Yes! Half of our company is remote (mostly US timezones)
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Technologies: C#; ASP.NET MVC; SQL Server; React; TypeScript; Docker; Azure.
You can read the job req and apply here: http://kaggle.applytojob.com/apply/GjSjOi/Fullstack-Engineer
Kaggle is best known as a platform for machine learning competitions. We have a community of over 650K data scientists. Now also building a sharing-and-collaboration platform (closest analogy is Github for data science: https://www.kaggle.com/kernels)
Particularly interesting opportunity for software engineers looking for exposure to data science/machine learning. Three of our engineers have come via HN posts, so we take HN referrals very seriously.
Regarding placement of curly braces, did you see them on their own line or at the end? This article seems to imply that CNF had braces at the end: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/peterwie/2008/02/04/pedanti...
I'm interested because it seems that lower-level systems programming at Microsoft put braces at the end (early .NET BCL, maybe even the first C# compiler's C++ code, TypeScript compiler source, etc), but that Microsoft documentation tended to put braces on their own line and then that became the more de-facto style that shows up in their open source code.
From a quick search I see that it uses braces at the end. I'd be curious if CNF encouraged subsystem prefixes (e.g. the "Ke" in "KeBugCheck").
I wonder if CNF had any influence on "Systems Hungarian" (e.g. "dwCreationFlags") that dominates the Win32 API or if that came as an accidental offshoot of Simonyi's "Application Hungarian"
"I have this little saying that the successful people in the world are the people that do the things that the unsuccessful ones won't. So I've always been this person that, you know.. I will build the system, I will fix the bugs, I will fix other people's bugs, I will fix build breaks. It's all part of getting the job done."
When I was a kid, I enjoyed reading "Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" that chronicled his move from DEC to build NT. Jeff Atwood has a quick review of it at http://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git --version
This updated Git for Windows project brings that same version to Windows.
Git on Windows has been stuck at 1.9.* for awhile and always in "preview" because it was never really meant for production usage since the main contributor wasn't able to spend much time on it (and even then, he didn't primarily use Windows): http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2014/04/gitminutes-28-johanne...
I applaud the work that Johannes Schindelin (and others) did to get Git on Windows for these past years of increasing usage and look forward to this project taking it to the next level.
In addition, we're increasingly doing more with ChatOps with mmbot (as an Azure Web Job): https://github.com/mmbot/mmbot
One nice thing about mmbot is that if you use the DLL mode instead of the CSX mode, you get a great IDE debugging experience which makes it even faster to create meaningful ChatOps extensions. I've found it to be a more pleasant development experience that Hubot with CoffeeScript.
Random Forest is a very powerful technique these days that's usually pretty good as a first-pass. Using it with permutation importance usually helps you identify important variables.
I cover several other machine learning "getting started" recommendations at http://stackoverflow.com/a/598772/1869
Thanks HN for helping us make a rare find!
P.S. If you're into machine learning and/or have an interest in developing a great site for a community (like Jerad), we're always looking for more to join us: http://www.kaggle.com/careers
It's probably over-engineered, but the alternatives seemed not secure enough to feel comfortable using.
I was directed to this page only after the transfer started (and thus after I could change this). Hopefully this might help others before you make the switch.
In addition, by working in the field, I think I'm in a better position to write blog tutorials like my TrueSkill one: http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html
It's our hope that we can encourage a lot of our community to post insights of their approaches. That's what we already do on our blog with our "How I Did It" posts like http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/10/19/deceitful-beast-william-cu...
In general, the competition host gets a license to the winning algorithm in exchange for a winner accepting the prize money.
We also have private competitions that do not appear to you unless you're invited. In these competitions hosts can offer appearance fees just for participating as well as access to more restricted data.
I gave more recommendations at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/598726/overwhelmed-by-mac...
(Disclaimer: I work at Kaggle)
EDIT: Fixed second link
I'm hoping to get back to writing again sometime before the end of the year. Unfortunately, it takes me a long time to write so I'm hoping to get at least one post in this year :)
I didn't use stick figures in that post, but I used actual traffic with https://amazon.com. Amazon uses RC4, but could just as easily use AES.
Some general thoughts looking back at my post two years later:
* I drew every cell with a sheet of paper and a sharpie and then scanned everything in. My living room was covered with all of the cells of this comic. If I did it again, I'd probably just use my drawing tablet. However, it worked out well being low-tech with paper because I drew a lot of the cells on vacation (i.e. imagine me drawing these scenes on a picnic table next to family by the lake thinking I was a bit crazy). Unfortunately, one unforeseen consequence of doing it by hand was that it became very clear that my handwriting was too hard to read, so I had to manually erase all the writing and redo it using a decent looking font. This took a lot of time. I had originally thought about using comic-sans but am very glad I decided to use the Marker SD font instead. You can see my actual handwriting in the "crib sheet" cell at the end. It was going to be way too much work to make it look pretty.
* I was most surprised by how many college professors use my comic in their computer security classes. Hopefully it helps the students.
* I tried to emphasize Rijndael's state matrix by having the stick figure guy carry it everywhere as a briefcase, but I don't think that came across very clear.
* Although I was inspired by XKCD's style, I didn't copy the critical part of a witty comment in the hover text. If I had to do it again, I probably would have done so.
Thanks for all the feedback; it's what encourages me to invest so much time in making posts like this.
Disclaimer: I work at Kaggle and have been involved with setting up the competition.