skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting that none of the case study results faced reality; you're obsolete, pivot or close. Lots of long winded meandering that boils down to fiddling while rome burns. You've got legacy revenue for awhile, real estate, and employees, take advantage of it and pivot. "I know, we'll try to undercut the entire internet" LOL "We'll just work harder than everyone else" LOL "We'll sell only the most expensive products to the richest customers because they like to waste time" LOL "We'll define excellent service as being obnoxious and in your face as possible" LOL The first consultant is featherbedding "We need more consultants to get more data".

For example, Barnes and Noble has abandoned selling books and has pivoted semi successfully into "convenience store for birthday gifts" complete with wrapping. They still have a section of the store for books, but its not really a book store anymore. They have a better chocolate section than my local discount grocery store! In the specific example, moving in on B+N turf isn't going to work as a strategy unless you think you can out B+N, B+N itself.

AFAIK no one has ever tried food and consumer electronics shopping, so eat "real" food while showrooming sample TVs and then order one shipped to your door. This is not entirely insane. A liquor license and pleasant wait staff might discourage showrooming... "Hey everyone gets a round on the house, Joey bought a new TV" woo hoo ...

Something to think about is there is more retail CRE square footage today than ever in the history of the country and its all more or less becoming useless as currently designed and zoned. You may end up pivoting totally out of old fashioned retail, perhaps a fitness club, or barber shop, or restaurant. You want to be the first retail market to become an exercise club not try to be the last. Locally food and other retail stores that have closed have successfully opened as credit union branches, exercise club, restaurants, and car dealerships, more examples probably exist. To make a large scale national strategy, it might be useful to gather this small scale success data. Apparently you cannot pay the rent selling turnips in that specific retail frontage, but you can pay the rent selling time on a bench press machine, interesting...

Alternately you can ride right down into a crater, like that crazy general in Dr Strangelove, if it no longer works just keep on doing what doesn't work but harder than everyone else, what could possibly go wrong? In all honesty if you have no future it does show bravery of a sort to keep doing what you're doing until the bankruptcy, but admit what you're doing, at least, you're just riding a dead business model until impact with the ground, milking the last cash cow till it becomes pink slime.
The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
I declined the gift card offer in my reply, so we will never know.
Elsen, Boston, MA: FULL TIME Software Engineer, INTERN

Elsen is building the next generation of market simulation software at the intersection of high performance computing, machine learning, and quantitative finance. We're a small, tight-knit team located in the finance district of downtown Boston.

We are looking for a software developer to help build out our infrastructure which is primarily written in Haskell, C, and Python. An expert knowledge of Haskell is not required, and we are primarily looking for quantitatively minded individuals with a strong familiarity with finance and the ability to implement these ideas in multiple programming languages.

Some things we look for in an candidate ( subset of the following ):

* Open source Haskell involvement ( candiates with strong Github profiles will be given preference )

* PostgreSQL

* Understanding of Haskell web development and database libraries (postgresql-simple, aeson)

* Understanding of various parallelism techniques (threads, software transactional memory, GPUs, distributed computing)

* Deep understanding of statistics

* NumPy/SciPy/Pandas experience

* Experience with DSL design

* Overall fun-loving personality and good sense of humor

Contact: jobs@elsen.co
Why Donald Trump will ruin the world
SEEKING FREELANCER - Gaia GPS - we're hiring a contractor (REMOTE OK) to work on an open source and open data project. Someone who is into hunting preferred.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/101663/open-source-cod...
Does it matter? If the website lets you identify and pick right targets for maximum effect, then it helps regardless of the "mechanism for effecting change" you seek to employ.
Or if you want to go in the complete opposite direction, formal proofs of your system down to the binary, look at seL4.
Amsterdam, Netherlands | ONSITE | VISA SUPPORT | Booking.com - https://booking.com

Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam

Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodations online. Each day, over 850,000 room nights are reserved on Booking.com. The Booking.com website and apps attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.
Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bed and breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. Independent accommodations are also specifically a focus of Villas.com, a sister site recently launched by Booking.com. Truly international, Booking.com is available in more than 40 languages, and offers over 660,360 properties in 212 countries.

We are hiring for our headquarters office in Amsterdam:
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There is lots of other positions http://grnh.se/y3bfed and INTERNS are also welcome!
this++ to opt out of the mobile version. This should always be possible.

