skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MasteryConnect | Software Engineer | Salt Lake City, UT

MasteryConnect began when an experienced educator was inspired to focus on mastery learning and formative assessment, but was frustrated by a lack of time and tools. He wanted a way to get out of tracking mastery in spreadsheets, speed up the time to grade and provide feedback to students, and provide a way to share great formative assessments with educators around the country.

At MasteryConnect, we believe that through 21st century technology and tools, obstacles to mastery learning are removed. We believe in the power of the common standards and it’s ability to unleash the collective knowledge of teachers all across the country. We believe in data and teachers driving the conversation around assessment and what students are learning. We believe all students can learn.

Job Description -
We're looking for a mid-level and/or senior level engineer.

Important To Us -
Good experience with ROR (Ruby On Rails) desired - but if you have PHP or Python skills and want to learn Rails, let’s talk
Experience with other frameworks either in ruby or some other language
Excitement and experience around JavaScript and JS frameworks
Up-to-date with current technology trends
Experience with the entire stack of a web application
*nix experience and familiarity with shells
Everything from database to html5 and css3 goodness
Self starter - has started something on their own, like: a framework a company a product an open source project
Have an opinion on the preferred code editor
Some experience with cross platform mobile frameworks (like phonegap) a plus
AWS (amazon web services) experience a plus
The DNA to be part of a startup company culture and work in a startup environment

Send an email to holdy@masteryconnect.com
Keep in mind that this would require a port of WPF, which is not open source.
Udacity Front-end Software Engineer [LOCAL]

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA | http://www.udacity.com

Link to Job: https://jobs.lever.co/udacity/95fe60a7-3ef7-4651-91cf-f1210f...

What we do

==========

At Udacity, we believe that education is no longer limited to four years or four walls, it’s a lifelong pursuit. Technology is advancing rapidly, and there is a growing skills gap between job-seekers and career opportunities that Udacity is dedicated to closing through education. To do this, we're rethinking how education is made and delivered to provide relevant, affordable and lifelong learning opportunities to students all over the world.

What we are looking for

=======================

- Strong CS fundamentals

- Mastery of OO, Functional js, and client-side MVC

- Mastery of CSS and familiarity with CSS preprocessing frameworks (SASS/LESS)

- Strong opinions about the right ways to do things that you aren’t afraid to defend with evidence

- An engineering mindset and strong consideration of the tradeoffs present in every decision

- A user-centric mentality/passion for building products with great UX

The technologies we currently use

=================================

- Backend : AWS, Django, NodeJS, Redshift, Kafka

- Web : Google App Engine, AngularJS

- Project management: GitHub/Asana
By that logic, all else being equal, society in the aggregate (not necessarily any individual) should have as many kids as possible.

I don't think it's such a far fetched idea. I think at least one of the subconscious appeals of Star Trek is that it's a story where humanity is freed from being tied to a single world, and populates worlds all over the galaxy.
I tried emacs for two weeks without evil -- I felt the nagging start of RSI in two weeks. I did rapidly teach me proper coording... but damn, the use of that many modifiers hurts.

I experimented with god-mode, which seems like a good middle, but I am a highly competent 2 decade vim user, the vim keys are virtually hard-coded into my brain.
Uber will live side-by-side with public transit and bike sharing in a single app
> Some birdy, wasn't it.

Sparrow
Neo900: Crafting the Private Phone [video]
Lift Mail - Ann Arbor, MI http://lift.me/

We're a mobile startup who's goal is to change the face of messaging. To do this, we are combining beautiful iOS and Android apps with cloud-backed automation to make your life easier.

We are looking for both Android and iOS engineers. Our perfect candidate is someone who loves the platform and is committed to pushing the boundaries of a great consumer app. You will be working with a talented team of developers and designers to make this a reality. If you're passionate about technology and have the desire to make an impact at an ambitious ground level startup, this could be your chance!

If you join our team, you will:

* Be doing meaningful work as part of a talented team creating a product that will be used by millions of people worldwide

* Be compensated competitively and be able to participate in our employee stock ownership plan

* Get to participate in future hiring to help build our team

* Work in an open and spacious office in downtown Ann Arbor

* Have a lot of fun
How is Google Fiber's customer service? I have heard lots of complaints about support for their free products, and most US users know the typical (Comcast, Verizon) ISP has terrible service, but I haven't heard anything about Fiber itself. Does anybody have first hand experience?
The test isn't saving answers between questions. I'm pretty sure Intermediate/1 has more than one solution, because the answer I got which validated made absolutely no sense to me.
Location: Chicago
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Golang, Python, Debian
Résumé/CV: http://isusec.com/ringwood-resume.pdf
Email: adam@nexadmin.com
Github: https://github.com/UnrealAkama

Highlights: I've spoken at two security conferences and am highly involved with my campus, having run several large service events about computer security. I also have experience with machine learning. I am looking for an internship for this winter or summer.
Try it a second time, it gets faster.
posted by Laurie Cheverie, Resource Manager,
Twin Technologies, Inc,
laurie.cheverie@twintechs.com

TWIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC- is a leader in technology consulting services focused on helping organizations grow, innovate, and transform the way they do business through the application of technology, business process, and user experience. Our solutions increase efficiency, productivity, and revenues while strengthening overall brand value and image. Since 2003, we have been delivering world class service to Fortune 500 companies across Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Media, and Retail -- as well as Non-Profit and Government agencies.

