skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kaggle
San Francisco
Developer

http://kaggle.theresumator.com/apply/3s1xdU/Developer.html?s...

As a Kaggle developer, you'll be building the platform that helps solve many of the most valuable problems in data science. You'll guide the development of tools that automate the process of setting up a competition, verifying winning models, and integrating those models into our customers' operations. The tools you will develop go the heart of Kaggle's mission and technology offering.

On a typical day, you will:

* use whatever machine and monitors you want.

* write code for our back-end using the latest version of C#, ReSharper, ASP.NET MVC, and Azure. Front-end developers use tools like jQuery, LESS, and often experiment with other tools like backbone.js.

* work on new code and tests in your own git branch.

* Develop and own entirely new features on our site.

* push your code to production (often every day) and see how our users use it

* follow the pulse of what’s happening in our company-wide chat room (today we discussed a cool paper on statistics in baseball)

* discuss new evaluation metrics and other data science-y concepts with the data science team

* participate in and learn from whiteboard sessions on things like how Gradient Boosting Machines work

* optimize pages based on profile stats

* investigate new tools, books, etc, to see if they might help make your development work better. Get whatever tools you need that help: no painfully long corporate approval required

* work with our data science guys to detect and mitigate suspicious activity on the site

* work with our designer on creating new views on the website. He’ll make it look nice so you can focus on functionality in the model and controller. You're also encouraged to make the front-end look great if you like doing that.

* write code for back-end processing such as data analysis and submission scoring
Useful in what sense? Are you _using_ an operating system? What language was that written in? So how useful is it?

NB: I'm taking your comments to apply equally to C as C++, given the prevalence of C in operating systems. If you really would not have said the same thing about C, I retract my comments.
The product pitch sounds great. I really hope you deliver on it :)
Wouldn't a better strategy be a Twilio app that calls voters and informs them that they are registered to vote already?
Here's another data point from Austin:

“Recruiting and retaining great workers is a big part of it, and downtown is where the development and design community wants to work,” said co-founder and CEO Sam Decker. “Startups don’t want the typical Class A, everything carpeted environment. They love character in their office and a place that feels unique. This is an opportunity to have a place where people look forward to coming to work every day just because of that vibe.”

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/aust...
john.smith@startup.com <– The founding team is all from Microsoft and can’t shake it if they tried.

For the longest time, Microsoft email addresses were limited to 8 characters for backwards compatibility with older email systems. They were always of the form "First Name + Last Name initial" with adjustments for duplicates. e.g

billg - Bill Gates
billgr - Bill Gross (made up)
billgi - Bill Gibbons (also made up)

And then as they grew bigger, the system sort of fell apart for common names - I know one of at least 14 Jeff Johnsons that had email names that were impossible to guess correctly!

Of course, 'jeff.johnson@' doesn't work for the 14 identical name case either!
Thanks, much appreciated :)
For being at an elite "best-of-the-best" school, these students sure sound like a bunch of spoiled children. The reasons for cheating seem to vary from "it was a hard course so I had to cheat" to "everyone does it" to "it's an open book test, so we should be allowed to cheat".
Indeed. Glad it's not a Friday!
The paywall has holes punched in it for Google to index the site. Often (not always, depending on cookies) going to an article from a Google search will get you the full text of even paywalled articles.
No. Doctors can't give out patient information under HIPAA, even anonymized information.
Leap Motion – San Francisco, CA – Full time, interns, H1B transfers

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Leap Motion is reinventing the way people interact with computers. We are building a technology that uses a breakthrough mathematical approach to 3D, touch-free motion control software that’s unlike anything that currently exists on the market or in academia. The Leap device senses your individual hand and finger movements independently, and is 200 times more sensitive than existing gesture control technologies on the market today. In case you haven't seen it yet, watch our product demo video: http://leapmotion.com/

OUR CULTURE
We have a collaborative environment where we discuss challenges and ideas openly. Everything from quick design questions, philosophic discussions, to fun ideas for our technology – nothing is off limits. At Leap Motion, you have the utmost creative freedom to work on your passions, and be able to make a significant impact early on. We want our team to think unconventionally, be creative, and find elegant solutions to problems that are yet unsolved. We are an engineering-driven organization; everyone here makes product decisions.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals with diverse backgrounds to fill our engineering, design, and operational roles. Join the core team that will help develop the foundation for innovators to build the future. We are seeking passionate problem-solvers to help us tackle seemingly impossible challenges in the areas of applied math/physics, algorithms, graphics, UI/UX design, machine learning, driver development, circuit/hardware design, photonics, and more.