Tips for mobile developers:

Don't make it impossible to zoom.

Don't make it hard/impossible to get to the desktop version.

Don't make it hard/impossible to view in landscape (I am amazed at the "rotate your device" popups)

Don't make your popups impossible to dismiss on mobile (can't get to the X due to size/positioning)

Don't download megabytes of javascript to display a small amount of text content.

Do support "reader view" (in mobile Safari) or equivalent, so I can get a view that is simply readable AND accessible. Sorry that this overrides your hard work, but really I just want to be able to read your content. Your ads are fine, if they don't use all my bandwidth.
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Location: Remote / Curitiba, Brazil

Full stack developer, working with Rails and Python, developing SAAS applications, applying good pratices like TDD/BDD. Currently CTO of a Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing startup.

Email: bruno@appzlab.com
Building a Game Boy Link Cable Breakout Board
Show HN: PinCode – User authentication with pictures and chars sent to server
Here's how I understand it:

- The simplest closed magnetic configuration is a torus. You can't smoothly "comb a hairy ball", but you can comb a hairy torus.

- For a toroidal plasma to be stable, it needs magnetic field components both the "long way" around (toroidal), and the "short way" around (poloidal).

- The tokamak generates the poloidal field from a current within the plasma, whereas the stellerator imposes that component with external magnets.

So you could make a "natural" argument either way, and I was asking the grandparent in what sense the stellerator is more "natural".
One of the things the article doesn't mention, which is odd, is that frames are precious objects that need to be produced in whole. If you have multiple threads all producing parts of the scene, when do you actually kick off the frame so that the user never sees a part of a frame? Even if your worker thread is just updating the text of a few fields when it's done, you need to batch that up into a single atomic update on the screen.

Which means you need transactions, at which point you basically have a single thread and a message queue so why complicate things internally and add all the lock/unlock overhead?
> (Although a stream of him creating on of his data posts would be interesting).

That is my end-goal. :) Trying to set up a good, video-friendly workflow first.

I sorta wish I was able to reply to parent's comment before it got flagged to death, though.
How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value
Not everything has to be productive.
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Generally available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~8 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes.

In the past, I've worked with companies like Remind, Leap Motion, Anki, Rocket Fuel, and TaskRabbit. Before that, I had two startups of my own. In my spare time, I fly airplanes.

Looking for 10-20 hour per week engagements only right now, but I'm always happy to grab coffee and chat.

Links:

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http://www.github.com/tfe

http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddeichel

http://stackoverflow.com/users/203773/tfe

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Thank you. It is incredible how much resistance there is to the idea that quality is a positive feedback loop of value -- not simply a cost.
It's an empty threat. They can't see your review until they have left their review or the time is up to leave a review. So you can say you won't give a negative review but give one anyway.
Dolphin Progress Report: October 2015
Thank you for the feedback!

We will add a "New or Used" option when creating a product and display that.

In your particular case, the clock is actually brand new but unwrapped :]
Hello there! I'm the product manager on the 18F side of this project. Happy to answer any questions folks have about it.
Airtable — San Francisco, CA (ONSITE; FULL-TIME; INTERN)

http://airtable.com

Airtable's mission is to expand human productivity by letting people create tools to organize their world. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airtable as a toolkit of building blocks that people can repurpose to create their own applications. Our product roadmap is filled with interesting enhancements and additions to this toolkit that will push the boundaries of Airtable's capabilities.

Our users love us: https://twitter.com/airtable/timelines/566728799115440128

We’re hiring engineers for web (JS, Node, React), iOS (Objective-C, Swift), and Android. There are 13 of us right now, with backgrounds from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. We believe in the power of highly motivated and capable individuals to accomplish great things in small teams, with end-to-end ownership of projects and rapid iteration.

We’ve raised over $10 million in funding.

You can email me directly (k@airtable.com) or apply here: https://airtable.com/jobs
Uranium-fueled molten salt reactors will probably happen first; they'd have the same safety advantages but without the huge extension of fuel supply that you'd get from thorium breeding. Some designs would be more proliferation-resistant than LFTRs. Startups attempting it include Terrestrial Energy, Transatomic, ThorCon, Moltex, and Seaborg.
I think what may happen is a big operator will invest a lot of money to make service there incredibly cheap and fast, killing the service.

