skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apply some common sense, you think they let MS employees just commit to any codebase they like? And this is leaving aside all the annoying steps of locating their repository, figuring out how to build it, testing, finding out the right person to send the patch to, going through code review.
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Even if you're not sure if I would be a good fit for you, I would still love to talk and will happily answer all emails that are sent to me so feel free to reach out!
They could start by actually reading my resume in hopes of sending me positions which are actually relevant to what I do...

...and that's really all I can think of. If they did that on a regular basis I would be far more likely to stop blocking them by default.

I, like many others here I'm sure, get at least a few recruiter solicitations per week. Almost all of them are "enterprise .NET user interface developer" or "web platform integration" (I don't even know what that means) positions.

I work in the medical device industry and all of my experience is in device control and image processing/analysis...
If you read the labels for the graph, it says "local time" of the user / fraudster. If we didn't take into account the local time of the user, the data would not be very interesting to look at (mostly uniform) since we have users from all over the globe.
Well, technically it wasn't hacking or unauthorized computer access since the CIA originally set up the secure network:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/no-cia-didnt-spy-on-other-...

Nonetheless this is a complete moral failure and power-abuse that is equally worthy of punishment. They were monitoring use of the network, then attempting to classify new information as it was being analyzed.
Or Python. What are you going to do with [1.0, "abc", True], besides throw a TypeError?
In my own experiments Swift is a fairly "modern" statically typed, functional language with enough ObjC bolted on and mixed in to serve as a suitable replacement for ObjC.

You can do fairly ridiculous things in the functional fragment of Swift [0][1] which match the expressive power of languages like Haskell/ML/Scala. You also gain the standard complement of

* Immutability all over
* Actually decent type inference
* Optional types
* Anonymous functions all over
* Pattern matching
* Real tuples
* Real sum types

On the OO side you've got powerful generics, classes open to explicit extensions, and protocols (traits, typeclasses, etc) along with a pretty firm commitment to ARC. From my understanding of ObjC there's not a whole lot gained in the OO side of Swift.

* Clear reference/value differences
* No pointers
* No NULL

[0] http://tel.github.io/2014/07/27/calkin-wilf-in-swift/
[1] http://tel.github.io/2014/07/30/immutable_enumeration_in_swi...
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Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend)

Menlo Park, CA

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

We're looking for a highly talented full-stack web developer. On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, and some CoffeeScript today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

We're a rapidly growing startup (you'd be #18), but well funded ($6M) and have customers at places like Harvard, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people.

Recent coverage:

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-transcript...

- http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4...

- http://gigaom.com/2014/07/15/genetic-researchers-have-a-new-...

team at transcriptic.com

https://www.transcriptic.com/
They do, but interestingly that particular assembly is not included. Or at least I couldn't find it there.
Location: USA EST.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Bootstrap, Jquery, JS, PHP, Wordpress, Mysql, MongoDB, Arduino, C++. Quickly learning and working with iOS/obj-C

Resume: Email for resume.

Email: job_throwaway@mailinator.com

Actively working with employer in Silicon Valley as contract worker, but looking to move into a full-time salaried position with the standard benefits.

About me: 5+ years of industry experience. Open Source contributor. Actively working with employer in Silicon Valley as (remote) contract worker, but looking to move into a full-time salaried position with the standard benefits. I've been doing mobile focused development for the past year (APIs, and client side work).
It's one of the things Nadella has talked about, and plans to address over time (the extreme compartmentalism of and fierce "not made here" attitude a lot of departments/groups within Microsoft have developed over the past few decades.
Agreed that it will seem politically motivated, but if it actually sees the light of day, the report will beg questions of how these practices have been stopped by the current administration. Hopefully that leads to bipartisan reform, and not a bunch of shouting and precedent-building.
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Then don't move to their seasteading platforms or use/buy products run from them?
Cron commands to plain English
From good source here:

You don't actually jump through hoops. All you get to do is submit the bug, which gets logged in the bucket of thousands of other bugs.

Then the PMs will gather for bug triage for the next release, which have to compete with the next shiny project features. Nobody wants to fix bugs that only one developer has. It's just not worth it. This bug has existed for years, and it is likely you could modify your code to generate different byte code.

So the bug likely won't be fixed for a while.

