skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CYANOGEN | Seattle, WA and Palo Alto, CA | Onsite Only | Relocation Assistance | Full Time | Visa

Cyanogen Inc was founded to make our popular open source CyanogenMod project accessible to a broader consumer base worldwide in the form of Cyanogen OS, a mobile OS built on Android that is known for its revolutionary personalization features, intuitive interface, speed, improved battery life, and enhanced security.

Here’s a sampling of our open positions:

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3) Embedded Software Engineer: Help the Cyanogen framework and applications hit the market on brand new devices, out of the box and all over the world. The team works in C or C++ to interface with devices (GPS, Video, Audio, BT, Sensors, or camera), build native modules, and develop at the kernel level. Linux experience is a must!

Working at Cyanogen, you'll get to collaborate with developers from around the world and contribute daily to a platform used by millions of people. Community involvement is an integral part of our everyday work. If you have a passion for open source and innovation, can demonstrate strong skills and a great attitude, we want to speak with you!

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Codelitt Incubator | Miami, FL && Remote | 2 full time positions

Codelitt Incubator consists of a corporate skunkworks program and a product incubator. Our two focuses are strategically aligned to benefit each other and solve two problems: We help entrepreneurs build great products while making a living and corporations innovate like startups.

You can learn more about us here: https://angel.co/codelitt-incubator

-- Software Engineer with focus in Mobile Development --

More details here: https://angel.co/codelitt-incubator/jobs/65699-mobile-develo...

-- Software Engineer with focus in Machine Learning and interest in robotics --

More details here: https://angel.co/codelitt-incubator/jobs/79640-software-engi...

Email us directly at cody@codelitt.com and halisson@codelitt.com
Yeah, but the guy in this story is in his 40s. While a startup might not care about education, most of them definitely care about age.
Chef and test-kitchen to automagically test your recipes in the cloud. VirtualBox and the snapshot creation tool to revert changes to your preferred state while testing recipes in seconds.
I'm ignorant of the actual law, so this is just a guess. Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources. There's only a handful of really influential companies indexing this data compared to the numbers that produce and distribute it. If you remove the indexes and render the information difficult to find, its not that much different from removing the information altogether.
B&N Education’s anti-Amazon strategy
Labeling the opposing point to France's very strict defamation rules cannot be termed "ultra-liberal, privacy-be-damned" really. It has been pointed out that this state of affairs has led to many criminal/politically harmful events to be widely known. One of the best known in recent memory was the DSK affair (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/d-s-k-french-lives-f...). Although his rapist past was well-known is some circles through informal gossip, the victims were never able to declare so in public due to threat of these strict laws. More on this sordid affair here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/dominique-strauss-k...

Many more examples can be provided.
Ayushi Rastogi sends out unsolicited survey (aka spam) to GitHub members
Email content: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=zMG7DdzH

"If you consider this email to be spam, we are very sorry, but this really was not our intention! This is a systematic email where we identified you from a subset of users based on your contribution." Apologizing while you do something doesn't make it OKAY. They realize it's spam, otherwise they wouldn't have suggested and apologized as such.
Apples and oranges not only between the situation, but each point you listed.

America can do whatever it wants tax-wise to its own citizens. Copyright and bank integration has to do with existing trade agreements that are peer-shared and mutually respected. Russia is free to keep its assets within its own country if it doesn't want to participate in a larger system with shared rules.

The issue here is that France is trying to apply a local law that is not mutually agreed upon with any other country, to other countries. And in doing so is creating bad precedent regarding censorship extended across borders with no recourse. I can't challenge France's law in court as a US citizen, so why should I be denied access to information at their discretion?
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or [REMOTE] (US time zones)

We're hiring engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com
Malibu Cars and Coffee Is Automotive Superstars
You are still in the states aren't you? The story is very different outside of NorthAmerica.

In several countries in Europe and in LatinAmerica, landing in a well-enough job can be a matter of several months depending of the skill-set.
The right to be forgotten is the right to erase history.
EFF is not a fan of right to erase history when they see other mechanisms for solving the same problem.

(IE either we should give up an curtail press freedoms, or we should accept that society needs to be more accepting of reality. This intermediate state where we curtail the freedom of certain actors, but have decided another set get a pass, is what the EFF is complaining about)
Google already uses GeoIP (and IP multicast).
Doesn't matter if you type google.de or google.com in the URL-bar of the browser. You will always get the German version, which differs significantly and is practically worthless for programming or technology topics.
I assume it's the same for google.fr (can't try it for obvious reasons).

