skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TheSquareFoot - New York, New York - FULL-TIME and INTERN - LOCAL

== The Company ==
We're a technology-fueled commercial real estate brokerage bringing commercial leasing (a $30 billion/year industry) into the 21st century.

You'll work on our search application (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/ny/new-york), help with our broker digital assistant, TourBot, and contribute to our sales presentation tool, TourBook. We've built these with Ruby, Rails, and with a generous helping of CoffeeScript.

You'll be joining me (the new lead software engineer) and the three other developers and designers, here in our Manhattan office and alongside the rest of our dozen-strong team.

== The Positions ==
Complete listings and descriptions are available on our Careers page (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/jobs), but I've highlighted the ones most relevant to HN below:

* Senior Software Engineer (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/jobs#openJobsSeniorEngineer). You'll work on the website, primarily, with an emphasis on the front end. Strong design implementation skills will be a big plus.

* UI Engineer (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/jobs#openJobsUIEngineer). You'll work with our lead designer on implementing the web and mobile UI for TourBot, our digital assistant for brokers. (It's not quite Jarvis, but we're working on it.)

* Design Intern (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/jobs#openJobsDesignIntern). You'll work on both digital and print marketing materials, along with work on blog posts, newsletters, and social media campaigns.

* Data Analyst Intern (http://www.thesquarefoot.com/jobs#openJobsDataIntern).

* Product Lead.

You can reach out to me, personally, (hn at thirdtruck dot org) or contact us directly (hr at thesquarefoot dot com). Looking forward to working with you!
SEEKING WORK: Remote/Rajkot, India

Has experience working with a Y-Combinator - 2014 non-profit startup

https://www.zidisha.org/

Credits on http://p2p-microlending-blog.zidisha.org/2014/10/04/the-new-zidisha/

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Language: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git

Frameworks: Laravel, AngularJs, Twitter-Bootstrap, Slim, ReactJS, React-Native

Tools: PHPStorm, SublimeText, Vagrant, Navicat

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wllb72590c9hc80/Bhargav's-Resum%C3%A9.pdf?dl=0

Email: bhargavdjoshi@gmail.com
IIRC, that's because of the silly way (given Hawaii's abundant solar and geothermal resources) in which most electricity is generated in Hawaii: burning imported fossil fuels. If the local renewables were fully exploited, I can't think of a reason for costs to be so high.
I appreciate the detailed statement you just made and cannot disagree, but I just can't say that most people would hold to that viewpoint even if you think they should.

But I think your point is a slightly different issue than the problem I was attempting to describe based on the original question.
>> but to then boast about the felony they've committed on a corporate blog?

You must have missed the part in my original post where I said bragging about it probably isn't the best thing they did. It also means as a hacker, if you fuck with someone's business, be advised, you might end up getting the horns.

I think to a degree, it helps put people on notice these guys don't take this stuff lying down and if you commit fraud on their watch, they're not just going to write it off. It probably also helps potential clients feel safer, knowing they don't just write off their losses, they actually do something about it - regardless of how the general public interpret it.

Also, by your standards, then do you believe what Andrew "weev" Auernheimer did was illegal as well?

Just curious. . .
You shouldn't hold back technology because of pains like this, you should address the pains.

Mozilla pushing forward aggressively forces people to address the pain points.
It's perfect for data centers that need UPS and generators for outages.
None of the above scenarios affect me in any way. If all parties are consenting adults, then I don't see what the issue is.
Wright brothers: focus on wings or controls or engines! you only have room for one!

Apple: focus on hardware or software! Macs or iPods. You only have room for one.

Edison: focus on lights or electricity! You only have room for one.

Uber: focus on the driver network or the app! You only have room for one.

It's not a hard and fast rule. The point of focus is to get you to prioritize what important, but something you need to do multiple things.
Venture Capitalists Enlist Student-Run Funds to Find the Next Facebook
You could probably conspire with another party to sell your shares back and forth at +10% every day. That way the official market price of your shares would eventually get to the point where you could share them at their true value.
How timely... two-three years ago I had trudged through a pretty dated codebase to track down all the tables that contained relevant data to implement a new search system. Since then features were added, bolted on, and changes made (I had left the company for a year and a half in the middle).

Now, I'm migrating said data into a green solution that will replace the whole thing. It took a surprising amount of time to track it all down again, even with my old code and additional data. The new solutions data structures are a bit different than even the old search-only solution.

