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Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company past $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (about 18 months ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we just got back from taking the whole team to Vegas for hitting a big milestone!) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments (engineering, sales, marketing, etc.).

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email me directly at jon@datanyze.com!
/me falls off chair
You people sure take Twitter block lists seriously. There are people I like who I have blocked on Twitter, just to keep me from getting engaged in vituperative bullshit in the middle of my workdays.

I should apologize to them for poisoning them with fire (is I think the metaphor you're using, right?).
I can sympathize with a lot of prop 13 opponents. The fact that it adds friction to mobility, making it oddly more expensive to downsize than to stay in a house that is too large, is a definite problem.

However, I have no sympathy for your argument. It is essentially, "I don't like the way people are voting so we should find a way to run them out of town."

Prop 13 correctly protects against such a situation. That is a good thing.
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Clojure Microservices
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I work with companies that have applications built with Ruby/Python/other looking to adopt Clojure by building services to replace bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and to leverage the JVM.

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Oh OK, but that's a solved problem.
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Spiceworks | Austin | Full time | Onsite with relocation assistance available

Spiceworks helps millions of IT pros do their jobs with free tools and connect through our online community. Come help us transform IT. We are looking for the following:

- Senior Test & Automation Engineers

- Senior Data Engineers and Architects

- Software Engineers (front-end, back-end or full-stack)

We have an awesome culture with full benefits, an onsite gym, free drinks & snacks (with breakfast tacos on Monday and bagels on Friday), a weekly development lunch-n-learn and more. We're also ranked as one of the best places to work by glassdoor in 2015 (http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Small-and-Medium-Companies-to-...) and have been ranked at a top work place by the Austin American-Statesman six years running (http://www.topworkplaces.com/frontend.php/regional-list/comp...).
Find out more about Spiceworks and see the current openings at http://www.spiceworks.com/jobs
`"yes" if foo else "no"`
Life expectancy of unicorns is in free fall
> the code in Clojure support concurrency and parallelism, while in elixir concurrency is the norm

This makes little sense to me. You feel it is the norm in both?

If you are unsure if a post is readable, why not just rewrite it?
Cannot Read on mobile, the text is wider than the screen an I cannot scroll horizontally nor zoom. I tried both Chrome and Firefox.
I'd assume they want you to crawl their website. When they say you are ignoring their robots.txt file, tell them you actively prevented you from seeing it and you could only assume that mean they WANTED to be crawled.

That would get them to fix the issue pretty quickly :-)
Networking, Soul Searching, and Alternative Careers
Top Hat | Toronto, ON, Canada | Full-time

Top Hat is hiring for a couple roles: mobile dev (native iOS, Android), full-stack web developer (Python, Django, Javascript, NodeJS), and test engineer (test automation framework management). We also hire interns so please feel free to apply for that as well. Salary ranges based on experience from $70k to $100k.

We're a profitable (and valley VC funded by some of the best funds in the world) education startup that helps make class more engaging. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

If you're not based in Canada or the US but are willing to relocate feel free to contact us, because we do cover relocation expenses and will help you manage the work permit process.

Send your resume/github account to stephanie.kessler at tophat dot com.
Even preapprovals can fall through as the bank can decline to fund when they see the home in question or the valuation comes in lower than the sale price.

In a hot market cash is king as it removes 2 of 3 most common contingencies people have. For the seller this is two less weeks where things can fall through.
Houston Astros | Houston, TX | ONSITE | Sports Science and Performance Analyst

The Houston Astros are seeking an Analyst to support the Sports Medicine and Performance team. This position will work closely with the Director of Sports Medicine & Performance and the Research & Development team to conduct research and develop methods to advance the organization’s efforts to reduce injury and optimize performance.

Please apply through Teamwork Online at the link here if you're interested:

http://houstonbaseball.teamworkonline.com/teamwork/r.cfm?i=9...

If you have any questions about the position, feel free to e-mail me at username at astros dot com, and I'll answer what I can. (Please do not send resumes or applications to my e-mail, only through Teamwork.)
Openvote | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Product Designer

We are looking for a talented product designer to work with us to build Openvote, the first crowd-voting platform for elections. We aim to make politics more inclusive and transform how campaigns work.

