skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents were AOL subscribers for about a decade. Actually, they started out as GNN subscribers, and just stayed when AOL purchased GNN. So much of my early internet experiences were done within AOL (although I didn't hesitate to fire up Netscape).
Presumably it was the author that posted this. So why hasn't he commented?
Espeically if, like in minecraft, you can set your own seed - perhaps there's an interesting social graph problem in automatically assigning the same seed to clusters of friends but keeping them somewhat random globally.
Voyant, Inc. | Javascript Developer (Ember) | Austin, TX

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If there is really an under-supply of (or over-demand for) developers, why aren't developer salaries skyrocketing? Something doesn't add up.
All and all, it's just another sign that the internet is becoming less a tool of individual communication or expression, and more an impression of cable TV. Besides, y'know, all that surveillance and all.

Another free medium bites the dust.
Hm, that's upsetting, I just added CloudFlare, I'd have hoped they wouldn't do that kind of thing.
Make sure you turn this off (Google users)
I have definitely got that impression. Over the past few years I have seen a parade of articles about "missions" from Austin to the Valley to try to recruit people, yet they seem to think Dallas and Houston don't exist.
One reason I stayed in finance is that the programming scene is very fragmented. Some people say everybody that can do a print "hi" gets a job, yet many job advertisements come with increasing requirements. Startups keep looking for the 0.1%, whatever that means, that tells me that there is, indeed, strong competition for candidates (and that I have a 99.9% chance of not getting any job in those startups). Finally, age does come into play, one thing is to go into this at 20, another is at 30 and even another a 40, etc.

There is a lot of survival bias. So far, I did not hear any salary higher than 50k euro from face to face talk in Germany (mine is higher, with no coding job). Thus, I am also not clear how real is to have one of those $100k+ salaries just doing "normal" coding (no managerial stuff). If that were possible and achievable even in a 3 years span, I'd definitely jump into it, but reality tells me it's not. At least out of the tech hubs (SV, etc.), but then the 0.1% thing kicks in, so you have a 99.9% chance of not getting any of those jobs, while you have plenty of opportunity to get a steady carrier just where you are.

And finally, programming will go through some kind of "commoditization", it's already happening. It might be good to "only" be coding today, but 10 years from now, older and with kids (so no possibility to work week ends anymore), this will probably not be enough and will move you more towards the unemployable zone.

Just some thoughts from an ex-wannabe programmer.
Brain game 'improves lives of schizophrenia patients'
> The article discusses the use of software to catch rouge employee's before they can do any harm

It's amazing how much harm you can do with a bit of blush. ;-)

Sorry, couldn't resist poking fun at "rouge", even though it is a perfectly understandable typo.
They also raised the price of the powder today. They eliminated the bulk discounts so a month worth is more expensive. It is $280 for a 4 week subscription supply today.
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Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time.

This is my fourth monthly post and have hired a couple of great guys from the past posts.

Expanding the scope to include Analytics, Data Warehouse, DevOps and App developers. Please read on.

I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business.

It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this.

In the past I have built both fast-data and big-data companies and have a few patents in this space.

We are looking to hire a good core team of full time math, physics and CS majors, UI UX and product managers, who will work of Bangalore, India.

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Front-end specialist, currently focused on Node.js and all things JavaScript. Seeking consulting work. I enjoy writing code in small modules. Self-taught.

Location: Buenos Aires, AR (GMT -3)

Remote: Yes (remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, CSS, all things web

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bevacqua

Blog: http://ponyfoo.com

Book: http://bevacqua.io/bf/book

Email: nicolasbevacqua@gmail.com
Leading the Computer Revolution in a Totalitarian State
It's also available on Safari Books if you have a subscription (e.g., through your workplace).

I agree, it's a pricy book though.
There was no control in this research. So it's rubbish.
They're certainly a form of advertising or marketing, but the result isn't "an ad", which is what this discussion was originally talking about. You're not paying to get something in front of unwilling eyes and ears, distracting them from what they actually wanted. Every one of the approaches I mentioned will only work if you've built something people want to use and talk about.

