skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though perhaps it was not Tesla's intent, this might be a feature, not a bug. Some cars (notably the Volt) will not charge an Li-Ion battery beyond about 85% nor allow it to drop below 15%. As a result the battery has an effective capacity of about 70% its full capacity. As I understand it the reason for this is battery life: these battery chemistries last much longer when only in a partially charged state.

I think that Tesla is pushing this: a quick Google suggests they may be charging up to 95% and maybe dropping to 5% in their standard packs. 40kWH usable charge on a 60kWh pack brings this down to maybe 65%, which should last a good long time.
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Boston, MA (South End, no remote) - MeYou Health

I'm Lead Engineer at MeYou Health and we're hiring engineers (and a web designer). We work mostly in Rails and Node.js, building web apps that help people improve their well-being through small, healthy actions that are within reach for everyone. Our apps leverage social connections and game mechanics as well as our original research in health and behavior change.

I've been with MeYou Health for about 6 months and it's the best job I've ever had. We ship code every day of the week, multiple times per day. We're all users of the products we build so we're all really invested in making the products great. It's a fantastic team and a great environment.

Some highlights from our jobs page:

We have a practically unheard of work/life balance. We are very flexible and family friendly when it comes to work and vacation time. Those crazy hours you find at most start-ups? Practically nonexistent here.

We're friends. We know and like each other, quirks and all.

We care about workplace well-being. Health matters here.

We play games. We have an Xbox and know how to use it.

We're in this together. We have a great team dynamic with a go-get-’em attitude.

We have fun. Conversations are lively and there's plenty of laughter.

We're making a difference. Our well-being solutions are creating meaningful, lifelong change.

* Competitive salaries with annual bonus structure

* 23 paid days off a year, plus flex days and holidays

* 401(k) matching with no vesting schedule

* Comprehensive health benefits, including life, AD&D, vision and dental, for you, your family, or your significant other

* New software and equipment (we’re mostly on Macs) and an iPhone

* Flexible and open working environment

* Walking distance from Back Bay, Arlington, and Park Street MBTA stations

Please feel free to contact me directly at sean.santry@meyouhealth.com

or read more and apply at

http://meyouhealth.com/jobs
TubularLabs - Mountain View CA

Python shop - if you're a frontend or backend pick...
Frontend - BackboneJS, HTML5, CSS
Backend - RabbitMQ / MySQL / Tornado

We're building SASS tools for YouTube to help channels develop their audience.

Contact me if you're interested: david@tubularlabs.com
SMA, a big German inverter company, shows the daily amount of PV generated in the country. Today, they hit nearly 18 GW. I'll bet they have at least one 30 GW day this year, once the sun finally comes out.

http://www.sma.de/en/company/pv-electricity-produced-in-germ...
We are following this model with LearningLine (www.learninglineapp.com). We offer an optional "class" format where an instructor is available to answer questions and review homework. With most eLearning, when students hit a topic they don't understand, they have to figure it out themselves. Some will quit when they hit this wall. Our instructors are there to help students keep going. No more web searches for help, just send a question and an instructor will answer and even get on Skype to explain in person.
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SEEKING FREELANCER | AppMonsta | Remote

Big Data/Distributed Systems Software Engineer

AppMonsta collects massive amounts of data about mobile apps and turns it into actionable metrics for a wide variety of business customers ranging from investors to health care companies to startups. We really love data, building distributed systems, and helping people understand complicated market dynamics through our data.

We're looking for a distributed systems/big data software engineers to join our distributed team. You'll take ownership of our crawl & data pipeline, keeping them running with high uptime, scaling them up to handle load, and adding new data sources and new features to help our customers make even better decisions. Experience with distributed systems and/or big data is a huge bonus - we're looking for people that have a good intuition about what good architecture looks like, and who can grow into leadership roles.

Our current tech stack is mostly python, linux, aws (ec2, s3, & emr mostly), mongodb, and redis. If you haven't worked with individual pieces of this before it's fine - we like working with smart people that are comfortable working in a distributed systems/big data/cloud environment. We're happy to help you get up to speed with anything you haven't seen before. We practice peer code review and continuous deployment on all our code and systems.

