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Learning Equality - https://learningequality.org/ - San Diego, CA -- Onsite | Full-time

# Who we are

We're a nonprofit startup that builds and supports open-source educational software for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We believe in the transformative power of learning, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down barriers preventing people from reaching their full potential.

We started 4 years ago with KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline-installable platform bundling Khan Academy content and our own student tracking tools. KA Lite has already been used in over 175 countries and territories.

We're now in the midst of developing a new platform, Kolibri (https://learningequality.org/kolibri/), that will empower users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, in both online and offline environments. We're building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.

# Who you are

You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values.

You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve the needs of a diverse set of users.

# Positions

Frontend Web Developer: You have solid experience with web development using HTML5, JavaScript, modern JS frameworks (we use Vue.js), and CSS with pre-processors. You love building beautiful interfaces and collaborating with the UX team.

Python Developer / DevOps: You have skills and experience working with Python, in a variety of contexts. We use Django for the backend of Kolibri, and also leverage Python for automation of business processes, API/web scraping for pulling in new content, media processing/computer vision, and data analysis/machine learning.

Additional _non-dev_ positions (Implementation/Partnerships and Content Managers) to be posted later this week.

# Benefits

- Salary at the same levels as other core team members

- Retirement plan with matching employer contributions

- Full health care, dental, and vision insurance

- Education fund to support ongoing professional development

- Flexible and generous vacation policy and work schedule

- Well-stocked, bottomless cabinet filled with snacks and Guayaki

- Working in sunny San Diego (coverage of basic relocation costs, if needed)

# Read more and apply

https://learningequality.org/about/jobs/
The people who own said newly printed dollars aren't the people holding the national debt. The Federal Reserve is not the US Government.
I've seen more and more little A.I.-generated ditties like this recently and their reception tends to be the same: that they're interesting and funny but don't sound that great.

The output would probably be more compelling if A.I. were adopted more as an instrument by individual artists/composers to automate some of their more tedious tasks by learning their own particular styles rather than a magical music box that churns out top hits.
Why AngelList? Not sure if this is right alignment
It doesn't make sense at all. I use Product Hunt to find what is new and awesome product coming up?
I wrote an article explaining how ptrace works, which may interest you: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/02/29/how-does-strace-...
I wouldn't say content-free, but content-lite. It still covers the basic ideas and tools used, but doesn't go in depth yet.

Disclaimer: The article author was both a lecturer and supervisor to me during my undergraduate degree, but I was in no way involved in the work discussed in the article.
“On the plus side we’ll no longer be homeless and we’l [sic] be able to focus on building what we’re building.”

Does anyone else feel uncomfortable when SF tech workers, in this case a CEO of an acquired startup, talk about homelessness in this way? Trivializing a very real problem to nothing more than a 'headache' or 'distraction' from the greater goal of, I guess, funding more startups?
How Putin, Khamenei and Saudi prince got OPEC deal done
Oakland Court System Software Rollout Nightmare
Peter Thiel's 1517 Fund Is Searching for the next Mark Zuckerberg
"I realized that the guys at the top aren't getting rich from Amyway, they were getting rich from everyone buying tapes, books, and going to these conferences."

I always think it would be nice if people were able to be valued by the value they add, rather than what they can extract for themselves from the system. Not sure how that would work in practice, but it would basically fix capitalism if it was possible, since preying on suckers often seems the easier and faster route to wealth and power.
Can't one simply mirror a Snowmobile to a second Snowmobile prior to transport?
Man, we better put a stop to farmville type games, lest the farmers encounter way too much competition.
Okay, so the monkey produces all he needs for himself. And all he ever needed? That would be 10k bananas for previous monkey education. Monkey may pay them over time.
I am glad you like it
I'm not sacrificing anything. My two big monitors and my IBM Model M keyboard work just great with my laptop, thanks to a docking station.
verizon was meant to be verilog. didn't catch that autocorrect.
I think you need to normalize by population to get a sense for how much, we as a people, are producing.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(industrial+production...

Here the story is that our product has peaked around 2000, and has been doing down ever since.
In the US, I would argue that it is significantly easier to get Nestle chocolate than Zotter chocolate at grocery stores. The amount that the average person cares about the sugar content does not outweigh the extra effort required to acquire Zotter chocolate... Nestle is ubiquitous.
>except for Microsoft's own

It used to be great but I think the last stats I saw showed it at about 50% success rate. ESET is excellent.
At least until said code controls something that involves massive amounts of energy (mechanical or otherwise).

Edit: Btw, stinky chemistry sounds like something right out of Max Gergel's memoirs. A book that Lowe mentioned:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/27/max...

