skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco CA USA: Senior .Net Engineer Full Time

Insightly is the world's leading CRM product for SMBs on the Google Apps marketplace. We're growing fast, going international, developing native Android and iOS apps in C# (using Xamarin,) and making major investments in our front- and back- end infrastructure using everything from OData, Web API, Lucene, SQL Server, memcached, LINQ, and Castle Windsor, to JQuery, PJax, and OAuth 2.0.
We run a serious dev environment, with code reviews, stack ranking/triage, and architecural planning as part of our DNA (members of our team worked on Visual Studio and Entity Framework.)

We are looking for an experienced, collaborative, detail-oriented senior to principal level software engineer to join the team and both code and provide additional architectural leadership for critical parts of the system. You'll have the opportunity to have deep impact on everything the engineering team does. You'll bring experience with building large-scale websites, scaling relational databases, and building testable, high quality architectures that provide near-linear scaleout.

Email jobs at insightly dot com
Don't you also need to destroy all other records of those keys?
I lol'd. <pedantic> I believe that Comic Sans wasn't available in those days. Everything was in Times New Roman for a long time.
EBook Review: Learn Python Quickly
Quick last fact: Women need more sleep than men... Why? This is because women’s brains are wired differently from men’s and are more complex

Now this is something we have known for a long time! :-p
Austin, Texas. Full Time.

SpareFoot is the world’s largest, simplest and best marketplace for self-storage. We also provide leading web marketing solutions for storage operators. We're having a blast building our business, and we're growing quickly.

At the top of our most wanted list: Experienced PHP Developers, My SQL DBA, UI Developer, UI Designer, Application Developer, and Automation QA Engineer.

We are able to provide amazing perks:
- Competitive salary
- Fully paid insurance for you and your family
- Stock options (we are early enough that these are a big deal)
- Awesome workplace downtown with provided parking
- Fully stocked kitchen and chef for free daily lunches
- Games like ping pong, foosball and shuffleboard
- Work hard and play hard culture with frequent social events (and cab vouchers to get home safely from said events)
- No policy vacation policy - take the time you need as long as you do so responsibly

However, we believe the best perk of all is a great team to work with. In addition to being fun and awesome to be around, everyone on our engineering team also happens to be incredibly talented. We are looking for the best, so relocation and visas will be provided if necessary.

Check out our postings here:
http://www.sparefoot.com/jobs.html

If you want to join our team of SpareFeet, please email rmorse@sparefoot.com with a cover letter explaining which position you are perfect for and why.
Whether Cook means he is "sorry" or not, this type of kowtowing is what is required in mainland China in situations like this. Otherwise the corporate harassment would continue until products are banned, stores closed, or unilateral changes are forced on Apple by a government agency.

A quick Skype poll of mainland friends (as opposed to expat friends) in China found that of those who had Apple products, none said they'd ever had a problem with Apple's repair policies inside China. The problems were more likely with customers returning fake or far too out-of-warranty repair issues.

Chatting on the weekend to the Director of Marketing for a major local electronics firm in China, he felt it was a politically inspired anti-foreigner campaign and was sure other foreign brands would be harassed for their perceived "arrogance" in the coming weeks and months.
Possibly because aethetics are, relatively, not very important compared to usability, functionality and speed.

None of the world's most successful websites pays overmuch attention to aesthetics, including Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Facebook, Yahoo, MailOnline, The New York Times, the old Hotmail, Slashdot, Reddit and Hacker News.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Toronto, Canada)

Technical writer and marketing writer looking for full-time remote work.

Skills: Writing/updating/maintaining online help, case studies, marketing copy, data sheets, scripts/screencasts (Camtasia).

Industry experience: CRM, consumer-facing software, consulting, marketing.

Technical skills: Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Camtasia.

Professional, fast, friendly, drama-free, and reliable. Let's talk!
> This is great information for anyone making the 32-bit to 64-bit transition, and at this point you really should be viewing 64-bit as your primary platform if you're writing code for x86(amd64) platforms. Just falling back to 32-bit mode with WoW or similar for your target platform is just inexcusable at this point unless you have very specific legacy support issues.

Eh, unless you absolutely need the addressable memory, there's no real reason to move a legacy codebase to native 64-bit unless the software absolutely needs the RAM.

The general takeaway is that you shouldn't be relying on primitives that aren't underlying OS/implementation safe. Using things like longs(especially if you're targeting both Linux and Windows), and assumed pointer lengths can bite you in the ass if you're not careful(and there is a special circle of hell reserved for people who think bitshifting on a pointer type is fine). A few minutes doing some preventative #defines can save you a world of hurt, especially when porting to the next largest system.
The Cyber-Attack that Threatens to Destroy Half the Internet by the End of 2013
This is a technicality. Leftmost bit still denotes a sign and modulo of the number is still capped at n-1 bits.
Some would also mention Aleph, too.

https://github.com/ztellman/aleph
Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us
I was able to find a FURNISHED bedroom from $1450/mth in the heart of the Mission.

