skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenty20 | Los Angeles, CA (Marina del Rey)

At Twenty20, we believe that authenticity matters. Almost 2 billion photos are uploaded to the internet each day, but brands, marketers, advertisers, and other creators are still shackled by the ancient inventory of traditional, staged, boring stock photography. Twenty20 is changing that. Our team's mission is to provide access to the most authentic imagery on Earth.

With a growing community of over a quarter-million photographers, and customers like Google, Uber, Viacom, and Birchbox, to name a few, we're on a mission to change the world of stock photography forever.

Want to know how we operate as a team? We are guided by our mission and steered by metrics. We focus on the one thing that matters today. Along with a strong bias for speed and learning, we strive for excellence and elegance. We believe in being open and honest with one another. We believe in obsessing over our users, not our competitors. We are a perpetual work in progress.

We have openings for fullstack software engineers (Ruby experience a plus) as well as openings on our mobile team.

We're also hiring some non-technical people! Operations/finance, product management, design, and account managers.

Our job board is here: http://www.twenty20.com/jobs

You can also email me (our lead recruiter) at john[at]twenty20[dot]com :)
Why wouldn't someone who wants to buy a gun want one that only he can fire? It's cool and it might reduce one's chances to get hit from behind by someone wishing to take the gun. (An honest question from someone who never wanted to own a gun.)
Google has Beacons called "Eddystone" http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/meet-googles-eddyston...
We use a proper HL7 parser built into our interface engine (Mirth Connect), extract the data we use and dump it into PostgreSQL. Regular expressions would be an adequate tool for parsing HL7 if you wanted to roll your own, but it made little sense to do everything from scratch.
> If what you meant all along was a decades long reduction in coal to zero, you did a tremendous job of attacking your own credibility.

I'm not sure why you're holding me responsible for your assumptions. I didn't go into any detail about how a ban would be implemented: if you assumed it would be implemented immediately and with no transition plan, that's on you.
Can someone explain the attraction that nerds have for Slack/Hipchat over a well-tended IRC server?
The market could be for families with children in the house who want self defense, but haven't yet taken the plunge for safety reasons. I'm not sure how large this market would be.
Its hard to poll above 0% when your only issue is being against freedom of speech
I found out about it a few weeks ago. It was announced in the Spring, supposed to come out in the summer, then nothing other than maybe it'll be less than $100 and available Q4 2015. Hearing Google say it'll be a few weeks is reassuring.
I would like to see some numbers. To begin with, how many FPGAs can replace 1 Intel CPU, in terms of compute power? And what does an FPGA solution cost in dollars, versus a CPU-based solution (including motherboard, memory, powersupply, etc.)?
28% of American adults didn't read a book in the last year
I don't think I would ever purchase one of these things...

> Smart weapons recognize their owners' fingerprints or hand grip, or unlock when they wirelessly interact with a special watch or ring worn by the shooter.

So what happens if I'm wearing gloves? What happens if I lose the ring or it comes off while I'm drawing? What happens if my girlfriend needs to grab my handgun out of my nightstand while I'm in the shower? There are so many ways for this to fail, I would never purchase it over a regular firearm.
My goal was to cover some of the main fundamentals of finance to get a good all-round understanding along with eventually specializing towards practical application based finance... mostly stuff like designing & implementing algorithmic trading strategies, building securities exchanges/marketplaces on my own (maybe in python for now), maybe even design and implement more complex financial instruments & related contracts...

Was looking to get to learn both the theory and real-life implementations of this financial systems & processes. Hence wanted to start with Corporate Finance as it looked the most generic and seemed more like broad revision of stuff i already learned in a lot of econ classes and some management electives I took in college, with some additional knowledge to build good skeletal/context structure of the field and various agents involved, which I can later fill in with and place new concepts i would learn in the two other books.
Then next logical step seemed like getting to know ins and out of the financial instruments of more complex nature hence Hull seemed good to start with. (Also the fact that I read first few chapters in college and quite liked them then...)
And then Security Analysis seemed like a good way to look at all of the above learnt info in more analytical way specifically from POV of an investor.

Also as suggested in the other comment "Trading and Exchanges" by Harris is definitely going on this list of books to finish for me to get better practical implementation understanding.

