skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big self-driving cars skeptic. Expecting humans to "drive less idiotic" is basically saying that google's cars won't work until human drivers are banned. Driving is something of an art, and it's full of edge cases. So many edge cases.

I'll just keep reading articles that say they are 5 years away, just as I did 5 years ago, and the armchair futurists will keep dreaming...
Agree. Try to do that as much as possible, whenever it is due!
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MongoDB | NYC, Dublin | ONSITE | FULLTIME

MongoDB, Inc. is the company behind MongoDB, the open-source, document database designed for ease of development and scaling. If you're a systems administrator, infrastructure engineer, devops engineer, or in a similar role, we'd like to talk to you.

MongoDB is hiring in NYC and Dublin for infrastructure engineering positions:

• Systems Engineer (Core Infra, NYC): https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions?gh_jid=66414

• Systems Engineer (Core Infra, Dublin): https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions?gh_jid=82452

• Systems Engineer (Build, NYC): https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions?gh_jid=75637

• Systems Engineer (Cloud, NYC): https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions?gh_jid=71693

• Information Security Engineer (NYC): https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions?gh_jid=66561

For a list of positions across all teams, please visit https://www.mongodb.com/careers
If you have questions about the positions listed above (I'm the hiring manager or can put you in touch with one) or want to reach out for anything else, you can contact me at (HN username) @mongodb.com.
That last sentence was very deep and helped put things in perspective. Thank you!
Intel lets developers reuse Android Java code on iOS — Yes, you read that right the first time. And the iOS Java apps running on iPhones have native Xcode UIs.

To the astonishment of everyone seeing Multi-OS Engine for the first time, iOS apps can be developed on Windows using Android Studio and debugged on Windows using a USB tethered iPhone or the iOS emulator Intel built for Android Studio.
It's just some of those start-up pumpers keep ignoring this fundamental truth.

And they should, because it's irrelevant. You can't change your parents, ya know. In the end, you play the hand you're dealt. If you're not from a rich family, maybe you just have to work that much harder, but I don't think the moral is "you were born poor, so just STFU and accept your lot in life".

If someone wants to be an entrepreneur, they will find a way, even if they're from a poor family. Note that I'm not saying they'll all build billion dollar Internet companies - the range of what "entrepreneur" encompasses is pretty broad.

Rising from poor like what's in Godfather movies is still possible, but very unlikely.

So? There's a binary difference between "unlikely" and "impossible". Should we all avoid striving for anything that's "unlikely"? Most kids who play high-school football will never even get a scholarship at a BCS school, much less play in the NFL. Most kids who play football for BCS schools will never play in the NFL. Should kids stop dreaming of being NFL players?

What if nobody bothered to dream anymore? What if nobody said "Fuck it, I can overcome the odds and do the unlikely?" Personally, I don't want to live in that world.
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Memory bus is just for speed. You don't want it doing stuff like that lol. See these two LISP machines for where my inspiration of putting it on memory bus came from:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Design%20of%20a%20L...

(See section 7 for a radical... err realy old... way to do concurrent GC. Full paper available at ACM/IEEE or if you Google LISP processors Guy Steele enough.)

Scheme machine by Burger 1995

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=569...

(See the main graphic and specifics in storage section later. Once again, GC-like stuff is handled in memory management part of the processor. This processor knows that, though, to assist GC a bit. Also different in that it was specified and then synthesized to heterogenous hardware with DDD "correct-by-construction" toolkit.)

So, have fun with those. Plus, Google hardware-assisted or hardware garbage collection to get lots of interesting results already done.
All the benchmarks seem to indicate that Angular 2 is vastly faster than the other frameworks - the Angular team has achieved O(1) change detection, which large DOM node benchmarks are remarkably consistent with in terms of Angular 2's performance. For large numbers of repeated elements, it turns out that Angular 2's performance is worlds away from even libraries like React. For more normal situations of smaller # of DOM nodes, Angular 2 still manages to outperform by around 3-5 times as fast - all the benchmarks I have saw was pre-web worker support though, so it may be even better with that enabled.