You will shape experiences over web, mobile, and touch; working with engineers, fellow designers, and closely with our CEO. You will take ownership of Openvote’s interaction and visual design—laying a foundational layer for future designers to work within.

Must Haves: Excellent interaction and structural design ability. You turn user needs and business goals into clear and compelling experiences. You’ve seen users struggle with your solutions, learned and adapted.

- Foundational visual design skills.

- Ability to take ownership of projects from start to finish

- Humility, maturity, lack of ego. You want to help grow a collaborative, optimistic, and supportive culture.
Nice to Haves:

- Strong visual design portfolio.

- HTML/CSS/Javascript chops. Ability to code the designs you produce for Web

- Experience working with data to inform design decisions. You can separate signal from noise and define metrics that matter.

- Qualitative user research experience. You can speak to anybody and everybody to identify needs, pinpoint hurdles in an experience, and use low resolution prototypes to get quick feedback towards a final solution.

Email sean@openvote.com
Those are long distance TGV trains not commuter services - though I can get from 65 miles out of London to work (near st Pauls) in just over an hour.
Oh, happy memories learning to hack. Phrack articles, while seminal, were not that easy to read, and really hard to learn from. Which resulted in many hours, even days of trial and error and trying to make it work.

The original article: http://www.phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article

Profile of the author of the article, in the next issue of the magazine: http://phrack.org/issues/50/4.html#article
Lifting the Veil on the New York Public Library’s Erotica Collection
Philo | SF | ONSITE | Hiring both front end and backend engineers

We're a small team building the future of TV. Philo lets you watch your favorite shows on all the devices you care about with intelligent search, insightful discovery, and effortless sharing. We have access to the live content that Tim Cook can only dream of, and we have a small, dreamy product team building on top of it.

Our product is available to subscribers at a few small cable companies, and to hundreds of thousands of college students across the country. We're growing fast, and will be dramatically expanding our residential offerings this year. If you want to see a demo, drop us a line.

Backend: We're building a massive distributed video encoding platform that can ingest content from anywhere/anything and spit out clean, beautiful DASH/SS. We are a two person team that manages nearly 1000 machines in 50 datacenters, and we're constantly adding more. If you like big infrastructure problems, we've got them.

Frontend: We're building the cable box of the future on four different platforms (Web/Roku/iOS/Android). Everybody does design/product work, and we move very quickly.

We are not dogmatic, but here's what our stack looks like right now: Lots of Ruby on the backend, some Python (Salt), and some C. We have React and its ilk on the fronted, along with plenty of native code for iOS/Android/Roku.

Reach out here: http://philo.com/careers
Anguish as reprints of 'Mein Kampf' planned for new year
Many industries have a similar curse. One very visible example is the satellite news gathering (SNG) trucks owned by many local TV stations. These things cost a lot of money, and are ideal for covering breaking news stories in some remote locale — impending hurricane, manhunt, fires, etc. Because those events don’t happen every day, what you see them used for are very pedestrian, boring stories that don’t require them. Why is there a shivering reporter standing out in the front of the statehouse or courthouse for the 10pm newscast, talking about some minor piece of legislation or arraignment that took place 12 hours earlier? Because they spent all of this money on the damn SNG truck and they’ve got to use it for something.
The Slow Death of the University (2015)
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Their stories are very interconnected, though. If Christopher Curry hadn't worked for/with Sir Clive for 13+ years and learned about electronic calculators, probably he would have never discovered the upcoming wave of personal computers.

Also, it seems that Sir Clive's lack of vision for the future of computers, and his scattered mad-inventor-turned-businessman, were the main reasons for Cambridge Processing Unit Ltd - later Acorn Computers - being created in the first place.

Somewhat, the supercomputer we carry in our pockets these days are a direct consequence of Sir Clive's actions (or inactions).
Generally speaking, construction in the US is of very poor quality. Houses, even at the high end of the price scale, are invariably wood frame construction since at least the 1940s. That explains the preference for single-family housing (because noise insulation is so poor) and also the 30-year mortgage (without maintenance we are looking at a lifetime of ~ 25 years).

There's also the US way of dealing with crime - you move away from it. City centers are not desirable to live in, neither are inner-ring suburbs. These two factors really explain the exurban appeal.
The information is there, although in different placed depending on which website is used. I just have to remember to check the fine print, at least when I am the person actually booking the ticket. When i'm not, then I have to check the boarding docs for the little "operated by" tag. The whole scheme is not something you expect from a supposedly national airline like AC.

