skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pavlok | http://buy.pavlok.com | Boston, MA | Full Time | Onsite or Remote

== We are ==

At Pavlok, we've invented a wearable device that helps users break bad habits --- using haptic feedback. Pavlok vibrates, beeps, and releases mild electric stimuli we call 'zaps' that help a user create a Pavlovian aversion to bad habits.

It works manually (pressing a button) or automatically (a Chrome extension that zaps when I go on bad websites, an alarm clock that zaps the user if he hits a snooze button, etc).

== You are ==

* Full stack developer
* Experience in Rails, Android, iOS, and/or Node
* An A+ player
* You care about self improvement and want to make yourself better

Your Mission:

To build web products and features that help Pavlok users build good habits and break bad ones.

Role Outcomes:

Audition - Write a simple script/app that uses the Pavlok module to integrate with some 3rd party API service.

14 Day - Will have coordinated with design to develop multiple features and bug fixes. Finish getting IFTTT up and running with senior contract developer. Will have adopted Pavlok’s git workflow and TDD methodology. At least 1 commit / hour. Dev ops

1 Month - Deliver four builds to QA, maintain and build out our api and develop our unified push for Pavlok customers.

3 Month - Build a developers platform for other developers to build applications with Pavlok. Maintain high output while pairing with junior teammates.

email daniel.rondeau@pavlok.com and mention HN in the subject
It is easier to skip over extra material than to imagine missing material. Textbooks serve a diverse audience.

Also, it is possibly that the egotistical reader doesn't actually know better than the author.
See manager manage. Manage, manager, manage
Yes, there is...

A Tour of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

http://www.amazon.com/Tour-C--Depth/dp/0321958314/ref=sr_1_1...
What a terrible article, how would leaving a gap look remotely better.
> Some days I wish I hadn't completely scrapped and deleted my Mac-only Clojure-only native IDE.

Scrapped, sure, if you felt frustrated with it, but why did you completely delete it?
> It does nobody any good to sugarcoat the unpleasantness.

I agree, and this is the kind of discussion that should be had.

> But we cannot responsibly suggest that we can motivate that reform by telling the mentally ill to go on strike against the system.

To be clear, I am not at all suggesting that. I am observing that there is a barrier in front of some people to getting help, fear of the system. People are already on strike or hesitant, to more or less degrees, and I think it's terrible that fear of help is even a consideration.
"us news commentators aren't credible when various Economists and the BLS contradicts them"

Jonathan Rothwell is an analyst at the Brookings Institution. The US News article is a summary of a research report he published based on an empirical study of job openings. His research is also cited in the BLS report I linked to, so I don't believe there is contention. I believe his methodology is more pertinent on this topic, since he looked at how long it took to fill positions rather than second order metrics like salaries.

"and that 32 percent of computer science graduates not employed in information technology attributed their situation to a lack of available jobs." "unless you are arguing 32% of CS graduates are completely worthless?"

I didn't read that as 32% of CS graduates couldn't find jobs. It was 32% of CS graduates who couldn't find jobs attributed it to lack of open positions. More below:

"All you've really shown is CS has matured to the point where a good software engineer is on par with other engineering fields in terms of business value and their salary is starting to reflect that. That isn't a sign of a shortage but rather an indication the quality of engineer is more important than the quantity of engineer."

I don't think the maturing of CS is a recent phenomenon. Fred Brooks wrote about quality and output of software engineers 40 years ago. What has changed recently is a rapid growth in the number of CS positions:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

Since it takes time for people to build skills, I'd assert this naturally results in a shortage of more senior engineers. Every company has a distribution of new hires (that require training and mentoring) and experienced engineers. I see this as an argument to increase H1Bs to bring in experienced engineers.

Although we have seen an uptick in the number of CS graduates in the US, it has historically been low, and dropped after the last downturn:

http://www.itworld.com/article/2833432/it-management/america...

On the other hand, other countries like China and India have been churning out significantly more CS graduates for years (Table 1.1):

http://www.engineeringuk.com/_resources/documents/Engineerin...

