skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knewton - New York, NY (Union Square) - full-time

Knewton's mission is to bring personalized learning to the world.

Knewton is the world's leading adaptive learning technology provider. The Knewton platform makes it possible for anyone to build applications that provide real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, analytics, and more. The world's largest and most innovative learning companies use Knewton technology to improve student achievement in K–12 (e.g.,Houghton Mifflin), higher education (e.g.,Pearson), global English Language Teaching (e.g.,Macmillan), and other markets. Knewton has been recognized globally as a "Technology Pioneer" (World Economic Forum in Davos), one of the world's "50 Most Innovative Companies" (Fast Company), and one of "The World's 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs" (Goldman Sachs).

Knewton has about 115 employees, over half of which work in technology, data science, and adaptive instruction, including machine learning.

http://www.knewton.com/jobs/

http://www.knewton.com/tech/blog/

Some specific openings:

* Business Development Director - http://bit.ly/10uusn3

* Marketing Manager, Growth - http://bit.ly/16JH5eW

* Data Scientist - http://bit.ly/12yWm1X

* Software Engineer - Big Data - http://bit.ly/14IsjUm

* Senior Security Engineer - http://bit.ly/14lqxJY

* Senior Product Manager - http://bit.ly/14lqyxv

--> For more follow http://twitter.com/knewton_jobs
Show HN: My just-released Newsstand app, developed with TypeEngine
I think a more interesting discussion would be one concerning what impact the opinions on the markets is having on startup investing. I wonder if people's current distrust of the general stock market & fear of volatality may encourage investors to do more deals with companies that aren't publicly traded because the value of the company is isolated from the whims of the market etc. This would push people from the traditional markets into less liquid markets such as equity deals with pre-ipo companies.
thats a really bold decision for a photo hosting site. has anyone coined the term "minimum viable hardware" yet?
Two of the biggest help desk app on the web are running on rails. Salesforce helpdesk app with this as its url http://www.desk.com/ and ofcourse the helpdesk startup http://www.zendesk.com/.

Based on the facts above, I submit to you that there is nothing interesting about the reference to Amy Hoy's charm (and there is nothing in there to depress a rails developer using ubuntu).

As far as I am concerned, Amy Hoy's app did not get the kind of traction they envisaged simple. Hence they shut it down.

I am sure that both jitbit's app and Amy Hoy's were not as big customer wise as that form Zendesk and Salesforce. I am sure their traffic numbers wasn't anything near what zendesk and desk.com does.
I think the restrictions are things like restricting by IP, reducing simultaneous use, throttling the rate you can create new sessions.

With a unified token, you have to always trust it for as long as the 'remember me' token is alive. With split tokens, you can do a sanity checks like those mentioned above on every session initialisation.

The value of splitting the tokens into separate cookies seems to be simplicity of implementation. You can rely on the browser to invalidate the session cookie on a browser close, but leave the 'remember me' cookie (as far as you can rely on the browser to do anything).

Every useful restriction I can think of seems brittle, so I guess it's weighing up security against support.
SEEKING WORK - full stack Ruby on Rails development shop from Europe. We work mainly remote.

Since 2010, we have been helping startups transform their ideas into beautiful, expertly engineered web applications.

Services:
* 3 weeks MVP -> $7000
* Hourly rate -> $100

Our site including portfolio: http://diacode.com/
Contact: hello@diacode.com
I will say this: it confuses the hell out of daihyou, who spends a lot of time on linkedin.

One man's 'responsive and interactive' is another man's "Did it work?"

I'm not going to make a value judgement on this bit. If snappy, responsive, and interactive are priorities, they should be handled in a way that doesn't involve opening the gates of hell and letting Javascript out. If the standards don't provide a clean way to do that that ensures accessibility and that pages don't discriminate against programmatic displays, then they damned well should so that we can exercise the hellspawn that is Javascript once and for bloody all.
If it helps, I'm a real hacker :) Here's some of my open-source code: https://github.com/Ovid

Here's some more of my open-source code: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/

Here's my tech blog where I give advice to other hackers: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/

I'm a hacker trying to help other hackers live their dreams and I give freely back to the community.

> This is "Who's hiring" thread and it has always been a place for companies to post their own direct-hire positions.

