skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech director at FP here, is the whole site blocked or just that article?

We occasionally have to play whack-a-mole with Chinese (and other nations') censors, so I'd love any info you could provide. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
I spent two minutes changing the colors, icons and font sizes of TraditionalOk (the all came with the OS). In that time I couldn't figure out how to edit that date/time format or placement. :)

It was just a fast test of Ubuntu MATE in a VM.
Reminds me of a kerfluffle that happened a couple months back, mentioned on Volokh:

All the newspaper headlines were proclaiming that the startup world was getting less diverse, and people were very upset at the racism of the tech community. But as it turned out, white representation in the tech sector had actually decreased. The only reason that the numbers said it was becoming less diverse was that Asian people weren't being classed as a non-white minority.
SEEKING WORK — based in Paris and Marseille, France. Remote is OK.

We are a team of two iOS specialists. We've released some apps of our own but we love working on new projects.

We have partnerships with other developers so we are able to manage complete applications on both iOS and Android.

You can check some of our projects on http://www.staxriver.com

Write us at hello@staxriver.com, we really want to hear from you!
We're not loading any google fonts but we've seen them block over our commenting system (livefyre) or our political content before. Interestingly it's usually not a domain-wide ban.

If you'd be willing to help me diagnose it, I'd be grateful. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
Agreed, errors are non-normal so 20+ sigma is practically false. But it's not too far off -- I've seen strategies that never have a down day and have daily sharpes of 2.5-3.0, and those setups will generally have incredibly high sigma values even after accounting for non-normality (and other assumptions).
SEEKING WORK

Hey there, I'm Ivan and I live in Berlin.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: yes, but if you are in Berlin we could also meet.

I can :

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- help your business with suggestions that scale ;

- I can even help you, by interviewing the proper developer to replace me in the future :)

Anyway, If you need help and you are reading Hacker News, better call me.
P.S. I get paid by the hour and I can work in your Berlin office if you need me there.

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GNU Guix – The Emacs of Distros [video]
Contentful - https://www.contentful.com - Berlin, Germany (VISA)

We are hiring for the following full time positions:

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2. Frontend JavaScript - Angular Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2980

3. Support Engineer with Ruby or JavaScript - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/17960

4. Solution Consultant - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/17959
Location: Lyon (France)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript (Backbone), PHP (Symfony), Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/942eid881f4i5mj/cv-quentin-agren-2015.pdf?dl=0

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Senior Frontend Engineer - Palo Alto, CA (Full time, on site only)

Jiff is a health & wellness startup that is helping our clients' employees get in better shape. We raised a Series B round a couple of months ago led by Venrock, and are growing rapidly.

We are looking for excellent senior frontend engineers to help supplement our excellent team in downtown Palo Alto (4 contributors to Angular, 1 core member of Sails) & help us continue our rapid growth from a 60 person company to a 150 person company by year's end.

We are not afraid to use new technologies - we are currently using ES6, AngularJS, Node.js, & Sails and we have an eye for upcoming technologies such as Angular 2.0 & React Native. Prior knowledge of Angular not necessarily required - we want people who are good with JavaScript, not necessarily experts of a particular framework.

The senior engineers should be solid or excellent at working with CSS, and excellent with understanding how to architect JavaScript & write clean testable code - the engineers should be able to be productive on day 1.

We have catered lunches on Fridays, and have flexible unlimited vacation & allow employees to work from home as necessary, along with a dedicated weekly work from home day. We also do professional development.

We will relocate excellent candidates, and we are competitive with compensation (salary + stock options).

Position listing: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/jiff/senior-web-developer/cG_h...

Email wesley@jiff.com for details if this sounds like you & something you are interested in.
HTC Announces SteamVR-Powered Vive VR Headset
Nim provides you more flexibility than Go or Rust.

Go is a GC'ed language and that's that. Like any other GC'ed language, the treatment for GC woes is palliative.

Rust is designed around no GC and that's that. Of course, Rust did at one point have a baked in GC and it can be used with a GC, but you need to fully understand the Rust way of doing things and will always be working with the borrow checker in mind.

