skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're Hiring at Prismatic (getprismatic.com)

The office is located in SOMA in San Francisco.

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Frontend Engineer at Prismatic: iOS, Web, and Android.
http://boards.greenhouse.io/prismatic/jobs/5971

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Strong CS basics in data structures and algorithms. Strong engineering;
thoughtful design and clean code. Graphics, browser, games, or animation
experience a big plus.

A front-end engineer that has a strong computer science background, but wants
to focus on product engineering rather than backend systems. You don’t want to
just take off the shelf UI components, but want to explore new interactions.
You aren’t afraid to dig under the hood of iOS frameworks or browser code in
order to make an animation or interaction feel natural and smooth.

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Backend Engineer at Prismatic:
http://boards.greenhouse.io/prismatic/jobs/5976

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Prismatic is a great place to be a backend engineer - we analyze millions of
shared web pages every day, automatically classify them into tens of thousands
of topics, and serve up personalized feeds in real-time using our homegrown,
lightning fast, machine learning-based relevance engine. We are looking to
grow our top-notch team, with both junior and senior-level positions available.

We are looking for engineers with deep interest and knowledge in at least one
area core to our business (i.e., distributed systems, ops and tooling, machine
learning, designing and building new product features). We’re a small team, so
you will have the opportunity to have a lot of impact, and to learn from peers
who are extremely talented engineers, computer scientists, and data experts.
Our backend is written entirely in Clojure, a JVM-based LISP that is a dream to
work in. Almost none of us knew it before we joined, and we don’t expect you to
either. We do, however, expect the following:

- You live and die by good abstractions. You know that they can make the difference between easily understandable and maintainable code, and a spaghetti mess.
- You think about edge cases and performance implications, and anticipate future needs.
- You read and understand existing code before diving in and adding your own. You re-use existing code whenever possible, cleaning it up as needed to be more generally useful.
- You know when to do it fast, when to do it right, and how to find the best compromise between the two.
- You recognize that we are all stewards of the codebase, not owners. You leave code better than you found it, and you fix bugs without grumbling about whose they are.
- You are a team player who enjoys discussing ideas and implementations with other engineers.

Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as a member of the Prismatic backend team:

- Making our crawlers and document analysis better and more comprehensive
- Building out new product features in our API
- Solving tough systems problems to help us scale reliably and robustly
- Building and improving Machine Learning systems for ranking, document analysis, and more
- Creating tools to assist development and ops
- Shipping some of the best open-source Clojure libraries out there, and working with the community to make them better
It's happened to me on the Chromium blog as well when attempting to correct a factual error. Gotta love fauxpen source!
For the world is any engineer in Silicon Valley is a 1%'er.

For the US at $200k you are a 95%'er
At $550k you are a 99%

That's a lot different than "C-Level" and "millions in liquid assets"

A lot of people at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft are 95th percentile.

Quite a few are 98th percentile.

http://www.whatsmypercent.com/
Nah, a war is very unlikely. Really very unlikely. The USA has learned from Afghanistan and Iraq that wars are very expensive and yields little results.

Revolutions are much cheaper, faster and likely to be accepted by the global community.
Joel, are you guys looking for full time only or are there any part time positions as well?
Not Tesla?
I'm not sure asm.js is a bet on JavaScript, per se. It makes using other languages easier without resorting to a whole new language like Dart, or dependencies on certain platforms with NaCl.
He would be a slow learner if he didn't know that by now as the chemical weapons thing in Syria was a farce.
SEEKING WORK – REMOTE or in Vienna, Austria.

Full-stack Python/Django web developer; have worked remotely with clients outside Europe.

I have worked on:

* a large database app for a local university

* webserver automation software for a local hosting company

* coin catalog and shopping cart for a local collector

* property management app for a company in China

* simple games

I have a CS degree and have worked with non-python languages (Java, PHP, Delphi, C/C++) in the past. I’ve held a few workshops on python for programming novices at a local university. MacOS, zsh, vim and git are essential tools for my workflow.