I realize that you disagree with recruiters being here. The lead paragraph for the "Who is Hiring" threads says the following:

> Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

I've never seen anything which states "no recruiters". We specifically looked for that because we didn't want to violate any TOS or alienate those we are trying to help.

I'm sorry you disagree with how we've handled this, but we honestly do try to help people live anywhere in the world. The fact that I've also been writing a blog helping people do this for years should help back that up.

When candidates contact us with their CV and express an interest in the jobs, we immediately tell them who is hiring and why. It's hard enough for those who dream of living abroad to find companies willing to help them. Why restrict their opportunities?
If you are looking for a job, simply type into any comment field on the Internet "HEY NSA I WANT A JOB" and someone will contact you shortly.
Silicon Valley. I grew up dreaming about Livermore Labs, Xerox PARC, Hewlett Packard (in its day), Apple. Now everything is in the city, and each start up as vapid and pointless as the last.
Off topic.

Having had a melanoma myself, this area obviously interest me.

Have you thought about a grander vision i.e. using a high def camera taking picture of he entire body in one snap and then analyzing that data?

I have more than a thousand moles, many of them abnormal, so using a camera on a per spot basis is simply not safe enough with the current technology.
Dutch trend watchers in 1996: 'Internet is dull and drowsy'
shift-G in Opera.

in Firefox it used to be in one of the menus, something about styles.

i'm not sure if Chrome can do it without a plugin.
Youtube's use of Flash and HTML 5 is 100%, completely worthless!

There are a million youtube downloading apps out there that don't require me to even use a web browser to download videos from youtube. And, after they're downloaded (or even during the download), I can use any number of (non-browser-based) video players to watch them.

Youtube could make it even easier to download their videos by simply providing a direct link to the video in mp4 format. No Javascript, Flash, or HTML 5 required!
You're talking about a different Glide - this is the actual Glide https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glidetalk.... . You can email the developer, so I've sent an email to ask if they'll comment on this.
The data doesn't support many of your views. Specifically, the claim that modern engines are somehow less reliable than the "good old days". I know you're only reporting anecdotes from people you'd consider to have a good view on the matter, but you have to keep in mind the biases involved with those views. A mechanic sees nothing but broken cars all day long. Their views are going to be skewed by their experience. Those views are not reflective of the much greater population of vehicles that experience no problems at all.

The reality is that cars have never been more reliable:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/when-it-comes-to-new-vehicl...

> “The long-term dependability of three-year-old models has improved year-over-year, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study.

> “In 2013, overall vehicle dependability averages 126 PP100–a five percent improvement from the 2012 average of 132 PP100–and is the lowest problem count since the inception of the study in 1989.”

Simplicity makes engines easier to work on for the layman, but it doesn't necessarily make them more reliable.

I'm a total gear head. My love affair with cars started really early. At 3, I figured out how to use a screw driver by taking the tail lights off my dad's VW Beetle. At age 7, I helped my dad tear a VW Beetle's 4-cylinder boxer engine down to the case halves, then put it back together. I was infatuated with the process and the understanding that came with every part we removed and reassembled.

I often wonder whether my father and I could have accomplished the same with (just an example) the new Ford Ecoboost 1.0L 3-cylinder, but I recognize that giving up that simplicity has resulted in an overall improvement in reliability and quality for the vast majority of drivers.
I think a lot of people back then - like me as a teenager in the 80s - thought Reagan to be pure evil. Today the view on Reagan is more differentiated, his later view on nuclear war, the reunification, what he wanted to achieve vs. the cold war hardliner and Thatcherism capitalist, Bitburg, Pershing II, SDI.
I agree, he could easily be using a JVM-based stack to get the same or better efficiency out of his 1-server configuration.

Also there's some clearly naivety when bragging about his "low cost" $200/month setup. His SQL Server licenses alone will probably triple or quadruple his costs when his Bizspark status runs out.
Isn't it what you do when you use a free software stack?
What if YOU ended up in an airport where you had no visa?
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired FIVE full-time people and TWO summer interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations

* Back-end infrastructure: scalability, web crawling, big data, analytics

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!).

