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I'm hoping to write an expanded post about this, but for now: we're using the 2009-2013 American Community Survey (a product the Census Bureau puts out yearly, rather than the every-ten-years Census). You can download CSVs of the whole thing here: http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/201.... We took those and TIGER data (geospatial data specifying what areas each of the stats in the CSV correspond to), and put them into a Postgres db with PostGIS.

If you're not looking to show the whole US at a granular level like we are, you might be able to skip the FTP server approach a few ways. They recently released CitySDK (https://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/), which seems like a nice way to get at Census data from the browser, though I haven't personally used it. There's also a set of APIs (https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html), which might work depending on what specifically you're trying to do. A third way to get at it is to use American FactFinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml), which lets you drill in and search for whatever fields and/or geographies you care about, and export them.

If you just want to browse around Census data, I also love Census Reporter (http://censusreporter.org).

Remix (YC W15) | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime

Remix is creating technology that empowers cities to be great for everyone. We’re starting with an underserved and core part of infrastructure: public transit. Our product is used by cities around the world to help them plan public transit more efficiently and effectively.

We're looking for a frontend engineer who join our three person engineering team, and help us quickly make improvements and build new features.

We've gotten incredible traction so far (signed contracts 50+ cities in under a year), and that's been in large part because of how well our product (http://getremix.com) works. You'll get a ton of responsibility, get to join a small but quickly growing startup, and to work on something that matters.

http://getremix.com/jobs#engineering

Remix (W15) - http://getremix.com - San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

Work with us to build great cities.

Design is at the heart of what we do. You’ll be in charge of the user experience at Remix, helping to create a compelling simple app used by cities across the world to plan great transit. Our company was founded by designers (Sam and Tiffany) and we take this stuff very seriously.

You’d be a good fit if:

• You have experience creating and maintaining products with real-world users.

• Your visual design is strong and opinionated.

• You’ve worked closely with engineers to get great design out the door.

You should be comfortable making detailed graphics and figuring out how an application should work and feel. Even better if you can turn your ideas into working prototypes using HTML and CSS.

To apply, email jobs@getremix.com with a portfolio and a few words on why you're right for the role.

To be fair... the price was artificially kept at $0.05 from when the subway system was opened in 1904 until some point in the 50's - which in the process helped drive the private operators of the system out of business.

New York, NY. Fulltime.

Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another. Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.

Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet. Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.

Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later. As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at tech-jobs@lore.com, with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.

You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/)

New York, NY. Fulltime.

Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.

Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.

Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet.

Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.

Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later.

As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at tech-jobs@lore.com, with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.

You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/),

New York, NY

Coursekit - Software Engineer

Coursekit is looking for more engineers to help bring the best possible online experience to education. If you've ever been forced to use a crappy piece of software because your teacher (or worse, your school) demanded it, you know the pain we're trying to solve. We launched our product for university courses recently, and the reaction has been awesome. (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665657/coursekit-aims-to-overha...)

We are a small and young team, but we are well-funded and growing. We work mostly in/with Coffeescript, Python, node.js, Redis, and MySQL. We don't care whether you have tons of experience with these technologies, but if you're smart and learn fast, we'd love to talk.

We're also looking for a Front-end Engineer, who would be able to help set a standard for our HTML/CSS and help us build awesome experiences for students and teachers.

http://coursekit.com/jobs

New York, NY Coursekit (http://coursekit.com/) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.

We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us. We're very detail-focused, and are especially looking for someone who loves working with front-end code (heavy Javascript/Coffeescript, as well as HTML/CSS) to create beautiful interactions/pages.

Apply here: http://coursekit.com/jobs

Or if you have any questions, shoot me an email at dan@coursekit.com

Oops - accidentally submitted link to the second page. For the first page, go here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/11/29/will-cours...

New York, NY

Coursekit (http://coursekit.com/) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.

We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us. We're very detail-focused, and are especially looking for someone who loves working with front-end code (heavy Javascript/Coffeescript, as well as HTML/CSS) to create beautiful interactions/pages.

Apply here: http://coursekit.com/jobs

Or if you have any questions, shoot me an email at dan@coursekit.com

New York, NY

Coursekit is trying to kill an entrenched incumbent (http://blackboard.com/) and bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.

We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us.

Apply here: http://coursekit.theapplicants.com/j-11-222 Or if you have any questions, shoot me an email at dan@coursekit.com

I used it for a while. Indentation would always break in really awkward ways.

I <3 emacs, but there's not really a reasonable PHP mode for it that handles interspersed HTML well.

