jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Shoptiques (YC 'W12) - NYC - FULL-TIME, VISA

Shoptiques.com is a fast-growing New York based start-up that is changing the way consumers shop for unique products and the way local boutiques find their next great customer. Shoptiques.com aggregates the world's best boutiques onto one ecommerce site allowing consumers to virtually jet set from a boutique in Paris to London to New York City without the cost of a plane ticket.

Shoptiques.com is backed by a virtual dream team of top Venture Capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. We have been featured in Elle Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, CNBC, New York Times, Lucky Mag etc.

This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup backed by the best investors. You will contribute to the success of the company with your skills, and will also be given opportunities to grow your skills in other areas such as DevOps/system administration, machine learning, data science, recommendation systems, caching systems, as well as enabling our growth through scalability and high-availability of a multi-faceted marketplace platform.

We use Grails, Java, JavaScript, Backbone, EC2, RDS, SQS, ELB. Experience in our exact stack is not required.

Engineers of all levels are welcome to apply. Please include your GitHub profile and/or code samples with your application.

To apply, please email me at raja -at- Shoptiques.com
Fastmail was once owned by Opera but bought itself to be independent again. I reckon they wouldn't be interested in being owned by another corporation, especially Yahoo.
London UK - Osper - http://osper.com

We provide a real prepaid debit card for young people, aged 8-18, so they can make independent decisions with money: online, in shops, at cash machines, & abroad. Thousands of kids have already signed up to our service.

But we not only help young people buy Legos and save for bicycles - we are building an awesome technology team that eliminates legacy code, keeps the bug rate tiny, and stays small & joyful. We are doing this by adopting techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, continuous deployment, and microservices. You can read more about our plan to be awesome on our tech blog http://tech.osper.io.
We want to meet and work with smart technical folks of all varieties - from server-side devs to sysadmins, mobile coders to testers, security analysts to data crunchers - but especially front-end experts who like mobile app development of any kind (we happen to use PhoneGap/Cordova but don't expect candidates to know this framework).

We are willing to arrange relocation to London for the right candidate. Sorry, we're not ready to take on remote team members at this stage.
- An full-featured ePaper smart watch will become popular as it will do more with less bulk and a small price tag.

- Agencies will experiment with "rapid response" quad copter and other drones. (emergency, police, news, security, etc.) There will be talk of drafting "drone traffic" laws.

- Blockbuster finally goes bust.

- People will really get fed up with facebook en masse and competitors will be scrambling to be "the" next social network.

- Microsoft will debut a BASIC geared for Windows 10 (targeted toward mobile) and tie it into coding for education efforts.

- Businesses needing to upgrade overdue long-term tools will seriously look at Linux and other OSS platforms as commercial OSs have gone toward subscription based walled gardens.
I bought an N4 a few months ago to test Sailfish OS on. Works OK, the SFOS beta release Dec 11th fixed a lot of bugs. My problem is the N4's 3G & wifi reception are inferior compared to my 5yo N900.
And you would almost certainly not get the same checksum unless they provided you with the exact toolchain they used (which almost nobody does) due to compiler version mismatches or some such.
You should always reach for the simplest solution first (and Haoyi has a great set of guidelines about that: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePrincipleofL... ). The point of those complex FP abstractions is to let you keep writing dumb code even when you want to do something fiddly (such as async operations with error recovery). But don't cargo-cult the complex solution if you don't have the complex problem! A plain function whose result is a plain value should be expressed that way.
No, 100% for sure everyone does not know or understand this.

Most of my family are clueless about this stuff; do you think Fox News - their and many peoples only news source - are sharing that bit of insight with their audience?
You only need to go back as far as the 2000s to see interest rates of 6+ percent.

I'm not sure anyone would consider that "easy monetary policy."

Also, you do know that inflation and boom-and-bust cycles still happened while we were on the gold standard right?
All the Bulgarians coming out in this thread

Also had an 8C as a kid
Perhaps its just my network or industry, but I've considered creating a parody account just to mock the absurdity of what people post.

Of course my parody account would have

- a background photo of me on a stage with a headset and

- a professionally polished profile photo with my arms crossed.

smh
If you're using it to give hands to people, then no. If you suitably hash or whiten the outcome, then yes.

If you're using it to generate Monte Carlo hand playouts to generate % outcomes to assist such a game, then you most certainly want an extremely fast generator. Only slightly more complex than a LCG is the PCG class (based on a PCG, and it's just as simple and fast in most cases as a LCG). And you'll need such Monte Carlo simulations to detect cheating, among other things.