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We are always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

Scribd's vision is to build the digital library of the 21st century. Just as Wikipedia built the successor to the encyclopedia, we want to build the successor to the library. It is a big vision and we have a long way to go, but I'd be happy to tell you more about what we're working on now and how we plan to get there.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
Just out of interest - what's your plan for when that host dies? (complete disk corruption) How quickly can you recover to the exact same state?

(I don't mean getting the data back, I mean actually having your software empire back online, serving live traffic again with minimal data loss)
London, UK - M7 Real Estate - Full Stack Web Developer

I am Oli the Technology partner at M7 Real Estate and I am looking for a full stack web developer to work from our London Office. I can't accept remote workers for this role, but you'll be working from our 7th Floor Office in Marble Arch with awesome views of Hyde Park.

You will be the first dedicated developer to join the business, reporting directly to me who has been the sole developer to date. Due to the small nature of the team I really need someone self-motivated who is keen to take on new challenges and is happy to just get stuff done to help us drive our business forward. This is not a heavily structured development team environment and you need to be comfortable with that.

You need to be just as happy working with relational databases, querying them and also hand coding the standards compliant HTML / CSS to sit on top of them. Typical projects involve PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery. Experience of CakePHP would be brilliant, as would any C# experience but neither of these are deal breakers. Source control is GIT and the rest of your tools are broadly up you.

As well as our internal systems, we also provide outsourced web development services to 3rd parties so you will get to work on a diverse range of projects. Our core business is in the process of going through a rapid period of expansion and to support that we are starting to create a more formal dev team and you will be a pivotal part of that both in terms of how we operate day to day and who we hire as and when we need to grow.

M7 Real Estate is a company of 30 people, led by a partnership of 11. Most of the partnership has worked together over 3 different businesses over the course of the last 15 years. We are a close team that finds the right people and then hangs on to them. We are in the process of opening offices in Glasgow, Amsterdam and Denmark and Germany is forecast for later in the year. If this is of interest and you want to find out more about who we are and what we do, then drop me an email oli.farago@m7re.co.uk
> 1) Only to other Firefox OS phones that support the same WebAPIs that your apps require. Mozilla is working hard to push those APIs through W3C and encourage others to implement them. But that is a slow process and it remains to be seen if the other players want to do that.

In theory, it will work anywhere, eventually. But today, almost every single FirefoxOS applications can run unchanged on Android (using Firefox for Android). Most of them can also work on laptop/desktop (using regular Firefox). That's already way better than whatever Android or iOS offer.

> 2) Only if those applications are completely standalone and do not depend on server side components. Developer goes out of business or loses interest in the app? Good luck reverse engineering minified JavaScript or reimplementing a backend that the app depended on.

On this point, I agree with you. The parent post was overpromising.

> Firefox OS is great and it is a long term plan. But to claim it solves all problems we have now with mobile software goes too far in my opinion. Those same problems will just exist on any new platform.

I, for one, don't claim that. But I am convinced that Firefox OS is a great step forward, and that's all we can ask, really.

Caveat: I am a Mozillian.
What makes you a programmer?
I totally agree. All other options did not satisfy my need for a replacement.
You can still use bitbucket on your own hardware with http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/pricing

(Not affiliated with Atlassian/Bitbucket in any way - but I love their software)
Not true. Just image: If he had closed Guantanamo, killed less supposed terrorists using drones, ensured Manning was not tortured. - I expect most of us (people overseas) would be mostly happy with him. It could have happened, even in America.
How does the "reference implementation" of ASP.NET actually work? Is the cookie's value mapped to some in-memory entry in the application server, is it stored in a database, etc? It seems that the article doesn't say.
SEEKING WORK - Minneapolis, Remote

I'm a guy who thinks that design should be backed up by data and judged by how much value it creates.

Things I can do for your business:

- Make sure Google Analytics is implemented correctly and that you have the right visibility into your website.

- Create an A/B testing strategy and execute that strategy.

I've worked with over 30 clients, optimizing their UX and increasing their metrics.

Email: karolis@gmail.com, ask me about a short free consultation over Skype or Google Hangouts.

Also, I'm writing a short ebook about A/B testing. If you have any questions about A/B testing, let me know. I'd love to close any gaps in the public knowledge of testing.
We are growing fast and hiring engineers – PlanGrid (YC W12)
PlanGrid is looking for engineers in SF - iOS, Rails, Javascript, and dev-ops.

We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).

