skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Austin, Texas

Remote: nope.

Willing to relocate: 100 percent as long as travel fees paid for to interview and relocation available to the following areas - San Francisco, CA or NYC (maybe).

Resume: github.com/autotune

Technologies: If it can be categorized as "DevOps" or helps automate mundane tasks I'm interested in it or have already spun up a lab and meddled with it. Chef, Python, Bash, Rackspace (live it), AWS (learning), APIs, command line tools, git, grep, sed, awk.

Email: Available via github.

Personality: laid back area man who's passionate about technology and music. Golden rule is never make the same mistake twice. Silver rule is document all the things. Bronze rule is comment with as many relevant XKCDs as possible in code. Looking for more of a junior role right now if even out there with a company fine with training up. Totally cool with startups as long as in later stages of funding, generating profit, and based off an idea that is both a) interesting, and b) not evil.
The GP is being fair. The link provided is the one exposed on the postgresql.org homepage. The GP was explicit in considering the different projects from the POV of a new user unfamiliar with them. If the url that you provide is the most appropriate, then that is the url that should be anchored to the 'Documentation' link on the Postgres homepage. I imagine that rethink and Mongo also have point versions. They both choose not to force new users to choose, devoid of context, which point version is most appropriate (sure you can use heuristics, like highest non-experimental point version, but this heuristic sometimes leads to pitfalls, Python and Perl come to mind).

And the http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ landing page is made even less necessary since the 'interactive' documentation already has links at the top to other point versions. Throw in a minimal sidebar and you could kill the landing page without losing any of the functionality.

Of course, Postgres has been around longer, and their last major website redesign probably pre-dates the entire existence of the other two websites altogether[1], but that has no bearing on which website is the least intimidating to newcomers. If postgres sees fit to make their website less intimidating to newcomers, then their work is cut out for them.

[1] Confirmed via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The last postgresql.org redisign was complete by early 2006. Mongo and ReThink websites showed up, in minimal form, in late 2008 and early 2009 respectively.
AFAIK, linode currently only offers SSD storage. I agree that this can be a problem for some use-cases. Vultr is often a better alternative for people who require large storage with lighter performance requirements.
> Relax! No other text editor has as many developers working on plugins than VIM.

What about emacs?
What is baffling is this Valley-centric, web and mobile development-centric line being repeated constantly in this thread. Most of the world is a different story. Outside the Valley and a couple other metros, and outside the web and mobile fields in general: 1) degrees are usually required; 2) employers are much pickier.

I haven't found that to be the case here in the Raleigh/Durham, NC area. I never finished my bachelors degree (although, I do have three different associates degrees), and I have never found it to be an inhibition to my career.
HubSpot is hiring for software developers in Cambridge/Boston and Dublin ONSITE.

Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (java, hbase, kafka, hadoop) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products.
Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our marketing & sales platform help small businesses grow.

More on our team, culture and roles: http://product.hubspot.com/

Or ping me (champion at hubspot) with any questions.
I agree. The default UI is tailored to tablet-style formatting, but with a bit of configuration it is a very compact and efficient RSS reader.
Business idea: external age-verification service for these sites to use. Single-login that replaces the "please click on the over-18 button" landing page, with age verification probably done via entering a credit card.
Just to repeat and highlight this: THE BOOK ISN'T ABOUT TEACHING RUBY-THE-LANGUAGE

I've yet to even find a mention of Ruby-the-language on the site.
So let's assume that, by using vim as the primary editor as a coder, the author used it roughly 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. That's 1,920 hours.

I daresay it's impossible for someone to not use a tool, however complicated, for nearly 2000 hours and not become quite familiar with its operation.

This is also 1/5th of the (disputed) "magic number" of 10,000 hours to master a skill.
Engineering Manager - Opower - Arlington, VA

At Opower, we deal with a ton of different kinds of data from our customers, who are some of the world's biggest utility companies. It goes into a combination of MySQL, HBase and ElasticSearch for processing by various batch and realtime services. We use it to create interactive web experiences using AngularJS, and to generate millions of email and PDF (yes, PDF) reports to be sent to eager utility customers. This happens on top of micro-service and batch processing frameworks we've built in-house to handle our specific use cases.

We use queuing systems like RabbitMQ and Kafka to coordinate all this work in progress. We automate all our testing on top of our Jenkins infrastructure, and we're gradually introducing Docker into the mix for even better end-to-end automated testing.

Go to https://app.greenhouse.io/plans/64451/jobapp for more info.
Lateral - Berlin, Germany

Hey everyone!

