skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco - Heyday - http://hey.co

We are building a lifelog for people to remember and share the story of their lives, automatically, beautifully, and privately. Two months ago, we launched here on Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858373 ]. Here's what some of you guys said:

- "Wow. I rarely download this stuff. But the fact that it claims to be automatic piqued my interest. After downloading it I can say that my first impression is shocked. Shocked that I really liked it."

- "This is very well done. This could crush Facebook. Not in the short term but if you create a timeline that is more personally valuable to people they will be far more likely to use it and share it with friends and family. Your timeline is already far more interesting then my "Wall."

- "Why is it free? I would've paid for this."

- "I have been looking for this. I've been so desperate for this I've been contemplating creating it myself."

We're looking for mobile engineers (iOS - hard problems include making our sync engine fast/reliable, fast/intuitive search for memories, surfacing important memories in the background, UI performance, and doing it all without using a lot of battery), systems engineers (Python, Devops, Puppet/Chef - hard problems include delivering accurate geocoding for memories, reliable syncing, and building systems to monitor and scale all of it automatically), and data scientists (R/Matlab/SPSS, Python, SQL, statistics, machine learning - hard problems include using ML to improve accuracy of geocoding, building growth and retention models, all while guaranteeing user anonymity and privacy).

We will fly you out for interviews and relocate you to San Francisco if you aren't here already. A lot of our team work remotely from time to time, but we haven't found full time remote employees to work out well for us since we collaborate so closely together in real time.

Please email me directly at siqi at hey dot co (8 hour SLA for a response). I'm also happy to answer questions here.

Fun fact: 33% of our engineering team found us through Who’s Hiring threads here.
You're overthinking it. Just program a lot, experiment with algorithms, read well-regarded books on both, and both will come.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=books#!/story/forever/0/books
I recently mentioned the Doom model[1] of offering a few levels for free and the rest are paid. A few people said they had tried that and people really hated it.

I've been playing Scurvy Scallywags recently. I really like it. They deserve more money than the small amount I paid for the game. There is a tiny IAP, which I've bought, but I wish there was a way to give them more money.

It doesn't have to give me any advantage in the game either.
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Your comment is answered in the posted link.

Basically Argentinians love dollars and we are not rational. Also bitcoin fluctuations and the difficulty to buy and sell bitcoins with a local bank account makes the innitiative very limited.
SNOWDEN listen carefully USA
At least your failed projects have names, mine never even got that far! But seriously, how should you answer the question if the honest answer is something you did 10+ years ago? I could talk about that project all day long, but I can sense a "What have you done for me lately" reaction if all I have to hang my hat on is something that happened when Bill Clinton was President!
Is it dynamic language like Smalltalk-80?
Not in the meaningful sense (static multi member battles with combat menus and a focus on story telling over gameplay).
I think we have to give additional purchases some degree of legitimacy; look at EVE Online and the upcoming Star Citizens of examples of in-game purchases that, at the very least, are not dark user patterns or scams.

I generally find in-app purchases on iOS games to be scummy as hell, though, so the big problem is probably that it's a Wild West for dark user patterns in games on the App Store.
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We will investigate further. Thank you for reporting this! We definitely want graceful degradation for iOS clients.
That is an excellent point.

Coaches do what they think will be successful. If they can't run the ball well, then they don't run the ball, skewing the data.

Also, tendencies change from week to week. You really need a deep understanding of football to get the right, correct data for that week.

This is why data hasn't dominated football, you need to have tons of knowledge before anything else.
A global cloud map of the nearest known brown dwarf
I know this is mostly orthogonal, but I think that's the wrong takeaway from Simpson's paradox. As an illustration, let's translate into a situation we have better intuitions for:

Glass of Water Tylenol
Migraine	69% (55 / 80)	73% (192 / 263)
Headache	87% (234 / 270)	93% (81 / 87)
All patients	83% (289 / 350)	78% (273 / 350)

By the same reasoning above, 'glass of water' would be the better cure for all headaches, which is doesn't seem right. And yet all of the individual numbers seem plausible... Tylenol helps more in general, and the difference is bigger when the headache isn't that serious to begin with.

I think the handwavey explanation here is that the studies failed to run over a representative sample of the population, which is what makes the results difficult to compare between them. All other things being equal, Treatment B really is better; but not all other things were equal between the two aggregates, so the overall percentage is misleading. When statisticians 'control' for some variable, it's this kind of wierdness that they're trying to squeeze out.
yes definitely , I am not saying its not possible. Afterall Objective C itself supports manual memory management and GC . I was just wondering if Objective Smalltalk has something similar.
Marco Cecconi – "The Architecture of StackOverflow"
London or Birmingham, UK - Droplet

We are looking for someone to refine, scale, and take ownership of our core infrastructure at Droplet. You will be instrumental in the direction of our platform implementation and architecture choices.

