skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that Nate Silver is a rare individual. He's been wildly successful with data science despite not having a deep academic background, which is not the common case. His story is a useful data point though.

Do you need multiple degrees to master data science? Hell no. The practice of statistical inference requires only a few key skills. The important part is understanding how to think in terms of probability and algorithms, which doesn't require a rigorous understanding of proofs and formulae. An advanced academic degree is useful but not required. The world is looking for people who can consistently get the right answer, regardless of their background.

The other side to this is that a degree will be required to work for wall st, google, harvard, etc. Degrees still matter and social signalling and so on and so forth. We all can't be as well known and popular as Nate Silver and at some point institutions need a way of establishing that a particular candidate is truly qualified. So if you're not a messianic ml rock star, sweating the degree might be a good idea.

The beauty of a purely empirical craft is that results are the only arbiter of success. Anyone can get the right answer. It might be awhile before society catches up to and utilizes this powerful idea, but the hiring competitions on sites like kaggle are a great start [1]. Until then the best case is being the next Nate Silver.

[1] http://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-extr...
I'll add to why I think it is so bad, there is so god damn much of it!

I am not trying to convert anyone but I would hate to get 100+ emails a day, how do you get anything else done?

Since Monday morning (all of Monday and 3/4 of Tuesday) I have had 21 emails, mostly I have been cc'd by customers and they are irrelevant for me.

For the out of work hours thing I have had a lot of emails out of hours and felt that I had to reply - I do accept that if I turn off emails out of work then I'm less likely to be dragged in out of work and maybe other people can read stuff and put it to the back of their minds or just ignore!

I really felt it liberating to stop receiving so much email, I highly recommend it!
“… Getting your hands dirty with the data set is, I think, far and away better than spending too much time doing reading and so forth,” Silver said in a Q&A with HBR’s Walter Frick.

I'm in a data science class (hi carlob) right now. This is exactly how we've approached the subject. There were a few readings the first couple weeks to get people up to speed on Python (or scare them away if they didn't have any coding experience), then our homework problem sets have jumped straight into real-world data scraping and modeling.

It's been a fantastic way to start learning the field, because after just 3.5-ish weeks I already feel like I have the tools I need to start exploring and fitting rudimentary models to the information I'm collecting.

It's exciting and enabling, and I think that's definitely a strength of doing while learning.
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So what you are saying is some people are like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory - they just can't be bothered to be polite about something they know is inherently wrong?

Welp, I'd not considered that at all! Thank you so much for that perspective. I'll keep that in mind the next time I meet someone like that! :)
The fact that you equate economic stabilizers with money creation strongly suggests that you are not interested in genuine discussion. If you seriously believe that equating those two things is in any way reasonable, then believe me, you're just confused - and if you are genuinely interested in learning more, holler (but it might take a while for me to respond in detail because I'm traveling).

One important point though is that welfare provided by local governments cannot be sufficient. Local governments are entirely dependent on tax revenue and the goodwill of creditors. If a local government is hit badly enough by an economic crisis, they will be unable to continue providing this welfare.

This is especially true if other local governments in the same currency zone are less badly hit by the crisis. In this case, creditors will "flee" towards those other local governments, which creates a vicious cycle.

The previous paragraph is exactly what happened in the Eurozone, except that national governments played the role of local governments.
I was 11 and busy with more important things (like video games) then, so this is all new to me. Exciting.
Last year (and presumably this year, if the government gets funded) DARPA / US Dept. of Ed. had a Small Business Innovation Research grant solicitation out for the R/R&D of a hybrid videogame/graphic novel to support CS education. Seems like something you might be interested in. http://ies.ed.gov/sbir/2014solicitations.asp
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Online mortgage lender specializing in VA loans.

Looking for a Wed Developer (LAMP or WISC) and Storage & Virtualization Engineer. Both full time.

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Is it the same unit that keeps breaking, or do they keep sending replacements and they all keep breaking?

If it's the former, then the story seems to miss the rather critical point that even if they were 100% certain that every other user was happy, that's irrelevant to whether he's got a faulty unit.

However good your quality control is, eventually a faulty one is going to fall through the net, so the fact that a thousand or a million other people have ones that didn't go wrong does't help the one person who's unit did.

Of course, if he claims to have had multiple faulty units, and no one else has ever reported any, that's a different matter.
That's a known effect, the keyword is "rubber duck debugging" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging>.
This is different because it isn't a forced unpaid holiday, this is the federal government unable to pay its employees until they have a budget.