Nim's GC is special in comparison to mainstream GC'ed languages as it offers you great control. For ease of development it is a GC'ed language, yet for performance and ABI purposes allows deterministic GC. It seems to offer the ultimate in flexibility and expressiveness at the cost of footguns and complexity.
I have subscribed to Guardian Weekly, it's... OK. I get easily irritated by incompetent reporters so the fact that I don't regret getting the subscription says a lot of good things about the general quality of the Guardian. As an anecdote: The coverage of a local event (Bonn, Germany) by the Guardian was OK. Not perfect, but not a complete outrage either. And that's a good thing because e.g. the local paper "Generalanzeiger" usually fumbles even the local news in a way so horrific its.... uargh.

I have found http://everything2.com/ to be an amazing source of general thought food.
SEEKING WORK & SEEKING FREELANCER

Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes

Technologies: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Partnership & Business Development, Sales & Marketing, Software Engineering, Algorithm Optimization and development. Working on data classification and pattern matching algorithms. Initial work involves an advanced context-controllable content summarization systems including - http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum/index-156.html - http://genopharmix.com and http://www.genopharmix.com/TuataraSum/medium/medium_summary_.... - additional applications in Finance, Trading/Investing, Recommendation Systems and related.

Resume/CV: http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum/index-156.html

Email: genopharmix@gmail.com
There is no free lunch. People in more expensive neighborhoods aren't willing to pay more just because the city requires build-out to poor neighborhoods. All build-out requirements do is make the economic case for building fiber even worse, and the end result is that nobody gets fiber.

The digital divide issue is much more cheaply solved by subsidizing wireless service for poor people. You don't need fiber to access Wikipedia, submit job applications, etc.
Not at all. In this case, by 'languages without braces' we mean languages where indentation is part of the grammar. Python's grammar includes explicit INDENT/DEDENT tokens. It is impossible to reindent this mangled python:

if z:
print 'a'
print 'b'
Location: Istanbul/Turkey
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Senior Linux Devops Engineer, Linux,
apache, nginx, tomcat, php, python, symfony, django,
mysql, postgresql, mongodb, mysqlcluster, redis,
twemproxy, squid, varnish, memcached, saltstack,
configuration management, continous integration,
elasticsearch, kibana, logstash, docker, lxc
continous deployment, zfs, dbd, sms, mms, gsm,
payment systems, high availability, clusters ...
Résumé/CV: http://www.yalazi.org/p/resume.html
Email: onur@yalazi.org

I am an experienced computer engineer, system administrator, devops engineer. I have extensive hands on experience with payment systems, mobile/gsm systems, sms, mms, vas systems in designing, coding, integrating, maintaining and administration.

If you need extensive industrial experience and someone who can extend possibilities, I may be your man.
SEEKING WORK: Remote or Barcelona, Spain

Backend Scala development: Akka, Play, Spray, and other libraries and frameworks. Experience with event sourcing and CQRS architectures.

Also some experience with Scala.JS and React.js in the frontend

artur@artursoler.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Baltimore, MD)

I'm a growth and conversion optimization consultant. I help companies do the following:

- Get traction faster (for early-stage startups).
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> People in more expensive neighborhoods aren't willing to pay more

The government specializes in making people do things they "aren't willing to do".
Yes but here we're talking about a graphical user interface and the whole purpose of a GUI is to let you do things by interacting with graphical elements.
I am sorry, I won't fork and fix this code because I don't need it currently.
Collective Health, ( http://collectivehealth.com/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, on-site only)

We're disrupting the employer-sponsored healthcare industry (our favorite analogy is how Tesla tackles several verticals at once, such car makers, dealers as well as the oil industry).

We can lower both the first and second derivative of the rising health care cost curve, nationwide. There's some compelling evidence for it, if you'd like to chat.

Our tech stack is a mix of Go and Java components with Angular on the front end. We use a custom service bus to tie our SOA together, microservices style. We love docker, postgres, riak, automated testing, and continuos integration.

As a company, we're strong believers in transparency, trust and balance. As an engineering team, we believe good code is easy to read and should have a short "time to understanding". We expect all of our engineers to continually teach as well as learn. We also believe that everyone should write good code, yet balance that against the need to ship.

The company just a year old, so early enough for non-trivial equity. Despite that we punch above our weight-class with experienced founders, 40+ team members (~ one quarter is engineering), and paying customers.

We've got a ton of interesting problems to solve around distributed systems, data analytics and predictions, system reliability, security, privacy and more. We're looking for experienced SW engineers up and down the stack, front end, back end, infrastructure, data, dev ops, test, generalist, etc.