Which would create natural pressure for CS engineers to move to the US.

[edit: clarified a sentence that didn't make much sense]
CryptoMove | San Francisco Bay Area | Fulltime | Onsite

=== WHO WE ARE ===

We are taking a fundamentally different approach to data security, by intelligent distributed data concealment rather than leaving data at rest.

Our core technology is built in a distributed programming language, Hello, that we invented. We're very early -- still less than ten people.

We're well-funded by angels from Cyphort, Kenna Security, Cisco, angels who seeded Palantir and Airware, and our team has 4 exits, including Twitter's IPO, an acquisition by Twitter, and an acquisition by Cisco.

=== WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR ===

We're looking for additional developers to help us build out our API, integrate our technology and build interfaces with large enterprise customers, and work on security projects.

Lots of fun, lots of challenging work to do, and deep tech.

=== SOME JOB POSTINGS ===

Here are our current job postings on AngelList:

Back-end/platform: http://bit.ly/1PBde18
Services/full-stack: http://bit.ly/1R29BTs
Security: http://bit.ly/1YTQwHp

=== HIT US UP! ===

Email our CEO mike at cryptomove dot com and mention Hacker News in the subject line to learn more.

Thanks!

-CryptoMovers

p.s. more on Hello: http://bit.ly/22yZ9qn
If you are willing to wait 8 weeks, my budding company is building a search engine for explanations of things that could help you find what you are looking for. I too have had this problem in finding educational resources, and we are working to improve on the usual googleing experience. I cannot promise much right now, but you are not alone in your search. Let me know if you would like a beta key?
Fascinating post. I wonder if anyone has tried to decode the Audible audiobook format - ".aa"?
Tradeshift | Full Time | ONSITE - Many positions - San Francisco, CA; Copenhagen, Denmark; Suzhou, China | http://tradeshift.com/jobs/

Growth-stage startup (about 80 engineers) in rapid growth stage (130M funding so far). We are building B2B network for supply chain management (500,000 businesses on there already), and a PaaS (Think LinkedIn or B2B crossed with Force.com). Growing very rapidly, but still small enough to make huge impact. Working with a number of Fortune 100 companies on projects of immense complexity and scale. Micro-services architecture with multiple data centers.

Looking for front end, full stack, and backend engineers.

We just launched our engineering blog that gives an overview of the types of challenges we are working on - https://medium.com/tradeshift-engineering

http://tradeshift.com/jobs/

One special focus is looking for engineers in San Francisco with experience with financial systems (i.e. payments) for an exciting new project.
Read the article and you'll get the reference.
If I would guess, he is closer to D than Golang, especially given his good relationship with Alexandrescu.
SEEKING WORK – London UK, remote ok

Lead iOS Engineer (Swift, Objective-C).

Six years experience creating and publishing apps to Apple and iOS since it was called iPhone OS 3 (2009).

Experience working remote.

Some of my work:

• 6Tribes http://6tribes.com

• WeCycle http://www.travelai.info

Apps that I built for myself:

• ZombieChat http://getzombiechat.com

• Meep http://meep.io

Get in touch!

Email: alex@panaxiom.co.uk

GitHub: http://github.com/alexanderjarvis

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexanderjarvis/
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847605
One point of MOOCs is that they are not text books. That does not mean text books are bad or that MOOCs are all you'll ever want.

Some MOOCs create video content totally "from scratch", but usually they build on the lecturers' ability to hold a lecture in the topic, often honed through years of repeated lecturing on the same topic.
SEEKING WORK

Backend developer, 10+ yrs

Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote/Relocate: Yes

Languages: C#/Java, Javascript, etc

Platform: Linux

https://github.com/joongonn
Get your daily dose of Python at PyBloggers
"Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths" http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-p...

Data on race, mental health, etc.
Citymapper. London, UK. (ONSITE VISA INTERNS)

Help build the world's best urban navigation app!

We are recruiting for all roles: mobile and backend, data science, DevOps, design, marketing, and more. PhDs especially welcome to apply.