Hot Jobs: Scala Engineer, Fullstack/JS Engineer, Scala Tech Lead, Sr QA (mobile,responsive, ecommerce), Boston based Engagement Manager…

See all of our jobs here and apply direct if qualified/interested, please:

https://www.twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/

Most of our Developer roles start out as contract positions -- with the option to extend the engagement through additional contracts and full-time employment. Typically, they are also 100% remote positions, which means that you can work from home or wherever you feel you produce your best work.
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket (coreos.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682525
So long-password protected multipart rar files then!
Docker has a new competitor (wired.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682794
Location: Iowa
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to the possibility

Technologies: Infrastructure (Storage, Networking, Server win-linux), Application - Monitoring/Performance, Security Assessment/Reporting/Remediation, Scripting VB,PShell, Perl, Python

Résumé/CV: available at request

Email: ph5il (at) msn (.) com

Looking for a new opportunity to expand on existing skills or learn new ones.
Interesting, why US-only? It must be not about timezones, since you discarded all other American countries.
A rocket-scientist (ok, aerospace engineer by training) friend was recently surprised that he hadn't realized this:

"If the radius of our planet were larger, there could be a point at which an Earth escaping rocket could not be built. Let us assume that building a rocket at 96% propellant (4% rocket), currently the limit for just the Shuttle External Tank, is the practical limit for launch vehicle engineering. Let us also choose hydrogen-oxygen, the most energetic chemical propellant known and currently capable of use in a human rated rocket engine. By plugging these numbers into the rocket equation, we can transform the calculated escape velocity into its equivalent planetary radius. That radius would be about 9680 kilometers (Earth is 6670 km). If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport."[1]

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi...
Its entirely ok to feel anger, just as it is entirely to feel happiness or sadness. There are no right or wrong emotions. The grieving process is a multi-stage process- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance and you can go through any emotion at any period in time in whatever order it comes. The only real way to truly get over pain is to go through it- talk about it, feel it, and don't suppress it.
One resolution I've seen mentioned is that if Brand succeeded with Plan B then maybe "they" are the ancestors of the Edmunds-planet. That would resolve the paradox at least.
Aclima - http://www.aclima.io - San Francisco, CA

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Aclima is an early-stage company based in San Francisco that designs and deploys distributed, large-scale sensor networks to empower people with actionable environmental quality data. Our end-to-end solutions collect, process and analyze real-time streaming data from thousands of sensors, enabling a level of environmental awareness that has never been possible before. We believe our technologies can redefine the way we imagine and manage our buildings, communities, and cities, helping us improve our collective well-being. We are looking for passionate engineers to help build, scale, and improve our platform. We have no required list of skills or years of experience. Instead, we’re looking for engineers who are smart and get things done. Our engineering culture values rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and as much automation as is sensible. We work in a relaxed, purpose-driven atmosphere with flexible hours and competitive perks.

Positions open:

* Full-time Backend Engineer Our stack includes: Python, Git, MariaDB, Cassandra, Nginx, NSQ, Redis, Ansible - solid understanding of functional programming languages, distributed systems

* Full-time Frontend Developer - solid understanding of core JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 - experience building well-structured web applications - a passion for user-driven interaction design and delightful user experiences - excitement about data visualization, mobile design, and responsive design

* Full-time UI/UX Designer - At least 2-3 years of experience who has heavy UX chops and expertise in CSS-based design, peppered with JavaScript-based interaction design/development. - Someone who is excited and passionate about data visualization, mobile design, and responsive design and has strong opinions about all three.