Find some examples of my work at

http://www.ksware.com
By which they mean, "Leaving the repository owner bleeding out from a cut carotid artery, never knowing what happened to them?"

Didn't we make a pact to stop using "ninja" and "rock star"? Excepting, of course, an interviewee who a) arrives in the conference room via the air ducts while the the interview's back is turned, or b) who snorts lines of coke off the whiteboard tray and then smashes holes in the sheetrock walls with a Fender Stratocaster.
I am speculating. What could Putin really hope to accomplish? And at what expense?

I am looking at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine

Ethnic groups (2001)

77.8% Ukrainians

17.3% Russians

4.9% others / unspecified

The Russians are concentrated in the eastern-most provinces, and also in the Crimea.

Russia has 145 million people, the Ukraine has 46 million people, so in terms of the ratio of people, Russia invading the Ukraine would be a bit like the USA invading Mexico. Russia also has a large per-capita GDP advantage relative to the Ukraine, sort of like the USA advantage over Mexico:

Russia:

GDP (nominal)	Per capita	$15,717

Ukraine:

GDP (nominal)	Per capita	$3,862

I'm using the nominal GDP, not the PPP numbers, because when it comes to war it is the nominal numbers that matter (the fact that your rent might be cheap, or that you can get a haircut for cheap, influences your personal standard of living, but does not effect the outcome of a war).

The USA wasted over $1 trillion in Iraq. If the USA tried to conquer Mexico the war would drag on for many years and very nearly bankrupt the USA. Likewise, I suspect a full invasion of the Ukraine would bankrupt Russia. Chechnya is much smaller, yet still caused Russia considerable pain. And also, Chechnya was isolated from Western help. The Ukraine has a border with a country that is a member of the EU. It is true that the Poles dislike the fact that famous Polish cities such as Lwów were stolen and given to the Ukraine, but if it came to war with Russia, it strikes me as likely Poland allow its border to become porous, in the sense that it would be way of getting supplies to the Ukraine. It seems to me likely that the West would be largely united in wanting to help the Ukraine.

The substantial expense makes me think that Putin would not want to try to conquer the whole country. If that is what he wants, then he has gone insane. What seems to me more likely is that he wants to seize those provinces that are majority-Russian. This would be a grievous violation of the sovereignty of the Ukraine, and would probably be regarded as a dangerous precedent. Also, if Putin can get away with it, then there are obvious parallels to Hitler's 1938 occupation of the Sudetenland (which was majority-German). Also remember that Neville Chamberlain's reputation was destroyed when he argued that this one concession to Hitler would lead to peace, when in fact it lead to world war. No Western politician would want to be cast as a modern day Chamberlain, so I suspect many politicians in the West would be inclined to take a strong stand against the partial annexation of the Ukraine to Russia.

I'm trying to think of any major powers that would be willing to support Russia. It has some minor friends: the Serbs, the Syrian government, Cuba, maybe Hungary, etc. But what major power would be willing to support this? Does China have any reason to support Russia in this invasion? I suspect many oil-producing Middle Eastern nations would love to see an economic blockade of Russia, as that would jack up the price of oil.
This is from 1998, and Peter Norvig has long since switched to Python.

"LISP - a Language for Internet Scripting and Programming",

Timothy J. Hickey, Peter Norvig, and Ken Anderson

LUGM'98: Proceedings of Lisp in the Mainstream, Nov. 1998, Berkeley, CA.

As per http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~tim/
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR / Remote

UX Designer, 4+ yrs experience working on web, tablet/mobile, and other interfaces.

I'm looking for p/t or short projects, ideally for product-focused or SaaS startups.

I work on the whole UX journey, from user interviews, requirements building, and personas to user and site mappings, wireframes, interaction prototypes and user testing. My coding skills can take me to prototyping, not production.

