skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK, Marlow | Full-time | Onsite only
http://squaredup.com

Squared Up was founded with the vision of using cutting-edge data visualisation to solve the challenges of Enterprise IT complexity and, from humble beginnings, we are loved by some of the world’s leading companies and growing fast.

We’re a genuine start-up, which means that there are no old grey men in suits telling us what to do; we’re driven by ambitious software engineering goals, not by the demands of sales teams and investors, and are passionate about building an awesome company together.

We’re based in the picturesque town of Marlow, a beautiful spot on the River Thames between Maidenhead and Reading, where you’ll be joining a young, dynamic, energetic team. Don’t worry if you’re not already local to us, if you’re the right ﬁt for Squared Up, then we’ll help you relocate.

If this sounds of interested drop us a line at brilliantcareers[at]squaredup.com

You’ll head to community events to keep up to date with the latest tech trends, get face-to-face with customers at our regular customer workshops, or travel to the world's largest technology conferences to help spread the word about the amazing product you've helped build - all at the company’s expense. And, of course, being treated to some amazing company social events like Secret Cinema.

Skills & Requirements:

• You must have experience with JavaScript or ASP.NET MVC or both. If you only have experience with one, you’re willing to roll your sleeves up and get stuck into the other.

• You put the needs of the user first and have a passion for delivering clean, intuitive UI.

• You have a keen interest in data visualisation: you’ve dabbled with d3.js, devoured Edward Tufte’s book series or can wax lyrical about Bret Victor’s Magic Ink essay.

• If you’re a JavaScript guru, you’ve been hands-on with mustache templates and reactive libraries like Ractive.js. Or you’re an Angular.js veteran who’s looking for a fresh start.

• You probably have some experience with the Microsoft stack and related technologies: Azure, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET, HyperV, VMWare, Active Directory etc. Again, if you don’t already have the experience, you’re willing to give it a shot.

Email: brilliantcareers[at]squaredup.com

Apply online: https://squaredup.com/about-us/careers/
Non-human animals also find random things that work for whatever it is they're doing.

Chimps eat a plant called Veronia that kills gut parasites.
Does it mean chimps are smarter than humans and are also doctors?
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Everybody talk about Mailgun, but there are other valuable alternatives: Sendgrid, AWS SES, Postmark.

At Redokun we use Postmark. It proved to have a good deliverability and the UI is very good.
I feel like it would be a good resource/library to have once we can just upload information straight to our minds or accessible by thought.
Wow, I had no idea that this was taking up so much battery life. Thought this was a very interesting read!
Companies: PLEASE put a one/two-line description of your product/company in your job posts.

I get that you're fast-growing, you're looking for someone who inspires and contributes, you're early-stage, you're changing the fintech/medical/adtech/ai world.

What Are You Actually Doing???
Except for the fact that you do have some control over the perceptions of others. It's actually a pretty large part of the human operating system: taking a best guess as to how the community of people important to your own survival might perceive your choices and behaviors. It's no longer as important for immediate survival, but for social status (still an important Darwinan consideration), it's an imperative skill.
EquityZen | Manhattan, NYC | Onsite | Full Time
EquityZen improves the way startup employees are paid. We unlock the value of their equity compensation in a way that benefits all key players: the shareholder, the company, and the investor. We build industry-defining technology as the premier platform for private placements.
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* Software Engineers (python, django, JS/Bootstrap/angularJS, PG, AWS) Full Stack, Front End, and Back End
Meet us & get started here: https://jobs.lever.co/equityzen/?lever-source=HackerNews
London wins, it's 10 x population. SF has a lot of very impressive, well credentialed guys you're competing with, in a relatively small pool. If you're also "impressive" you might do well, but if you're just another programmer or finance guy, or wannapreneur good luck. I know a lot of girls who have told me how impressive the dating pool is in SF. Throwing PC to the wind: You'll find someone but you'll probably take a downgrade in attractiveness and will have less options overall. That said, there's a ton of really cool people here, probably in greater concentration than any world city.