Experience in the following is desirable, although we love quick learners!

* Web application security principles

* SOA systems

* RabbitMQ

* Ruby

* Docker

* Chef

* Continuous integration/deployment

* AWS suite of products

Benefits

* Totally flexible working hours and location

* Opportunity to actually build stuff

* Unlimited holiday

* Salary up to £40k p/a depending on experience

* Participation in our employee share options scheme, for the right candidate

https://dropletpay.com/blog/were-hiring-operations-engineer-...
The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA (INTERN yes, REMOTE no, H1B transfer maybe)

https://www.honest.com

About us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-
friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes.The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.

We're growing really fast with over 170 employees as of our 2nd birthday two weeks ago (http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/) and have raised $52 million to date.

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun - http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our engineering team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Full-Stack Engineers

-- Front-End Engineers

-- Back-End Engineers

-- QA Automation Engineers

Send resume to: Justin Ricaurte (justin@honest.com)

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

Justin Ricaurte (justin@honest.com)
I haven't read TFA, but generally, the right to speak doesn't include the right to not have your speech considered BS, though.
My rule is that there is no such thing as free-as-in-beer software. (There are exceptions, but they are exceptions.) The developer's bills will get paid one way or the other. The simplest and most efficient way is to just pay them up front. If you try to get things for "free" both you as the consumer and the developer will end up worse off.
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Every website and marketing push involves content. But is your content effectively supporting your business goals? Is it performing as well as you want it to?

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What is the lesson there? To give up passion and go through life jaded and without colour?

I also killed myself working for Ottawa start ups that failed. I decided that I should take more responsibility for a company's success and pushed myself to learn the business of software. Now I have some successful startups in my track record.

If your team lets you down that does not mean you should let yourself down.
It is really strange that the US store has that special condition. For India, that same page offers the full retail version
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msin/en_GB/pdp/productID...
Well, hashes in particular implies a very specific kind of map/table (one that uses hashing). I think the most common non-implementation-dependent names are maps, dict(ionarie)s, tables, and associative arrays.
How do I test an application_controller on a rails app
Boo. Apparently open-washing, proprietary centralized, not WebRTC.
I don't care if a game has IAP or not. I do care Bout how playable the game is without IAP. Blocky Roads could probably start offering cars or road packs as IAPs and people would buy them. That's not destroying the game.
That is at least a negative indicator for me, and a deal breaker in many cases.

I've played demos in the past and sometimes that has led to a purchase of a full game, and sometimes not. A difference/problem with this newer model is that paying could lead me to being asked for more payments: I don't necessarily know.

If the game was advertised at free, but then charged me after a point (i.e. if I didn't know in advance that it was a demo), that would be an immediate deal-breaker.

Unless it was clear exactly what I was paying for, I would be unwilling. Will I have to pay for level 16? If it was possible I would be asked repeatedly for more money later, I would be unwilling.
I'm sure you'll be pleased to find that gcc has kept the assigned goto alive as a c extension.

#include <stdio.h>

int main( int argc, char ** argv ){

void * p = && lol ;

bounce:
goto *p ;

lol:
printf("lol %p\n", p);
p = && wtf;
goto bounce;

wtf:
printf("wtf %p\n", p);
p = && lol;
goto bounce;

}
There is a big difference between the medians in those two places. I'm thinking more like the U.S. versus European countries.
Oculus VR - https://careers.oculusvr.com/ - Irvine, CA

Help us bring Virtual Reality to the people! Oculus is up to over 60 people (primarily engineers), and we are expanding quickly. In addition to a huge variety of positions in Irvine, CA, Oculus is looking for software engineers in Dallas, Tx.

A few of the positions that are especially important to us right now are:

* Web Services Engineer - Architect and implement the APIs behind our platform.

* Senior Android Engineer - We're looking for experts in kernel, system level, and/or graphics programming on Android in both Dallas and Irvine.

* Embedded Systems Engineer - We need hardware hackers in Irvine to help define, prototype, and program the systems going into future projects.

* Computer Vision Engineer - We're looking for engineers with a strong 3d math background and experience with computer vision research and algorithms.

* Senior Audio Engineer - We're looking for an audio expert with experience with positional audio and HRTFs.

The full set of job listings you can apply to is at https://careers.oculusvr.com/

You can also email me directly at nrp@oculusvr.com
When thinking about gaming business models it's important to think about the context in the history of gaming.