Have done work for Intel, VMware, Columbia Sportswear...and worked at a startup in NYC for 3+ years.

Holler if you want to know more or see work examples. Thanks!

ashimomura@gmail.com
Not to precipitate a debate over semantics, but I don't believe being ousted by your own parliament falls under any of the standard definitions of a coup d'état.
This is great. What about a "blogger" subscription plan that is affordable for an individual like me? As someone who blogs frequently and would like to incorporate more imagery, I think I could convince myself to pay something like $30/month to use 4 pictures a month. (one per week)
amazing, a guy that knows not so much about programming, is upset about rails that is not so easy anymore and he have to use the brain.
that is issue about rails, so many people believe that rails will create apps for you, and you will be a amazing rich guy.

[...] When I first used it, I didn’t have to modify anything about it, which was good because I knew nothing about Rails.[...] professional guy, offcourse...
[...]A few years later I wanted to offer discounted multi-license SKUs, so I had to modify the app. I had my Rails book and I walked through the code, or more often the lack of code, since the framework did almost everything by default. In 3 days I learned enough Rails to complete my changes. It worked great, and I wrote almost no code. It was a profound experience — I had never written so little code and gotten so much functionality.[...]
is good to be a developer that doesn't code. just do some scaffolding and you are rich.
then, this amazing developer say:
[...]
MyBatis and JSPs, for several reasons.
[...] so,
- no mvc
- component framework
- xhtml
- stateless
- amazing orm, mybatis
[...]
I wish there were a Rails IDE that would somehow show me all the things the app is really doing, not just my code — something like the “Show Paragraphs” function in word processors that shows all the hidden characters, except in this case it would show all the hidden functionality[...] yes, as a developer you cannot live without a CRTL+SPACE
[...]
Java is very simple but it also has everything under the sun if you need something. I just create very simple servlets and then include the libraries I need for database communication, sending mail, and talking to Braintree.[...]
yes, java is very simple.
Scheme via SICP was the introductory OO language/book circa 1990 at U of MN. It is probably the best class I took and remains the one class that has influenced my programming the most.
> I'm not sure about that, DOM access is a bit of a mess and the js stdlib is not great either, it wouldn't be hard to improve on it

You'll get no disagreement from me about the JS stdlib. I was shocked when I found the "correct" way to extract the day of the week from a Date object in Javascript (without third-party libraries): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822852/javascript-how-t... [0]

It would be a great feat if/when someone does it. But saying that "Browser makers like Mozilla have had the option, at any time, to enable the use of Lisp (or any other language) in the place of Javascript" sort of ignores the amount of work required to actually do this (properly).

[0] Of course, this code does already exist internally, as evidenced by (new Date).toString(); you just can't access it.
I made my own organic light emitting diodes They're sort of a 1x1 OLED display.
Fort Worth / Dallas, Texas

Koddi (http://koddi.com or https://twitter.com/koddiyak)

PHP Developer / Engineer (Hiring 2-3)

Koddi is a bidding platform for vertical-specific ads on Google and metasearch sites. We manipulate huge data sets to make buying search ads easier and more revenue productive for our clients.

We work with great partners (Google, for example) and clients (like some of the top travel brands in the world.)

Must have strong experience with:

- Object-oriented basics and principles
- Modern PHP (5.4+) development and best practices
- MySQL and relational database design
- JavaScript
- git

That said, capability, outputs, and results matter much more than specific experience. We'll give hungry developers that want to learn the opportunity to do so if they are a great match for the team and have a positive attitude.

Bonuses:

- AJAX, jQuery, HTML/CSS
- Symfony / Silex
- JSON, XML
- Google APIs, OAuth 2.0
- MySQL performance optimization, big datasets, BigQuery
- Basic Linux administration
- Bootstrap
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS)

contact@koddi.com if interested...
Ask HN: Can I work on my startup while employed?
What would you do personally?
Few points:
- Its not a competitive product.
- I will not use any company resources at all.
- I will work on my idea only on my personal time.