* Full-time DevOps Engineer - some experience writing shell and Python scripts - Debian/Ubuntu, Jenkins, Locust, JMeter, Google Cloud/AWS, Ansible experience a plus

==========

If you’re up for the challenge, apply directly: http://boards.greenhouse.io/aclima
How will App Container Images be built? I'm guessing that unlike Docker, the standard App Container build tool(s), if any, will be separate from Rocket.
_Everything_ we do has a chance of causing harm. People regularly agonize over the potential of harm, often despite minuscule odds thereof. To become a sane productive adult, one must come to accept that harm may happen as consequence to an action, but not doing that action causes harm as well. Go forth with good intent in good faith; stark horrors may occur, but not doing so accumulates greater horror.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KKLOmJySIgk/TghkJ21To5I/AAAAAAAAA0...
Next Google Glasses tipped to run on Intel chips
Duplicate submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682525
Using SSE4.2 or more is trivial. Same goes for fast hashes with the crc32 intrinsic. Mostly the compiler does it for you (-march=native)

But you cannot assume everybody has such a CPU. Hence you'd either need to compile your own (a la macports, gentoo, perl, ...) or do run-time checks for the CPU feature and switch to the fast version then.
Clever (YC S12) is looking for full-stack engineers - come help us change the classroom

Location: San Francisco

There’s a lot of great educational software out there - think Oregon Trail, Math Blasters, and Carmen Sandiego - but teachers can’t use it in schools. Teachers would love to use programs like these, but synchronizing data between their school’s database and external software applications is a huge problem that results in wasted time at the start of class and frustrated, bored students… which leads to software being abandoned entirely. 80% of K-12 teachers would use more software in classes if getting students logged in weren’t such a hassle, and a quarter of all class time that’s supposed to be dedicated to software is wasted on logins alone.

Developers have a similar problem: they love clean APIs, but in the education industry, they haven’t had one. Most K-12 schools house their student data in ancient legacy databases that make integrations a nightmare. If you’re a five-person startup and you’ve built an app that revolutionizes the way third-graders learn fractions, there’s simply no way to get your product in front of students.

Clever is solving these problems by building a modern, developer-friendly API for schools… which we give them for free. Developers love being able to plug into schools without having to write a complex integration for every single district they’re working with, so they pay us for access to the platform. This business model has helped us grow quickly; we’re now in 1 in 5 schools in America (over 29,000 schools), and our product is used by millions of students every day.

Our goal is to become the education identity company. The first step in that direction is our Instant Login single sign-on platform: a universal login that allows students to access all of their learning applications in one place. (This is a big deal if you’ve ever seen a second-grader try to manage fifteen different usernames and passwords.)

Right now we’re a team of 40 people (19 engineers) based in downtown San Francisco (2nd and Mission). We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

Other stuff we like:
-Tech talks. Every other Tuesday, we do “Clever Talks” during lunch where one of us will give a presentation on anything he/she’s interested in. Recent talks have covered exoplanets, neuroscience, hacking big-company customer service interactions, and what’s wrong with American high school history education.
-Bughouse chess. We play pretty frequently, although not always with Magnus Carlsen: http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo
-Picking up new skills. We offer unlimited Amazon credits for learning.

Check us out: https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
I would fail horribly because core of the 12 step program is religious. That's the part I never see on television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program#Twelve_Step...
Pangea - 6th engineer at Payments Startup - Chicago, IL (Spanish fluency a plus!)

We're a startup engineering team seeking another passionate polyglot. As an engineer, you'll be an unrelenting individual willing to brave the storm of learning. We're a startup with assumptions to validate and a product to build, refine and improve. You're expertise and input is what you have to offer.

Pangea started with the mission of making money transfer simple, fair and safe. Since then, we’ve been striving to enhance the security, and reduce the cost and pain points of money transfer. Our first solution allows users to complete a transfer in three easy steps and pay with any US prepaid or debit card, with a nationwide cash solution coming soon. Receivers in Mexico can collect the transfers in cash at 10,000+ locations in urban and rural areas, or receive the money directly on any (65,000,000+) Mexican debit card or bank account. Through every product iteration, we’ll continue to offer more convenience and meaningfully improve the user experience. Pangea is currently in beta accepting transfers from limited states (AL, ID, IL, GA, MS, MT, NM and SC) in the US to anywhere in Mexico.

Our Stack: AWS, MySQL, AngularJS, .NET/C#, RabbitMQ, Redis. We're looking to move to Mono at the earliest, maybe you can help with that.

Our Team Tools: Macbook Pros, JIRA, Bitbucket, HipChat, TeamCity, Google Apps.

Our Culture: We're a small company (20) which lends itself to lean communication channels. We're on a mission and we work closely to accomplish it.

We're on the cusp of something big and we're looking for team members to join us for the ride.

Apply by emailing me directly (omar email symbol gopangea.com) or on Stackoverflow Careers http://pnga.co/1v5zGjP
Firefox 34 includes WebRTC videochat client “Firefox Hello”
Not sure how hard it would be to copy Kiva.. but there's one other competitor: swisslog autostore

http://www.swisslog.com/en/Products/WDS/Storage-Systems/Auto...
(spoilers, obviously) It's a predestination paradox -- so, as with all predestination paradoxes in fiction, the story is a little too in love with the use of it -- but the movie sets the ground rule that the only way to communicate backwards is to manipulate gravity, therefore that's how they're going to have to accomplish it.