Prices has gone up but it seems like people have gotten worse at finding places or switched to using airbnb more (which is way more expensive).
"Austrians" are quite serious. Few people take them seriously.
>Bunch of whining free riders. Now I understand why Google dumped you

You... you don't understand even the very basics of Google's business model, do you?

Spoiler: 99% of their revenue is not derived from direct user transactions to them.
I would love to see this color-coded with average house/apartment prices --- to see if each arc is equitable or if you can see a pattern ( +10% by the water, etc).
We specifically ask for, "5+ years of experience building and managing strong engineering organizations," not "5+ years of rails 3..." lol

re: "edit2" - we're basically trying to convey that we're solving a real and serious problem (helping retailers compete with amazon). it's actually resonated with potential candidates since smart and motivated engineering leaders don't want to just be part of "the next groupon..."
San Francisco CA: Full Stack Web Developer Full Time

Euclid is a rapidly growing, well-funded startup turning real-world behavior into unprecedented insights. If you’re smart, data-driven, and have a healthy disregard for the impossible, we want to talk to you!

As a Full Stack Engineer at Euclid, you will be building Rails applications and APIs, from our cloud-based databases and back-end services to our dynamic JavaScript front-end.

More information at http://euclidanalytics.com/about/careers/
> Gold is a piss poor investment.

Do you know something that the Chinese, Germans and Russians don't ?

"Central Banks Bought Most Gold in Nearly 50 Years"

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100458951

"The Russian central bank will continue to buy gold as it seeks to diversify its foreign reserves away from paper assets it views as risky"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/russia-cbank-idUSL...

"The startling news that Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the United States and France has got precious metals speculators worried that this is the first major sign that trust between central banks across the globe could be deteriorating."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/01/19/the-ger...

"How Much Gold Does China Really Have?... China is the world’s leading gold producer and also the world’s leading gold importer. And surprisingly their official gold holdings haven’t risen an ounce in over three years."

http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20130211/how-much-gold-does-c...
Some alternative map purposing for the London Underground. http://www.steveprentice.net/tube/TfLSillyMaps/
I don't know about you guys but i have never heard of him before. But i am already browsing amazon to get those books.
Precisely. No risk at all. You don't even have to send your stuff to your client, because you've already been paid.

Bitcoins right now puts the consumer / supplier relationship upside down. The supplier is already right... not the customer. I wonder if any customers will prefer to paying BTC over Paypal, especially after they've been defrauded a few times.
Taligent, I'm replying here to let you know I think you were hellbanned. This was the last non-dead comment from you.
Well, aleph already exists, but candidly http-kit has a simpler API for most tasks

edit upon review, not a huge diff between the two actually.
Missed it the first time, I am almost glad it was reposted.
As a resident of Boston, this is correct except for the regular delays of the Green Line. Consider this map only accurate for the three other lines and add 20 minutes to the map's estimate for the Green Line and you're probably in the ballpark.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I think that's kind of polarizing. I am (obviously) a supporter of the second amendment, but I and all my liberty-minded peers support the entirety of the Bill of Rights, even where we don't necessarily agree with it.

The main thing that's polarizing it though, is that the ACLU supports all of the bill of rights except for the second amendment, so those that support the second feel like they're the only ones that are.
Interesting way of looking at it. Now if only they'd fix up the boston subway (aka the T) and get that green line extension done.
Do you guys do co-op positions/internships? I realize you're a super small team, so it's understandable if you don't.

I'm a student at the University of Waterloo with experience building automated trading systems at TD Securities in C/C++.
Yes you're right. I should have been more specific that all signed integers have a sign bit.
http://forkthecookbook.com/
Internet Jackass Day
> Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank.

Nope. Look at everything you can do with your online bank account. Transfers to other accounts, wires, bill pay, stop payments, ACH (if you're lucky), etc. What's the common there? All those transaction are reversable. This makes it hard for hackers to steal money from banks, they need an unwitting third party (mule) to accept an account transfer, and then go to a branch or ATM to withdraw cash.

So it's not like your online banking accounts are secure, you can purchase any number of stolen online banking credentials from trojan/botnet operators. The price for those accounts is quite low, because the real effort is in finding unwitting mules.

The problem with bitcoin, is that bitcoin transfers are irreversable. So banks will never be able to protect bitcoin wallets effectively, because they can't rely on being able to reverse transactions for compromised accounts.
http://www.forkingrecipes.com/
Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite
Just for fun.. The Vatican City is surrounded by Rome, though it's not only a city but a nation state. If you want California, though, Los Angeles has several enclaved cities, such as San Fernando.
http://www.OutConvert.com
HN readers dumping on him (many without reading the entire article) is another sign of the intellectual decline of the quality of HN.

