skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any company actually figured a way to implement the first choice? Hiring is highly subjective. We don't have any foolproof way of figuring out who the best developers are (it's not a well-defined question) and no one has yet come up with a practical way to avoid unconscious bias.

The closest thing I've heard is asking someone to remove identifying information from resumes before screening them. (Blinding the screener.) That should at least help you get a diverse set of candidates coming in. I would think positively of a company that does that.

But the interviews themselves will still be biased and the only question is whether you realize this or you're fooling yourself.
EnergySavvy - Seattle, WA - Full-time

We're building software to help solve one of the world's biggest challenges: energy. EnergySavvy works with utilities across the country to improve energy efficiency and to help consumers and businesses cut waste.

Our software stack makes use of React, Python, Django, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, ansible, and nginx.

We're hiring both front-end and back-end software engineers. Check us out: http://energysavvy.com/careers
Ask the recruiter at the company, "What do the programmers typically wear? I just want to dress appropriately for the interview." Then just dress slightly nicer than that. If they wear t-shirts and jeans, then you wear a casual button-up shirt and jeans. If they wear dress pants and button-up shirts, then you throw on a jacket and maybe a tie. It is all over the board for a programing interview depending on the company and location.
Some colleges are now actually giving men a diversity boost so that their schools aren't 65% female.
How Diverse Viewpoints Fuel Creativity
Well, if you begin from the premise that "discrimination" is first and foremost something bad, and only has any semantic content as a secondary affair, your comment might make sense. But usually you take words as you find them. Students with low test scores are being discriminated against, and everyone thinks that's fine. That's not racial discrimination, though -- a distinction which is specifically called out in the comment you respond to.

The alternative to admitting everyone, if you're determined not to discriminate along any dimension, is to admit by lottery. This will produce results which are biased in various ways, but not because of any distinctions you drew.
Location: Ukraine

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, currently I have B1/B2 USA VISA Type

Technologies: Java, Android SDK, git, SQLite, JSON, XML, REST-clients, Android Design guidelines.

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuq2gbd6jtpb754/YURIY%20MANTULIN%2...

Email: yurezcv@gmail.com

Forward thinking, result-­oriented, self-­motivated, reliable, deadline oriented, adaptive Android developer.
You could find more details in the attached résumé.
Ask HN:Using current employee for side work
I am the CIO at a 3-year old start-up (not a co-founder). I am thinking I have a good idea for a new opportunity and I need to get a front-end designer to work on the interface with me. I have a great designer that works for me, but I do not want to make a bad situation for him/myself or the current company. I could ask the CEO first about working on the side with the designer, but that would not go over-well I am sure. So do I:

1) Just get another designer to get things going
2) Ask current employee if interested in afterwork/weekend engagement and keep all outside work outside

thanks,
Ken
Location: SF Bay Area

Looking for a software engineering internship

Java, Python, web technologies, some iOS and Android experience

Resume on request

Email wertheimjoshua@gmail.com
A super casual place that is trying to protect their vibe should tell you that during the phone interview. Sometimes they forget and are usually cool if you just ask prior to going in. If they're not cool with the question (especially when you way you're going to wear a suit otherwise) do you really want to work there?
And it appears that there is no way to select all entries matching a search for deletion in Chrome's history. Deleting all browser history from the last hour solves it though! Thanks for the warning...
SEEKING WORK - Czech Republic/Remote

5+ years experience with Android. I have delivered cutting edge Android apps to clients in the U.S., including companies in SV. I love Android & designing for it and would love to guide you through the complexity of launching on Android. I have released both consumer & B2B apps on Android.

Contact: jakub(at)pinchapps.com
Typeform - Barcelona, Spain (full time positions on site)

We are a startup located in sunny Barcelona, looking for more people to expand our wonderful team. We are looking for people filling multiple positions, some of them are backend/frontend developers, content managers, videographers and QA engineers.

We are working on making forms easy and enjoyable to fill out. We already got what we need to grow the team, now we just need the right people.

You can see at a glance on what we are working on from our website but don't be afraid to ask if you have any questions. See it here: http://www.typeform.com/

Some of the things we are working on this very moment:

* Building a new API with Lotus (framework in Ruby) for creating forms dynamically

* Taking existing parts out of the system to be able to scale them independently

* Making the infrastructure more fault tolerant

If you are interested in working with any of these or just came up with some other ideas that you think would make filling out forms more awesome, don't hesitate to fill out the following form to apply: https://jobs.typeform.com/to/e7NNgU

My personal email if you have any questions is victor@typeform.com
Watsi - San Francisco - Design Lead

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Watsi (https://watsi.org/) is a global crowdfunding platform that enables anyone to directly fund healthcare for people around the world.