That said, employees will be paid retroactively once the gov't gets back to work.
kCura - Technical Architect - Security - Chicago, IL (no remote)

http://www.kcura.com/

kCura is hiring for the position of Technical Architect - Security. This person will own secure application development for all of kCura and raise security awareness across the organization with a strong focus on the Product Development department. We are looking for someone who has a background in commercial software development, is familiar with tools such as Burp and Metasploit, and has experience with penetration testing or vulnerability research.

In this highly-collaborative position the architect will work with many teams within kCura:

* Work with Scrum Teams and architects to promote security-focused design in our products

* Work with the PM Team to increase security awareness

* Work with Infrastructure Teams to increase deployment security

* Maintain a backlog of security-related tools that will improve the maintainability and security of our code

* Respond promptly and in detail to customer-sponsored penetration tests

kCura develops web-based e-discovery applications for managing large volumes of electronic evidence during litigation or investigations. We are a growing software company in the Chicago Loop with a strong focus on culture, excellence, and enjoying what we do. We are hiring for many engineering positions, so check out our careers page for more info.

Visit http://kcura.com/careers for more details on this position and to learn what it's like to work at kCura. Apply online at our careers page or e-mail us at careers@kcura.com.
The article states that it reduces initial page load time by about 4 seconds. Load time is far more important than a few ms here and there to load images on the fly when they are needed.
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Web dev and data mining (NLP mainly),Search/Information Retrieval(Solr,Lucene,Elastic Search),Automated Data entry

Currently working with some folks at stanford research putting together an open source watson, built on top of UIMA and Solr.

Currently building an NLP based scraper capable of auto detecting anything you specify on the page. (Phone Numbers,Emails,People,Locations,Organizations,Dates,Numeric data,...) mixed in with a data cleaning module capable of finding and fixing anomalies in data.

Web layer is written in node and angular.

Web: Backend: JVM Web: Play,Spring Python: Django

Javascript: Node/Express D3

Distributed Systems: Hadoop,Akka,RabbitMQ,ActiveMQ,Storm

Front end: Angular,JQuery,HTML,CSS
Social information and email is in my profile.
Ticket Evolution

Location: New York City, New York; Postion: Ruby/JavaScript Engineers; Email: rsosinski@ticketevolution.com

Ticket Evolution builds software and services that handles the real-time execution, clearing and settlement of event ticket trades. If you ever purchased a ticket to a sports game online or called a broker for seats to a concert, chances are our system was used somewhere in between.

We use Ruby on Rails, JavaScript with BackBone and Knockout, and PostgreSQL day-to-day; and are looking for engineers who are comfortable getting out of their comfort-zone.

If you are intersted in learning more, email me directly at rsosinski@ticketevolution.com
There is an extended version of C, which is has this feature and is nearly as widely ported as C. They aptly named it C++.
I'd be interested to see what the English law is. I couldn't find anything immediately here, but I only looked for a short while.

(https://www.gov.uk/browse/working)

But the Citizen's Advice Bureau has some information here (http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_rights_at_...)
SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time
We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

⇒ Web Engineer -- We're looking for someone who loves building web apps. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for debate. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

⇒ Android Developer -- Looking for someone eager to build the Andorid app to accompany an already-successful iOS app. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

⇒ Designer who also codes a bit -- Don't have a job post (just started looking yesterday). Looking for someone to do lots of visual design work across web and mobile on SeatGeeks site/apps. You'd be responsible for implementing much of your work as well in frontend code. Drop me a line at jack [at sign] seatgeek [d] com.
I've been using FF lately for cross browser testing. Until tabs run in their own process / thread I won't be switching back. Also, while the dev tools have come a long way and are pretty good now they're still not quite as good as Chrome.
Could someone more familiar with U.S. laws explain why is it mandatory for federal employees not to work, even if they are unpaid?

I'd imagine there are people who would rather continue with their side projects, research or other fun parts of the job rather than sit at home.
There's no guarantee that employees will be paid retroactively, it's just what happened last time. It takes an act of congress.
Quovo, FinTech start-up -- NYC, intern/part-time/full-time developer.

We (https://www.quovo.com) are a well-funded financial technology start-up based in New York City. We're a small, fun team dedicated to revolutionizing the investment management industry.

You should have some degree of full-stack experience, but the majority of our application work is front-end-ish, focusing on JavaScript -- in particular jQuery, D3, and Angular.js. Bootstrap and LESS experience is also nice.