A writer who can't seem to get to the point because he needs more paragraphs to showcase additional literary allusions is not going to hold me hostage indefinitely. If the first two thousand words of an essay are not a sufficiently representative sample on which to base conclusions about the essay, then the writer is not a good writer. He may of course reveal the cure for cancer in the final paragraph, but given the opportunity cost of missing out on more important things I could be reading, I'm willing to take the risk.

I discovered long ago that "intellectual" did not mean "intelligent"; it was about style of presentation, not importance of ideas. You be the judge of whether that is a symptom of intellectual decline.
More info: http://ashraful.me/?p=7
Instead of US Citizenship, you probably mean "legally authorized to work in the US".
Excellence: "Forbes Top 10 Under 10: Dropped out of elementary school to found a startup in the crayon space. Just got a pre-Thiel Fellowship".
I (and all Punchfork users, I assume) received a notification on January 3rd, including the following:

Initially, support for Punchfork will continue, but
we will soon be retiring the Punchfork site, API and
mobile apps. We believe that a unified destination
benefits our users in the long run, and the Punchfork
team (me) will focus on contributing to Pinterest as
the premier platform for discovering and sharing new
recipes and other interests on the web.

EDIT: Gmail binned this email in "Promotions"... I wonder if that explains why some didn't see it?
LinkBench: A database benchmark for the social graph
Missing my personal piece of advice:
Interested in startups / smaller companies? Easiest thing to do is email / interview with one or two VC firms. I know both a16z and greylock do this, I'm sure others do as well.
I bought it at 26$ last september. Unloaded about half today at 44$..

If I goes lower, say mid thirties, I will buy more.. We might be seeing the car company of the next decade or 2 in the makeing, and right now, its not really selling at a premium. (The stock, not the cars..)
> The four tools of Internet oppression -- surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and use control -- have both government and corporate uses.

It's funny (for a very broad definition of the word funny) to have seen this happening as an almost direct witness on websites such as reddit, for example. I remember how during the August, 2006 Lebanon War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War) there was an entire down-vote brigade for anything that was against Israel and consequent upvotes for positive references. One or two years later there was an article that was quickly buried which mentioned how the Israeli government had a special department to handle this exact use-case (Internet propaganda) during "sensitive" times.

Fast forward to November 24th of last year and I find this quote in Financial Times, made during the latest confrontations between Israel and Hamas :

> This is a classic example of asymmetric warfare (...) This is the type of warfare that takes place not on the ground but on TV and computer screens all over the world. One side is trying to show the world how miserable and how much of an underdog they are, while not being afraid and not losing" (the emphasis is mine)

The quote was made by Yiftah Shapir, head of the military balance project at the Institute for National Security Studies based in Tel Aviv.

So it seems like Internet propaganda and "asymmetrical warfare" has indeed become mainstream and a thing that's no longer hidden under the rug as crazy conspiracy.
The real challenge is

to manage expectations

and make us happy
Hmm, nothing about where you could download your data from?
More people attacking online education. While again mostly based on misunderstandings I have some sympathy for the argument that this may be best done by a non-profit. I'm a little worried what may happen when Coursera tries to monitize their platform. I hope they take a gentle approach keeping courses free for students. What if the Gates foundation bought or built a MOOC?

Also not sure I understand the politics involved. Steinberg seems to be taking a pretty aggressive approach which may hurt online education by energizing opposition to it generally.

That said I'm sure any of the modern systems will be an improvement to the current poorly designed online courses at CA public colleges.
I don't think I've actually tried that, except on my netbook (conclusion: don't try to build Rust on a netbook.) I have made a habit of typing supplying `-j 8` to make. Note: if it hasn't been fixed yet, you'll need to fetch the bootstrap compiler before that will work.
Also, a startup may gate or otherwise limit user-contributed content (i.e. Quora). That has similar consequences.
That's been my experience as well. Those of us left in Canada are those who have not yet made the move to the US. Given the option, I know precisely where I'd be, and it's not here.
Beautiful site :)
Really well done on the UI/UX side.
But before nullptr, NULL didn't portably mean "a null pointer". It meant "0", just as if you'd typed in "0" rather than "NULL". The language doesn't really give the library writer much choice in the matter! (Defining NULL as "((void *)0)" would at least give it an inherently pointer type, but it would be terribly inconvenient to use.)

