skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the midst of Enron rising so fast, there were a ton of people who knew something wasn't right and none of them did anything about it. And why was that?

Money and a LOT of it. Management didn't want to do anything because of they were getting rewarded for how well the company was doing. Why kill your own gravy train? Why would the auditors stop it? The same reason, they were making millions in consulting fees and had no reason to stop the train. Congress could have done something, but thwarted Arthur Levitt's proposed new rule barring accountants acting as consultants. The rule was shot down and the SEC was threatened with losing their funding if they did this by some 50 senators.

So even if this software predicts rouge traders, it can only alert the right people to do something about it. And even if it does, what are the odds those people have the morale compass to make the right decision? Probably less than 50/50 because of the money involved.

Having the software is only the first step in a long chain of decisions which are made by the weakest link in the chain, the human being.
Wasn't it $3+ per meal before?

EDIT: You're right, you need 1 and 2/3 of a bottle to drink the equivalent of a meal... sneaky sneaky, Soylent!
The poster wrote that he accepts "the best way to do this is to build something awesome, show it to people, and have them be so excited about how much it helped them that they jump at the chance to show others". Show HN is a way of doing exactly that.
From another thread (still relevant I think):

uBlock, NoScript and RequestPolicy are my tools to control the content my web browser displays. My general rule is that I'll only disable ad blocking on a few trusted sites and never on a site that uses a third-party advertising network.

Most advertising networks have intrusive or annoying ads that actually block my ability to read a site by using pop-overs if my mouse cursor accidentally touches a keyword, divs that obscure content until I've paid sufficient attention to locate and click the "X", auto-playing sounds/videos, etc. If the UX wasn't bad enough, these third-party networks also present a security risk and have been used in the past as delivery vehicles for malware.

In the end if a web site relies solely on intrusive advertising for support and they plead with me to disable adblocking, I'll most likely choose to stop reading/participating on the website rather than make an exception for them.

I really wish the ability to make micropayments to publishers was a thing.
Government of India has banned 857 porn sites
For people in the future, the age of fossil fuels is going to be a small blip in the history of human civilization. To many people, it may even be weird that it was ever thing at all, given that our earth had renewable resources all along. Hopefully, that shift in mindset takes place, where people cannot imagine not considering environmental impact.
Maybe use https://dodistribute.com/ ?
You've kind of answered your own question there - if they're able to log into other sites without using some kind of OAuth-type mechanism that doesn't require them to store your password, then a hack will compromise those passwords.
Passport | Software Engineer | Charlotte, NC | ONSITE

www.gopassport.com/careers

Passport is a venture-backed technology company that builds and powers mobile payment software used by the transportation and parking industries. We use the latest in cutting-edge technology to unify all aspects of the urban transit and parking process by creating fully integrated cloud-based software solutions tailored to our customers' needs.

Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Leading the ideation, technical development, and launch of mobile and web-based products
• Full-stack development using open-source development technologies including, but not limited to, PHP, JavaScript, GWT, Java, Swift, and various other technologies to create custom solutions for our end-clients
• Mobile application development in Android and iOS platforms
• Designing and maintaining databases in MySQL and Redis
• Having fun and working with awesome people on a daily basis

What we’re looking for:

• Experience building mobile applications on iOS and/or Android platforms
• Passion for software development combined with the openness to pick up new technologies
• Knowledge of object oriented development methodologies and design patterns

A Little More About Passport:

• Provider of GreenP and ParkChicago, the two largest mobile parking payment systems in North America
• Investors include Grotech Ventures and Relevance Capital (Series A, $6MM)
• Loft-style office in Charlotte, NC with over 45 employees on-site

Apply to employment@gopassport.com with a resume!
SEEKING FREELANCER - Experienced Ruby on Rails Developer - Manchester, UK - Either remote or on-site fine

We're an online music retailer selling vinyl, tapes, CDs, downloads and merchandise. We're currently rebuilding our site to use Spree (so Spree experience preferred although not required) and we need an extra developer as soon as possible. You will need to be experienced building systems with complex business logic (there's a surprising amount) and working with integrating third party protocols, APIs and file formats[1].

We test heavily using Rspec and Cucumber. We're using the AWS stack (EB, S3, etc) and whilst knowledge of these would be beneficial it's by no means a requirement. Postgres and CoffeeScript experience would be nice too. Lots of Rails experience is the main thing.

If you're interested, please email bang@boomkat.com for more information or to apply. If applying, please include your CV / Github / links to any projects you're proud of / etc, as well as your availability and your day rate.

[1] Example of this is DDEX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Exchange
Location: Nottingham/Midlands UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not

Technologies: Full-stack web-dev and Linux sysadmin. JavaScript/NodeJS/Perl/Python.

