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Wise.io (Berkeley, CA) is looking for an amazing Full-Stack Developer to join our world-class team of engineers and data scientists in building a disruptive application framework for the enterprise.

Wise's innovative machine-learning driven application framework combines the latest virtualization and distributed systems solutions with leading web and visualization technologies in order to provide production-ready machine-learning insights to the enterprise.

You will play a central role in the development team which engineers and supports the application framework and solutions built on top of it. You will work with leading machine-learning computer scientists, statisticians, and data scientists to develop distributed processing and visualization platform technologies and will be responsible for projects spanning the full stack. As an early employee (we're less than 15 people now), you will participate in lean and fast paced development cycles driven by challenging problems and new customers.

This is a full-time position based in Berkeley, California.

=== Requirements ===

- An advanced degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another data-intensive discipline.
- Proven expertise in Python and advanced javascript programming.
- 3+ years experience with linux and networking.
- Have demonstrated expert level skills in developing multiple full-stack solutions, preferably for analytics problems.
- Have developed for commercial, business driven, set deadline projects, ideally in a startup environment.
- Experience with Git, version control, testing practices, working on multi-developer projects.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL database and storage engines.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment

=== Bonus points ===

- A background in cloud computing, virtualization, networking / infrastructure, deployment.
- Experience with developing and interfacing with data and visualization API’s.
- Experience with Hadoop / HDFS, Apache Spark.
- Experience with D3 and data visualizations
- Experience with JSON / XML / HDF5 data formats.
- Experience with C/C++, Go or Scala
- Experience with machine learning and data science tasks.

=== About Wise.io, Inc. ===

Wise.io's mission is to empower better data-driven decision making for the enterprise. We sell software applications spanning the entire customer lifecycle that apply the power of machine learning to help companies optimize how they acquire, monetize, and retain customers. This VC-backed company was founded by leading experts in astrophysics, statistics, computer science, and machine learning as well as business executives who built innovative and disruptive businesses that brought advanced analytics to the enterprise software market. Our team includes published authors, serial entrepreneurs, Fulbright and Hertz Scholars, and prolific inventors. Wise.io’s solutions are running in production at companies that range from Silicon Valley startups to the largest Fortune 500 corporations.
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Close - San Francisco

Hiring full-time in SF (SoMA), contract-to-hire preferred:
* Generalist or Rails Engineer (application stack)
* Back-end Python Engineer (data stack)
* Data Scientist
* UX/UI Designer

We're a seed funded startup with several former Googlers, and we're tackling the messy world of business. Every day, people shake hands over million-dollar deals that can change the future of a company. From fundraising and acquisitions to partnerships, promotions and product placement, businesses get together and make new things happen. But there's no platform for them; they typically overload sales-focused CRMs, or are stuck in the world of spreadsheets and email. We're changing that.

It's a fascinating data problem as we're mapping out professional and company-to-company networks, trying to understand who does business with whom and why, feeling our way around the underlying graph that nobody's explicitly mapped out before. From old school tie to the boardroom, why do people do business with each other? What are the trust and influence networks? What's the equivalent of PageRank for investors? What does it mean when a VP moves from one company to another? How do I get my startup funded?

We're trying to answer all these questions. We have an invite-only product already launched, we're building a team-facing solution, and we're expanding our data team to work on the platform that powers it all. Here's my take on the space: https://medium.com/@jennielees/the-joy-of-data-a1d3757d3567

Looking for fast learners who can get their hands dirty, quickly; who know when to duct tape and when to have 100% test coverage (think like a hacker, ship like a pro); who don't mind being wrong occasionally; and who are intrigued by the overall space we're in. We've had a good run from HN posts so far, hoping to continue it.

You'd be potentially a single-digit employee and have a significant chance to influence our culture and growth, as well as immense impact on the product itself. We have a generous equity setup, though we prefer contract-to-hire so we can figure out if we'd work well together.

For our generalist role we'd prefer it if you have Rails and JavaScript experience; for our data roles, Python. Graph-specific data experience is a bonus.

I lead engineering at Close, and I'm also happy to chat for coffee if you're interested in startups, this problem space, or if you're interested in the product itself.

Email jennie+HN@close.co.
Please don't buy Ecospheres - I realize that many people don't feel particularly sympathetic toward shrimp, but they really are amazing creatures slowly starving to death:

http://www.petshrimp.com/opaeinfo.php

Although I have to admit large-scale installation of these things in cubicles would be quite the fitting ststement for many companies...
After gazing for a few minutes at both grids, I do see the effect but the green is much more prominent for me than the magenta (which I see, but much less pronounced) despite gazing back and forth at both for about the same time.

The page would be a bit better if it incorporated some basic image controls, IMO, to allow you to rotate the image, zoom it, etc.