As a lesson to all you out there who'd dare challenge a communication company.
I think I missed the mark with my description. I am creating a new app. I was looking for input on what it should do. Maybe I should reconsider and instead break down an open source project.
Penn Medicine - Philadelphia, PA (ONSITE)

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.html), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.
SEEKING WORK (remote Scandinavia).

Full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience with Java, Python, Grails, Flask, Javascript, SQL, NoSQL, Linux, FreeBSD, Docker
You can contact me through LinkedIn https://no.linkedin.com/in/olavgjerde
Cathedral and the Bazaar.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

The essay contrasts two different free software development models:

The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC were presented as examples.

The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. Raymond also provides anecdotal accounts of his own implementation of this model for the Fetchmail project.
Global variables are icky, regardless of the language.
Gaia GPS - FYI, we're hiring full-time starting in January for a UI/UX focused dev. Currently, we're looking for a dev (REMOTE OK) to work on an open source and open data project. Someone who is into hunting preferred, contract to hire possible.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/101663/open-source-cod...
This should be a manifesto, a bit like "contrast rebellion"
Where online really wins for me is that I don't have go shopping along with hundreds or even thousand of other people after work or in the weekends.

I get extremely cranky when I need to stand in line or try to make my way passed other "less efficient" shoppers.

Also the stupid attempts at up-selling in electronic stores doesn't help.

Clothing I do prefer to shop in real stores though, but that's mostly because sizes aren't uniform and generally confusing.
I bought the phone from Amazon, SIM-free, so I'm not sure if Vodafone are the right people to complain to here?
No mention of existing tools that automatically optimize things like weight or stiffness given a design space:

http://solidthinking.com/inspire2015.html

This would seem an ideal step to fill the gap between 2 connectors in the Disney paper. They must have some kind of solution but I didn't see what it was.
Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

Localytics is hiring engineers to help us with:
- iOS, Android, JavaScript SDK and app development
- Data platform technologies including Spark and MPP Databases
- Microservices on Play with Scala
- Delivery, Internal Tools, AWS, Infrastructure as code
- Front End development with ES6, React and D3.js

About Localytics:

* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over two billion devices

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.

* We are passionate about and have deep expertise in the technologies we work with including: Rails, AngularJS, React, D3.js, Scala, iOS, Android, MapReduce, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, Spark, Column Store Databases, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.

* We are one of the largest Scala shops in Boston and have a passion for functional programming. Many folks here who are in the credits for the FP in Scala book.

Check out our engineering blog: http://eng.localytics.com/
Please send inquiries to jobs@localytics.com
You along with other startups make it incredibly hard to cancel ones account. It's a trick to keep your user base numbers high vs. offering an easy way for the user to delete their own account themselves, as most startups use to allow.
This is a very disturbing trend in the software industry (starting around mid 2000s). A person who knows programming semantics can code in any language, but because of over-reliance on frameworks and the hesitation to try and write deep code, developers are being segregated into frond-end, middleware, db, big data, etc. I don't think it's sustainable in the long term.
Indeed. FPGAs only win if you have lots of integer operations that are truly parallel but require a moderate amount of memory bandwidth. GPUs win for floating point and CPUs tend to have far more cache than you can fit in an FPGA.
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San Francisco | Full-time onsite/offsite | Backend eng director/techlead

Jyve is a small all-star team building the winning platform for on-demand labor, starting in the grocery business, which is $b/yr and well protected from competition. Our founders include a senior ex-Google engineer and together we've built numerous successful startups over the past 20 years, including 3 IPOs.

We're looking for a visionary backend generalist with practical taste in RDBMS, APIs, reporting, 24x7, etc.

For more info, email a resume/linkedin and your favorite snack food to jobs@jyve.com
I sure hope you're not referring to my posts when you talk about "attacks," because "I don't really know but here's a paper that looks good" is about as far from that as you can get.
Disobeying those orders would just get you quietly fired.
Rollbar | San Francisco or REMOTE | Front-End Engineer | https://rollbar.com

We're a scrappy, distributed team (SF, Fort Worth, Syracuse, Barcelona) building tools that make developers' lives better. We're looking for our seventh employee, sixth engineer, and first front-end specialist.