If you like Asian girls, you are in the right city. From where I'm coming from, NYC is the ultimate city for dating in the US for heterosexual men. Ignore the self-proclaimed PUA guy. They exaggerate because their identities are so tied to it, and they sink an exorbitant amount of time and mindshare, unless they are exceptionally charming/ good looking/ have really good jobs, in which case they shouldn't apply their standards or expectations to others so casually.
Was very disappointed with Mandrill as I've been using them reliably for the last couple of years.

I did a bit of research as soon as the news was announced. And found Sendgrid the most on par with what Mandrill was offering.

It seems a tad slow, but it's ok. Someone mentioned SparkPost, but quite a few emails from them were going to SPAM folders.
Just like any investment, no?
CUTOVER | RUBY DEVELOPER | London UK | Full-Time | http://www.cutover.com

We’re looking for a hands on developer with a Ruby on Rails background to join us in the continued development of the Cutover platform and business, after our graduation from the Techstars program

We have a responsive AngularJS front end, built with a RoR backend, with mobile to follow. We want you to be the glue between them and help us continually improve the products API and background services. We're looking for someone with a distinct interest and experience in algorithms, machine learning and recommender systems, as well as experience building and leading teams. You will help shape the technical architecture of the product ongoing, as well as hands on coding. We're looking for a peer, rather than a pure, head down dev.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

It’s more you we’re interested in. We're looking for:

A solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading/caching)

Someone who is a real doer – someone who makes things happen; you find a way or make a way.

Someone who has worked in agile teams, shipping great products.

THE TECH STACK

Ruby on Rails 4/5

Capistrano

Knowledge and experience of scheduling algorithms, closure trees, object graphs

Knowledge and experience working with RESTful APIs

GIT, Vagrant, Amazon Web Services automation

APPLY

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a brief covering letter jobs@cutover.com. mentioning Kieran and HackerNews
Location: London UK

Remote: Willing to consider, +/- a timezone or two

Willing to relocate: Not just now

Technologies: Javascript (client + node), Python/Django, Clojure, Ruby/Rails, Elixir, Elasticsearch, AWS

Resumé: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/jamesturley/James_Turley_...

Email: jamesturley1905@googlemail.com

I've been working the last year and a half at a major media company redoing the website and API of a flagship print title in Node. Due to 'creative differences', I would like to move on. Ideally, I would like to write less Javascript as a proportion of overall output, although I am perfectly happy writing JS as part of a balanced diet.
I am going to San Francisco
Senior Software Engineer, Rhumbix

Rhumbix is a mobile platform designed to increase construction productivity and safety. We are the first company to use crew telematics to capture field data in real-time from worker's smartphones. The result is safer job sites, a reduced administrative burden, and more time at the work face.

• Just raised Series A with Greylock Partners

• San Francisco, CA - ONSITE w/ Relocation

• Looking for: - iOS Engineers - Android Engineers - Python
Engineers (Django / Data Science) - Full Stack Engineers

Email jon at rhumbix.com and include "Hacker News" in the subject line.
Think Big | Mountain View + NY + Boston + Salt Lake City | Staff + Senior + Principal Data Engineers

Think Big is an engineering and analytics firm that focuses on Big Data for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. We are hiring engineers in the cities mentioned on our career page.

https://thinkbiganalytics.com/big-data-careers/open-position...

I'm a data engineer here. If you are interested or want more details, send an email with your resume to jonathan.edwards@thinkbiganalytics.com
The Orchard Platform team is growing! Join our talented team of engineers from Google, Admeld, Bloomberg, and Lab49. We're currently hiring polyglot Backend Engineers with a passion for Scala and interest in learning Apache Spark. If you're a student of Martin Odersky and Bill Venners we want to talk!
Our Stack Spark, Mesos, Accumulo, Vertica, and Kafka.

http://www.orchardplatform.com/company/careers/job-posting/?...

Send emails: eng@orchardplatform.com
Apple, Inc. | Cupertino

Apple’s Siri is looking for exceptional engineers, designers, and project managers well versed in machine learning, natural language, speech recognition, server automation, and/or mobile software development. Siri is used on countless iOS and watchOS devices and handles over a billion requests per week.

If you’re passionate about sports, quality, or one of a variety of open positions you’ll be right at home.