I downloaded the image and did some of that locally and zooming in and out is pretty interesting because the effect becomes less pronounced (for me, anyway) as I zoom out away from 100%. It seems like the size of the "haze" around the bars remains constant as you zoom even as the size of the black bars changes, so as you zoom in the effect becomes less and less pronounced until eventually the black bars get so big that it seems to disappear altogether.
Last few die shrinks have done little for power consumption.
Many times :)

Some of our other big inspirations are Bloom (http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/index.html) and OctopusDB (https://infosys.uni-saarland.de/projects/octopusdb.php#secti...).
Shopular - Redwood City, CA

Looking for Senior iOS and Android engineers - shopular.com/jobs

===== About Shopular

Shopular is connecting shoppers and brands in the moments that matter. Our mission is to be your personal shopping concierge that provides the most intuitive and effortless way to save money. The iOS and Android apps have over 30,000 reviews and widely loved. Time featured Shopular as one of the 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2013. Shopular is backed by Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital. shopular.com/about

The best part is that we are still a small team of 5: high-caliber engineers from Google, Shopkick, Ooyala and Loopt
We are growing the engineering team and looking for experienced and eager individuals who share our passion for creating consumer experiences that "just work". You get significant equity, significant responsibility and a company with traction and backing.

===== About the roles

We are still a small team of 5 engineers and looking for experienced iOS and Android engineers who can take the apps to the next level.

You should be a master of iOS/Android with significant prior experience building beautiful consumer-facing apps with a large number of users. You have built complex apps from scratch. You share our passion for creating consumer experiences that "just work".

Email join@shopular.com
People are growing out of things, thinking platforms are getting old but forgetting that sometimes it is simply them that are in fact struggling to adapt to fast evolving ways to use a concept as generic as Twitter.

I'm not saying that he is necessarily wrong about the recent changes in the timeline but it does sound a bit like "things were better when we were the kings of the hill"... you don't hear the Bieber and Lady Gaga fans complaining about Twitter...
Interesting tidbit: Hard to imagine these days, but this language specification appears typed by hand on a typewriter, most likely this model: http://magazinesadsandbooks.com/Magazine-Ad-for-Remington-Ra...
Tom Wolfe wrote an interesting passage about old-time food service at Intel (http://web.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html):

"At Intel lunch had a different look to it. You could tell when it was noon at Intel, because at noon men in white aprons arrived at the front entrance gasping from the weight of the trays they were carrying. The trays were loaded down with deli sandwiches and waxed cups full of drinks with clear plastic tops, with globules of Sprite or Diet Shasta sliding around the tops on the inside. That was your lunch. You ate some sandwiches made of roast beef or chicken sliced into translucent rectangles by a machine in a processing plant and then reassembled on the bread in layers that gave off dank whiffs of hormones and chemicals, and you washed it down with Sprite or Diet Shasta, and you sat amid the particle-board partitions and metal desktops, and you kept your mind on your committee meeting. That was what Noyce did, and that was what everybody else did."

Surely well below $10 per person for that level of service. :-)
I should have made clear what I meant by "sits lower in the water", and I'm responsible for the confusion.

Because the boat is a three-dimensional object, and because the subsurface part contacts the water in three dimensions, if it is scaled up with all else the same, it should still have the same waterline, but (obviously) its keel is deeper in the water.

> I still can't intuitively convince myself that the waterline would shift when the model scales.

Your instincts are serving you well, and the answer is simple -- I wasn't sufficiently careful in how I described it, and I let an error creep into yesterday's conversation. In fact, a model whose dimensions are held constant but is scaled up, should show the same waterline at all scales.

Again, I apologize for sounding so sure of myself when I wasn't.
Why is the normal distribution important here? (In programming, people often start from the uniform distribution, don't they?)
1. From UNIX point-of-view, not all has the luxury of bash, so seems to be quite limited to a certain modern platform? I found out ksh are more prevalent

2. I actually use UnxUtils in windows so I can has POSIX command option (and scripting). Performance-wise, never tested as not needed, all short command / simple script
Brainy, Yes, but Far from Handy
Disclosure: I work for Planet Innovation, the design house that made this, but I didn't directly work on this project.

We're pitching it as a thermostat that doesn't try to be smarter than you. I suspect HN will come to think of it as "Nest-lite".

Happy to answer questions about it here, or refer them to the design team if I don't know the details.
I'm using Firefox 3.5, and a helluva lot of stuff doesn't work properly any more. For instance, I notice that reddit broke a few weeks ago and I can no longer vote or comment. Why? I have no idea.

"Why don't you just get a new browser?" you might ask. Because new versions of browsers don't work on OS 10.4.

"So why don't you upgrade your OS?" Because as far as I can tell, no upgraded OS that will work on this machine is still available. There's no upgrade path from here to there. OS 10.6 would run on this machine, and OS 10.6 would run the latest Chrome, but you can't get OS 10.6 any more.

