skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise - Zapier co-founder/CTO here - really excited about this launch. It represents a complete re-build of our stack to support workflows. Pretty much anyone can build complex workflows from a pretty easy to use UI.

To call this out specifically - I think HN might appreciate the Code steps you can add to your workflow - we support both Python [0] and Javascript [1] today.

I've been using it to replace dozens of crontabs and others are using it to inject custom scripting into workflows around Github, Bitbucket, Trello, Salesforce, etc. I especially like making Slack bots with it (we've made a few game moderator bots, pretty fun).

I'll be around all day - happy to answer any questions. There is some cool tech under the hoods.

[0] https://zapier.com/help/code-python/#how-does-it-work

[1] https://zapier.com/help/code/#how-does-it-work
PreTalen - http://www.pretalen.com | Dayton, OH | ON SITE

PreTalen Ltd. is a rapidly growing, employee-owned company that is looking for engineers specializing in digital signal processing, reverse engineering, cyber security and embedded systems. Due to the nature of our work, you need to be a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to receive a security clearance.

This is an opportunity to work with smart engineers in a fun hacker-type culture. You'll be working on challenging problems and really pushing your engineering skills to the limit.

Here is one of the positions that we are currently looking to fill:

===Digital Signal Processing Engineer===

Responsibilities:

-Processing digital signals using SDR technologies

-Development of DSP algorithms in C/C++ or Python

-Use of Linux based SDK's and DSP frameworks (i.e. GnuRadio)

-Embedded DSP circuit design and reverse engineering

-Engineering wireless technologies and systems

Requirements:

-Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years experience in a DSP related field

-C or Python development experience

-Ability to work with Linux based operating systems

-Wireless security background is desired

-Experience using SDR peripherals (i.e. USRP, HackRF)

More job descriptions can be found on our web site at: https://www.pretalen.com/careers

For questions about open positions or to submit your resume, contact careers@pretalen.com .
MM.LaFleur - https://mmlafleur.com/ | New York City | ONSITE

We're looking for a senior software engineer to join our small, agile engineering team at MM.LaFleur.

== Who are we? ==

MM.LaFleur is a professional womenswear company based in New York City. We aim to be the go-to wardrobe solution for modern women of purpose. How? By delivering luxury-quality clothing via a seamless, direct-to-consumer stylist experience.

== What skills should you have? ==

- You should know PHP backwards, forwards, and upside down. MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, too. Magento? Great!

- Be good at (or ready to learn) commerce platform management and development.

- Love the entire stack, from devops to cross-browser styling to A/B testing marketing campaigns to internal tooling.

- Desire to set the foundation for an awesome engineering culture and help build the team.

- Be excited about analytics and data-driven decisions.

- Appreciate UX and the designers and engineers that make it possible.

== Tech Stack ==

- PHP, Magento, Slim, WordPress

- MySQL

- JavaScript, jQuery, Grunt

- CSS, Sass

- Git

- AWS, Braintree, Ghost Inspector

- Vagrant, Ubuntu

== Contact ==

You can apply directly here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/mmlafleur/jobs/134873

Or for more information feel free to send me an email at luke.evers@mmlafleur.com
First time I've ever seen Daily Mail cited as 'better link'
It might seem far fetched right at the moment but some thinkers and economists are already seeing a guaranteed basic income for EU countries during the next decades which in time should extend to the rest of the 1st world countries.

I know it looks a bit crazy now, but so did free universal healthcare 40 years ago if you think about it.
aria-label is totally cool for not-input's: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-label_to_provide_l...
This can't get here fast enough. To people who don't really get why they're doing this, or who think it only makes sense in undeveloped regions with no cell towers, I wrote about this here:

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2016/01/15/wisp-tria...

Basically, if you think that in developed areas cell tower density has or should have an inverse correlation with the cost of bandwidth, then you don't live in the real world. There's a reason that there are only a few network operators on most towers, and those guys get away with highway robbery in terms of pricing and quotas.

