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San Francisco, CA – Fulltime, Software Engineer & Data Scientist

About us -
At Ginger.io, we are on a mission to change population health. The company is a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab, and we use sensor data and machine learning to build a 'check-engine light' for a person's health. Our platform is designed to help chronic patients, their caregivers and providers. Ginger.io is currently working with leading US healthcare institutions, has won industry awards, and has been featured in the Economist, New York Times, and Businessweek.

Software Engineer (Web, Mobile, Data) -
Ginger.io is looking for software engineers to help us take our product to the next level. We’re looking for candidates who can play across at least one of the following areas:

• Back-end web development: Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Django, Celery
• Front-end web development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
• Mobile: Android, iOS (either native or using frameworks like PhoneGap), background processing
• deployment & scaling: database sharding and replication, Apache/Nginx, Fabric, RabbitMQ, logging, monitoring
• Data engineering: production feature extraction and machine learning, distributed computation using Hadoop and Celery, data modeling using R and Python toolkits.

For more information: http://ginger.io/jobs/software-engineer/

Data Scientist -
We are looking for a Data Scientist with a background in statistics and data mining to focus on offline analysis and study design. This role is both internal and external facing, hence excellent communication skills are a must. We’re looking for a subset of the following technical skills.

• MS (or PhD) in statistics, epidemiology, computer science, public health or related quantitative field
• Expertise in statistics including study design, hypothesis testing, sample size estimation, generalized linear models and multivariate statistics
• Familiarity with machine learning and bayesian methods for classification for offline analysis
• Ability to develop and iterate models and analysis using R, Python, and other scripting languages on large datasets
• Ability to work with engineering team to deploy analysis/ models on production servers
• Experience with grant writing is a plus.

For more information: http://ginger.io/jobs/data-scientist/
ShopKeep (http://www.shopkeep.com)

Full time in NYC, or starting after May 1 in SF

We're looking for engineers to come work with us on our iPad point of sale system. iPad point of sale? That's just a cash register, right? Boring you say? Hellz no.

We're working on an API-centric web application and a native iOS app. We have a burgeoning data product and have started work on a payment gateway. We do front-end and back-end and web and mobile and data and security. It's a managed chaos of technologies. We work like horses, argue like lovers, and play like children.

Most of the effort is in Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Objective-C. Someone with experience in JRuby would be an awesome addition.

Most of us are full stack, but we didn't start here that way. Right now, we are especially in need of senior Ruby on Rails engineers, great front end people, and another DevOps person. Find out more about us here[1]. Email alex [at] shopkeep dot com for more information.

[1] - http://www.shopkeep.com/about
But do they have a Todo List demo? http://strd6.github.com/NoJS/demo.html
We’ve walled ourselves out of the full power of the app ecosystem
Totally agree with you that the skills learned from messing around won't turn you into a fully skilled programmer. My argument is that if he'd learned algoritms, recursion, data structures, etc. he probably would have hated and dropped it, while instead he at least knows something, has the ability to teach himself more, and hopefully has fond memories.
It's much better to foster a true interest in programming - even if they're not very good - if it will then lead them to improve themselves and enjoy doing it.
Good point.

And since a side-effect of the medication is trouble sleeping, I could see a vicious cycle starting.
None of that would have been an issue if we simply did away with copyright and created a new system that made more sense in this day and age. We do not need a system that relies on huge, centralized monoliths to distribute our entertainment anymore, we made something better and are desperately hoping the law will catch up.
this is happens with other opensource projects as well. you just don't hear about it. if you have contacts in the project then you have a good chance of getting early patches.
IMHO criticizing this map for its lack of spatial accuracy is sort of missing the point. It's not designed to be in the space dimension, it's designed to be in the time dimension.

The official itself is very good for determining location and the nearest T stop to various landmarks. If that fails, then Google maps is even better.

However, this map is damn good for easily and immediately visualizing how long it takes to get from stop to stop.
In the data mining world: With great power comes the struggle for profitability.

Fixed that for ya.

If this makes you uncomfortable, dont bother looking at their documentation… the depth and amount of data you can get about a single person is mind numbimg. Check out wolfram alphas facebook tool on yourself if you have an account if you want a peek: http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/
Butcher Chop - Great New iPhone Game
My name is Michael Eirinberg. I am 13 years old and am proud to announce that I have just completed my second iPhone app, Butcher Chop. It is an incredibly fun and addictive arcade game. Buy it now!
How Microsoft actually tries to listen to millions of Visual Studio customers
I've worked in an advisory role for a number of startups on a pure equity basis. It hasn't made me rich :-) But its always enjoyable and satisfying (which are my definitions of 'success' so yes its been successful).

