skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article's title is actually refuted by the article itself:

> Additionally, most or all of the traffic appears to be contingent on participating in the CEIP in the first place. If the CEIP is disabled, it appears that little or no traffic gets sent.

So unless you opt in to the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program, none of this is meaningful. Windows 7 or 8 is not "spying" on you any more than Windows 10 is.

Windows 10 has been accused of a lot, but every time you dig into the accusations you come up with nothing. Nobody has been able to pin one actual issue on Windows 10 yet, but not for lack of trying.

This all started because Microsoft had extremely aggressive metrics built into the beta of 10, and then made the mistake of actually giving people all of their privacy settings in one singular place (instead of distributing them all over the OS like in 8 and prior).

If you ignore Cortana and associated privacy settings, very little has changed in 10.
There are a million free or extremely cheap distribution channels on the internet. My current business with 7 figures ARR was launched almost exclusively on industry forums and there are no connections required to create an Adwords account. There are countless businesses that started on Reddit or even here on Hacker News with a $0 advertising budget.
Magic Leap | multiple positions | Dania Beach, FL; Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Full-Time; Intern | Visa (full time) | Computer Vision; Embedded; Machine Learning

http://magicleap.com/

Magic Leap is an eclectic group of visionaries, rocket scientists, wizards, and gurus from the fields of film, robotics, visualization, software, computing, and user experience. We are growing quickly, and this is the time to get on board and play a role in shaping the way people will be interacting with the world tomorrow.

We are hiring in the following areas:

computer vision
machine learning
embedded systems
software engineering
hardware and pcb design
android systems
embedded algorithm optimization
game dev tools (Unity, Unreal Engine)
cloud computing/apis

For more information or to apply: http://www.magicleap.com/#/wizards-wanted

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> 568 A.D. … 645 A.D. … 570 A.D. and 632 A.D. … 610 A.D. … 622 A.D.

It's 'A.D. year,' not 'year A.D.'! Sheesh.
Salt Lake City, UT - Lucid Software (http://www.golucid.co)

Lucid Software is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Our first product, Lucidchart (http://www.lucidchart.com), is an online diagramming application with 4M+ users. We recently launched our second product, Lucidpress (http://www.lucidpress.com), which is an online layout and design application.

Lucid is a startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress run with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucid your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Scala or Java - MySQL or other relational database - NoSQL databases - Cloud computing (AWS)
Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=oa2cZfw7&s=Hacker_News

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress are powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Javascript - Google Closure compiler/library - CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation - jQuery - Native app development on Android and/or iOS
Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=odrjZfwG&s=Hacker_News

*The application requires a current resume, cover letter, and an unofficial or official university transcript.
And what we have here are a few fragments of the Quran that may or may not predate the other fragments. That doesn't seem contradictory with the current historical understanding.

This article states that the Quran may predate Muhammad, which is a very much different assertion.
Setting up a quota watcher agent in Python
I don't think you can blame her. She's in a very difficult position. She has to think of getting the country from under the throes of dictatorship before she can address civil rights. If she starts with civil rights, her effort will sputter and nothing will happen.
That won't happen on this. You have to meet that person in few hours, that day only. Not much left for catfishing.
Wow, thanks for the heads up! Yeah, I mean like I only use websites that allow me to use 2048 character passwords, because I like to use lorem ipsum websites as my password generators.
Witness | getwitness.com | Engineer #2 | New York | Full Time, Visa

Witness lets you broadcast your location, audio and video to your friends and loved ones with one touch. I made Witness at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon and it ended up winning the grand prize [1]. I launched Witness just 7 weeks ago right here on Show HN [2][3] and it’s been growing like crazy since. It became clear that this is more than just a side project, so I got funding and now I’m looking for one of you to join me as Engineer #2. You should have deep experience in at least one of { iOS | Android | video/graphics/codecs | hardware/Bluetooth | web/frontend | backend/services | networks/TCP } and a passion for writing simple, clean, performant, tested code fast.

Reach out to me at marinos@getwitness.com. Cheers!

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/03/disrupt-ny-2015-hackathon-w...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885950

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/witness-officially-launches...
Great ideas -- thanks for spelling them out in more detail. Do you know anybody who runs arxiv? I wouldn't know how to get started with making such a connection (if you think of anything, feel free to email wstein@sagemath.com). However, it's something I had not considered before, and if an opportunities arise, I'll be more ready now (such opportunities aren't unlikely; e.g., I always run a Sage booth at the huge joint math meetings, which can lead to such things).