And that i have been meaning to finish reading.
There was also a push to put ads on the player's jerseys. This is already common in sports like football/soccer. It is just visual noise at this point.
Nothing that Nestle is familar with.
I'm also a Charge HR user; I fixed mine with superglue. My dream scenario would be if this merger produced a Pebble 3 with the excellent heart-rate and sleep tracking of the HR.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078124
Given that they're making sugar that dissolves more quickly, how would this have any effect on soda? In which the sugar is already dissolved.
Chimu Trading | Data Platform Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE (Europe only) | €35k-€70k p.a. depending on experience

We are a small startup with the ambition of analysing football (soccer) data in more depth and producing predictions with more precision that anyone else in the world. We are looking for someone to take charge of our data back-end, including ingestion of source data, database administration and delivery to the data science staff.

We based our workflow on Python/Django, PostgreSQL and AWS, so these skills are a must. Full advert here: https://chimutrading.github.io/

The post is available immediately. Please send a short cover letter, a CV and some code samples (ideally a GitHub profile) and we will be in touch. Informal enquiries are also welcome.
"1. Trump will spend, reduce taxes, increase debt, and therefore US interest rates will have to go up.
(This happens whenever a government promises to spend a lot on infrastructure improvements.)"

I have a weird feeling this won't get past the Senate. Yes--we need to repair the infrastructure, and build new public projects. These infrastructure jobs will not be shovel ready jobs. Hugh machines will be doing the work, and the profits going to a select few. I don't think senators will vote for a huge infrasrtructure bill. Maybe a small one?

I have a feeling, unless we mandate, that humans do the work; the repair of the infrastructure will have to wait a few more years.

I work construction. Civil engineering projects do not hire a lot of trades. I cringe when I hear "rebuilding the infrastructure will put Americans back to work." I got a feeling Trump will realize that rebuilding highways is different that putting a buch of trades together to build a hotel.
> spending a couple of years with rust as my primary programming language

Oh, how did you achieve that? :)
Kali Linux 2016 Video Tutorial
> You're making the mistake a lot of people make where you assume if one side is a thing a competing thing must be equally valid.

I am rather a "if there are two different opinions at least one side must be wrong" kind of guy and cannot even imagine how one might come up with a "the truth must be somewhere in the middle". If this were true, it would simply mean that both sides were wrong from beginning on.
As this isn't a zero-sum game, they could also believe the American economy will do badly but other economies will do even worse.
?

That referred to 'big business' at one point, that does not imply my point was entirely about big business.

In fact, it's obviously not.
Appcues | Boston | ONSITE (relocation assisted) | https://appcues.com

Appcues makes B2B software that lets you create and deploy product without writing code. We help growth teams quickly iterate on ideas and scale their businesses without adding the technical debt of temporary code.

You can see our software on the websites of companies like Teespring, Canva, Amplitude, and Indiegogo.

We're a 15-person team helping businesses scale up and grow. We're seeking strong
software engineers to create a product viewed and consumed by hundreds of thousands of people daily. We're looking for both frontend and full-stack engineers, and our stack is React/Redux + Elixir/Phoenix.

We're located in the heart of Fenway, Boston, but looking for excellent candidates regardless of location.

Email pete@appcues.com, and check out our postings on Breezy:

https://appcues.breezy.hr/p/6b9ca5952dd4-full-stack-engineer

https://appcues.breezy.hr/p/cd84559f4941-frontend-engineer
Fun fact: 1517 is the year Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Presumably, college degrees are as worthless as the indulgences sold by the church.
> Can a company really not exist without growth? Or do they just don't want to?

This is the devil's bargain when you take VC money. You basically rule out the "small success" option. VC is a hit-driven business, so they will push you to go big. And neither they nor their LPs (whose money it really is) are in the business of owning small, modestly successful, privately held companies. You need to go public or get acquired by somebody who can provide a return to the LPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Product Manager, Growth

Name: Gary-Yau Chan

Location: NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Specializes: Product Management, Growth Framework, Growth Hacking, Growth Marketing, Growth Experimentations, Content Marketing, Media, SEO

I am a former SaaS startup founder, product developer, product creator, growth hacker, and community manager. I am looking for content marketing or SaaS companies. Love to just solve problems, email me or tweet me @garyyauchan

Also I have participated, and organized in 55+ hackathons.