This is the whole reason for nullptr in the first place.
My money is on Bitcoin remaining the winner in the cryptocurrency market. It's got enough network effect now for people to keep it a success. The economy is growing, and people have too much vested interest already. Flaws will be fixed, improvements will be made, etc.
One approximate hack that works pretty well is to count the number of blocks of vowels separated by consonants. It breaks on some words, but was close enough to use for something I was working on. (Datamining rhymes from lyrics.)
When consumers swipe cards, they don't think of the economic implications behind it. They just want their "stuff".

When you put things in real terms of the economic impact for fees like Milne did, people can see the difference it could make locally, nationally & globally. That's why this talk was so powerful.

Creating a payment network can't be an easy task. Kudos to them for going after it.
The major drawback of this map is that it gives you no clue as to how to actually get to the nearest subway station, and it doesn't tell you which subway station is close to your destination. By focusing only on travel time it has abstracted away a bit too much of the information that people expect to get from a subway map. (For example, the NYC subway map shows the locations of subway stations with respect to major streets and landmarks.)

Also, in most transit systems, travel time can depend significantly on the time of day you're traveling. Express trains don't always run and the time between trains increases during off-peak hours.
> How does a web application framework help you roll dice?

Many games also include an online component. This can easily just be the start of a new product...
Finding a place in SF this summer is way worse than usual because of the America's Cup. It lasts from July-Sept and people are renting houses for $10k/week. Don't thank me, thank Larry Ellison.
And at the beginning it had nothing to do with the Christian religion, so in a sense, it was never about 'Jesus'.

Easter is a fertility spring celebration retconned by the Romans into something else. That's why we have eggs and bunnies, symbols of fertility.
MixRank - San Francisco, CA (full-time, intern)

Seeking: Data Systems Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Summer Interns

Big data, web crawling, data visualization, machine learning, and other interesting stuff. Happy to chat with anyone— send me an email: scott@mixrank.com.

We're also hosting a friendly programming competition this Wednesday in San Francisco (SoMA) at 7pm. Email me if you'd like to drop by.
> I often have this feeling when I read Mike's code, particularly D3.

Agreed - there is tons to learn in the D3 src, but I don't feel that it is written in a way friendly to casual inspection. But D3 more than makes up for this with such clear and thorough documentation that this is rarely an issue.

Random example: wondering what a d3 selection.attr returns? Reading the docs [1] is a much quicker read than scanning the source [2] and working backwards from this nested return one-liner:

return value == null
? (name.local ? attrNullNS : attrNull) : (typeof value === "function"
? (name.local ? attrFunctionNS : attrFunction)
: (name.local ? attrConstantNS : attrConstant));

[1] https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections#wiki-attr

[2] https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/v3.1.4/src/selection/att...
They can't - you get this error when trying to link other objects, which are already compiled without position-independent code. So the linker can't really fix this.

Also, if you're not doing dynamic linking, code without -fPIC is generally faster and for use-cases where C (and/or C++) is used that can make a difference.
Congrats Tess, Alexey, Alex, and Owen on building such a fantastic resource. I do think that there is significant information asymmetry in this process for most students, especially those from the east coast who are less aware of startup culture and how to break into it, so having all this bay area content in a single location is a massive help!

A few additional points in regards to the comments below:

1. For those asking about international opportunities it may be good to check out this Quora post on how to get a visa and which startups hire international students: http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-are-willing-to-sponsor-a...

2. For those discussing locations I generally agree with the authors points that SF, MV, and PA are best given proximity to events. That said we and many of the companies we work with, have had success with interns living in Berkeley. It is an easy BART stop, has lots of college housing which usually means 4-5 in a house and a lower cost, and while some crime does exist, it is avoidable with common sense and precaution. Since most events are during happy hour times, living in Berkeley definitely does not preclude you from participating in a lot of good events.

3. Additional posts I (and I know many interns we have talked to in the Bay) would love to see include:
-How to develop a mentor within a startup?
-How to get the attention of startup founders on social media?
-The importance of an online portfolio.

4. A couple additional tips I would share with students is that you should recognize that companies and founders are always time-crunched, but always interested in quality talent. Following-up with applications multiple times (and on multiple channels like Facebook or Quora) is always a good idea as long as you are non-spammy and enthusiastic. Same is true during an internship, embrace the hectic life-style, stay positive, over-deliver and remember to stay in touch with people (possibly with thank you cards) after the internship ends. Startups come and go so a full-time job is never guaranteed but your network can become even more important. Here are a few more posts along these lines: http://www.internmatch.com/blog/category/mastering-summer-in...

5. Startups are a lot of work but also a lot of fun. Always keep an open mind about your internship, make friends with not just those in your company but students and startup people you meet outside of it and have a great time!

Thanks internproject.io team for such an in-depth knowledge center for interns. Excited to read and learn more about the events and resources you have coming up
FYI - this page is throwing an error http://coderdojonyc.com/volunteer/

Awesome idea.
What languages do you teach?