About us:

* We help thousands of developers find and fix bugs quickly

* Our backend handles billions of errors with low latency and high reliability

* Our front-end allows developers to discover and drill down across millions of errors in real-time

* Our open source libraries are used by some of the best engineering teams in the world, including Twilio, Heroku, Instacart and Twitch.

You will:

* Work with PMs, designers, and other developers to ship front-end features

* Own Rollbar's front-end architecture and development

* Have fun while releasing software that impacts millions of end-users

You are:

* A Javascript expert with experience building crisp, quick UIs

* Up on the latest trends, like server-side rendering, responsive design and module bundling

* Proud of the products you build and the impact they have for our customers

Bonus points:

* Experience using React and Webpack to build single-page apps

* Experience maintaining open source projects

* UI design chops

* Desire to grow into a Team Lead role

To get in touch, email team@rollbar.com or apply via https://rollbar.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0h8ho/
Agreed. This is the straw that nudged me back to Chrome after experimenting with Firefox for a month or so. I just couldn't bear doing without comment thread folding.
SEEKING FREELANCER - remote

We're a tiny team working on a series of prototypes for editing tools in the vein of Sublime Text or Google Docs.

Seeking a front-end developer to help us for 1 - 2 months. You must be strong on HTML/CSS and Javascript, animations/transitions, and have a good grasp of design fundamentals. We also <3 designer/front-end dev hybrids.

Low-ego team that likes to collaborate and learn from one another. Slack + Screenhero + Github + Trello. Working hours during US east timezone.

http://rdlab.workable.com/jobs/131062
I work at Booking.com as well and so far have only good things to say about working here. The people are awesome, the work hours sane and the work interesting.

If you have any questions about working here or would like some light on the interview process, I will be happy to answer your questions at siddharthsarda01@gmail.com
Better article: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2167675...
Reminder: the last time European authorities thought Snowden was in Europe, this happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

Illegal, Insulting for a friendly country and 100% rumour-based, it nevertheless happened and we all know what would have followed if Snowden was actually on that plane.

So, yeah, talk is really cheap.
I think those rules were added after much demand as people were having trouble getting job posters to be clear about it in a form they could search for. I guess it irritates people if a company wants the benefits of HN for job postings but won't do us the courtesy of following the community rules.
SEEKING WORK | Georgia, USA | Remote Only

Primarily seeking Ruby(inc rails), PHP, and devops(aws) work.

You can reach me by email: viacoffee [at] gmail [dot] com
Booking.com | Amsterdam, Netherlands - FULL-TIME, ON-SITE, easy VISA provided

Booking is hiring Android, iOS, Frontend and Backend Developers. Also Mobile App Designers and UX Designers.

Wanna move to Amsterdam with full expenses paid, a great relocation package and live in the 3rd best life quality in the world (besides making in Euros)?

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Company reviews:
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Video - Moving to Ams:
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Video - Booking Hackathon:
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Video - Designing at Booking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPsc8GFD5Q
Parse.ly - http://parse.ly - Fully Remote - Full-Time

Parse.ly has built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web.

Parse.ly's analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Next Web, and many more.
In total, our analytics backend system needs to handle over 30 billion monthly events from over 450 million monthly unique visitors.

Our entire stack is in Python and JavaScript, and our team has innovated in areas related to real-time analytics.

Our UX/design team has also built one of the best-looking dashboards on the planet, using AngularJS and d3.js. You can see some screenshots at http://parse.ly/tour.

Our distributed team is best-in-class and we happily skip commutes by working out of our ergonomic home offices. Here's a photograph of mine running two full-screen Parse.ly dashboards on my monitors: https://flic.kr/p/v1NZ73

We are currently looking for UX / front-end / full-stack engineers to help us build the best real-time analytics dashboard the world has ever seen. The only requirement is some experience in Python and JavaScript, with an emphasis on JavaScript. Bonus points for an interest in information visualization, Edward Tufte, or d3.js.

Apply now by sending a CV/website, github/dribbble links (if available), and 1 paragraph intro to work@parsely.com. Let us know what part of the position interests you. Also, mention the HN Who's Hiring thread.

p.s. to see an example of how we work, check out the blog post, "Whatever It Takes": http://blog.parsely.com/post/46
Worth pointing out that this phrase was the title of a linked 3rd party YouTube video, not from Business Insider Malaysia who did a reasonably decent job on the article.