The market and strategy you describe at the bottom is exactly what I've been pursuing, and I hope we turn a corner with it soon due to the new academic year.
Booking.com -
https://booking.com - Amsterdam, Netherlands Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company.

I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people are intelligent and helpful, a lot of interesting problems to solve and the work hours are unbelievably sane. The company is strongly data driven and very dynamic, which was one of its biggest charms for me. Amsterdam is not a bad place to be either :) The work environment is very international and everybody speaks fluent English. The relocation process is also very finely tuned.They take care of you from the moment you get an offer to the point you have set up your house in Amsterdam.

If you have any other questions about the company or the hiring process or you would like me to refer you, please feel free to send me an email at siddharthsarda01 at gmail.com (Email also in my profile at Hacker news). A lot of people have reached out to me via these threads and are in the middle of the interview process. 6 have been invited to a face to face interview in Amsterdam.

To have an idea of the kind of problems being solved here, you can also look at our dev blog: http://blog.booking.com/
We are hiring for our headquarters office in Amsterdam:

- Frontend developers - http://grnh.se/cxmso8

- Backend developers - http://grnh.se/g5n6oe

- Data scientist - http://grnh.se/c3kern

- Senior Data scientists - http://grnh.se/n4o02e

- iOS Developers - http://grnh.se/w1mi0y

- Android Developers - http://grnh.se/1bnljt

- Product Owners in various departments.
For all available positions take a look here: http://grnh.se/3ryvfg
> Being able to place frequently used together fields manually is quite useful in quite a few circumstances.

I have almost never seen this make a difference outside of, say, GPU programming. The fact that Java's optimizer is much better than that of Go will make a much larger difference in execution speed.
Hacker known for work with Anonymous launches digital news service
Awesome survey! I develop with AngularJS and I thought it was interesting that TypeScript pulled away, I've been hearing more and more about it. I hope you guys do a follow up so we can see if anything changes.
Typo: "Meteor	9.7%	1967" has an extra digit, since 1967 would be far above 9.7%. I'd comment on the page, but comments are limited to team members. Also, why even show the option for comments if I can't make them?
ONSITE in NYC, SF and many other locations | Engineers, Designers, Product Manager | VISA and RELOCATION assistance

Pivotal Labs is a division of Pivotal Inc.

Labs helps clients to become better at development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile -- in practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels. We have a growing data science practice, and some engagements include all four roles. If you want to work in product instead of consulting, we also have dozens of teams working on Cloud Foundry, Big Data Suite, Spring and I probably forgot some cool stuff. Or you can rotate: I had a 7-month secondment to Cloud Foundry which was awesome.

Our NYC office is growing fast to meet exploding demand for Labs, Cloud Foundry and Big Data Suite.

We are also hiring in all our offices, including new offices: SF, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Dublin, Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney.

We provide visa and relocation assistance. In the NYC office we have about 15 people from overseas, including Australians like me.

At the office we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong is not mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.

Frankly this is the best job I've ever had -- I've learnt more here than anywhere else. Everyone is smart and fun to work with.

We look for aptitude over APIs. It doesn't matter wether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, know some stuff and have empathy, I and my peers want to work with you.

You can apply through our website: http://pivotal.io/careers, but if you email me -- jchester@pivotal.io -- I can take advantage of our generous referral program and answer any private questions you might have.
My team is looking to hire several software engineers to help us develop our computer vision systems. We're interested in finding excellent programmers who have some C++ experience. We prefer candidates with experience developing computer vision algorithms with OpenCV.

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/MagicLeapInc/83635962
Flow – All your team’s communication,  clear and organized
Software Engineers - ONSITE, Cardiff, South Wales, UK - Sorenson Media

We're looking to hire great Software Engineers regardless of specific technology background, who are happy to work on the full stack.
Teams at Sorenson Media are empowered to autonomously make their own decisions about technology and "how" to do things, our Product Owner is also very open to listening to suggestions on "what" to do.
Unit tests, integration tests, build servers and continuous integration are the backbone of our development practices.
Developers get the chance to work on all parts of the product and you could find yourself working on backend code talking to the database as part of the same story where you also work on front-end Javascript and SCSS.
We work in an Agile fashion with 2 week sprints and a real focus on using the fortnightly retrospectives to come up with ideas to try out in future sprints to see if they help us make our customers happier.
As a team we have chosen to use Node.js for our server side components, backed by a MongoDB database. We encourage developers to help write integration tests and those are written in Ruby.
Most of the people we've hired have little or no previous experience in these technologies and we train people up with a combination of time set aside for self-study and pair programming.

