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Kaggle is Hiring!

Location: San Francisco and Remote

------- About Kaggle -------

Kaggle is best known as the world’s largest community of data scientists. Our community of around 200,000 data scientists compete to solve complex data problems. We’re changing the way the most important data-driven problems are solved.
We have branched out beyond our core business of machine learning competitions, to build end-to-end solutions in specific industries. Our first focus industry is energy, where we are working with Global 10 companies to make better decisions on where and how to drill for oil & gas. Our solutions take detailed geological and engineering data and help predict well performance. These solutions can minimize capital and environmental destruction by helping operators drill fewer uneconomic wells.
Kaggle is located in the heart of the SOMA. We are well-funded (Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures and Max Levchin). Our team includes coffee, beer wine and whisky connoisseurs, pastry chefs, ping pong players, kiteboarders and rollerbladers.

---------- Who We're Looking For -----------

Product Manager:
We’re looking for a Product Manager with an interest in hard science and data science. Somebody who can learn a complex and technical industry and empathize with customers who are not always data science savvy.

What you will be doing

* Create and refine the company’s product strategy
* Work with our customers to understand their economics, buying process and decision making process
* Develop an understanding of how Kaggle's products impact our customer's economics and decision making process
* Collaborate with sales to develop pricing models and identify target customers
* Colloborate with engineering to prioritizing requirements, scoping feature & set expectations
* Develop an understanding of our competition and how their impact our roadmap and positioning
* Identify new opportunities based on customer interactions

Statisticians & Data Scientists to Focus on the Energy Industry
Software Engineer

We have branched out behind our core data mining competititons, to build end-to-end solutions on an industry by industry basis. Our first industry is energy, where we're building solutions that can transform the world's largest industry.
In the energy sector, we've started with two basic solutions:

* using detailed geological data to pick the best place to lease and drill for oil & gas;
* using detailed data on drilling practices to help operators produce efficiently.

The machine learning and statistical challenges in energy have some interesting properties:

* geospatial data
* mix of deep science and machine learning
* sample sizes are small and samples are highly correlated
* we care about explainability and insights

Addressing these challenges requires layers upon layers of statistical machine learning models
We want to fully capture the uncertainties in our modeling at each layer, not just the point estimates.

For questions, please contact us at recruiting@kaggle.com or visit our career page at https://www.kaggle.com/careers
Location: Israel

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: Yes, later on

Technologies: Python, C, x86/ARM, reverse engineering, vulnerability research/analysis, malware analysis. I'm also familiar with other technologies, but they're less of an interest to me as a job offer.

Email:
moonlight_jobs@mailinator.com

I have 10 years of research and development in the cyber security arena - from malware analysis to advanced vulnerability analysis and implementation. I use a mix of Python and C to code backend stuff and research assisting tools. I'm looking to start with a remote consulting/contract job in similar areas.
uSwitch.com -- London, UK. http://www.uswitch.com/ We're a comparison website for insurance, broadband, mobiles, gas/energy providers and finance services.

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Hiring:
Senior frontend, backend devs, analysts and more - for the full list of vacancies see http://www.uswitch.com/vacancies/

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Tech stack:
Backend: nginx, puppet, capistrano, Ruby (Sinatra and RoR), Clojure, MySQL

Frontend: Responsive HTML5, JS / CoffeeScript, HAML, SASS with Compass and our internal framework

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About us:

* Regular dev catchups across all teams / show & tell to share experience

* We host / sponsor / attend hackathons and conferences

* We maintain healthy work/life balance - no extra long hours, weekends are for you to relax after a Friday beer in the office / local pub

* We deploy to production multiple times a day

* We'll give you the tools you need to do your job (Macbook or other machine of your choice, whatever software you need) and help you progress (budget for conferences, books and time to learn new tech)

* Flexibility in the tech choice

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About you:

* Able to own a problem and work with others (in your team and others in the business) towards a solution

* You're open-minded and flexible - you can pick up new skills / languages

* You can work well in a team environment (occasional remote work is ok, but we're mostly in the office)

* Comfortable with basic devops tasks

* Skilled at table tennis or table football (optional)

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Next steps:

Contact me directly - tomasz.tomczyk@uswitch.com - I'm a developer in one of the teams you could be joining. Tell me about yourself (whatever you think represents you best) and ideally let's meet up - will give you a tour of our new London Bridge office and talk about the projects we've been working on.

As part of our recruitment process, you'll have to complete a coding exercise and later come for face to face interviews.
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Westboro Baptist to picket Twitter, Facebook, Reddit next week, not Google
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I think the project lnanek2 is referring to is iFind:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yuansong84/ifind-the-wo...
Probably. The V2s couldn't hit a smaller target than "London", so that's where they fired them.
Why is it no bad deeds seems to exist before the Bush administration? People have a weird concept of history.

