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Warby Parker, New York City.
Data scientist & software engineer on data team

Warby Parker is a transformative fashion brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses. We’re looking to hire a stellar Software Engineer to join our Data Science team and help build the next great lifestyle brand.

Since all work and no play make a dull office, we’re thoroughly committed to infusing our days with surprises, brain-stimulating activities and, when appropriate, costumes. As a team member at Warby Parker you can look forward to company outings, guest speakers, and all sorts of other goodness.

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What you'll do (software engineer):

- Write, document, test, deploy and maintain SQL, Java, Python, and Pentaho ETLs
- Implement APIs, as well as build and deploy underlying production servers
- Build Django or Tornado micro apps to sanity check, review, and debug data
- Automate manual or suboptimal data-related business processes and analyses
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain high standards of code quality
- Work with data scientists to implement tools such as recommendation and personalization engines

http://jobs.warbyparker.com/apply/bRozkI/Software-Engineer-D...

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What you'll do (data scientist):

- Identify opportunities for business improvements using predictive modeling, classifiers,
- recommenders, and NLP
- Implement, document, and maintain models, data products, and visual dashboards
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain high standards of code quality
- Write, document, test, deploy, and maintain SQL/Java/Python/Pentaho ETLs
- Mentor other analysts and junior data scientists (Awww...)

http://jobs.warbyparker.com/apply/xJEJy3/Data-Scientist.html...
I have no idea what MCSS is.

The documentation won't tell me.
This is how a witch hunt begins - if he wanted everyone to know his name, he wouldn't be using a pseudonym.
Guaranteed to be less than or equal to.
Every time human labor is replaced by machines this question gets asked. So far, over many centuries, the answer has unequivocally been: over the long run, replacing humans with machines is incredibly good. The bad is short lived but real - people have to switch jobs, often for lower work because they are too old to amortize new skills training.

Short of skynet, I celebrate humans being supplanted.
Nor does everybody in England think 100 miles is a long way. It's possible to talk about majority views and refer to 90% of people without ignoring and trivialising the knowledge and experience of the minority.

Are you suggesting that the majority of people in America think 100 years is a comparatively short time span? Probably not.

I freely acknowledge and agree that there are Americans who think 100 years is a short time, and Englanders who think 100 miles is a short distance.
* lower or equal
If Satoshi holds ~1M BTC it means he can crash the market at any time. In some people's minds that risk reduces the value of Bitcoin. But if he could prove that he doesn't, that risk goes away. Also, if Satoshi could prove he's not rich then people will stop trying to kidnap him.
The fact that you don't see Bryan Cantrill's public shaming as deliberately and extremely hostile is astounding. It was misleading, it was predicated on a straw man that wasn't remotely supported by the evidence, and it was mind-boggling aggressive. The permanent social and business ramifications for everyone involved are substantial, and if Bryan Cantrill were my employee, I'd have him posting an apology or submitting his resignation.

I'm not sure what sort of culture you have there at Joyent, but if it's a monoculture that fully supports this sort of grossly disproportionate public escalation and aggressive behavior from anyone, especially under the company's name, then I'm happy to keep Joyent off the short list of companies I'd consider working for or with.

Surveying the facts, I'm far more inclined to believe that this event simply provided you with a convenient self-righteous excuse for Joyent to stretch the truth enough to hang what you considered to be a troublesome contributor (and competitor) with his own rope.

[edit] On top of all this, I've had to fire a number of people over the years, and always, regardless of how justified it was, I did so with a heavy heart. The fact that Bryan Cantrill would speak to gleefully of firing anyone is, if nothing else, a testament to the myopia of self-righteousness.
Well done. In my opinion, the entry levels are a bit too easy. I finished "fastest" and died for the first time in "hardest". Until then it is mostly sufficient to look at the namespace.
So much more they could have said but did not. When do we see the first set of drones that fly into AT&T Park and land on a ledge somewhere letting someone outside the park watch the game? When do we have a drone at 399' run out of charge and fall down doing property damage or injuring someone and the owner never claims their drone back? When do we get Papparazi chasing celebrity weddings with drones? (I believe I read a report of this already, at least on the property of a celebrity). Fly it up to the roof of your target at night and then just settle in for a day's worth of filming? And of course when will we have a bad actor use a drone to assassinate a world leader or opposition leader, flying up to them and detonating a small directional charge.

Yes, they are going to change everything and it will be equal parts good and bad. I expect them to end up being illegal for non law enforcement to own.
New York, NY (full-time)

Mobile Engineers

Backend Engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_gre...

Even better, read entire wiki article. Can you make same statement again?
Intercom (https://www.intercom.io/).