As for the love-powered part, everyone's a little too hung up on that set of dialog. There's nothing in the plot that relies on it. Sufficiently advanced magic gravity technology is more than enough. Is any advancement of the plot motivated by more than the fact that he wants to see his daughter again? Sure, if they had listened to Brand's feelings they wouldn't have ended up with crazy guy and would have ended up on a (seemingly) habitable planet, but the human race also would have died on earth and lived on entirely from the test tube embryos.

The whole tesseract section doesn't entirely fit with the tone of the rest of the movie but it's not powered by love.
It's much easier to write software that does something, than it is to write software that does the right thing every time. If an NSA system fails to see 10% of traffic, that's acceptable. If an NHS system incorrectly rejects 10% of claims, that's a disaster.
Even though the article says firefox beta, this is included in the stable release from today:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/34.0/releasenotes/
Jack and jill replacing javac and dx for Android
It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
I can tell you that support for the Nexus devices is good. I would expect support for this to be on par with that.
Those statements are not necessarily in contradiction. When I quickly move the mouse in a circle on my computer I see the pointer displayed at several, quite far away, locations at the same time. It looks like the same time anyway because of temporal fusion.

If the mouse were moving continuously you would be able to see the full trace of its path and not just a few discrete locations along the way. A higher frequency would get closer to this.

Also, in an interactive scenario, the frame rate will impact how quick you get feedback on your actions.
With 60Hz, the frames each take 17ms, meaning the next frame will be on average 8.3 ms away. Thus if you perform an ingame action, you will get visual feedback in ~8.3ms, whereas with 120Hz it will come in 4.1ms.
There is probably some kind of buffering done, so likely your action will not end up in the currently drawn frame but the one after that. So the response will on average come 3/2 frames after your action: 25ms later for 60Hz v.s. 12.5 ms for 120Hz. 10ms faster reaction time should be noticeable.
Mango: the first simple online and mobile payment solution for Latin America
The only correct answer is

ATO
WEL

with 'a towel' being a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[0] reference.

[0]: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_G...
It's not something an area "adopts" - Google initiates that discussion, as far as I know:

https://fiber.google.com/newcities/
Not always cheaper. Depends on where you work.
He's looking for an employee that he can trick into believing he's a cofounder.

- unequal equity split

- business plan was decided before you joined

You would be an employee and not a cofounder.
Looks good so far.
Yeah, this isn't HTTP v HTTPS, it's HTTP vs SPDY. It also doesn't seem to address if the servers cache, and that subsequent requests may be faster than the first.
Most religions regard numerous children as a blessing.
Memcpy vs. memmove
Yes, I completely agree and didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Working remotely is a skill unto itself like any other and it must be developed and honed across an organization.

I guess what frustrates me is so few people see a need to develop and hone that skill. Some even actively argue against doing so.
It's a gamble sure. But if you get into the same situation with XFS or btrfs there's no gamble, just guaranteed data loss.
Why not prevent the whole mess by just sending a clear message in Morse to almost anyone at NASA from the future using gravitational waves?
> Cheaper than the salary for an employee...

True, but I wonder how much of an employee's time it takes to manage dealing with all these suppliers, technology integration time with each of them, and changing how these services are used each time a supplier changes its product offering.
How to Layer Like a Pro This Winter
Indeed, the assumption that usernames should be secret is stupid and senseless. Passwords are meant to be secret. Emails and usernames are not. Heck, emails would be public, were it not for spam issues.
Augmate (http://www.augmate.com)

Location: New York City

Businesses and their employees are stuck,
held in place by processes that have changed little
since the Industrial Revolution.

So we're building something different --

a new way of seeing work.

A way that removes the traditional barriers of
time, distance, and even uncertainty.

Its foundation is a team united by a single mission:
To bring about a world where everyone can work without friction.

That team is growing --

+ Senior Front-End dev (know your microjs vs mvc, can build a BDDed SPA. Bonus: eye towards design)

+ Senior Android dev (know your RxAndroid, Retrofit, Robolectric, and feel comfortable with IoC and TDD)

+ Backend/data person who can help us work at scale (know difference between Kafka, Akka, Hadoop)

We implement our mission internally by:

* Practicing Agile, TDD, and Continuous Delivery

* Having an option to work from home as you need to

* Offering Competitive pay

* Working Sane hours (yes, go home -- we value your time.)

* Being the first to see cutting-edge tech that's not yet on the market

* Building out tools for ourselves and others.

* Thinking through problems creatively and inclusively

* Writing clean, working code!

If you're a talented and passionate engineer, who shares our values,
and wants to apply your expertise on
new technical challenges in a new market, we want to talk to you.

Please reach out to jared[at]augmate.com
>For best results, disable plug-ins

Why? It's perfectly reasonable to be more concerned with real life behaviour than with benchmarks under optimal conditions.