DESIRED SKILLS & BACKGROUND
• Advanced degree or significant experience in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a related field
• Strong programming skills in C++ preferred; experience with Python, Java, or Matlab also a plus
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Strong background in image processing, computer vision, graphics, or machine learning
• Strong understanding of low-level client-side optimization or GPU programming a plus

BENEFITS & PERKS
• Competitive compensation, great benefits, and generous equity
• Your very own Leap device, and insight into how it works
• Collaborate with friendly, talented people with diverse backgrounds
• Any computer setup and workstation you want
• Lunch catered daily, snacks and drinks stocked according to requests
• Spacious office in SoMa, near Caltrain and BART stations
• Flexible work hours - we care about life-work balance
• Health plan including medical, dental, and vision

HOW TO APPLY
Please visit http://leapmotion.com/jobs.html and find a role that matches your background and skills. Be sure to mention "Hacker News" in the Cover Letter section. We'd love to see what projects you've worked on, and hear what interests you and what problems you'd like to tackle at Leap Motion. Tell us what makes you unique and why you’ll make a vital member of our team.
Even if Google didn't bring another YouTube app to iOS I personally wouldn't mind. Their mobile web experience is pretty good. If it was a choice between an app with pre-roll ads and the mobile website I'd just access it through Safari.
I actually thought about stealing the delivered goods not the copter itself :)
> 2. How can we create rules that protect companies like Apple who invest in innovation?

Why exactly does the biggest company in the industry need to be "protected"?

Making fashionable-looking hardware and putting together some obvious and old ideas (eg., pinch to zoom) is not the same as "investing in innovation".

Apple is the perfect example of how what matters is execution, they are successful because they execute better than their competition, and executing better than your competition is already its own reward.
I tell folks I either invest in the broadest possible market -- namely index funds -- or the narrowest: me.
It's even based on Z, cool. You've reminded me to update my copy as the version I'm using is f.sh!
It didn't seem to work. I'm not a Pac-Man expert, but the ghost behavior didn't feel the same to me here as it does on an emulated version of the original.

(I liked the speed though, Pac-Man is too slow.)
Have you not been paying attention to the entitlement and attitudes of the global financial elite in 2009-2010? This was precisely their response to the mismanagement of the banks: everybody was doing it, it was accepted, now bail us out and leave.
Agreed. However, you should also be aware of the marketplace and also know when to quit.
New York City + Remote | Full Time | Open to Covering Relocation Costs

Designers | Community Managers | Developers

Four out of five people report a negative experience when buying a new car and most new car sales departments lose money. Tred helps solve these problems by allowing consumers to configure the perfect new car, then working with dealerships to find it at a great price.

We are pre-release, angel-funded, and backed by some of the biggest names in the industry, including the former CEO of General Motors.
We are looking for independent thinkers ready to build a company from the ground up. It would be great if you love cars - but you should love people more.

* Designers: Your portfolio should include click and touch interfaces. You want to write production level HTML and CSS.

* Community managers: You excel at marketing and support. You are excited about inventing and exploring technical solutions.

* Developers: You have strong front-end web skills and will rock our Node.js + Backbone.js based platform. You enjoy communicating with a diverse product team.

We are a small team with a diverse background:

* John Wehr, former CTO of http://flavors.me and http://goodsie.com

* Grant Feek, former private equity associate, former BMW sales, Harvard MBA

* Lead Investor Rick Wagoner, former CEO of General Motors

Where we are:

* We have been working out of http://generalassemb.ly/ in New York for the last six months

* The founders are based in Seattle until November

* We are actively looking for office space in the New York area

Email johnwehr@tredsite.com with "Hacker News" in the subject line. Please include:

* A quick introduction

* Your portfolio, resume, or Github account

* Any other materials you'd like us to see

Please also free to contact me on gtalk at johnwehr@gmail.com or Skype at 'wehriam'
So you claim that there are so many sexist skeptics that it is a given that all skeptics are sexist?

And which skeptics community are you referring to? Climate skeptics? Sexism skeptics? Religion skeptics? I am not even sure what skeptics communities there are, and certainly they don't all agree with each other. I am sure there are climate change skeptic skeptics for example.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco to hack education

Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (https://getclever.com) is building the data platform needed to for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small team of highly technical hackers with deep experience in education. Since releasing the Clever APIs in June, we've signed up the most innovative education companies as partners and deployed our platform to over 1,000 schools. Clever moves data for over 350,000 students every day, and that number is growing rapidly.

Our growth has created some exciting problems around scalable systems, innovative APIs, and big data sets. We're looking to add a versitile engineer to the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges.