We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our 13th team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico (this years location:http://i.imgur.com/kEiI2ej.jpg), and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
Eventually, all the social and location graphs will be mapped for all of humankind - and we shall find out that everyone, on the whole planet, is exactly 42 feet from Kevin Bacon.
Vimeo – NY, NY and LA, CA

Check out all our jobs: http://vimeo.com/jobs

- PHP Engineers - NY

- Search Engineer (Solr) - NY

- Hadoop Data Engineer (Hive / HBase) - NY

- Frontend Video Engineer (AS3, JavaScript) - NY

- Payments Engineer (Vindicia, Stripe, or Braintree, etc) - NY

- Site Reliability Engineer - NY

- MySQL DBA – NY or LA

Non-Tech

- Communications Director - NY

- GM, Subscription Services - NY

- Director of Strategic Sales - LA

Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.

Feel free to email our Tech Recruiter, tyler at vimeo dot com.
Thanks for that post, I think the point I was making was slightly different. I'm arguing that with web programming you lack the end to end control you might have in a closed system. You depend on all sorts of input from users, your data is stored in a database or nosql store that is outside your program's (and compiler's) complete control. It can change underneath you at any time. The argument that static typing can help you know that your code is correct is weakened in this environment. Internally you of course construct your code in a way that uses types and can verify that you are internally consistent. However, I'm saying that at a fundamental level, in a data-driven web app, the system as a whole is only marginally improved by this because your whole universe starts out with a bunch of typecast operations as the gateway to your codebase. These always are happening at runtime and are one "ALTER TABLE" (to pick just one example) away from failing spectacularly in production.

I'm not arguing one way or another that static typing is/is not good in this scenario. I'm just pointing out that the foundation of the system as a whole is not as solid as other programming scenarios where you have much more control.
What ad hominems? Your calling me troll? If it's not needed - don't use it.

Also, I don't think you understand.
People who shipped on PS3 know there is no OpenGL ES on PS3, that PSGL is pretty far from OpenGL and had been deprecated by GCM (it's the same "level", whatever that means, it was the PS3 API before GCM).
People who shipped on 360 know that DX9 is a subset of the API and definitely don't complain it's "old".

Your saying opposite to the above things means you have not really worked on a console game. You could be in a team that worked and overhead somebody saying something that you did not understand, so I figured you might know some people who actually shipped something (if you don't believe that I had), that's all.
DuckDuckGo sees user base jump, fueled by tracking concerns
I believe the idea is that if it is not "in place," it is not quick sort.
key word 'much'. That's like saying something 'mostly' works and therefor 'it's not a problem'.
Sounds similar to all other "fast reading" methods I've seen before (which is nothing wrong, they all work). The thing is - I've never stumble upon method designed specifically for reading from computer screen. I find it significantly more difficult and uncomfortable than reading from paper.
Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburbs) - No remote, but we will relocate.

Monetate helps digital marketers make their content more relevant. We
turn data into action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data
analysis and DOM manipulation to put the right experience in front of
their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly
visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great
coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out
how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems.

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping
great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly
you'll see it here. We ship often, and iterate.

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our
products - huge data sets, UX, 3rd party Javascript, high volume / low latency
APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well
together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have
one). Our technical teams are self-organizing and have full authority over (and
responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Open source - Google Closure, Python, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr and
Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* Funded by First Round Capital and OpenView

* Market rate salaries

We've hired great people from HN in the past. We're looking for people
not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no
background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional
backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/

Send me a message anytime if you have questions or want to apply: karl at monetate dot com
>Improving cell coverage / planning for growth is a specific purpose.

Agree, so you just need contractual permission (not hard to get). You can't decide later that you want to use it for some other apparently-innocuous reason.

>any reasonable argument starts in years.

Cell coverage data from years ago is relevant to today's growth? Although that might be enough to get you out of a legal hole, I find that highly dubious.

The law is there, but it's not understood, not clear enough, nor enforceable enough for commerce to fall in line.
> It's hard to believe a company would "admit" to running all of these services on a single server. There's no way I would pay for a CRM or Ticketing App (relatively mission critical for many companies) that wasn't highly-available.

One also has to take into account how many systems that are distributed over n servers have actually n points of failure. My estimate would be "quite a lot".