I don't remember Ember's performance, but React's seems to slow down significantly in jumps at certain marks, similar to Angular 1, which seems to suggest they have some at least one place where optimization could be made. It should be noted though that Angular 2 builds on top of many rock solid principles that React introduced, and has ruthlessly optimized upon that with continuous benchmarking and careful planning.
RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two years now, and our customers love us!

We have a number of open positions:

1) We are hiring evening Delivery Drivers. This is a great job for students looking to earn some extra cash while exploring the city. We offer mileage reimbursement, good hourly pay, and a W-2 pay stub.

2) We're also hiring a Customer Experience leader to scale our (excellent!) customer service team. We pride ourselves in delighting our customers with surprising attention and thought, and would love to bring someone on board who knows how to scale and manage this important function, without compromising our values.

3) Rinse continues to search for qualified Senior Software Engineers. We're primarily a Django / Python shop with a fair amount of javascript/HTML5 thrown in. We're building tools for our customers, our drivers, our internal staff, and our vendors. It's a "target rich" environment with plenty of opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the business! We're solving problems as varied as demand forecasting, route optimization, QR tagging for inventory control, and a suite of mobile apps for our customers and staff.

Interested in the burgeoning delivery startup scene? Perhaps your family ran a dry cleaner or laundromat when you were growing up? Delighted with our service? Let's talk!

Email sam <at> rinse.com with questions, or contact jobs <at> rinse.com directly.
Location: USA / Remote: YES / Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, Ansible, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, CoreOS, RDS, ELB

Resume/CV:

At ReactiveOps, we offer two main products and services: DevOps consulting and managed operations.

Our consulting focuses on “DevOps” consulting for clients; primarily AWS - infrastructure automation with Ansible, complex VPC construction, dockerization/CoreOS/fleet, creating High Availability/distributed/clustered systems, etc.

Managed operations, or “DevOps as a Service” is where we act as your outsourced, in-house ops team. We start with consulting to migrate their infra to HA and infra management, then we have a retainer-based service where our clients receive certain things each month as a way to maintain their infra and keep it up to date, apply POODLE/HEARTBLEED, etc.

No matter the product or service, we take a DevOps-centric approach with our customers - we believe that we provide the best service and our customers get the best value when we work closely together. We integrate task trackers (Pivotal, Trello, Asana), chat (Slack, Hipchat), and source control (github) into our own workflow through careful and clever use of automation, giving our customers the ability to reach out to us like they would with an internal DevOps team but without an operational burden on us.

We work with virtualization and container technologies like Xen, OpenStack, Vagrant, Ansible, and Docker, CoreOS, and Fleet. We setup and automate high availability data clusters (MySQL Galera, PostgreSQL replication, Redis failover, ElasticSearch clustering, Memcached, MongoDB etc.), application instances for technologies like Ruby-on-Rails, Django, Node, and Scala (to name a few), and layer on top of those management, orchestration, monitoring, and alerting for fleets of instances.

Email: matt@reactiveops.com
I am Paul, the creator of ZynAddSubFX, Paulstretch (Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch) and other well known software. I have just moved to London and I am available for contract/permanent job.

Location: London, UK

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, Linux, DSP, Python

Resume/CV: https://goo.gl/04oLaI

Email: nascapaul at gmail dot com

Website: http://www.paulnasca.com

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulnasca
Understory | Embedded Engineer, Location manager, Data Scientist, ME | Somerville, MA, remote

Understory—named for the area in a rainforest beneath the forest canopy—creates hardware and analytics around rain, hail, wind and other weather events directly at the earth’s surface, where the risk to life and property is greatest. While traditional, radar-enabled weather centers collect data by analyzing conditions observed in the atmosphere, Understory’s ground-truth-based detection is a marked enhancement in both resolution and fidelity, which leads to better insight and early detection of risks.