Lateral builds APIs that enable any developer to integrate machine learning into their apps and service, helping them deliver next generation intelligent functionality to their users. We are an international and driven team that is highly technical, appreciates design and likes a good laugh.

We're looking for ambitious people to join our team. If you've got skills in some of the below, let us know:

* HTML / CSS
* Javascript (client-side)
* Ruby on Rails
* Test-driven development
* DevOps
* API Design
* Server-side development (high performance APIs)
* iOS development

How we work - To deliver our intuitive APIs, we work on the core ML algorithms, back-end development and DevOps. We also create demo products and applications powered by our API, such as NewsBot. We encourage open discussions and make decisions as a team, as we see collaboration as the key to success.

Why work with us - You can be part of an exciting and growing startup working with machine learning in innovative ways to solve real problems. You can work with a diverse set of languages, tools, platforms and topics and can have a say to steer the future of development at Lateral.

Interested? - Please send us an email to hello@lateral.io including a link to your GitHub or portfolio and a few sentences introducing yourself.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Flint Mobile | iOS Contractors | Redwood City, CA, ONSITE
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer | full time, ONSITE

Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets from underground music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and many others to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years it has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

Our website hasn’t caught up with this huge expansion - it currently runs on WordPress and is in sore need of a complete overhaul. We’re in the process of totally redesigning it, giving us the opportunity to choose the perfect tech stack. You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 2 developers and 2 designers. You ideally have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2015, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences.

Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming. We have upwards of a million pageviews on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion.

(...on top of that you’ll of course be able to go to & invite your friends to our exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site!)

If this sounds like your kind of jam, give me a shout on harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv!
if you don’t mind paying a token amount of cash for good software, Reeder for Mac and iOS is brilliant
Priceline.com | New York, NY | Norwalk, CT

We are hiring across the board:
Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, Front End Devolopers, Software Engineers, Android Developers, Database Engineers.

I'm a front end developer and would be happy to answer any questions @ hannah.buchanan@priceline.com.

You can find all listings and apply here:

http://jobvite.com/m?3s10vhwK
Agreed on the shifting the consumption down the line. However, the primary energy advantage of Uber-like car services is that it reduces the high cost of energy to produce a car by reducing the pool of cars through optimizing their use (meaning, instead of a majority of cars sitting around doing nothing, using a pool of cars working most of the time would mean fewer cars needed overall). If all cars end up being full time service vehicles (through self driving?), one car would hopefully be able to service 20 people and replace all those cars. If the carbon foot print of gas/electric consumption is 12% of a car's total (the rest going to manufacture), then moving to a full shared service model would be a huge gain (and loss of the auto industry)
This depends very much on whether the local facebook censorship/real names policy makes it hard to post political content. If it doesn't, then it may well be popular.
Avatar Pandora is real!

There is no "unobtainium" in those jungles.
Check out https://www.codalab.org/ too. It's a more complete toolkit for reproducible computational research.
The thing about Vim is that I cannot imagine creating it and thinking, "This will be much faster and easier than a mouse eventually". But, I also wouldn't think that I could learn how to type fast without looking at the keys if I just stumbled across a keyboard, but both are undoubtedly true. Like anything physical, it requires practice and muscle memory. Would you rather go back to looking at every single key to type? That's how vim users feel about regular text editors. Try it out.
Opower - San Francisco, CA and Arlington, VA locations - Onsite position

Opower is an enterprise software company that is transforming the way utilities engage with their customers. Opower’s customer engagement platform enables utilities to reach their customers at moments that matter through proactive and digitized communications that drive energy savings, increase customer engagement and satisfaction, and lower customer operation costs. Opower’s software has been deployed to more than 95 utility partners around the world and reaches more than 50 million households and businesses.

To drive these results, we write code that can change the world. We leverage the latest mature technology – Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and more – to change the way the world uses energy. For every Opower engineer, millions of pounds of CO2 have been saved. That’s some clean code. Care to join us?

I am looking for senior front-end developers primarily developing in Javascript to join our team in either VA or SF.

Check out the job listing here: http://opower.com/careers/job/80475?gh_jid=80475

If you are interested please email me at heather.cassano@opower.com or apply directly online.

Check out too some of the talented engineers you would be working with here: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/opower?c=iLegB9h0CI...
Linode Images aren't intended to store data or function as a backup. (They have a separate paid feature for that). It's to help you provision new linodes.

