, etc.). This move does not impact our satellite drivers or warehouse employees, who have been classified as W2 since Shyp launched in March of 2014, due to the specific responsibilities of their role. >>
Hmm, the latency is 4.5 hours, the bandwidth average over 1.5 years is 0.159 kB/s.

Instant communication at low bandwidth would still be nice, they are two different ideas. If we had instant communication I would then expect bandwidth of it to improve over time.

0 latency, 0.159 kB/s this year, 0 latency 100 gB/s for the next launch in 10 years.

I should have been more clear in my thinking.
There is another way in which the analogy is flawed. The analogy states that after the six months, when the forms have been reviewed or approved, the target dies.

If this is to be analogous to bulk surveillance, the assassination agency would have to discover that the target had actually died in an accident eight months ago, just before the forms were submitted, and they would simply retroactively dismiss any wrongful death or homicide cases that may be ongoing.

The panopticon operators are asking forgiveness rather than permission, and only for those specific instances where the surveillance needs to be laundered from illegally gathered to warrant-authorized.

As such, I have no faith that the spying has ever stopped, or slowed, or even decreased its rate of growth. The steep bureaucratic hurdle does nothing to prevent it. The most it does is limit the amount of information that can be moved from the shadows into the sunshine via that method, and strongly encourages less costly alternatives to actually honoring the law. One such workaround is "parallel construction", where the illegal spying is converted into an anonymous tip to another "innocent" agency of the state, who then gets reasonable suspicion on a pretext charge--like failure to signal a lane change, plus the invocation of the magical ritual phrase "I smell marijuana"--and then the road-patrol cop somehow finds 20 kilograms of cocaine in the trunk.

Fixing or eliminating the FISA court won't stop the behavior. Only actual accountability for the people actually doing the dirty deeds will help.
Depends. If he gets bored/unhappy at his current positing, then his options for leaving might be narrowed.
I actually still play a couple of PC games that are older than this:

Descent, 20 years old (source port setup instructions at http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php ; 20th anniversary LAN party, July 16-19 in Denver, at http://descentchampions.org/20th/), and

DooMII, 21 years old (source port at https://zandronum.com/ ).

What keeps me coming back to these old games? They strike a balance between simplicity and complexity that leads to more interesting emergent gameplay than I've been able to find in newer games. DooMII single player has just enough balance between puzzle elements and raw combat, and with the majority of enemies firing non-instantaneous projectiles, dodging and weaving between waves of incoming shots becomes something of an art form. Competitive Descent is all about using the space, outthinking your opponent, using small elements of position and orientation in order to force engagements on your term. A high-level match is like a combination between chess and poker, all inside of an FPS (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb63KIotMMM ).

There are some other factors that helped, which both games have in common and some of which UO also has. They had fantastic player communities and player-run organizations. Both were open sourced a few years after release, allowing the communities to maintain and update the games -- keeping the fundamentals the same while building modern capabilities (like game trackers) around them. Both had relatively easy-to-use content creation tools; making new levels for DooMII or Descent didn't require a high-end PC or a 3D modeling suite, but simply downloading the level editor. And the game makes no particular demands of you -- you can play it on a wide variety of difficulty levels, against computer-controlled enemies or with or against other human players, in new levels or old, for a few minutes or for hours. And for those who played with other people, it was possible to develop deep friendships -- I actually met my wife in Descent, and we named our son for another player.
eShares (https://esharesinc.com/) | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | VISA

eShares is set to bring technology to a financial market that's been stuck in the dark ages. Prior to eShares, private companies tracked ownership with rusty legal documents and paper stock certificates. We're replacing that with technology and bringing needed transparency to the process for companies, founders, lawyers, investors, and employees. We're in the process of launching the one and only zero-cost tender offer, letting companies offer liquidity to their investors and employees without having to go public.

Many of the companies you see on this page use eShares, from the early stage startups all the way up to tech giants in the $1B+ club; clients range from a few entries on their cap table all the way up to thousands+ of employees/investors.

We're looking for a few more SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEERS / FULL STACK GENERALISTS. Desirable skills include:

• Python / Django (we love Django)

• JavaScript

• PostgreSQL

• AWS / general dev-ops (nice to have)

• General web development

A financial background is not required. Why choose eShares?

• Great benefits (salary, equity)

• Get involved at the financial center of the startup world

• Raised $7mm in January from Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital

• Very rapid growth

• Great engineering/product team with fantastic product designers

• Sane work/life balance

ALSO LOOKING FOR:

• Account Managers to help move start ups' equity to eShares (we're signing up hundreds of company's each month) (from junior, fresh out of college to senior account managers)

• Customer success (our customers love us; you can help too!)

• Human resource manager

CONTACT: eric.hurkman+hiring@esharesinc.com ; skype eric.hurkman.0
Location: Monterrey NL Mexico

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: SAP SD, SAP MM, ABAP, PHP, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwHy0TdajsYhU3NBRDBvc3d5NjQ...

Email: jcsalazar[at]gmail.com
Location: Philly

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript

Isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, full stack web apps, ReactJS expert--using since release 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. Looking for Clojure and ClojureScript work.

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz

Email: dustin.getz@gmail.com
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Sure!

Willing to relocate: No, sorry

Technologies: Marionette.js/Backbone.js (3 years), Ruby/Rails (10 years)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbuck

Email: me@matthewbuck.com
SEEKING WORK - Denver area or remote.

Looking for short term engagements - need a landing page? Need help pushing to release? Putting off writing your API docs? Things like that are the ideal fit.