What works is google.com/ncr or just use duckduckgo.
AIRTAME | Copenhagen, Denmark | http://airtame.com

AIRTAME is an early-stage startup in the heart of Copenhagen. Our wireless streaming solution helps people work better. We're currently hiring:

- Software Engineer - develop the core of our cross-platform streaming software. You're an expert in C and C++. You're passionate about open source, and you are serious about writing high-quality code.

- Test Engineer - expand our automated testing suite. You're an experienced developer who thrives on pushing software systems to their limits.

- Dev Ops Engineer - manage and monitor the infrastructure which drives AIRTAME. You take pride in your ability to automate complex tasks.

- Web Developer - architect our web-based systems. You're a talented full-stack developer with solid backend experience.

We can sponsor work visas for non-EU applicants.

If you're interested or have any questions, send an email to tech-jobs@airtame.com
I totally understand your point and of course it had to be both in and ideal world. But if the web server is hosted offshore...

But again its strange because Google dont say they won't apply RTBF, they just say they will apply it on a per country basis... But from a technical standpoint this is even more complicated... So they basically say "we Google define the law" for everything that is "out" of your country.

Yet good luck to them defining what "out your country mean" in a global network.
The back story for electricity is peer grid and arbitrage techniques. Power grid should be just like the internet - every endpoint can produce as well as consume services. Would this allow for grid defection? Don't know, but it will radically change the model for energy economics for sure.
Zenefits - http://www.zenefits.com/ - HQ in San Francisco, CA, Zenefits is being called one of the fastest growing SaaS businesses ever. We provide free cloud HR software to any business below a thousand customers, and make most of our money selling health insurance.

• San Francisco, CA - Software Engineer, full stack (Full Time) - Python, Django, JavaScript, and CSS. 2+ yrs exp.

• San Francisco, CA - UI Engineer (Full Time) - JavaScript, Ember.js, CSS, and MVC with Django.

• San Francisco, CA - Lead Application Security Engineer (Full Time) - 5+ yrs exp.

• Vancouver, BC - Senior Software Engineer (Full Time) - Python, Java, C++, OOP, XML/JSON, REST API, Agile, Git. 5+ yrs exp.

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Never realised this spelling mistake was such a thing but now I notice it all the time!

I've been living in Bogotá for a few months and I only realised I was spelling Colombia wrong a couple of months in - pretty embarrassing.

I now notice many if not most of my English-speaking friends make the same mistake when emailing/facebooking/whatsapping me and I try to correct them as I go.

It appears Columbia is a reflex spelling of the sound of the word - I'm from the UK so haven't had that much exposure to the use of the word for the NY University, so I don't think that's the explanation in my case.

Someone should make a website for this along the lines of amispellingcolumbiacorrectly.com -> NO to spread the word ;-)
Yes, thanks. Couldn't find it through the original link. This version has interesting annotations on the side from readers, but otherwise it is the same article.
There's nothing preventing them from starting the next Google, except the insane amount of difficulties in doing so. That said, Russia and China have been able to do so quite well.
Yes, but with annotations zomg.
Glad to know I'm not alone there. I had an interview with this company where I was told technical skills weren't the most important, personality was. Luckily for me, they really liked me. Ten days later, I go to a second interview where they ask me pretty advanced technical questions. I don't panic and I end up doing extremely well. So at this point they've told me my personality was good for the position, and also saw I happened to be a solid programmer. The day after that second interview, they call me:

- hey, we're not going to give you that position because you didn't learn the [completely minor] framework by yourself since the last interview.
- yeah, I have a job. Also, you didn't ask me to?
- we do that on purpose to see if you're independent enough.
- OK, I definitely think I am, what should I do?
- I can't help you there, spend a week on this, come up with something and we'll see how we like it.
- a week?! Also, don't you have a client request example or anything?
- nope.

Eventually they decided that even if I were to do that, the disappointment on their side had been too huge… The funniest in this is that 'agile' is part of their corporate identity, the word's everywhere on their website, they even criticized the way I'm working with my current employer because he's not 'agile' enough (which is true, but I have no power over this). But then they want to hire somebody and not even have to give him a few pointers, because that's too vulgar for them? What the fuck is this?
I tend to ship mostly to the office, since I live in an apartment, delivery to the door is unreliable and picking up at the office with limited hours is a pain...