Its completely political. The outsourcing of torture began under the Clinton administration:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/14/outsourcing-tor...

"In 1995, Scheuer said, American agents proposed the rendition program to Egypt, making clear that it had the resources to track, capture, and transport terrorist suspects globally—including access to a small fleet of aircraft. Egypt embraced the idea. “What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian,” Scheuer said. “It served American purposes to get these people arrested, and Egyptian purposes to get these people back, where they could be interrogated.” Technically, U.S. law requires the C.I.A. to seek “assurances” from foreign governments that rendered suspects won’t be tortured. Scheuer told me that this was done, but he was “not sure” if any documents confirming the arrangement were signed."
First, quality is not the (only) reason the AMA used to limit the number of doctors. The AMA is a convenient scapegoat thanks to the catchy song about it, but it's actually not relevant here[0].

Secondly, the real limiting factor now is not the AMA but the AAMC[1]. They serve as the current bottleneck for increasing the number of people who receive the MD degree.

However, getting an MD doesn't mean that you can practice medicine. Technically, you haven't even been trained to practice yet - that happens during residency[2]. The bottleneck for the number of practicing physicians (as opposed to the number of MDs) is what is really relevant. That is capped by the number of residency positions available. These are funded through Medicare, so the real limiting factor is the government spending allocated towards Medicare which funds residency positions.

So, blame the AAMC, blame Medicare, blame the government, or blame Congress, but don't blame the AMA, since they aren't the bottleneck for increasing the number of practicing physicians. (And one can easily make the argument that increasing the number of medical school students while keeping the number of residency positions open constant is a waste of money).

As for reducing the costs, that's easier said than done. The amount of time it takes to train someone to (e.g) be a good cardiologist is significant, and the length of time alone makes the costs very significant - trying to shave off a few pennies here and there is really just a drop in the bucket.

The only way to lower these costs appreciably would be to lower the amount of time it takes to train in these specialties, but that comes with a number of risks. Already there have been a number of lawsuits arising from overworked and sleep-deprived residents making mistakes, and it's a tough sell politically to say "Your cardiologist spent 33% less time training to receive a bargain degree. Any loss in quality that impacts your health is just a side-effect of keeping health costs low."[3]

[0] It's also misleading to imply that the AMA seeks to keep income for doctors high. The relationship between doctors and the AMA is complicated, but fairly rocky and sometimes downright acrimonious. Keeping incomes high is (if anything) a side-effect of the AMA's practices, not a goal. (And if it were, the AMA would be failing heavily at this goal, as physician income has been declining steadily for many years now in most states).

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/does-the-a...

[2] Which only gives you the ability to practice in a limited capacity - any specialties or subspecialties will require a fellowship, which can be as much as 10 years of training after receiving the M.D.
If I'm understanding correctly, these scripts are very long lived in that days, weeks, or years may go by before segments of the contracts are resolved. This does seem like a powerful mechanism. Unanswered in the paper is a look at the wallet implementations; can I expect wallets to correctly report the balance in a payee's wallet, if they have outstanding contracts?

The escrow mechanism strikes me as particularly powerful; it's like traditional escrow but even better because the buyer doesn't quite give up control, and the seller knows that the escrow company can't just disappear with their funds.

Activation of the escrow agreement can take minutes, rather than days or weeks for traditional escrow (usually involving wire transfers), once the escrow agreement is set up.

It doesn't solve the problem of the escrow company being in cahoots with one of the parties, but I believe the mechanism can be extended to N-way escrow where multiple escrow companies could be arbiters over the transaction. Then the buyer and seller can both have a trusted escrow company in the transaction and know that their interests are indeed being represented, and the escrow companies can determine if the other escrow company is one that they trust as well, before committing to fulfilling a transaction.
Look at it like this:

Suppose you made a comment on an internet forum that people got very upset about but it turns out there is no edit button so you can't change it. Would that piss you off? Would it make you feel like you are being misunderstood and therefore treated wrongly.

Someone notices that the thread has grown and decides to make a story out of it. They pick your statement because it triggered the most "feelings". You get the regular inflammatory headline and more people get upset. Sprinkle some twitter on it and some tv news might pick it up.

Now, suppose there was a vote on that forum to decide if there should be an edit button or not. Would you vote 'no' to preserve others right to information? Or would you click edit in an effort to keep people on subject?
I'm sad to report that I tried to replicate what the author did here and it didn't work...

I went to the weekly tech lead meeting, and when it was my turn to talk, I said: "I think we should increase out internal NuGet package release interval to every 18 hours. F--k the Police!"