You can get a glimpse of our hail gun that we use to test our stations on our recent press -- http://t.co/ECOgpk8ITM

Locations manager (remote):
http://understory.applytojob.com/apply/vRsK7b/Locations-Mana...

Embedded Systems Engineer (Somerville, MA):
http://understory.applytojob.com/apply/Ow6zQs/Embedded-Syste...

Data Scientist (Somerville, MA):
http://understory.applytojob.com/apply/aorYaR/Data-Scientist...

Mechanical Engineer (Somerville, MA):
http://understory.applytojob.com/apply/ZELFbC/Mechanical-Eng...
yes, it is common sense and everyone indeed knows it. But many want to believe in SV as some not rest of the world place with equal opportunities for everyone, just be smart. We all want it to be ruled by meritocracy. That's why we keep drinking this koolaid.
Narvar | San Bruno, CA | On Site | Full Time | Visa

We are helping e-commerce retailers provide an excellent post purchase experience for their consumers. Our current product consists of 3 parts: tracking, returns, and analytics. Our tracking product is a retailer branded experience that allows their customers to track their packages and shipments. Returns provides an easy to use returns product for customers to exchange or return products. Analytics provides insights into the post purchase experience such as shipping performance, customer satisfaction, and marketing asset performance.

We have significant traction in the market and recently announced our series A (google us!). We are looking to accelerate our current feature development as well as build entirely new products.

We are looking to grow across our organization including

- Front-end engineer

- Back-end engineer

- QA and test engineer

- DevOps

- Technical account management

- Most other business functions (sales, product, finance, ...)

Our engineering team consists of about 15 people including 2 QA, 2 data scientists, 5 front end and 5 back end engineers. Our back end stack is Java and AWS with some go, and python. Our front end is javascript using some bootstrap, freemarker, jquery, and less.js.

You can find the detailed job postings here: https://angel.co/narvar/jobs

Apply online, or send your CV to jeremy at narvar
Wasn't 2007/2008 the year of the writer's strike? That's obviously going to cause a bit of disruption.

I agree that US tv doesn't seem to give shows a chance to get established. There are some potentially great shows that got cancelled too soon. (Space above and beyond; jericho; firefly; etc etc).
I worked at Nest on their professional distribution channel for some time. The thermostat market is dominated by professional sales (80-90% are sold and installed by professional HVAC contractors) whereas Nest traditionally sold through to a consumer/DIY audience. Nest has a very steep uphill battle against Honeywell the way Apple has had an uphill battle against Windows in large enterprise. Nest just has more mindshare amongst the tech/early adopter community.
VTS | NYC | Onsite | AngularJS/Rails Full Stack | iOS | Android

We’re looking for technical and cultural fits as we build more new software for an old industry (commercial real estate). The engineering team is at 20 people and looking to grow rapidly over the next year.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuildingVTS
Blog: http://building.vts.com/
Careers page: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/vts
We (Compose, YC s11, now part of IBM) are hiring for a bunch of positions. Notably —

* Platform engineers (https://www.compose.io/jobs/#platform-engineer): if you like working on distributed systems, containers, and tremendous database problems in the real world, this is for you.

* Designer who speaks HTML/CSS and possibly javascript (https://www.compose.io/jobs#designer): work on a wide variety of projects, from stunning print materials to cutting edge web applications. If can draw on a strong foundation in color theory, layout, and typography you'd probably like this role.

* Support Engineer (https://www.compose.io/jobs#support-engineer): we have thousands of paying customers, almost all developers. If you like helping people solve problems and want to learn more about different databases along the way, this is for you. This is a good role for a developer with great written communication skills.

We are remote friendly, but can currently only hire in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, and Israel.
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I think you're underestimating the social cost of moving halfway around the world to a place where you aren't familiar with the culture or language or people.