Also, out of curiosity, which of the items on that list aren't you already doing?
Man, I aspire to that level of efficiency though probably could not reach it since I enjoy cooking and eating dead meat too much. I do think there are huge benefits to simplifying life, and relying less on all these time-consuming habits domesticated humans have invented. Even if we can easily afford to pay for big box groceries, and coal power, not relying on these things might free up a lot of mental space I would imagine.
SEEKING WORK

Front-end specialist, currently focused on Node.js and all things JavaScript. Seeking consulting work. I enjoy writing code in small modules. Self-taught.

Location: Buenos Aires, AR (GMT -3)

Remote: Yes (remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, CSS, all things web

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bevacqua

Blog: http://ponyfoo.com

Book: http://bevacqua.io/bf/book

Email: nicolasbevacqua@gmail.com
I guess the author is also comfortable with wearing new clothes without washing them. Personally, I wash most clothes before wearing them (except for outerwear).

Also, the author clearly does not have a baby—or keeps his/her baby naked at all times… :)
It is easier to monitor and maintain a few large sources of pollution than many many smaller sources.
I agree that in the general case it's very unlikely for your average developer to be truly productive on day one, but I wouldn't say that nobody is. This is a large part of my value prop: I spend the first day or two getting infodumps to get up to speed, but even during that time I'm building up plans of attack to get done what I'm being paid to get done (and to me and to the people paying for me, that is productive).

I'm a consultant/contractor (depending on the gig), though, so the social dynamic is different and it's less about integrating into a team and more about understanding the exact problem domain.
Really interesting to hear your experiences - thanks for sharing.
The Pros and Cons of Multi-Year Client Contracts
I got to the part about buying new clothes instead of washing before I wondered the same thing.
> He told me he's dying for entry level .NET/ASP and Java developers.

How many years of experience and how much demonstrated expertise did he require from these" entry-level" candidates that he supposedly can't find?
Is it actually easy to publish work outside a lab?
Well, I guess he could refuse to use the tools that he has to use to reach an audience and get this message out, and we could all fail ever to hear about it, fail to discuss it, fail to think about it, and we could shut our brains off and enjoy our dystopia.

I very much want our walled garden dystopia to wilt, wither, and die, and so I'm glad people are at least hearing for a minute that it doesn't have to be this way.
You're looking for this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996334

Or this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996335
SEEKING WORK -- remote

I'm a full stack developer based in Europe. I'm primarily a rubyist, but I think languages are an implementation detail, and I'm comfortable in any language. I like to tackle hard engineering problems, my main expertise is optimizing performance of large scale web applications. Last position was Project Lead on a medium sized Rails codebase. I've also worked for YC startups before.

https://github.com/archSeer

email: hello <at> mxxn.io
Yeah, jacques is definitely pulling my comment far out of context. I was commenting on his suggestion that everyone start serving their own JavaScript files, and writing custom code to check their sanctity.

I can't see the parallel here, or how that practice would have helped PagerDuty.
"Censure" the internet.
Ledgex Systems - Full Time/On-Site - Boston, MA (http://ledgex.com) – Microsoft Stack

We’re a small software company that spun out of an IT firm called Eze Castle Integration. We built a platform that focuses on the delivery of high end investment management applications to the fund of fund, hedge fund, family office and private equity communities.

I’m one of the founding engineers and head of the small web development team. My team is looking to expand with two software engineers to help with our Web app and desktop applications.

== Our Stack ==

Microsoft stack for the most part and we like to keep up to speed with the industry:

* ASP.NET/C# (Targeting ASP.NET 5 support in next year or so)

* BackboneJS/MarionetteJS

* WPF/C# desktop client

* MSSQL (Views/Stored Procedures/Functions/SQLCLR)

* SaaS offering hosted on Azure, on-premise is an option for clients as well

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and existing features and products. The candidate will focus on the ASP.NET-backed platform, various backend services, Web APIs and underlying architecture of the web platform which relies heavily on a MSSQL database.

