skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well funded YC W11 startup is hiring: lead backend engineer
We are looking for a leading backend engineer with experience of building large systems.

About us:

- We love Linux, server clusters, big data, distributed everything,
task queues and network protocols.
- Our favorite gui is ssh/bash, preferably served grey on black.
- We never dragged or dropped anything.
- We are married to C and Python, but all of us see other
languages.
- We use Python, Flask, Fabric, C, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis
and Nginx.
- We have a hot key for everything.
- We don't serve ads. We have customers and revenue.
- We are 50/50 on vi/emacs and each of us is anxious to get to know
you better. :)
- We don't know what our code/test ratio is.
- We are very competitive and relish in building things more
effectively than others.
- We are not ninjas. We also are not rock stars, although we do
feel that coding is an art.
- We have a squadron of elite Silicon Valley investors behind us.
- We offer competitive salary, relocation and meaningful equity.
- We're based in SF or Bay Area. You can help us decide
exact location!

About you:

- You will have an enormous impact on our product.
And you love it.
- You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker.
- You know who an architecture astronaut is and that's not you.
- You have ideas about how to store and search large amounts
of data efficiently.
- You love UNIX as much as we do.
- You want to learn from us and you have something to teach.
- You're a Python person who also mastered at least one lower
level language: C, C++ or similar.
- You're not afraid of makefiles and you've managed your own
memory on multiple occasions (successfully).
- Off the top of your head, you know the approx. throughput of
the hard drive, network card and L2 cache.
- You feel an unreasonable amount of hatred for other companies
competing against you. :)

Contact email:
'eWN3MTEucHlAZ21haWwuY29t\n'
Thanks :) Hint understood and invite sent ;)
It's a little unrelated, but if you ever need to know the number of seconds in a year, it's pi x 10^7 to within .5%.
This makes me wonder, how many idle computing resources Amazon has on standby. Are there any numbers on this in the public?
Puffy did Montessori and he's doing pretty damn well for himself!

Jay-Z started in the projects and didn't finish high school, and he's doing even better!

Holy crap, I know where I'm sending my kids!
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Which, when you realize that most working musicians make less from their music than they would make doing a full-time minimum wage job, is perhaps even more impressive. Even successful musicians are rarely rich by Silicon Valley standards.
Only if you build it in space.
Dropbox has had competition from the start, but their specific focus was entirely different. Skydrive gave an enourmous amount of space for free. Dropbox made it easy to insure that your files are available anywhere. Even with Windows Live Mesh and 25gb of space, Dropbox is still far superior because of it's focus on "just works" file syncing and access.
I could never have gotten a co-founder. In the first place, I didn't know anyone. I had about zero technical skill, and knew I still had to develop biz dev / marketing skills, so I would have been embarrassed to front myself as a "non-technical founder" with a great idea.

After several years of learning the tools, I have more to offer, and I'm much more prepared to evaluate a potential co-founder. But that's only because I HAVE been doing it alone.
Apple, anyone? Although they aren't a startup, the fact that they are hush-hush until the product launches is good enough (for me) to at least consider stealth mode.
I'm in.

But, I think the culture is fundamentally different and must be treated as such. I wish I had more to say on the matter but I'd have to think about it some more. All I'm thinking is that we can't just move the valley to the city because the city is already very established.
I see; perhaps someone should collect this stuff. :)
This comment is so absurdly wrong and offensive I had to read it several times fearing I was missing some sarcasm or satire. I'm sure you didn't mean it as such, so here is some information from someone who went to school in the midwest.

Schools in the midwest do not focus on "skills associated with living on a farm". Even in agriculture-centric Iowa farm labor is about 8% of the population, the other 92% of people are employed in offices/stores/factories/etc. For comparison, 5% of workers in California are employed as farm laborers for some part of the year.

The schools entire focus is on university preparation (often to a fault, many students would probably be better suited by a more vocational focus). No public school is teaching anyone to read the bible, and to my knowledge private Catholic or other religious schools are no more common in the midwest than in New York or California.

Ignorant stereotypes based on state/region are just as foolish as any other ignorant stereotype.
Examine this carefully and the answer will become clear: http://www.desu.edu/curriculum-bachelors-degree-broadcast-jo...

(In fact quite a lot becomes clear.)

You can do your own search for "journalism curriculum degree" if you want more corroboration.
first, you should read the post where this quote was taken from [http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/marketing.html]. i specifically addressed the zynga situation.

second, zynga didn't start by buying users. they got their first 10mm users (or something like that) from free distribution on the facebook platform before facebook starting clamping down on that
I'm not sure the different companies that Dropbox may ultimately kill would agree that competition doesn't matter.