If you're single and socially unattached, your proposition is viable. But you can't readily expect someone's SO and/or children to be as willing to cut ties with their home. And if you have a solid group of friends, that's a big thing to give up and to try and rebuild in a foreign land without the benefit of common language and culture.
The quoted reason is “Nobody likes to do O/R mapping; everyone just wants a solution.” From that point of view, I think it's at least arguable that he chose XML databases as a stand-in for NoSQL, which wasn't really a thing yet. The fact that many NoSQL databases use JSON, which is the successor to XML for data interchange, lends a bit more support as well IMO.

In other words, I think saying XML databases are the future in 2004 is like saying JSON document stores are the future now. I don't view either as all that correct, but there's definitely been a surge in interest.
FBI files on Burning Man
AWESOME DONG's (Do Online Now Guys)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UDrmnu6hVlLkx3jGdOXje_dmMeOQO3uEHDHwgY5sxyE/edit?pli=1
This is the link to all the DONG (amazing crative websites) that has been compiled by Jake of VSauce3 whom you can subscribe and watch for weekly vids here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwmFOfFuvRPI112vR5DNnrA
Huh, I never thought of that, how they're all so different. Microsoft uses flat, very contrasting rectangles, versus google uses rounded shapes and pastel colors.
>But value types do let you group fields (with sub-component values).

They let you treat the fields of a value type as a "blob", you have no control over how they're laid out within that blob.

>Also, I've noticed that whenever I say Java does X, you say, "Oh, no! It does X - ε!" Now, to me, that's nitpicking, especially considering that a perfect general-purpose language/runtime designed to be simple (for some definition of simple) should give you 90+% performance in 99% of general-purpose use cases (or 95% in 95% etc.). If it does any better then one of two possibilities is true: 1/ it's magic, or 2/ it's not a perfect simple language/runtime because it could have been made simpler (by whatever definition of simple it's chosen).

Nothing personal, but I find your JVM related posts as borderline fanboyism (and I say this as someone that greatly respects the engineering in Hotspot, despite certain things bugging me). It's not about 100% or 95% performance; it's about not making exaggerated claims since, as you say, there's no magic.
Send me an email, I'm hiring designers and UI engineers at Zenefits.

jerickson@zenefits.com
That's not MAC-then-encrypt, that's "ECB mode is pretty okay if your message and a nonce fits in your block" plus "let's make an arbitrary-length block cipher". In any case, the result is AEAD, not MAC-then-encrypt.

(That said, AEZ is really interesting.)
Really? I feel like everyone I talk to has some show that they "have to get around to watching". The front page at http://www.avclub.com/tv/ probably shows around 20 shows I've either not watched or barely scratched the surface of and likely never will, barring early retirement.
Flexport | San Francisco

Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of."

We've raised $28M from great investors including Founders Fund and Google Ventures. We've reached product-market fit, and we're on target to hit a $50M run-rate in our 2nd year.

Senior Front-End Engineer

Flexport is looking for talented front-end engineers to join our team here in San Francisco. This is a high impact opportunity for people interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficient industry of global trade.

What You’ll Do

* Create tools that make it easier for companies of all sizes to participate in global trade

* Help build intuitive, highly efficient and performant interfaces to automate the repetitive parts of logistics

Our Stack
In the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Our Process

Flexport engineering is a close-knit team where everyone
reviews each other’s Github pull requests. Code is released almost everyday or whenever business requires. Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github.

Benefits

* Competitive salary

* Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Package

* Considerable equity in a company growing at breakneck speeds

To apply please email jobs@flexport.com
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If the temp sensor is the point of failure, this "failsafe" would "fail not very safely"
Square (https://squareup.com/) | (SF, NY, ATL, WAT) | Onsite | Full-time / Interns

Currently on the lookout for generalist engineers for 2016 internships and new grad related roles. Bonus points if you're interested in mobile development, we will be offering internal training.