See https://citymapper.com/jobs/
Contact me at emil at citymapper dot com
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Location: Saint Petersburg, FL, USA

Remote: Yes, currently remote employee.

Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere.

Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, React, Ampersand.js/Backbone.js, Python, Node, Meteor.js, Hapi.js, Vue.js

Résumé/CV: http://standardresume.co/chriscombs

Email: Hey@ChrisCombs.me

Currently learning Elixir via doing the stockfighter.io challenges. I've created and frequently update my Meteor.js app at https://pinellas911.co ... I really want to get paid to do what I find awesome and that's developing products.

Also have an on/off side-project to develop a b2b SaaS for Talent Management in the HR niche. It's currently being developed in Node using Hapi.js for the API and Vue.js for the frontend.
I don't understand what you mean. Looking at the wikipedia article on Prop 13, it says:

"It also prohibited reassessment of a new base year value except for in cases of (a) change in ownership, or (b) completion of new construction."

I live in Los Angeles and we have a similar problem being a popular location in California. Basically, there are people living in their homes paying the same taxes they paid in 1978, while anyone trying to buy a similar house will owe modern taxes. So you might be paying $15,000/yr. in taxes and your next door neighbor in a comparable house is literally paying $500/yr. That makes no sense. I've owned property in other states and assessments are done every 1-5 years.

The fallout is that certain areas pay significantly lower taxes, thus contributing significantly less to the community than other areas. It's made worse by the fact that if you inherit your house from your parents (or if they gift it to you before they die), you continue paying the 1978 taxes (or whatever year they bought or built the house). That's insane and it's unfair. It has nothing to do with how people vote. If they paid their fair share, you might have a point, but they don't, unless they decide to do construction on their house. It makes for a very uneven (and I would argue unfair) market.
Sift Science | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite

What we do:

Sift Science, YC11, is a machine learning company that detects and prevents online fraud in real time.

What we are looking for:

We are seeking a front-end engineer who is passionate about building interfaces that are simple yet powerful, and can sweat the details. The Sift Science Console is a single-page web app built on React, with Browserify and ES2015, powered by our Dropwizard API backend. We care about responsive design, we use D3, and we’re always investing in betters ways to tell a story with data.

Job posting: https://siftscience.com/jobs#43193
Contact: Lynda[at]siftscience[dot]com

Happy new year and Sift on!
Or, if you're lucky, they have also published a lecture script online which may have book quality. You can also try asking if it's known to exist but not available.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote OK - Travel Possible

Experienced software developer with a history in startups.

Proficient in:

* Python ['django', 'bottle', 'google.app.engine', 'pyramid']
* Javascript ['angular','backbone','node','firebase'];
* Clojure '(compojure liberator)
* Ruby ['rails', 'sinatra']
* Go {'appengine'}
* Haskell, Prolog (and other esoterics)

We've helped entrepreneurs develop their MVP, as well as large companies develop core features. We provide services such as feature development, product management, and software auditing.

Previous engagements include Fuze, DriveShift.com, Sosh, Getaround, Codecademy, Factset, Wakemate, drip.fm, and Swiftstack, among others. Currently represented by http://www.10xmanagement.com

For more info see our page at http://turbines.io, or talk to us at hn@turbines.io
So, what is the tree and what is the fruit? What events are being described through the allegory? Who were the real people, and what concrete actions did they perform to gain knowledge, and what knowledge was that? What evidence justifies the answer?
How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821493.
Another article about this in English: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822642
Evergage | http://evergage.com | Somerville/Cambridge/Boston, MA | Full Time | ONSITE

We power real-time personalization and recommendations through deep behavior analytics, on site and in app. Work with huge data volumes and build user friendly editing tools, machine learning and statistical analysis. Keep it all running 24/7 and responding in < 20ms.