People just looked at me weird.
>"The "greatly increased compliance costs" narrative is garbage."

If you are right, the Small Business Administration (a government agency itself,) must be very wrong, as it found "[t]he annual cost of federal regulations in the United States increased to more than $1.75 trillion in 2008." [1] The United States' GDP was $14.22 trillion in 2008, meaning that 12.3% of GDP was being used to comply with federal regulations, if you were to add state regulations, the result would only become more staggering.

[1] http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/The%20Impact%20of%20R...
How is that any different than a central maintainer of Linux accepting patches and reviewing them before they go in?

The only difference is that you can see the source and test on your own machine first.

MS employees don't have to commit to any codebase they like, but they should be able to obtain the actual source, so that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow".
That's cool, I didn't know that. Thanks!
EDIT: link towards my resume https://db.tt/uUnUBC4i
> But isn't it also a mistake trying to portray Haskell as just-another-langauge? It clearly is not, it is more difficult to learn.

I don't think it is. I think (as is the case with functional languages and languages with non-Algol-inspired syntax generally, and Haskell falls in both groups) Haskell is harder to learn as an N+1 language than an imperative language with Algol-inspired syntax if you are a programmer whose existing familiar is with N languages that are all imperative languages with Algol-inspired syntax, for N > 0 (and this is increasingly true with increasing values of N.)

If you've got some background in functional languages without Algol-inspired syntax (e.g., Lisp) and some background in statically typed languages (even imperative, algol-inspired ones) it doesn't seem to be fundamentally that hard to learn, though.

I think that there is something of a deficiency in that there isn't a lot of good tutorial documentation (at least, that I've seen) for Haskell that is well designed either for new programmers or for experienced programmers without a background in things like category theory, but AFAICT that's not anything fundamental about the language, but more something about where it came from and who the early audience was. As Haskell seems to be getting broader attention, I expect that will improve.
I don't think his speeding was a logical, reasoned thing
I don't understand what you mean by parts per million in this context and googling it is literally just bringing me back to this thread.
I got pwned by a ssh trojan when using an io.com shell account back in 2002/2003. Because I was a trusting soul, I had used my shell account to log into a local music enthusiast board (where I ran an elist and fooled around with zope and stuff) and my workstation at a government lab. It came to my attention via ... the NSA monitoring of my government lab workstation (it wasn't a secure lab, thankfully). The FBI got involved, and the guy who ran the local music thingee ended up spending almost a week cleaning shit up. There was an arrest; it was some kid. It was one of the single most embarrassing things that ever happened to me, in a lifetime of embarrassing things. It was also unpleasant and extremely time consuming. I don't recommend it.
> In the end, even for a sophisticated user, it will be nearly impossible to present a view of how many bitcoins you have available to spend.

This is not necessarily true. It is a UI challenge. You can imagine a UI that, for example, understand that you are participating in a crowd-funding contract, and denotes the bitcoins locked down in that contract in a special area. For the crowd-funding contract, you can exit at anytime before the contract closes, so the UI could present that option as well. This approach can be applied to other contracts as well.
Flappy Bird is back, but only on Amazon's Fire TV
Lyft in NYC is virtually a different company from what I can tell. I guess the sharing economy model for vehicle ownership isn't scaleable in NYC since so few people own cars. It went from 'riding with your best friend' to riding in a black car with a pink mustache.
Title should have included who he was - I have no idea who he is/was and I imagine I am not the only one.
Cults of personality can be susceptible to those kind of attacks though. Is only interesting as much as it influences his cult of personality and I guess what I was getting at is how much of his actions are driven by genuine political beliefs and how much are purely for propagating his image. Because as he gets older, his image controls him, not the other way around. Keeping up a hard-man persona is difficult to do when you are a slightly prim aging bureaucrat.
Flutter Wireless, Inc. - Silicon Valley, CA

Open Hardware nodes for wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things. Arduino-compatible, ARM-powered with 1 kilometer range and encryption. Mesh networking and cloud back-end coming soon. We love hardware.

We're currently finishing up hardware development for delivery of our Kickstarter, and would like to expand our team to develop our core platform. Connected devices & Internet of Things is a quickly growing market sector, and we're looking for a few skilled engineers who'd like to help us expand. Our current plan is to build up our core platform and focus on our general purpose dev hardware, likely with a focus on sensor networks. The field is pretty wide open so we want to use sales of our current hardware to determine where to go next.

People we could use:

-Embedded Engineer who knows ARM and/or wireless sensor networks.

-Back end web engineer for a cloud data relay.

-Front end web developer.

-Mobile developers for Apple and Android.