In a large complex market with enough differentiation there can be many new varied startups all of whom thrive. When several companies go after the same well defined space and one is better then most of the rest will suffocate e.g. Google v. other search engines.

What this article really says is "competition doesn't matter if you're the winner" which is sort of true but not very informative.
If someone wants to inch in on dropbox's territory they could allow users to store their data where they choose - eg. their own server, friend code, or another computer with the same account anywhere on the net.
Get the first edition for $3.82:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0262192500/ref=tmm_hr...

...I got mine for like $2, and I've been very happy with it.
If the App store approval process didn't catch a friggin tethering app disguised as a flashlight app, it seems highly unlikely it's gonna be any barrier to malware.
Why'd I get down-voted for this?
Postdocs nowadays tend to make something on the order of $50K (as compared to maybe $25K for a grad student). It's not big face money, but it's a big step up from grad student life.
I would add, just because it wasn't specifically said --

6) Get a GitHub account

7) Check something in. It doesn't have to be brilliant. I've made friends on some of the dumbest projects, with some of my poorest code.

8) Fork somebody else's project, contribute back a change, or a bug fix, or something.
> I was shocked when I first set foot in an American classroom in 6th grade - they were learning "longhand" division, something I did in grade 2.

I attended an American public school in the suburbs of New York 20-some years ago, and I very clearly remember learning long division in second grade. I remember it because I missed that day, and the teacher told me to learn it from a friend, which didn't work out so well.

The real trouble with public education in the US is that funding is almost entirely a function of where the school is located. Schools in wealthier neighborhoods will generally be good, and schools is poor neighborhoods will be awful. It's an absurd system.
say it will post an article about itself. Or a bunch of trolling comments. Lets hope for the former.
How do you find out if your startup is selected or not?
Hello,

Just wondering how does YCombinator team notifies you if your star-tup has been selected or not?

Thanks,
This says in limitations: "Android callable wrappers are needed any time the Android runtime needs to invoke managed code. Android callable wrappers are generated at compile time by the monodroid.exe tool, based on static analysis of IL. The net result of this: you cannot use dynamic languages (IronPython, IronRuby, etc.) in any scenario where subclassing of Java types is required (including indirect subclassing), as there's no way of extracting these dynamic types at compile time to generate the necessary Android callable wrappers."
stuffing review sites with non-good-faith-reviews it harmless, even though it contravenes the expectation that a reviewer represents a single entity who has actually attempted to consume the book

I don't agree the the reviews are not "in good faith". It is wrong to write a review of a $100 Monster cable pointing out that no matter how well it works, it's a ripoff when a $10 cable is functionally identical? This is the same idea: the reviewers are expressing their opinion about whether the product is worth the asking price. Their criteria for evaluation is different from yours; that doesn't make it vandalism or coercion or a DDOS.
Ask HN: Thinking of leaving my startup
The situation: I'm currently working for a startup, $startup, in which I have a small, but nontrivial amount of stock (~ 1%, of which 40% is vested). I work for their Indian subsidiary, but have been wanting to move to California for a while now. I have recently got a pretty good offer from a large company, $co, in the Bay Area.

The dilemma:
- $co is somewhere I've always wanted to work at. I know that I will definitely enjoy both the work and the environment a lot more than I do in my current position.

- When $startup heard I was leaving, they offered to move me to their California office immediately, match and exceed $co's offer. This in and of itself would not get me to stay (they've been underpaying me and dragging their feet over my transfer, and the work environment is pretty bad), but

- The founder is doing his best to convince me that we have a significant probability of being acquired within the next 12 months, at which point having walked away from my unvested stock will prove to be a huge mistake, essentially throwing away my last 5 years of 60+ hour weeks. Particularly since I vest fully on acquisition, I could in theory stay the year at no real financial loss, and then go look for another job whatever happens.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who've been in a similar situation (though all advice is of course welcome). On the one hand, if I turn $co down, I might or might not ever get an offer from them again. In terms of my long-term career goals, they're definitely somewhere I'd love to work at. On the other hand, if we really are within a year of being acquired (and this is not a combination of optimism and salesmanship), the stock value represents more money than I'd make in the next decade. On the gripping hand, this is castles in the air, weighed against what is essentially a dream job.

