skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-user-facing work isn't vital. Market velocity is vital. You need to demonstrate you can increase market velocity by investing in non-user-facing work. If your investment in that work slows market velocity then your investment return is negative.

Are you tracking engineering velocity? If so petition to do some internal investment and see if velocity improves afterwards.

Also you should refactor as you go. That isn't even something you break out into a separate task. Clean up messes as you work. Don't leave messes if you can. Code review always and often, and on small changes.

Note: Market velocity is slightly different than user-facing changes. If you have reliability or security failures you are reacting to, fixing them is user facing but not improving your market velocity.
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Exactly. .vim and .vimrc are always the first things transferred upon setting up a new machine or server.

Usually directly after I open the first configuration file on the new box in vim and have a "what the heck??" moment when it doesn't behave as expected.
I feel silly for expecting this to be about the languages.
I couldn't have said it better.
Also, I have yet to see a more compelling example of clever composition in vim than "delete 3 lines" (which even I do when rarely using vim).
Hstry -- Boston -- FREELANCE Rails/Ember.js full-stack developer

Hstry is a Boston-based ed-tech startup focused on bringing history to the digital classroom. Our mission is to captivate students in the study of History and we aim to become the leading digital learning platform for History.

The product we are building is a fully-responsive HTML5 web application used on tablets, desktops, laptops and smartphones. Our primary users are K-12 teachers and students, but also historians and history buffs who want to tell their story. We think that in educational software, usability and design have not been given enough attention so we assign a lot of importance to good UX and clean user interfaces.

We’re looking for a freelance full-stack web developer who would like to work with us. First on short term, but we are looking to build up long-term relationships. You are passionate about web development are you are well-versed in both Ruby and Javascript. Ideally, you have experience in building single-page web applications. You will play an important role in the development of the application as you will assist the current lead developer.

What You Need

* Very strong skills in Javascript
* Experience in the front-end development of thick-client web applications
* Experience with Ember.js is a very nice bonus
* Proficiency in Ruby
* Experience with Ruby on Rails
* University degree is highly regarded, but we value ability and experience
just as much
* Passion for developing high-quality web products
* An entrepreneurial and can-do attitude. You have no issue in tackling
tough problems.
* If there’s something you don’t know how to do, you’ll figure out the lowest
cost path to understanding it.

Email me at yoran@hstry.co
Tubular Labs - Mountain View, CA

We help online video creators, agencies and brands find and grow audience online. Our customers include some of the biggest brands and biggest creators, more information on our site: http://tubularlabs.com

The goal is to double our engineering team in the next few months, so we're hiring people of all levels of experience.

Our Stack
- Python
- Angular.JS
- MySQL
- Cassandra
- RabbitMQ
- AWS

We're looking for
- Backend Engineers
- Frontend Engineers
- Lead Engineers

We pay market salaries, have great perks and have a great office one block away from the Caltrain station.

Contact me for more information: david@tubularlabs.com
Hiring API Developers, Product Managers, Architects
Capital One, DC Area

Capital One is building out an API Platform and is looking to hire API Developers (mainly Java), as well as product managers.

Check it out and apply now!

- API Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/15281823?trk=vsrp_jobs_r...

- API Product Manager: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/14008377?trk=vsrp_jobs_r...
This seems like a change for the better. Having the /system partition writable is a lot of unnecessary attack surface.

> Rest in peace Titanium Backup, ROM Toolbox, Root Explorer, SD Maid, Lucky Patcher, etc. etc.

I'm not sure what the author is trying to say here, because I don't think any of these apps write to /system.
Don't worry, each vendor will have an opportunity to screw up SE for Android policy. Additionally, many kernel flaws will be possible to use for disabling these mechanisms to once again get privilege sufficient to write to /system if needed.
> It is possible to generate a random symmetric-encryption key on your computer ...

IP law is only really enforceable with a police state.

Non sequitur and false dichotomy. It is also possible to get away with murder [1] or robbery [2] or rape [3]. Does that mean it's useless to enforce murder or robbery or rape laws? All laws are only perfectly enforceable with a police state.

But we don't need perfectly enforceable laws, only practically enforceable laws. And as you yourself admit, pretty much nobody goes through that trouble of keeping their communications secret, and that is why people only need to look to find the IP addresses of all those pirating content.

If everyone had to go through the process of encrypting pirated content and walking over to their friends' and then downloading that content, you can bet piracy rates won't be in the range of terabytes per month in the US alone. I'd guess that's a level of enforcement people can live with.

> ... if a Google sysadmin decides to publish my emails to the internets, I will be offended and expect him to at least lose his job, and I may have some complaint against Google, but I do not believe I have the right to subsequently prevent anyone else from making copies and spreading them around; they were not bound by any contractual agreement with me.

