skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, there's two positions that I'm looking for. One full time mid-to-senior engineer and one three month internship.
I think this is a great example of finding an unglamorous problem and then relentlessly executing on it. It's been a pleasure to watch.

- There is clearly an opportunity here and it's more work than simply writing a webapp, putting stripe on it and pumping VC money into Facebook ads. These guys have been doing the dull background work and that's a long-term slog, but an even longer-term win.

- Unlike a lot of startups, there's no clear acquirer on the horizon. I'd bet on a profitable business quietly growing into an IPO and then staying independent. I see some Buffett factor here!
There are some places in the world that I'd hate to have a self-driving car, e.g. South Africa, Brazil, or West Oakland. In such areas, I'd assume it would be trivially easy to stop the car and rob the presumably well-to-do occupants.

How would a self-driving car react to situations like these?
https://youtu.be/2VAlyDXl3LY
https://youtu.be/9RzeRlhhprw

These are situations that you'd presumably want to run through the roadblock. Whereas in others, e.g. an undercover cop with a gun to your head, that you'd want to stop for.
It is not required that the interviewer be able to pass his own question, silly. ;)
Peek is hiring, so come join our awesome, San Francisco-based team
She made herself a liability with her own inappropriate behavior. I'm not defending the chuckleheads she had a problem with, but I'm not holding her up as some sort of vigilante hero.
How effective is Robinhood’s growth hack?
Israeli troops relied on Waze blundered into deadly firefight with Palestinians
Android Engineer – poynt.com - Poynt –Palo Alto, CA (ONSITE)

We’re seeking a full-time Android Engineer that knows how to make their way around the AOSP stack.

You'll be responsible for building, launching and maintaining Poynt OS (our secure version of Android + payments firmware that’s gone through PCI-PTS certification ) that will help small business from all around the world process payments in new ways: EMV, NFC, old-school magstripe, other future payment methods. We also build tools for pushing out software updates and capabilities to Poynt devices.

We’re a team of Xooglers, Ex-Amazonians, and Ex-PayPals. We have commitments from all across the world (U.S., Brazil, etc.) to replace brick-looking Verifone and Ingenico payment terminals with our Poynt devices.

Poynt has raised $28M in Series B funding. Our investors include Oak Investment Partners, Matrix Partners, and Google Ventures.

If you have deep Android expertise and are interested in joining us as an early software engineer then come help us build secure payments hardware that’s always connected -- send your info to careers at poynt.com
The post is interesting, but it doesn't mention two major difficulties: zero downtime deploys and database migrations.
If I said A was 50% faster than B which is faster? Because it means the same as A is 0.5x faster than B.
This is sort of the thing though - people can experiment and test the limits of a driverless system with little to no consequences. Once they know those limits, they can abuse them, knowing when it's always safe to cut off a driverless car for example. I can picturing all the videos on youtube now about how to fuck with these things.

With human drivers, that unpredictability factor adds to a level of fear which often prevents this sort of behavior.

I think there's also a primed number of people who would do this out of open hostility to self-driving cars, "took our jobs" types, etc and a lot of people who would do it just for fun or to make their own trips quicker.
Redox Chemicals - Burley, ID - Full Time or Local-ish* contractor - Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer - $50-75K - http://www.redoxchem.com/
Redox is a very fast growing fertilizer company with some amazing products that help reduce fertilizer needs by over 99% and even get better utilization of the product.

Software Engineer - We are looking for an amazing software engineer to put together some advanced software for a custom inventory management and tracking project we have coming up. We are in the process of completely revamping the entire digital infrastructure here and need your enterprising mind. Our current stack is Heroku, RoR, Postgres, ReactJS, RSpec, etc. iOS development experience is also a big plus.

Benefits include: health, dental, vision and life insurance. There is also 401K matching. MacBook Pro to your specs. Awesome work environment. Relatively inexpensive to live in south-central Burley.

So, if you are interested in working in small town America - Burley, ID, contact us - we would love to chat: it@redoxchem.com.
*local-ish = you can get to Burley on a regular basis.
Stasis Labs | Los Angeles | ONSITE preferred, REMOTE possible

Stasis Labs is hiring a full-stack software engineer. We're a startup based out of Los Angeles (Midcity / Beverlywood) building a medical hardware + software system for hospitals that will have a positive impact on people. Our first product will be available in 2016. We recently finished a pilot of our product in a large hospital in Bangalore.

Our first product is a vital signs monitoring system for hospitals targeting non-critical patients. These are patients who, today, are not currently continuously monitored.

You will be the sixth full-time employee of Stasis Labs, and the second full-time on the software team. You will have a great deal of autonomy and be responsible for shaping the culture, technology and processes of our company. We're a small team and are looking for someone who can learn quickly and become competent in multiple parts of the tech stack.