So even for an online poker game you need to know what you're doing. Neither type of RNG will solve all the issues you need.

So yes, at the base a simple LCG would suffice if you know how to use it.

https://www.pcg-random.org/index.html
Everything Dyson is overpriced dreck, except for the handheld. 5% more function for 200% more $.

Cheap vacuums are way better than they were. I bought a $60 upright at target for my office 5 years ago, it sucks (in the good sense) and is reliable. It does not have a ton of attachments, but it was $60.
Interesting idea. What he's saying is that instead of rendering your single page webapp entirely on the client-side like React or have the user wait for the whole thing to be generated and sent over with server-side rendering, you can carve up the page into sections (islands) based on whether they contain more or less interactive/dynamic content.

Based on these sections, less interactive stuff like text can be rendered on the server and sent over while more dynamic stuff is in skeletal form until client side rendering occurs. This allows the user to see the most important stuff under the correct link first while waiting for any dynamic components to be loaded client-side. Definitely works for some types of SPAs, maybe product sites or social media, but for more complex webapps like scientific tools or presentation software this might not be the best fit.
"All our domains including domain WhoisGuard,
Free DNS server, Anti Cache poisoning, Transfer security" (from the Pricing page)

WhoisGuard is what you're looking for and apparently it's available for "all domains".
shrug The switch to PNG was in haste after we suddenly saw our icons etc all using whatever the last loaded SVG looks like. We already have a PNG "solution" (more like a hack.. someone remembered how to use imagemagick to setup up some build time manipulation of the PNGs -- we didn't even check if we could do this for SVGs we just wanted it fixed asap) plus the designers offered to export the bulk of variants as PNGs for us without much discussion at all, and the rest we made up with the imagemagick hack.

So we jumped to PNGs (like 2 weeks ago, fyi). Now that we (know about, and) can use one of the svg cleaners, we'll switch to that and go back to inline SVGs.

PNGs were always seen as inferior. We don't want extra requests to load them - our app is very sensitive to the number of requests we make - we're importing them as datastrings even.

Anyway, the choice was made. Now we're 90% likely to revert to inlining SVGs with some kind of cleaner in the pipeline. Please don't lose any sleep over it. We'll be just fine.
My thesis is that people have troubles connecting with Stalker because they are accustomed to movies being a very voyeuristic and pornographic experience, with in-your-face exposition at every corner and the producers making sure there is nothing ambiguous happening ever. Stalker is not made for you to be a spectator. It's filmed as if you're getting on the journey of the characters. A lot of time they rant alone, they're speaking to you. They asks questions and nobody answers, because that was addressed to you. People either "get into" that movie and it's one of their favorite ever, or they don't and it's extremely boring, which is normal. I think it should be approached with that in mind, that you have to actively take part in the story to appreciate it.
In one case it complained about the opening brace of a props spread on a JSX expression. In another case it complained about an unexpected question token with no line number so I couldn’t find what the issue was. In both cases they were perfectly valid TypeScript according to tsc and VSCode. For that usage I just gave up. It’s working well for me in other projects/contexts though.
Yeah this is fair. I was considering the classic wave a hand in my face because I'm wearing headphones at my desk type of disruption but there's so many more variants.

There's another angle here which is that ad-hoc in-person conversations tend to be low value because there's no record. The process of simply writing down a question before asking it goes a long way toward finding a solution.

It's one of the things I really appreciate about working from home. There are no unwelcome interruptions because everyone controls their own time and interactions I do have are higher value because they have been more thoroughly considered.
Why did you cashed in your 401k
I think that so far it suggests that that hypothetical $50B was worth $31B + whatever positive value WhatsApp has.
You are already doing that in a normal template. Let us say you are building a shopping cart.

The template will contain logic like an iteration over what has currently been put in the basket. And maybe some condition that if the basket is empty you should show a friendly string instead. Then you have some additional logic in a js file that will collapse the list of items if the user does not want to see everything. This is usually done by using a id/class or html element to grab on to.

The idea behind React is that you put all possible states and ways the view can render in a component. You still would (generally) not have actual logic in it; like grabbing data from the server or calculating stuff.

It is different yes but I think it is a neat idea. We will have to see if it is a viable path forward but I think this "rethinking best practices" is really good and has already influenced the rest of the frameworks quite a lot.
You have a large amount of workers who are paid to invest. They can't put it in the bank, and count on the interest. In order to keep their job they need to invest. They will invest until it crashes? (When it does crash, I hope the haves will take pity on the have-nots; just a little, and not just to the obvious ones.)
None of the six companies he mentions (Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and SpaceX) are publicly traded.