I think your last sentence is painfully false. I don't think most people are OK with CEOs dodging taxes. I also don't think they have the slightest clue (I sure don't..) of what to do with it. These things are decided in the details (capital gains vs income in this case) that I think can very easily fly past most people. Then it comes down to rhetoric/politics, and no one ends up winning once it's at that point.

I also don't think that people are trying to vote away unions and benefits for teachers/schools, but unions/benefits for crappy teachers/schools. It's incredibly difficult for schools to get rid of bad teachers, and a decent number of people come into contact with it. This doesn't do anything for the other side of the equation — getting less bad teachers, but again, I don't think spite is the reason people vote against teachers unions.

Figuring out how to use mTurk, figuring out how to ask questions to get useful results, and tabulating/summarizing answers are all things that the person who is asking for the tests probably has more important things to do, particularly the first two. It's a fair amount of work.

New York, NY

Coursekit is trying to kill an entrenched incumbent (http://blackboard.com/) and bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.

We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us.

Apply here: http://coursekit.theapplicants.com/j-11-222 Or if you have any questions, shoot me an email at dan@coursekit.com

I think a big part of the issue is that a person's Gmail is treated as something much more personal than a TV ad or anything else. I think this is the piece that people blasting complaints as "too sensitive" are missing.

To have a unremovable "personal" message there as part of the interface feels weird to start with, but it feels even more like a violation if it's offensive (as with this case).

Something that seems similar is hackNY (http://hackny.org) in New York.

In his talk, he referred to the Kindle nearly exclusively as the "Amazon Swindle," only clarifying that he was talking about the Kindle at the end, for what its' worth.

It seems that he's become less practical and more radical over time, though. When asked, he doesn't program very much any more, devoting his time instead to championing free software in an idea that some (such as Alexey) would argue isn't practical.

I've been working on something pretty similar at my school, and I think we've had some pretty good results so far.

I think the first step is to find the students who really are interested in programming/hacker culture/whatever you call it, and get close with them. If you start small, maybe just a couple of friends doing things together, it'll be a good start. Other people may then be interested in seeing what's up.

Another thing is that I'd suggest "events" vs. meetings. A couple of things we've done is start a bi-annual series of hackathons. The first one in the fall drew 40 students. The second one, which had lower prizes, ended up drawing over 100. It takes a bit of time, but I think you can snowball it into something bigger.

Another event we've found really useful is a weekly thing where we take a classroom in one of the CS buildings, and designate it for a night for people to code. We order food and stuff, usually 15-20 people show up every week.

You're not going to necessarily change the vast majority of students that don't care, but if you can join everyone else together, and maybe draw some people who are on the fringe one way or another, you can have something pretty cool.

>>> Face the "evil" (whatever that means) side like a man.

What? It's not a battle or a problem. Sometimes you need to get something out, or you're writing a little throwaway bit of code. Sometimes that involves a tradeoff in future maintainability/pain. It shouldn't justify never testing, but I think it's a valid reason to not religiously follow TDD.

The task at hand and libraries available also affects how "hard"/"easy" a language can seem. There are many tasks where higher level languages have more facilities available to help you. Building a web app will be easier in Python than C, for example. On the flip side, good luck writing a device driver in Ruby.

On top of the task-driven reasons, I think the other big reason people find languages easier/harder than others is really a sort of emotional connection. The number of Ruby docs that use the word "joy" or something close speaks to this. Similarly, the people who have emotional responses both for and against Python's syntax and white space might speak to it.

What experience? I know quite a few people (not the HN crowd) who are reasonably smart, but give them a newspaper editorial by itself and they'll be lost. Not 96% of people I know, but a decent amount.

Some people have so much fun (and ability) making art, they can make a living off of it. There's a huge overlap between art made for fun and art made for money, and taking away artists' means to make a living takes away a significant amount of art.

While I agree that it asks for backlash - do we actually know what happened? It seems like the company's doing decently, so I'm not sure the students of history will have much to work off of.

Going off of this, it could also be the case that other languages are going up, while PHP stays steady (or grows at a lesser pace).

A lot of the AB test was learning Java (took it in Spring 08). Despite that, I loved the class because of my teacher, who taught us enough that I was running into things through my sophomore year that I learned from the class.

Unless your school has a particularly good teacher, I'd recommend self-studying it, since you seem to get along fine doing that.

While PHP is incredibly messy, if you already know HTML, I'd go with it.

It's a fairly gradual step up from static HTML/CSS, and will probably be less frustrating at the start.