Here is the money graf:

"It’s when I began seriously working on the cell tower option that the beauty and inevitability of the balloon idea truly clicked for me. Don’t get me wrong — on its face the Internet balloon idea is still actually nuts, but it’s vastly better than the terrestrial alternatives, which are all terrible because of one fatal problem: any moderately long-range wireless bandwidth solution needs line-of-sight to work, which means you need elevation, and (absent a viable balloon technology) elevation is a function of geography, which makes it eminently exploitable by rent-seekers.

This geography-based rent-seeking, by both wireless carriers (via national tower networks) and fixed-line ISPs (via cable, fiber, phone networks, and trunk locations) is the only reason that bandwidth quotas exist in 2016, and it’s what brings the Internet-of-balloons idea down from cloud cuckooland and into the realm of inevitability."
How Trump Did It
JustPark | London, UK | ONSITE | Full-Time

We’re looking for super smart Front End, Full Stack and iOS developers to join the JustPark team and help us take our product to the next level.

The stack

Frontend: Gulp, Sass, Browserify, Babel, React

Backend: PHP, Python, MySQL, MongoDB

About us

Parking is a broken industry. It drains our fuel tanks, our wallets, our time and our sanity. It's been clogging up our towns for too long. At JustPark, we've officially had enough, and life's too short not to fix things.

We connect the dots to ensure that those who need parking find the people who have it going spare. Our business is unlocking potential: we help homeowners, churches, schools, hotels, pubs and commercial car parks to boost their income by filling their empty spaces, making the most of the assets they have.

JustPark is one of London's most exciting and fast-growing startups - with a record-breaking £3.7m equity crowdfunding round under its belt, on top of investment from BMW and Index Ventures. In 2015 alone, JustPark were featured in WIRED’s top 10 hottest startups, crowned winners of Richard Branson's 'Pitch to Rich', and nominated for the Growing Business Awards UK Employer of the Year.

Benefits

- A salary that is actually competitive.

- Generous stock options to match.

- Unlimited holiday.

- Free daily gourmet lunches, prepared by our lovely in-house chef.

- MacBook Pro.

- Table tennis and Friday beers on tap.

- Free parking at any JustPark space.

Learn more about the roles and apply: https://justpark.workable.com/ or email jobs@justpark.com.
Great thanks. I've built stuff before and have been learning/coding for the past ~4 years so I don't classify myself as a complete beginner.

When applying without a CS background how tough are the technical interviews? Do they tend to expect more or are they more lenient and look more at fit and ability to grow?
Good call, thanks for taking the time to read and comment
Another way to look at it would be that best-paper awards deserve much LESS credit than they are given. E.g. MapReduce did not get a best paper award but has been more influential than other best paper award winners.
Great minute-earth video about river meandering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic
There Will Be Blood is my preferred postcedent.
I think you're problem was going for a start up and not going for Enterprise. Majority of start ups have no idea what they're doing.
Location: Bari, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Fullstack developer -
.NET (C# & VB) + ASP.NET (Webform and MVC) + Winform,
PHP (Symfony, Phalcon, CodeIgniter, Laravel) with Apache/Nginx , NodeJS (MEAN stack)
SqlServer, MySql, Mongo, Redis, Cordova and IONIC.
Html/CSS/JS-ES5 (incl. Backbone, Knockout, Angular...)

Résumé: 10+ years of experience (started with VB5/6), worked on bank-grade projects.

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxOyQDcpvZblRnlRWXdtci10TVk...

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/delgobbo/

Website (italian): http://www.adg-idea.com

Email: alessandro_removeunderscoreandallthis@delgobbo.com
Are there any accurate tools out there for comparing networks?