So, one reading of the tea leaves is that something like 100B (of non-existent money) is locked up out of the hands of the people who could benefit from trading it. This, at a time when wealth disparity is not far from the Gilded Age.

There's a bubble, all right--just probably not the one the author is thinking of.
I wish I could somehow fuse the two together for one interface.

Both Hipchat and Slack support the Jabber protocol, so you could potentially work out something there.
There's plenty of interesting historical facts here, but they're interspersed with an emptier and rather sensationalistic writing style that seems to overemphasize the novelty of the various solutions listed. More importantly, the post doesn't seem to answer the question that it poses at the beginning - "It’s not too long until your very toaster will be running JavaScript… but why?" The only answer I got out of it was "Because."

I find the implication in the Moore's law section about performance to be a bit unfortunate. Ideas like this only strengthen Wirth's law. We're talking about plain old JavaScript here, after all, not some hypothetical Smalltalk/Erlang hybrid language with mystic productivity benefits or anything like that.
> JavaScript just happened to be a nice fit to evented, non-blocking I/O, and a single-threaded event-loop based environment.

I keep seeing variations on this statement, and I have never figured it out. What, exactly, is it about JavaScript that makes it particularly appropriate for this paradigm?

The way I see it, the only abstraction JS provides that helps with this is first class functions, which are also present (and often richer and more robust) in many other languages.
I've been looking for that too. Google Fusion Tables is a bit of what I was looking for, but too limited (and not well supported for general purpose business applications--the main use case was building maps).
I thought that for a while, but the thing is that Facebook's actually pulling in revenue. Internet tells me they have a PE of 60, which is high (20 is normal for a mature company) but not order-of-magnitude insane. If Facebook is overvalued then advertising as a whole is, and that doesn't seem likely in this age of metrics and PPC competition.

During the '00 bubble people said Yahoo's valuation was inflated because all the bubble companies spent their money on Yahoo ads. But for my money Yahoo has turned out to be worth its bubble valuation. Even if most of its value has come from a few clever investments, well, sounds like Facebook's doing the same thing.
His blog is a great read: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/

Over the years he's written eloquently on the ups and downs of his life.
True that. Colonizing would be risky, but out of a billion or so people you ought to be able to find a few hundred that are competent and willing to take on the risk.

A common strategy for Mars missions is to send the supplies there first. You can land habitats, vehicles, food stores, water-producing machines, power plants (and the return vehicle, if we're not talking about one-way missions), and check on them via radio before your crew ever takes off.
The real story here is that government was holding up billions in payments to Warren Buffett from Goldman Sachs as blackmail until he caved in to write an article favoring the governments action. Warren Buffett is the modern day Hank Rearden, where in Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden assets were stolen by the government and eventually used to blackmail him to work with the government.
And it should be there! We have a lot to do and integrating the team site content within statsheet.com is a top priority.
> "in the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture" can be contradicted with a single word. Apple.

Since when is Apple a software company? They make consumer hardware, and the bare minimum of software needed to make this hardware deliver the value users expect. That's why OS X isn't supported on other hardware than Apples own. That's why you need iTunes to interact with your i{Pod/Pad/Phone}, rather than exposing a standard interface.

To Apple, like Yahoo, programming is little more than a commodity.
The word hacker never meant "good programmer", it meant "good programmer from the culture around MIT". I doubt Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie or Doug McIlroy ever refer to themselves or their peers as "hackers".

But even the MIT meaning of the word is diluted now to the point that it just means "someone who possibly knows how to write programs".
Has the WHO really been that critical or are we ascribing successes to them that are really the result of business and technological innovation? At least in the recent decade or two, they seem to consistently be bad at their job and mired in politics. Even before the coronavirus there were issues like their failures in managing the Ebola outbreak (https://time.com/4123858/ebola-crisis-who-response-failure/).
I agree that the industry is sexist and would actually say it is more sexist than other white collar industries.

But what you said here is exactly what irks the 'rationalist' community. Giving "sexism" as the root reason fo something is a terrible position to start from if you actually want to fix it. For those that have seen and experienced sexism in the industry it is blatantly obvious but for all others we need something to help them understand.

The areas I would point to are:

why do women drop out of the industry at greater rates than men?

what causes women to be attracted to CS? Is it something different than what attracts men?

It IS a pipeline problem right now, how do we try and remove barriers and make it a more welcoming place for the women who are interested?

All of these can be investigated and addressed. "Sexism" can not be unless we want to wait generations for our social culture to evolve, but by then something will certainly replace sexism.
If you put the s**bowl on top of an old cash register, it overflows into an actual register.
I see no evidence that China has organized around long-term discovery or technical brilliance. They have many scientists, and relative advantages in certain fields, but their system of science still has major structure issues.