Blog: https://medium.com/garyyauchan/

Resume: http://garyyauchan.com/resume.pdf
https://github.com/justjavac/ReplaceGoogleCDN
I would like to recommend this plugin (for Chinese users) and reach out an arms for others to help contribute towards it.
raising import tariffs and a strong US dollar may help cancel out the effects

This ignores the reciprocal actions of our trade partners. You can bet that if we raise tariffs on goods from other countries, those countries are going to do likewise to our goods (populism is all the rage everywhere these days). Along with the strong dollar, US goods will be doubly uncompetitive. Export sectors of the US economy will crash.
Google Still Using Legacy HTML in Internal Tools
Reverie Language Technologies | Bangalore, India | Full-Time

$whois
anything that has to digitally touch more than 200M lives in India has to go multilingual(how PayTM had to launch in 8 languages post demonetisation). We build the tech that enables such growth into multilingual audiences. Our Language as a Service platform funnels data for clients like Ola, SnapDeal, HDFC, Practo, Hungama, AbhiBus and so on.

$pwd
looking to hire the first full time dev to start work on our analytics framework. This involves extending the data-infrastructure here and enabling data-driven decision making throughout the org. You'd be working very closely with our data-science team on some of the harder problems on this side of the continent. Our codebase spawns across golang, java, c, python and scala. We deep-learn knowledge graphs on instances with 500GB+ memory. 10M+ strings run through our platform on any given day.

$which
you come in and build systems so that we can programatically and scalably convert this into actionable insights. Can you build systems that understand Internet growth and usage better than most orgs? With data of some of the largest consumer facing clients running through our platform-- you have a shot at this. You're free to use Erlang/Haskell/Scala/R.. when and where you like.

$whoami
inquisitive, data-driven, can wrap your mind around complex problems. As far as the toolkit goes-
- You're familiar with Linux internals, are a advanced command line user.
- You've worked around with sql, nosql and time-series dbs.
- You know your bash and one or more of Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby.
- Great if you understand APIs, data-crawling, web frameworks and AWS.
- Excellent if you've worked with Kafka, ZMQ, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and D3.js libraries.
- Brownie points if you've built backends, designed APIs, worked at distributed systems.

Contact: abhishek.tiwari+hn AT reverieinc.com
At the time I pointed out that this is a dupe the previous submission had been less than an hour earlier, scarcely giving it enough time to get any attention.

But screw that, let's just submit things every 10 minutes until they get upvotes.
Dispatch | http://dispatch.ai/ | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Full-time, onsite

We are Dispatch (dispatch.ai), a well-funded startup that is creating a platform for local delivery powered by a fleet of autonomous vehicles designed for sidewalks and pedestrian spaces.

We're bringing together a team with deep domain expertise in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence. If you're interested in joining us for work on this exciting technology and help create the future of autonomous vehicles, we'd love to hear from you. Roles we are hiring for include:

Software Engineer - Motion Planning and Controls

Software Engineer - Perception

Software Engineer - Mapping and Localization

Software - Generalist

Hardware - Electrical

Hardware - Embedded/Firmware

Contact us at jobs-hackernews@dispatch.ai!

Or apply through our listing on AngelList (https://angel.co/dispatch-6/).
The 4 of 5 Banana Monkey not only owns the Fighter Jet Company but also the Banana Plantation.

Remember context. Full Context is important.
TL;DR is basically the Urbit rallying cry.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Champaign, IL, USA based)

I’m a backend python developer and a computer science student at the University of Illinois (UIUC). I have:

● 4 years experience in Python

● 3 years experience with Flask

● 2 years experience with Django

● Basic experience and knowledge with front end development

I have used both frameworks in professional environments and for side projects, and would love to help you with your project! You can find more information about my experience in my Résumé.

Résumé: http://blog.shroba.io/resume.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisshroba

GitHub: https://github.com/chrisshroba

StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/2874789/christopher-shroba

My email is chrisshroba at gmail. I hope to work with you! :)
And that monkey may actually be using the bananas it withholds from one group to do social good in a much more efficient manner for another group.

Not to condone tax evasion or fraud — I condemn illegal tax evasion — but there are many interesting dimensions to this.
I appreciate your response :)

The real question is why are medical procedures so artificially expensive.

The only thing I would really need medical insurance for is a rare emergency procedure like an appendectomy. Information online says an appendectomy can cost anywhere from $1,500 to $150,000.

Why is there such a deviation? This is how insurance companies make their money.

When we consider that medical insurance in the USA is several hundred dollars per month, $1,500 out of pocket seems completely reasonable.
This is just false. What evidence do you have? HTTP was architected for availability (load balancing across many servers). Also, FTP has two TCP connections per copy, doubling the chance of abrubt termination.

I've moved petabytes over the internet using FTP and HTTP. HTTP wins hands-down.
It's more likely that a greater amount of people use the recipe as-is, instead of halving. My guess is the recipes aren't playing reverse-psychology with cooks.
Pivotal | ONSITE at many locations worldwide | Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Pre/Post-Sales Engineers, Ops, Sales, Admin

Pivotal's goal is to change the way the world makes software and we kinda sorta really mean it.