Our entire team works remotely. We're very flexible about where and when you work, as long as you ship code, keep systems online, and are reachable by other team members for part of the day. We stay in touch via a team chatroom and weekly team video chats, with impromptu 1-on-1 video chats whenever there's a detailed issue to discuss. To make this work, you'll need to be in a compatible timezone (between PDT(UTC-08) and CET(UTC+1)), and be very fluent writing and speaking english. Like getting out of the house to work? Ask about our mobile internet subsidy:)

This is a full time, longterm opportunity. If this sounds exciting, please send us your resume and a couple hundred lines of some code you've written (preferably python), so we can get a sense for your coding style.

Contact: luka [at] appmonsta.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote
Full-stack developer with preference to Python for backends.
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> Windows users are immune from alien Wi-Fi attacks

It wasn’t really alien, just an alien customer with a London-based HaaS contractor – and with regards to Windows users being immune, don’t some bots also patch the security holes through which they got into their host?
Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you!

zachary.weinstein@twosigma.com

http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
Ask HN: Tool to sort/filter bookmarks?
In the last 3 years as an employee I collected loads of bookmarks in Firefox that I know could really use. Problem is, I wasn't really strict with my sorting and filering them at times. This means, there are lots of different structures and even more folders called "stuff". Not the best starting point if I want to catch up on some topic.

Are there any good tools out there to sort or filter an exisiting base of bookmarks?
I thought they've been "new" for a while now already. What's new in this new?
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code that ties us in to financial markets. We are a very small team (I am the only employee) and are looking to add one or two engineers to focus on strategy or on infrastructure.

No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

http://amacapital.net/careers.html
Being from the area, I don't recall Mayflower as being very rural. It's a town near Conway which, while small, is not rural. Right off I-40.
SEEKING WORK

Experienced infrastructure / devops consultant. Based in London UK, available for local or remote work. 10+ years building Linux Web platforms and the teams to operate them. Battle scars include AWS, Ubuntu, Nginx, Puppet, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Zabbix, Django & more for some very high traffic clients. Programming skills in Python (incl. some sizable projects) and PHP.

alex@mbird.biz
Getting rid of mysql_* once and for all on the web.
New York - TheLadders

Full time. Colocated.

We are looking for great engineers who love to constantly push themselves and grow and learn.

Some of the tech stuff we have been working with lately or probably will soon: storm, elastic search, scala, java, erlang, backbone.js, couchbase, riak cs, clusterix, datomic, riemann, sass/compass, iOS.

We believe in finding good talented people and investing in them. We've put a lot of time into developing our recently launched onboarding and development program:

http://dev.theladders.com/2013/02/onboarding/
http://dev.theladders.com/2013/03/theladders-on-boarding-a-r...

We're investing heavily in training, conferences etc for team members.

We're slowly rolling out a responsive web application, have our first iOS hitting the streets soon and tons more. If you are interested in a highly collaborative environment where you aren't just there to write code- an environment where you can and are expected to participate in the entire lifecycle of the products you work on, then we should talk.

Email at the addressed list for this account.
Windows 8 now up to 3.31% market share as Vista finally falls below the 5% mark
That's a myth. Consider the Clackamas Town Center shooting: Nick Meli had a concealed carry permit and was carrying a weapon, although he correctly didn't take a shot. We could argue about whether or not the shooter saw Meli and committed suicide as a result, but that's irrelevant: the shooter didn't choose a gun free zone.
London or New York?
Update Rails or not – security issues either way
Simple CSS Compressor
Console based, quite simple, CSS compressor.
Worldwide Telecommute / REMOTE
Automattic is currently hiring for a variety of positions

We are passionate about making the web a better place and are strong believers in Open Source. We build WordPress.com, contribute to the WordPress Open Source project (http://wordpress.org) and work on a lot of other really cool stuff including Gravatar and Akismet.
Join us if you are passionate about making the web a better place.

If you like solving interesting problems in different ways, are passionate about giving people the platform to share their knowledge, views etc we would loves to here from you :)

Head here to read more - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
I am hoping I can get more people to participate AI I can update the blog post with more information. However we shouldn't put too much information in not too overwhelm the new user
Anyone know where the treasure is? Make sure you check out street view too.
They're probably referring to the serialization of certain gun parts.
PURGE is probably never used (and in my 5 years of log analysis I have never seen it with any major API, but I am sure someone uses it, but why design for such a small fringe) and it is also not part of the HTTP (RFC-2616, section 9: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) spec so why design for it, just asking for trouble; stick to 'modified'-type headers to control the cache and HTTP response 304 when needed.