Have an eye for design? We care a lot about UI/UX, so artistic types with coding experience are welcome to apply as well.

All levels of experience are welcome to apply, but we'd prefer a more junior level coder who wants to learn and grow with us. We have a very flat organization, which means you'll be working directly with the CTO and founding team.

Please send a detailed resume, with links to past work/code snippets if possible, to info@quovo.com.
Don't you find it odd that education start with the abstract to have you end up in reality.

Data science is not about well structured data, it's not about learning what others do. I

It's about finding meaningful information through experimentation with data and for that all you really need is a lot of experimentation, a creative mindset and the ability to extrapolate meaning and correlation out of seemingly uncorrelated data.

First experiment, learn to play around, explore, then apply theory.
Pocketbook - Sydney, Australia - Full Time

Looking for a growth hacker (engineer turned marketer/data scientist/customer acquisition expert).

We are a small team of 3 looking to change the way manage your spending - starting with Australia.

Check us out at getpocketbook.com.

If you are interested, contact me at alvin@getpocketbook.com.
Terrific work!
Apple Is Now a More Valuable Brand Than Coca-Cola
You sound like the life of the party.
$12.50 to yahoo, or several k $ selling a 0day by auction.
brb, doing the math, this is tough!
Little Bridge World Senior Server Developer - London
http://www.littlebridge.com

Come and help us revolutionize language learning for children and become part of an exciting, successful and rapidly growing company, based in a great riverside location in West London. Working here you will have the satisfaction of developing something truly worthwhile.

We’re looking for a senior/lead backend programmer who can take on a challenge in developing a robust and scalable solution which includes messaging, scoring mechanisms, achievements and a whole lot more. As a team leader you will write software, use your experience to coach other developers towards delivering high quality work, and help with further hires. You will report directly to the CEO.

Skills and Requirements

We're developing layered services using PHP and Zend Framework, MySQL, noSQL and message queuing among others and we are open to using other languages and technologies if you can justify the changes within technical and commercial constraints.

We don't require a formal education in computer science but we expect a working knowledge in areas such as time and space complexity of common algorithms and data structures, operating systems and networking fundamentals, database theory, concurrency and experience with dynamically and statically typed languages.

Essential

* LAMP stack

* IP Networking

* Network/Application security

* Software development best practices

* Team player

Highly Desirable

* Zend Framework

* Unit testing

* Clustering

* Replication

* Team leading experience

* Computer science degree

* Commercial experience with statically typed languages (Java, C# or C++)

* Excited about impacting education

About Little Bridge World

Little Bridge mixes video game sensibilities with language learning.
We specialise in education, win awards and have customers in over 40 countries worldwide. We've got a unique mix of social networking with learning, where kids can make friends all over the world to practice their English, with enough help along the way that they'll never get stuck.

The company is currently expanding from web clients onto tablet and mobile and is revamping its products to better fit how children learn today.

Please mail us at jobs@littlebridge.com for more information.
Would you consider remote workers from the UK?
I returned to Firefox (Aurora) a couple of months ago, but i am currently starting to inch towards chrome again.

While reduced memory usage is good, it doesn't help when has major problems handling multiple open tabs with flash player, has problems with javascript-heavy pages, and the firefox profiles STILL degrade in performance over time.

I really don't want to remake my FF profiles every 2 weeks just to avoid performance issues.
I was expecting an article explaining how the search engine was built.
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would be handy to just have a webcam pointed at a wipeboard ... then save any snap different from the previous one (sans people standing in the way). and detect certain shapes to auto-link with a URL. also, i would like a pony!
Operational issues often self-resolve.

System down for an hour to convert data while XYZ software was shut off to upgrade from 1.2.3 to 2.3.4 last week while you were not answering email? Solution, don't upgrade XYZ software from 1.2.3 to 2.3.4 again, seems simple enough.

Also in the real world random end users are free to request absolutely any imaginable feature or capability which management via budgets or goals have already declared will not be done. So waiting for some higher up to deliver the bad news when you can't deliver the bad news, is perfectly valid assuming you have a reasonable excuse. Oh you'd like it quadruple redundant as long as that redundancy is free? Yes I'd like that too, but it isn't happening.
SEEKING WORK - UK West Midlands; remotely worldwide, or onsite in London, Birmingham, Bath, Bristol, Oxford.