Hiring: developers (web and backend), data science, solutions engineers, support lead and dev ops

Tech: Angular, Spark, ElasticSearch, Mongo, Java

http://www.evergage.com/careers/

Thanks! (Greg - CTO)
If you can reliably beat Vegas, why not put real money into it and make lots of money?
Opinion piece dated August 31, 2012.
One of the curious things about clean layers of abstraction is how often they're counterproductive in practice.
Applied. Hoping for an interview. Really keen on working at CloudFlare.
* SEEKING WORK
Location: Remote or San Francisco

Full-stack Ruby on Rails / NodeJs developer. Specialize in API design and Single Page Applications.

Previous clients include:

CareerBuider.com, PayPal.com, and Uber.com

Say hello at: kevin.coleman@sparkstart.io

blog: https://kcoleman.me

keyword stuffing: ReactJs, angularjs, android, java, frontend, backend, postgres, mysql, heroku, aws, devops
What the hell lol! That's some stuff I'd expect from Teddy.
Worth noting that this is from 2012, but the opinions and assertions are still interesting. In the 4 years since, though, I wonder if much has changed at all? Either within the Teach for America organization and mission, or within the education system to which they cater?
I'll try to check it out. Thanks.
FFmpeg would seem to already have this: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavformat/a...
Advanced Outlier Detection in R
CLVmetrics |Full Stack Engineer - Early Employee | Philadelphia and NYC | Onsite w/ some Remote

CLVmetrics is revolutionizing the way brands understand their customer base and their marketing initiatives by providing every marketer with an instant, accurate prediction of the long term, lifetime value of every customer. Our technology equips marketing professionals with the predictive intelligence they need to quickly and easily discover who their highest value customers will be in the future, retain those customers for the long term, and acquire more customers like them.

Our approach is horizontal and we're taking our fast, accurate, and actionable predictive intelligence engine to companies of all sizes across many verticals. We are revolutionizing how marketers interact with hundreds of millions of customers each and every day. We need you as we are building a world-class team of engineers, data scientists, statisticians, marketers and more to bring this enterprise-grade predictive technology to life.

We are looking for Full Stack Engineers with a passion for dreaming up efficient and scalable cloud-based technologies and then making those dreams into a reality through elegant code. In a sea of open-source technology, you know the right tool for the job and if you haven’t used that tool before, you are eager to master it and add it to your arsenal.

You will be working directly with our statisticians and data scientists to push the boundaries of predictive models for customer lifetime value and consumer behavior in terms of both theory and implementation. As a full stack engineer, you’ll be developing different pieces of the application from our predictive intelligence engine through the user interfaces which companies to discover who will be their most valuable users in the future.

Our stack includes Python, C++, and Javascript and technologies we're currently working with include:

- Apache Mesos

- Apache Spark

- React.js

Please email careers@clvmetrics.com to apply.

Also check out http://www.clvmetrics.com to see more roles we're hiring for including frontend and backend engineers as well as data scientists.
Title changed from "Cory Doctorow on Software Security and the Internet of Things". Submitters: please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, as the site guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "Penelope Trunk [...] She lives on a farm in Wisconsin."

Culture plays a huge part on the perceived value of degrees. On my case I did not do a degree to learn things but mainly to have the right stamp at the right place. You can be sure people will have a look at this part of the CV even with 10 years of experience in the field. This article looks a bit too american-centric.
> Need to focus a form? Download an angular plugin because you're using angular, why would you want to do it natively!

Otherwise known as CBDD -- "Code Bootcamp Driven Design"
SEEKING WORK - Europe, Milan, Remote

Highly scalable distributed system specialist.

I am focusing exclusively on those kind of system, I can cement your final architecture to scale beyond what could be achievable without expertise in the area.

Open to talk via Skype or email: simone [at] mweb [dot] biz

Github: Github.com/siscia
Thanks, I over-analyzed again and I'm way off w.r.t PG!
Prime factorization of 2016
MLG sells “substantially all” assets to Activision Blizzard for $46M
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819330 and marked it off-topic.
Wow, already home brewed too! (OSX users can upgrade with `brew update && brew upgrade elixir` and it just magically works -- because awesome people have made it so)

What a great way to ring the new year!
Happy New Year everyone!
Looks like iOS Developer is no longer available.
>The major difference is money being used to lead people, set policy, do advocacy, etc...

