skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend)

Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

Among other things, we're looking for highly talented full-stack web developers. On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and React today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

We're a rapidly growing startup (you'd be #36), well funded ($18M: Google Ventures, IA Ventures, Data Collective, AME Cloud, Founders Fund) and have customers at places like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people.

https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/

If there isn't an opening listed for your specific background, don't get discouraged, just apply to the thing that's closest or send us an email - we're always looking for truly exceptional people in whatever role.
Only supply and demand explains prices.

Density is necessary to build more supply in the same area. Unless you have a plan to level mountains and use the rock to fill the bay, they aren't making any more land area.

That's why density is the alternative to crazy impossible housing prices.
Post author and co-founder of SigOpt (YC W15) here. Thanks for all the great questions and comments, I'll be around all day answering questions. Feel free to ask anything about the post or what we do at SigOpt (or how).

All of the code can be found here: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples

More about how SigOpt works here: https://sigopt.com/research

Other discussions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3yy0vp/usi...

and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819170
Is it reversible though?
My impression is that Mr. Hanson knocks a lot of things in hopes of finding someone to argue with...and here I am knocking. On the other hand, I think Mr. Hickey is insightful about many things, yet perhaps inconsistently, I still believe that code is potentially the most precise way of describing information.
Ads, uh, find a way.
CrowdJustice.org - London, UK - Junior Dev and Tech Lead roles - Full-time

We are a tech-for-good for-profit helping communities fund access to justice. Think Kickstarter for court cases - or Change.org with hard legal outcomes - we've funded cases ranging from Supreme Court interventions to local communities trying to prevent developers destroying their green spaces. Our MVP has raised nearly $400k for exciting cases from a standing start in a few months and we are building a team to grow nationally in the UK and internationally.

What that means on the product front is developing a world class webapp (mainly written in Django) that has huge scope for helping users interface with cases, social issues and other donors. Engineers with a keen interest in user funnels and metrics (&, um, social justice) please get in touch! https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/jobs or email julia@crowdjustice.co.uk
> No Available: from February till April 2015

2015?
Spotify's ".file" has been a tough one to crack.
front page right now... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822244
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Remote possible (preferred).

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Happy New Year from India
High Speed Computing Devices (1950) [pdf]
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We're looking for a Linux System Engineer to help maintain our Linux servers and VMs, perform deployments of our production applications, and diagnose and fix problems. If you have software development experience as well, we'll also find a way to put that to good use.

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I do agree that the original Times new roman font sucks but I don't understand why floating content in the middle with huge margins on both sides with huge fonts makes it a good design. Maybe its my personal preference to actually utilize my big ass macbook screen instead of having to page through 1 page of content
> My boss screaming about my chin hair would cripple my output

Mine too, because I'd vanish. I did the military, and nobody anywhere gets to treat me that way.

And hey, managers and leads reading this, you should always remember that every one of your people are volunteers.
Not exactly :).

If we think a programming language as a person, its syntax layer is like the person's look. The person will have a look even without any clothes but the clothes can change his look (syntax matters).

JVM is more like the person's bones (and muscles and other essentials beneath his skin) and Java and Clojure etc. are more like different persons with the same bone structure. Java is a programming language, JVM is not, and the meta-layer I was referring is more like clothes that we can put on the persons.
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Is Virtual Reality about to become huge in 2016?
Have you tried it already?
How to set business goals for the new year
I believe you're talking about "Axel Springer AG" (the publisher of "Bild" that loves to fight against AdBlockers). The free books are from "Springer Science+Business Media", a completely different company.

http://www.springer.com/us/about-springer/company-informatio...
Packt Publishing has great books to jump start on many technologies. The books are written by programmers, for programmers. They have a library subscription that I use.

https://www.packtpub.com/
Vegas always gets their cut as you point out. You need to reliably win 52.5% of the time to beat the bet $110 to win $100 edge.

In general, betting schemes tend to stop working in the long term, but can have large gains in the short term [1]. We created this example to encourage people to think about model tuning in the applications where they are domain experts and how it could benefit them (and hopefully the world in return).

[1]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fantasy-sports-wizards-winning...
Did I say that Ruby on Rails was the only option?

On the other hand, if a developer cannot figure out Ruby on Rails (or Sinatra, or Django, or Flask, or any of the PHP frameworks), and does not even know SQL, do they really have any business doing server-side web development?

Knowing JavaScript and one server-side web app framework/language is a pretty minimal requirement for a full-stack web developer. It boggles my mind to think that there are people working as professional developers that literally only know JavaScript. Those people should not be doing server-side development.
This is interesting. Anyone want to be sponsored to flesh this out and build it?
Path Forward
That's the whole point of the parent article. People are really good at figuring out what the real metrics are (even when management says otherwise), by simply observing what gets rewarded and what doesn't.
It's a heavy accusation to say that "police are racist and violent". Maybe it's true, and generalizing all police as "racist and violent" is an acceptable thing to say because it's a systemic issue.