That said there are two kinds of "equity" you can work for, one is to create a restricted stock grant which vests preferred shares during your tenure (that is paying you 'real' money as it were) and then there is an option grant for common stock which has a specific strike price. That is paying you in lottery tickets. If you get the former then even in an 'acquihire' sort of exit you have a shot at some compensation, whereas with the latter the common stock gets wiped out and you don't end up with anything but memories.

Which way you choose to be compensated should probably be based on how much time you expect to invest. If its coffee and cakes once a quarter before the board meeting to review strategies and messages, the latter is appropriate. If its put together an engineering team and set up the processes for building this company, I lean toward the preferred shares. Your mileage will vary of course.
Your guidelines look good, but how do you define "sexist" and "racist"?

Third-wave, post-modern feminists believe in a neat, well-defined hierarchy of sexes and races; regardless of the specifics of a given case, members of a "lower" group can by definition never be sexist or racist to a member of a "higher" group.

Is that your interpretation?
The only way to maintain exclusive ownership of "their" content is to lock it in a vault and keep it out of the public culture.

Eventually rightsholders, legislators, judges, and even attorneys will come to understand that simple truth.
Fair enough :-)

I still disagree with you of course, but that is what the free market is for. Good luck with your investments.
I got my Rift dev kit on Friday, and my weekend was expected occupied.

I"m not sure if I want Doom 4 in VR. Even in the very rough, early, low-resolution state of the Rift there is an uncanny realism to it - I can easily imagine people literally getting scared to death in horror games.

Games like Amnesia are scary enough on a flat screen in a lit room, there may be real issues with putting them in VR.

There's a thought. Gaming so realistic people stop playing them.
Reminds me of the DVD-streaming service Zediva that got legally badgered into shutting down; they were also trying to exploit a copyright "loophole" through clever use of hardware (the customer would rent an actual DVD that was played in an actual DVD player, and the content was then streamed to them): http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/zediva-preliminary-inj...
As always, it depends on the person and their specific goals, but I think diving in before learning the fundamentals is a better strategy for the reasons he's getting at in the blog. The biggest decider in whether you will be successful at a new skill is if you put in the hours, and you are more likely to put in the hours if you are having fun and engaged. If putting together a crappy web app makes you stick with it better than learning data structures, then it's better. Plus, for the majority of us, the end product is the real goal, and we only care about algorithms as far as it helps us achieve those goals. Lessons on code maintainability and algorithms will seem much more relevant and engaging once you tried to add features to your spaghetti code base or figure out why your application was so slow. Also, for some people who have a specific end goal in mind, maintainability or algorithms really don't actually matter because they have smaller goals.

To me it's similar to learning an instrument. Learning scales and doing finger exercises may be more useful practice than just playing songs you like all the time, but again, what's more important is that you consistently practice. As you learn more songs, you might struggle on parts or want to improvise and then you will be more engaged to learn technique or scales, and some people will be happy they can strum a few chords and never worry about more. In short, 1000 hours of mediocre practice will usually beat 10 hours of perfect practice, especially because the mediocre practice provides the motivation for the perfect practice.
No, this is about killing modern technology. The broadcasters want to prevent the Internet from becoming a distribution system for entertainment, because once that happens there will be no profit in broadcasting. They are fighting tooth and nail to ensure that the only way for entertainment to be distributed over the Internet is for the Internet to become a fancy cable TV system.

Aereo's technology is not standalone. They are using the Internet to do exactly what the Internet is supposed to be used for, which is the sharing of computing resources. This is a debate about whether or not that kind of technology is acceptable, not about whether or not antenna arrays are acceptable. There would have been no antenna arrays if the copyright lobbyists had been shown the door; we got to this point because outdated industries want to stop technological progress that threatens their antiquated business models.
It may be de-rigueur to bash Heroku in the wake of the Rap Genius drama/revelations but this kind of "downtime to apply critical security patch" announcement is precisely why I choose them.

I spotted the announcement of the postgres vulnerability and thought "sounds serious". Now I read that my production databases will be fixed as soon as the patch is available without me having to engage with the details.
Ahahahahahaha... Wtf?! I've never had that happen before...
Oops :) Sorry guys. Should've mentioned its US only...
Last I checked, the law didn't do anything to keep consenting content creators and content consumers from using P2P or Youtube or whatever "something better" you're referring to. Absolutely nothing is stopping anyone from creating and using this whole alternative, 21st century system, and leaving those big bad media conglomerates in the dust. Other than the fact that people just want to watch House, or SNL, or a Sony BMG produced music video.