You choose a facile example with "emails", because that has little economic impact to you. What about your social security number? Credit card numbers? You have to give that information out everywhere to all kinds of third parties with no explicit "contractual agreement" in place. Yet once it leaks to nefarious parties, the more widely that private information is spread around, the more pain you will experience.

> It is unfortunate that IP laws and rhetoric have given them such an expectation.

It is not IP laws and rhetoric that have given them such expectation, it's just the age old tradition of being expected to get paid when you produce something of value to somebody else. What is unfortunate is that just because it's so easy to get away with piracy, people have the expectation that they are entitled to taking somebody else's work.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_deaths#Unsolve...

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=unsolved+robberies

3. http://www.safecalifornia.org/facts/unsolved
"Just buy Nexus". Sure:

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/29/report-google-ditching-...
> This has to be taken with a grain of salt unless it's well reproduced and in longitudinal human studies too.

It has been proved multiple times that antibiotic residues from farm animals end up in the human body... together with antibotic-resistent strains of bacteria. What we're doing with the animals we eat is essentially creating a global-scale evolution accelerator for bacteria.

Only that this kind of evolution is not beneficient for us humans... only for the planet Earth, which rids itself from the disease we humans have become.
Paraphrasing Rich Hickey: It's primarily a user oriented language and there is no underlying abstraction for external programs or systems. In the end programmatic access boils down to using StringBuilders.
Still, IMHO, nice to split them out -- so they don't stomp on each other or do other silly things. Same reason it is nice (but not memory efficient) that Chrome does this... individual processes are safe and sane.
Shareablee (http://www.shareablee.com) - New York City, NY - Looking for Backend Developers to help us scale the collection and analysis of tons of social data for brands and publishers.

We help brands and publishers figure out what makes content shareable. We've just raised our Series A http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/12/shareablee/ from some awesome investors (Softbank, Valhalla) and are looking to scale what we've built and explore new areas. We work with companies like The Economist, Coach, Comcast, and Time to help them figure out how to create engaging content and interact with millions of people on the social web. If you like building distributed systems and distilling tons of data into actionable insights, this is the place for you!

Languages:
- Python (strong)
- Clojure (optional, but big plus)
- Javascript/CoffeeScript (optional, but a small plus)

Experience:
- Distributed systems including workers, batch processing
- High volume data collection, storage, and transformation
- Data analysis on data sets that are too large for a single machine

Role:
You'll be building end to end systems for collecting and analyzing data from various social platforms. Everything from building a scalable and durable collection system to tools for analyzing and presenting the data.

Please apply via http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/shareableeinc/backend-develope....
This is exactly my problem with HBS. Their cases are heavily geared towards financial and exit situations, where PE/bankers will excel at. This also reflects on the fact that a lot of their students come from those backgrounds. They don't really focus on actual technology problems as much, and it would be harder for an engineer to bring their experience to the table.
I am currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy [1] where vulcanos and melting ice play some role in survival on mars. And in general it's a great read.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy)
ROLI – London, UK – Full Time – https://www.roli.com

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Head of Finance

Head of Marketing

Product Manager

Senior Software Engineer

+14 other roles [1]

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We are a design-led technology start-up based in Dalston, London. Founded in 2009 by Roland Lamb, we make hardware and software products and services designed to increase the bandwidth of interaction between people and technology.

Our first product offering, the Seaboard GRAND series, is the first demonstration of our patent-pending SEA Interface technology, and recently won the Design Museum's Product of the Year Award 2014 [2]. We have just raised our Series A funding round of $12.8m [3] with Balderton Capital, FirstMark Capital, Index Ventures and Universal Music Group [4], and are now looking for outstanding individuals to help us grow.

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We pride ourselves in making ROLI a great place to work. As we develop as a company we are looking for the right people to grow our team. If you are looking for a healthy and challenging working environment in a vibrant London start-up, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

If you are interested, feel free to contact me directly at jack [at] roli [dot] com. Highlights include:

• Join a fast-­growing team with an exceptionally diverse range of skills, interests and talents

• Participate in cutting­-edge design and innovation that will change the way people physically interact with technology

• Take advantage of our in­ house recording studio, fully equipped kitchen and state­-of-­the-­art design lab

• Enjoy a daily team vegetarian lunch and fresh bread baked daily in the office, limitless home­made GOLDnola and the outpourings of our juicer

[1] https://www.roli.com/careers

[2] http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2014/designs-of-the-year...

[3] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/05/21/rolis-new-mus...

[4] http://www.balderton.com/news/revolutionary-music-keyboard-f...
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SEEKING WORK - Zurich (Switzerland), remote or onsite

I'm a JVM hacker with 18+ years of experience. Mostly focusing on back-end, I can code in Java, Scala, Groovy (plus other non-JVM languages).

