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Location: Chicago, IL OR New York City OR London

Firm: Jump Trading

Wanted: C++ hackers with a side of Python

Marketing Blurb:

Our firm grew out of the knowledge and experience of its founders to become a globally-positioned financial technology firm that remains on the cutting edge of algorithmic trading. We are a privately funded company and do not rely on outside investors or private equity. With offices in Chicago, London and Singapore, we trade across all major asset classes in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Because of our ongoing commitment to technology and human capital we have become an industry leader, quietly setting the standard for sophisticated trading strategies.

Our success is driven by three fundamental ideas:

* Seek and hire the most brilliant and talented people we can find
* Reward those people based on merit
* Remain on the leading edge of technological innovation

The Job:

The Data Archive Support Developer will be a part of a team responsible for building and maintaining the HPC software infrastructure used by by Jump's quantitative researchers for statistical analysis. Responsibilities for this position will be split between operational support of Jump's historical market data archives, automation of support tasks, and development of tools which will enhance the efficiency and efficacy of the researchers workflows. A successful candidate will work closely with core developers, quant support system administrators and quant researchers to ensure the integrity of the market data, optimize its format for high performance computing, guarantee its availability in a timely fashion and improve the overall efficiency of the quant research processes at Jump.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Manage applications which capture market data and prepare the data for consumption by research applications

* Verify the integrity of the archived data and resolve data integrity issues.

* Build tools which will enhance the overall supportability of the archive environment and automate common tasks.

* Work closely with Jump's core developers to build and maintain a deep understanding of Jump's feed and capture applications as well as the archive consumption APIs.

* Work closely with Jump's quant researchers to understand how they are using the archives as well as any challenges they are facing.

* Use the above understanding to build tools which enhance the overall usability of the archive environment and lower barriers to entry for new archive users.

* Act as a support contact for Jump's Quant users for issues related to the archive access APIs and archive data itself.

If you have any questions at all, please e-mail me! The job description really doesn't do a great job describing the awesome problems you'll be solving or the freedom you'll have to explore solutions.
>(Is it only me who can only say "legal tender" in a scottish accent > "I think you'll find that's...")

Lets thank the comical Michael McIntyre for that!
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Interns OK, no remote work.

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for a DevOps engineer, and front-end and full-stack engineers.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The team is still small (~11 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs and located in the city center of Amsterdam.
More on http://jobs.silkapp.com/
Hey,

It could work in firefox. Its just that we only test it in Chrome, because we have limited resources.

We love Codeacademy and have been thinking about building such a thing on circuits.io instead of tutorials. It's a lot more fun! We will have it one of these days.
It can be challenged by appealing the finding. This is already in the appeals court - good luck to Apple's lawyers in getting the UK Supreme Court to overrule a court order about a small statement on their website.

But what metratonscube suggested was to ignore the court order and put up a message that is blatantly in violation of the order then fight them in court if they didn't come up with a reason to comply. Ignoring this court order would be straightforward contempt of court at this stage, and will result in substantially more severe sanctions than being told to put a modified message up.

And yes, this is how a civilized legal system handles it - every single European country, the US and most other countries in the world gives the judges (in this case a panel in the appeals court, so not just one) wide latitude in ensuring compliance with their orders. The failure to comply with a judge's legally issued order without specifically going to the court and asking for a stay pending an appal, is considered extremely serious exactly because the rule of law requires someone to be the arbiter, and if one party was able to get away with just ignoring what the judge orders them to, then the court has no ability to carry out it's duties.
IT Guru - Boras Corporation - Newport Beach, CA (Orange County)

We represent baseball players and are widely regarded as the premier single-sport athlete representation firm in the world.

We're seeking an IT guru to manage the various information technology systems at our Newport Beach headquarters.

A love of sports, particularly baseball, is useful, but not strictly required. We take great pride in being the best in the world at what we do, and most of us have played sports at a high level. Regardless, from top to bottom, our personnel believe in doing whatever needs to be done for the team.

A more complete job description can be found here:
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/tch/3365418491.html

Obviously we're not your typical HN poster, but if it sounds like a good fit let us know at jobs at borascorp.com. Please mention HN in the body of your email.

More information about us and our work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Boras
Err, this is true in almost all "civilized" legal systems.

Judges everywhere are always responsible for determining if you are compliant with their orders, and holding you accountable if not.

Not everything is appealable.

In every justice system, there is always someone who is "always right because they are last", not "last because they are always right".