Things we're looking for:

+ Experience with consuming and/or creating RESTful Hypermedia APIs

+ Experience with a variety of languages (we use the best tool for the job, everything from Node.js to bash scripts)

+ Experience scaling up systems on AWS

+ Passion for changing education

What Clever offers:

+ Competitive salary + significant equity stake in well-funded company

+ A chance to revolutionize education

+ Flat & close-knit engineering team with lots of peer code review & pair programming

+ Great benefits - healthcare, dental, beautiful office

To apply, email us at jobs+n@getclever.com, where n is the number of students in the Clever sandbox API data set with a last name that begins with the letter 'V'.

Send us one or more things from [resume, github profile, recent side projects, linkedin URL, Stack Overflow profile, etc], and let us know how you solved our 'puzzle.'

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate.
My point is just that both Rdio, Spotify, and all their competitors contain many bands that fit your criteria. And they also don't contain many of those. I'm simply saying you should do a wider survey of their libraries to get a better comparison.
To what degree are Hayek's theories proven by scientific studies?

In what manner does F.A. Hayek incorporate our contemporary social, physical, ecological, engineering, and systems science and technologies into his theories?

Any field which purports to scientifically guide the operation of the planet must integrate these sciences and technologies.

Economics is more philosophy, speculation and faith than it is science.
More or less part of the point I was making. However using once again the example of a relationship, the equivalent would be staying in a relationship that is going nowhere (which doesn't even mean it's "bad" just that you know it won't end up where you want it to be for some reason..). As a result you are "tied up" and less able to iterate and take chances with meeting someone who might be the right person. In other words you have to be free and available in order to explore dating a new person and I simply feel that while there is a point to staying on your "bad" idea in order to learn and apply the knowledge elsewhere, time is not unlimited and being able to work on even finding or testing a potential new idea is priceless.

When the internet came along I was involved in a manufacturing startup which I put about a year worth of time and energy into (buying equipment, travel to shows etc.) After the operation was all setup I got the idea to put in a T-1 line and try the new "internet" thing. In a short time (a few months) it became apparent that the new idea was much better than the old idea which would have taken much much more time. I sold off everything and focused solely on the new idea rather than split my time between two ideas. (And back in early 1996 btw it wasn't crystal clear that the internet was going to be what it is today so it was taking somewhat of a gamble since the other idea was proven and the market was mature..)
Maryland Declares September 1st Franchise Appreciation Day
Don't underestimate children, or girls.

I know sub-14 year olds who are fluent in C and a couple flavors of assembly language.
If as a 14 year old your plan is to write an operating system, learning C might make some sense. It just seems like a very unlikely scenario to me.

Also I think a lot of tools for example in Linux are written in other languages.

Most likely scenario for using C as a 14 year old might be doing electronics projects, but I think Arduino is most commonly programmed in Java.
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles / Remote

- Mobile Development: iOS
- Over 10 years of experience in software development.
- Experience in C,C++, Java, SQL, Web Development

App Portfolio : http://31reasons.weebly.com
Don't you want to tell a good story to your grandchildren?
hi!

we are "talkd.me" crew. we want to say "hello" and tell our story to you. we are looking for our first 100 users. if you want to tell a good story to your grandchildren then be one of us!

we announced our beta version 4 days ago. oh, by the way. our concept is working like this :

a) register and let your friends talk with you anonymously

or

b) talk with strangers anonymously without register

we believe that, we will be phenomenon. "i was in first 100 users of talkd.me", if you want to tell this story to your grandchildren, come and sign up and share this system to your friends now!

here is the website : http://talkd.me

your feedback is very important for us, please don't hesitate, just reply this entry!
As someone currently wading through the valley of death (not a software startup)...
Currently "ramen profitable", the "breakthrough might occur in two months...etc, etc

It's difficult... but this blog post doesn't help except say "carry on".
Atlanta http://www.logicblox.com/careers/

Partially remote/ H1B may be negotiated if you are a rock star.

We need database implementation gurus, programming language/compilers experts, experienced front-end framework developers, and strong app developers/solution architects motivated to learn a new platform.
This is an interesting experiment, and please report back in 6 months with what you learned.
San Francisco: Rails and Javascript Full Stack Engineers

Full Time Positions at ZenPayroll

About us: We're a team of second time entrepreneurs, tackling the massive payroll market. If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited (plus the chance to build a significant, meaningful company), we'd love to speak with you. We have big ambitions and the resources to make long term bets. Our team is made up of Stanford engineering alums who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul. We're well-funded by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley and we're looking for like-minded engineers to join us.