For example, one aspect of Chinese science policy is paying scientists based on the impact factor of their published papers. This, however, has lead to a much larger issue of "salami-slicing"/"least-publishable unit" publications aimed at passing the minimum bar of a "good enough" journal rather than contributing to science. Another issue—these payouts are only given to certain authors of the paper, which can lead to issues and controversies over authorship position. These are issues in the U.S. and Europe, but less severe, and not incentivized with cash payments.

China does not have some secret sauce that makes them better at discovery or technical brilliance. If anything their policies are organized towards maximizing prestige. Whether large-scale competence follows prestige, we will have to wait to see.
It depends on how good the hash algorithm is. My 2 year old's method tends to have a lot of collisions near the book shelf and the play kitchen, and I'm starting to think it's nondeterministic...
> I mean holding an idea can be both legal and abhorrent/wrong at the same time.

Then rephrase the above question: since when did that become abhorrent or wrong?

We know that IQ is hereditary. This is a simple statistical fact: there is positive correlation between the IQ of children and their parents. And if cognitive ability translates into higher incomes, this would mean income is hereditary

I think what people find abhorrent are the perceived implication rather than the message itself. I'm going to hazard the guess that you're perceiving the implication that saying class differences are hereditary is implying that inequality isn't a problem, or some social groups won't ever have high incomes, or something else.

In reality saying these differences are hereditary is saying nothing about that. Saying IQ is hereditary isn't saying some people will never be smart. Obesity is hereditary, too. That doesn't mean the children of obese parents can never be a healthy weight. Nobody's body cheats thermodynamics. Likewise people's IQ can be improved by exercising mental tasks.
So basically this is a business model that can only survive because of restrictions set by the current government.

What will happen if China and the US reach some kind of agreement, and unlocking online US-services will be part of it?

AND when cloning physical goods (like phones, cars, clothes, shoes, whatever) -- you can export them, since people are willing to pay lower prices for clones. How can you export a Tumblr or a Twitter clone, when both are freemium?

How are these clones surviving? Do they generate revenue, when Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook can barely do it?

Something is not right about this picture ;)
> Sometimes their tools used to be better but are now just tech debt

This is how I feel about most of Googles Java libs (guice, guava, gson). They used to be better, but now they're just tech debt.
Really, any company with say >2500 (?) falls in this category. It's an entire job of several people to just maintain the worker Inventory (laptops, monitors, etc) room for example. It takes a lot of infrastructure to support a company of size, plenty of people in my 10k person company doing what you want - run the company that runs the product.
I am also searching for similar one but I specifically mention part-time and remote.
I have fairly regular skills and so far no luck.
Most of the times I get discriminated response due to my cost of living in India. But i am surely confident about getting the one.

I think devops is great fit for you.
Congratulations - you're the perfect candidate to work in the IT department of any bank! Attend some meetings, send some emails.... profit!
Fun fact: Amazon is <10% of retail in the US, and lower globally.

I don't really have much to disagree with you about, but maybe you want to check the "monopoly" claim.
Sure, most important thing is to know yourself and your preferences.

In complex technical niche fields jumping from gig to gig is not that easy, though.

I was perhaps overtly bleak in the above for the benefit of clarity (it's ok not to love your job, but it's also ok to concentrate on things you love and the thing does not need to be your job).
I don't feel like even attempting to try to hack together what Flowdock gives me on top of IRC. That would involve far too much of my time, and I'd rather have a team of very smart engineers dedicated to keeping it secure, running, and feature-rich, rather than relying on my time to do any of those things. I use an IDE, rather than trying to cobble an IDE together in Vim, for the same reason.

> I can sort of understand Slack for a small company, but if you have your own server infrastructure, no, I can't.

This seems to be based on the assumption that IRC is anywhere near as feature-rich as a web-based chat client, but it isn't. If you could point me to an OS X IRC client that isn't absolutely terrible (and please do, I'd really love one), I'd be happy to give it a shot, but even with all of the above perceived advantages of IRC, Flowdock still wins for me. Every team I've worked on that's switched to it has had a marked uptick in productivity.
This is in part due to feedback from the community: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162757#c...
Philosophical justifications for land use rights are highly debatable and contentious, even among those who nominally consider themselves part of the same political label. Let's not go there. It suffices to recognize that whoever controls a given bit of land needs exclusive use of it; non-exclusive use is insufficient for many practical applications of land, most notably residence.
Kickboxing

I'm 36. It's time to take this whole body thing serious.