So, thoughts? Advice? War stories?
Funny how we always want more when we're given something. I'd like to see what the add-ons do to page loads and also the same for Chrome.
The speed of the interconnect really matters for most supercomputer problems. Without knowing the characteristics of that interconnect I would be hesitant to call 10,000 machines at Amazon a supercomputer.
Complete searchable list of modules: http://search.npmjs.org/

Partial list: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules

All easily installable via

npm install express

and in yourscript.js:

require('express')

Edit: Isaac Schlueter is currently working on getting tests of the modules to show up in search.npmjs.org (to see which modules are good).
Can't top this advice.
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I think the interest stays longer once you start playing with mine cart boosting and killing mobs with logic-gate contraptions. Then it turns the game into you against the game instead of the enemies in the game - an extremely open-ended, creativity-driven style of play.
"but I still won't pay"

I find this position absolutely fascinating. It sounds like you are a fan of hers. Why won't you pay? Is it a protest of sorts?
This has been my experience learning to program the iPhone. A few hours reading "Objective-C Phrasebook" by David Chisnall got me enough Objective-C to be comfortable with the syntax and understand some basic patterns. It took weeks of reading and experimenting before I felt like I wasn't cargo-culting the framework parts.
Something You’ll Love: Wallpaper Patterns, Borders and Icons
Wallflowers (£11.00) feature 26 unique hand drawn wallpaper tiles and their accompanying icons for standalone use. These dingbats can be used as icons, borders, and/or wallpaper patterns. They are very easy to use, for borders or wallpaper, simply type the same letter consecutively and voila! The pattern will emerge. Refer to the Users Guide in the Gallery and included with your download for further instruction and to view the patterns included.
Generally, founders work for free for some period of time. If the company is funded or profitable, calling a new person a "founder" seems kinda odd.

With some companies, that first employee can be a bit of a hybrid (taking a crappy salary and a non-trivial bit of equity).
DO NOT do full time homeschooling, my mom tried it with me for grades 2 and 3 (as we were moving around) and the results were horrible socially. Do a private school.
Most likely they need that much storage to hold user-uploaded videos as part of a revamped cloud service. Users can create a lot of data very easily using the cameras on their iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads.
Competition sometimes does matter. Proof: what if your competition were Dropbox?
The weird thing about the design shown is that it really doesn't look particularly strong. Is that a glass bubble cockpit?

A traditional submarine is a huge steel cylinder. I thought there was a good reason for that.
I would say so...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12909071
I grew up in North Dakota and haven't found anyone who was "proud" of not knowing about the rest of the world. In a lot of circles it is a point of pride to know a whole lot about where your ancestors came from. I find the generalization particularly insulting and mostly untrue.
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>We weren't taught the alphabet until the age of about 6-7

My daughter is 1.5 years old and knows almost all of the alphabet. Is this a good thing or bad thing?
I'm sorry but you're really not (a) paranoid enough and (b) thinking defensively (c) accepting the reality that users will make poor security decisions (d) recognizing that a service should do everything in their power to mitigate threats to their customers. Yodlee does a good job in many areas (security questions, special phrases and images, secondary password prompt for "riskier" operations) but still falls short here.

I realize that my credentials need to be efficiently convertible to plaintext at runtime within their service. They still shouldn't be stored in plaintext (it shouldn't be easy for engineering and operations staff to see my bank password by just looking at a database dump) though. In any case, I took the leap of faith that I trust Yodlee to keep my bank credentials secret when I signed up for their service in the first place. This is not what I was talking about.

I realize they force you to enter your password first. This is good but doesn't mitigate the threat I had in mind in the first place. It's Yodlee's responsibility to minimize the risk their service poses to their customers. Unless they can be 100% sure that the person signing in with my Yodlee credentials actually is me they need to consider the implications if it's not. Off the top of my head here are two obvious situations where Yodlee's "display plaintext password" feature puts users at higher risk:

1. User accesses Yodlee from a computer (maybe theirs, maybe their friend's, maybe a public terminal) which has a keylogger installed on it.

2. User is not security-conscious and doesn't realize the implications of this feature. Thinking Yodlee is read-only (like most other competing services) they use a weaker password than they should or even use the same password for Yodlee as on other sites. They shouldn't but it's a fact of life that they do.

In both cases the attacker can get the user's Yodlee password and then all of their bank passwords. They steal all of the user's money. Banks are generally willing to play ball and cover users for their losses if their account at that bank is hacked. Will they step up in the same way if they're hacked via Yodlee? I'm inclined to believe the answer is no. I don't even know if the bank should be expected to.

When choosing whether or not to build a feature, you need to consider whether its benefits outweigh its risks.

Trusting Yodlee with my bank credentials to aggregate financial data is a risk but doing so is the entire basis for their service and provides me with a huge amount of value. It enables scenarios which are otherwise completely impossible.

This "show plaintext password" feature is a small convenience which doesn't enable any new scenarios and has some pretty significant risks.