Our software stack includes C++, an Android application, and a web application (node.js backend, React frontend). We're using both Bluetooth Low Energy and wi-fi. Our cloud backend is an important part of our product.

We are especially looking for a candidate with hardware programming experience who can write clean, safe C++ code on an MCU. This person might be comfortable reading datasheets, and interested in device security. This person might even have some ECAD experience, and be able to make good decisions where hardware and software meet.

We are looking for someone excited to work with a variety of technologies on a daily basis.

If interested, please email stasislabs+hn@gmail.com
>People don't even want to eat optimally, they want to enjoy eating. Astronaut food does not deliver on this.

Really? I increase my enjoyment of food by eating when I am really actually hungry. Everything tastes good when you are hungry. Why do we need fancy tricks to make regular food palatable, Am I missing something here.
For a couple years I had an office across the hall from Diffie at Sun Labs and spent many a Friday evening Sun Labs Bash chatting with him about various topics of all kinds. Diffie is a kind and gracious man, well versed on a broad range of topics, a lot of fun, and well, a better dresser than I. Congrats to him and Martin Hellman!
I was once asked, during a phone interview, to describe how to implement quicksort. I told the interviewer that I had not done that in years and I wouldn't implement a sorting routine from scratch these days because I'd use a sorting routine from a library. The interviewer said he'd never had anyone say that before.

I ultimately joined that company as, I believe, the oldest engineer at the time. (At the time, I felt the remaining gauntlet of questions they asked were appropriate for the position I was applying for. And in retrospect, it was the younger interviewers, significantly junior to me, who were asking all the questions that required rote-memorization to answer, and the more experienced interviewers didn't.)

In another case, I was I getting interviewed (again, via phone) with a bunch of CS algorithm questions. Now, I have a CS degree, but none of this stuff comes up day to day. I told the interviewer that if these were the kinds of questions, then it didn't seem my 20 years of experience were what they were looking for. The interviewer, someone probably 15 years younger than me, was really flustered, since he was reading stuff right from some collection of questions they had previously prepared and this response didn't match any of the acceptable answers that were listed. The company recruiter called me back later and apologized because the feedback she got from the interviewer was that they were not prepared to interview someone with my experience. Oh, and any tips I could give their recruiting team to address this would be appreciated.

I told them I'd be happy to help improve their interview process, at my normal hourly rate.

I don't think these filters are explicitly designed to reject candidates based on age, but it does result in it as a side-effect due to the freshness of those topics in the younger candidates' mind. And it just ends up being "easier" to go with the candidate who can recite the answer they are looking for, vs actually evaluating the candidate's fitness for the given job. Or hiring someone and seeing how they work out. There's this need to "hit the ground running" with new hires, and a perception that somehow, those who can answer these random trivia CS questions are able to do that better. This isn't an excuse, however I think it does give us some information on how to address the existence/perception of age discrimination where it does exist.

(BTW, I took your use of "implicitly" as being unsavory, to mean "we won't need to reject people due to age, we'll just set them up to fail our test, and maintain our youthful culture", which is where a lot of the rhetoric around age discrimination is focused. That is, I don't necessarily consider it to be the result of bad actors, but inexperienced people who are forced into doing something they don't fully understand or appreciate the complexity of, and they just want to get it off their plate. Admittedly, you might have meant it as I describe in the former paragraph.)
I probably wouldn't have clicked it either were it not for your comment. Thanks for convincing me to give it a read!
I'm pretty sure that is the literal intention.
I think you're overestimating by a couple orders of magnitude what the average user is capable of composing as a search.
Should be noted that `Erlang in Anger` is available for free. It is a great book. And I agree, understanding Erlang is invaluable when working on real world projects with Elixir. The release process is still very 'erlangish', and knowing how the BEAM work is also important.
New York City; NLP Engineer ONSITE or REMOTE (Tri-state only)

Kip is an AI penguin that shops for you and your team. We're launched on Slack, and generating revenue. We're looking for someone passionate about NLP and interested in working on our penguin AI chatbot so it can understand messages and talk better with users :simple_smile:

You'll also be training our NLP based on data from our supervisor dashboard, chat logs with our users, and our proprietary corpus.

//* * Requirements * //
Python, Doc2Vec & spaCy (or similar), Node.js
Open to other NLP knowledge (like GloVe) that is applicable

TensorFlow/Torch7 knowledge and interest in machine learning is a plus

// * Salary * //
90k - 120k
1-3% equity on a 4 year vesting with 1 year cliff

// * Benefits * *//
Office is in Flatiron with health insurance and flexible work schedule. Plenty snacks and bottomless coffee.

We're a small team of 4 and quickly growing startup with focus on AI and commerce, generating revenue with users. You'll have a lot of say in the decision making, and also chances to lead/mentor if that's your interest.