For example, in the US, the supreme court judges also act as the highest individual judge in a given circuit court. This usually comes into play with stays of death penalty cases.
The judges usually refer the petition to the full court, and the full court takes a vote. However, this is not required. The judge could simply deny/accept it.
You would have no way to appeal this.
One possible flaw here is that it only sends public images. I don't post pics (the exact pics I want to send) of my daughter publicly.

Isn't there a way to tag the photo as ok to send?
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They'll probably put Ironic Hipster quotes around "copy"
Hey Natasha,

Can't find any contact info in your github or blog pages. Drop me a line (email's in my profile) I might have some work for you.
Summarized: When writing code,

> If you need something once, build it. If you need something twice, pay attention. If you need it a third time, abstract it.

I like this rule. Pre-mature re-factoring is a cousin of pre-mature optimization. Having similar code in two places isn't a problem if similar functionality is required in two places. By the time you need it in three places, you don't need similar functionality so much as you need to utilize an abstracted pattern.

Not a hard-and-fast rule, but it's something I personally have tended to gravitate toward myself over time. I used to be more aggressive at refactoring, but now I tend to favor re-using code when re-factoring is not clearly called for.
The were not required to make an apology, but a statement of the facts found by the judge on behalf of consumers in England and Wales.

Since Apple is quite happy to see judges' will be done when Apple wins, their statement in defeat was not at all classy.
For an alternative: http://sinonjs.org/
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I'm happy with it. At my last job I felt miserable negotiating paid time off past my limit:

"I'd like to take a week off."

"Well you only have 4 days left, and we need at least one person in the office the day before Christmas, so I could turn this down..."

"But I'm only short by one day!"

(I end up delaying my Christmas vacation by 3 days as a result, and I resent my boss for it)

---

This doesn't happen at Knewton. If I need time off, and my work is done, I take it.

Hurricane Sandy is actually a perfect example. I've had no power since Monday night in Soho, and today is my first full day online. An unlimited vacation policy means I don't have to take a shorter Christmas break because an act of God swept through and pwnd my neighborhood.
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That was my point - an individual practitioner is like any one of those roles I mentioned. The problem is that we are all lumped together under the nebulous term "programmer" - and that leads to unnecessary antagonism.
For anybody who likes electronics this is a blessing. Userfriendly to work with and efficient.
My aim for PicDigest senders (me and you) is that, once you sign up, it's a mind-free service. You never have to mess with it or think about it again.

Something like Instagram hashtags or tags in Facebook would make it a mind-full service, meaning you have to think about it. Although that means it might not be for everyone, I do think the people that it fits will love it all the more.

Thanks for pointing that out, though! :)
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I'm guessing you're talking about the SRAM-based alternative I discussed at the end? Yes, that would be an option, as would an SD card. 64Mb would be enough for plenty of 256 kilobit slices.

I do prefer the idea of using EEPROM if I was going down that route, though, so it'd be more like a CPLD than an FPGA. I just need a good way to load the only bit of remaining discrete state - the output enables - on startup. My best idea thus far is to dedicate half the EEPROM to configuration data, store the latch states at address 0, and use two RC networks to create rising edges first on a register latch pin then on the highest address pin to latch in the config before enabling the EEPROM in 'operating mode'.
Does anybody know how companies like that differentiate themselves from 800 lb gorilla that is Amazon (they do recurring orders)?

Disclaimer: I haven't done any subscription/recurring orders, but am genuinely interested
I'm really impressed that he asked for an affidavit from the head of apple. That would've really put apple in deep trouble had they gone that route. Good job on calling their bluff on the 'it will take us 14 days to update the site'. =/

Apple just seems so slimy these days. I absolutely love many of their products but lately they seem quite meh.
Dropbox will definitely be an added option in the future. Along with Flickr, Photobucket, Google+, etc.

And photo printing for your recipients will be added before the oh-so-important photo printing holidays (Christmas and Hanukah).

Thanks for the ideas!
If I was going to answer more thoroughly, here are my answers on why to start something:

1) you can work on what you like, and in a way that you like
2) it's higher beta, meaning the top outcomes are higher than working for others.
3) it is a chance to immediately start working on a high impact idea that could change society. There are other ways to work on high impact ideas, but often times you need to put in a lot of time paying dues to get to the point you can work on them.
4) if you are successful, it can be a source of mainstream fame (think Richard Branson) -- if you care about this at all.