Even when you have the code, and even when you wrote it, that doesn't mean it's going to save you all the time... it's a little bit of a shortcut and reference, sure, but imho even if it's technically a crime, in this case I doubt it's enough of an offense to justify more than a month in jail, which has probably already been served.
They don't accept earmarked donations, but they do accept unsolicited and unconditional private contributions. http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PD_...
I'm going to live my life based on what I believe to be just.

Exactly this is the problem. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with frontier justice, the only problem is that people don't act rationally in general. What if it is not some lost money but if someone got badly hurt, raped or killed? Can you hold back your emotions? Make sure that you are not targeting the wrong person? And even in the case of this story, what if those two guys are themselves just victims of the real scammer hiding behind their identities? You just publicly stigmatized two innocent people as scammers.
What about this well known, tested and well accepted effect:

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

I'm not sure this working implies what you think it does.
Slack's $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce
Main Street Hub // Austin, TX // email: brandon.beck@mainstreethub.com

We are looking for a few experienced software engineers (especially front-end engineers) to join our small but growing R&D team in downtown Austin. Within engineering we are a passionate group of people who are extremely interested in building the software that helps our customers around the country thrive in their local communities. We’re a really small team (currently 13 people) so you’ll have plenty of say around how we develop software going forward.

We are currently in the process of modernizing our software platform to be more modular and truly data driven. Our goal is to use data to make sure that we provide the right content to the right consumer at the right time. We’re building our internal API using REST based services implemented in Java, and while our front end is currently implemented in PHP, we are migrating away from that. Some of the technologies that we’re using: Dropwizard, Swagger, Flyway, AngularJS, Bootstrap, CloudFormation, Troposphere, and Ansible. All new engineers get company provided downtown parking, flexible work hours, 100% of their health insurance premiums paid for by the company, the ability to build their own work computer, and access to our kitchen with plenty of drinks and snacks. We’re looking for individuals only so please NO RECRUITERS OR AGENCIES (seriously, your emails will just go into the trash folder so let's save each other's time). In addition we’re looking for full-time employees who are already in Austin, TX or willing to relocate.

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Founded in 2010, Main Street Hub is the CRM for Local. We offer an integrated social, web, and email marketing solution designed to help merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging the Main Street Hub’s merchant network. Main Street Hub was recently named #73 on the Inc. 500 list (http://www.inc.com/profile/main-street-hub) of America’s fastest growing companies and the 2nd fastest growing company in Austin. Please see our website (http://www.mainstreethub.com) for more information.
They've been transparent from the beginning, by posting study protocols and analysis plans. You can think of this like posting a physics preprint on the arXiv before peer review. Nothing wrong with that.
Experiment (YC W13) - San Francisco, FT

We're a platform for discovering, funding, and sharing science.

=======

Designer - http://experiment.com/jobs/designer

Engineer - http://experiment.com/jobs/engineer

Scientist Whisperer (community team) - http://experiment.com/jobs/scientist_whisperer

http://experiment.com/jobs or denny@experiment.com directly with questions!
Advice to anyone looking for an internship, make it clear you have a blog during your interview process. That's an intangible part of the interview process but surely it will help.
Sorry but no matter how good he was, it's ridiculous to say he was the entire talent. I'm in a good position to know: I worked for several years within the group he was a part of (right after he left) and there were tons of terrific people there.
Show HN: LinkHubb –  the easiest way to curate and share links
You should probably add to https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go as well
It does, during the build process. Twice.
Yes, that could very well be true. As long as the lobbying is done in a legal manner, which sometimes it is not. But my comment was probably more correctly aimed at Congress than at companies.
Syapse Inc -- Palo Alto, CA & Philadelphia, PA

Roles: Customer Solutions Software Engineer (Python/JavaScript), Customer Solutions Project Manager

Be a part of a team helping to cure cancer, stop heart disease, and deliver the right drugs to the right people at the right time with software for precision medicine.

Syapse software helps healthcare providers use next-generation genomic and molecular data, in context with complex clinical data (medical history, treatment, outcomes, etc.) to make the best decisions regarding patient care.

See here for all the open positions: http://syapse.com/about/careers/

I'm especially looking to hire Customer Solutions Engineers for the Philly office (http://syapse.com/about/careers/openings/?gh_jid=32512). So if you're on the East Coast and always wanted to join a Bay Area startup, but didn't want to relocate, now is your chance!

We're especially interested in people with Python experience. Any experience with healthcare, electronic health records, or genomics is a bonus.

