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RealCrowd (YC S13) - Palo Alto, CA - Full Time

RealCrowd is a seed funded, profitable, commercial real estate investment marketplace. Investors purchase shares of commercial real estate properties, funds and debt, and participate in their share of the returns on those investments. What were once investments reserved for large funds and country club networks are being opened up to the individual investor.

We are taking a fundamentally different approach than others in the "Real Estate Crowdfunding" market and it is working. Investments are growing at a rate of 25% per month and our investors make on average three investments per year at over $50,000 average investment size. We've participated in over $500 Million of real estate transactions with top real estate firms, investors using our site having contributed nearly $17 Million of capital. We listed the first investment about one year ago just before demo day on August 20.

We're looking for junior engineers that have a passion for the responsive web, an unusual ability to ship code quickly, and a desire to learn from industry veterans.

The RealCrowd site is 100% responsive with about 20% of our sessions originating from mobile and tablet devices.

Our front end is developed primarily with a custom Bootstrap theme, AngularJS and CoffeeScript.

We are an API-first development organization, so there are a myriad of APIs available to the front end.

We have designers on staff to help ship best in class UX and visual design.

We're looking for junior engineers for entry level positions to work on a team with 5 senior engineers with an average of over 10 years of software development experience. We are growing and there should be much room for internal advancement in the future for motivated employees.

You should be able to:
- Build web sites using html, css, and javascript
- Learn new concepts quickly
- Try, fail, and try again
- Be familiar with server side development in a fairly modern environment such as MEAN, RoR, ASP.Net MVC, etc
- Have a passion for building great user experiences
- Accept critical feedback and improve your craft
- Be passionate about being the best software developer you can be
- Get shit done

You will do a small project (where you will maintain copyright) and take a little test rather than have any BS technical puzzle interviews or whiteboard coding.

We have 100% paid health insurance, great food, a relaxed yet high output work environment, and commuter benefits available. This role is on-site in Palo Alto.

Check us out: https://www.realcrowd.com
A bit about culture: https://www.realcrowd.com/blog/2014/08/realcrowds-team-cultu...
Tech blog: http://code.realcrowd.com

Email jobs@realcrowd.com. Include samples of your work, if no samples are available email us and we can send you our coding challenge project.
Things Will Never Be the Same: Growing Necessity of Paid Social
Indeed they have. Now they're doubling down on their existing platforms (and also, OnMetal).

I think their best move would be to pivot to be a firm that manages solutions for corporations that refuse to move off on-premises equipment for whatever reason. Their CapEx costs fall away, and they already have a deep ocean of talent to draw on.

There are already large orgs that already do this, but Rackspace has the potential to suck A LOT less than they do at the same task.
Can Science Avert a Coffee Crisis?
“Homeless Paintings of the Italian Renaissance”
I think the best way to handle ambiguities like this is to present the user with an unambiguous result that highlights the choice that it made, but then to also provide a list of possible ambiguities to the application itself so it knows what the most likely corrections would be.

From the Limitations section:

> ... we only display the closest upcoming time, if any, or the closest past time otherwise. It can result in surprising outcomes, like “one year after Christmas” will be actually analyzed as “one year after last Christmas”

So this could be the interaction:

> User: "one year after Christmas"

> Computer: "OK, one year after last Christmas" // putting emphasis on what could be ambiguous

> User: "no, after next Christmas" // the application expected that next vs last could be ambiguous, so this is understood correctly
I've seen Hurricane Electric before but I didn't understand what they were.

Can you explain how they are different from a traditional ISP like Comcast?
let the hype cycle begin
Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto buy a stake in Reddit as A-list invests $50m
There may be millions of Wordpress installations, but how many run as CGI-scripts?

My guess is very close to zero. Wordpress is really slow as it is. It's also likely to be more complicated to set up compared to mod_php or FastCGI.
Cool, but they're grouping startups and established tech companies together under the umbrella term "startups"
Half of the earth's surface would be fried instantly by a GRB. The other half would be protected, forget a few meters of water, by the bulk of the planet. The kicker, though is the sudden conversion of a large part of the atmosphere into nitric acid. (O2 + gamma -> NO, NO + H2O + O2 -> HNO3 - I'm not gonna balance that). That will cause serious imbalances in ocean chemistry and also be uncomfortable for terrestrial life on the other half of the planet as it diffuses over.
> Come on guys, Emacs isn't that hard. You can be productive with it after have gone through the tutorial that comes with it.