I understand that the choice of headline was in part motivated by maximizing clicks, but if I were a cop I probably would be repulsed by this headline. This made me stop and think for a bit.

About cultural criticism: I'm reminded that accusations like "the Japanese are xenophobic", or "The Chinese are rude" are OK (if said delicately) because these are criticisms of culture, not race (wait... are these the same?).

It seems taboo though, to make sweeping generalizations of some other cultures, in particular minorities. Is this because of a lack of "fairness", or that cultural majorities are far more prone to reductive stereotyping? I'd be interested to hear HN's thoughts on this.

Anyway, appointing a special, third-party prosecutor to excessive force cases is an excellent idea. I liked what the article had to say.
> The insurance companies will never insure at an acceptable cost point a car that cannot yield control to its passenger that is the designated driver.

We insure medical devices, satellites, soldiers lives and many other more complicated and important things. The insurance industry will figure out how to collect payment for automated cars as well.

> Also, passenger will want the reassurance that at any point they can take over the car and switch it off the auto pilot.

Bus, train, plane, escalator, elevator, moving walkway and wider analogies say otherwise.
I just spent far too long reading both of those links, and I don't see anything there that contradicts anything Randi said in her post.

If someone is regularly and routinely attacked (and all the bullshit about "Randi can't code" / "Randi hasn't contributed" is just obnoxious), it's reasonable for them to be pissed off and get angry. That doesn't somehow negate the fact that they were badly mistreated.

In hindsight, it's telling that people making the above comments are posting links to longreads and not citing anything specific--just seems like more of the misogynistic campaign.
I did the same thing. I'd suggest that a double-tap/click on the cropped area should confirm the crop.. At least that was my first instinct.
Got it. One thing that really bothers me is the name lambda. It seems to be used for something I'm already familiar with and have used plenty before but with the added benefit of obfuscation to make me feel stupid. I wonder if somebody is trying to make themselves feel smarter or I'm just stupid. Anyhow, KISS.
What it says -- you shouldn't be getting paid to work on other projects. This is mostly to keep your head clear and focused. I and a lot of my friends are so burnt out after a day at work that side projects basically never happen. I want to remove this burn-out for someone.
We give a high level overview in footnote #4 of the post, but more detail can be found in the code [1]. We tried to pick a relatively small set of features (and kept those picks constant) in order to isolate the model tuning gains from pure feature selection. You can fork the code and try any other interesting features you think would make it better (there is a ton of data we didn't have the chance to look at).

[1]: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples/blob/master/sigopt...
Word 97 ran and opened faster on my old Pentium Windows 95 machine than Word 07 runs on my i5 Windows 7 machine. New features are great, but there is sluggishness and its unacceptable on modern hardware.
I would love to get the beta key.
For those interested in the old Burroughs stuff, the folks at Unisys have announced a hobbyist program for the ClearPath MCP Express systems:

http://www.unisys.com/offerings/high-end-servers/clearpath-f...
For a lot of companies, it's important to signal that they're even thinking about something. Like whether a new hire feels like they've contributed anything during the onboarding period.
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With the supposedly error prone whitespace syntax, the following code would generate an unreachable code warning instead of causing CVE-2014-1266.

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
goto fail;

IMHO if the indentation of the code does not match the brace structure, that is highly suspicious and often very difficult to spot by manual code review, so it should not compile without any warning or error, but I'm not aware of any C-style syntax language implementation that does that.
Shields Down
Maybe it's a good time to say a little bit about this project.

I started it because I was unhappy with the existing documentation. Most resources were mainly for 32-bit and there was hardly any documentation about Rust OS development. One day I decided to do a clean rewrite of my experimental rust kernel and had to look up all the required information again (since I had forgotten the details). So I decided to create the missing documentation myself and write some tutorials about booting a Rust kernel.

I wrote the first posts over the summer and it was kind of fun. I never wrote a blog post before and English is not my native language, so it was pretty challenging. I spent a lot of time rewriting and improving them until I was more or less satisfied. Eventually I had the guts to post it in the rust subreddit. I never expected that it would be useful for many people (who would want to write an OS in Rust?), but it totally took off. Someone posted it on hacker news and it even was the top post for a short time. I was completely stunned :D.

I really love writing these posts. It takes much time but it's a great way to really understand the code since you need to explain every detail. It also helps to make the code as simple and straightforward as possible.