I've also had this happen with Alaska and United.
I looked at the ISS research in detail a few years ago, and there are several experiments counted as ISS research because they were on a space shuttle flight that went to the ISS. My point is that as you mention with the AMS, the benefits of the ISS are exaggerated in this way.

Overall, the research results of the ISS struck me nothing you'd put into even the top 100 discoveries of the year, and nothing worth the cost.

To see just how costly the ISS is compared to other research projects, see: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/sad1015...
Is there any explanation for the lack of types in error handling anywhere? The compiler should be able to easily infer those and require that you handle them correctly.
Most textbooks aimed at schoolchildren (from first grade through college) have this kind of format built into them. Personally I found them patronizing and tedious to read, as they take 3x more space than necessary to make their point, and lots of the little called out side notes seemed irrelevant. This format is almost always the product of some kind of committee process rather than a primary author with a strong voice.

Just because it’s more effective for someone to {quickly skim, think a bit, read the chapter, then think a bit more} doesn’t mean that including those features explicitly in the text is helpful; it’s like taking a full meal and blending it into a smoothie, so the eater doesn’t need to chew. Some students will skip the main text and just read the summary bits, assuming (usually correctly) that that will suffice to pass the next quiz. Others will try to read the book but be distracted by the disjointed presentation and lose track of the shape of the arguments. Students who get used to this format will be completely lost once they hit harder material which hasn’t predigested everything up front. Many of the better students who are used to real books will find the format patronizing.
I worked on a while for a product to do this. It foundered on the stony shores of my unfamiliarity with angular, which was the sexy new thing at the time.
They are separate questions. I thought this article was going to share some further insight as to how to address the "trolley" problem but instead all it did was to try make a tenuous connection between two different issues.
I had to use safari reader
‘I’m Pretty Sure I’m Gay.’ but Please Don’t Ask
"Oh man, I can't counter this argument, because it's true. I'll just split it up into chunks that don't make sense and then disprove those."
Google invented their own name for it - Material design.
A type is an expression that represents the set of all possible values..

If you don't like making types explicit, you could use implicit typing like in Haskell, or having values carry their types like in Ruby.
Visual Studio doesn't seem to have the same problem.
The post:

Almost 20 years ago my father answered the phone as we ate a late family dinner. He was mightily confused because the man on the other end of the call was asking him questions he had no idea how t answer. After a few moments of confusion, my father told the man, he was pretty sure he wanted his son, Kevin, not him.

On the other end waited Ian Murdock. He’d taken the time to call me up to do my Debian maintainer identity interview. It was, and is, a big deal, from a security standpoint, to verify the identity of new Debian maintainers. But the task is tedious, calling up new maintainers and talking to them for half an hour. Imagine my surprise, when, the man doing my interview was the Ian from debian. One of the co-founders of the entire project had taken the time to call me. I was Impressed.

Years later, I got to meet Ian in person at an ExactTarget conference, and I thanked him for calling a nerdy high school kid to verify his identity. He not only confirmed my identity for security purposes, but he affirmed that I mattered, and could help. At the time, I don’t think he remembered the call, and I don’t think I was sufficiently able to convey what his call meant to me.

Last Monday, Ian Murdock was found dead in his home. The details are few, the speculation rampant. Police may or may not be involved. The proximate cause might have been Suicide. Was his Twitter account hacked? Regardless of the details, I’m reminded that all too often our culture judges people by their actions in the worst moments of their life. Those who have killed are forever murderers branded by their actions at the worst moments of their life. We don’t seem to have a cultural construct for good people who made mistakes. Not where suicide or the police are concerned. I’ve already started to see Ian eulogized not for his contributions to the world, but as a “crazy” and someone who gave up. I don’t know how Ian died, it’s likely you don’t either. It doesn’t matter; Ian was more, is more, than the unknown actions at the end of his life. He was also the kind of man who’d not only call and verify my identity, but reaffirm an insecure high school nerd’s ability to meaningfully contribute to the world at large.

To Ian, Thank you for all that you were and did.
Did you have to take a salary cut when you moved to VA? (e.g.: so your salary would be more in line with VA norms than silicon valley norms?)

