skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Florida

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript (Backbone.js, jQuery), PHP, MySQL, Apache, Git, HTML/CSS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmurphy

Email: sean@iamseanmurphy.com

Full-stack developer with 9 years of experience, looking for part-time/contract position.

Particularly interested in companies dealing with behavioral healthcare, SaaS, messaging, machine learning.
You made the comment. People might disagree with your views - such is life.

If the comment is picked up by the news - again, you said it. Don't publish things to your name you aren't comfortable having everyone in the world know.

However, if what you wrote is being misquoted or taken out of context, it likely would be libel, which already is illegal.
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AppBlade | Boston / REMOTE friendly | Seeking Co Founders

AppBlade is a mobile-first EAS (Enterprise AppStore) that can remote control iOS/Android devices using MDM (Mobile Device Management). Companies like PayPal, Audi, BottleRocket, DeNA, Raizlabs, and FiftyThree use us to automatically deploy nightly builds to their employees and QA testers, ensure the devices are secure, and integrate our open-source SDK to collect crash reports, in-application feedback, and some basic usage metrics.

We spun off from our parent company in Q1, and are currently bootstrapped and able to keep the servers on, but are looking to doing a round of financing.

Seeking marketing/sales and technical co-founders. Risk is low, since it's an established product with customers, but we need to make moar moneys or raise.

We're built on top of Rails and have native SDKs on iOS and Android; exploring additional platforms.

If you think you can bring something to the table, shoot me an email: james@appblade.com
Seemingly not true of depression from head trauma.
Airbnb closes its $475M megaround
Enigma.io - New York, NY - FULL-TIME

Enigma (http://enigma.io) is a NYC-based startup aggregating a massive collection of public data from government agencies, businesses and nonprofits all over the world. We're hiring for the following positions:

- Dev Ops/Sysadmin to help us scale and automate our infrastructure
- Backend web engineer with experience tackling hard distributed systems
- Data Scientist who loves finding gems of insight in messy datasets
- Designer with an eye for minimalism and a love of data
- Data Solutions Lead - a cross between biz dev and data analytics

More details on open positions can be found at https://jobs.lever.co/enigma

We're a rapidly growing team based out of New York City's SoHo neighborhood. We're all passionate about our work and about what data can tell us about the world and are backed by an amazing roster of investors including American Express Ventures and The New York Times Company.

I'm not a recruiter - I'm a developer at Enigma and I've truly been loving the ride. In fact, I got my job via a post on this board almost exactly a year ago :) We've got some really exciting, huge projects kicking off soon. Shoot me an e-mail at jobs@enigma.io or dan@enigma.io and tell me HN sent you, I'd be happy to tell you about them and show you around the office!
I think this competition is a good examples of what the author advocates for - asking the right questions, not the tireless ones. There's no specific prompt and no cliche single purpose to the exercise. Further, the competition is aimed at students - which means in all likelihood, most projects will be relatively short, succinct examples of cool things that can be done with the data (the door is not open to more data collection, to studies that require a lot of time, and the dataset is small enough that computing time/infrastructure should not be an issue).

The real challenge is having the creativity to come up with a question worth asking. From Yelp's perspective, I imagine the most value they get from hosting this competition is the (potentially monetizable) ideas for what types of business problems could be solved using their treasure trove of data.

I'm sure they could have their data science team build an incredibly sophisticated model for some specific prediction task (probably more sophisticated than what any student could reasonably submit) - but if that specific prediction task turns out difficult or not monetizable, that's a huge investment lost. Having many students look at many different ideas is more likely to result in finding the right question.
I know what you mean, I like .NET too but there is a lot about working with it that feels very outdated these days.
I guess a mod will if/when they notice. You could email hn@ycombinator.com and explain the mistake, they will definitely notice that.
> Because NYC is bigger than just Manhattan.

You know, you're right. When someone says "NYC" I pretty much only think of Manhattan (from the top of central park down). I forget how enormous the city actually is.
Newer history can exclude a diagnosis based on older history.
Senior iOS Engineer - Full Time - In the Heart of San Francisco

Gametime is a small team working in the heart of San Francisco's startup scene, right by the stadium. We love what we do, and we are growing at a meteoric rate (30x in six months!).