While XML is ok, JSON is the dominant format for REST APIs and consumed by way more frameworks and libraries at this point.

Was this written 10 years ago, it seems kind of stale and confusing.
CodeFi - London, UK.
* Job Description

Great products have amazing design features with exact execution, to accomplish this a cycle of code, test and release gives quick result. Well-tested, robust systems form the core of our business.
You will have the opportunity to work with the founders to architect and deliver powerful server/client features and systems.

Our work moves from C++ to Java to Objective-C to PHP and well beyond! You will work closely with the front-end engineers to deliver solutions that wow users.

Desired Skills & Experience

Any of the following are advantageous: MySQL, jQuery, Linux, HTML/CSS, .NET, Java, CodeIgniter, networking knowledge, CSS, Javascript, LESS, PHP, C++, RADIUS

* Company Description

CodeFi is an innovative and fun startup building custom software and solutions for the high street and the growing subscription economy. We are passionate about technology and experts in creating elegant and powerful applications that do the job.

We are looking for ambitious individuals to help us build cutting edge technology and services. This position will provide the opportunity to join a rapdily growing and dynamic team of great minds!

To Apply
Compensation: 22k to 24k
Experience: Associate
Type: Full-time

Contact: apply@codefi.co.uk with CV
Any number of factors could cause that. It's not on the first page for me. "A followed B, so B must have caused A" is how most miracle cure, weight loss, marketing, and money making products are born. Most are bogus or fail in the long term.
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I'm getting:

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From click to click.
I'm always leery when the process gets more attention than the work. If your process has a name it's in great danger of getting too much attention.
I don't see how an unfunny internet-scale April Fool's prank recruits top-talent.

What does it recruit for? People who have a bad sense of humor?

... and yes, I am still bitter about google reader.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python/Django/jQuery, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I have a research background, data analysis, playing around with NLP right now. I run a django dev shop, currently taking gigs for it. Here's my portfolio:

* http://www.cloudshuffle.com/

* http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html

Contact details in my profile or the link above.

Here're some examples from my portfolio:

* http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com - Turbotax CPA Select, to help select accountants.

* http://www.ecomarket.com - An online marketplace for ethical and eco friendly products.

* http://www.teaspiller.com - An online marketplace for tax experts. [Recently acquired by Intuit]

* http://www.knowyourbank.com

* http://www.garnishbar.com - social network, to share mixed drink recipes

* http://www.fertilityplanit.com, built their self serve ad network + billing and payments.

* http://www.turlytag.com - an app to connect owners with people who found their lost items.

* http://www.fratmusic.com - an online radio streaming app serving over 1.3 million uniques a month.

* http://loudfarm.com - A music event site.

* Wisekangaroo: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/10832416/1/Cloudshuffle/Web-...
- Find a tutor. Working on relaunch in a new avatar

http://www.hypedsound.com/ - a music sharing platform, working on V2 right now.

and many more
StorageRoom - Berlin, Germany - H1b -----------------------------------

We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).

You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies (e.g. Viacom).

We already have a team of incredible developers that are working on the next generation of our service. We are looking for a JS dev to join us (Node + Angular).

Interested? Please send an email to sascha@thriventures.com and I can tell you more.
Not the traditional for this thread, but I'm looking for students/freelancers who are excellent programmers for small projects I need time to time for my network of sites.

Typical range of $100-200 per project, usually small edits, feature additions, etc. Email is in profile.
> Often the rewards for the actual people who do the R&D are pretty poor.

It seems to be in line with the this [1] comment but due to completely different reasons. If you have some insight into money allocation in a drug company could give an answer to the linked comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472861
Could also be parts where the FPU failed QA but the rest was fine.
This is a technocrat description of national socialism based on technology and corporatism. Been there, done that. Eben has already warned about the totalitarianism not of the future, but of the present:

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
We are all good at recognising our younger selves.