Intercom helps internet businesses communicate with their customers. Our mission is to make web business personal. We believe that the future of customer communication requires not increasingly complex, impersonal point solutions, but rather a simple, seamless platform that feels a lot more like Facebook than Salesforce. People love the product:

https://twitter.com/intercom/favorites

The company is just over 2 years old. It has raised $7.75MM to-date from Social+Capital Partnership—their LPs include Facebook, Reid Hoffman, Sean Parker, Peter Thiel. Managing partner Mamoon Hamid was on the board of and early investor in Box and Yammer. The team is currently 36, comprising people from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yammer, PayPal.

Intercom is installed in thousands of web products and is connected with many millions of end-users. The company has been experiencing double-digit monthly revenue growth from the start.

We've turned down four acquisition offers to date—the founders intend to make this a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. We intend to fundamentally change how internet businesses and their customers interact.

SAN FRANCISCO

Ops engineers

Success engineers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3412

Marketing

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DUBLIN

Product engineers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3683

Ops engineers

Product designers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3673

Visual designers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3676

Product design researchers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3674

iOS engineers http://intercom.workable.com/jobs/3685

Contact Macey Baker (macey@intercom.io) in confidence.
But bitcoins are more fungible than either USD or CNY, because it is cross-border and "offshore". That's why the Chinese seem willing to pay a premium, because BTC cannot restricted by capital controls.

The cross-border, "offshore", unseizable aspect was the biggest reason for my initial interest. Not the potential price gains (I always assumed price would top below $100 and remain a relatively tiny niche currency forever thereafter).
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Kalamazoo, MI. (short 1-2 month stay in Belgium soon).

Over 20 years of software development experience, from low level ASM
to high level Racket & Haskell. Very broad skill set and interest
with these pillars:

- C/C++ systems programming (mostly Linux, Android, RTOS/bare embedded systems).

- audio, video, graphics: systems design + signal processing algo design.

- special-purpose compilers, VMs, scripting languages.

Full CV and list of open source projects at http://zwizwa.be
Really? I live in Hamilton and we plough so aggressively that I don't think anything on 4 wheels is inappropriate for the snow. You barely even need snow tires here unless you're planning to drive out to cow country.

You out West? I've heard they don't salt out there, which makes all the difference.
I do constantly worry how easy it would be to become deliberately but wrongly incriminated by a malicious person(s) leaving an ordit trail to look like it was you. I'm certain the next person to run a Silk Road equivalent will already have a suitable patsy lined up to take the fall...
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
There are many models of routers that support open source router software/firmware like OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. However, when you look around, it's very difficult to determine the recency of router models out there and post date isn't always useful since many use which ever router just happens to be available to them for free. If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features?

While it would be nice to know the best models as of today (December 1st 2013), I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.
Beginning airline pilots are paid dogfood wages, approved to fly commercially, and have about half the week off. Could they fly drones for profit?
CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - SF or REMOTE fulltime (in the US)

At CircleCI we're building the next generation of developer automation: amazing Continuous Integration and Deployment. We have traction and revenue and funding and great customers. Our customers love us, because we move quickly, build great things, and provide amazing support. Everyone talks to customers a lot.

We're still a small team, so you'll have a large impact on company culture. We're highly influenced by Valve's Employee handbook, and have as flat a structure as we can.

We're looking for frontend engineers (JS), designers (must be able to HTML+CSS), and backend engineers (Clojure). Being a mix of those is of course welcome! We lean towards senior experienced engineers, or junior engineers who can display great talent.

We're also looking for engineers for sales and marketing positions. Since we have an incredibly technical product, and selling directly to developers, the marketing positions (dev evangelism, CRO, analytics, content, etc - think a patio11-style engineer) require significant development experience. Sales positions are a good fit for engineers looking for a change, esp those who love automating manual processes.

Check out our jobs page at https://circleci.com/jobs.
A paper gives you dozens of phrases through which you could fish for the ones that point towards your desired author, if you wanted. It's sort of like how given a list of my inheritable traits and two potential fathers, you could make a list with a few traits that match with either one of them. If the list is long enough (say you have thousands of SNPs to root through), you might even be able to find a few _rare_ traits that match.

[Edit: speaking of which, interesting to see that a past attempt to out Satoshi claimed a combination of textual and other evidence pointed at a particular group of researchers who filed a patent right before bitcoin.org was bought: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto]

The poster's suggesting they ran an automated analysis against a bunch of authors, and that it clearly pointed to Nick. Particularly if _still_ it points that way even if restricted to content-neutral phrases (so it effectively picked Nick out of all crypto researchers, not just out of those that talk about timestamp servers etc.), that's more persuasive: programs won't fish (though you could still repeatedly change the algorithm until it gets the result you want). Publishing it would be interesting.