I love .NET. I am just describing the reality of the process of bug fixing. Also, if you fix it, who knows what else will regress. That also imposes a bias towards not fixing these kinds of bugs.
You sure like saying "Fuck the police!".
Maybe I am reading it wrong, but the license seems to say that Yelp exclusively owns IP rights to all derivative works. Hopefully I am reading it wrong, but if not then definitely not cool in my opinion.
It's not the media's purpose to declare something treason - doing so would make them look like partisan hacks.
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Watched GotG yesterday; I'd rate it an 8.5-9/10. It is easily the funniest one of the Marvel franchise so far in a laugh out loud way, but yet the characters are often subtle making snarky comments rather than outlandish humour (although there is some of that too).

I didn't find the CGI distracting, nor is Rocket treated like Jar Jar Binks (he is actually one of the more "serious" characters). Although I will admit that Groot (the tree) has some Jar Jar Binks style moments, but it isn't as distracting/jarring as Episode 1.

The last movie I laughed this hard at was The Avengers. However much like The Avengers this too might have weak re-watch value as you'll know the jokes are coming.

I am looking forward to the sequel and want to watch it again as soon as it is out on DVD/digital.

It has like 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and 9/10 on IMDB. Safe to say this is another smash hit and another feather in Marvel's cap.
Why would people in NYC use Uber or Lyft? Are they really so much cheaper than taxis?
Second-Chance Med School
> That makes it sound like the investigation is politically motivated, which I find disappointing.

All congressional investigations are political motivated. That said, who cares if it helps the truth comes out?

The mere fact that the CIA was willing to pull BS like this on their overseers:
"The CIA, though, spied on what the staffers did on the system. This allowed the CIA to manipulate investigation. When the staffers found some particularly juicy bit of information, the CIA was able to yank it from the system and re-classify it so that the staffers couldn't use it. Before the final report was ready, the CIA was already able to set the political machine in motion to defend itself from the report."
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/no-cia-didnt-spy-on-other-...

Personally, I'm glad they did that if only so the general public is aware of the kind of BS the CIA pulls.
>(Typically very slowly, but that's enterprise vendors for you...)

Ah yes, that's why you pay $$$ for software :).
End of Radio Shack
MindTribe - San Francisco, CA

Like hacking on hardware & prefer work diversity? We're looking for:

Senior Electrical - http://www.mindtribe.com/jobs/electrical-engineer-senior

Senior Mechanical - http://www.mindtribe.com/jobs/mechanical-engineer-senior

Senior Firmware - http://www.mindtribe.com/jobs/firmware-engineer-senior

Technician - http://www.mindtribe.com/jobs/technician

We're a tight-knit team of engineers developing hardware products for clients. Our specialty is consumer electronics and connected devices. Our past projects include the Tesla Roadster, Square Reader and Stand, and the recently-launched Adobe Ink and Slide (http://www.adobe.com/products/ink-and-slide.html).
Kumu Networks - Santa Clara, CA - http://kumunetworks.com/

Kumu Networks is revolutionizing the way wireless systems are built using an innovative full-duplex wireless design that its co-founders developed in their research at Stanford. Wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time and on the same frequency channel. Kumu's patent pending full-duplex technology changes the basic assumptions on which current wireless radios are built, allowing for improved performance and reduced complexity across a variety of wireless devices and markets.

We're looking for well-rounded systems programmers with an embedded systems, C, Linux, and networking background. Fluency in Python and Git workflows are big pluses. In addition, we're looking for software engineers with a background in cellular stacks, and algorithms scientists with a background in optimization. See more information on open positions here: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/kumunetworks. Apply on jobscore or email resumes and/or questions to jobs@kumunetworks.com. Please mention Hacker News!

This is a well-funded technology startup with a small team, a highly cross-disciplinary environment, and a very concrete mission. Help us change the future of wireless!
That looks like pretty good value.

It's much lower risk to a small shop like mine.

I could stick 3 developers on it for $150 a month to cover Android and iOS and not worry if we don't use it much for a month or two because other priorities come up.

Actually, scrap that.

I think I still REALLY want Xamaine to give us a 6 month unlimited free trial for up to 5 developers. That way, if it sticks and it's as good as they say, we'd happily pony up the $534 a month to get the team on it and would probably run with it for a long time.

In comparison, using native Android + iOS tools costs us about $5 a month, 1% of the Xamarin cost.

Entry barrier still too high for me. Just sharing my thinking :)
I work at Stripe and just wanted to give a little bit of color here in case it's useful. These restrictions come from our financial partners which unfortunately means that we generally don't have much flexibility around them.