I have a strong background in the web stack - including various backends (Python w/Flask or Django, ASP.NET, Node) and several frontends (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Knockout, Angular, SCSS/LESS, etc). I have strong skills in non-web areas as well, let me know if you find anything in my Github that demonstrates skills you need.

https://github.com/SirCmpwn

http://www.drewdevault.com

Contact via sir@cmpwn.com.
Agree with the comments about talking to users and doing things that don't scale, which is some variation of #1.

Also learn as much as possible from the lessons of similar projects that failed. The one that came to mind is Flowtab.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/31/the-decline-and-fall-of-flo...
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307068
you think they need a warrent?

a few things occured to me recently:

aluminum and mercury in vaxx are electrical/radio conductors

coil spring matresses are actually 12x12 arrays of coils, googling coil array its for "parallel mri via rf" - university of colorado... its actually a large array of receiver antennas [google golay coils]

people rub sodium aluminum on their armpits as a cheap anti-perspirent. what do you call electric/radio conductors on both sides of the heart? a pacemaker.

dont believe me? check for yourself, apparently mercury was known toxic since 500BC [dartmouth.edu] and they still wont remove it from vaxx (they claim they use organic compound mercury now and its "different" and "non toxic" ;d

thanks christian scientists!
> "Secondly, surveillance is an essential tool in fighting crime."

This is a very dubious assertion. I'm not aware of any evidence that mass surveillance deters or prevents crime at all, much less is "an essential tool" for doing so.

But even if one, for the sake of argument, concedes the point that mass surveillance does significantly deter or prevent crime, you still have a system set up where the costs of that surveillance (loss of privacy, loss of accountability for abuses of power, introducing/secretly discovering backdoors, etc) are borne by the least powerful--ordinary citizens--while the benefits of mass surveillance (concentration of power, ability to bribe/extort/intimidate rivals, being seen as "doing something" about terrorism, etc) accrue only to those who are already powerful.

That is the real problem with mass surveillance. It creates a positive feedback loop that only exacerbates existing power imbalances, inevitably leading to corruption and capricious injustices by those who are most able to get away with it. Having a speedbump on the road to that inevitable destination, even a big one, is not much of a consolation if the heading is still the same.
...all of which is meant to be plugged in at some inconspicuous public place—Caudill suggests a dark corner of a public library

Um, okay. Sure. And public libraries should expect to see these unattended devices strewn all over the place without calling the cops and/or throwing them out?
Is Being Nice at Work Dangerous?
Just had to: https://xkcd.com/224
SEEKING WORK - Philly or remote

Clojure, ClojureScript, or short term javascript/reactjs

Isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, 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. Looking for Clojure and ClojureScript work.

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz

Email: dustin.getz@gmail.com
New York City - Moat

Moat is a growing measurement & analytics startup with products in two core areas:

1) Analytics

Moat Analytics analyzes content and advertisements for many of the most trafficked websites on the Internet. We gather ~30+ terabytes of data per day and provide customers metrics like ad viewability, attention and user engagement. This product has helped change the way people spend money on ads.

2) Search

We index the Internet for online ads. This allows us to give advertisers, publishers and adtech companies an overview of the entire online ad ecosystem. This is hugely valuable information - our customers can see their competitors' ad campaigns, find prospects by seeing the clients of similar sites or see trends in the industry before anyone else. We have a free product, moat.com and a premium product, Moat Pro.

Both technical and non-technical openings can be found at jobs.moat.com

Press.moat.com -- Twitter enlists Moat as their viewability provider!
As someone else that also spent a year and half working on something not exactly equal, but still very similar, I'd say:

- Decide if you want to be in the business of serving food. It's full of problems, but plenty interesting.

- If you really, really want to go there, discover how to make this work at the local level, in a way that isn't all or nothing (hint, people won't install an app for a bar they'll go once - or maybe they will and I'm wrong, but I don't really see that happening), and go for a small business deployment.

- After you cleared both of the above, yes, talk to bar owners. They'll make you throw your plans away, so talk to them before implementing too much.
How Fast Internet Affects Home Prices
A previous posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639434

We've hired at least two people we contacted via HN.

You can read more in the many /r/pittsburghjobs posts I’ve made throughout the years both as IBM and as Vivísimo, the startup that IBM acquired in 2012:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburghjobs/comments/2xq5o9/ibm_...

We have award-winning engineers, writers, and speakers in our office. One of IBM Design’s principals is located here, too. A few of our staff are on conference organizing committees for Steel City Ruby, DevOps Days, SATURN, etc. Almost half of our desks are standing desks in our open space office plan (where sitting is fine, too!) with a roof deck in the middle of a bustling, multicultural business district.

If you’re physically in Pittsburgh, consider coming to a Code & Supply (http://www.codeandsupply.co) event held in our office. We host several per month; we’re very active in the local developer community. We've hired at least three people that we've met through it...

If you're not in Pittsburgh, you can click that above link and search for other cities. Most Watson positions have "Watson" in the title or at least as a keyword in the search. Or you can try through http://www.ibm.com/watsonjobs and just mention my username when formally applying.

I should mention that I get a copy of the email when you apply through this site, which asks the bare minimum necessary to get you into the pipeline. I don't get all of that information, but I do get at least your name and email address and I pass that information to the hiring manager, sometimes even walking over to them myself and saying, "LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT PERSON. HIRE THEM. PLZ."

Applying above is not a black hole. Repeat: not a black hole. If you don't hear from me, you didn't complete the application process.