We might not like them, but we can recognise them
Apple's Nearly Single Digit P/E Seems Underserved
To put this in perspective, Novartis Glivec is the beta crystalline form of 'imatinib mesylate' - an already known compound which went out of patent. Novartis failed to establish that the new form has demonstrable efficacy over non-crystalline form. As per section 3 (d) of Indian Patent Law designed to prevent Evergreening - inventions that are mere "discovery" of a "new form" of a "known substance" and do not result in increased efficacy of that substance are not patentable. Indian patent law follows guidelines set forth by WTO under TRIPS agreement. So Novartis has exhausted all their legal defences. Novartis did not get even one favourable verdict in the entire legal battle which played out in 3 different courts of law.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the site... it has to do with what the difference is vs. the total size of the sample. If you see a 50% increase but only had 3 people in your sample, that is not statistically significant because the probability of that happening by chance is so high. To make this concrete, if the actual proportion was 4:1 against that figure (as in, you "should" have measured a whopping decrease to 25% the original conversion), you'd still measure the totally incorrect 50% increase in one out of every ten attempts at that measurement.
The author of the article you posted, Donald Light, has done a pretty poor job of supporting the numbers he has come up with.

If you want to see what drugs cost to develop, just ask the scientists who develop them: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/09/getting_drug...

His numbers don't even pass the sniff test. If you want to find out how much it costs to develop a new drug, there is nothing stopping you from calling a CRO and asking how much they charge for phase III trials (they are all in competition, so they'll freely give you a quote).

The average cost for a phase III trial is approximately $15,000/pt/yr. 1000 patients is a pretty average size trial, so now you are at $15M for one trial and the FDA requires at least two phase III trials.

And that's just the cost of phase III trials which doesn't include: phase I, phase II, manufacturing, regulatory costs, etc. Donald Light's claim that drugs cost $45M to develop is laughable and the could only come from someone with no understanding of drug development.
I had it 14 years ago. I was really nearsighted, and it made my vision perfect. Of course, I knew that was heading off the inevitable need for reading/computer glasses. Last year (at 45 years old) I ended up back in full-time glasses. They're progressive lenses, so they correct for reading and the small degree of farsightedness that I've developed.

It was completely worth it for me, wearing glasses from age 10 did a number on my self-esteem that getting rid of them improved dramatically. Also, glasses style (or my own sense of it) also improved dramatically. I think I look decent in my current glasses.
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"sounds hyperbolic to me"

Exponential not hyperbolic. If the median real world inflation adjusted income of the general population continues to drop as it has for about three generations so far, at the same time as tuition increases faster than inflation, the rate of decline of general population who can afford to attend will decrease somewhat exponentially not hyperbolic.

Also if you model higher ed as a fad, where rich kids used to go to the ivies so the masses try to copy them by going to state-U, this fad might burn out. Maybe if rich peoples kids try to do startups there will be a flood of the masses all simultaneously trying to get their kids into YC. I would theorize that fads and trends socially propagate exponentially not hyperbolic.

There are also arguments about lack of funding by .gov directly and via loan guarantees having to come to an end, but I think that would be a pretty sharp step function rather than exp or hyp.

Overall I think the best long term argument is exp decline with some pretty sharp step functions. Both linear and hyp are too extreme.

I've never seen a good biz argument against .edu mergers. Why the higher ed system has to have the biz model like corner store retail is unclear. Why can't it be like banking or big media or automotive where a handful of major players control the vast majority of the market? I could totally see 10 or so universities, each with as many local campuses as car mfgrs have car dealers. I could totally see franchise operated proctored test centers, maybe with onsite small group meeting/conference/workspace. Could you run an ochem lab for chemistry classes as a local franchise? I'm thinking probably not for various safety/liability reasons.
So, where is the evidence-based decision to switch to colored, non-underlined links explained? I'm very curious to see it, since I've been stubbornly supporting underlined links all these years ...
Brace yourselves !
Functionnal programming has come to PHP !
Paul Irish's "10 Things I Learned From the jQuery Source" is also a really good analysis of the jQuery Source, particularly for people still getting started with Javascript.

It's available at http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquer... and should be interesting to people who liked this link
Leiningen versus the Ants