Skills: Some technologies we use include -- Rails | Backbone | MySQL | Coffeescript | Sass. If these technologies excite you and you want to work on a product that has the potential to transform an industry, we'd love the chance to share our vision with you. We employ a test driven development process.

There's a ton of work to be done, and you'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. You'll receive a highly competitive salary, a sizable equity stake, relocation costs, and we'll geek you out with your dream work equipment. Other perks include a housing stipend if you live near the office, three meals a day, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, and more. You'll work out of a beautiful office one block from South Park in SoMa, San Francisco.

If you're interested, send us a note at jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project pages.
Invodo, Looking for Senior Software Engineer
Austin, TX, remote strongly unlikely
(I'm going to copy-paste pieces from the job posting, but if you'd like more information or are just curious about what we're doing, drop me a line at mbrace@invodo.com).

What we do:
Invodo helps businesses sell more through the power of video. As a full-service video solution, Invodo creates high-quality video at scale, delivers it through retail-focused technology, and publishes to Facebook, YouTube and retail channel partners to expand the impact. The Invodo video solution increases conversion rates, reduces returns and drives site traffic for clients including Internet 500 retailers and major manufacturers.

Invodo is an early-stage company so as a Senior Software Engineer you will play an incredibly important role in the success of both our clients and Invodo.

Software Engineers are expected to take ownership of substantial software modules, assist with technical product design, and contribute to the software engineering process at Invodo. The development will be concentrated on our core content management system and analytics platform (my.invodo.com). This customer-facing application software is written in Java/GWT using Hibernate and MySQL backend services.

Nearly all of our infrastructure services are written using Scala while the web application is currently written in Groovy (historical artifact at this point). It's hard to cover everything we do technology-wise in a short post, but we have our own player, make heavy use of CDNs for content distribution, our own analytics system and platform as well as an end-to-end workflow management tool used internally and externally for the video production, management and hosting process (the latter is where we're looking to hire).

The entire engineering team is less than 20 people, including operations, professional services and management. There are currently 9 developers (if I'm counting correctly) and all of the work the engineering department does is recognized throughout the company.

Feel free to send your resume/github/project urls to mbrace@invodo.com or ismarc31@gmail.com.
"Eric Ries didn't invent it. It goes back to the Romans"

While you are correct that Eric didn't invent the concept, perhaps you could supply some links or further reference to how it ties into the Romans.
Not getting the problem either, working with PHP namespaces daily.
You forgot to mention another consequence, the return of the Luddites
Yet you still plan on investing?
They were not infringing on copyright. That is, the US Justice Department and Immigrations and Custom Enforcement - after 20 months - dropped the case.

There was no trial, no judgement, not even a settlement with a "fine but with no admittance of guilt." There was nothing.

So, how are you sure that they were infringing on copyright?
Apple = Big Brother
The comments on the actual diff https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress/pull/18/files are actually reasonably intelligent, and amusing
How much "cheating" was actually done here? Was it simply that people's answers looked similar? On a take-home test with open book, open Internet, you'd expect that everyone would probably Google the same sources.

I'm also suspicious of people who claim that sharing notes is in violation of some cheating rule. I posted the source code to most of my school projects on GitHub. If people want to crib off my code that's not my problem -- I did the work, whether or not they want to is their problem.
cant read it, font color is a killer
elegance, simplicity, beauty.. do those words emanate from Ruby in waves or from your inability to give a technical description? what overhead and code-bloat are you talking about? you can read the LLVM code and the objc runtime from Apple and go into specifics if you like.

To write a 3D shooter you can use Objective-C specific features as much or as little as you want. For intensive performance code you can bypass the messaging system and write pure C, for the rest you can use Cocoa APIs. This is what you do in any language. Unless you want to argue that dynamic languages as a whole are not worth it.

If you are happy with RubyMotion go ahead, but don't preach bad mouthing a language you haven't even developed on.
The worst part is that cheating indicates a strong cynicism about the course and the value of learning the material. I thought elite schools were able to recruit people with intellectual curiosity and character. Clearly the admissions formula is broken.
YouTube.apk has ads, and all the sharing options and comments, etc. Yet it still manages to be mostly about the video, and is superior by far to it's current iOS counterpart; so I wouldn't worry about it.
I'd say no more than 50 years before driving by hand becomes illegal in most places, especially large cities. The benefits will just become too obvious.
There are actually quite a few documented problems with soy consumption.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#axzz1uJmF0GoG
Then how does PubMed get it?
When planting a bomb you have to visit the scene of the crime and risk being seen.

With multicopters there's virtually no risk of getting caught.
Suggestion to Twitter: Here’s how you monetize without ruining your ecosystem