Is it not completely my legal right to do whatever the hell I wish to do unless its not harming my employer. I feel I should have the legal right to even build another business if I wish to do so (obviously not in the same space).

Thoughts?
Any thing except "go see a lawyer".
USA Today reports that protestors were being paid to show up and protest:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/16/ukraine-...

"Protesters said those who stay at the government rally 24 hours a day earn as much as $94 per diem, the highest amount possible."
Raspberry Pi – a rapturous reception
A BART "train driver" is responsible for the lives of hundreds at a time. Attended school, and takes ongoing continuing education classes to maintain their license. They compete for a few hundred jobs in the US and if they don't get or keep that job there is no competition locally to transfer to.

That "SV Engineers feel entitled" thing I said. You just demonstrated it.
Not buying satellite images was the point of my question.

To follow the OSM crowdsourcing model, we'd need some way to gather ~street level pictures and reconstruct[1] vertical views, limited of course, no roofs etc, but better than nothing.

[1] think microsoft research project : Photosynth
Using full blown Perl regular expressions is easier for Debian/Ubunt users: Just use them!

I have never understood why --with-pcre is not the default in Homebrew, --without-pcre should be the option.
Hi! right now since it's still the early set of people for the team and we're establishing the culture, we're looking primarily for people who will be fully on board full-time. in the future I think we might reach a point where part-time could start to work. Hope that helps, let me know if I can answer anything else :-)
Hi, I've been following your company. You lot are amazing. That is all. :)

edit - oh, I do have one thing to ask, how do you think your tech compares with Gravitypower http://www.gravitypower.net/ and Isentropic http://www.isentropic.co.uk/ ?

edit 2 - and when can I expect to be able to buy a small one, say enough storage for my house? Or are you only doing the grid-scale?
Thanks for this suggestion. I'll get this done as soon as the tide of visitors gets through... Don't want to break anything right now!
GB, France and Poland agreed to attack in case of German aggression. UK and France did nothing in '39 even though that simultaneous action could've ended II world word in a year.

You can count your allies, but count only on yourself.
Yes. Mail me and I'll put you in touch with the right folks.
If you like command line Unix tools, the Inconsolation blog is pretty good. He's currently running through the tools alphabetically.

http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/
A brief history of one line fixes
This insight ha also helped me a lot in dealing with upset kids. Very often, whatever bad think they are experiencing is literally and actually one of the worst things they have ever experienced. Whereas for me, I may well have already experienced my personal worst thing ever.

Telling them there's worse to come doesn't help, especially in the moment. So instead, I try to use my much higher MAX to remain calm and to project calm.
Quoting Wikipedia:
In modern vernacular usage, "to beg the question" more frequently is used to mean "to raise the question" (as in "This begs the question of whether …") or "to dodge the question".
"Let's have a conversation"

Keith Alexanders talking points seem to be working just perfectly. Business as usual.
The US has military bases and troops deployed around the world with wars waging in the Middle East and special ops in Africa and other locations. That doesn't seem to bother people.

Russia decides sending troops to protect predominantly Russian population of Crimea and suddenly it's WW3.
Why Apple Could Win Big With Tesla’s Giant New Battery Factory
Hi, I'm working on an application that need to do Geocoding, and it's a problem that's definitely not solved.

We've tried countless solutions but hadn't found any satisfying one until now. We cannot (and will not) use Google's geocoder becuse we wont put the information on a google map (part of their TOS).

We recently tried decarta and seems to be working really really good! http://decarta.com/ Unfortunately some house numbers are missing, but still, the quality is pretty high!

(I dont have any affiliation with them, we're just a customer now.)