Here's a summary I wrote of my YC interview that I did with Emmett back in 2005: http://areallybadidea.com/34320844
It isn't HN-specific.

It is about how we all individually see the problem, but do nothing about. It is a choice. Be a cog in the machine that makes your life livable, but makes everyone's just a little bit worse by doing so instead of trying to change the system.

A single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

If we all, just the technologists all got together and said, hey, quit it with that war shit and refused to make new or maintain old war making machines, war would end almost immediately. But the system has made the consequences of an individual or a minority doing that disastrously bad for them if they do it alone. It is a cage of fear. Legitimate fear. Fear of what would happen if we end up standing alone in our rebellion.

But we don't. We read HN and talk about making money. And that economic output, that money will be used against us to make things worse for everybody but the plutocracy that controls the political duopoly.
"Right now: something that materially saves me at least 10 hours per month, whether business or personal."

This sort of response seems logical, but I think it is a mistake to use it as an underlying assumption for a startup.

For some people, one hour of tediously managing the software in exchange for eleven hours (ten hours net) of productivity might be worth it. For many people, I suspect that the pain would be worse than the inefficiency.

It's not that some people wouldn't be attracted to a service based on this idea. But rather that what saves you ten hours a month probably isn't the same as what would save another entrepreneur 10 hours (let alone being something that would scale).

In short the problem with the business model your comment suggests is that it devolves into personal services, not SAS.
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circa is a good idea, actually. From my close experience with this field, when a news article will be published it will be edited and republished many times, over many forms and shapes (Web, RSS, etc.) in many of these steps, a manual, human work is needed -- and this affects the volumes of the published news.

Further, many of the news really originate from relatively limited sources (reuters, etc), so you can plug your solution there as well.

Therefore it should be OK to assume that if you put humans at the same pipeline to summarize news manually, the capacity and efficiency will be reasonable.
I realize that most programmers don't feel the way I do...

That could be selection bias: how many programmers like you are posting in HN threads, blogging, etc.? I'd venture to guess most are, um, programming instead. The best programmers I know certainly are.
Kareer.me is excited and honored to be a part of this post. Lots of other great companies as well.CopyBar, Mover.io, Quivee, and others look awesome. Great finds!
Seeking work - Mountain View (San Francisco/remote OK)

Experienced in building Ember/Bootstrap and SproutCore webapps.

Stuck on an Ember project? I'm currently available for a short term, part time consulting need. +1-408-506-9791
I've written more about not charging by the hour on HN than any other subject other than password hashes. Charge by the day.
Absolutely, it's a marketing stunt from Zomato.com -- contains food pictures
Thanks datr.

Six signups in the past hour, including our first volunteer from the Phillippines.
This is a relatively new attitude, mostly due to web startups, which are more similar to rock bands than to "real" companies. Since web startups are successful due to the number of followers, not the amount of money they make, they had to develop cult-like techniques to attract workers and early adopters. As a result new culture of hipster programmers appeared, which thinks that their way is the only true way.
It's probably a mistake for most people to think about how much they "need to be able to charge", because you are going to be surprised at how much you can actually charge, and working your way back from a target rate will prevent you from discovering that.

I know people who started out expecting, optimistically, to be able to charge (say) $120/hr, and who just a couple years later are shocked to discover that they're worth multiples of that.
Let's be honest: many of us go into startups to be cool. The common answer of being 'passionate' (about startups/entrepreneurship/tech) often comes after gaining some expertise and leveraging it to create social impact.
I have a tiling window manager. That means any resizing is automatic.
I'm using a tiling-WM and the resizing window thing was a bit annoying to me, and was somewhat distracting from the demo. But other than that, I'm impressed and I had lots of fun playing with the css to see how it was built!
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In the US, such orders usually have to be in writing, be pretty specific, and the meaning has to be fairly clear. You would have a very difficult time holding someone in contempt for a court order that's not written. And, so, what's written IS the order, regardless of the judge's intent.

In other words, a third party judge should be able to judge compliance with the order, so it certainly would not be the case that if the original judge thinks something doesn't comply with his order that it necessarily doesn't comply.
The comparison is there in the ticket comments
Ditto. I did a panicked wikipedia check to make sure I hadn't missed something. Phew.
SEEKING WORK - remote

Leading a small team of (6) full-stack Python web developers (working mostly with Django, some Flask and Tornado). We're into open source, love working with startups (have a few own side projects we don't dare call startups yet) and obsess over code quality.