...and customized it enough to have an environment comparable to what other editors ship out of the box

wc -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el
241 /home/dario/.emacs.d/init.el

241 lines of emacs lisp, and I'm still unsatisfied with the current state of my emacs
Mixpanel - Remote in Europe. Dublin, London, Amsterdam preferred.

We're looking for our first support hire in Europe to provide coverage in the EMEA time zones. If you love being in technical, customer-facing roles, want to be part of a rapidly growing startup and have work authorization in the EU please e-mail me: geddes@mixpanel.com.
Google translator for German looks awesome; its not that good for Portuguese :/
Q-Centrix - San Diego, CA - Apply: rreas@q-centrix.com

* DevOps / Security Lead

We use Ansible to power our HIPAA-compliant application infrastructure. If you love Linux, infrastructure automation and testing, and security/encryption, please get in touch!

* Senior / Lead Engineer

Join our small (4 people) but growing team in San Diego as a team lead. Have the ultimate say on technology, training, coding style and more. We use Rails+AngularJS heavily now.

* About us

We focus on data extraction and analysis for hospitals around the US. Our tools and services enable hospitals to correct care mistakes before they happen. http://q-centrix.com
I have been frantically researching for a temporal tagging library that can be used on an Android application with no good results.

I have looked at SUTime, HeidelTime, natty and some others. I am trying to parse (among others) expressions of the type "the first week of the previous month", "The last week of September". The only library that can parse this type of query is SUTime.

Can you comment on why you implemented a home grown solution instead of using SUTime or some other library readily available. Have you measured the performance of Duckling vs the state of the art in temporal tagging ?

Duckling seems very well made with good docs but unfortunately for me will be hard to make work on Android.
Location: Berlin

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Front end, ruby/rails, php, a bit of python and node, sysadmin / aws / do

Resume: Upon request

Email: nachteilig@edzp.de
Having worked on some agile project management tools, it seems that the space has an unusually high number of customer requests for slight variations/customizations. I am very optimistic about an open source implementation if it allows users to easily adjust the product to meet their specific needs. Best of luck!
A Road Map to Privacy Online
Now that you mention it, I think that was why I stopped using it.
Completely agree, We add the issue, and we will fix it in the next upload. Thanks :)
One Surefire Way to Help You Wrangle Your Out-of-Control Analytics
Why not give the person several choices each day - but default to the main choice if they don't modify it? then rotate between the choices (yesterday's #2 is today's #1)
Expat living in Canada. I don't feel nearly as unsafe walking down the roughest block in Edmonton. I still have a decent chance of being stabbed and robbed, though; A 1:37,000 chance.

However, I am very excited to see how this technology will be used in Canada, or if it will even make a blip on the crime radar.
I both agree and disagree.

On one hand I agree that it would be nice to opt out of charities you disagree with. However I think in doing so it would destroy "Dollar a Day's" USP.

To me the USP of "Dollar a Day" is: Completely hassle free donating at an affordable cost ($30/month) which gives you almost endless positive feedback (i.e. every day you're reminding of why you're a "good person").

As soon as you start adding complexity then the USP changes from "completely hassle free" to "something I have to check every single day." Plus people will have to grasp how the whole skip system works (e.g. if I skip a day, is it still $30/month? If it is then where does that $1 go? What if I skip tons of days? What if I don't redistribute that $1 by the end of the month, where does it go, etc).

So I agree with your point, but I disagree that "Dollar a Day" should implement it. Instead they should stick to their USP and make very sure they don't mis-fire on the charity selection front (e.g. "Today is a $1 donation to the Republican Party," "Today is a $1 donation to Susan G. Komen," etc).
It's a simplified version of http://kanren.sourceforge.net
Frank Chimero: There go the grown ups
Okay then sublime text. Hundreds of thousands of people have paid for that.
I should have made note that the reason why I picked vim over emacs for general coding is that I found the various modifier key combinations required to seriously aggravate my RSI (I was unable to complete the tutorial); on the other hand, vim's modal editing has been a huge help. I'm aware of evil mode, so perhaps I'll have to go that route...

The ctrl+spacebar and search way that Light Table works, while not the fastest, was still preferable to holding down multiple modifier keys.

All that being said, the source of my hand pain might actually have to do with my neck and back, as working on those areas has substantially relieved my pain. So perhaps that will no longer be a barrier to emacs usage in a few months. :)
Robot Historians and the Heroic Idea
Transitioning from Designer to Developer
yeah, noticed that scrolling down was very sluggish.
You and I read hacker news. We are not normal. :)
Also on Linode the bandwidth is accumulated between all of your nodes. That means if you have 2 nodes each with 2TB, you can spend 3TB on one node without paying overage fees. It's actually cheaper to buy extra nodes for the bandwidth even if you don't use them for compute than to pay their overage fees (which are quite high comparatively).
It's like scrolling through molasses for me :) 15" retina MBP.
Technical Writer - Johannesburg, South Africa - Onsite, Remote or permanent part time

We are looking for a talented technical writer to help us improve our suite of documentation and training materials.