EDIT: I'm aware of the auto-login feature but didn't bring it up because it's almost the same as displaying plaintext passwords. Practically speaking it's a tiny bit less bad because an attacker can't directly view the password and use it on other services (assuming again that users make poor decisions and use the same password everywhere). Either way I think both should be gone.
Seeing the author immediately increased my expectations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientist...
Thats really fast. Can it be result of many hours shooter computer games practice? Newly wired fast path for pressing button.

Edit: just run some reaction tests with about 0.25 avg. I see, ie. mentally identify, the signal at ~1/5 - 1/10th of that time. The rest of the time is material muscle reaction and actual mouse button movement down. So, with hand trained for the movement (my fingers can't even take a simple accord on guitar - compare to virtuosos playing musical instruments ) and good quick button i see how it can be down to ~50ms at least.
Waiting for the Motivation Fairy
Proof for the curious: http://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+seconds+in+a+year+d...
AI doesn't imply Singularity. Self-improving AI implies Singularity. It's totally possible to have e.g. a neuromorphic AI of roughly human intelligence that doesn't cause an intelligence explosion.
> Systems should be simple and consistent as much as possible

CAP theorem says otherwise.

Distributed systems are complicated, almost like reality. You can feel the constraints of physics and math everywhere. You simply cannot get the best of all worlds (e.g., consistency, availability, and partition tolerance). If you have the money and need the scale, which often go hand in hand, you're simply better off avoiding hard consistency models, because the other two are more important to your business.

I love their approach. It's exactly what I think people should do to scale up their system. Avoid two-phase commits and other elegant availability mine fields and go for pragmatism. Note that this is only relevant for a few dozen companies.
"Montessori education may or may not have advantages. But unless you control for educational background and income of the family, your analysis has a problem."

This WAS controlled for. Correct analysis WAS done, peer reviewed, and published.

It's a shame this is so highly upvoted. Pointing out that correlation does not equal causation is the very first most obvious criticism to make of a finding, but don't sail in with that criticism until you've made sure that causation wasn't actually suggested by legitimate research.
Well it's essentially the same problem for actions. The dream appeals to many, but the work is only available for a smaller number. The result is a lot of struggling actors competing for the same work. The same goes for the vast array of courses in translation, film-making, forensic science, creative writing, game design or any number of appealing careers. There are always going to be more people wanting to do these jobs than there are positions available and educational institutions have no problem taking their money.
The phrasing is new to me too. But it seemed to boil down to a circuitous way of saying "subconscious filter".

Something I'd imagine many married couples are all-too-familiar with.
The problem in HPC is less often pure CPU horsepower though, it is often cache or memory bandwidth, or in the interconnects.

I guess you might be able to build a system in the cloud to provide TOP500 level of performance, but it would be pretty hard even with the fancy EC2 HPC instances (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/).
They say in the article the algorithm is "embarrassingly parallel", so then it's okay.

But you're right, if there are any interdependencies then the interconnect becomes important.
Very good and very pragmatic overview of NoSQL here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Enterprise-NoSQL
I don't recall Drew ever calling it a GDrive killer, in the couple conversations I had with him about Dropbox. And, GDrive was a hypothetical product at the time, and still mostly a hypothetical product today. I'm guessing they were probably considering the impact a Google competitor would have on their product, just like they probably considered the impact Apple, Microsoft, and others would have. But, I don't think they were designing based on what they thought the big guys would make.
In case someone's interested in why this doesn't tell us much about what's so ridiculously mysterious about consciousness and subjectivity:

http://consc.net/chalmers/ [David Chalmer's website]

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/nagel_nice.html [Classic paper by Thomas Nagel]
I just thought it was to provide daycare en masse so that women can work.
>they don't want to "get it wrong"

I, thankfully, realized this pretty early on, with help from my siblings. Collectively, we quit caring about gold stars, and started to actually learn. IMO, the main problem is that we're taught that it's bad to be wrong, and not good enough to try to outweigh the risks if you're not already fluent in the area. Success is essentially all that's valued at both an educational and social level, which entirely ignores the value of actually learning something, improving your future attempts.

tl;dr: "Win or go home" is killing our minds.
Yep- and rounding g to 10 m/s^2 when there's no pi involved- so you can actually talk conversationally about free-fall because you can then do the math in your head.
I am not clear how the online qualifier differs, but they ran a portion of this for hackerspaces. I'm involved with i3Detroit and while I didn't contibute to this RedBull challenge, I had a lot of fun watching other members crack the challenge.

Details; http://www.i3detroit.com/taking-the-red-bull-by-the-horns-ac...

I'm sure whatever the online challenge is would be significantly different. I doubt RedBull would be sending puzzle boxes to all participants.
Where do you draw your strengths from?