I do echo your thoughts on that they should offer a HDD-backed storage instance plan, however.
Crowdstrike (www.crowdstrike.com) | Seattle/Irvine/DC/REMOTE | FULLTIME

I'm the hiring manager for the Infrastructure Services / DevOps team at Crowdstrike. I'm looking for senior (Linux) systems engineers, who among other things can architect and build large-scale application and system monitoring services we're proud deliver to internal engineering teams.

We are a fairly unique company in the endpoint security space and just closed $100M in Series C funding led by Google. We ingest and process hundreds of thousands of security events per second, using Kafka, Cassandra and Elasticsearch, Golang, Python and Scala.

We have offices in Seattle, Irvine, and DC, though remote work is a possibility for exceptional candidates. Contact me at dennis.opacki (at) crowdstrike (dot) com.
Nice to see Linode adding another data center!

Off-top, but (hopefully) interesting: We've been using Linode to host an Aerospike [1] cluster. They're one of the few cloud providers that give you direct raw access to the SSD drives. (Raw being you can mount an unformatted SSD partition). Performance has been stellar.

[1] http://www.aerospike.com/
SEEKING WORK / Twin Cities and St. Cloud areas of Minnesota, USA, or remote anywhere in the USA.

I'm a full-stack developer with experience in a wide range of problem domains. My business is incorporated in the state of Minnesota.

Application areas I've worked on include:

- Customer service for a Fortune 1000 company (orders, back orders, purchase orders, warranties, inventory control, etc.)

- Employee scheduling

- Farm data management

- Various government records systems (law enforcement, planning and zoning, healthcare)

- Electrical infrastructure data management (GIS, power lines, transformers, etc.).

I've been developing custom software for clients for over 30 years, primarily using Microsoft technologies. I'm well versed in Microsoft's .Net stack, as well as front-end development in JavaScript and its related libraries. I also have experience in Linux, Haskell, and Common Lisp.

GitHub: https://github.com/ctimmons

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crtimmonsinc

Website: http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/

Email: chris@crtimmonsinc.com
Be a Visualization Engineer at Poll Everywehre (YC 08')- ONSITE or REMOTE

Are we the right match? Maybe so if some of the buzzwords on your resume include...

You're considered a D3.js expert

CoffeeScript (or you're awesome with plain ol' JS and want to learn CoffeeScript)

Backbone.js (or other js MVC frameworks) or experience incrementally migrating from MVC to frameworks like ReactJS (Your D3.js visualizations will consume data from these objects)

Deep understanding of the JavaScript prototype chain

Test-driven development experience

sass/haml/less

Cross-browser testing (like dealing with IE9+, grrr)

You're a huge fan of Tufte's work (bonus if you've attended one of his talks and can tell us about some of his quirks)

Did we mention that you should care deeply about usability? Don't worry about amazing aesthetics (we don't expect for you to be an amazing designer), but you should know the difference between a good and a bad user interface.

Apply here!
https://jobs.lever.co/polleverywhere/82fcc687-deca-4438-b32c...
RightScale | Santa Barbara, CA or US-remote | Senior Software Engineer

We enable large enterprises such as Volkswagen, EA Games, Technicolor and PBS deploy, monitor and scale their systems on any cloud they want to.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in our Santa Barbara office, or work remotely in the US. You'll have an opportunity to work across our technology stack, develop new features, and be involved in the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, architecture and design, to coding and testing. We're building large-scale systems, e.g. one of the systems we're developing is an overlay network with a globally distributed routing infrastructure that collectively routes 10,000 unicast and multicast requests per second! We use a mixture of technologies such Go, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra and Ruby. Check out the http://eng.rightscale.com to see our Engineering Blog.

Job details and application form are at: http://rightscale.applytojob.com/apply/lOWsnI/Senior-Softwar...

We're also looking for a Sr Software Engineer in our Edinburgh (Scotland) office: http://rightscale.theresumator.com/apply/job_20150704202956_...

Or email ali at rightscale.com if you'd like to chat.
Look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S.-income-taxes-out-of-...

The tax rate cuts were fully in place in 1982-3 (the phased in delay the Democratic House insisted on put a lot of thing on hold till then, and likely extended the recession Reagan inherited, see below for more), then income tax revenue steadily marches up. (I fudge the year based on memory and how there are various effective years, e.g. there's the usually but not always a calendar year for tax rates (and some are retroactive in various ways!), they have to be fully payed in the next year, and the Federal fiscal year runs October 1 to September 30, e.g. 2016 starts October 1st, 2015.