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We're super proud of the company mission, engineering culture and tech stack we've put together and would love a chance to explain it all in detail!
> so if an entire neighborhood is being technologically blighted, it may make sense for the city council or town to use build-out requirements to ensure that those neighbourhoods don't get remain stuck in the 20th century.

But that's not what happens. In all but the wealthiest cities, this just becomes a focus point for class warfare, where municipal representatives for poor neighborhoods torpedo fiber build-out across the whole city.
MLK said this in his famouse speech

MLK also said: "Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic."

I am all for college admission policy to help out low incoming group, based on his/her economy status, [..] but not discrimination based on skin color

The problem is that research has shown that institutional discrimination is not just based on economics, but also on race (for example, Prager's research showing that a white job applicant with a criminal record is more likely to get a job callback than a black applicant without a criminal record). Ignoring race isn't the answer. As for what is the answer, that's a much harder problem which is why we're still wrestling with it.
When trading real money in a real market, predictions based on historical data go out the window.

Historical data will never be able to truly simulate manipulation or sympathetic, symbiotic or parasitic relationships. Ever back-test a trading system that simulates a Market Maker letting low block go under the bid or dialing down the sensitivity of the bid vs. the ask? Speaking from experience.

That's why I'm developing an algorithmic trading system based on sympathetic, symbiotic and parasitic hidden connections.

Also Ref: Contagious Speculation and a Cure for Cancer: A Non-Event that Made Stock Prices Soar - http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/whoswho/getpub.cfm?pub=1555
> it’s sometimes asked why len in Python is a function, rather than a method. The answer is that of course it is a method, called __len__. The real answer is that Python pointedly and deliberately does not reserve any method

That's some comical post rationalization.

The reason why len is a function is because it was in Python before Python started receiving OO features.

As a result, Python is a crazy hodge podge of imperative, OO and functional semantics where you never know if you should be calling `o.foo()` or `foo(o)` unless you've been writing Python since the late 90s.
> People in more expensive neighborhoods aren't willing to pay more just because the city requires build-out to poor neighborhoods.

They may very well be in some cities/towns; this isn't fundamentally different from them paying more in taxes to subsidize other services that are used equally by all residents.

There's so much regional variability on this that it makes more sense for the FCC to allow cities and towns the right to determine this for themselves. If constituents are unhappy with the results, they can raise the issue at a town hall or with the city council, which is a far lower bar than trying to change FCC policy.
Glowforge - Seattle, WA - Full-time

We're looking for (more) full-stack software engineers, back-end engineers, and front-end engineers. We could also use an amazing visual design and a mechanical engineer who has injection molding experience.

We're well-funded and founded by three technical founders (one YC alumnus) with 7-9-figure exits. We're building an insanely challenging hardware+software product straight from the pages of science-fiction that's aimed at makers and creatives. It's early-- our product team is just 5 folks, but we're growing.

You can read our "coming out" article in the New York Times here:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/slice-and-carve-the...

Actual job openings here:
https://jobs.lever.co/glowforge
I find myself nodding along as I'm reading this.
It's not black people who are disadvantaged - but people coming from poor, ghetto communities who are. The fact that they are black is secondary. Like I've said, I would be completely ok with them being given extra points due to coming from a very poor/criminal families. No problem here. But a simple system "black? extra points. Asian? negative points" is nothing but racist. Is a black person from a rich family getting extra points? If yes, why? Is an Asian person from a poor family still getting negative points? If yes, again - why? It literally doesn't make any sense.
>Bonus: you don't even need to go through the procedure again with USCIS
Wrong.
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Open Whisper Systems is focused on making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source.

★ Design Lead -- Help us shape the look, feel, and branding of all our applications across iOS, Android, and the web. Help us simplify and effectively communicate otherwise complex ideas about privacy and security.

★ iOS Lead Developer -- Help us build a beautiful messaging app that is a joy to use.

Substantial experience in the domain of iOS development or design is a must, but experience with security or cryptography is not necessary or desired.

Send us an email if this sounds interesting: workwithus@whispersystems.org
An Investigation into Flow and Mortar
> With a good editor, this documentation is right at your fingertips. When you type a function's name, a call-tip will remind you of the expected arguments. If you've added type annotations, the types will be there, too.

Without type annotations, the types will be there too for a language with type inference. The editor just has to ask the language implementation "hey, what is the type for this function?" and show the result back to the programmer.
FireEye - NYC preferred - FULL-TIME

We are building an info security product driven by big data. If working on something that ingests more data per second than Twitter on just one of our customers sounds interesting, then ping me at (my HN username)@gmail.com.