It's not copyright law that gives NBC, Viacom, etc, their power. It's the fact that people really want their products and aren't willing to settle for alternatives. All copyright does is keep the Youtubes of the world from cashing in on that demand by inserting themselves in the middle and trying to profit from the popularity of the big media products.
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OP here. I should have linked to the original tweet so I don't look like a spammer. I'm just a big fan of this book.

https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim/status/318793778808893444
All of those sites have something that sets them apart in a way Nielsen himself has mentioned many times: most of their visitors probably do spend a significant amount of time there on a regular basis, so they don't need to follow the same rules as everyone else. Of course, whether those sites are successful because of their questionable aesthetics or despite them is a different question, and whether they might be more successful by some interesting measure if they tried a major change in their design is another question again.

In any case, details that are purely aesthetic -- subjective matters of beauty and personal taste -- don't make a difference to ease of use. That's a tautology, because not mattering to other factors is almost the definition of a detail being merely aesthetic. However, more generally, things like visual design and typography do matter and can make a measurable difference.
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This is true for most software vendors. In particular companies which make IDS software, control large number of deployments or are in highly-targeted sectors (defence, finance, etc.) will tend to have arrangements with software vendors to get early access to patches/vulnerability information.

Typically to get that type of relationship you need to show the vendor that you have a real need for early access and that you have strong internal controls that would prevent any information gained from early access from leaking.
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Codepoints.net now shows LaTeX notation
No, not unless your company is a public company. Bird in the hand.
Here's a related idea, proposed by MIT Finance professor Andrew Lo:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506916/economist-propos...

It's basically a fund that would develop drugs in a portfolio-based fashion, to take some of the uncertainty out of drug development by aggregating risk over a set of efforts.

This scheme might preserve some of the benefits of the market-based system we have now, but promote development of a class of drugs that is hard for the market to develop.
InstantCab gets a Progress and Persist notice from SFO
This is not an uncommon practice at all. There are other projects that provide early notifications to large vendors. Part of the point of that early notice is so binary packages can be available. Packages can't get built, tested and released alongside security announcements without someone getting early notification. Users are in a much better position if the binary packages are available when the announcement hits than if the announcement hits and the binaries are available a week later.

If the issue leaks out early or someone independently finds it they're just in that much better of a position to release the fix. Vendors will be closer to having packages ready.

Yes, it's probably not entirely fair. But there's no way to tell everyone without telling the bad guys too. The risk of telling select people to get the ball rolling is worth it if the entire ecosystem is ready when the announcement comes out.

Dealing with these issues is always going to be about managing the risk. You can't draw a line in the sand.
New York, NY (full-time, RoR dev, designer)

FaithStreet (http://www.FaithStreet.com) is a social outreach and member engagement platform for religious communities. Over 11,000 communities have joined in the last 6 months. The problems we're solving are ancient and ready for innovation.

* Full-stack Ruby Engineer: You should possess equal parts talent and determination. You’re a “maker” and a generalist, stoked to execute product vision. Front-end, back-end, you take big problems and turn them into code.

* Designer/Front-end Dev: This isn't an opportunity to just make things pretty or make pretty things (although we'd like some of that too!). Help us think through ways communities can reach and engage members.

Visit http://www.faithstreet.com/jobs or contact jobs@faithstreet.com
"A few web-based services" ?? Here is a list of more than a thousand merchants accepting Bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

And there are a lot more not on this list. Bitpay alone (a Bitcoin payment processor) claims to have multiple thousands of merchants.
Developer Auction - San Francisco - Full Time / Onsite only
2 Roles: Full Stack Rails, Developer Advocate

Developer Auction is the talent market place. We make it easy and transparent for top engineers to find top companies. We raised 2.7MM from places like GV, Sierra, and NEA. Currently we have 7 developers, and looking to add an 8th. Our stack is ruby of rails, but mostly just looking for good generalists that can ship.

We are also looking for a Developer Advocate. Our marketplace is about people as much as it is about technology, and we need a few friendly, organized folks who like helping people through the marketplace. We have a junior and a senior role, and will look at anyone coming from a technical background, technical recruiting, internal HR, or growth hacking.

