skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA) and Pasadena, CA

Looking for great work-life balance at a job where you can say "I can't find my keyboard under all these robots!" ? Want a place with half-day Fridays during the summer so you can get to the beach on a Friday afternoon? Then iRobot might be the place for you.

We blend cutting-edge research and practical engineering to build useful and affordable robots.

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but a robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.

Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:

* Embedded software engineers: We're hiring for "big embedded" (C++, Linux, and big cpus) and "small embedded" (C, bare-metal, small cpus). If you have good OO skills (C++, Java, etc.) but no "embedded" background that's okay too - shoot me an email and we'll chat.

* Software engineers for vision, navigation, and mapping

* Test engineers

* Mechanical engineers

* IT engineers

* UX/UI engineers

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

The Pasadena, CA jobs show up on our jobs site with "Job Location: US" (as opposed to our Bedford, MA locations that say "Job Location: US-MA"). Sorry for the confusion; the web folks are aware of it and hopefully future listings will be fixed.

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com

Please email even if you're not sure if you're a match; I'm always happy to talk to other HN'ers!

PS: We have hired people from these "Who is hiring?" posts, thanks to HN for this service/forum
If you really care for privacy, you should consider something for which source code is fully available and have client side encryption. To me, Dropbox, Google Drive and btsync are all the same.
Blink an LED with JavaScript – Spark Blog
This is why gun owners get nervous when people who don't understand firearms try to legislate their ownership.
What kinds of alerts would work for you? Let me know and I will pass them along to the team.
Because people gave money via Kickstarter for LightTable. Abandoning it unfinished likely wouldn't go over well.
None of them are obvious to me at that level of detail. (Totally serious answer)
About ~6k a semester, assuming 16 credit hours. The university also gave me a ton of grant money for good grades/ACT score in HS.

It's a pretty nice school honestly, I think a lot of people in the area look down at it because it's mostly a commuter school but it's comparable to MSU in quality of education and way cheaper.
Location: Ireland
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Basic Java/Lisp; HTML+CSS, AutoHotkey, VB scripting, Linux knowledge
Email: tran[]firs@gmx.com without the brackets.

I'll work for free assuming the living costs at the location isn't unreasonably high. I can work for free for 6 months at most. What am I looking for? Any kind of trainee developer role. Back/front-end, it doesn't matter.
I dropped Dropbox because they randomly disables ALL my links without mentioning anything about it to me. I didn't find out about it until I had 300+ people email me about not being able to access a file. Even after that - you had to manually delete the old share links in an arcane way & then recreate them. Really, really terrible UI.

I use Copy.com now - clean interface, but something about their sync takes longer than it should.
As a non-technical person from a completely different industry, my take on TOS is this: I don't care.

Why would anyone care? Is it a legal binding contract between me and the comany? No. It might be taken into account if we go into court, but if they have it in their TOS that I bought an elephant from them - it will not hold.

If they grant me any rights in their TOS - do I trust them? No. I would never keep data in the cloud without backups. Or have the assumption that my data will be held private.

It's all just occupational therapy for lawyers.
Interesting move. I've just read Peter Thiel's startup notes, and one point he's adamant about is to build your product as a monopoly for a small market (this is in no way new advice, but since I just finished his book his formulation is the most recent one in my head). E.g. Facebook and Harvard students, AirBnB and housing for conferences, etc. If you can't get to mass adoption in a small niche, how are you going to scale it up? Additionally, your product has to be at least an order of magnitude better than what the niche already uses (e.g. Facebook was an order of magnitude better than Harvard's static face book).

I have a hard time seeing what small niche Eve will dominate, and how it's at least 10x better than any existing solution. Looking at the examples they give:

> a scientist doesn’t have to rely on the one person in the lab who knows python

Scientist these days pretty much have to pick up a programming language (Python, R, Matlab, etc.) throughout their undergrad/early grad studies. If you're going to target that niche, not only are you fighting against the huge investment professors and labs have made in existing tools (along with the small libraries/frameworks they built themselves), but you also have to provide an equivalent quality ecosystem for the weird data formats some very specific niches use, for the lab equipment, and so on. If you wanted to deliver a 10x improvement on the existing state of computation in research labs, you'd have to spend a lot of time focusing on exclusively that.

> a child could come up with an idea for a game and build it in a couple of weekends

They already can, using Scratch or the myriad similar tools available which will probably remain better because they were designed with game design in mind.

> your computer can help you organize and plan your wedding/vacation/business.

People already use MS Office, Google Docs, etc. for these tasks. Unless Eve brings a 10x improvement to those tools, how can they ever hope to displace them? My dad has been using the same version of Excel for the past 10 years, I have a hard time imagining people like him switching over.