Very experienced with the following frameworks and technologies: Play2, Grails, Dropwizard, Akka, ElasticSearch, Solr, Gradle, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle Soa Stack.

In the last 3 years I have also enjoyed quite a lot working with Puppet and Amazon Web Services.

If you need to build production-ready RESTFul API using a solid, scalable back-end, I can be your guy.

Some links:

https://github.com/aestasit/

https://github.com/luciano-fiandesio

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianofiandesio

I wrote a book about Groovy 2:

http://d.pr/2eS0

Contact: luciano@fiandes.io
> During the final event, after playing 64 games against Komodo, Stockfish won with the score of 35½-28½. No doubt is further allowed: Stockfish is the best chess player ever!

From a statistical point of view, this isn't actually significant, despite the fact that draws help reduce the variance.

45 of those games are draws, leaving a 13-6 score in favor of Stockfish. Considering a null hypothesis of a binomial distribution with n=19 and equal chance of winning, the two-sided p-value for that score is 0.115. Unless you already have strong evidence that Stockfish is better than Komodo, you shouldn't conclude anything about which one is best.
Open devices are rarer and have limited hardware options. Say, I didn't found any affordable multi-SIM phone that fit my tastes available at the local retail (i.e. I wasn't willing to wait for a month for a remote purchase to ship) when I needed one.
Pixate, Inc. (YC S12) - Palo Alto, CA

Interested in interaction or web design? Building complex 3D animation engines? Creating rich web interfaces with functional programming? Scaling realtime, distributed server infrastructures? Extending the internals of low-level iOS and Android frameworks? Let's talk.

Our team is breaking new ground in mobile design and solving real problems for an eager community. If you want to be part of this talented team of engineers and designers, send us an email to hello@pixate.com telling us why you’d be a good fit. We have immediate need for experienced iOS and JavaScript engineers. We'll consider remote if you are exceptional.
Cigital - Hiring software security folks, product evangelists, product support engineers, sales reps, and a few marketing people!

INTERN, FULL TIME

What we do: We're a software security consulting firm that prevents e-bay incidents from happening. Static analysis, penetration testing, architecture review, threat modeling, you name it. We work with a wide variety of clients and products ranging from big banks to mobile apps to video games.

Almost all of our security people are consultants - so there can be a fair amount of travel involved. The work is varied so you can really focus the type of work you do based on your interests and skill. It's an amazing place to work - there's rarely a dull moment.

We have locations all over the place, including:

• Northern Virginia
• Boston, MA
• Santa Clara, CA
• New York, NY
• Bloomington, IN
• London

You can read more about our open positions here: http://www.cigital.com/careers/jobs/

If you're looking to challenge yourself or try something new, email me your resume at contact@bsamuels.net
Alfa Jango - Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI - Ruby, JavaScript, and front- and back-end developers - full-time - REMOTE or local

We build startups, all day, every day. We're CTO and development team for hire. We help everyone from new founders who have an idea and aren't sure what to do next, to founders who have already raised money and have a product and are looking for a more experienced team to help out or take over the technology.

Some of our startups are starting to do very well and we need to add someone to the team to help us grow. A couple have won large competitions this year, a few are raising funding (in addition to the several that have already raised funding) amidst initial traction, and I'm on my way out to Santa Monica right now for one that is starting in the new Edmunds.com FastLane startup accelerator.

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We're a small team of 5, looking to bring on two more developers. We do most of our work using Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and other open web technologies (CoffeeScript, SASS, and more). We're looking for intermediate to senior level developers for the next two positions (and maybe some interns or beginner-level developers immediately after that).

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We also work on a lot on open-source. For example, I maintain the Rails jquery-ujs [1] and jquery-rails [2] libraries; Scott is a maintainer of the Kandan open-source chat app [3]; and we just launched Dynatable.js [4] back in December; and we have several other projects in the works as well [5]. Our open-source projects have over 8,000 combined stars on Github so far.

We also each have our own side-projects we work on as well.

If working on startups and open-source sounds like a lot of fun to you, then you might be a good fit :-) If you're ready to become an integral part of a startup building startups, let us know.

Reach out to us at support@alfajango.com.

[1] https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs

[2] http://rubygems.org/gems/jquery-rails

[3] https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan

[4] http://www.dynatable.com/

[5] http://os.alfajango.com/
I'm with you. I love SQL. I find it surprisingly expressive, despite having a rigid syntax. Some of my favorite projects that I've worked on thus far into life have been heavily SQL-based, and no successful code run has ever matched the thrill of seeing a SQL statement return what I expected.