Also, I would like to bash yahoo placefinder! It's realatively decent in finding addresses, but, but, but! The pricing is very high, the documentation ludicrous, customer service/forums nonexistent and you'll get terrible uptime, from now once a day or two, you'll just get mysterious 503 for which the official answer seems to be wait for a while, and hopefully it will fix itself, Just effing great!
>are the first to popularise

Where did I say they are the first?

Ghandi's struggle against colonialism, and I suppose Mohism are not about government coups, especially in modern context, and modern understanding of what the state is. And Color revolutions are not exactly nonviolent - they are non violent at the initial stage.
I know the developers, so will let them know, and get back to you :)

edit: Although, I just registered and it was all fine.
Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. INTERN, REMOTE, H1B all welcome.

See [1] for an overview of what challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. You can apply by emailing me directly at gdb@stripe.com. Make sure to include some background on who you are as a programmer — at the very least, what motivates you, what kinds of things you like to build, and (if available) a code sample that's representative of your best work.

Also feel free to ping me if you're thinking about applying but have any questions or hesitations.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...
Without knowing more about your jurisdiction (country and state) and your employment contract, the most the can be said is that it depends on your jurisdiction's laws and your employment contract's clauses.
Love that idea. Since I'm using Stripe for payments, this should be fairly straight-forward to setup. May I email you an update when this is available?
Q-Centrix - San Diego, CA

We're a small team looking to grow to about 10 in various roles this year. We need engineers obsessed with test-driven development and who want to build applications that help lower hospital costs and directly improve the quality of patient care.

Our challenges include:

* Use machine learning to allocate nursing resources to high-risk patients
* Coordinate day-to-day work for hundreds of data extraction and nursing staff
* Monitor and report on patient care to help hospitals prevent mistakes

We're hiring for all of the following:

* A senior engineer and team lead experienced with Rails and TDD
* Software engineers comfortable with web frameworks, preferably Rails
* A UI/UX designer that can juggle multiple projects and create a unifying vision
* A DevOps engineer that can effectively administer a HIPAA environment
* A data scientist/ML specialist with medical informatics exposure for pilot projects
* A product manager preferably with experience in healthcare or analytics

Our benefits include:

* Generous compensation, insurance, and a 401k plan
* Flexible work hours and days, work from home when appropriate
* Conference travel and attendance fees at least once per year
* Distraction-free office in San Diego focused on cutting-edge product development
* Time dedicated to exploring new langauges/frameworks and creating open source

Interested?

Drop me an email to say 'hi' if you want to talk more: devjobs@q-centrix.com. Let me know if you're currently in San Diego or want to move here. Hope to hear from you soon!

About Q-Centrix

Formed in 2010, Q-Centrix provides outsourced clinical data abstraction, analysis, and reporting services to hospitals. Q-Centrix is the largest and fastest growing provider of quality related outsourcing services in the nation. A recent partnership with growth-focused private equity firm Sterling Partners gives Q-Centrix the resources and managerial expertise to continue growing at a rapid rate.
This is one of the things that baffles me with the somewhat radical things getting added to javascript this go around.

I mean, I can't argue that there are some things that will be nice to have. However, it seems that going with additions that are not addable as a library is contrary to the bloody web.

Or, am I wrong and the new syntactical changes will be ok?

Also... this pretty much exemplifies how/why lisp would have been awesome. Quite literally everything could be done "as a library."
> It's disingenuous to argue that Google and Mozilla implement PKP simply to protect their own properties.

The post didn't name specific companies or products, but on that note, is there a list of sites that Chrome and/or Firefox have pinned somewhere? I don't think TACK has been implemented in them.

The thing with TACK is that it doesn't actually solve the key distribution problem. The draft itself states:

TACK pins are easily shared between clients. For example, a TACK
client may scan the internet to discover TACK pins, then publish
these pins through some 3rd-party trust infrastructure for other
clients to rely upon.

Keywords: "some 3rd-party trust infrastructure"

That is what DNSChain and the blockchain provides. It provides more than that though, and thus providing everything that TACK proposes too.
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