In his lectures, Peter Thiel spends some time talking about all the solar startups that emerged more or less at the same time in the late 2000s, only to fail miserably. While the buzz and excitement for solar power companies was there, in reality they could not deliver on what startups need to deliver to thrive: a product solving a real problem for a niche market that's at least 10x better than the existing solution in place. I feel like we're in a similar space with all those "learn to code" and "new programming tools" companies that have been steadily emerging.

No doubt, the CS academic and HCI researcher that I am is excited by Eve- I'm sure they've done their research and that it would be a really neat product.
The entrepreneur in me is however extremely doubtful.
I am dropped Dropbox.

1) I know how to VPN.
2) I know how to setup a NAS.
3) BitTorrent Sync exists.

It is as easy as 1,2,3! :-)
That link is laughably bad, at least for Canadian universities.

U of Toronto at #20 world wide? Impossible. People are not lining up to get into Toronto. I was offered a full scholarship at my first choice at Toronto, and didn't even get my first choice at Waterloo.

Waterloo behind 7 or 8 other Canadian universities? Also impossible.
One Codex (YC S14) – Genomic search and data platform. San Francisco, CA (https://www.onecodex.com).

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== About Us ==
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We’re a software and biology start-up building a global data backbone and search platform for genomics – an essential piece of infrastructure for a world in which we increasingly understand health, disease, and our environment by transforming biology into data. Our first application area is pathogen detection – working with doctors, epidemiologists, and public health officials to identify and characterize the bacteria and viruses that threaten our health. And already, we’ve attracted users at many of the top public health and research organizations across the globe.

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== About You ==
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We’re looking for talented software engineers to help us build towards our vision for a global genomics data network and enable widespread in silico diagnostics. Specifically, we’re interested in folks with a passion for and depth of experience in one or more of the following areas:

1) Full Stack Engineering: We will be building everything from developer-facing APIs to easy-to-use end applications for doctors and public health officials. You care about everything from elegant APIs to compelling data visualizations. Python experience preferred (we currently use Flask for our web backend).

2) Distributed Systems: We’re building systems for organizing and indexing billions to trillions of genomic fingerprints across the entire tree of life. You’re passionate about data structures, efficient computational solutions, and distributed systems (and don’t mind the occasional bit twiddling). We’ve built some cool initial tech in C, Nimrod, and Python (probabilistic data structures, Docker pipelines for reliably running bioinformatics workflows, etc.), and are excited about the extensive greenfield opportunities here.

3) Genomics / Computational Biology: We are tackling hard problems at the intersection of microbiology, genomics, statistics, and computer science. You have research experience or another strong connection to these fields, understand current bioinformatics tools and approaches (and their limits), and have worked extensively with next-generation sequencing data. Ideally, you also have some intuitions and strong hypotheses about how bioinformatics tools can scale for petabyte-sized reference sets.

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You’ll be one of our first hires and directly shape our technology choices, product, and business. If you’re interesting in working on large-scale data challenges of both scientific and societal importance, please send us a note at careers@onecodex.com or reach out to me directly at nick@onecodex.com.
Location: Switzerland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Bioinformatics (NextGen Sequencing and HPC), Java, Python, R statistics, MySQL as well as some web developing (HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Java Servlets, Spring)

Resume: Please inquire via email

Email: r (dot) follador (at) gmail.com

Experienced bioinformatician in the field of NextGen sequencing (Illumina, Roche 454, PacBio) and the analysis of the resulting data (RNAseq, denovo assemblies, SNP calling etc.). Further specialisation in Microbiology (bacterial genetics). Additionally, I have also experience in the development of user friendly web services to access biological data.
No, it depends on the university. The predominant language of teaching in undergraduate courses in Germany is still German. However, the amount of course offerings in English language is increasing. The most common model now should be that a few classes each semester are being offered in English, which are often being taught by visiting professors or guest lecturers.
It seems like the hard part of programming is and always will be the problem solving part, and not the syntax memorization / environment setup. Business leaders, at least where I work, are not programming due to the fact that they just don't think computationally, not that they have to fiddle around with a DB connector.

I'm curious about the target audience and the drive to make programming "easier". Sure--the tools can help, but it doesn't necessarily help a user solve the problem correctly. Is the audience programmers? Is it for replacing programmers with software power users? Or am I totally missing the point, that this is a totally new way of solving problems in a language agnostic way?
This. And that somehow a viable combination of the two approaches can't be built.
I've been helping my brother expand his business for the past year and a half. We've grown a great deal and for many reasons I've lost interest in the business.

This is probably the longest period I've gone since high school(I'm 27), without working on a side hustle or launching something. Needless to say, I've got the entrepreneurial itch and I'm looking for someone like minded to start working on something.