//more info//
http://kipthis.com

hello AT kipthis DOT com
… only applies to GMail users. And here I thought this was relevant for me. I was almost shocked on reading the title.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Waterloo, ON

Remote: Yes, and preferred

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ryanfunduk

Strengths: Ruby (+Rails), JavaScript/ES6/Babel, CoffeeScript, Node, React, Redux, Backbone

Have had some experience with plenty of other things but those are the big ones. Happy and used to jumping into new things and unfamiliar codebases. Self-motivated and have started several products from scratch myself.

Contact info: https://ryanfunduk.com/contact
Q&A with Jamie Dimon on the Future of Finance
Blimey, it's taken until now to get bcrypt in Wordpress?

What the heck took them so long?
Induction furnace?
> Humans will quickly understand that these cars are easily bullied, and many will take advantage of that. Why wait for your turn when you can just cut off a driverless car?

"bullied?"

This doesn't sound like bullying to me; it sounds like utilizing the roadway properly (whereas 'jaywalking' laws paint a picture of the roadway as belonging to vehicles, which we New Yorkers protest everyday).

If anything, driverless cars might make occupants more patient when dealing with pedestrians with whom they share the roadway. If you can chill and listen to music, read something, etc, maybe you won't be in such a hurry.
"Fleep would like to:"

- View and manage your mail

(click the "info" icon)

More info

---------

View, manage, and permanently delete your mail in Gmail

Create, update, and delete labels

Compose and send new email

View your settings (e.g., filters and labels)

- - -

Okay. So the author is saying that the user cannot be trusted to read dialog boxes or click "more info" on a process they don't understand. Which, if that's the case, I guess the user can't be trusted to connect Gmail to anything. That's an unfortunately wide swath of usability that would have to be categorically disallowed if the problem is that Google allows this "At all."
I acknowledge this.

Now let me note that I linked to some studies, and rather than engage with their content, you just compared a guy to the Nazis for citing work that contradicts Nazi ideology without even discussing whether it is correct or incorrect.

Let me also point out that you know my general background; spend large amounts of time in Asia, advocate open borders vs nativism, have slept with 2 white ladies in the past 5 years (one Jewish), and argued against white superiority in the very thread you are replying to. Do you really think I'm pushing some sort of pro-Nazi position?
"Google users don’t block search ads because they are useful."

Nice joke Larry Page !

I go back to my uBlock origin ad safe browser
It's really awesome to see that Elixir is actually being used in the "real world". Do you mind sharing how you guys started using it? Did you start from scratch or were you an erlang shop prior to using Elixir?
> The "Brogrammer" is nothing more than the "Other" that certain people in SF likes to project all their unhappiness into

The "Brogrammer" is largely fictional. (Though I really did work for "the original metro-sexual brogrammer" in Houston, but he was an anomaly!) However, the kind of disingenuous othering and aggression perpetrated by the fictional "brogrammer" is done by many in the tech community, just with different trappings. (Which makes such behavior harder to see for what it is. We are all conditioned to seeing that as "the good guys" striking a blow for something.) So you may read my comment like this: "The real brogrammer epidemic is programmers and tech workers in general succumbing to the effects of affluence and privilege." Also: "The real brogrammers look and sound nothing like brogrammers. They look and sound like us!"
You're treating CS like its composed of two different divides ("algorithm programming" and "API programming"), when in fact I think you're forgetting that algorithms can be used as the proper foundation for API programming. Handeling asynchronous calls in the proper manner (as per your example) is extremely similar to the consesus algorithm I learned in my distributed computing class. I doubt I'll explicitly be asked to implement a meldable priority queue like my professor assigned in algorithms class, but is the process of designing an algorithm and its implementation to conform to a specific requirement any different from "defining the problem before finding a function"?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11204520 and marked it off-topic.
Iterable (https://iterable.com) - San Francisco, CA

Come join Iterable. We are 12 people bringing the growth hacking tools that consumer Internet companies like Twitter/Facebook build internally to other large-scale companies. We aim to build the best user growth engine on the planet. It's crazy how messaging and email usage are changing, but the technology and capabilities haven't caught up to the 21st century.

Our team of hackers and thinkers is from quant finance/Twitter/Google, (we built large parts of Twitter's growth systems). One of our top level goals is to build a uniquely fun and growth oriented company culture. Knowledge sharing in any capacity is highly valued here -- are you interested in prediction markets or PGP encryption? Do you enjoy teaching posture techniques or purely functional data structures to others? We pair program, design together, and generally create a learn-and-teach environment here. This is an opportunity to join a super-fast growing startup, in a huge market and with a great team, while it's still early.