Learn more about what we're doing from our presentation at AWS re:Invent: http://www.syapse.com/blog/aws-reinvent-video-and-slides-now...
248 days * 24 hours/day * 60 min/hour * 60 sec/min * 1000 ms/sec ~ MAX_INT
"The prospect of a mistrial stemmed from a dispute between two jurors deciding Mr. Aleynikov’s fate, with a female juror accusing a male one of “food tampering” — in part because an avocado was missing from her sandwich."

The justice system in action.
I'm certainly not the one shifting what "torture" means. In Bangladesh, at least 20 years ago if not still today, teachers would punish students by putting pencils between their fingers and squeezing down hard. In the U.K. in the 60's and 70's, caning schoolchildren was common. That's what people did to kids. 50 years ago, "torture" meant hanging soldiers from meat hooks, beating their already broken limbs, putting them in metal boxes in the sun. It did not simply mean making them miserable.

I'm not saying we can't shift our perceptions of how it's acceptable to treat prisoners. But you have to recognize that there's not much consensus that what happened to Jose Padilla was in fact "torture." That's why I used the phrase "enhanced interrogation"--so we can talk about it without having to agree on where the lines are drawn.
For when you're tired of hexbins.
You are proposing a false dichotomy.
It's good to be flexible, but it's also good to be stubborn and to find a way. I ended up finding government-based funding that let me get off the ground - I also had to learn how to code, so having a big runway was pretty important. Maybe you can pull off more with less than I did? Although, like you point out - quitting your job to work on something shows grit that investors like. In my case, it was the tipping factor in getting approved for that funding.

Good luck :)
I read the book about The Station nightclub fire tragedy on a long flight once. The book had a different reason for people clustering at a single exit. It wasn't because of a heard instinct, it's because in an emergency people rush to the exit they used to enter. In the short amount of time to think in an emergency, people do not look around for new emergency exits. They go with what they know: the way they came in. (I believe this is why flight attendants remind people that their closest emergency exit may be behind them.)

In a situation of panic this leads to overuse of the main entrance and underuse of emergency exits. In extreme cases, it can lead to a crush and cause the exit to become inoperable.

Another issue is that emergency exit signs are posted high, but those are the first areas to be obscured by smoke in a fire.

My take away was to keep egress in the back of your mind when in crowds and to make a mental note of emergency exits.
the problem is that the excitement is generated by the use of exotic terminology.
you wouldn't get excited if a single study reported that alzheimer's was reversed by copious praying and sprinkling of holy water.
Smarkets, London. Sorry, local only.

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. A small, agile, and fast-growing team, who recently broke £1 billion in lifetime trades on our platform.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automated testing. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/
Fair point, and thanks for calling me on it. In retrospect, accurate or not, that sentence grew out of feelings of frustration more than a desire to teach, which is always a bad sign. I've rephrased it.

(I really do have much the same feeling about the magical cancer-curing kiss, though. Oh, how I wish...)
MTCR is an informal agreement, not a treaty. Its provisions are actually implemented by laws in the member nations-- in the US, that's the International Traffic In Arms Regulations Act. (ITAR) ITAR Category XV, Section c:

Global Positioning System (GPS) receiving equipment specifically
designed, modified or configured for military use; or GPS receiving
equipment with any of the following characteristics:
1. Designed for encryption or decryption (e.g., Y-Code) of GPS
precise positioning service (PPS) signals;
2. Designed for producing navigation results above 60,000 feet
altitude and at 1,000 knots velocity or greater;

So the US limit isn't even in metric units! Consulting my psychic powers, since I haven't bothered to dig up the laws for each member nation, I predict that each nation implements MTCR slightly differently, some using the word AND, some using the word OR. Since a GPS manufacturer wants to sell worldwide, they would have to use the strictest limits possible.
Meta, but a question I ponder often:

These turn key totalitarian infrastructures have broad bipartisan support, especially among old hat insider politicians like Clinton and Feinstein.

What is the motivation? Is it just the typical thing bureaucracies do to try to grow their size and power? Or is there a capital-R Reason there is such a global push to put these things into place.

Do the inside players at the top know something?

I've toyed around with two speculations. One is that there is concern over natural resource depletion leading to serious economic collapse in the mid-term future, and these systems are there to deal with the mass unrest of a "permanent recession." Another is that present day oligarchs simply know their history. Major transformations in communication tend to be followed by serious social upheaval and a changing of the guard. The printing press more or less indirectly beheaded quite a few European royals.

