skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Typing in random letters and hashing them would suffice.

That seems pretty iffy to me. Humans are really bad at generating randomness, and the entropy from "randomly" typing letters is going to be far less than you think. It's better to go with hard drive and network latency, or the least significant bits of keypress times, which are far noisier than which keys were pressed.
Probably would be better for your career if you learned how to motivate intrinsically, rather than relying on carrots and sticks. At some point the carrot is going to disappear, and you'll realize that the folks holding the stick made off like bandits.
Clearly he didn't even read the first word of the title. =)
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Imgur | San Francisco | Full Time | Full Stack, iOS, Android, Design | No Remote/Visa/Internships

Imgur is the largest image community on the web, clocking in at over 60 billion page views per month! We have a small engineering team, so each engineer is responsible for solving challenges at a massive scale.

Interested? Check out our open positions! http://imgur.com/jobs

If you have any questions about the open positions or want to know what it's like to work at Imgur feel free to e-mail me at max@you know where.com
It looks pretty slick, nice job. I echo other people's questions about the source of the data etc.

Also, how do the emergency services work in the US? If you dial 911 and ask for an ambulance, will you not be taken to the nearest ER anyway? (Asking as an ignorant Brit!)
There are in fact several European countries where personal bankruptcy is not possible, or where only a "Chapter 11" (re-arrangement of debt, not cleaning table altogether) is possible.
I think there is case law related to Hoover in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

I heard a while back that Google were worried that if people started using the word Google as a verb for websearches it would make trademark/copyright difficult.
That would make a good episode of Black Mirror. Titled "The
Privacy Freaks", it would show people in a social network
observing the lives and making fun of the absurd things
privacy concerned people do to stay "out".

You should read "The Circle" by David Eggers. It is basically this.
None of those are the typical corporation code that most of us are exposed to.
wyck - I quickly wrote this for my immediate family and posted as-is. I'm actually a big fan of Thiel and see the positive sides of the theory as well. To someone not from our tech startup world though, I wanted to be clear about the politics of the people behind the service, and the possible implications. Facebook is a business, and it likely has a political agenda behind it.

I'm sure you're a nice person. I also honestly think that Facebook, the NSA, Al Jazeera and even Cheezburger are full of nice people who want to make the world a better place. (Maybe not FOX news though. :) ) That doesn't necessarily condone what their organisations do.
Kensho, Boston, MA (Cambridge), Stamford, CT: FULL TIME Software Engineers

Kensho is a small engineering team[0] headquartered in Harvard Sq. We are making financial analysis more accessible, intuitive and beautiful through our recent partnerships with Goldman Sachs[1] and NBC[2].

Software Engineers

We're hiring fun-loving engineers/developers/programmers at every experience level. We don't have keywords for you--just have done something pretty amazing with technology and undiagnosed impostor syndrome[3]. While we primarily use AngularJS and Python, that is just implementation detail.

How would you handle distributed time series data? How quickly could you process and analyze unstructured news and events to understand the significance of each? When you design, prototype, scale and automate, do you watch out for bridges and hop-ons? You're gonna get some hop-ons [4]

A willingness to play bughouse and shoot zombies is a plus.

tl;dr: nerds please introduce yourselves: http://bit.ly/kenshoeng

Matt

[0] http://kensho.com/#team

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/11/24/goldman...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/business/media/a-partnersh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[4] http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/joke-15.html
Hamster is a local news and mail server for Win32.

It's comparable to sn on Linux: it acts as a reader, not as a "real news server" (IHAVE/SENDME).

So people could use it with their regular Usenet account on a dialup PC.

And since it's scriptable (alas, in some own script language), people extended it in lots of ways.
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I was wondering where you get the National Rail train data from. Is it based on the open data from ATOC/RSP or do you have your own agreement from them?

I ask as I was thinking about writing a lib to parse and use the ATOC 'fares data', and just wanted to know if anyone has had any success with it. The format is well documented but a bit massive (80 page specification), before getting started would be nice to know if the data is actually useful. Their site says it is updated infrequently which made me a bit hesitant, and I don't think I've seen any projects where it's been used. Love your app by the way!
Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.) -- LOCAL ONLY (no remote)

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====== What we do =========
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We're the single source of truth in logistics -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time.

The problem -> Lots of inefficiencies in the supply chain! One of our customers spends $400mm/year shipping empty containers, another spends $80mm/year on late fees. Lots to optimize!

How we fix it -> We track everything in the supply chain and make predictions and recommendations as to what our customers should do!

===========================
===== How we do it ========
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Web/data stack -> clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR (we’re a SOA shop)

Mobile -> iOS, android, mobile web

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

===========================
====== And the rest =======
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We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)!