I used to have Sprint, but switched to Verizon in 2013 because they had poor coverage in the Twin Cities, and no coverage in outstate Minnesota. Now I want to switch back because of cost, but I'd like to get an accurate idea of the coverage.
I eventually want to purse the formal route and do a part time BSc or perhaps get a MSc, for now I need something to pay off loans
I would love if it could, but chrome can only handle a single incognito session.
Gmail and Google Drive were down
Very excited about the Multi-Step Zaps! I've spent the last 20 minutes updating all our Zaps to be more fruitful and have a bit more to continue. The workflow is clean, the experience is great, and value is clear. Thank you!
Yes! :D

But wouldn't it be awesome, if all conspiracy theories were produced by a conspiracy of the tinfoil industrial complex?
The fact that your have/had net downvotes for your comment demonstrates that consensus reality is not always reality.

As an embedded medical devices engineer, I know you are exactly right. For safety-critical devices, control of the supply chain is beyond good practice, it's required by federal law, precisely so bad actors can't interfere with peoples' lives. The long list of requirements around approving a vendor are tiring and result in epic stories like the $500 toilet seat, etc., but they prevent stuff like this FTDI debacle from happening. You know it's going to be a toilet seat when the box arrives.

The medical device industry is a massive cultural shift from the majority of the HN crowd (e.g. startups and cloud services). In the world of PCs and servers, disruption is, literally, the name of the game. In IEC62304 land though, everything has to be on the straight, narrow and predictable path. This is why medical devices are expensive, laggy and not very startup-compatible. The FDA's system is actually more secure than Europe's. Take that, socialized medicine!

So it's not always wild and fun here in medical-land. It's like being a cop vs. a cowboy. You're not paid to sling your guns, but to de-escalate. But thank the conservative practices next time your elderly or congenitally defective family members found themselves in the hospital!
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Unpublished Black History
Using React with canvas element
Here we go again. The issue here is that it's really difficult to buy chips directly from FTDI. So.. you have to buy from a distributor. Those distributors also buy from 3rd parties, trade inventory, issue new old stock, etc...

How can I, as consumer, be absolutely positive that that the "FTDI" chip in my device is genuine? I'll go ahead and answer that. I can't. Anyone who works in the electronics industry knows this. When everything is made in china, it's very hard to be sure that fakes don't end up where they shouldn't belong.

Why do I bring this up? Because, last time they pulled this crap, reputable brand's products were damaged. Somehow some fakes ended up in their supply and those customers got screwed.

OK, so sure, we can fix the supply chain, add expensive testing to the manufacturing process, buy direct from manufacturer, etc... or hey, I got a better idea. Let's just not buy FTDI any longer. That sounds much cheaper and less painful.
Meh, it is not necessary to postulate that every part of behavior to which genetics contributes is a thing which has been selected for.

If a particular gene causes good things 95% of the time (based on other interactions or developmental factors or whatever) and catastrophic failures like heart disease or cancer or crippling depression 5% of the time (and it represents a local maxima, with no simple improvements possible), then it can easily come to dominate a gene-pool, so long as the 95%-benefit outweighs the 5%-failure. It doesn't mean the 5% failure has been "selected for", it just means that it wasn't worth weeding out.

Moths circle lights because of genetic factors which influence their tiny moth brain's development. It doesn't mean that circling-lights was a selected feature.
I'm curious how much Typed Racket is actually used in the wild. I wonder if it is as esoteric as, for example, Typed Clojure, which is falling a bit out of favor for lots of folks. Would I be likely to find a lot of people who use Racket in this way, or is it a niche part of the community?
Location: Treviso, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Backend Development (PHP) Databases (MySQL, MongoDB)

Résumé/CV: Junior developer with a strong front end background and a bachelor’s degree in computer science. CV at https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwkej5inc3p0twy/cv-enrico-mattiazz...

Email: enrico.mattiazzi+hn@gmail.com
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For exceptional prospects

Technologies: Comfortable in a wide variety. Recently a lot of ES2015 JS and Python

Résumé/CV: marcel.gg

Email: me@marcelcutts.com

Full stack engineer looking for challenging work and a great culture.