Résumé/CV: https://hireme.grepular.com

Email: See Hireme webpage. Or my HN profile.
SEEKING WORK - Remote & Washington D.C/San Francisco (remote preferred)

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Angular. For iOS apps, I use Swift.

To see some of my recent work:

http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.

My email: zach@breue.com
Seeking freelancers -- NYC only, remote OK

LiquidTalent is an exclusive marketplace for developers, designers, and marketers to find contract work by chatting with hirers directly.

We're freelancers too, so we know what good projects look like:

- Real budgets. $40/hr minimum.

- Clients who know what they want

- Modern technologies

- Greenfield projects where you get autonomy and control

- Projects that will look good on your portfolio

We're focusing on Rails, Python, and iOS projects in NYC to start with, but most of our clients are OK with remote.

We've been very excited by the enthusiastic response we gotten on HN so far! Shoot me an email at ken at liquidtalent dot com and mention HN if you want me to fast track your application.

http://liquidtalent.com
London, UK | Permament | ONSITE

Lost My Name is on a mission to make kids mindful, kind and curious. We combine the power of stories with the possibilities of technology, to create magical, personalised experiences for kids and their families.

One key hire for us is a DevOps Engineer to join our team based in East London.

Everybody nowadays calls themselves DevOps. We really mean it: dev and ops, living together in perfect harmony. While part of the infra team, you'll be sat with developers and expected to steer their work towards the most robust, host-able, cloud-shaped solution you can to fit on our growing architecture. You'll need a heap of technical experience together with strong opinions and the communication skills to put them across.

• We're a heavy AWS user and you'll need to be proficient with services like EC2, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM and VPC's. Because of this we’d like you to have considerable experience running web hosting environments with at least one hosted on AWS. You might even have built your own.

• We use a lot of Ruby plus Node.js and Go. How about you? If you’re proficient in at least one high-level programming language that would be really useful

• We currently use Chef as our configuration management system. We’d really like to speak with someone who has experience with this or at least one other configuration management system

• Do you container? We might start. Come lead the way!
Troubleshooting & performance work at the level of single hosts and at the network level with CDN's and caching

• Building deployment and testing systems

• Configuring & tuning monitoring systems and all the usual systems admin plumbing. Do you know how to deal with most of DNS, SSH, SSL, DHCP and at least two Linux distributions?
Packaging new applications from developers and for regular (& possibly continuous) deployment to production

• Should be better than me at formatting HN job posts

No recruiters please.

Full job spec @ http://making.lostmy.name/listings/DevOps
That's a double edged sword I guess.

I chose my school and degree based around staying close to home to help with my disabled brother. It turned out to be a poor decision, academically that is, as the course combined software engineering students with business I.T and we weren't covering anything I didn't already know. I got a summer placement writing code and realised I was learning much more during that time, so when they asked if I wanted to stay on, I accepted.

It could be viewed as not being able to complete the degree, on the other hand would it have been a good choice to persevere with a bad decision just to prove I could? I'd be concerned with working with people who couldn't admit to making a mistake, then making the best of it. Or those who refused to see the grey areas.
the question isn't whether a training budget is bad, but whether the company accounted for it when they computed your salary. Would you have swapped a training budget in lieu of some of your current salary? I think most people would say no to that.
NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | multiple 6-12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS positions

We try to maintain our group of 6-8 trainees contributing to ongoing projects or prototyping things we are curious about.

Current topics:

- Unhosted Social Network

- Python Big Data Platform

- Babel Rina Port

- HTML5 Web Component Framework

- Convergent App

- HTML5 Productivity App Store

- Decentralized Web Cloud

- Binary Version Control System

- Web Version Control System

- Web Blockchain Storage

- Mesh OS

- Web Mesh Network

- ERP5 WebAssembly

We:

- are developing strictly open-source since 2001

- do a lot of research, mostly via EU-funded projects

- are a small team (headquarters in Lille, France)

- are fun to work with

Topic Details: http://www.nexedi.com/jobs

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com
FREELANCER -

Slightly off topic but made an overview of invoicing tools for freelancers and thought I might as well share it :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13R8mP2zIGiBdmuZ0eq-s3coeY4n...
I'm surprised I got this far down the page before someone mentioned going to meetup's.
Segment | San Francisco ONSITE | Engineering and Business roles

Our vision is to build the infrastructure that allows businesses to collect, organize, and understand their data. We launched on HN two years ago with analytics.js, and now tens of thousands of developers send us billions of requests a month. We’re looking for experienced engineers to join our friendly team of 50 in Potrero Hill.