All Krugman argues in that column you linked to is how we calculate the magnitude of the increase, he doesn't deny there wasn't a substantial one, he says 19% for 1980-88. Which of course substantially understates the reality (but also note you need to adjust for inflation, it was roaring when Reagan entered office, and the prime rate was 20% or greater (!)), since that includes the period before the rates fully changed after which people, including my father, changed their business behavior.

Ah, here's a table with accurate figures for all three types of income, "ordinary" AKA "unearned" (things like interest), "earned" (wages) and realized capital gains, http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/Labortaxes/taxableincom... page 4 table A1, note Carter radically reduced the latter from 39.9%, also e.g. deregulated airlines and trucking, and note the JFK rate cuts from "I like Ike???" 91% !!! for income (and also note Reagan started indexing various details for inflation):

1980 70.0 50.0 28.0
1981 68.8 50.0 23.7
1982 50.0 50.0 20.0
1987 38.5 38.5 28.0
1988 28.8 28.0 28.0

Note again how the 1986 changes immediately increased capital gains tax rates while phasing in the income tax cuts.

The history of this is ferociously complicated, I haven't even mentioned the FICA rate increases, who's large excesses went into the general budget, filling Al Gore's infamous "lock box" with unmarketable Federal government IOUs (bonds). I "know" as much as I do since I came of age in the '70s, when all this really started to get out of hand, Nixon closed the gold window (for foreigners, FDR did for us in 1933), we were again allowed to own bullion gold, Nixon did his wage and price controls, the Yom-Kippur War resulted in an oil embargo, contemporaneously OPEC at least partly legitimately increased dollar oil prices since the dollar was being devalued (see gold window above), government control of oil and gas was retained when the wage and price controls were generally relaxed, all that resulted in the '70s "energy crisis", which ended when Reagan ended the controls, Carter's obsession with oil "windfall profits", etc. etc. etc.

Seriously, in many ways the economic history of the last decade and a half has been simpler....
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Ruby (on Rails), Javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js), CSS, Phonegap, Ionic Framework

Résumé/CV: https://br.linkedin.com/pub/joão-carreira-de-oliveira-e-mell..., https://github.com/jcomello

Email: joao.mello@uniriotec.br
I think this overlooks the difference between qualified and credentialed.

In the valley, there are plenty of experienced and uncredentialed people working great jobs. There are relatively few unqualified people doing the same, except when hiring squeezes exceedingly tight.

Outside the valley, defending the decision to hire someone without credentials is virtually impossible. There may be plenty of interest, but someone along the way will chicken out rather than risk the backlash if someone without a degree turns out to be incompetent.

The fact that 'marginally-qualified' people get hired is orthogonal (or maybe even antithetical) to whether 'marginally-credentialed' people do. If a company can't judge competence, they just look for degrees and get shitty employees. That's what's happening outside the valley, and it hurts companies and skilled, degree-less employees alike.
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring for engineering and business roles.

BuildZoom is a marketplace for remodeling and home improvement projects built on a huge amount of data.

If you are interested in helping to solve real-world problems and shipping products that touch millions of people, we'd love to hear from you.

https://www.buildzoom.com/careers
In some cases, those with less experience are threatened by people who have more, and if a company has a low median age experience might be an issue to the interviewers. The problem is exacerbated when the interviewee is not impressed when the latest, bleeding edge tech is in use at the target company, and has seen similar projects completed with stable and boring tech.

In others, especially those with the high-strung startup mentality you mention, they are looking for people to work more hours for less pay and promises. Younger people are more able / willing to take risks. Experienced workers are not as interested in promises, but prefer defined returns on their individual investments.
Python/Javascript/Full-Stack | UtilityAPI.com | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | 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. We write scripts that collect data from utilities, and 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 alongside me and our other two software engineers. Our codebase is well organized, documented, and tested.

=Jobs=

* Full-Stack Engineer ($120-140k) - You will be writing application code and helping maintain/optimize/scale the stack. At least 6 years of Python and Linux sysadmin experience required.

* Python/Javascript Developer ($80-120k) - You will be writing tools, scripts, and libraries that collect/parse utility data (pdfs, html, xml, csv, etc.) from utilities. At least 1 year of Python and Javascript experience required.

=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). You must already be able to work in the U.S.

=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).
That's another possible way to look at it, but wasn't what I meant. The companies I know that went to Nebraska (or Idaho) pretty much had everything handed to them and they're not exactly states known for being big on protection of the middle and lower class. (People in favor of the approaches taken by these states might call them "business-friendly" climates; I think being friendly towards corporations, in an age where people cheer them for being amoral, is kind of stupid.) Monopsonic/oligopsonic concerns are another one to keep in mind, though.