So I'm stuck in a bind, with no other option than to throw this (perfectly good) machine out completely. I do have a newer machine, but I keep it in the office, and this one ought to be capable of doing everything I want from it, but web devs keep breaking things that used to work fine.
> In an interesting twist, the factory boss suggested that we could build the precision molding tools in China and then send these tools to a US shop for running production.

> This role reversal is an indicator of how the technology, trade, and know-how for injection molding has shifted to Shenzhen. Even if US has the manufacturing capacity, key parts of the knowledge ecosystem currently exist only in Shenzhen.

This is what really saddens me about outsourcing manufacturing from America, is that we lose the knowledge about manufacturing technology. Although we may be at the forefront of software development, in many areas of manufacturing technology the cutting edge development happens in China now.

I'd really like if we could bring about a revival in manufacturing engineering in the US. Other than the ecosystem effect, the main way that China has an advantage is labor cost, so I propose that we could build up a "Shenzhen of America" in the San Diego / Tijuana free trade zone. The repetitive work that takes a lot of hours would be done on the Mexico side, where labor is now almost as cheap as China. The manufacturing engineering and tool-making would both happen on the American side, bringing these jobs back to the USA from China.

San Diego / Tijuana are shipping ports on the Pacific, facilitating importing electronic components from China, Japan, and Korea, and then we could do all of the PCB fab, PCB assembly, injection molding, and final device assembly (as well as all tooling for all of these processes) over here in the Americas.

I'm very supportive of China's development but competition is good and as American citizens we can't just throw in the towel, we have to build our manufacturing knowledgebase back up and be willing to actually compete.
It definitely shines as an ad-hoc organizational tool - from it's original coming-out party at SXSW where we all found a new way of figuring out where the best (or shortest lines for) parties were, to massive protests in the Middle East and beyond.

The days of caring about every person's every move may be waning, but I don't see Twitter becoming less relevant. Its original Big Bang of instant information dissemination for large loosely organized groups is still hugely important. Or so it seems to me.
It could also be useful for finding difference in HTML source.
There is an RFC for IP via carrier pigeon [0]

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Capability checks and run-time tests can only go so far. You end up with a bewildering array of code path fallbacks and polyfills that massively complicates the readability and maintainability of such apps.

I realize web developers think it's kind of marvelous and cool and philosophically pure to serve one page that scales from Netscape 1.0 all the way up to today's bleeding edge mobile browsers, but realistically, it is better to focus team resources on different tiers of functionality and in effect, write two or more difference pages optimizes for different scenarios.
Then run a VM? There are plenty of alternatives available.
If 2 New Yorkers Shared a Cab
Location: Dallas, Texas

Remote: Yes, but I prefer in office

Willing to Relocate: Absolutely

Technologies: C#, Web(HTML5,CSS3,Javascript), Java, C++, Unity, Game Design, Project Management

Resume: www.sjmosley.com/portfolio.html

Email: samueljmosley@gmail.com

---

I am looking to relocate nearly anywhere including overseas. My background is in game development and design with a strong emphasis on programming.
Ask HN: How do I learn the basics of a new field of business – i.e. importing?
I'm a fairly experienced business person, but I really only known the secrets of how to succeed within the business fields/industries that I have spent my career working in.

I'm thinking of doing some business in an entirely different industry - importing. I know nothing about this industry right now although I think I might see some opportunities.

Surely in this Internet age there is a way to learn from others about how to succeed in a new industry?

Does anyone have any idea how I might find resources or even better mentors willing to talk to me about how to succeed and how to avoid failing in the importing business?

thanks HN!
Amazing effort.

I've already started working with Reflector and ScreenFlow for our app demo, but the tip regarding After Effects and the device model is handy.
Maybe it's just the informal writing style and concentration on deficiencies in current implementations of SQL, but the whole things reads as if the author gave only a cursory glance at any relational model theory.
The Best Job Markets for Young College Grads Now
Interesting that no one else seems to be reporting this.
I Never Should Have Followed My Dreams
Tox is peer-to-peer, whereas XMPP requires (de)centralized servers. Tox is encrypted always, XMPP is unencrypted by default and OTR is hard to use. The Tox API, as alpha as it is, is pretty easy to work with, too. I wrote mostly complete Guile bindings for libtoxcore and a basic Tox bot in about a week.
I want to echo this comment.

The effort to bring people to use the latest browser is understandable. For one, it forces developers to "drop" bad practices which are now "restricted" or banned in modern browser specs. For two we can bring the latest security protection browser offer to user. How I wish we could just screw every webpage on this planet and rewrite HTML spec and make it fresh and restricted.

But, it is important to note that blind users have very difficult time to use web sites that are JS-heavy and plugin-heavy. ARIA is a great solution, but honestly, even popular sites are slowly adopting it and even so Javascript interaction can be very hard to get right for a blind user.