Looking for:

- Data science folks

- Data engineering folks

- Generalists

- Master front-end devs

- Android devs

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at mike@weft.io!
Location: New York, US

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: already looking to move west

Technologies: Node/Apache/Nginx/IIS/AWS, Express/Rails/Lotus, JS/Ruby/Coffeescript/PHP/C#/Java, CSS/HTML, LESS/SASS/Jade/Bootstrap, Angular/React/Backbone/Ionic/AppGyver, Postgresql/MySQL/SQLServer/Oracle/MongoDB/RethinkDB/Redis, Gulp/Grunt/Bower/Webpack/Mocha/Chai/Jasmine/Sinon, etc., etc.

Résumé/CV: http://tautologistics.com/resume/

Email: chris(at)winberry.net
Tachyus - San Mateo CA - Senior and Junior Front End Engineers

http://tachyus.com/joinus.html

The Tachyus platform provides rich data visualization and analysis capabilities in the browser using D3 and Kendo UI. We build our front-end applications in JavaScript and are in the process of transitioning parts to TypeScript. A very well qualified applicant will have experienced with TypeScript and feel comfortable reading our back-end F# code to understand the mechanics of the APIs consumed by the front-end. We believe in functional programming and strong typing.

We are revolutionizing the oil and gas industry and very well funded. This job is the most fun and rewarding you will ever have. You will work closely with 3 PhDs, 2 Masters of Science, and 4 Microsoft MVPs. We take our Values statement seriously, so read it first and decide.
Hey, I applied via your website a few weeks ago and haven't heard anything. Am I in a queue somewhere?
I'd imagine that just about every Wayback Machine request is a cache miss, so you're limited by the aggregate IOps of their spinny disks.
Actually, I wrote that to Mike Arrington several years ago.

Hehe

Anyway people who are kicking ass are too busy doing it to write a book on how they are doing it. And anyway few would read their book unless they succeeded. So they write it later and with help.

The closest I can think of is Rework by 37signals.
I don't know the details but i suppose the debts weren't owned by the state (nobody borrows from a state) but rather by credits corporations or banks.
Data Manager, London, UK.
Longshot Systems is a sports betting syndicate that is looking for a new syndicate member to take control of all data. Sourcing, parsing, scraping, storing, manipulating - everything.

Benefits: cold, hard cash. We have no ping pong table, but we are very profitable, tiny and growing very very quickly. You'll be member #5, working with two coders, one PhD quant and our quant/commercial guru dude.

This is a full time role in our office in Marylebone. If you like sports, perhaps a bit of sports betting and are a dab hand at hacking stuff together, then get in touch at

hiring+david@longshotsystems.co.uk
Yes, the ambulance will take you to the nearest ER. I guess there are conditions where treatment is urgent but not so urgent you need an ambulance. Also, it can often be faster to drive in than to wait.
Yes, fc20 stands for Fedora 20. The difference between it and Ubuntu isn't that big if I zoom in: http://imgur.com/ptlQEmf

Based on the other comments I got, the small differences could be caused by different anti-aliasing settings or font engines (I'm currently using freetype-freeworld-2.5.0.1-5 for example).
Verdigris - Mountain View, CA - Full-time, VISA - Machine Learning, Devops, HR, Sales

Verdigris' mission is to sustain and enrich human life through responsive energy intelligence.

http://verdigris.co/company/careers/

ML-FAQ: https://medium.com/@jwkvam/verdigris-data-scientist-e1fe05d1...

We do advanced electricity metering and analytics for commercial buildings

Team: 16 - 4 business, 12 engineers

Investors: Jabil, Stanford, Founder.Org, Data Collective

Customers: WHotels, Intercontinental, Groupon, NRG, etc.

contact: jobs@verdigris.co
Location: Saginaw, MI
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Old-school programming (C and C++ primarily, Java, Objective-C, embedded, DSP, drivers, but also dynamic languages, and a keen interest in migrating to projects in functional languages such as Haskell)
Résumé/CV: http://thepottshouse.org/pub/paul_current_resume/Potts,%20Pa...
Email: paul@thepottshouse.org

I am a polyglot developer, but after getting into web development very early, I got back out of it after the dot-com crash and spent the years since working primarily in low-level development for embedded systems. I do not have current skills in front-end or back-end web application development.

I have twenty-five years of experience with the software development life cycle, from specification through prototyping, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, deployment, and revision.

I've done development at many levels, from embedded assembly to DSP firmware to device drivers, including multi-threaded client/server code and graphical user interfaces.

I have broad experience as well -- across Macintosh, Windows, GNU/Linux, Java, embedded, and handheld platforms.

I am a polyglot programmer, with experience in C, C++, Objective-C, Java, NewtonScript, HyperTalk, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Dylan, Haskell, and assembly languages, and I like to work on projects that incorporate multiple components and multiple languages. I did a lot of that in my role at the University of Michigan as a "Systems Research Programmer III."