We’re a team of developers, doctors, and marketers building Watsi because we believe that everyone deserves healthcare. We’re not afraid of failure, we’re humble, and we say “yes” as often as we can. Most important, we come to work every day excited about creating an organization that matters more than we do.

We’re looking for a design lead to join our six-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate is an experienced generalist who’s confident owning all aspects of design at Watsi, from UI/UX to visual design to branding. We’re a collaborative team and we’re looking for someone who enjoys working closely with engineers to implement their designs.

If you’re interested in learning more, please send your portfolio to jobs@watsi.org.

P.S. you can learn more about Watsi by checking out this blog post from our recent trip to East Africa: http://exposure.watsi.org/a-dose-of-perspective
Honestly, I feel like Steam really hasn't aged well. The size of the catalog has grown tremendously, but Steam's efforts at curation all seem to miss the mark, and Steam's tools for managing your game library are basically nonexistent.
I am pretty familiar with the GFW, and you are running HTTPS. The game of whack-a-mole you are playing is ip/domain/date. If you want to compare notes, send me an email.
Visi: Simple Web Front End to Spark
Udacity (http://udacity.com/jobs) - Mountain View, CA
Openings: Full-Stack Engineer, Backend Engineer, Front-End Engineer, Lead Designer, Product Designer

I recently saw an interactive map of the US[1]. Each state had its most common profession listed over the period of 1978-2014. For 2014, you'll see that truck driving is by far and away and the most common profession. No real surprise there. However, if you look closely, you'll see that in Utah, Virginia, Washington and Colorado that software developer has become that states most common profession. How amazing! I am convinced that within the next 2-8 years, we'll start to see a gargantuan shift where tech skills are in such demand (even more so than now) that Software Developers become the most commonplace profession across the US and world. Udacity will be powering the education behind all of that.

If you're world-class in what you do, please get in touch at oliver@udacity.com.

1. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-...
Download iTools iOS 8.1.3 iPhone 6 plus – pangu8pangu8
The title is accurate since the practical effect of the state laws is to preserve the existing ISP monopolies.
VuWall Technology - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - http://www.vuwall.com

We're looking for an experienced Linux Sysadmin / DevOps specialist with an interest to learn and grow with a small ~10 person team.

We create video wall management software and are heading toward a continuous delivery model that we need your help achieving. We have ~25 computers in house, some powering 2x2 and 3x3 video walls of up to 138 inches (with a PS3 hooked up too!). We need to set up several test environments as our software will run on both Windows and Linux. We'll also need some mundane things like file shares as we want to give our current Windows Server 2012 the boot.

We haven't made any of the big decisions yet as we're waiting for someone with more experience to come and join the team. So that means we'll be working together to figure out whether to use Chef, Vagrant, Docker, Salt, Puppet, or something else. We're extremely open to new technologies and get to work with what are essentially giant toys.

We've done projects in the past for NASA, FIFA, US Army, nuclear power plants, electric companies, and departments of transportation. Our software has been installed in over 30 countries and now we're looking to take the next step forward which we can't do without a bit more organization / streamlining. That's where you come in.
I was part of a program that changed to graduate admissions based solely on subject GRE score. The first such resulting class was 88% Chinese, 4% Taiwanese, and 8% white American. Did they do that well as a class in graduate studies or in academia? No. Some were great, some were terrible, just like every other year. The years where admission was done based on prior math research instead resulted in a more interesting group of students, although again some were great, some were terrible.

It's well-known that in subject GREs Chinese students score very well compared to American students of any racial or ethnic background. (As a Chinese friend asked, "Why don't you Americans just study for it, like we do?") However, subject GRE scores are not that predictive of success in a graduate program. Research skills, writing ability, grit, and the simple capacity to get stuff done are not well-predicted by multiple choice exams. It is useful to know that students who do well on, for instance, the math subject GRE can do triple integrals quickly. That's about it.

So, since subject GREs don't predict graduate success, and SATs are not that well-correlated with college success either [1], admissions committees use other factors to evaluate students. In fact, a number of schools do not require any standardized test [2]. These other factors range widely and include high school grades, which are most predictive of college success, volunteer work, interestingness, etc. And they do include race and geographic origin. Small colleges in the Midwest are currently targeting California, Texas, and Florida for recruitment because of their huge numbers of graduating seniors, and the coastal schools let in some token Midwesterners to provide some leavening to their provincial views of flyover country.

There is discrimination against Asian Americans in admissions in the US. It's not written into policy explicitly: it's just like discrimination against women and blacks today, taking the form of discussion of "fit" or subjective evaluation of how interesting someone's work is. It should stop, and the comparison to the "Jewish quotas" is apt. At the same time, test-based admissions are ludicrous, and evaluation of extracurricular activities and accomplishments given the student's environment are necessary. I had friends at Caltech who went to high schools that didn't offer calculus: smart people come from all sorts of backgrounds.