For the last year and a half I have been working to scale the popular fitness app, Zombies Run! to the 2.3 million users it has today. Everything from the core infrastructure and content delivery to new features, such as user fitness-data syncing and public web interfaces was lovingly designed and implemented by me.

Most recently, I implemented the company's newest and very successful venture - real time virtual races. This included not only dealing with real time data, but a shopping experience, payment systems and internal apps to help us ship physical goods worldwide via the UK's postal service.

I am very proud of the work I've done for the Zombies, Run folks, and am now looking for my next challenge.
An extension that makes it easy to navigate to any url with a simple keyword
I'm fine with this, as long as the risk/reward ratio is equal.

Maybe each employee has to donate credit to the company for expenses if they don’t have the cash?

I started my company with bank loans and credit lines. If it goes bust, it's my reputation and I will have to pay back the money.

If someone isn't willing to risk this as well, they aren't an equal partner and shouldn't share equally in the reward.

Some people aren't willing to risk this much, yet still want to contribute. They are employees.
Types for clojure are a thing and are helping to clojures adoption by industry.

http://typedclojure.org/
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Engineering Mgmt, people

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/pktwo

Email: pete.karl at gmail
I assume you have never worked in retail.

As a retail worker, the pay is at or just above minimum wage and benefits like PTO and health insurance do not exist because the jobs are usually part time. Additionally, retail work always comes with irate customers who will piss you off, your coworkers off and your bosses off. So everyone is angry. Retail workers often do not have a set schedule, this is especially true during the holiday season. They have to find coverage before taking an unpaid day of leave. Lastly, because no real skill is needed to work in retail, workers are easily replaceable. 1 mistake can get you canned.

How is a situation like that more stressful than being on call of which you get paid to be on?
The 17th century was the century that saw the rise of card games, which exploded in popularity due to printing. Checkers had probably supplanted Morris earlier.

More important is probably its educational use in teaching Boethian arithmetic in the medieval university. By 1600, Europe has rediscovered scores of classical texts and was on the verge of making very major strides in mathematics. It probably just didn't seem relevant.
London, UK | ONSITE | Full-Time | ExperiencEconomy | Growing an audience ahead of building the product

=== What we do ===

We are building a digital hub for creative professionals (and yes, that means pretty much most hard-to-automate professions). We help our customers with lead generation (helping them use video storytelling in a smart way) and are building a SaaS offering, providing customers with collaboration and content/client management software, while facilitating many to many transactions (and that truly means many transactions in an industry worth $114bn in the UK alone).

=== Crib sheet ===

-You will be part of small fun team, working in London, United Kingdom (Baker Street)

-We have backing from an incubator

-50 creative professionals' usage based on our existing community product prototype (under private-Alpha) built with Meteor JS

-We will be transferring our learnings into a new mobile multi-tenant application to be built from scratch (tech-stack choices still to be made). You will have the opportunity to be part of it from the start, establishing the culture and setting the standards.

=== Looking for ===

-Senior software engineer / Full Stack developer

-This freelance opportunity can develop into a full-time lead role (CTO) should we be the right fit for each other.

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at jobs@experienceconomy.com mentioning Hacker News in the subject line.

More about us at http://www.experienceconomy.com
I read through that and it seems far from any sort of 'demolishing'.

The one broad point is that fructose is unhealthy in a general sense and that -absorbing- lots of it had many adverse health effects. I say absorbing because there are two sides - too much fructose and not enough fiber.

1. First he says Japanese people do add fructose outside of fruit to their diets. Both sides of this generalization don't really matter in the face of the actual numbers and shades of grey and as a whole this is a small part of the overall point.

2. He talks about factors leading to a more sedentary lifestyle. Is this really a rebuttal? Is he saying that the enormous rise in obesity is causes by this? If it is a contributing factor, does it take away from the main point? Does a rise of two worker households even mean a more sedentary lifestyle (even for the children)? It seems like a lot of words used on something that at most could be pointed to to say that the effects of fructose aren't quite as extreme, but it seems to me that there is a loose correlation between what he lists, decreases physical activity, and then the health data at core of the argument.