I have specialized in digital audio, object-oriented design, documentation, instruction, and porting, testing, debugging, and refactoring legacy code.

I have ongoing research interests in functional programming based in early experiences with Dylan and NewtonScript, and would be especially interested in projects that embed interpreters, such as Python on embedded systems, or generate code.

I also have chipped away at teaching myself Haskell and would love the opportunity to be mentored and get up to speed on a real-world Haskell project, or any related functional language such as F#.

Unlike a lot of developers, I _like_ working with difficult legacy projects (documenting them and refactoring them to fix bugs and add features). My goal is to write "textbook-quality" readable code and I have quite a bit of experience at this.

I have been a team leader, and enjoyed that; I take the responsibilities of management, including hiring, seriously.

I would consider a sideways move into technical training, or project management; I've been a technical writer (and a lead technical writer with a team of writers) and would be happy to do that again.

For the right employment opportunity I would consider relocation to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maine. I am not interested in NYC or Silicon Valley.

There are some complicating factors (a home and family) and so I would need financial help to relocate. I have four years experience telecommuting and a dedicated home office with high-speed internet, and so that would be my preference, although I am happy to travel for work as necessary.
That is not a learning curve though...

The "informal" usage stems from people not knowing what they are talking about. No need to perpetuate it if you know better.
Why not just take caffeine pills then?
The data comes from http://medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

It has a pretty good amount of useful data if you're interested in searching around :).

To answer your second question: I'm not. For the V1 of the app, I'm relying on the government data being valid. However, I'm currently building an in-app feedback form that will allow users to (a) report real-time wait times if they are in the hospital, and (b) report closed ERs / incorrect addresses etc.
Orange County, CA or remote
surfbreakrentals.com

Part time contracted (40 hours per week, 4 month minimum)

Seeking Freelancer Ruby on Rails and Javascript intermediate/senior developer to work with on Surfbreak Rentals, the a place to rent beach houses at surf spots worldwide. Flexible in time and location, F/T or P/T. You'd be the technical lead on the project with outside advisors available when needed.

Please send github profile, resume, previous work along with hours available.

Stack: Rails, Backbone

Contact connor@surfbreakrentals.com
Another issue is that from a theoretical perspective, in a lot of cases, an algorithm that terminates, even if it takes longer than the heat-death of the universe, is an immense improvement over the current state.

And the problem will be solved. And most of the field upheaved.

But is the problem really solved solved? Nah.
Blendle | Utrecht, Netherlands | Full time | Backend Developers, Front-end Developers, Operations

We build a paywall, a conversion tool and front-ends that result effectively in a portal that offers Pay-Per-Newspaper-Article. Currently we have almost 200.000 active accounts in the Netherlands alone. You can find a better explanation here: https://launch.blendle.nl/ and the actual product is here: https://blendle.com.

We use Ruby, Node.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Sinatra, and more Ruby.

All the jobs postings are in Dutch. They can be found here: http://jobs.blendle.nl.

(Currently, Dutch is the main language in all communications. But we're willing to change our ways for the right person.)
"I believe we should as humans strive to make it as fair as possible."

Agreed. That's why, when the big guy's hoarding 98 of the 100 cookies, I'm not going to fight over it if my neighbor didn't work as hard (in my judgment) for his 1/4th cookie as I feel like I did for mine.
Basecamp (formerly 37signals) - Chicago IL (But you can be anywhere. REMOTE, FULL TIME)

Android Lead Dev - https://basecamp.com/jobs/android
Marketing Designer - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3841
AT&T and Verizon dwarf T-Mobile in biggest ever spectrum auction
No; modern C++ provides the tools for which disciplined use solves these issues. The problem is that one can silently subvert that discipline, and still introduce memory errors.

Rust enforces memory safety at the language level. C++ itself does not "know" about memory safety. This difference, to me, is huge. You can still opt out of memory safety in Rust through unsafe regions, but the fact that Rust provides memory safety guarantees to non-unsafe regions is, to me, a change in kind, not degree. When the only thing enforcing memory safety is disciplined use, it's still too easy to make a mistake.
I particularly agree with your first point. The idea that discipline is separate from motivation is not biologically plausible. Rather, discipline is a form of motivation. No one does anything that they don't receive gratification for doing. That one can imagine circumstances where they would receive even more gratification (ie, 'if that gun weren't being held to my head, I would prefer sitting on the couch to carrying this rock') is irrelevant. People with discipline receive gratification in their brains when they exercise that discipline. It's a learned response and you can train yourself or others to exhibit it with either a carrot or a stick, until the gratification is internalized.
NoviCap | Barcelona, ES | Software engineers

NoviCap enables businesses to get early payments against their outstanding invoices.
We are early-stage and rapidly growing and we are looking for great people to work with us.