-Electrical engineer for hardware layout.

-Angel Investors interested in Internet of Things who can also actively advise.

If you're interested, go outside and shout really loudly, or send an email to taylor |at| flutterwireless dot com
I sounds very interesting indeed. After completing Dan Ariely's class on Coursera I think he actually knows what he is saying and doing, so I'm going to give it a try.

If you're looking for the app on Google Play or iTunes - it's not there. Go to to http://www.timeful.com/
Shouldn't be difficult to fix. The programs should just be financed and controlled by Saudi Arabia or some other ME country.
This voice-to-voice works great.

Is there any particular breakthrough that'd need to happen to make automated translations better? Or is that a problem with no near-perfect solution in mind?
I was surprised that Timeful, a pre-launch product, was able to raise a whopping $7M in Series A financing. Then I realized it was Dan Ariely. Is this the primary reason?

I mean, our company has two products with like a quarter million people actively using it now (2.7 million times a month), paying us real money, and I haven't found such enthusiasm among VCs yet. I am fine with that, but I always wonder what motivates the VCs and I think it's relationships, team credentials, and products have to just be somewhat believable as possible hits going after huge markets. I mean look at Color's $40M round for example. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the--did-color-raise-a-cr...

On the other hand there are teams with great potential products, but no relationships, and if they raise VC early they probably get bad terms to "get access to the old boys club" of the industry. Sort of like how talented artists discovered by A&R in the past might go on to sell millions of records but barely make anything from their first few. These days there are other options.

I wonder, does anyone know what terms Timeful got, for $7M? Did the VCs take 40% of the company? Did they make board seats and corporate governance such that they could take over at any time?
Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full Time

Looking for Full Stack Developers

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ABOUT TINT

Tint's mission is to help organizations drive deeper relationships with their customers through social media. We are a group of 9 engineers and customer happiness heroes with a profitable, sustainable business and a great working environment.

In February 2013, we made $493.93. Last month, we made $227,301.18.

Simply put, we have too many customers, and too few quick minds.

Join us on this incredible journey to become a market leader in the social media display and aggregation space. We have plenty of interesting engineering challenges to conquer and relationships to nurture with big brands with endless opportunity for personal growth along the way. Some of the tech we work with: MySQL, Redis, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js

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DETAILS

• on the position: https://jobs.lever.co/tint/d463532a-de07-4e70-8bdc-5d4e407f9...

• on Tint company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on our incredible journey: http://www.tintup.com/blog/tint-year-in-review-2013/

• on a few of our customers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124773594@N04/sets/

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BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• Profit Sharing - We split 20% of all revenue made over 200k and distribute it evenly among the team.

• Team Transparency - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• Personal Autonomy / Consensus Driven Culture - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions. From what features to build next to what furniture to buy for the office, we believe it's the fairest way of making decisions.

• Customer Driven Culture - We're very in-tune with our customers and they love us. For example, we decide what features to build based on surveys we send directly to customers. Check out this one ( http://bit.ly/1fc73kh ) that we sent out last year to decide what we would build this past quarter.

• Personal Development Stipend - A monthly stipend designed for self-improvement. Whether it's books, yoga classes, or a fitness tracker, we want our teammates to improve themselves.

• Catered Lunch Everyday - Yum!

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint/d463532a-de07-4e70-8bdc-5d4e407f9...
It's the right time to be a software developer, It's a developer heaven. I'm a Linux System Administrator and having a hard time understanding how low numbers of sysadmins and/or devops are required.

It's probably because here is HN but even yet my heart is a bit broken.

Amazon is killing the profession.
We're experimenting.

The time decay on new submissions is aggressive. Good stories that don't get upvoted quickly tend to fall through the cracks. We want to make that less likely.

Your post got picked up by one of our experiments. Since dozens of people upvoted it almost immediately, and not for any obviously broken reason, I think we can call this data point favorable.

(I'm marking this subthread off-topic now so it stays at the bottom of the page and doesn't interfere with comments on the article itself.)
It's not that special, and they took one hell of a circuitous route to fix their bug. You can download the source and view the bug here:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Core/Microsoft/...
Can we stop posting this kind of stuff to HN? No one cares!
> you only get ahead by asking yourself what the right response should be to such actions

How appropriate, as that is all the world has asked for from Putin. I mean, Obama could figure out why you don't give advanced weaponry to the "good guys" in Syria, what aneurysm did Putin have to give both SA-11 sets and the intensive training to use the same to a bunch of poorly-led and poorly-trained separatists?

We'll ignore for now the command links amongst separatist leaders reaching back to Russia, because even if those were completely absent the question would remain valid. "Moral high ground" or not...