As of now quant side of finance seems most interesting, but again haven't explored all other roles/areas fully so can't say for sure as yet where would I like to work.
A finance nOOB question... is there something like a full-stack finance engineer? Closest seems to be a quant guy...
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response.
There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* mid to senior level Android devs (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Data scientists or engineers with experience in Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

Please note for Internships:
We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in November for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.
http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.
I just bought a Chromecast to play with for a digital signage solution, but this could be better.

I couldn't find any specs on how it is powered. From the very little research I've done, it seems like power over HDMI is possible, but maybe I'm wrong on that. Would be nice to get it down to just the stick.
There's no market for smart guns.
IQ tests only measure a few factors, which may well be quite closely correlated. But I don't think everyone who does well in IQ tests has good social skills, is good at painting, playing a musical instrument, speaking a foreign language, playing football, or juggling (or could become good at them with sufficient practice). You could argue that these have nothing to do with intelligence, but they're clearly cognitive skills.
IRC generally means more futzing around than Slack and Hipchat. It's just a normal value proposition, like not growing our own food or making our own clothes or building our own cars, even if those things are possible.
In the Metal Gear Solid 4 videogame, these were used by mercenaries to fight wars. Interesting seeing speculation & innovation.
A gun is a tool of absolute last resort. They are simple, mechanical devices, and that's a good thing. I have no interest in adding complications and additional points of failure.
Please be specific -- Are you saying that the benchmarks game programs you wrote "cheat" ?
As patio11 puts it: UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX UX

See more:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660931499680657409

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660931665275916288

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660931949645533184

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660932099742957568

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660932289002508288

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/660932918672420865
It's very limited. Many of the functions you use when operating with collections also return lists, not sequences.
LevelSet Solutions | ONSITE Royal Oak, Michigan (Metro Detroit)

We are looking for a couple full-time Ruby/Rails developers to help us build out some new products. We're a small company with a startup culture.

What you'll do:

-	Work in a team environment to build new web-based products from the ground-up.

-	Collaborate with colleagues in order to make smart decisions on how to implement functionality.

-	Utilize modern languages and frameworks that fit well with what you are building.

-	Make good use of your high levels of freedom and flexibility to experiment with ideas before implementation.

-	Continually strive to improve yourself and your team through communication and collaboration.

What you'll need:

-	2+ years of professional development experience

-	Experience with Ruby/Rails

-	Strong understanding of web development concepts

-	Experience with modern CSS/JS languages (Sass, Typescript, etc) is a plus

-	Experience designing and building RESTful APIs is a plus
-	A strong desire to grow as a developer

Why you should:

-	We offer a competitive salary and and share company successes with the team

-	We have flexible work hours and a flexible vacation policy

-	Our office is located in the heart of down town Royal Oak

-	All of our development is done in-house; when you have a question about existing code or functionality, you can talk with the developer that wrote it.

-	We care deeply about doing "the right thing" -- both for our clients and our employees.

-	We place emphasis on learning and understanding, meaning there are always opportunities to learn new languages, methodologies, frameworks, etc, as well as share what you've learned with the team.

Please reach out to me if interested - I'm the Director of Technology. asanger[at]levelsetsolutions[dot]com
Is that you, Citizens United?
Docker integration, awesome!
Bright idea for lowlight photography
This link doesn't work for me (completely blank page) and his Facebook page doesn't say anything about him dropping out.

(For those curious: from the US, using Chrome, no ad or privacy block - Facebook is outputting 21 lines of HTML and then nothing. Looks like PHP is just dying for some reason)
Add one to C and you get D.

Flip the A upside down and it looks like a V.

I'll leave you to discover the rest on your own.
IRC simply lacks important desirable features, making it poor for community building (given the existence of better alternatives). The two biggest missing features are persistence and search.

Other important missing features are ease of use in terms of creation of topic-focused channels, private channels, and high quality mobile and desktop clients.
Guardian trots out notorious Mike Daisey to speculate how Apple could be doomed
UK: Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption
because it introduces needless complexity into the system, reduces reliability, and just makes the firearm more expensive.
"Employees asked the police for help. According to a court filing, the police responded that dealing with this crowd was 'not in their job description,' and they left."