Skills & Duties

* Ability to understand highly technical concepts and communicate them effectively to less technical users
* Create and update all technical content including:
* User Guides
* Tutorials
* Blogs
* Knowledge Base Articles
* Instructional Videos
* Training Course Material
* Sales Proposals
* Experience with UX and information design preferred

About Egis Software

Egis Software is an established software vendor of Enterprise Content Management solutions in the South African, Botswana, Mauritius and UK regions.

Email your resume and writing samples to resumes@egis-software.com
~3,000 are known to have died, officially.

There are roughly three reasons this outbreak became so big: different location (West vs. Central Africa), it took a while for the differential diagnosis (the much less deadly Lasa Fever is endemic in the area, but doesn't cause hiccups), and when the foreigners arrived in force, the locals hid. The WHO et. al. actually thought it was under control, before it couldn't be hid anymore.

Educated guesses would put actual fatalities in the 10s of thousands; 100s is possible, but I don't get the impression it's quite there yet. But with exponential growth, 1 case infecting an average of 3 others by one estimate, there's no way it isn't going to get that bad in West Africa.
We did read the manifesto and I'm fairly convinced that Harel's vision of interactive specification and refinement is the the long-term future of software. I'm not sure how to get there though, short of general AI. Eve aims to reduce the amount of specification required and can make sensible guesses about implementation, but it is not able to 'fill in the blanks' for partial specifications and we won't be focusing on that any time soon.
Akamai shows global and US Internet speeds increasing
Some impact analysis from the Qubes OS project: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-devel/HgQ_aWt-EB...
I'm an academic - have worked at a variety of institutions but never officially been at an ivy league school, so I can't strictly speaking claim ground truth. But my impressions are, sure, if your idea of the "education" part of college is to (sometimes) go to classes required for your degree and do exactly what the instructor tells you and that's it, probably it doesn't make a huge difference in terms of academics where you went to school. Everybody uses (almost) the same textbooks, after all. And academic jobs are scarce enough that two instructors of the same subject at very different institutions may actually have had similar undergraduate educations and approaches to undergraduate teaching.

What ivy league and other private research universities excel at academically is scholarly opportunities outside class assignments. If you want to reconstruct 17th century pipe organs or build robotic insects or experiment on extremophiles in Greenland or whatever, there might very well be someone who wants a student to help with something like that. Plus they probably have money to cover your expenses and pay you a stipend for it, and you don't have to compete with 500 other people for the chance. More generally, if there is a particular academic topic you as a student want to learn all about, a top university has a better chance than most places of having someone or something that can help you. But the student has to show up with the initiative and persistence to get that.

The hard part is admissions: what's the best way to find students who will of their own volition seek this kind of thing out? The simple answer would seem to be to look for kids who have a history of doing that and succeeding. But instead that produced this arms race of people seeking lots of extra academic experiences purely for the sake of getting into college and then burning out and not wanting to continue once they got there.
A more beautiful way to explore Vine
You know, those students didn't get that idea out of thin air...
Absolutely. We are working on something called "assumptions" where Duckling informs you about what assumptions it made to produce the result (like: time was ambiguous, I chose PM), and then you can change these and get a new result. Coming soon.
Platform War – iOS vs. Android – Behind the Scenes
Static Types in JavaScript with Facebook's “Flow”
They're an ISP that provides service to data centres, not offices/residences. (And some of those client data centres are run by other ISPs—thus making them a "transit provider" for those ISPs.)
This is very good to know, and something that I was not at all aware of -- I started using Clojure and thus Light Table after the Kickstarter had ended. For some reason I just assumed Light Table had raised a huge amount, and for that I apologize.
>but learning languages and syntax is the trivial part of programming

I beg to differ. Some of the biggest frustrations are languages and syntax for people learning to program. For a professional programmer learning another language is like learning another car for a mechanic. They all look the same after a while. But trying to teach someone how an engine works is not trivial.
And different burial practices, including I gather different from Central Africa, generally speaking.