[1] https://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Validity...

[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/19/study-finds-l...
Naperville, IL - Informatica Ultra Messaging Principal Software Engineer

Looking for experienced C and Java developers to help build an industry-leading messaging platform that supports the full range of messaging services including streaming, persistence, queuing and caching. Apply here [1] or ask me for more details.

[1] - https://careers.informatica.com/jobs/R__amp__D09002/Napervil...
I’m a developer form Germany. I’m planning to travel the world and work at different locations and companies for a short period (like 1-3 months). Except from what I have to offer, the result will be a book which gives insights on “how companies work” in different countries and cities (I already talked with publishing houses about it). I don’t want to give too much details here, but if you’re interested, message me please. I’ll sent you more details! fabse3@web.de. Thank you!
Bugcrowd - San Francisco - (remote for the right people, visa)

We're looking for experienced engineers to join our SF engineering team.

As a member of our engineering team you’ll be in a position to help shape the way we work. It's a very agile development environment where we expect things to change. Because of that we yearn for team members that want to improve the codebase as well as the process that gets code shipped.

Our existing team consists of a broad range of musicians, hipsters, geeks, skateboarders, skiers, snowboarders, nature lovers, Mums & Dads.

We are a very entrepreneurial team and collectively we’ve built, sold, delivered and supported solutions for many enterprise industries. Now as Bugcrowd we do this with the agility and GSD attitude of a startup. We work collaboratively, enjoy working as a team and are extremely focused on happy customers!

Overall it’s not just about what can a new team member do for us, but also how can we help that member be ready for what they want to next, whether it’s acquiring a new technical skill or learning what they need to launch their own business idea.

https://bugcrowd.com/careers
They are NOW required to be that, but a lot of legacy circuits are still 15A, and some even don't have GFCI (GFCI only became a requirement in the late 70s/early 80s in the kitchen, bathroom, and anywhere else that can conceivably be near water.

This has spread to AFCI (arc fault instead of ground fault) being put in every bedroom as a requirement as well.

If your house doesn't have GFCI and AFCI everywhere, they're required, you proobably should start retrofitting your sockets.

All of that said, you can use temporary use 1800W devices on 15A legally without tripping the breaker.
Now that there's Title II categorization, maybe it'll be addressed the way telephone roll-out was, was a "universal access" tax added to broadband bills to fund extending the infrastructure to less profitable areas.
Whisper (Venice Beach, CA) - iOS/Android/DevOps. We have a very very small team of client devs and we're looking to grow our team.

The beach is one block away.

You can surf in the morning before work and keep your board and wetsuit in the office :)

We have 2 full-time iOS developers and 3 full-time Android Developers, so it's a big opportunity to join a tight-knit team building an app that our users love.

Email me (mail is in profile) or see the jobs here - https://whisper.sh/jobs
Dota 2 basically prints money, and they're spending most of their development time on it. They're currently working to completely upgrade it to the Source 2 engine.

Saying Counter Strike is still limping along is a pretty inaccurate portrayal as well. CSGO's popularity is in a constant increase currently - as I write this, there are 433k players currently in game in CSGO. It's honestly probably more popular than old CS ever was, even prior to the popularity decrease with 1.6 and then Source.

With the overwhelming success of Dota2 and CSGO, I don't think you can really suggest Valve is in a decline.
Article doesn't explain why: All data is stored as plaintext. Including all demographic data.

Because otherwise there is no way to match patient records across our (USA) heterogenous IT systems.

The two possible technical fixes are

#1 Centralization, where every patient is issued an UUID (aka MRN, PID), their demographic data is hidden, and UUID is used to retrieve medical data (ala Translucent Databases).

#2 Individualization, where every patient "carries" around their own medical data.

We can discuss the social, cultural, bureaucratic, workflow hurdles to either of these solutions, if this thread gets traction.

FWIW, I designed and implemented 5 regional health care exchanges 2007-08.
Towards native higher-order remote procedure calls [pdf]
I hated sounding negative on the article. It represents a lot of admirable effort. My point is that the effort is not directed in a particularly constructive direction in regard to creating a new programming language.

There's a clear goal when writing a language that is both a floor wax and a desert topping. On the other hand, all writing a language with the goal of being neither floor wax nor desert topping just gets us a floor topping and a dessert wax. There's no problem solved. Griping isn't brainstorming.

Brainstorming is structured. Productive brainstorming is constrained by reality. By which I mean that brainstorming about something like type inference acknowledges that type inference is subject to the Halting problem and that dynamic typing as in Python does not entail type inference.

Starting with Assembly, all higher level programming languages are DSL's over machine code. Things I hate is not a domain that leads to insight or a coherent minimum language. Python's core was addressing pedagogical problems such as beginners learning to format code well. Google's Closure compiler addresses the problem of JavaScript performance. Rust is intended to address client server programming. For each there is something that can be measured objectively and improved.