If you have any questions about any of this or want to see if we can work with your business, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at support@stripe.com.
Ever try to grab a taxi in NYC? It's not always easy.
Ask HN: What Biographies Have You Read?
Fellow hackers, what (auto)biographies have you found inspirational? How have they changed your life?
Ask HN: Help Me Out
If you need help with a startup, project or idea, post here. If you have skills and are willing to help someone out, post it here.

This was inspired by the post [1]. Previous HMO thread on HN [2]. I got some great connections from the last post. I hope this can be useful to others.

[1] http://tomcritchlow.com/post/82380207991/let-me-know-how-i-can-help

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573172
Agreed, which is why it is referred to as faith. I have examined the evidence surrounding the Christian claim that Jesus Christ was and is God and that He rose from the dead, but that does not constitute proof. It is, however, evidence and something that each person will need to weight and decided for themselves.

I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want, all I ask is they respect my right to believe whatever I want as well. Seems like you and I are doing that, and I really do appreciate what you are saying, and especially in the way you are saying it. Cheers :)
I think it is anything but clear that Haskell is harder. What may be clear is that functional languages are harder to learn for people who have already learned imperative programming. But then you're forgetting the massive time investments they already made in that style.

Having TAed intro classes at a university, I can say from experience that new students pick up functional style much quicker and are always confused by mutation until they've had a fair amount of experience with it.
Location: I'm currently visiting San Francisco, but I'm an EU citizen

Remote: Yes, but I'd prefer to meet the team regularly

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Clojure, Python, I'd really like to work with Haskell... Ansible, Redis, F#, Ruby, Scala, Javascript, Java, etc.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/55kb0lt4ndqa0p9/dario_bertini_cv.p...

Email: my username @ gmail.com

I'm mostly a backend-guy, but I'm open to do anything that could be useful for the company, I care about automating things (deployment & CI) and I'd especially like to work in a company that values functional programming
Show HN: Try Purescript website, compiled with GHCJS so it runs client side
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Generally, compiling GCC to target another architecture involves not only recreating most of the root directory structure (notably include files) of the target on the host, but also compiling libc, bintools, and a few other more obscure libraries. And this all needs to be done in the correct order (which involves something like compiling half of libc before compiling GCC, and compiling the rest of libc afterward).

Maybe in 3.x and MIPS it "just worked". My experience is 4.x and Tilera. Myself and another engineer dumped a week into that sinkhole before giving up.

Clang/LLVM on the other hand… ./configure && make && make install. No other wacky dependencies or build steps. And it generates better code in many cases (particularly when dealing with structures).
Someone downvoted this, I assume they mean to say it's incorrect? Can they or someone else elaborate?
> virality metrics for a toilet

Toilets: the only technology sector where there's a direct correlation between "input sanitization" and "virality metrics..."
Visualizations and analysis of the data are allowed and encouraged. If you are a student you should submit to the challenge as well!
Joss whedon had written for marvel several times before the avengers, it was probably a part of why they tapped him.
Well, I think it's distinct, but I guess I'm biased. I was reminded of Richardson from the Nautilus link you reference, but I thought this article was a little more accessible. I got interested in Richardson from a chapter of Nate Silver's book "The Signal and the Noise", although it's focussed more on his attempts at predicting weather. Adaptation by Silver here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/the-weatherman-is...

I also considered this shorter summary: http://world.std.com/~jlr/comment/statistics.htm

The Wikipedia article on Richarson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson

This 1957 scholarly piece: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/67679...

And this full UC Press book:
http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520038295

I only found them now, but a couple chapters by Richardson himself are also online:

Statistics of Deadly Quarrels: http://www.unz.org/Pub/NewmanJames-1957v02-01254?View=PDF

Mathematics of War and Foreign Politics: http://www.unz.org/Pub/NewmanJames-1957v02-01240?View=PDF

Out of those, I thought the link I submitted was most appropriate. But no problem is you want to bury it and keep the discussion focussed on the Nautilus article.
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Airseed - San Francisco, CA

* The Atlas: Backend Engineer
* The Guardian: Platform Security Engineer
* The Rainman: Data Scientist / ML Engineer

tl;dr

who: early stage engineers
what: developer platform
tech: Auth + API + Analytics
big data: petabytes; 200M+ nodes, 1B+ edges
founding team: serial entrepreneurs
investors: Google Ventures, angels
customers: ecommerce, travel
location: downtown SF
comp: non-trivial equity + salary

Airseed is a developer platform that powers: (1) single sign-on authentication, (2) rich consumer data, and (3) interactive analytics. We make it incredibly easy for web / mobile app developers & Fortune 500 companies, to authenticate their users while getting incredibly rich intelligence, all within minutes of onboarding.