The CDC just issued instructions for U.S. funeral homes.
Most companies maintain pretty extensive analytics data - would a court consider whether or not a given user ever even actually looked at the ToS as some kind of objective proof that they couldn't have possibly agreed with it? Or say the user visited the ToS page, but only for 30 seconds - that is, not long enough that reading the entire ToS is within the realm of human possibility?
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Emailed twice (Jun + 2 days ago) and didn't get even an acknowledgement either time. :(
You're spot on.
The next version of Duckling will return the list of assumptions made, as well as a list of alternate results. Applications will also be able to give assumptions as input (past vs. future, etc.).
This is as good a place as any to ask, but why aren't you piggybacking on the work that's being done in the Clojure community on these issues?

I'm working on something similar but much more constrained myself [1], but initiatives like Brandom Bloom's EClj and Reid McKenzy's KISS are already on their way to building the foundation for what you need with Eve but within the Clojure format/community.

Taking that route would also give you a natural path to keep LightTable alive and going and eventually get it bootstrapping/self-hosting.

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/mtrimpe/graphel-the-meaning-of-an-im...
Computers are "made of metal", and category theory does often lead far away from that reality. But that doesn't mean function calls are slow, or that we need Sufficiently Smart Compilers just to use map efficiently.

What it means is that abstractions should be designed with both the use and the implementation in mind. One way to do that is "zero-cost abstractions" a la C++, where the abstractions are pretty minimal. Another way is things like stream fusion and tco, where it's easy to accidentally stray out of the efficiently representable subset.

But there are a lot of ways to get abstractions that are both higher-level and "zero-cost" (generating the code you would have if you hadn't used them). For example, Python generators and C# iterators (coroutine-looking functions internally transformed into state machines) look a lot like Haskell higher-order functions but the benefits of laziness and stream fusion and tco are just built into the abstraction, rather than optimizations that may or may not happen, depending on the language/compiler. They also turn out to be more flexible, since the iterator state is reified.

Another example is entity-component systems in game engines. You still get a nice abstraction of game-world objects composed from behaviors, like you might see in an OO hierarchy, but the cache behavior is vastly improved and the behaviors are again more flexible.
Out of curiosity, do you have real numbers there? I'd be quite surprised if it was really hundreds of thousands.
I found a great ad-free social network called "Real Life". I don't need an account or even a device to access it. It has this great feature called "Eye Roll" that subtly lets my friends know when they've shared too many baby pictures and cat videos.
> many existing PHP pages, as just one example.

Not really. Deploying PHP with CGI is very uncommon, as we've seen from the fallout from CVE-2012-1823 which was a much worse bug. Anything vulnerable to that has the potential of being vulnerable again, but that wasn't what you would think of as web applications: some embedded web interfaces, some really bad control panels, that sort of thing.
Completely agreed. I don't want to have to opt out of a full month just because the charity featured on day 27 is objectionable. I'd much rather be able to say "send my dollar for thus-and-such charity to thus-and-such other charity instead."

A useful feature might be the ability to opt out by category or keyword. Maybe I'm not interested in animal charities, or maybe abortion is against my religion, or maybe I don't trust any charity with the word "global" in its name for some petty reason. Whatever it is, I need to be able to opt in to funding the 29 charities I'm cool with and opt out of the one I don't like.
The problem with click-on ToS is that they include heavy handed legalize designed to protect the service provider but for a casual service which is low cost or nearly free to you (they are monetizing you). You certainly would read it (or pay a lawyer to review it) if you were paying someone $100K for engineering work or something like that. It's not worth your time for something which is free.

A rating service like this actually sounds like a very good idea- even one worth paying a small amount for (they very well will need money to protect themselves from lawsuits due to bad ratings). You pay the rating service about what you pay the web service- almost nothing.

Anyway, how else can a class push back against ToS that are not worth reading?
Announcing Dollar a Day
I've noticed that articles like this almost always fall back on implicit "brain as computer" metaphors: "systems involved in love and sex are coming online," "impact of the drugs on the developing circuitry itself." Anyone know of an article that discusses this? It seems to be everywhere in writings about the brain but rarely acknowledged. As for the article itself - I think it has a valid point but is overly flippant about the risks of addiction and relapse later in life. Just because it's statistically less likely than in youth doesn't mean addiction is a "developmental disorder" as the author suggests.
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Monthly allowance (around 400-500EUR in total) and free university education (classes and labs are free, you have to buy or loan the books) are the main characteristics of Finnish university system. Student loans play only a small part. Many people in my student generation didn't even take them, even if they are more or less risk free loans.
13" MBP pro (non-retina) works fine

must be all those extra pixels you've got
Robot Film “Construct” Could Change Everything You Know About CGI