My background is primarily sales(5yrs) and internet marketing(4 yrs). I've managed Adwords/Yahoo/Bing search campaigns and large link-building/outreach campaigns. I haven't done much email marketing (but I'd like to learn). I've cold called 50-100 leads per day selling anything from SEO services to residential moving quotes(aka the grind). I'm also fairly knowledgeable when it comes to health care for senior citizens.

I have been learning to develop as well. Technologies I'm familiar with: Python, Django, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Wordpress, version control using git and heroku for deployment. I can build an MVP for most basic ideas.

I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to SEO and lead generation(that's basically what I do all day everyday). I haven't done any ecommerce or SaaS marketing but I find both very interesting.

I have a lot of flexibility and free time with my current gig and I'd like to work on something on the side.

Email in my profile is good, let's talk.
Dropped it as soon as I heard about the appointment. Purchased some webhosting space and setup Owncloud and I haven't looked back since. Does the exact same thing and it's actually cheaper when you consider that I use the web host for other things as well.
Jump on the time machine and read about university concerns when the city of Hamburg joined this trend in 2011 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/15/german-universi...
Is there any German here that can tell us how it is turning out to be? Thanks.
Good read. Minor quibble: I'm not sure calling Julia a functional language is really a fair statement. Yes it's LISP-like, but if you want to go there, Ruby is a LISP-like language in the same ways Julia is. I don't really encounter many folks making the claim that Ruby is a functional language.
I continue to use it for work. Personally I have stopped using it but that is more because of the ease of use of Bittorrent Sync.
Website's user design is bad- opening "more details" in a new tab, for example, just redirects to the homepage. It's also not very filled out- major services like DuckDuckGo and Instagram just have stub pages.

The problem with this website is that 99% of the users will never run into an issue with the TOS, and the 1% that do, will need a lawyer, not a TL;DR website. It's not very needed, nor does it do a good job at presenting the info it should.
Show HN: An alternative to strong_parameters in Rails: parameters_schema
This is a question I never understand. What ends up on the front page is no single persons decision. If enough people upvote something in a short enough time frame it will get on the front page. You know that, and you also know that it's not logical process. Thus sometimes an article ends there that might not make sense there at all.
Location: Tomsk, Russia

Remote: Yes;

Willing to relocate: Yes, definitely;

Technologies: plain C, Objective-C, x86[_64] assembly, Swift; OS X internals (Mach kernel API, Mach-O, dyld API, Sandbox); reverse-engineering, code-injection, function hooking, Objective-c runtime;

Resume: https://gist.github.com/rodionovd/5d0c4bb32ccdb5efeffd

Email: i.am.rodionovd@gmail.com

I'm looking for an OS X developer or security researcher job (iOS internals would be nice too). My GitHub: https://github.com/rodionovd
Well the french elite is commonly described as being a pretty incestuous affair. There a few elite schools, and the countries top politicians and industry leaders are all recruited from there.

Not saying they are worse than the german system, but certainly not better.
ITT the lies justifying the war in Iraq are legitimate political views.
Dropped dropbox, and stopped using Zulip
Does this help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387525

> Word of warning, if you have chmod 0000 /bin/bash put it back to how you found it before running the update.

> If you didn't do this: cmd + s to boot in safe mode. /sbin/mount -wu / and chmod bash back to a useable state, if you get stuck at log in.
Location: Houston, TX

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Absolutely

Technologies: SQL, R, Python, HTML5, GIS

Applications: Spotfire, Oil and Gas applications incl. Powerexplorer, OFM etc.

Email: sandeep (dot) jlct (at) gmail (dot) com

I have been working as a data analyst at an Oil and Gas firm for > 2 years. I have a Masters in Geosciences and BS in Engineering with a very good research experience in hydrology / climatology. I have worked as a GIS analyst in the past as well. I mostly work on SQL but understand stuff like Mongodb. I am interested in working as a trainee data scientist (with my quant background) working with R, Python etc. I believe my Geospatial background and domain knowledge helps me to work with a wide class of problems.
What I took from this post, is that we should keep working on compilers. They could provably optimize away most of the performance issues and move us closer to doing category theory instead of dealing with the metal.
The ability to evaluate functions at compile time would be really nice. I was sort of looking at writing a macro in Rust to mirror Nimrod/Nim's 'when' statements but gave sort of gave up when I saw that. But of course that's probably an entirely unreasonable thing to request in the remaining time you have and it might be incompatible with having a borrow checker anyways.