Does anyone know if the officers initially on scene here ever faced disciplinary action?
On the other hand, the value of a life is $10-20m these days and a crush or fire can kill hundreds at a stroke, even in a small venue like the infamous Station fire. So a single incident could easily go into the billions.
As a parent of small children, if I were ever to buy a gun I would want to have a smart gun.

Seems to me the real obstacle is the NJ law that would restrict regular gun sales once smart guns are sold, which should be revised ASAP as it gives the NRA a semi-legitimate reason to oppose the sale of smart guns.
It wouldn't take much to lose that stance and have your elbows pushed inwards.
Your point about working conditions being the reason for fatal accidents is obviously correct, I thought it was kinda implied (wanted to keep it brief).

I was not discussing potential benefits (or lack thereof) of circumcision - rather pointing out the unequal treatment of men (OK to mutilate without consent) vs women (illegal to mutilate).
Most of us make a living making someone else's life better one way or another, but for many, it's not the someone else that is the source of passion, but an act instead.

The thing about control is about letting go of perfectionism. If you have an inclination to improve things, you can be overwhelmed by the number of things which could be improved, and it can be demoralizing to see the breadth of it all, and recognizing how little overall impact you, as one person, can have. So you limit your scope. You can't do it all.
The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system
I'm seeing "No e2e encrypted DMs" as one of the cons for most of these.. anyone have a solution?
How is it better than Ceylon 1.2? Ceylon compiles to JVM bytecode, JavaScript, Dart, and will to LLVM in the future. As a language, it's a great superset of Java.

I posted [0] about the great new Ceylon 1.2 (which is backed by Red Hat), and nobody seemed to care, but there's so much hype about Kotlin - I don't get it!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474126
'Ethics' is advertising
But will it still use glibc Linux (Gentoo) or it will switch to bionic Android one? That was the main point, and not the confusion that Chrome OS is disappearing.
Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits
"Investor hypes product" would be a more accurate title. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
this kind of defeats the purpose of twitch chat
weapons are supposed to work. that means making them simple. of course these "smart guns" won't sell.
a universal truth rarely ceases to be universal or true.
San Francisco, ONSITE, FULL-TIME, INTERNS

DoorDash - https://www.doordash.com/jobs/

We recently signed a partnership with Taco Bell, as well as opening our 18th market, Atlanta! We're now available in over 250 cities across the country, and we have a lot of open positions that we are looking to fill, both technical and non-technical, as we venture forward!

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DoorDash is a technology company that enables on-demand delivery to empower local economies. We help small businesses grow, give underemployed people flexible work, and offer affordable convenience to consumers.

Our team is looking to grow with talented people who want to build much more than just a food delivery company. We operate a full stack delivery service: by partnering with merchants, onboarding our own drivers, and building our own logistics software, we're able to control the entire delivery experience to make it more efficient for everyone.

We're looking to expand the founding team with talented people who are excited about our mission to build out the world's first real-time logistics company.
Nearly every twin study done in the history of twin studies has demonstrated minimal effects of shared environment on outcomes.
What is price and reliability difference compared to regular guns? How hard is it to bypass finger print locker with some tools?
See also http://ideas.4brad.com/announcing-delivery-robots-starship-t...
Make School | San Francisco (onsite)

Make School is building a university replacement for future founders and developers. Students spend 2 years learning CS theory, product development and entrepreneurship. Students pay nothing upfront, they pay tuition through earnings. You can read more about our vision here: https://medium.com/make-school

We're hiring a Growth Hacker, Designer, Curriculum Engineer: https://www.makeschool.com/about#careers

We're also interested in talking to great engineers who want to help us build the OS to power Make School!

You can reach me at ashu @ makeschool . com
> the NJ law that would restrict regular gun sales once smart guns are sold, which should be revised ASAP as it gives the NRA a semi-legitimate reason to oppose the sale of smart guns

Even if that particular law is revised or repealed, gun rights advocates will always argue (correctly, I believe) that such legislation is in the pipeline once these devices become more common/workable.
In retrospect, this was unnecessarily cruel. Unfortunately, I can't edit it anymore so the best I can do is apologize.
When you start out with 256 36 bit words on a good day and never get more than 1,024, it can cramp your style: http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG (by our very own nickpsecurity).
> Smells like there is a lot of friction and uncertainty inside Google...