Who we are looking for:

- Senior iOS: We don't write typical iOS code. The core of Gametime iOS relies on ReactiveCocoa and functional programming paradigms. We'll be switching to Swift as soon as it hits 1.0. We ship a build every Wednesday and move FAST. We peer review everything we write, and hold each other to impeccable standards without letting ourselves get bogged down in perfectionism. At Gametime you'll write great code, ship a beautiful product, and play a leading role at one of the fastest growing start ups in the Bay Area.

~ We're a rocket ship! Gross sales are up 30x in six months and we're expanding fast.

~ We are a small, Accel backed company. It's an exciting time to get on board.

~ We offer market rate salary and meaningful equity.

~ Everyone here does meaningful work. You won't end up on the "login button team" here, you will be part of the most important conversations on the engineering team.

~ Free lunch! Who said there was no such thing?

~ $2000 annual education budget to learn anything you like.

~ Your birthday and your partner's birthday off!

~ Free games! We're right by the stadium, in the Dropbox building. Go Giants!

https://jobs.lever.co/gametime/a863b6f9-1b49-4288-babd-75e84...
OMG! This article is a complete breath of fresh air. Autistic people are considered disabled or retarded but they are not. They are actually quite intelligent. In fact, too intelligent that it gets in the way of social development (or rather WE determine them to be socially undeveloped). Their minds race in only certain directions and leaves behind development in social interactions. This lack of social development overshadows and hides all of the other things they are good at.

Autistic people have a difficult time of inferring social behavior. It does not come naturally to them. The behavior needs to be spelled out and explicitly stated.

Autistic people are programmable individuals, but the only problem is that normal people lack the interface to communicate with them.

I am glad to hear of the positiveness expressed in this article, but I do not like the over-sensationalized title "kids who beat Autism". No one ever 'beats' autism.
> (I don't envy American doctor working hours, but I sure do envy their salary.)

Once you factor in the levels of debt they have at that point, you may not be so envious: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-million-mistake-becoming-a-doc...

I can't remember where I saw the statistic, but the number of years it takes for a physician to have a positive net worth after leaving medical school has been increasing dramatically. (This is because debt from medical school and undergraduate have increased nominally, while the expected income of a physician has dropped dramatically[0])

[0] Again, the magnitude of this effect varies by state, but it's a nationwide trend.
I watched most of the Marvel movies and I have the same opinion, Avengers was one of the worst IMO, I enjoyed most of the X-Men ones, "First class" in particular.

My favorites super hero movies are not Marvel, I would put The Dark Knight at number 1) and Watchmen at number 2).
It should be noted that there's a big difference between an unpopular opinion and a misinformed opinion, the latter of which typically causes downvotes depending on tone.

I rarely see super-gray posts for going against the grain.
Looks like they're the chaps behind https://deadmanssnitch.com which looks like a simple and useful service.
There is at least one already out there - http://www.hostvirtual.com/anycast-bgp-cloud/. You have to bring your own IP space (/24 minimum of course). I vaguely remember reading the charges were in the low thousands of dollars per month, but that was a while ago.
Small world indeed :-).

It'd be interesting to find out how many of us have left the Valley and ended up in the tech industry somewhere and create a little network that could support each other ;-).

I went off to eBay for a short while before coming back to IVC, but tech opportunities are still few and far between down here so depending on how stagnant growth opportunities are in a few years it might force me to look for opportunities in the Bay Area or San Diego again.
Taxis are no longer cheaper in NYC, and I've never met an inexperienced Uber driver.
I'm in the "interesting" situation of living in Tijuana* and commuting M-F to my job as a software engineer in "Sorrento Valley" in central San Diego. The article is pretty interesting, and I think that the huge difference in cost of living along with some of the lifestyle / cultural benefits of Tijuana could be attractive to engineers and create an interesting community. I can attest that the border traffic is pretty horrific, though it can be lessened greatly if you get Global Entry/SENTRI. It would be cool to see more tech activity in San Diego.

*To add to the coincidences here, my name is T.J. ;)
Sure you could. You just used pencil and paper.
For any parents starting to get worried: toe-walking is completely normal for many children below 5 years old and even older[1]. Usually they grow out of it as they get older. So I would definitely not consider that a sign pointing to the possibility of autism.