Any other speculations? Informed ones would be particularly interesting.
Servo Continues Pushing Forward
Show HN: SoundSurf, a Grooveshark alternative that supports YouTube and Soundcloud
circuit breakers are there both on upside and downside. Circuit breaker is being triggered everyday at the start of the day
> Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Yup. I love that whoishiring started as a user's creation and that it lasted so long as the most informal possible thing, but people have come to depend on these posts.
Java was originally marketed as a secure VM sandbox allowing for untrusted mobile code execution: centrally web "applets", but also zero-install desktop apps. Basically, it was attempting to do what Javascript (especially with ASM.js coupled to a browser's desktop-app integrations) eventually succeeded at doing.

When held to those standards, Java has been kind of disappointing—repeatedly oscillating between "just about good enough" and "major hole preventing this setup from working." Likewise, many things Javascript got right immediately (like the FS API providing per-origin virtual filesystem containers rather than a view of the actual OS) were never even considered. Despite the marketing, safe execution of untrusted code was never much of a real goal for the platform, and disappeared entirely as a "tentpole" after 1997 or so (despite everyone still remembering the marketing and thinking Java "should" be capable of that.)

When taken as just another bytecode-VM-based runtime platform like the .NET or Erlang runtimes, used for executing code already granted the same level of trust as the other native code on the system, Java is great.
Upvoted for you.
Comparing the Chinese results with the American results, it seems that raising the wattage by a factor of 50 raises the thrust by a factor of 15000. That's somewhat hard to believe. On the other hand, the linked pdf from the Chinese team suggests that at just 3 times the wattage of the American group, they got 1500 times the thrust. I think there is some confusion somewhere.
You can't not buy Shenzhen stocks unless you know some Chinese friends who can buy it for you under his name.

But if you are not trying to buy a specific stock, but just wants to invest on Chinese stock markets, you can buy mutual funds or ETFs managed by QFII(Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors) companies which invest on Chinese stocks. You can find some by googling.

Before buying, you can check their holdings to make sure it invests on Chinese stocks rather than Chinese companies in NYSE or NASDAQ. Ticker symbol for stocks listed on exchanges in Mainland China is 6 digits (no letters). A shares on Shenzhen begins with 300(for ChiNext), or 00. Code for A shares on Shanghai begins with 600. And for B shares（must be exchanged using foreign currency), it begins with 900. H shares is listed on Hong Kong not Mainland China, so you can buy H shares by opening an account in Hong Kong exchanges. You can also check whether the fund price and the indexes it claims to track change simultaneously.

And rumors say Chinese government will announce Shenzhen-HongKong connect in H2 this year, but I doubt ChiNext(where Baofeng is listed on) will be open to foreigners.
Compiling GCC 5 on Gentoo Linux:

echo "sys-devel/gcc:5.1 **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -n gcc:4.9
emerge -1 gcc
It's far more ridiculous to threaten and abuse our abject criminal system to reign in (that is if we assume the theft and not OSS happened) a talented employee who decided to jump the boat and join competition. Make no mistake, the people (wish their names were commonplace!) spearheading the legal pursuit on behalf of Goldman Sachs are evil - of the Hollywood/MPAA kind. Be wary of joining such Corporations, especially if you're a creative developer.

What do you have to say to that?
Companies large and small do this all the time. They're called cross-licensing agreements.
should be pointed out that just as 100 findings doesn't mean that 100 are true, it's also the case that 61 non-reproducible doesn't mean that 61 are false
I think this technology, if real, should be shut down and controlled by the government. Officially, it should be denied and declared to be quackery. It would likely cause grave security problems. Just think of the capabilities this would give the bad guys. We already went too far with technology with the discovery of nuclear weapons and enormous effort has been invested in controlling that technology for decades. The whole reason we went into Iraq was to prevent them from getting technology (WMDs) that we think they shouldn't have access to. I don't think humanity will be ready for this kind of technology until we have elevated our civilization to a "higher level".
(1 micronewton / watt)^-1

Units cancel out to give m/s.

This is just specific impulse. Though Isp is generally measured in seconds (implied gravitational field of the Earth gives s * m/s/s = m/s.)
I think that describes most people. What's wrong with this?
I think even if it proves real, it would still take around 50 years to put in flying cars and such. But perhaps a bit less for using it in satellites. Still it's not too long on the humanity scale of time.
How is a secret not rivalrous? If everybody knows it, it's not a secret.
It was a surveillance aircraft, so it would need line of sight with the ground as well, which might require flying under cloud cover. Also, having a gyroscope component, I'm guessing that it would need to calibrate while stationary, on the runway.