Our backers: Google Ventures and top Silicon Valley angel investors

Our culture: balance, betterment, do good, hustle, simplicity, transparency

Our stack: Ruby, Go, Python, Javascript, MySQL, NoSQL (Neo4j, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra), Hadoop, Storm, Spark

Looking for domain experts: application development, infrastructure, data mining, machine learning, distributed systems, security, monitoring/ reliability

Here are some challenging problems at Airseed that you could help us solve:

- derive correlations, recommendations, and predictions at scale on highly connected data (billion+ nodes!)
- build a massively scalable API with <50ms response time
- design an interactive and modular analytics framework to power TB's of data
- design and implement security measures for an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable system that process and manage petabytes of sensitive customer data.

More info here: https://www.airseed.com/jobs Email me (Arun - CTO): arun {at} airseed {dot} com
So what's Bitcoin?
Uh... yeah. Jesus Christ has been mischaracterized as someone who talks exclusively about peace and love, yet the most terrifying words (I think) ever written are in the seventh chapter of the Book of Matthew.

Here's a snippet: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A13-...
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MVC v/s MVVM
We are moving from MVC framework to MVVM. Just wanted to check if it is really worth the effort

Appreciate your advice
You are utterly missing the point. Of course any code that can be written in a type-safe manner in Haskell can be written in another language to perform the exact some machine operations. The point is that the compiler guarantees that this code will never break as long as the code compiles. In less type-safe languages you simply don't have these guarantees, no matter how careful you are, eventually someone will come along and break an assumption that kept the original code working.
Tell HN: Hire remote
I'm still baffled that the majority of us on HN work on computers day in and day out but many of the companies we own or work for are fixated on building teams that are required to drive to the office daily. I would argue that every company not hiring remotely isn't hiring top talent. Every company touts they hire top talent. The truth is, we can't all be in the 99%. When your pool of applicants is reduced by locality, you're already losing out in the talent wars.

If you're constraining yourselves by location, you've already lost out on a global market full of talent. I'm surprised we still have this stigma and belief that hiring local means you're cultivating a particular culture. The truth of the matter is you can have a culture based on a hugely diverse pool of employees. Take Github, for instance, whom I believe does an excellent job of this.
Is there some way to download it without requiring 8 different Javascript sites to be enabled and registration? Like a direct link to the PDF.

Edit: News link has been fixed now to a more accessible resource, thanks moderators!
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Yeah, I've never tried, but I have a copy of the actual Windows source tree, so I'm guessing the answer is yes.
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Location: NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6opsgyxte0h0fkf/Eric_Baukhages-Res...

Email: eric.baukhages@gmail.com

I would love to work anywhere where I can continue to learn and play with many different technologies. I'm focused mostly on Front End Web, mostly JavaScript, with my current job, but I would love to expand into other technologies, especially Python. I'm hoping to move to the Silicon Valley / San Francisco area in the next 6 months. Thanks!
SEEKING WORK - Remote - Long or Short Term Consultation (Can visit SF/Bay Area/Charlotte, NC)

I am a Designer (Interaction Design/UI/UX) and Developer (HTML/CSS/JS, Ruby, Obj-C, Swift). I typically consult on or perform the following:

- Product management - Research, definition, development, strategy.

- Product design - Strategy, best practices, team building, process, interaction design, ui design, iconography.

- Front end dev - Prototyping, production, management, I've also setup processes for growing teams and established best practices for new hires.

- iOS design/dev - Prototyping, production, marketing.

info@bvr.io | http://bvr.io | http://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanrw/ | http://dribbble.com/dylanrw | http://github.com/dylan
Well, I wrote my congressmen. What else can we possibly do? This is, however, a fucking travesty of justice. How can you possibly be caught committing a crime and have the higher-ups formally apologize, and say they wont do it again?

This is high treason against the United States Senate. What the hell is wrong with this country? I feel like the US is one big democratic tease, pretending to be a bastion of free thought and high ideals. When in reality it's no different than any other relatively peaceful, horribly corrupt government that has ever existed.

Reading a history of the Roman Republic and eventual Empire recently, I have a suspicion we're headed down pretty much the same path, simply with better access to current information. That could change everything. But it probably wont change anything.
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