Since they didn't make announce their plans of merging operating systems (and thusly just wanted to reassure people that ChromeOS wasn't going away), why does it make it seem like there is "a lot of friction and uncertainty inside Google"?

Seems like you're making a huge leap with little information supporting such a claim. If you have more information than what is it?
just get a small gun locker. and teach your kids to properly handle them when they get old enough.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Montreal, Canada

Remote: yes, always

Technologies: Node.js, Go, Ansible, React.js, Ruby

GitHub: https://github.com/kiasaki

Website: https://fredericgingras.ca/
It ran Chrome OS

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Wikipedia article seem to state that is was more Android than Chrome OS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromecast
EPA: VW Cheated on Audi, Porsche Diesel SUVs, Too
Somewhat related: Is there any solid open source (or commercial?) software that can just join several servers into a redundant, SPOF-less, RAM-based block storage device? Perhaps exposed via iSCSI or something so it'd work for any client?

Idea would be that I could setup two separate racks with UPSes, specify a safety factor, then have super-fast shared disk/block available. (DB clustering or whatever.)
unless he's relying on the government to require them by law

Funny you say that! New Jersey has a law that will ban the sale of all guns except smart guns once they become available: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/24/325...
Hacking tool swipes encrypted credentials from password manager
it also would reduce children killing another child or an adult.
Families who can't be bothered to buy a gunvault?
This is the best dissection of the Star Wars story I have ever read.
UXUXUX... is also a feature of many open source alternatives.
I am just coming out of previous full-stack dev role. Wanted to spend some time dabbling in a few ideas right now in this space of finance/fintech. So I wanted to develop solid understanding of this field right now first (which has also been a latent personal desire/goal now for a quite some time) as well as experiment with a few ideas by myself first for some time...
Why do you decided to use XML as the basic format?
Children. Especially ones still a bit too young to go through proper training on the handling of a firearm.
If I could have a gun that only I could fire, and which I could fire with 100% reliability, that would be something I'd want.

But I've never seen a particularly fast or reliable fingerprint scanner, my hands might be dirty or greasy, and presumably the gun can run out of battery.

I don't have a gun, but if I did, I wouldn't get one of these.
I suspect this as well. Google doesn't want people to stop buying Chromebooks, even if Chrome OS, in the form it is, only has two years of life left.
Oh look, this story again.

Call me when this type of technology has been in mandatory use by 100% of law enforcement and military for 10 years without a greater failure rate than traditional safety systems.

I won't hold my breath.
a customized pipeline for a specific solution will always outperform a CPU, which is designed to be pretty good at a lot of things but not great at one single thing.

As for price... that depends on how much they want to charge for it ;)
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/02/453980015/campaign-finance-cru...
There is something to be said about this. Remember the scene from Unbreakable where the son steals Bruce Willis' handgun and points it at him? If that was a smart gun, this would be a comical scene rather than an extremely tense one.
> if I'm wearing gloves

Are you currently holding the gun? If not, take off the gloves and then pick up the gun.

> if I lose the ring or it comes off

Same thing that happens if you lose your wallet or car keys. You go find it immediately or get a replacement quickly.

> girlfriend needs to grab my handgun

Hopefully they can make smart guns that can have two authorized users.

> so many ways for this to fail

Regular handguns can also fail - anyone can pick them up and shoot anyone else. Some people consider that a bug, not a feature.
Zesty (YC W14) | San Francisco, CA / Remote | Software engineers of all types

Zesty is changing the way companies serve food. We’re less than two years old and we already serve hundreds of companies in the Bay Area, including names you know like Heroku, Twitch and Instacart.

Our post-Series A engineering challenges include recommendations, nutrition, logistics, live tracking and operations automation. You’ll have freedom to work on the problems that are most interesting to you.
You’ll be joining a talented, fast-growing team of nine Rails and Ember.js engineers. We value solid communication and leaving your ego at the door. You will grow with and help shape the organization, stay at the forefront of web best practices and enjoy the best office meals in the city.

Interested? Check out all our listings at https://zesty.com/jobs.
2 degrees, flies planes, author, works at NASA. His age? 17