At the moment we're hiring

- ruby engineers
- UI/UX front-end developers

We're also interested in talking to machine learning experts and security specialists to join later this year.

Feel free to reach out to me at nicolas@novicap.com
Podcast with the 17yo creator of 6to5
Dolphin Progress Report: January 2015
The issue holding most serious projects back is MSVC's historic lack of support for C++11 (and now 14/17) features. Thankfully, it looks like this is starting to change with MSVC 15 [0].

As an anecdote, the (very large) project I work on at $DAYJOB is finally moving from C++03 to C++11 in the next few weeks.

[0] - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/11/17/c-11-14-17...
Any advice would be most welcome!
I found this out the hard way. Even though I live within walking distance of an emergency room, the 911 operator told me to wait for an ambulance to arrive (even though it wasn't an emergency). The net result was me waiting 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive and take me to the hospital, instead of walking to the hospital in 10 minutes. Luckily my insurance covered the ambulance ride to the hospital!
Affirmative action is exactly sexism (or racism when applied to race); it is just claimed to be justified.

Even those who advocate for affirmative action generally do not deny this. You are behind the times.
Interesting, I never knew that `self === window` – thanks for bringing that up. I'm not particularly attached to the name, just wanted to show an example where assigning `this` to some local variable is useful.
Location: Tampa Bay area, Florida, 941 a/c
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: I love Florida but who knows

Technologies: Embedded small and large, RF, protocols, device controls,
DSP, GPS, satcom, IP, c/c++, python, some Erlang, FreeBSD, wireless,
Linux, device drivers, POS, nav apps, avionics, UML,
808X, Z80, little 8051 like MCUs, assembler, firmware, law

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/howardgoldsteinfla/

Email: hginfla at teh gmail

If your needs aren't fixed I would take your product from concept through design (UML) through BSP and prototyping with soldering iron in hand and close coordination with hardware types, and thence to market, iterating as necessary. Design and code reviews.

>10 yrs in most of the above at startups, and at large ops. Usually new product development, often at the low level, fixing the concept in firmware. Pleasant. Enjoy meeting fellow HNers, email or phone even if you don't have something - who knows?
Localytics - Boston - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

Localytics is hiring:

- Distributed Systems Architects
- Scala Engineers
- Data Platform Architects
- Senior iOS Engineer
- Frontend Engineers/Architects

Check out our engineering blog to get an idea of what its like to work with us: http://info.localytics.com/engineering-blog

About Localytics:

* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over a billion devices.

* We are solving hard problems with data, scaling, distributed systems, data visualization and mobile.

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.

* We are passionate about, and have deep expertise in, the technologies we work with including: Scala, iOS, Android, Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, MPP Databases, Rails, AngularJS, D3.js, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.

* We are located above the Downtown Crossing MBTA station.

* We love candidates who prefer startup environments and enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies.

Engineers of all experience levels encouraged to apply: jobs@localytics.com

http://www.localytics.com/company/localytics-jobs/
Mozilla Research (Remote or any of our offices)

I will be hiring for two positions in the coming month, associated primarily with Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo ) and Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ ).

1) Senior browser engineer. I am looking for a developer with deep familiarity with web platform standards, especially related to the implementation of the DOM and integration with the JS engine, to help build out this support in Servo. Experience developing systems software required.

2) Experienced operations engineer. Working in concert with the larger Mozilla release and build teams, build out the Mozilla Research continuous automation, release, testing, etc. systems, focusing first on Servo and Rust. We explicitly want candidates with a history of reuse and contribution to existing projects. Experience with build systems, automation, and cloud systems preferred.

Please feel free to contact me directly with more questions - larsberg AT mozilla DOT com. Job postings with more details should be coming online soon...
> What? C++11/14 solves these issues.

Sure, it solves some of those problems if you use exclusively smart pointers and vectors, and never use the built-in language pointers and arrays. What forces you to do so, when '*' and "new" and [] are right there?

Rust pushes you towards the right solution by requiring an "unsafe" block if you use raw pointers or arrays. That doesn't prevent you from using them (such as in the implementations of higher-level constructs or FFI calls), but it does hint that they're the wrong solution for everyday programming.
This (among many other things) ruins YouTube comments for me too. Whose magnificent idea was it to put shares and comments in the same category?
Yes, in particular, iterator invalidation (problem 2 in that list) seems unsolvable in C++, as far as I can see.

I've hit iterator invalidation in a new c++11 codebase. Perhaps c++14 offers something to help it that I'm not aware of?

edit: "unsolvable" in the sense of the language making it impossible,
http://6to5.org
Brian Hayes is a treasure, and so is American Scientist. American Scientist has taken over the role that Scientific American had in the 70s and 80s, when it was good, and Brian Hayes is almost the A. K. Dewdney (different, but better in some ways) of our current era.