I'd venture to say NoSQL has gained it's popularity because it's Magic(TM), and it works well with equally magical frameworks. For frameworks that don't have generators like ActiveRecord, NoSQL replaces the need to boringly write your models and database logic. It's like every Getting Started document on the Internet is having a race to the bottom, and people are falsely equating a quick start with a good framework. I have never picked a technology to work with because I could have a blog written in 10 minutes.
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There's a lot of good things about Apple. One of the worst is this cottage industry of self-appointed evangelists with their constant need to re-assure themselves of a reality that gets less recognizable with every retelling.

Remember when Apple swept in late to the social networking party with Ping and killed Facebook? No, me neither. So much for "never the bridesmaid".

Remember when Steve Jobs removed the floppy disk from his computers and it went down like a lead balloon? No, hold on a minute, you've probably been told endlessly about the second time he did this, and how it cemented him as an infallible prophet of where computing was going, but I'm talking about the first time he tried it with Next a decade earlier and they had to go back to floppy disks.

It's bad enough getting fed BS from people with billions in stock options to protect, and where it's literally their job to put the best possible spin on things. The amateurs just make it all so much more tragic. There's no information in these things, anything that doesn't fit the storyline gets dropped or rewritten, so you're left with nothing (or worse, a false impression of something). Mostly it's just empty noise though.
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Geizhals, one of the oldest and most popular price comparison websites in Europe, is hiring a lead developer or CTO. Due to the recent acquisition of a majority share by the german Heise Verlag, applications will be handled by heise: http://heise-medien-portal.rexx-recruitment.com/stellenangeb...

This is a local only, full-time position in Vienna, Austria (the world's most livable city for the 5th time in a row according to Mercer). Good knowledge of German is highly recommended (exceptional candidates with mediocre German skills will probably be considered).

We have a small team of (8) experienced developers working on our varied software stack (mostly Perl, but also Go, PHP, Java, JavaScript). This position comes with great responsibility, but also flexibility in choosing technologies and adapting our stack for best results. If you love building popular, useful, fast, user-experience-driven websites and can tell the latest fads from solid foundations and tools for the job, you will enjoy working with us.
SEEKING WORK -- Uganda, but prefer remote work

Full stack web developer with 3+ years experience in Rails and most recently Laravel. Am mostly language agnostic but I have solid experience with Ruby,Java,PHP,Javascript and most recently Clojure. Am looking for 10 - 30 hour engagements per week.
Github :https://github.com/samtechie/
Contact: ws@bitways.net
The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses
SEEKING WORK - Arcadia, CA - Onsite or Remote

Over 15 years of front-end/back-end web development with solid experience in responsive design, unit testing and delivering secure, maintainable code. I have excellent communication skills and always respond quickly to requests. Opportunities that I am actively seeking:

• WordPress theme and plugin development

• CMS troubleshooting - Joomla, WordPress and Drupal

• Tutoring/mentoring aspiring developers

Skills: CSS, XSLT, MySQL, PHP, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Apache web server, Git, Google Analytics, Photoshop

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Give me a call if you see a good fit for your project.

Phone number, email and examples of work in profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joelhumphrey
I did say that, but then realised that I was actually not doing anything wrong. The thread states:

"Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO."

My current post, which includes actual job openings, abides by that statement. Judging by the # of people that go ahead and click, I'd say readers here are interested in the jobs on WFH.io and therefore I am not doing a disservice by posting.
But it fundamentally _isn't_ binomial across 19 games, because of draws. You can't just ignore draws from the analysis, to do so is terrible application of statistics.
Would appreciate if you explained why it's spam?
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Teeth With Lasers
Axeda Corporation - Foxboro (near Boston), MA and Rochester, NY - Engineers; all levels... Also seeking support team members, system admins, an IT manager, Bizdev and Product Managers.

See our career page: http://www.axeda.com/about/careers/current-openings

We are an established and well-known company in the Internet of Things space that is growing our team. We build and sell a cloud-based platform for connecting, managing and collecting data from connected devices.

Come join us and help us become a common name in households, offices and boardrooms alike!

Check us out: http://www.axeda.com and http://developer.axeda.com/
Oh yeah, the error bars. As a physics teaching assistant in grad school, I was assigned to the freshman lab course, taught by a theoretician. The course was practically dominated by error bars, which were incredibly poorly explained, and taught in an almost doctrinaire way. That, and the equipment was so old and flaky that it produced nonsensical results.

The kids emerged from that course, convinced that physics is subjective.

They should decide whether they're teaching physics, or teaching experimentalism. The latter is valuable, but if so, it should be taught as such.
For Windows there exists TortoiseGIT, sorta fork of TortoiseSVN. Not sure if anything similar exists on Linux or if it could even be done the easy way ("right-click in explorer"), due to the multitude of file explorers/desktop environments.
Computer assisted chess is becoming more popular in human-only tournaments. In that context it's usually called cheating, of course. Ken Regan has developed some interesting statistical methods to detect it, see for example his blog post on Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/thirteen-sigma/