Spending money on advocacy doesn't do anything except try to convince people. People don't need to be protected from bad opinions. They're perfectly capable of sorting it out for themselves. There are people spending billions of dollars to advance all sorts of political ideas. Most of them will fail. At the end of the day, the ballot box is where the final power lies.

There are many donors on the left that are engaging in the same kind of advocacy as the Koch brothers and other donors are on the right. If you think that your views are underrepresented, get involved. You don't even need to donate a single cent to make an impact. All of these organizations are hungry for volunteers.

>We can't, for example, make a reasonable, "don't be an asshole" type of law. But we can hold assholes accountable through speech in the hopes that they will reconsider being assholes, though they don't really have to do that.

Anonymity is not just the for the rich and powerful, you can see it in force on the internet everyday. Have you seen the politics section of Reddit? A lot of vitriolic and inaccurate things about conservatives and the right (and the left too, in many cases) are said behind the veil of anonymity. Things that people would not dare say on-the-record. There's equally hateful things coming out of some conservative web forums. Should we ban anonymous comments online?

>Many of us are not impressed with the outcome. How do we hold these anonymous forces acting through multiple corporate proxies to account for their negative influence on how we live, work, play, love?

This is the crux of it. Some people don't like the outcomes of American politics, and so they want to get the upper hand by neutering the freedom of those that they disagree with.

You should change your focus to winning in the realm of ideas, not censorship or intimidation. If your ideas can't win on their merits alone, then maybe they don't deserve to.
Why isn't there a medium alternative to all this bloat? Do blogs or articles really need anything more than a pastebin-esque website for rendering markdown?

Sure it might not make much money without ads, but it would be cheap to host.
The piece given here is how she would look at a CV of that pattern - and as far as it goes that's fair enough. Personally if I see you with a four to eight year gap on your CV my first question, assuming I'm hiring for a significant role and your CV is strong in other respects, is going to be 'So, what did you do during those years?' I'm not just going to assume you were working small jobs to support yourself, I'm going to be thinking 'Were they working small jobs? If so why didn't anyone there hire them full time? Were they in prison? Were they a trouble employee?'

Certain parts of the recruitment and interviewing process are effectively black boxes. You can guess at things that HR/hiring managers want - experience and achievements related to the role they're looking to fill, relevant qualifications - and there are some cultural things, (you wouldn't put a picture of yourself on a CV in this country for instance,) but beyond that it's a very muddy game. There's limited advice on that front - though my personal take is that it would be a great shame not to be hired because you've not given the best account of yourself. Or, perhaps worse, to be hired because you've given someone the wrong impression of yourself (assuming you're not desperate for the money of course) and end up in a role that's going to make you miserable.
Even better, p-values should not be used at all. If I have data in hand, I want to use it to find out the probability that my hypothesis is true. But p-value analysis requires me to instead ask a different question that I don't really care about, involving whether my data are consistent with the null hypothesis.

Everything is just so much more sensible if you allow yourself to assign probabilities to hypotheses, rather than assuming a hypothesis from the outset and computing opaque statistics relating to your data.
Uber ATC (Advanced Technology Center) | Pittsburgh, PA | Full-time | Onsite

Uber ATC (http://www.uberatc.com/) is committed to work at the cutting edge in mapping, safety, and autonomy. Come help shape the future of transportation with us!

We are hiring across the board! Positions include Machine Learning Specialists, Data Scientists, Full Stack Engineers, Python/C++ Engineers, Dev Tools and Infrastructure, Perception, Localization, Motion Planning, Radar, Video and Compression, Network Engineering and many more that you can find here https://careers-uber.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeywor...

Feel free to email me at achao@uber.com with your resume, the position(s) you are interested in, and a few sentences of why you'd be #superpumped to join our team!
Is there research on codde validation when your interesting code is 100MB of numeric parameters that tune an otherwise trivial neural net?