Also have experience with frontend (jQuery, Backbone) and backend (node.js) JS, the usual DB suspects (MySQL, PostgreSQL, as well as Mongo and Redis on the NoSQL side), and running things on top of Heroku, AWS or own VPS. Also, not a designer bone in our bodies, so we love Bootstrap :)

Github: https://github.com/dobarkod/
Blog: http://goodcode.io/blog/
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These are the sites I tend to read:

France: http://www.rudebaguette.com/

Germany: http://venturevillage.eu/ and http://siliconallee.com/

Eastern Europe: http://goaleurope.com/

Europe in general: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/ + http://thenextweb.com/eu/ + http://gigaom.com/europe/

My guess is that sooner or later there will be some publication, in English, covering startups in southern Europe (Italy, Spain, etc).
I don't find this eigenvalue controversy all that interesting. Gladwell also wrote a long New Yorker article about ketchup and the market for different ketchups. I doubt Gladwell could, given the ingredients and a good kitchen, make a passable ketchup. I still like the article.

If anything, the eigen/igon thing just tells me that unlike many popsci writers, Gladwell is at least out there talking to people and trying to report. Bear in mind that Gladwell makes no pretense to actually being a scientist (unlike Lehrer). He's a journalist by training. I am given to understand from a great conversation I had earlier this week that it is not necessarily reasonable to assume that physicists have mastered linear algebra. So, in that spirit, it is not reasonable to expect journalists to understand linear algebra simply to report on quantitative finance.
To those saying that Apple "complied"... Do you think Apple would have complied if the text were in #FEFEFE over #FFFFFF in a page including, say "buy iPhone and be happy!" in clear #000000 and a Photo of Steve?

It would be literally complying:
The text would be there to be read, anyway.
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What Alex said. Noticeably less friction. There's no HR time tracking. No flex time. No BS.

It stops you from worrying that you've eaten into your vacation time when you take a day here or there for appointments, long weekends, family events, child sickness, etc.

In fits with our general focus on productivity over seat time.
As a parent of a kid who is currently undergoing this "torture" of the admissions process [1], I beg to differ. The Common Application is definitely one of the ways the pain is alleviated. I wouldn't want to imagine the times when every college/university had their own application format.

Every institution that uses the Common App also has their own supplement and I have seen them very varied in complexity: from simple one-page form with no additional essays to much more involved ones with three essays. The supplement is now the place where the institution can show how "special" they are and how rigorous their admissions process is.

I wish all colleges went the Common App route.

[1] I didn't go to college in the United States, so I didn't really have any idea how complex this process is until now.
Reminds me of a comment I saw on here the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722671

> Facebook is going to forge a new path to irrelevance, not
> take the same path as MySpace. People will stop using
> Facebook because (1) they outgrow it, (2) they get tired of
> it, or (3) it lost its usefulness.

> I don't believe another app will take its place. Rather, I
> think an existing app/platform is already Facebook's
> biggest competitor. And it's one you've been using for 30
> years. Email.

This really rang true to me and I think this project is further early evidence of the way we're headed.

Edit: Just realised that the comment I've quoted is actually by the creator of this project!
I don't like the framing in some of this. Distinguishing "famous" from "successful" (and putting the latter above it on the ladder) seems to be missing the point. It's all well and good to celebrate Carmack and DHH, who are worthy of praise. But kicking, say, Fabrice Bellard or Tridge down a level purely because of what they choose to work on seems to be missing an awful lot of value...
> pop culture is most commonly experienced passively, via consumption, while being a craftsperson by definition involves active creation

I don't agree with that distinction. Every pop culture has two sides, the consumer and the creator. What makes it pop is the immediacy and the need to affirm itself by popularity only. In other words, if something is not popular, it can't be pop.
> Adding the “snooze” function has helped decrease the churn rate down to just 2%.

> By adding more products and flexibility, the average order size increased by 84%.

This is pretty much all there is in the article about "how" that is so prominently featured in link title.
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Bloooow hard. I went to visit their site. Got hit with a pop up that I had no way to get rid of. Wanted me to enter my information to get on a mailing list. Left the site.

You could get rid of the first 10 paragraphs where the author comes to the well documented conclusion that a Google and FB user are in two different mindsets.
I recently paid for £21 worth of groceries in 20p pieces (change jar needed emptying).

Lock me up and throw away the key.

(Fortunately it was a self-checkout so no witnesses).