[1] http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20120723/childrens-toe-wa...
I am very curious about the same. I did a whois on the domain, and its information is protected, of course. The DNS is in Poland, and the site runs on Digital Ocean (Netherland IP). I am guessing he/she is European. But other than that...
In this as other spheres of recent, catastrophic failure (i.e. the financial crisis): I'm down to saying to TPTB:

"No jail? You fail."

If Brennan can't be prosecuted for perjury, then a very public and (really) career-ending firing is in order.

As for the Congress that has been soaking up these lies and dissemblance, well, if you're a U.S. citizen, don't forget to vote. Also in local elections, where candidates grow into future Congress-critters -- or used to, before they started simply buying their way in.
any chance you're on ios8?
Exactly - scripts are pure functions. Reasoning behind this is explained by Satoshi himself at Bitcoin Talk [0]. Contracts page at Bitcoin wiki has an example of defining a will using Bitcoin and an oracle [1].

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195.msg1611#msg1611

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_4:_Using_extern...
I'm talking about maintenance, obviously you must make sure the code does the correct thing initially. I have maintained a 100k LOC Rails app for 7 years with near 100% test coverage. And guess what? Stuff breaks. 99% of the stupid breakages I have experienced would have been impossible in Haskell.

What's the longest you've maintained something?
The Future of Iced Coffee
Location: Wroclaw, Poland, EU

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Wow this is great!!! This is exactly the guide that I've been looking for. Thanks!!!
> Was the United States not supposed to go after Osama Bin Laden?

I'm with mikeash on this: sometimes the cost is too high.

For the sake of argument, compare it to more traditional hypothetical trade-offs, starting with what almost nobody would have considered justified:

Would getting Bin Laden have justified dropping a nuke on Abbottabad?
… What about conventional bombing the entire city?
… the neighborhood?
… the block?
… that house?

I suspect that the number of bystander casualties most people would consider too high is lower than the number of people who have already died either directly (medical workers) or indirectly (unvaccinated children).
I think one issue that the paper didn't really tackle was the question new contributors ask themselves when they want to contribute: "I don't want to bother people with patches they could have written themselves faster or better." (http://marti.us/w/2014-07-19-Mozilla-BSP.html)

When I first started out, I reported bugs, reproducible tests, and contributed to issue discussions, but didn't write PRs because I felt as if my coding style or complexity could not live up to the source. There is often a intimidation factor when thinking about submitting code to the maintainers (even though it is not on purpose).

Even now after contributing some code, I sometimes still feel the same way when it comes to repos by well-known names in the communities.
And yet it seems to be wrong.
But what exactly constitutes "beating" Autism? Is this actually desirable?

I was diagnosed with Asperger's in the mid-90s. I wrote about the experience anonymously for Boing Boing at one point[1].

But the TL;DR is that having lived in both "worlds", the experience of being "cured" was not worth it. The emotional costs were much too high - I just traded ASD for PTSD. I used to be a happy kid with few friends who tinkered with computers. Now I'm a very social guy who will shake your hand, look you in the eye, ask all the right questions to make you feel special. And I'll be miserable the whole time.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.html
Your Facebook account is totally your new IP address.
REDI Technologies (http://www.redi.com)

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The death of RS, as cheesy as it is, is a tragedy for hackers: for most of the country, it's the only retail outlet that carries electronic components and tools.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised $7 million from Khosla Ventures along with Kleiner Perkins, Greylock partners, Data Collective, Pitango and Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Investments.

I'm not saying that all you have to do to raise funding, apparently, is be from Stanford but...well, yeah, I guess that's exactly what I'm saying.
Why (Some) Secrecy is Good for Civil Liberties
http://challengepost.com/discover?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=&cha...
The Oculus Rift Made Me Believe I Could Fly
Game dev here. Just remember we cheat like crazy. If you are never going to see the backside of something it likely has never been shaded (or even modeled).

Just as a couple examples: once we needed to show a which way enemies would move for a tower defense game so we made a custom skin that looked like arrows that moved along a path but was really just a mostly transparent image on a plane that was slowly being offset.

Another time we needed to make it look like you were in space, but to make that realistic you need thousands of individual stars - so we pre-rendered the six space images needed for the sides of a cube and just made the code that projects 3D images down to a 2D plane (ie your screen) always put it behind everything else, even if it was technically on a 1x1 box around the camera.

These days, sadly, I do 2D which means fewer tricks.
IMHO this is the least of Bitcoin's problems. My grandmother doesn't understand the internals of the internet, just like she won't understand the internals of Bitcoin.