YMMV, but agreed that multiple location options is really nice... also, makes sending gifts easier, when it goes where it needs to. I don't use the media stuff much, but I order a lot on amazon, via prime.
It's a hard question (not a no-brainer IMO).

Rather than look at floor coverers, I'd look at other creatives like movie/TV script writers. They are unionized, and what they do is hard to characterize as unskilled or commoditized.

Pay is more transparent, but the very best still command top salaries.

I think one difference is that it's easier to correlate the quality of their output with the quality of the end-product because the teams tend to be very small.
This site constantly has good content. You are doing yourself a disservice if you aren't either actively following it or haven't gone back through the archives. One of the real gems of the web, particular if you consider yourself a creative.
Spawn virtualized environments for APIs
>>>>> how is taxation different from extortion, besides that we're threatened with imprisonment instead of violence?

If the mafia takes away 20% of your income (and also the people around you), and then comes back to you 2 years later to report what they did with the money: "Your money and the one from your friends helped me buy this new house on the lake, and this private jet. I had to use some to pay the workers because I'm not enslaving people"

If a country takes the same amount of money and comes back to you 2 years later: "Your money was used to build this new road to improve the local economy, also we were able to save 3 persons from a fire thanks to this new fire truck, and treat 2 people at the hospital. Feel free to use that new road, and don't worry if your house gets on fire, the firetruck will be there in a few minutes"

Do you see the difference? The taxes were here trying to help you and the citizens of the country you live in. They also spent that money buying 2 fighter jets and tanks? That's unfortunate, that would be useful if there was some way to make your voice heard. That new house and jet the mafia built, you will never have any benefits from it.

So: how is taxation different from extortion, besides that we're threatened with imprisonment instead of violence?

A: One of them, in essence, is trying to help you, the other one does not care about you.
> I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist

Heh. I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and I'm vehemently opposed to unionization.
Most of it was written 2+ years ago
I'm still at the stage of dropping rules that aren't used. CSS tends to get pretty inefficient if enough people have hacked on the file and the one on my site is no exception to that. It'll still need some work. But even that is already in the realm of 'diminishing returns on investment'.
Avvo (http://www.avvo.com) | Seattle, WA (ONSITE) | Rails API/Backend Developer

We’re looking for great software developers to help us connect people with the legal help they need.

As an API / Backend Developer, you’ll build fast, easy-to-use APIs to help our Mobile team ship remarkable apps. You’ll bridge between our iOS, web, and platform teams, and help us unlock new ways to bring our data to other apps and devices.

About You:

- 3+ years of API development experience with frameworks such as Rails, Django, or node.js (or others!).

- Strong CS fundamentals: A good knowledge of data modeling, object-oriented design, and algorithms.

- You’ve worked with multiple product teams at once, and can make the right tradeoffs based on those teams’ needs.

- You can clearly explain complex ideas without buzzwords and jargon.

- You love to mentor and be mentored. You live by the philosophy that everyone has something to teach you.

- You’re addicted to shipping, solving problems, and helping the people around you succeed.

About the Team:

- We mostly run on Rails, but have brought in technologies like Go, Angular.js, Scala, and Sinatra. We’re open to using the right technologies for what we build.

- We iterate quickly, and ship multiple times a day.

- We work in small teams with product managers and designers, and help shape the products we’ll be building from day 1.

- We have a strong tradition of supporting open source. Projects like resque_scheduler, robut, resque_unit, and json_api_client were all extracted from our codebase, and we’ve contributed several patches back to Rails.

Why Avvo?

Right now, you have an opportunity to join the team while it’s still on the small side, and grow your career faster than you would at almost any other company. You’ll be able to help shape our dev organization and define our culture.
Companies in our position are rare, and joining a company like ours will be one of the most memorable parts of your life.

(Side note: I've been here 8 years, and still love it. It's an awesome place to work.)

Contact: jweiss@avvo.com
And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on :)

"Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources."

I don't buy this. All of these sources need a way to print retractions/etc in these countries due to the way libel/etc laws work. So they already must have mechanisms to achieve this.