We work in a lot of programming languages (from Python to Scala to Java to Go to Node/JavaScript) with a lot of really interesting problems to solve around performance, search, storage, scaling, and so on. We are looking for some engineers who are excited about chewing on big problems and solving them using whatever tools work best. If that sounds like you, ping me at the email I mentioned or on Twitter at @jm.
We know what top universities would look like if they selected purely for academics. They would look like CalTech.

Again, this isn't true. Caltech considers race, legacies (this is recent), work experience and volunteer experience (although they hold less weight than academics). See section C7 of CalTech's CDS filings: http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds
From Authentic to Romantic! Predicting your digital brand portrait
Remember, strategies that 'never have a down day' are only one day away from having a down day...

...and there are plenty of strategies that had only a single down day, unfortunately that one down day wiping out the entire company :)
The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution – Darwin learned about evolution from plants
I think we may also be looking for a Rails engineer and a front end engineer (those can both be remote!) on a sister project, so ping me if that sounds interesting also!
Which is why a lot of people have legal western names while using an ethnic name at home.
> where municipal representatives for poor neighborhoods torpedo fiber build-out across the whole city.

But that's an issue for the city government to address internally, perhaps by means of negotiating a deal involving some other issue that those representatives also care about. That's how city government works.

This isn't exactly the only case in which neighbourhoods within a city or town have conflicting interests in local government[0]. I don't see yet why this one in particular should be special-cased (by allowing the FCC to bypass city/town governance).

[0] Arguably, that describes all of local government.
Ask HN: How to go about looking for my third co-op at tech a startup?
I am in the process of looking for my third full time co-op during the fall. I've applied to various program including internships at Google, Twitter and Square but have had no luck getting responses from recruiters.

How should I go about reaching out to people in these companies?

My experience with account management in Digital Marketing at Adobe in San Francisco, and financial Asset Management at Wellington Management in London, has led me to where I am today; pursuing a co-op for a business development (i'd love to do sales) position at a tech start-up.

Check out more of what I've done at: www.carloseduardo.co
SEEKING FREELANCERS/EMPLOYEES - NYC preferred, but remote conceivable

HappyFunCorp (http://happyfuncorp.com) - We're currently trying to find good Rails developers.

We do web and app development for a panoply of clients ranging from Fortune 500 to brand-new startups: right now the distribution is roughly 50-50. We prefer people with a reasonable amount of experience under their belt, but there are always exceptions. And we pay well.

If you're interested, email: jobs@happyfuncorp.com
Javascript Developer | UtilityAPI.com | Oakland, CA | daniel@utilityapi.com | Solar job

==Description==

We are a white-label SaaS that is used by solar and energy efficiency companies to collect their customer's utility bill and usage data automatically. You will be in charge of writing tools, scripts, and libraries that collect utility data from utilities. Often these utility data formats are complex and unique to each utility (pdf bills, xml data, csv data, etc.), so you will need to be very clever in collecting and parsing a huge variety of formats. Also, these scripts can break unexpectedly when utilities change their interfaces, so being able to update them quickly is important. You will be working in our office at the SfunCube in downtown Oakland. Our current codebase is well organized, documented, and tested.

==Experience Required==

No years of experience, education, or certification requirements, but you do need to be able to convince me that you know and have experience with:

* Javascript (not JQuery, vanilla javascript)

* Regular Expressions (we use them heavily)

* Python (basic knowledge)

* PGP (basic usage)

* Other (side projects, hackathons, hobbies, stuff you do for fun)

==Compensation==

$100k-$120k depending on experience.

==How To Apply==

Email me a cover letter and a PGP-encrypted pdf resume. Please include links to your github, bitbucket, or personal side project website (for reference, mine is daylightpirates.org).

==For Solar Skeptics==

In the last few years, the solar industry reached "grid parity", which means that the unsubsidized installed cost is now cheaper than buying power from the grid. That's why this industry is the fastest growing industry in the country. This isn't some subsidy-dependent industry anymore. We work hard and we make real money (while conveniently also saving the planet).
The Huawei Watch
It's not. The article is clickbait.
Location: New York
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes (in US)
Technologies: C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, Javascript (React, D3, webgl, node), python, Android, Swift, mongo, mysql, openframeworks, processing, cinder, arduino
Résumé/CV: on request
Email: thesurreystudent@gmail.com