Don't misunderstand me, there's nothing wrong with writing a programming language as a learning exercise or to scratch one's own itch or solve the world's problems. But it is an engineering design exercise not a poem. The facts of computation make it so.
Gezond ontbijt: quinoa met appel en kaneel – Leef Nu Gezonder
HealthExpense Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | Full Time: 9 developers

We're currently looking for 9 experienced software engineers for a full-time position in Sunnyvale, CA (Backend, Frontend, Payment Gw dev, DevOps, Data Scientist, QA).

Us: Health claim management and payment technology company. Our aim is to fully automate the patient-side of health payments. In production for 4 years, with paying customers ranging from small TPAs to the largest banks in US.

Our challenge: integrating data ingestion for 100s of sources into a single, normalized database which is correct and real-time. The core is a custom ETL engine with data cleaning and error detection customized for each pipe. Due to episodic nature of healthcare we're handling heavy loads in peak times, like creating over 10,000s of users within a few seconds.

Our stack is mainly Scala and C++14, micro services:
http://stackshare.io/healthexpense/healthexpense

Positions:
http://healthexpense.com/careers/
Amicus (YC S12) is hiring a lead developer and a CTO. We build a tool that helps nonprofits manage and distribute tasks to remote volunteers. 680,000 tasks have been completed by volunteers though Amicus to date. And 380,000 of those have been completed in the last 8 months.

Stack is Rails, Backbone, Ember, Mongo, on AWS.

For more information, check our http://jobs.amicushq.com/ or email jobs+HN@amicushq.com. NYC, New York.
My understanding of Harvard's point of view is they want a particular mix of strivers and old money. This is not the same thing as racial diversity.
If I was you I wouldn't link to the page where you explain how you created the product.

It might turn potential customers off that you created it only in 3 days. Also, when they know you used twillo as a backend, they can check out exactly how much you profit you are making.
GoldFire Studios - Oklahoma City - Full Time

We are a game studio focussed on building communities around games. We've built a web gaming platform with over 300,000 users and are now looking to expand both our own game offerings and open our platform to other developers. We've been around since 2008 and are profitable.

If you are interested in building the next generation of online games and gaming services, check us out at http://goldfirestudios.com/jobs.
> The digital divide issue is much more cheaply solved by subsidizing wireless service for poor people.

That is completely wrong. Wireless is completely useless in its current form. I burn through 4-5 TB of traffic per month. Nothing beats wire to the home.

Municipal owned last miles funded with property taxes is very nice way to redistribute some income, create work and provide ISPs with incentive to do their stuff. And ISPs just hook to them. I think that last miles connections should not be owned by other than the connected property's owner or society.
Clojure and Overtone Driving Minecraft
They make 1800W kettles in the US. My 1500W kettle boils 8 cups of fridge-cold water in about 4 minutes.
Most devices I bought from Ikea failed - clocks run slow 3 out of 5) lamps fail to turn on (2 out of 3), and flicker when they do. I don't see myself ever buying anything electric from that shop.
Graduating in May with a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. Interested in functional programming, machine learning, security, distributed systems and all other fun stuff.

Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes. London, Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver.

Technologies: JS, iOS, Python, Ruby (Rails), C/C++, Scheme

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zLVv0vDLZOOFaKh2U2FJlwdo...

Email: zak.semenov [at] gmail
Yes, that's true.

However, by doing so I have anchored the minimum salary at the top of their range [in their case, a little above the top]. At that point they could terminate the interview or go forward - a clear indication that salary was negotiable.

In reality, that isn't how I think. I'm very frank and open. I tell them what I want, because that's what I want.

On the topic of frankness: I also tell them anything that could possibly discourage them from hiring me. I'm not trying to talk them out of hiring me, I just want them to have all the data they need to make a good hiring decision.

I was once hired for a contract that I was unqualified for and let go a week later. When I asked the guy who hired me why they hired me for a position that required expertise in "X" technology when I told them in the interview that I only had a week of experience with "X" he told me: "We just liked you so much." Getting hired for a position you aren't qualified for is worse than not getting hired.
> Say hey, what is the daily dress code like?

Actually, i think this is the key. Not because it's an easy way, but because that is exactly what an interviewee's task in a job interview is:

Finding out basic facts about the company.
I don't know. Why does economic orthodoxy result in smug self assured replies and downvotes, even though when people choose to educate themselves (by taking college courses, not reading blogs or non-mainstream sources) they almost all are convinced by the orthodox outlook?

I honestly feel like a pro-vaccination advocate when I post about economics.

EDIT: And to address your (very weak) point, how does working in factories not make people in poor countries richer? Are you aware of what a Chinese farmer makes per year, compared with a Chinese factory worker?