As is, this is interesting but seems preliminary or shallow--doesn't deal with any other text Satoshi or Nick wrote, doesn't deal with code, and doesn't give us full raw data or scripts. I'm not sure Satoshi is Nick Szabo.

Also, the post-dating had occurred by the Oct 17, 2009 Wayback Machine crawl, but the post content didn't visibly change, only the date. I have no idea if it was anything interesting or not.
Feature request: Search by address.
Flipboard (http://flipboard.com) – Palo Alto, CA (and New York, NY), both full-time/permanent and intern positions.

http://jobvite.com/m?3nQZ9gw6

We're building the world's best personal magazine. There are about 90 of us at Flipboard right now, and we're beginning to aggressively scale up. We're exceptionally well funded but still small enough that you'll be able to see the effect you're having from day one.

We're hiring for lots, and lots, and lots of different roles across engineering, sales, design and product; in particular, highly-scaled services, devops, generalist IT, iOS, Android, Web, and data science.

(If you don't see anything here which matches you but you're still interested, feel free to email me: andrew@flipboard.com – especially if you're a data scientist with significant product, natural language processing or SNA chops.)
The bitcoin crash is starting!
Good God, could you imagine that kind of aggressive policy here in North America? It would be political heresy.

Seriously, everybody was all for saving the world from global cataclysm until we found out it would be expensive and inconvenient.
Bezos big announcement tonight
> gender neutral, it's highly debatable whether he, him or his are also

Not in the English language. It's debated by some whether this might have a subliminal effect and reinforce social gender stereotypes (though no evidence for that hypothesis as far as I'm aware) and therefore whether masculine prepositions _should_ be treated as neutral but that's in the same category as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_spelling_reform.

There's nothing wrong with that of course and it can be an interesting hypothesis to pursue - but I find it depressing that a self-proclaimed educated and science-based open source tech community so easily engages on a witch hunt based on pure speculation.
Read the entire thing, where does it say in any word or in medical terms that they were "completely cured".

All I can see is hints to great progress in the field.

Exceprts:

"Clearly, it is not expected that HIV-1 can be eradicated by Tre activity alone."

"Tre-recombinase technology can be a valuable component of such a multi-tiered strategy to treat HIV-infected patients."
Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases
Ok, however I would imagine that ambulance driver's are in a class very different than most other types of drivers (take out food, FedEx/UPS, taxi, limo, etc.)
Telefonica to shut down VoIP provider Jajah on January 31, 2014
Your premise regarding the market not being of sufficient size to support a 1M BTC transaction is flawed.

You're assuming:
1. That it would be a block transaction, where a block doesn't refer to a BTC block but a single transaction. Most institutional/sophisticated/smart traders scale out of their positions.
2. There may be an underlying assumption that just because someone (satoshi etc.) sell their bitcoin's for X price they would want to withdraw it in another currency. If the goal is to own more BTC, they would transfer in BTC to a trading account, sell said BTC while scaling out and buy back BTC when prices drop below their average sell price.

If someone was extremely cautious they would do these trades under multiple accounts, most BTC trading accounts need verification for deposits/withdrawal only. This could be done on multiple exchanges.

The average weekly trading volume of mtgox is >130,000BTC/week, therefore over 7 million BTC were traded which is sufficient volume to liquidate 70-100% of 1M BTC.
That is certainly an interesting approach to the problem. If I read this correctly "However, expressing an engineered HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR) site-specific recombinase (Tre), shown to excise integrated proviral DNA in vitro," they have expressed an RNA which targets and replaces the viral DNA in the cells with a non-HIV transcription. That reads a lot like some of the more current gene therapy papers read, with permanent modification of cells rather than simply killing target cells.
Btw, Hal Finney was diagnosed around 2009 with ALS (in his words, in reality it could have been earlier) which is a plausible reason for rushing source code out with unfinished market implementation and some silly bugs. Also, Hal's ALS progressed in 2011 and he retired: another reason for Satoshi to abandon the project as he (if he's Hal) could no longer support it secretly on his own.
Target buy price?
The original article title here is "Highly Significant Antiviral Activity of HIV-1 LTR-Specific Tre-Recombinase in Humanized Mice," which is admittedly too long for the Hacker News title limit of eighty characters. I might suggest a more accurate submission title for the article could be made out of the summary sentence in the abstract, "The presented data suggest that Tre-recombinase might become a valuable component of a future therapy that aims at virus eradication." So perhaps a submission title of "Tre-recombinase might become a valuable future therapy for HIV" sums up the suggestion made by this preliminary research finding. As usual, I recommend reading LISP hacker and Google director of research Peter Norvig's online essay "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