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What's the rationale for that? Clearance is surely a lot of work to obtain, but that's what the cost of the investigation should offset.

I would think even with clearance you can't actually get information you don't need to know, such as information on a project you're not working on.
I am not a fan of the term "toxic masculinity" because in the way it is invoked it usually means "all masculinity" (I don't subscribe to that model.) But, I believe that the idea that all men are irredeemable sexual beasts does come from a distorted masculinity that makes naturalistic excuses for sex crimes ("males can't control themselves".) I believe this is a factor in the fear of any man being around any child. Another factor is that pedophile are OK to hate, and where hate is left unchecked it grows and becomes increasingly irrational.
> First, I never cook. I am all for self reliance but repeating the same labor over and over for the sake of existence is the realm of robots.

> I have not done laundry in years.

One can only hope.
Connexity - Camarillo, CA (Los Angeles area) | on-site | http://connexity.com

Are you interested in learning advertising tech from the inside out? We're looking for an eager software engineer who takes their personal development seriously and seeks to make a huge impact.

You'll be working alongside a tight, driven team right in the heart of the profit center. Our division of Connexity works in online display advertising (aka "banner ads") through RTB, and we run 50 to 100 million impressions each day. Our total transaction volume is between 5 and 10 billion per day, and I'd bet you a burger we've served ads on nearly every site you've ever visited.

We're primarily looking for someone to contribute to our Ruby on Rails app. It's used to administer hundreds of advertising campaigns across hundreds of publisher sites. It's not just boring CRUD. It provides a ton of control and insight to the team that operates our clients' campaigns; it's truly the heart of our display advertising business. The business folks will know you, and you'll find that excellence will stir up a tremendous amount of appreciation for your work.

This role is a great way to learn advertising tech at scale as well as other tools. In addition to Rails work, you'd get hands on experience with Redis, Hbase, PostgreSQL, R and Scala. Several on the current team started in the Rails app and have moved into other areas of interest (low-latency RTB bidder written in C, sophisticated reporting pipelines or novel optimization algorithms).

Our team is sharp and works well together. We enjoy perks such as daily paid lunch, a 9/80 schedule (to get every other Friday off) and unlimited vacation; the culture of our team recognizes and respects the importance of your non-work life. Also, Ventura county is a pretty nice place to live/work (unless you hate temperate coastal weather). If you've got Rails or other relevant web app experience, that's a good start. More importantly, you'll be eager to learn display advertising inside and out. Attitude, ambition and sound judgement trump experience with a specific set of tools.

We're a small team within a medium-sized organization, and we work hard to keep the small-team vibe while availing ourselves of the best bits from the mother ship.

Unless you prefer to start with a HR-oriented chat, you can reach me (a lead engineer on the team) at david.larsen@connexity.com.
What are the corporate-fief states? What does that mean, or what is that in reference to?
Breue | http://breue.com/ | Washington D.C. & San Francisco

We're looking for a remote full stack developer.

We do selective consulting. We choose fun and interesting projects to work on. We offer a service where we build a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.

Stack needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, SQL.

If this sounds interesting to you, shoot an email to zach@breue.com
The powder was $9.11 per 2000 calories on subscription. The drinks are $12.10 per 2000 calories.
I vastly prefer http://jakeshake.eu.
Since charging of electric vehicles can be done intermittently and can also be time shifted, it could match with renewable energy sources relatively well, acting as virtual storage.
That's rather unfortunate. I will never say that to someone and not offer them the job, unless they have a personality problem.
New and Dastardly Vulnerability Found in Google's Android
I actually found c# much easier to learn than Ruby. (I learned it before Ruby).