We're looking for multiple engineers from mid to senior levels so I can't specify specific salaries but I think they tend to be higher than most other Cardiff companies.

We're hiring developers for our Spark Engage product: http://www.sorensonmedia.com/spark/engage/

If any of this sounds interesting then feel free to contact me at mgrover@sorensonmedia.com with any questions, CVs, github profiles etc.

Thanks - Matt, Scrum Master at Sorenson Media
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FrackOptima | Riverside, CA | Remote OK

My email: john.reaver@frackoptima.com

About Us

FrackOptima is a startup in the petroleum industry that aims to make hydraulic fracturing safer and more efficient through industry-leading simulation software. We are currently a small, 3-person team based in Riverside, CA, but we are already in the middle of a few development contracts with some very large companies, including Shell Oil Company. We get requests every week from other companies who want to use our software, but sometimes we have to turn them away because we simply need more manpower!

Position

We are looking for someone with extensive desktop GUI and graphics programming experience to help us refactor and improve our user interface. Our software is currently being used by dozens of researchers across a few large companies, and we need your help to build the next generation UI by using feedback from our existing customers and your experience.

Required skills/attributes:

- Experience with a large GUI codebase (using Qt is a plus since we use
PyQt/PySide)

- Experience with Python (C++ is great too, especially if you used Qt)

- Self-directed and a thirst for learning

- Very effective communicator, especially if you are working remotely

Desired skills/attributes:

- Experience leading the development of or architecting a large user-facing application

- Experience in scientific programming

- Engineering experience or an interest in applied physics (we use solid
mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, various numerical methods for a
tightly coupled simulation).

- A technical degree. Having a non-CS technical degree is perfectly fine. In
fact, all three current team members have either an MS or PhD in mechanical
engineering!

- Extensive graphics programming experience
Senior Platform Engineer + VP Engineering/CTO | Lifesum | Stockholm, Sweden, Europe | Full-time | ONSITE

This text is for Senior Platform Engineer role. For VP Engineering/CTO check out link below.
We’re looking for an experienced platform engineer to help us scale the platform as we grow. You will be part of the platform team and you will be taking features from the idea stage to scalable production deployments. You will work on making highly scalable solutions, get feedback from analytics and monitoring tools and be able to refine and perfect your solution at each iteration.
Tech-wise, our server code is written in Python and running on AWS (RDS, EC2, ElastiCache, etc). You will soon get familiar with distributed computing, cloud hosting, database optimizations and search solutions.

This role is a good fit for analytical and creative software engineers loving team work. We work closely in a scrum team and follow the motto “team work is better work”. You want to grow and learn from others, and you also want to teach and help others grow.

[job text cut for brevity]

To read more and apply go to:

http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/4301-senior-platform-engineer-b...

http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/5084-vp-engineering-cto

We're also looking for people for some other roles.

Senior Data Engineer - http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/3947-senior-data-analyst

iOS Mobile Engineer - http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/3714-ios-mobile-engineer

Senior Test Automation Engineer - http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/1711-test-automation-engineer

​Android developer - http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/343-android-developer
Uber Advanced Technologies Center — Pittsburgh — Full Time

We focus on vehicle autonomy, mapping and safety systems. We're hiring across a range of areas to support this work: machine learning, planning, control, mapping, perception and simulation. More info about the center here: http://blog.uber.com/carnegie-mellon

We're also looking for senior mobile and backend engineers.

http://www.uberatc.com/hiring/ or send me an email: sweeney@uber.com
THE GUARDIAN | SENIOR/SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS | LONDON | ONSITE | FULL-TIME

Development of digital products is central to the future of the Guardian. We build the products that showcase our diverse and important journalism. We create the tools that the journalists and editors use to write their stories securely, anywhere from London to Syria. We write the APIs and services that allow those stories to be distributed across the globe. We write the products and interfaces that show off and monetise that content to its maximum potential.

We mostly program in Scala and Javascript, but we use the best tool that fits the problem. We have hacks in the wild in all manner of languages. Our infrastructure lives on AWS and our own OpenStack private cloud. We encourage product teams to implement, manage and support their own stack. We do our coding in public. Sadly, the same can be said of our karaoke.