You'd be a good fit if you have expertise in Node, Go, AWS, Docker/containers, Terraform, devops, infrastructure, product management, security or technical sales.

A few things we’re working on:

* Automating the monitoring of hundreds of integrations with third party services
* Standardizing the semantics of dozens of different types of events that
are sent between integrations
* Scalable and accessible storage of billions of events from customers
and partners that can be queried in SQL

To learn more, go to https://segment.com/jobs/
Every person in this thread who is "shocked" why anyone would want soylent is using this whole "good healthy REAL food" bs and it's honestly nauseating. It reminds me of advertising for "artisanal" products and it also reminds me of people complaining about how the world is too fast paced and you need to slow down and get some fresh air. No, I don't.

Anyway, your post in particular made me pull the trigger on buying this.
Was also hidden for me, agree, small funny easter egg
Where: Toronto, Canada, Full time only, on site only. You must be eligible to work in Canada.

Who: K2 and Associates. We're one of Canada's more successful hedge funds over the past 13 years.

----------------------------- What you'll do -----------------------------

You will help build out the statistics pipeline and machine learning models to power an algorithmic trading infrastructure. You'll build hidden Markov Models to detect patterns in the equities markets.

1. Build models

2. Back test models

3. We're lucky enough to have already figured out what step 3 is, apply your models in the markets.

4. PROFIT!!!

----------------------------- Who you are -----------------------------

You are a statistician or speech recognition expert who can turn a model into working code. You are comfortable with any programming language, you can model in what ever language you like.

----------------------------- What's in it for you... -----------------------------

- a hedge fund is just like a startup except that everyone gets a market salary and bonuses. If' you've always wanted to join a startup but you're too good/in demand to take a pay cut then let's chat.

- get paid to learn algorithmic trading

- be able to invest in our fund

- onsite chef for lunches

If you love a challenge please reach out to me at cholliday@k2.ca or my email in my profile.
Attempting to register for access takes you to a form that requires you to have an "Autodesk ID" without any obvious way to obtain one - it does say that existing Gameware customers can get access. Thus continues the very trend that makes me dislike Autodesk: a highly corporate, private, limited-access, secretive suite of tools that are only available to a closed club of very high paying, deeply invested customers who are locked in to a pipeline comprised of only Autodesk tools. It just feels so proprietary and exclusionary. I still remember my parallel port dongle for 3D Studio Max back when I was locked into that tool set and the many times I had to fight to make it work to earn the privilege of using tools I had already paid thousands of dollars for.

Yuck.
I thought about that but I remember when one of the great things about this sort of gameplay was having a friend over and being the one in-the-know for all of these little secrets and helping each other out.
This is the basic format that I wish web designers would follow. Also, I wish ad networks wouldn't be sleazy and allow anyone to use their services (scammers, malware producers, and the like should be categorically banned from an ad network). If the latter was fixed then the former would be possible.
Right to be Forgotten clash raises Qs about the limits of Sovereignty online
A chemistry PhD qualifies you to do advanced research in chemistry -- nothing more. If anything a PhD will work against a candidate in a general industry tech role, because the assumption is they either a) failed in the academic job market for whatever reason, or b) will get bored in a non-research role and split early.

Personally I'm biased against chem/bio/physics etc. PhDs who come in for development jobs because the ones I've known have had terrible, mind-blowingly bad coding practices drilled into them since undergrad and are strangely more resistant to learning best practices than those from more tech-related fields.
What salary range do you offer (or is you company known for offering)? There might be something you're doing that pre-selects the good developers out, or pre-selects the crappy ones in.

Hint: If you are offering "market rate" or "competitive" salaries, you're probably going to get mostly dog applicants.
Applications that link against OpenSSL will crash on Android M
Full-stack Software Engineer

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia (currently)

Remote: yes!
Willing to relocate: yes (Japan, maybe Singapore, Hong Kong)
Technologies: expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Golang, JavaScript, node.js tiny bits of Clojure, Elixir

website: http://mxxn.io
github: https://github.com/archSeer
email: hello <at> mxxn.io
resume: per request

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.

All of my work experience so far being remote, I'm comfortable doing work long distance and adapting my hours to other timezones.
I'm responsible enough to manage my own time and get work done.

Active in open-source, doing a variety of different project, currently a 2D game engine built from scratch with OpenGL, C++ and mruby, soon to be cross-compiled to the web with emscripten.

How can I help your startup? Get in touch.
Find your passion. Then ignore it.
Location: Washington D.C. and San Francisco

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Yup

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, Swift, Xcode, HTML, CSS, SQL.