They can still use chrome and firefox if the website provides text-based version. But the problem is still most websites don't provide text-based version.

Shameless plug: I did my senior project on this subject.[1] In this project I used gmail.js which the author did an amazing job of extracting the DOM for us (it was also on HN). I wish a website could just provide these "JS" APIs publicly so developers like me who wish to let people to interact with the website over voice without us "scarping" the API. Think of the ideal REST practice where one uses HAETOS to drive resource discovery. Imagine every website has a "IFTTT" protocol!

It is unfortunate, but today, even there are millions of blind users, they have to "adopt" to the latest technology with pain, at least this is what the blind users I've asked before and after the project said.

Anyway, my project code is a mess, but it was fun to write add-on and try blind-user tools on my own.

[1]: http://ccvcl.org/mediawiki/images/archive/3/37/2014051804182...
Buy a used copy of 10.6 on ebay or just simply download it somewhere.
I would love to do more factory/production tours but in many countries it seems that insurance and legal issues have made them too difficult. Brewery tours are common (the Budvar one in the Czech Republic is great) but I'd be just as interested in car manufacture, electronics, furniture, clothing, almost anything.

Are there any formal tours in China? I don't mean the sort of tour where you are driven around in a bus visiting factories, but an index of factories that are willing to take an appointment to visit for a fee, just out of curiosity.
Student Voice News
One anecdotal story: One summer I went back to Shenzhen and decided to get a PlayStation 2 with a mod chip installed so I can play pirated games (I was a poor student).

Now, there was this one mod chip that was really good but requires a bit of soldering work to get it installed right, and me, being an EE student, was no stranger to a soldering iron, so I planned to do it myself after buying the chip.

So I bought a brand new PS2/mod chip combo from this small electronics store and the shirtless owner actually offered to solder it for me for free. I took up on the offer since I get to test the chip on the spot as well.

He opened up the PS2 case, with one hand took up a soldering iron, while the other hand holding a cigarette, started working. I nervously watched him tapping around my brand new PS2's motherboard with just one hand while paying most of the attention to the live soccer game on TV at the time. 5 minutes later he was finished and 8 years later that PS2 is still working and reads all pirated discs with absolutely no problems.

Throughout college I've never met anyone who's as good at soldering as this shirtless electronics shop owner I met in Shenzhen.
I am on a computer all day long, I still have a flip phone, and people look at me like I am crazy. They all know I am a tech type guy, but question why I have a flip phone. Thing is, when I am off the computer. I dont want to think about more computer things. Glad others are finally realizing how terrible this is. You go out in public and everyone is sitting down at dinner with their friends surfing the biggest social media site at the moment.
Location: Taipei

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript (AngularJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS), Java, Python (Django)

Resume: http://tw.linkedin.com/in/ashishdasnurkar/

Email: ashish.dasnurkar@gmail.com

Currently looking for part-time/full-time REMOTE only. I have 10+ years professional experience and I have full stack development experience with the technologies mentioned above. My recent work has been on a Ajax UI framework. Contact me for more details.
A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
I think HN self selects for a bunch of corner cases that are atypical to the problem google is trying to correct for. People who have refused to update due to dislike of a certain OS, browser configuration, have extensions that limit functionality or otherwise knowingly don't update their browser for a specific reason based on technical understanding or aesthetic choice are the corner cases. Obviously, there are just a bunch of non-technical people using ie7 who have 5million toolbars and can't figure out why google looks so shitty. These people need to upgrade their shit, because when something doesn't work they can't fix it. Web devs are sick of having to develop with their hands tied behind their backs because a fuckton of people are using the old browser their computer shipped with in 2007.
This is great; I'm still reading through, but, I had no idea that the performance drop was that steep!
It's inappropriate because the field of engineering is in dire need of more women, and it doesn't help the situation. Imagine if you wanted to go into a field such as nursing and all of the men in the text books were oiled up shirtless muscular dudes.
The most interesting thing to me about China's capitalism is the massive amount of small firms. I think there's a tendency among western firms to use cheap financial capital to acquire smaller firms. I'm not sure if this is the case in China where the government is more directly involved in directing lending and not focused on mergers and acquisitions.
I'm in a similar boat with an older 2006 era MBP. It runs fine, and I'd just love to use it to watch movies or whatever. But I'm stuck in a similar "can't upgrade" mill, and the machine is too old to be useful for much else. So it just sits and collects dust.

Strangely my Windows machines from the same era (and earlier) aren't caught in the same pile of issues. They're still running XP, but pretty much everything still more or less works on XP (at least things the machines are physically capable of running). I've toyed around with installing Win 7 on them, but really, what's the point? There's nothing I can't really do with those machines that's within their processor profiles.
What to expect from the iPhone 6, Apple A8, and beyond