3. Then he seems to think that citing a study using 150 grams of sugar (which is the about the equivalent of a pitcher) is not worth looking at because it is too much. Is it not common to use exaggerated doses in studies to be able to exaggerate effects? How is anything contradicted by this?

Overall I expected a lot more from your description, but that page doesn't just lack a smoking gun, it is tiny arguments over points that are almost inconsequential to the main theme.

So then that begs the question of what you would attribute to the enormous increase in obesity and what you would peg as the causation of the correlation between increased fructose consumption and obesity.
We need to talk about native advertising
The problem here is China has seriously miscalculated and focused too heavily on exports. The rest of the world doesn't want more Chinese exports than they did in 2007. Export lead growth only gets you so far.

Japan [with a population of ~128 million] could run its economy into exports and scale to catching up with the West in that manner because of the smaller population.

China simply can't do that with 1 billion people.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/12/china-exports-imports-continu...

China's exports have stopped growing and that is a very, very serious problem with debt fueled growth focused on exports. They'll have to print money [to bring export growth back and avoid a private debt bubble bursting] which is why everyone is betting against their currency. Or they'll go into a recession and they'll need to print money.
Sam Altman Q&A (31 Jan 2016) scribe
I am moderately happy. There is no one big thing right now that would dramatically change my happiness as a working programmer/dev. There are little things that could be changed by me or the people I work for that would increase my happiness. But I am happy with the big picture and how things are moving. Day to day is a rollercoaster. Finding new bugs can be frustrating. Bashing your head against bugs that don't make sense can be horrible for happiness, but at the same time, once you solve it and the weight is lifted off you feel great. The hardest part for me is believing in myself, that I am capable of solving something that I am having trouble understanding. That and dealing with corporate America.

I don't see myself working as a programmer my entire career. I have about 5years professionally, but how much longer, I don't know.
It's not based on opposites.

Subs needed location and heading to sink a ship. They realized that gross location was out, so heading became the next target.
UK approves embryo 'gene editing'
There isn't a top economist alive who believes China's self-reported GDP numbers aren't fudged in one way or another

Meta: Why is it SOP on HN to downvote/chastise those who claim US economic numbers are fabricated, or post zerohedge/shadowstats links, yet fully embrace the notion of the PRC is doing it? What makes the US so special in its sainthood?
Implementing a Z-Machine in OCaml
"Popular" is a relative term. Early in the middle ages, long division was considered advanced, graduate-level work.
HomeHeart (homeheart.org) are hiring a full-stack tech lead in London onsite. Current web-app built on ruby with thoughtbot. We're a fast growing elderly care startup.

Read our medium post: http://bit.ly/1UoZjLc
Apply here: homeheart.workable.com
I enjoy an environment that respects developers, their comfort, and their passions while pursuing new techniques and technologies to better their stack and make developers' lives easier.

However, I temporarily gave that up to see how I'd like the corporate world of Java programming. Although I don't mind working around people (previously worked from home), I will say this: I care more about the software instead of someone's weekend.
Those FTDI chips and clones only work with that driver. They aren't class compliant. What should Windows do here when a device gives the FTDI USB ID? Seems like its doing what it should.
Sort of on topic, here a great 2011 article by Weather Underground's Jeff Masters on one of the major control structures on the Mississippi that prevents it from taking a more direct route to the Gulf of Mexico:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...
Much less than 150 years. Once the river moved, almost no more silt would be deposited.
If you're relying on "private browsing" or "incognito mode" to protect you from nation state adversaries you're gonna have a bad time. This is a poorly implemented feature, not something meant to penetrate your tin foil hat.
Looks like a fun read. I did a search, and it looks like there was no mention of the EPCOT project[1]. I would have enjoyed the authors' take on the subject.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)