I still don't know where this will lead. But I will keep on writing as long as people want to read it :). For the short term the plan is to explore interrupts and to add keyboard support. After that, I'm open to new ideas :).
I was thinking, without videos, classes are mostly test-suite based gamification.
Great idea! You could reuse most of the code [1] to give this a shot. In future posts we may extend this to other sports as well.

[1]: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples
Location: London

Developer. Looking to ship v1.0 for early stage startups, recently helped BLOCKS ($1.5m Kickstater), SQR Systems (video, defence, cybersecurity), etc

See also : https://www.linkedin.com/in/pybaccou
https://github.com/pyb

Freelance, or permanent if genuine need.
Facebook responds on Free Basics, with a challenge to a duel. (Umm, I accept.)
As a C++ programmer, I would absolutely never write that code using STL's bullshit. The for loop is

* shorter

* easier to write

* faster to compile

* way faster to execute in a debug build
So, we'll move everyone into the cities, where infrastructure is also going to hell because of vast unfunded pension obligations then?

Unconvinced this is a special "suburb problem". Urbanists would be ill-advised to get to triumphalist about how they don't have an unfunded obligation problem until they're sure they don't.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/pybaccou

https://github.com/pyb
> With enough clever use of CSS :before/:after styles to insert whatever you like on the page, you can "build" a structure around some REST "State" that was "Represented" during the "Transfer" as completely unstructured markup. That's what you should be seeing as the result of letting a browser do content-negotiation directly with a RESTful API server.

CSS is likely to be too limited for that; often the layout you want to have means the DOM elements need to ordered and nested in ways that don't actually make sense for your data. What I've seen actually working was XSLT stylesheets. Of course, that has its own issues with bloat, and forces XML for data transmission. (The context I saw it in was a RSS feed, a few years ago.)
You can be text based learning without being a text book.

I'd like to see less emphasis on Video learning, because it definitely has it's limits. Even if a teacher is good at it, through years of experience.

Not saying I don't like them per-se, but they don't seem to stick for me.
The Popularity of Perl in 2015
Some of these positions look very interesting! Can you also share whether the Pittsburgh office has private office space, or if it is open-plan office layout only?
Twitter to re-allow Politiwoops
The technologist, specifically the software developer (ie.. the typical HN reader) seems to often be a non-conformist, even contrarian. Why do you think that is? Cause we think we're smarter than everyone else, is my theory!
We're also really passionate about building optimization platforms vs betting schemes. We believe in the long term we can have a better positive impact on the world by helping every expert cut the trial and error out of their workflow (like the time consuming and expensive step of parameter tuning machine learning models).
"We use a great service called Mailgun to send our emails. As part of this, they rewrite our URLs to enable click-tracking."

It's fun to read about spammers suffering.
hey, you're missing a link / email addres!
I think most things that are not manual labor should be more qualitative though.
> However, real-world files didn’t seem to match a lot of the document which was odd. All of this was buried in the small-print of course: “the core technology behind the GoPro CineForm Codec has been standardized [sic]”. So in reality existing files were not decodable by a VC-5 decoder.

This is why open source is often so much better than open standards (though the latter the was used to help create the former, in this case).

Huge kudos to the author for doing this work, as well as explaining the process.
Great points. This was just a cool demonstration of the underlying technology hoping to inspire people to use it on their models in domains other than prop betting. Potentially it could help those sharks already swimming in these pools, but our goal is to help every expert in every field make better models.
Why Node.js Beats Java and .Net for Web, Mobile, and IoT Apps
When a large lithium battery (car, Powerwall) combusts, what area is contaminated with hydrogen fluoride? Since its a gas (unless dissolved in water) would it dissipate without trace or leave behind toxic residue ?
Great points. Stay tuned for a post sometime soon where we do something similar with Wall Street, where you can build hedging and adversarial trades into the model itself.
I've been at a loss as to where to ask this question, so maybe HN will come through. Are there any sheriffs/prosecutors/cities doing innovative work to improve our justice system? I would think there must be someone out there doing brave and smart work within the system to achieve better justice.

Unfortunately, I don't hear much from anyone like that. Instead it's appalling quotes from the prosecutor in the Tamir Rice case (we don't second-guess police) and the "Making of a Murderer" series (we should have locked him up before the crime) and on and on.
I'd be curious to hear some criticism, negative experiences, downsides from people with deeper experience. This thread is 100% positivity and praise, which is highly unusual for HN (New Year's afterglow??)

To be clear, my occasional dabbling in Elixir has yet to reveal any major shortcomings so this isn't an elephant in the room kind of situation, just a genuine request from people whose thoughtful opinions I generally appreciate.
See also the hypothetical Island of Stability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Happy new year from Madrid!
According to the articles these things don't enter the justice system at all - they're "handled" locally by the police force itself.

Even though, I might not understand clearly just how justice system and police force are separated in US, anyone care to enlighten me?