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sincon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Udacity, Bay Area, CA https://udacity.com/jobs

We're hiring for pretty much every type of engineer (Front-end, Back-end, Data, DevOps, iOS, Android) to help us rethink education.

We produce our own content, so we're also hiring course developers.

Want to get a glimpse into our offices? Asana recently featured us: https://asana.com/customers

I'm on the Engineering team here. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or want to join: michael@udacity.com

sincon Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition with HTML5

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

sincon Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964

Arthur C Clarke recorded an inspiring video in 2007 (shortly before his death). And he predicted the future again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE&feature=relat...

sincon IT Crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQ6Z-HmAqY

sincon Why less competent may rate their own ability higher than more competent

You are right, I should not have put the "why" there (and can't change it anymore). If someone with editing abilities sees this, could you please change the title to "The Dunning–Kruger effect", or what you think is more appropriate. Thanks.

sincon Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

yup, doesn't work for me yet either. But thanks for the fast response and showing that you care.

sincon Audio Interview with founder of OkCupid and trained mathematician Sam Yagan

Wanted to use the opportunity to give acmescience some publicity. He has done some great interviews on Strongly Connected Components: http://acmescience.com/category/shows/scc-shows His twitter is @acmescience, show him some love! :)