You’re a passionate, intelligent human being who loves technology. You might love the news, or you might want to reinvent it. You like inspiring the people you work with and being inspired by them in return. You have experience of getting stuff done. You are a talented Engineer who is, or will be, an expert in their chosen field and has a strong interest in all software engineering disciplines.

Further information can be found on our Developer Blog: http://developers.theguardian.com/join-the-team.html

To search our vacancies, please visit our careers site: https://gnm.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl
When discussing history, especially Islamic history, it would be better to use year C.E.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
> Please use Google Chrome :)

I don't care then.
Why I eat a diet low in carbs
(More info)

We would like to hire someone full-time, but if you are unsure about committing to the company, we would be fine starting off with a short contract period of a few months.

Work Environment

We highly value self-directed individuals who also have a thirst for learning. In fact, we strongly encourage our team to take time to learn new things to do their job more effectively. We understand that trying to force productivity out of people creates unhappy workers and leads to technical debt. We strive to meet deadlines early and often so we can have breathing room to test new ideas or refactor existing ones.

Remote

Remote is OK if you have experience working remotely; we just might want you in Riverside a few times a year. All of our 3 person team lives in Riverside, but we are always happy to accommodate a remote position if it means we can get the best talent. We use version control, continuous integration, and are very comfortable communicating ideas/issues online.

Apply!

If interested, contact me directly at my email: john.reaver@frackoptima.com.
Please attach a resume as well.
It's a blanket statement that obviously applies to some, but not all.

In my mind, that makes this a click-bait article.
The issue is not the 20 characters, but the underlying reason for it. There's no technical reason they would need it unless they were storing it insecurely.

Granted it's possible they're limiting it to 20 for a nontechnical reason, but I have some 40-character passwords in a password manager. Long passwords are not only reasonable, but this is a giant alarm bell if they even imply they might be storing them insecurely.
California drone privacy bill misses the mark
Code for America | San Francisco | on site

Code for America needs your help building Chime [1], its first commercial product: an open-source [2], git-based Python CMS built specifically to make city websites great. Full job description: http://codeforamerica.org/jobs/chime/

In particular, we're looking for a full-stack or back-end engineer who likes mentoring, so that a) we can ship more of the great features in our backlog, and b) we'll be ready to hire more junior engineers while keeping code quality high.

What are we doing? City websites are a resident's major interface to government. We believe that US city websites could be radically better. (As an example, compare https://gov.uk with your local city website; note how approachable and user-focused the former is.) A big part of the solution is a tool that makes it easy for city employees to do the right thing, making it easy for them to get good, user-friendly changes out quickly. We aim to make the lives of millions of residents better.

How are we doing it? The lowest level is git, which we trust to handle many people working in parallel on large, complicated sets of files. On top of that is Python and Flask for a straightforward, approachable back end code base. We currently use Travis to run our substantial unit test suite, and automatically deploy to AWS via Chef and Docker. We do that all through close collaboration, a cross-functional team, and shared decision-making informed by lots of user research. This all happens in a successful, well-regarded non-profit where you will get to meet lots of interesting people. (Last week at the kitchen snack jars, I ran across Tim O'Reilly.)

If that's appealing, to apply just send me an email at william@codeforamerica.org with the 3 things listed here:
http://codeforamerica.org/jobs/chime/

Questions welcome, either here or via email.

[1] http://chimecms.org/

[2] https://github.com/chimecms/chime with Docker images available at https://hub.docker.com/r/chimecms/chime/
>There are really cool and smart algorithms that make reference counting much better, but then the appeal of a simple natural algorithm for collecting garbage has come and gone.

That's probably true, but if the win is pauseless automatic memory management that doesn't require twice as much memory as using a GC, then it may be worth it.

I think, realistically, we'll have to accept that both tracing GC and reference counting (however smart) will always suffer from some drawbacks that manual memory management can solve. The reverse is also true.
> Maybe GPUs have gotten good enough at pointer chasing to be usable here?

They haven't.
"I always thought it was (roughly) general knowledge that artists make their money from going on tour"

It's roughly not because that's not how it used to be. Money from tours is something that started to become the trend since (I'd say) mid eighties.
How does it compare with e.g. slack, which appears popular these days?
Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Dart News and Updates: Dart Adopts BoringSSL
Procrastination isn't just a bad habit it's a form of anxiety. Keep that in mind. It's not just something you can will away.
You don't say what you've done to make it safe and appealing for women to use?
Maybe they started a business together?
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