We value aptitude over alma mater, empathy over a list of APIs. It doesn't matter whether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, empathetic and know some stuff, we want to work with you.

We have many established offices worldwide (pivotal.io/locations) and more coming.

We're broken into three main divisions: Pivotal Labs (yes, that Pivotal Labs), Cloud R&D and Big Data.

-- Pivotal Labs helps clients to become better at product development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile. In practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels.

-- Cloud R&D is where we build the best cloud platform available: We're the majority contributors to the Cloud Foundry project. Our distribution has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product ever and it's still zooming up and to the right.

Except for upstream code, every line is pair programmed and TDD'd. We dogfood the cutting edge of the technology on our own commercial public cloud (Pivotal Web Services). It works because we took the XP and Lean DNA of Pivotal Labs and scaled it up to build the best cloud platform available.

-- Big Data is our suite of battled-hardened products, now open sourced. Greenplum tackles massive datasets with the comfort of PostgreSQL. Apache HAWQ (incubating) brings Greenplum's distributed query planner to Hadoop. Gemfire, donated as Apache Geode (incubating), is an in-memory distributed grid with years of high performance in high-stakes systems.

-- Generally

At our offices we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, excellent benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong isn't mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The NYC beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.

To see our open jobs and apply directly, follow this referral URL: http://grnh.se/xiy346

You can also email me at jchester+hn-dec16@pivotal.io to answer any questions.

Either of these helps me score one of our referral bonsues (did I mention our generous referral scheme?)

I may not be able to reply immediately, as I am just an engineer here. I won't reply to copypasta.
I've found xylitol tastes close enough to sugar, compared to all other sweeteners I've tried.

It does appear to get "dissolved" faster though, I can't really explain.
My wife occasionally buys 100% chocolate. Personally I think it tastes pretty terrible. 90% can be OK, but personally I don't like much over 80-85%
Give me a break.
I don't think anyone who mattered ever argued than an optimizing compiler could or should attempt to turn bad algorithms into good ones.

It seems clear to me that at the present state of tech that Most developers are better at picking algorithms while compilers are better at picking which low level instructions. Clearly there are some exceptions, but things like gotoBLAS are clearly exceptions and not the rule.
Robert Sapolsky, on talk about sexual behavior and aggression. If it is in one of the lectures I suspect, its about 3.5 hrs I would need to go through to give you an exact time stamp.
You are correct. So then why do those same citizens yell at me to pay my taxes, when I am not concerned as they are, and don't want the sub-par and expensive defense services they are providing me :)
[editing as this hilarious yet sad Twitter debate unfolds]

Justin Schuh is the Chrome browser security tech lead*

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166731

April King (GH:marumari) from Mozilla has chimed in agreeing with Justin: "Not speaking for my employer (@mozilla) but AV causes piles of security issues for Firefox."

https://twitter.com/aprilmpls/status/804361653420691456

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Also, Vess really doesn't know his shit if he's arguing with @taviso. Incidentally, in the span of 26 hours and 37 minutes, @taviso also found massive vulns and attack surface in FProt, which Vess has advocated.

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/803714407763062784

https://twitter.com/VessOnSecurity/status/804298404763463680

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OK, I think this is the original Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/799747942441586688

Some intermediary followup:

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/800057733969944577
CSS Grid and Grid Highlighter Now in Firefox Developer Edition
Fieldbook | https://fieldbook.com | San Mateo, CA | Software Engineer | Full time, Onsite, Visa OK

Fieldbook is a new information tool that combines the best of a spreadsheet and a database. We're pursuing a big vision to bring the power of relational modeling to non-technical end users. It's an ambitious project with deep technical challenges—but one that will transform people's relationship with the tools they use every day.

Our four-person team has backgrounds from Amazon, Google, and Facebook. We've raised a total of $2.9M to date from investors including Accomplice VC, Pear VC, Naval Ravikant's AngelList syndicate, Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Steven Sinofsky (ex-Microsoft), Eric Ries (Lean Startup), and John Collison (Stripe).

We were #1 on Product Hunt with over 1500 upvotes: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fieldbook-2

We have a modern tech stack including a continuous deployment pipeline with a full automated regression test suite, so it's always easy to ship code to production.

This is an early-stage opportunity that is perfect for someone who wants to optimize for ownership and impact.

Apply here: https://fieldbook.typeform.com/to/MkjYOJ
Flexport CEO: No matter who is president, we need more trade, not less
> 1. Trump will spend, reduce taxes, increase debt, and therefore US interest rates will have to go up.

Can the FED not just print money and buy all the bonds keeping interest rates low?
Ah, yes, that makes sense, thank you!
I also sleep with my watch for alarm and the sleep tracking!
Take a look at http://en.chinanetcenter.com/pages/technology/g4-speed-test....