Apply online or send a resume and a feature request to brittanyd@apple.com.
Brazil also arrested Google Brazil CEO/Country Manager a few years ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/tech/brazil-google/
Percipient Networks | Wakefield MA (remote possible) | Full-time & Summer Internships

https://strongarm.io/careers/

We're building strongarm.io - the best way to stop malware from damaging your business - and are seeking software and operations engineers to help us build and scale our services.

Last summer, we had four successful hires from Hacker News. Now we are looking for a couple more. You'd be joining a small team of passionate engineers and security experts dedicated to helping secure businesses of all sizes. We love Python, Django, and Twisted and run on AWS.

Please email jobs@strongarm.io for more information and to apply.
Yeah, we'll see. I suspect there are chefs with more imaginative uses of this than you or I have. All I'm saying is you can't rule it out for the same reason as nutrient pills.
BMW i3 has the AM hardware builtin but disabled it in firmware [1] due to the exact same reason: electromagnetic interferences caused poor quality of the AM reception.

Obviously, AM radio on i3s can be re-enabled by firmware hacking - called "coding". [2]

Even with the full metal body/frame, AM radio noise caused by EMI emitted from EV motor/circuits was still significant. I guess it's still VERY HARD to shield these EMIs.

Full disclosure: I've owned BMW ActiveE and BMW i3.

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098893_bmw-i3-electric-...

[2] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1099782_bmw-i3-rex-elect...
We are simply not talking about the same people.
Positions:

Backend Developer (Erlang, C, C++) - Montreal (ONSITE)

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Please make sure to CC lp at adgear.com with your email to jobs at adgear.com so we know you're from HN :)
Down for me too, just run the app in mobile safari. Works on Firefox OSX.
Getting Started with OpenCV for Java on Ubuntu
This is exactly the kind of danger that we should be fearing when bringing "driverless" cars into the world. I find the technology to be incredible, but having driverless cars on the roads can seem a bit careless. What would have happened if the driver would have gotten hurt? Where is the accountability?
I don't think the events are related to soldiers mistakenly driving in. Kalandia is a daily clash spot and people get killed all the time there.
> Is driving a single vehicle into a camp enough of an offense to warrant Molotov cocktails?

In isolation, of course not. But there are decades of context that affect this situation; it wasn't a single vehicle that provoked the attack.

(To be clear: I oppose violence by all sides.)
It's interesting, 5 months ago we made the switch to Mailgun because we were afraid of this day.

Basically, MailChimp didn't like Mandrill sending mass emails from the beginning. As far as I remember (5 months ago) Mandrill only allowed you to send emails one by one but Mailgun lets you send 1K emails at once.

That, plus the fact that they changed their policy for verifying domains with no notice which affected many users (not us).

http://blog.mandrill.com/we-are-making-domain-verification-m...

"This is a breaking change for us, we didn't have any notice at all?! Very poor customer service!" -- Adam Curtis (Mandrill user, 7 months ago)

Lucky for us we made the switch many months ago!

FYI, I'm sad to see that MailChimp (as a company) cannot see how two divisions in the same company can compete. Like Amazon hosting Netflix and also competing with Netflix. IMO, Amazon management is smart enough to keep these two divisions separate enough so either one that'll do a better job will succeed.
Twitter has lost more than $2B since it was founded
The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix
The GitS dub is so bad that particular horrible lines are burned into my permanent memory. I haven't watched the dub in at least a decade, and I still remember the scene on the boat where the Major says, "I feel confined, only FREE to expand myself within boundaries." The translation is clunky, but the reading should have disqualified the voice talent from ever working again.
The Oxford interview (and why admissions needs shaking up)
QGIS, for example (that's Qt4 app).

While it is a great apps, UI-wise it is exactly as masklinn wrote. It has weirdness-es on all - Windows, OSX and Linux.
I wonder if they found certain types of Mandrill users were destroying their deliverability metrics and were starting to cause issues with major email providers and their spam factors. These ESPs can't exist with poor desirability, so they have to put protecting that ahead of a lot of other things that might get them more customers.
Agreed. I have a spot open now and have done ~10 interviews in the past couple months. We do something much easier - "write a function to return whether a string has a balanced number of parenthesis". Essentially a number, +1 for (, -1 for ), return false if <0, return true if 0 at end of loop.