The borrow checker looks really valuable though, and something that might have a big influence on language design going forward.
FWIW, there _is_ a proper styleguide now, it just hasn't been retroactively applied to older js. https://github.com/reddit/styleguide/tree/master/javascript
German universities scrap all tuition fees
I still use Dropbox, but I encrypt my data before it goes to their servers. I save encrypted archives of important data (duplicity with encryption key), and also use EncFS for poor man's encrypted sync (this may be a disaster waiting to happen but for now it worked pretty well for me, and of course this data is backed up elsewhere).
Sports Teams: Scoring Goals with Huudle
Day I heard she was hired I cancelled by account. Damn the data I lost.
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If power is not irrelevant to you, then politics either.
oh my.... i ain´t got that DVD
Location: Paris, France

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Statistician engineer with specialization in Big Data: SciPy stack, SAS, Hadoop stack (Pig, Hive, ...), Spark, elasticsearch, Java, Scala, Python, SQL, JavaScript

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliennaour

Email: julnaour {at} gmail (.) com
I still use them, but I disagree with their hiring of Ms. Rice, both on moral grounds, and practical privacy grounds.
Germany could have produced facebook.

edit: maybe better framed as a question - why do you think that Germany could not have produced facebook?
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Baltimore, MD)

I'm a technical marketer, and here's how I can help your company:

- Get traction faster (for early-stage startups).

- Turn more visitors into users (aka, conversion optimization).

I do this with any or all of the following, depending on your unique case: Funnel analysis, conversion optimization, A/B testing, SEO, email campaigns and automated emails, content planning, and usability studies.

What makes me different from most marketing consultants:

- I can roll up my sleeves and write code when needed. This saves you design and development time on small optimization improvements. (HTML/CSS, basic JS and jQuuery, Github).

- I'm certified in Optimizely, the A/B testing tool.

- I come from an engineering background (naval engineering), so I love solving real problems (by "real" I mean things that directly impact your revenue).

Get in touch at greg[at]gkogan.co, learn more at http://www.gkogan.co, or read my case studies at http://www.gkogan.co/blog.
I meant political persuasion as-in this isn't about right/left or good/bad for me.
Don't have any good advice, but I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...
I've often wished I could program even a RAD proof of concept kind of thing on my phone. Many ideas come to me while I'm not at a computer (our desks are not always the most inspiring place we find ourselves) and as a consequence, are gone before I get back to work.

If you're wondering how programming with just your thumbs might work, look at Touch Develop from Microsoft Research.
so you paid 80€ more ?
The goal of getting programming into everyone's hands seems totally misguided. Not everyone is cut out for computer programming. Just like not everyone is cut out to be a doctor or a pilot or a farmer.
Location: Shanghai, China

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: I am young and free

Technologies: Clojure, Python, ClojureScript, javascript, (html + css) experience with golang and c/c++
Anyway I work in any paradigm and I am extremely fast to pick up new languanges.

Database: Whatever you need, I work mainly with Mongo and SQLite experience with Postgres and Riak.

Email: simone (at) mweb (dot) biz

Maybe you can find my github and blog interesting:

https://github.com/siscia/

http://siscia.github.io/
Canonical - London, UK. No remote

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Front end engineer (Qt/QML/JS/HTML5)

Looking for a great front end engineer to work on core OS experience, SDK and key apps for Ubuntu and Ubuntu touch. Ideally you have some experience in QML/Qt and strong JavaScript skills, as well as familiarity with Linux/Ubuntu. Front end/Full stack web dev background is fine too if willing to learn new tech (QML/Qt).

Good visual sense also important, as much of the work will be on the UI/interactions layer, working closely with the (fun) design team.

Great project, fun environment, nice co-workers and rare opportunity to kick ass on an OS level.

Contact: jouni.helminen@canonical.com
Bash bug: the other two RCEs, or how we chipped away at the original fix
Bloomberg LP, Portfolio Risk Analytics, NYC, VISA

We're the Pricing/Scenario Analysis/Enterprise risk team and we're looking for skilled senior software developers to design and build systems to provide cutting edge risk analytics and portfolio insight to Bloomberg users around the world. The problems we solve are an interesting mix of math/finance/software and system design in a fast paced client facing environment. The group's culture provides the stability of a large successful firm with the entrepreneurial risk taking nature of small agile teams. We're looking for people who can write high quality software to solve complex analytical problems and have an interest in driving the direction of the business and the architecture.

The team's responsibilities include components of the risk engine to generate simulations based on Monte Carlo methods, historical simulations, predictive scenario generation, stressed market Monte Carlo etc. These simulations are used to drive analytics such as Counterparty risk, VaR, greeks, default analytics such as incremental risk charge and specific risk and stress scenario analysis. We also provides efficient pricing for non-linear securities such as derivatives based on stress matrix methodologies and liquidity risk analytics. We expect a programmer to solve large scale distributed computation problems to manage millions of these calculations every day in a service oriented architecture.

The team works extensively with groups all over the firm including trading systems, quantitative teams, pricing and market data teams etc. As such, strong communication skills and the ability to do well in a collaborative environment are very important.

Apply online at
http://jobs.bloomberg.com/job/New-York-Senior-Software-Devel...
Even if what you're saying is true (which I'm a little skeptical of), what provides more value to people? Facebook or free education?