Since in the 1980s in addition to retail and digital sales the business models we've seen have included:

* Pay-to-play arcade games
* Premium hint lines
* Add-on content sales
* In-game sponsorship (Zool, sports games)
* Shareware
* Advertorial games (McDonalds Land)
* Subscription fees
* Peripheral sales
* Real money betting
* UGC Rev shares
* Membership clubs
* Game rental
* In game ads
* IAP
* Virtual items

IAP is likely here to stay, but just like the many many business models that have existed before, it'll likely become one of many in use.
well have traditional RPGs destroyed? Compare planescape torment dialogue options to say skyrim.
this is an example of planescape
http://www.gameranx.com/img/13-Apr/ravel-planescape-torment-...

Can you honestly say that RPGs have gotten better or even stayed the same level?
>1) People seem to balk at paying >$5 for a mobile or tablet game. (With some notable exceptions.)
2) The $0.99 or $1.99 price point is not financially viable for most games.

This sounds like: I want to sell for $5 but customers won't buy my product at that price.

Well, in that case your product, however much your toiled and however much you spend to make it, is not viable?
This is problematic and discriminatory. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

What if you are interviewing a kid from south-side Chicago or kid from third world who against all odds went to college. Is smart and motivated and could be a great asset to your company but never had the exposure to great ideas.

You can argue that she can just say 'Going to college was my most significant achievement' but are you in a position to rationally consider that as a 'significant achievement ' ?

In a age if great socio economic inequality very few people at the top of the society get to have ' significant accomplishment', it is more of an indicator of you socio economic status than your actual capabilities.
Bitcoin Now Accepted at Every 7-Eleven in Mexico
Get away from it completely for a couple months or weeks. Take a job in construction, or writing, or something entirely different. Refresh. You'll probably naturally come back to it later.
Why was the Windows File Transfer so bad at predicting transfer time?
Minnie- Vans on my feet
Slackware pipes fortune to your /etc/motd by default. Always amusing, especially when it told me to run `nohup rm -fr /&`. I like to think someone out there followed that advice.

Alternatively, you can make a list and paste a `cat /path/to/list` in your shell rc.
Long trial periods don't work. Lot's of potential customers will whip through a few plays of many types of games in a couple hours and "return" the game. Even strategy games with 30 turns per game can be played multiple times on different maps in 2 hours. What to do? Make better videos? If you have a good answer I'm sure Apple and Google want to know.
Investors pull $12 billion from emerging markets
I don't mean to defend in-app purchases, but this isn't the first time the game industry has tried to nickel and dime you. How is it that different from the 90s when the game industry put out incredibly difficult games and charged players tokens every couple minutes to keep playing? I know I've personally spent a hell of a lot more money in the arcade than on in-app purchases. This isn't a mobile example, but I think Riot (maker of League of Legends) is a company that really gets it right with in-app purchases in a tasteful way.
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Madison, WI (or remote) - Developer Evangelist
http://ionicframework.com/

We are looking for a great developer evangelist to help make the Ionic Framework the biggest mobile dev platform in the world.

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Mailpile Alpha Release: Shipping Bits and Atoms
Hi there! So glad you're excited about that.

We're really excited about that, too, and if you join the IRC channel, we'll do our best to connect you with a project.

Additionally, I wrote this:

http://opensource-usability.blogspot.com/2013/12/guest-post-...

that I would love your thoughts on.
Cool! Only $0.7 for 1000 CAPTCHAs!
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>I (naively) hope that eventually people who prefer microtransacions will realize what a waste of money it is, and start paying upfront.

You mean like getting a NYT subscription for $200 dollars, instead of paying for the 10-20 articles I want to read all year for like $1 or $.5 a piece?
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Frontend or Full-stack developer

BabyList (http://babyli.st) makes having your first baby less overwhelming, more creative and most importantly more delightful. We have a large and rapidly growing user base of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. The baby industry is massive and ripe for disruption. Our core product is an easy to use registry that let’s parents-to-be add anything they can find on the internet. Our users LOVE this product.

We're looking for a senior developer to lead the development of our website and API. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Javascript/jQuery. We're looking for someone who has a lot of coding experience and expert-level fluency in at least one programming language (you don't have to be great at Ruby right now).

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That's just one model. Personally, I'd much rather pay for levels than pay for resources that make the game less tedious.
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* Python ['django', 'bottle', 'google.app.engine']
* Ruby [:rails => 'heroku']
* Javascript ['angular','backbone','node'];
* Clojure '(Compojure)
* Haskell, Go (and other esoterics)

We've helped entrepreneurs develop their MVP, as well as large companies develop core features. We provide services such as feature development, product management, and software auditing.
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Occurs to me that under the strict playground rules, the school was effectively being a bully: harmless natural behavior was being punished way out of proportion and with no sensible (to the kids) reason. Seems the bullies were just mimicking what the school was doing.
Yeah but 3D printed stuff is quite cool as well. Have a Space ship tow laying around and it is awesome (needs a better pic). See: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BduYkJLIcAEpOMC.jpg
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http://github.com/nigma

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