Apply on our site (https://squareup.com/careers) , then email me.

email: bridgpal@squareup.com, mention HN in the subject.
6 Stats That Prove PayPal Still Matters for Businesses
The Beauty of Code
Not from the same talk, but the same conference so probably not?

"Comment from Dave Mandelin
Time: January 25, 2010, 2:15 pm

I asked the conference organizers and unfortunately they didn’t videorecord the talks."[1]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/dmandelin/2009/06/02/tracemonkeypld...
I like it except I wish they had kept the old kind of lower case g (TIL it's called a "double story g": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#/media/File:LowercaseG.svg), there's something pleasantly unnecessary about that kind of g.
This isn't anything new AFAIK.
I've seen this issue before they do a great job at hiding the code, like pushing it off to the 300th column. WordPress Exploit scanner plugin is your friend here.
Boston, MA • ONSITE • JavaScript Engineer • Project Decibel (projectdecibel.com)

Project Decibel is looking for experienced JS engineers to help build some really crazy, ambitious stuff that we're not quite ready to talk about publicly. We're hiring both Front-End and Node.js engineers (or if you're full-stack, that's even better).

Ideal candidates will understand things like higher-order functions, prototypal inheritance, asynchronous programming, etc.

Please send resumes and a link to your Github to kevin@projectdecibel.com
Agreed. This is squarely aimed at database geeks which is a fairly esoteric audience. It's gonna get geeky.
Sharing files directly from computer to computerkind of
Not sure this belongs here. Perhaps in the freelancer thread if at all.
It's still a cost that could be mitigated with a couple hours of someone's time.
Your Privacy = $56.53 to Google
GoodShop - ONSITE - SF

GoodShop raises money for charities you care about whenever you shop or search online. GoodShop has the most powerful coupons on earth!

DevOps Engineer: http://www.goodsearch.com/careers#job-opening-13

Senior Full Stack Engineer: http://www.goodsearch.com/careers#job-opening-9
Although nothing compared to what was in this story, you should see the level of obsolete crap in place at adult website providers. Systems that haven't changed since the 90's that still generate revenue, so they'll never be shut off until there's a flood or a 40MB hard drive finally dies.
> Property taxes do increase every year. What prop 13 does is that it sets the yearly increase to 2%.

Ah. Thanks much for the correction! Coincidentally, my rent controlled rent increases by just about 2% each and every year: http://www.sfrb.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=193...
Not exactly novel. I've heard of these for months now. A quick web search turns up this blog from 2008: http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/05/password-algorithms-crea...

Also seems to produce short passwords.
Krakow, Poland | Senior PHP Developer/Lead | VISA | Full time

5+ years PHP experience. Should be ready to take a lead role.
Work is in office in Krakow.

More information http://www.pracuj.pl/praca/senior-php-developer-lead-krakow,...
Vouch Financial (https://vouch.com) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Sr. Software Engineer - Rails (Backend)

We’re looking for passionate, creative engineers who are excited about solving new problems within financial services.

* Solid programming skills in your language of choice and a track record of getting stuff done

* Experience in a major server-side web development stack (RoR, .Net).

* Experience with Rails

* Up-to-date knowledge of modern HTML, CSS, and JS

* Any open source code or example projects that you’re proud of

* Experience with NoSQL data stores (Redis, Neo4j, etc)

* Experience connecting to 3rd party network-based APIs

* Financial Services Experience (Nice to have)

About Vouch:

At Vouch, we help customers build a network of trusted friends and family – people who would sponsor them in times of need – creating a way of looking at creditworthiness that spans beyond your FICO score. We are a two time top trending on AngelList with backing by First Round Capital, Greylock, IDG Ventures. Excellent engineers, financial wizards, product savants and policy experts remaking the way people borrow money and understand their trusted, financial network. You’ll be working with a team of former PayPal, Prosper, Bank of the West, Stanford, Google, and Yahoo alums.

Culture Deck:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ucb7oRTPYAPlJ4knef-v...

Find one of us on LinkedIn or email me prescott@vouch.com