This is like targeting library card catalogs for indexing microfiche.
EnergySavvy | Seattle | Onsite
DevOps/Developer

EnergySavvy is an energy efficiency software company looking to add a key developers and a devops engineers to our team.

We use: Django, Python, React, Mercurial, PostgreSQL & more

If you like modern web technologies, like challenging technical problems and are interested in doing something that makes an impact, contact christine@energysavvy.com

If this sounds like you, check out the full job descriptions here: http://www.energysavvy.com/careers/
Related to this is the Games Outcome study. While this specifically studied the development of games, the observations and conclusions are applicable to all software development:

* http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150126/235024/Th...
And one really great reason not to use it, the license. At any point they can yank it away from you, why invest time into learning something like that?
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring Front-End Engineers
Bridgewater Associates | Westport, CT | Onsite technology roles http://tinyurl.com/pofvg4e
We are currently hiring technologists across the company to help on a variety of initiatives. We are developing an infrastructure for the future, which will be a cloud-based, secure, and highly available platform, using technologies like AWS, Ansible, and Chef. We are also building an IDE for investment logic which allows our researchers to express their ideas and test them in a variety of economic conditions, using Scala, Cassandra, grid computing, and other technologies. We have dozens of other projects and are hiring for many roles - just apply if you want to learn more.
So many basic webdev mistakes here, that you all are fixing on the fly here, wonder how solid the service will be.
True. His motivations seem to be a mix of simplifying his life and lowering the environmental impact. The first one is easy to evaluate (he does feel that he accomplished that, therefore he did), but whether the second is consistent with that remains to be demonstrated in all the cases. Shipping one-use clothes from China seems dubious, for example.
That alone might make it well worth the investment. If I knew back in '95 what I know today (as in lessons learned the hard way, not 'invest in apple')...

One thing I don't see happening in biotech is an end-run around the law such as AirBNB pulled off. That's going to get you into a lot of very hot water.
GetYourGuide ☆ Berlin - Zurich ☆ Full Time ☆ ONSITE

We are on a mission to turn trips into amazing experiences, using our product and technology to change the way travelers find and book things to do and explore their destination. We are customer focused and totally data driven and are ramping up our engineering capacity.

Looking for: Data scientists ☆ DevOps ☆ Front-end engineers ☆ Back-end engineers

We use technologies including Chef, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Node.js

Find more about us and the job openings on our career page
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Honestly I still don't understand them. They are not always in chronological order and their seems to be no logic behind the way tweets are grouped.
EFF’s Street Level Surveillance Project
Discussion of threatpost.com article about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997533
Zinc | zinc.io | YC W14 | Head of Engineering

Zinc is an API to buy anything on the internet. We've built a profitable business with only two full-time team members -- the founders. Contact max@zinc.io for more details.
Designing Applications for HIPAA
I think part of the issue is that Twitter is a great tool for people in media/news as well as PR/celebrities etc, and because of the role these groups play in society they have been doing what amounts to a lot of free advertisement for Twitter. All along this may have been "artificially" increasing Twitter's user numbers relative to the kinds of users they want.
Los Angeles/Culver City,CA ONSITE

Cloud Architect - Amazon Web Services

(mt) Media Temple http://mediatemple.net : Since 1998 we've offered premium web hosting and cloud services for digital agencies, busnesses, content creators, and developers.
You will be porting from existing and building from scratch complex solutions to help clients harness the power of AWS. The is a hands-on architectural opportunity. You will not just whiteboard and hand off. We are a team built on dogfooding a.k.a build, implement, and deploy all of your solutions.

Job decription: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oNoA0fwv&s=LinkedIn

Watch this video to learn more about the culture at (mt):
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They mention the tree's trunk in the article but it's shaded in the photo. It's glorious: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjell/3388113528/in/album-7215...

The National Arboretum is the coolest place I've been in DC. It's a bit out of the way, but worth the trip from downtown.
Ask HN: Should countries be banning cloud computing operating systems?
In the current atmosphere of spying on everything coupled with cloud computing that only continues to get more invasive, should countries who are concerned about maintaining their competitive advantage in a global market be banning Google and Microsoft operating system products considering that these tools can be used to leak pretty much any corporate secrets the companies in the countries have? Or is it not the country's problem and they should leave that up to the private corporations to decide, even if the private corporations are simply concerned with cost cutting even if their secrets are at risk of being stolen? What about government corporations?