Additionally, with BIP-16 (P2SH) and BIP-70 (payment protocol) it is up to the recipient to provide the spend script. Presumably my wallet won't generate a script it doesn't understand. If the wallet doesn't track the required information, whether that's your private key or something more complex, of course you're going to have problems.
This reads like an academic version of my essay, "How to get designers (or anyone) to work on your open source project," which is pretty exciting.

If you're a project leader that wants new people, whether devs or designers or doc writers or anyone, http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/ is my essay, and it provides concrete steps you can take, with real examples from a technologically non-trivial open source project.

It looks like my essay hits all the points from this paper, which is nice to see.
No. It means it, spectroscopically, looked specifically like titanium dioxide paint, and not just any arbitrary white material. Its spectral lines were consistent with titanium dioxide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
he's probably coming back these days.
I'm working on http://play.freeciv.org/

Making games is a lot of fun!
Yes, yes, being rude also annoys people. What I'm saying is that many people detect the evangelist's "always humble" attitude for what it truly is: hidden condescension.
I sometimes wonder if we are in the mid to late republic. [1] I want to believe in the progress of the country, but sometimes it seems like stagnation since the 70s and that post WW2 may have been the zenith of the American Rebublic. The divide between military and civilian, the Tammany hall nature of D.C., the bread and circuses all around, our country has issues to fix.

But, I believe that we are moving forward, the world more than just the US, by many measures: mortality [2], poverty [3], violence [4]. So, I hope that we are something different than the Roman Republic and can last longer as a republic. My greatest fear is a 1984 style of perpetual surveillance, doublethink and corporate slavery. Oh wait, we are already there ;)

[1] - http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/laterep-index.html
[2] - http://www.nber.org/digest/mar02/w8556.html
[3] - http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/04/17/re...
[4] - http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/11/the-decline-of-violenc...
Show HN: Give Peace a Chance (Bandhub)
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Lead Android Developer - Full Time - In the Heart of San Francisco

Gametime is a small team working in the heart of San Francisco's startup scene, right by the stadium. We love what we do, and we are growing at a meteoric rate (30x in six months!).
Who we are looking for:

- Lead Android Developer - As lead engineer you'll be inheriting a strong, flexible codebase that isn't far behind iOS (this is not a "follow iOS" role). You'll be responsible for the Android team as a whole, Gametime's vision on the Android platform, and be part of major product and technology decisions. Our app has been built by an external team that will still be on board to help when you join, providing a smooth integration period.

~ We're a rocket ship! Gross sales are up 30x in six months and we're expanding fast.
~ We are a small, Accel backed company. It's an exciting time to get on board.

~ We offer market rate salary and meaningful equity.

~ Everyone here does meaningful work. You won't end up on the "login button team" here, you will be part of the most important conversations on the engineering team.

~ Free lunch! Who said there was no such thing?

~ $2000 annual education budget to learn anything you like.

~ Your birthday and your partner's birthday off!

~ Free games! We're right by the stadium, in the Dropbox building. Go Giants!

https://jobs.lever.co/gametime/ad03b6ba-8ef3-4205-9112-47e8b...
> If you will excuse my directness, all of these arguments come across as 'it isn't fair that they're bigger than we are.'

Fairness has nothing to do with it. It's obvious that large entities have more power than small entities, but that's hardly an excuse to give them more. Especially when the argument being made is that it will help small entities which it empirically does not.

> Gigantic, established companies will always have an edge, regardless of patents. Abolishing the system and creating a wild-west scenario is ridiculous.

There should be corollary to Godwin's law that anyone who describes the tech industry as the wild west automatically loses the argument. There are no gunslingers here. You've already listed plenty of reasons why Microsoft is not going to be felled overnight by some startup in the absence of software patents.

> Reform and overhaul using principles guided by rational, current, and quantifiable evaluation, with an established timeline for recurring review and reform.

There is nothing to reform. The essential failure isn't in the specifics of the law, it's in the concept of patenting what is fundamentally information. Under the same law the patent system works largely as it's expected to in the pharmaceutical industry or the auto industry. It fails spectacularly in the software industry because software is not supposed to be patentable subject matter.
Because it's open source, so it will be easier to audit, and probably because of the UI (Lastpass UI got a lot better in the latest releases, but still sucks).