The compiler helped a lot. It's also a lot more consistent. When I started Ruby, I often didn't understand why something I wrote worked. That's not a feeling I got very often from c#.

That's just my experience. But I'd suggest c# is probably a better beginner's language. Especially paired with VS and an outstanding OOB debugging experience far superior and more approachable to anything I've ever seen in Ruby.
Have you got an actual quote for that, ie not just some clickbait journalist's interpretation of what he said.

What he actually said is here:
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102033678947881

"The internet is one of the most powerful tools for economic and social progress. It gives people access to jobs, knowledge and opportunities. It gives voice to the voiceless in our society, and it connects people with vital resources for health and education. I believe everyone in the world deserves access to these opportunities."
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Vancouver, BC | Onsite | Full-time

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I'll be honest, I've never done this before...I've never really talked about my failures. I recently noticed that everyone writes about successes which I personally have done a bunch of, I've written articles such as "How I grew a startup from 0 to 40M and got it acquired by Google", etc, tons of these, not going to talk about them.

All these articles suck! I think by talking about successes entrepreneurs paint an inaccurate picture that gives other entrepreneurs a false hope that they can also get lucky and become successful without too many setbacks. This is 100% not true.

So I sat down and wrote down a personal account of the biggest failures, setbacks, struggles which actually happened to me and my friends during my 10 years of growth hacking. To give you an idea I talk about:

Getting the product market fit wrong and almost losing an entire app then taking a year to turn it around to 40M pageviews and getting acquired by Google
Running out of money because of outsourcing and losing $1M and firing 100 employees and then having to turn the company around.
*Focusing on traffic vs. conversion which cost me a fortune
> Centralization is a law of nature. It allows for more efficiency through economies of scale.

However, as technology progresses, we might reach a point where "distributed" can be sufficiently efficient.
I learned to code at age 7 with QBasic, deconstructing Gorrilas in DOS, and later SmallTalk. Both languages are horrible, but were incredibly easy to learn. No one taught me, I played with them until I learned, and back then there was no internet.

There are so many aspects of Ruby that make it well suited for teaching kids about programming that go WAY, WAY beyond the ridiculous observations you've made. You might as well have pointed out the performance limitations of Ruby too. Installing Ruby is as easy as opening a macbook. It's already there. It's not like little kids, learning the language for the first time are provisioning servers and installing from scratch.

It's not a matter of Ruby programmers being emotionally invested. It's a matter of Ruby, very often, being the right tool for the job. And for teaching purposes, I don't think anything else comes close. The fact that just about everything in Ruby is an object makes for some very interesting syntactical niceties that a child's mind can easily grasp. For children, the higher level the language, the easier it will be to grasp and remember. It doesn't get much easier than

100.times do

Whether or not a programming language has 1st level functions or is production ready is not a consideration most people make when teaching a child. Learning how to code isn't about performance and elegance, it's finding your creativity, perseverance to stick with a problem, flexibility to adapt and change based on new constraints. After all these are the young minds that will be building the higher level programming languages of tomorrow.
I think the important thing that the author acknowledge he missed is not getting to know the right people. Get to know your coworkers, connect with them on LinkedIn, and keep those connections fresh. When you need to find a job later, you can tap your contacts network and have a much better chance than randomly applying or using a hiring agency.
Generally, it's much easier to make a larger engine more efficient and pollute less than one that has to be small, light, mobile, and safe in an impact.
All of what you wrote is true. Sometimes decline in mass media is relative. We loose some radio to get some TV. But I think it is sometimes fair to say that we trade something of value for something superficial.

Right now, we have unparalleled levels of global surveillance and media centralization plays a key role in it.

In the past TV channels and publishers competed with one another. Right now every large website is an unchallenged emperor of its niche. The emperor dies and we get a new one, but it's hardly a free market system.

Finally, there are phenomena like Twitter/Reddit hate mobs. The principle is not entirely new, but the scale, pettiness and randomness are unparalleled.