If you're interested in coming on board, you can help with some challenges we face:

- Scale our messaging API
- Design and write performant, beautiful, asynchronous interfaces
- Write software to build machine learned user models
- Make data visualizations for our email and user data
- Design an immutable deployment infrastructure for our platform

Some aspects of our culture that make us different:
- We are all very focused on self improvement
- Our company has egalitarian and transparent values (work when you want, on what you want)
- We are chill and empathetic people
- The company is completely transparent
Technologies you'll work with:

- Scala
- Elasticsearch
- Postgres
- Redis
- AngularJS
- Play Framework
- RabbitMQ

You'll get to work with us at our office at 5th and Market in San Francisco. If this sounds like an interesting and fun opportunity for you, please email me: andrew at my company name
Docker Cloud Announced
Why Circular Profile Pictures Accentuate Faces
OAuth (Google Sign In / Facebook Login) is a pretty good technology in order to manage and share your information. What's nice about OAuth is that it allows the end user to control access to information and revoke access as needed.

What is truly scary is that the banks and financial institutions have not implemented OAuth. Currently, financial data is provided to third party apps via aggregators, like Plaid and Yodlee.

Unlike OAuth, once you log into your bank with a third party app, they get an access token that allows access to your account indefinitely. There is no mechanism to monitor which apps have access to your account and ability to revoke the access to individual apps.

I posted about this a while back: https://medium.com/@johnie/let-my-financial-data-free-74f3b7...
I don't see anything wrong with cure-all massive policy proposals. Some of them have worked in the past. For example, separating from the British Empire, freeing the slaves, and ending alcohol prohibition. (That last one has an obvious mirror in starting alcohol prohibition, but my point is just that they can work, not that they all do.) And yes, these all brought problems with them, but they were massive improvements.

I also don't see how this is "how every policy got started." There are plenty of policies that are incremental, evolutionary, and all that.

Obviously, big policy changes need to be approached very cautiously, since the potential for problems is huge. But that means you analyze and consider them carefully, not just say "nope, too big" and shut it down.
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We (Mailgun) have a process to support EU model clauses that has allowed us to continue supporting most of our EU customers. There are a lot of nuances to all of this, so it's best to talk to someone on our team who has expertise and access to our legal team to come up with a plan for you.

Additionally, the landscape will change on this once Privacy Shield, the successor to Safe Harbor, is enacted. It will offer stronger protections and guarantees to EU customers without the need to have model clauses signed between entities.

Our sales team sales [at] mailgun [dot] com can talk to you about your specific situation.
If the right if restricted to very rich or other highly exclusive group, then you could say people are functionally deprived of basic liberty.

This is exactly what happens in current form of capitalism due to high cost of entry into most markets. Including property markets.
All the cops freed up from having to write speeding and parking tickets can hand out jaywalking tickets instead.
Let me tell you why I love my job #dreamjob
I stay right besides sunnyvale apple office but have never heard of anything! :/
Brickwork | New York | ONSITE fulltime, REMOTE contract

Brickwork is a rapidly growing startup that is changing the way customers engage with brick & mortar stores, online. We are looking for senior software engineers to help us shape the product and the company while growing with us.

About you: You are an experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails developer comfortable working both on the front-end and back-end. You have a love of great products and the craft of coding. You are ready to have a big impact on our codebase, engineering process and culture. Ideally, you’re excited about helping to build strong engineering and product culture in NYC (this position is in our NYC office).

About us: We are a smart, efficient and fun team (if we say so ourselves) that has a great time working together. Brickwork is funded, has a strong customer pipeline and is poised for tremendous growth. We care far more for results than we do face time, but we certainly enjoy each others’ company. We also understand that there’s life outside the office, and that a well rounded team brings their best to work each day. This is a marathon and not a sprint and we are focused on building a company for the long haul.

REQUIREMENTS

2+ years’ Ruby or Rails experience

Experience working on a large Rails codebase

Computer science education a plus, but not essential (some of the sharpest developers we’ve worked with have transitioned from other fields)

Ideally you are:

A driven, passionate, get-@&^$-done type

Excited about working with a top-notch team with which you can share knowledge and mutual respect

Unafraid to be opinionated and to think deeply about the product we’re building

BENEFITS

Competitive compensation | Generous equity grants | Full medical benefits

Apply here: https://brickwork.workable.com/jobs/211401

Or email resume to: EED4E17E51@jobs.workablemail.com
I think the intent was to slightly obfuscate the musical rhythm.
They won't do that though, because they know that there will then be clamor for repeal of jaywalking laws.

I'm at 32nd and 2nd as I type this, and let me tell you: pedestrian pride is SERIOUS in NYC. We don't give a fuck about jaywalking laws, and if they start making this city impossible to walk in, city hall will hear about it.

Currently, jaywalking laws are (disgustingly) used to target people that police want to target and for no other reason. If you put it to a vote, I think that the vast majority of NYCers will prefer an "implied crosswalk" law, where pedestrians have the right-of-way in all situations except when they jump in front of moving traffic.
X-Frame-Options: All about Clickjacking? (2013?) [pdf]