Android and iOS developer, experienced (4+ year), with availability starting mid-October. Have worked with a wide range of international clients; specialise in creating native apps for either or both platforms. Full portfolio at http://www.northhillapps.com or LinkedIn http://lnkd.in/bsDVcp3
People have already said it - Grow a thick skin. People will comment not always having enough time to construct their thoughts, others will post their immediate unedited impression, there will be some where English is a second language and then there are the douchebags. It's feedback. The fact that you make it to the frontpage is feedback. The fact that people are writing means that you have struck a nerve. That is a good thing.

Remove the noise from the signal and use it to improve your product. I like HN and I think it is useful and I haven't found a forum that does it better. I can't comment about Reddit because I have never used or read any articles or threads on it and I have no plan to.
FreeAgent

To be based in Edinburgh, Scotland or Remote.

http://www.freeagent.com

jobs@freeagent.com

## TL;DR

Talented software engineer wanted to work on leading Ruby/Rails app for successful UK SaaS accounting platform FreeAgent.

## Details

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We’re looking for a talented software engineer to join our Engineering team to help develop FreeAgent, our flagship app, and contribute towards our mission of democratising accounting for small businesses across the world!

We’re the leading UK online accounting platform with over 33,000 delighted customers and continued high growth. We have a brilliant team of engineers and designers who are developing with cutting-edge tech at scale. We have a wealth of technical challenges for you to solve and we can provide a friendly, creative and collaborative environment in which to solve them.

More details on the website: http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/software-engineer
SEEKING WORK- Puppet, Chef, Rails, Backbone.js, config mgmt/automation

10+ years professional experience as a sysadmin, 5 as a dev. Available for PT remote contracting. Anthony@makeropspro.com
It's a huge advance for those of us who usually have 50-60 tabs open for weeks at a time, where hitting a really heavy image page would tip Firefox over the top and crash it.

I switched from Chrome to Firefox a couple of months ago for its ability to handle more tabs without slowing/crashing, and for its better performance with image-heavy pages. So, for me, it's not just "who cares?" it's a killer feature.
NASA has some nice pages about orbital debris. They inspect everything when it comes back to Earth to check for impacts, and they have photographs of micro impacts.

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/)

Site might not be available because US politics is batshit insane.

The photo gallery has some images of debris impacts. These micro impacts seem to be really common. The amount of debris is pretty large.

> More than 21,000 orbital debris larger than 10 cm are known to exist. The estimated population of particles between 1 and 10 cm in diameter is approximately 500,000. The number of particles smaller than 1 cm exceeds 100 million.

The surface area of Earth is about 510 million square kilometers.
This is exactly what I do as well and it drives me nuts that it's not the default normal way that adblockers work.

Do you also use a "@@*$document,domain=~foo.com|~bar.com" filter in order to accomplish it?
"Hundred Year Old Law Doesn't Make Sense In Internet Age, Columnist Says"
Yup, duly noted. :)

However, now that it is out there in the wild, I am taking notes for what to do (and what NOT to do) the next time I post something. The 'published in a hurry' bit happened because I accidentally clicked the publish button instead of the save draft button. I am not entirely sure how to unpublish on Medium - or if such a thing was even possible. So I went ahead and posted it to HN expecting - very literally - nothing.

One way or the other, I'm getting to learn quite a few things now! :)
Diggerlab - Shanghai
Looking for talented Ruby/iOS/Android programmers.
More info check out here:
http://www.diggerlab.com
SEEKING WORK, New York, Remote ✔

Full stack developer, lots of startup experience including my own (sold).

Primary skills: JavaScript, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Php, Python

Toolbox: AWS, Joyent, Backbone, Grunt, Bootstrap, jQuery

jacob@saxberg.dk | https://github.com/webjay | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfsaxberg | http://jacob.saxberg.dk
AFAIK this is not an official HN account
If a federal employee is asked to do any work whatsoever by a supervisor when on furlough (i.e., not getting paid), the U.S. government could be sued for a violation of the 13th amendment. Making it illegal for federal employees to do any work whatsoever means that the government can place the charge back on an individual if they choose to work.
And there is a big difference between people who showed up to work during the shutdown and people who were told to stay home during the shutdown.
Delta Pilots fought against deal to replace iPad flight bags with Surface
Great article same thing happened to me. I had an old friend that kept popping up in my mind and we briefly touched base to get together for a beer. I dropped the ball, and a couple of years went by, now he's gone for good.
Although I would be tempted to refrain from taking life lessons from Chumbawumba. :)
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