whenever we discuss preliminary research findings here on Hacker News. This result may not be replicated--many, many preliminary research findings are not. And this result in a mouse model may not translate into a safe and effective treatment in human medicine. But as usual I am glad that scientists all around the world are engaged in fundamental research in the hope of better understanding nature.
America’s Role as Consumer of Last Resort Goes Missing
I reckoned that was an option, but since migrating to OS X, I have never had to have a Windows VM installed and couldn't be happier. Having to put a Windows VM in order to migrate to Linux kind of turns my stomach a bit.
Patent trolls have a surprising ally: universities
Same observation, functional programming languages (even pure ones) have side effects, they just encode these side effects in types.
It's not C/C++. C/C++ is not a language. The project's goal is to write a very simple UNIX-based operating system in C++ (does anyone else smell a contradiction?). The code is predominantly C++.
Um, as long as government gives permission, one death will be only statistics and won't make a change.

Only this thanksgiving there was a little girl (civilian) killed by mistake in Afganistan by US drone (I cannot find news on it somehow).

This is a good read as well:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-afghan-civilians-killed-by-...
And this article is the 21st century article equivalent of cigarettes.. Both will give you cancer.

First off, he uses his personal google results, in incognito mode you wouldn't get these results (and you don't get anything related to facebook at all with this search query). Second, the term "How to quit facebook" isn't the same as "How to quit smoking" since "How to quit facebook" could be asking how to delete an account (which has nothing to do with addiction.) Third, there is a bias towards technology when using google search, things dealing with technology and especially the web will ALWAYS be higher up than searches relating to physical things, you can't use frequency of web searches as any type of statistic when comparing between a web based search and a physical based search.

So basically, this article is just as cancerous as cigarettes. Take it with a (HUGE) grain of salt.
So are you guys planning for world domination, or not?
The Next Dimension of Optimization: Persuasion
When usability optimization alone is not enough. Persuasion optimization focusses on the next generation of optimization practices.
Source code: https://github.com/max99x/guesshub/

Tech summary:

Built with Component[1] on the frontend. Backend is a github crawler and Bayesian Classifier for commit difficulty written in Python.

[1] https://github.com/component/component
You can write an unbounded number of think-pieces for Salon by selecting some broad economy metric at random --- unemployment, manufacturing layoffs, elimination of defined benefit pension schemes, the escalating price of health insurance --- and joining it with a series of vignettes about SFBA tech culture (Lyft cars, Uber black car SUVs, Instacart deliveries, beer kegs in offices). All will have the same moral message: the tech elite have become a kind of decadent aristocracy, but America 2013 is really France 1794 and they'll all be sorry when the people find their new Robespierre.

This article doesn't even go that far. It simply collects a bunch of totally unrelated vignettes --- the FDA regulating 23AM, the Goldieblox/Beastie Boys kerfluffle (how you know this is a crappy piece: it attempts to distill meaning from the Goldieblox "drama"), Lyft cars --- and delivers its message entirely through an insinuating title.
We had Robert Rees of the Guardian speak at http://mostlyfunctional.com at the http://turingfestival.com a couple of months ago. He told us that the Guardian is takings steps to ensure the paper can still come out if ALL the UK computers are seized. They are taking the threats of prior restraint very seriously.
> I'd bet good money that you have a compromised or vulnerable mailer script on your machine somewhere

This must be the case. I turned on SPF and DKIM and the spam emails slowed down for a while, but are now back in full force.

It looks like I will need to torch the whole VPS (I have backed up the important data)
This is really cool, nice work. Simple and slick interface.
Jeff Atwood's write up : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st... is worth reading along these lines because he does a good job of explaining a process for surveying the market.

That said, if you are not too cost conscious you can build a wireless router out of the Intel NUC really easily, and for modest loads I've used a Beaglebone as an access point. So you may find you can cobble together the pieces in a fairly straight forward way. I do not recommend a Raspberry Pi as a wireless router as its network is all going through the USB hub and as such it has a lot of latency spikes.
I'd imagine it has its benefits, like not having to worry so much about leaks and collapsing the buildings above into your hole.
I think the problem is that you can hear yourself think, so to speak.
Most hackers think that way when they believe what they're doing is harmless or their victim is some faceless institution.

I think people trying to dox this guy haven't really considered that they could (potentially) be causing innocent people a lot of damage with their "investigations".
Thoughts on Bitcoin
Who Will Buy A $500 Steam Machine?