Email me at trent@developerauction.com
Using the analogy in the article, would it be illegal for me, sitting just outside the NY border, to watch NY broadcast television via a cable attached to an antenna that is inside NY?
San Fransico

Measur3D is looking for a physical simulation programer. Our team is actively seeking an experienced Physical Simulation Programer to be the first hire for our Fabric Simulation Team. The Programmer will be responsible for implementing a production version of a high performance fabric model described in paper1 (http://graphics.berkeley.edu/papers/Wang-DDE-2011-08/Wang-DD...) & paper2 (http://graphics.berkeley.edu/papers/Narain-AAR-2012-11/Narai...). You will be starting with a 'research code' implementation of the fabric model and be directly working with the people who created the model. The fabric simulation will be implemented in C++ and must be reliable and performant. The candidate will have strong C++ (or C) experience as well as a strong math background. Ideally, the candidate will have experience with physical simulation and graphics algorithms. Because the person who created model is on member of our team, we believe a candiate who loves to code and has a strong math background can be highly successful in this role.

Responsibilities:
Implement physics based fabric simulation in C++
Interact with team to design improvements and optimizations to the current model

Required Skills:
C++ or C experience and knowledge of object oriented programing - show via previous success in a large project.
Strong Math background - at the level of BS in Math, Applied Math, or Physics - must be comfortably implementing algorithms.
Strong Linux development experience: git, gdb, ldd, cmake/make, vim/emacs etc.
Discipline and determination to resolve complex problems, reformat code, debug, and optimize.
Enjoys working with smart people on detailed technical problems.

Desired Skills:
Experience with Numerical methods, OpenMP, SSE.

Interested? Send us a note: hiring.m3d <at> gmail.com
PyCon incident? You mean the incident where they gave away RaspberryPis to everyone, including females? Or the one where they raised tens of thousands of dollars for PyLadies? Or maybe something a little more indirect, like perhaps all the connections female coders made with other coders of all kinds of race, gender, or sexual orientation?

As you clearly joined this discussion to smite other users, you'll have to excuse me if I think you are a cave dwelling troll.
Delivering iOS Push Notifications with Node.js
Modafinil Is Wall Street’s New Drug of Choice
The Neil Postman reference is to establish the distinction between stupid talk (i.e. statements which are demonstrably false) and crazy talk (i.e. statements which rely on such a different semantic frame that they are meaningless except in that frame.) This distinction comes up throughout the entire essay, most prominently in the title.

No essay can really be understood in a vaccuum. There's always some manner of background information which has to be absorbed in order to understand its gist, even if that background information is just a rudimentary grasp of the language used to write it. The purpose of Morozov's allusions is not to just allude, but rather to give explicit links to concepts he's drawing on. In the Postman case, Morozov wishes to use the distinction Postman drew up, but without spending too long reiterating it (and thus cluttering up an already cluttered essay) he describes it briefly, notes the source, and then figures that if you want to understand the distinction more thoroughly, you can look up the original.

I can't argue that it's a bit overwrought and thick—at the very least, I concur it needed some manner of chapter headings or other structure—but Morozov is most certainly not alluding for the sake of alluding.
You are severely miscategorizing real estate. Look at what happened in the 2000s bubble. Property was flipping with no value adds, and even with added wear and tear.

Buying desert property today and selling it for profit in 10 years when the city next door expands-- that is not wealth creation.
https://saucelabs.com/ perhaps?
Yeah. And as a newbie, which sounds like the more plausible path to successfully becoming a real programmer?

1. Can't do anything -> Learn to build stuff -> Learn to write good code

2. Can't do anything -> Learn to write good code -> Learn to build stuff

Plenty of folks need the motivation of seeing what cool stuff they can build to make it through the dry parts.
Why would I want to maintain a bitcoin wallet if its value fluctuates heavily every day? Would you want your checking account to do the same?
Agreed.

I posted this article almost exclusively for the collection of statistics and studies, not for her analysis when it intersects with fiction material which can greatly cloud issues.

To illustrate my point: some of the greatest range of violent, sexual and gender assymetrical fiction material known is very readily available and used in societies like Japan (well before the advent of the Internet), yet their crime rates are virtually non-existent compared to much of the rest of the world.
I think the idea of VR is beginning to shift: head-mounted displays are clunky, a much more immersive solution is to project the virtual world on a large curved screen or a wall, and then use array microphones, and a set of cameras for tracking user motion.

I worked on a project like this a while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVVKNTP0lfo

There are a few places where this research is going on, USC's ICT also has a really nifty setup, a lot like HoloDeck v0.0001 from Star Trek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcTswP0sF9w
I think they should probably be able to get away without individual antennas, too - as long as they still have individual tuners. After all, there's plenty of apartment buildings where everyone shares a single antenna, and those aren't considered an infringement of the public performance right.