That is the big problem with telecommuting for me - it seems hard to find companies which are willing to pay silicon valley level salaries to people living outside silicon valley, and if you take a pay cut, the savings in rent diminishes drastically.

I suppose it is different when you start in silicon valley and move elsewhere while staying in the same company, rather than just starting out elsewhere. But that is still an concern since your salary gets reset if you ever change companies without moving back to silicon valley.
Interesting words there. "Old timers" and "forced". Pretty much the reason Prop-13 came about.
Good luck trying to get any high capacity public transport built in California in less than 20 years. That's the main problem, everybody is fine with stuff being built just not in their back yard or with their tax dollars.
We already had Skylab, which never gets the attention it deserves, and the Russians had Mir. They kept somebody up there for more than a year.

The true mission of the ISS was to serve as a jobs program for the shuttle.

The Apollo missions accomplished infinitely more--including launching Skylab--than the shuttle and ISS ever could have accomplished.
> First of all, what language is this? Well, I know, but you seem to forget that the parser combinator syntax varies per language. What's the equivalent syntax for Java? Or for Python? What about a language that doesn't have a parser combinator library? Or one that has several ones, all slightly different?

I very deliberately didn't mention the language or the library, because I think the snippet is readable without knowing that. Minor syntax differences between libraries matter when writing, but not when reading, and reading is more important. (And it's not like there aren't several slightly different implementations of regexes)

I'm not that committed to parser combinators - I'd be happy to consider alternatives - but anything where you a) name the things you're capturing b) can easily combine several small parsers to make a bigger parser will have a huge readability, testability and maintainability advantage over regexes.
Thanks Richard. Mobile has a couple of unexpected issues, thanks for the heads up we'll look into this for the next release :)
You were doing well, right up to the moment you stated that Word is not bloated and compared it to OpenOffice (who even uses OpenOffice? Everyone with any clue uses LibreOffice!).

P.S. as someone who has commit access to LibreOffice (and much to everyone else's chagrin, sometimes uses it), I could be a little bit biased.
Of course in some recent conflicts soldiers grow beards to fit in with the locals.

Back in the day the SAS in Northern Ireland grew mustachers to help their cover.
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Location: Scandinavia

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: Nope

LinkedIn: https://no.linkedin.com/in/olavgjerde

Full-stack developer with soon 10 years of professional experience. Has also some experience with Hadoop and data analytics/machine learning.
Suade (https://suade.org) • ONSITE (London, UK) • Front-end Software Engineer • Full time • NO VISA

We're bringing banks and regulators closer together with the help of technology.

Join us and build the UI and visualizations needed by some of the most important institutions in the world. We use AngularJS, D3 and more for this challenging task.

More details:
https://suade.org/jobs/front-end-picasso/

Send your CV and a short intro to: jobs@suade.org
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I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, research labs, and the chemicals industry.

Languages: PHP, JavaScript / Node.js, Lua, Ruby, Java, C

About me:

* I started my career at an advertising agency
* made a toy programming language called np: http://np-lang.org
and I'm generally a language design enthusiast
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* Github: https://github.com/Udo/

Profile: http://udo.click/

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Show HN: Some common web-attacks
Main Street Hub // Austin, TX - ONSITE // email: brandon.beck@mainstreethub.com

We are looking for a few experienced software engineers to join our small but growing R&D team in downtown Austin. Within engineering we are a passionate group of people who are extremely interested in building the software that helps our customers around the country thrive in their local communities. We’re a pretty small team (currently ~22 people) so you’ll have plenty of say around how we develop software going forward. We are currently in the process of modernizing our software platform to be more modular and truly data driven. Our goal is to use data to make sure that we provide the right content to the right consumer at the right time. We’re building our internal API using REST based services implemented in Java, and while our front end is currently implemented in PHP, we are migrating away from that. Some of the technologies that we’re using: Dropwizard, Flyway, React, CloudFormation, Troposphere, and Ansible. All new engineers get company provided downtown parking, flexible work hours, 100% of their health insurance premiums paid for by the company, the ability to choose their own work computer, and access to our kitchen with plenty of drinks and snacks. We’re looking for individuals only so please NO RECRUITERS OR AGENCIES (seriously, your emails will just go into the trash folder so let's save each other's time). In addition we’re looking for full-time employees who are already in Austin, TX or willing to relocate.

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