Resume: Will be sent upon request

Email: zach@breue.com

I'm a full stack developer and designer. To see some of my recent work:
http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.
I like how they talk about "changing the way games are made", then go on to describe exactly the process that Unity and Unreal provide. So actually just playing catch-up to the "way games are made."
The number of people who can choose their job based on how they want to live is dwindling rapidly.
Nice. Or you can use the procedural representation. E.g. in Clojure:

(defn pcons [x y] (fn [m] (m x y)))
(defn pcar [z] (z (fn [p q] p)))
(defn pcdr [z] (z (fn [p q] q)))

(pcar (pcons 2 3)) ==> 2
(pcdr (pcons 2 3)) ==> 3
Your gut is telling you what to eat – and you're not listening
What I don't understand is, why aren't you getting a degree? If you acknowledge a degree is important to get hired, why not just get one? At least here in germany it takes you three years to get a degree -- if you can actually code I would claim you even have more than enough time to work on the side to finance it. Given that you'll probably get a good job with six figures right of the bat if you are even borderline competent, that sounds like a better investment of time to me, than trying to do crappy freelance work on the side. Even if we assume that a degree is just a piece of paper that doesn't mean anytheng except getting your foot into the door and even if we add horrendous US enrollment fees (which, btw, the USA should finally do something about) it would still be a very good investment that pays for itself after a couple of years at the most.

I just don't get, why it seems so much easier, to fight the system without a degree, than just giving up the fight and get one?
Hm, I'm not going to go back to read the article but I distinctly remember the word "like-mindedness". But let's give you the benefit of the doubt for argument's sake, then the only crime is the douchiness of calling that "curation".
Medidata, NYC, London and elsewhere:
http://jobvite.com/m?3fEZvhw9 (all listings)

http://jobvite.com/m?3BDZvhwu (NYC Software Engineer)

Medidata is an established company working on optimizing every aspect of clinical trials, getting medicine to people faster, cheaper, and more reliably.
We're building a heterogenous platform (okay, there's a lot of Rails, but other stuff too) based on API discovery, hypermedia descriptors, and other ways of making
REST-based systems more loosely coupled. If you're willing to spend an hour talking about whether a given method should be a PUT or a POST, come give us a hand.

moc.losdm@reniewa
Is bypassing paywalls illegal, like circumventing DRM?
I'd meant that as a description of what subset of things people normally considered "ads" were acceptable, in the same sense that Adblock Plus started using the term "acceptable ads", so I was referring specifically to online advertisements of the form anyone might consider objectionable in the first place. Almost anything that doesn't involve paying to get your stuff in front of unwilling eyes and ears seems fine.

Word of mouth and genuine self-promotion of a useful product is indeed the best form of advertising, and of course Show HN would be a good example of that. You could certainly call that a form of advertising or marketing, but I can't imagine someone finding it objectionable. Not least of which because you can't game it with money; it'll succeed or fail based on how much people like what you built.
Serious question: unless all the electricity for these vehicles comes from completely renewable and environmentally friendly sources, won't banning fossil fuel emissions from motor vehicles just externalize this pollution onto electric power plants? Is there data to show that the environmental impact will be somehow lessened?
> developer was good when he's working alone on a project with no one to talk to

or he/she could have faked the resume, or dressed it in a good way. I find that excellent programmers tend to be good communicators, because good, clean programming is about communicating with future programmers (which could be yourself in 5 yrs time). Having clarity in thought and being able to express ideas to other people is so crucial that i would rank that above experience with a certain stack/tech.
Could the push functionality of HTTP/2 worsen the problem ? Ad block could limit the downloaded data by selecting it. With the push capability it won't be possible anymore. Network bandwidth could be wasted with the ads. Thebrowser could still filter its display though.
The connection kept resetting for me, so here is the Google Cache link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f-pnPOu...

---

I don't web develop often. As a user, mobile web is usually more usable than a native app - not in terms of whether or not it works, but in terms of usability, flow of actions, and predictability. Cut, copy, and paste work in the browser but rarely in native apps. Other little things too, items too little for a project architect to notice or a punch list to pick up.

The other half of what killed Blackberry was Microsoft Activesync. Blackberry's email service required you have set up their Blackberry Enterprise Server (or their lower-performing cloud-hosted Blackberry Internet Service) and connected this to your email account. BES had an "agent": a service that would log into your email account every 30 seconds, check for new email, and then forward this to your Blackberry over the Blackberry network (which is why you had to pay the $10 "Blackberry Fee"). Activesync (I think) used Exchange mail rules to do the same thing, and the iPhone mail client could use Activesync.

It was that "one-two punch" that took out Blackberry:

* iPhones were cool. Androids were cheap.
* Activesync comes with Exchange, no other server setup necessary.
* Works with normal carrier service; no $10 Blackberry fee.