20% of our applicants pass this, and they all go through a phone screen first..
Indiana is great, short drive to Chicago :) Though my actual income tax did not change a bunch, lower state income tax but then I have a local income tax of 2%.
In the early 2000's I wrote a few apps with this toolkit and was quite happy with them. The native widgets looked/worked correctly and were "snappy." Around that time everyone decided that we would use QT from now on, even though it looked slightly off. I never had any complaints about wxWidgets/Python except for the passing of ID numbers. shrug
Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie Have Received the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award
Just tested on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) and it didn't work. (Although I see in the README it says to run it on an Apple MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2015). Anyone else get it to work?
Graeme Hackland on the Evolving Role of the CIO
Smart.js is based on two projects:

- V7: a small portable JS VM (https://github.com/cesanta/v7)
- mongoose: a portable async multiprotocol networking library (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose)

Both of those projects are independent and have some traction on their own; but you're right that we should make it more explicit.
Mongoose is out there since 2004 and is a quite popular embedded http server. We added many other protocols to it, including also COAP and DNS.

Arduino libs are not used because they are not async and not portable.

Honestly I don't know about node-red, sounds interesting; however node's V8 VM is too heavyweight for the smallest devices we aim to support. Smart.js does expose a nodejs-compatible core API wherever possible, so it might be possible to port node-red to it.
I've watched both his React and React Native tutorials and loved both of them!

I had the chance to talk with him after a local JS meetup and he was super nice. Can't recommend his stuff more.
Defining nations as their government, and not their people, is a dangerous thing.
iHeartRadio - New York, NY | Full-Time | On-site

We are looking for passionate, motivated skilled engineers in the following areas.

Frontend Engineer - Building our desktop and mobile web experiences using React, Node. Understands functional reactive programming and frontend architecture patterns

iOS Engineer - Looking for junior, mid and senior Engineers to help expand our work on iOS working across iPhone/iPad using universal binaries as well as 3rd party platforms such as TvOS

Android Engineer and Director Engineering, Android

Systems Engineer - Devops focused engineer working in AWS looking to help automate all parts of our infrastructure. A lot SRE related work here

Test Engineer - Looking for strong automation engineers familiar with Selenium and Appium to help build out automated functional and load testing frameworks directly integrated into our product teams to ensure we ship high quality products

Please see http://jobs.iheart.com for more information and application details.
"Armed to the teeth" with rocks
I'm personally more inclined to believe her.

Right, me too. The CEO's evasions on this matter serve no purpose, and just bring Yelp's credibility further into question, generally.
[LIVE] Congressional Hearing on Encryption and Federal Investigations
Press release: http://awards.acm.org/turing-award-2015.pdf
This is the convention when talking about speedup in software. 1x speedup means identical time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedup
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Completely different. This is all about how the system handles a read/writing.

The original behavior was the OS/Hardware would tell your program it has data ready (hardware limited to hundreds of times/sec). This was changed to your program showing up occasionally with a large truck to load data (basically cpu limited).

The old way was perfectly fine for mechanical hard disks, but with SSDs they were running into limitations with how often you can process interrupts (think of them as a hardware level context switch, very expensive).
Disclosure: I'm not in any way financially linked to SendGrid.

A startup I used to work at used SendGrid. I have nothing but good things to say about the experience. I liked it better than Mandrill, which I've used more recently.
Sure, but that's not really professionally produced content then. Wiki's and social sites are just users creating content for themselves, which is a fine system, although most wikis (especially the wikia network) is all financed through advertising anyway so it's the same thing.

Paywalled content is going to need to be more than facts, in fact if it's just facts then most news sources are overkill. Rather its the voice and other in-depth journalism that would demand a premium. In this case though there are pretty powerful copyright protection systems in place that it's not really a worry. The same reason why little youtube players complain about stolen videos but not the big studios.
Have you ever seen rain with Sunlight?
> The main difference is that you the developer can test with a known compiler and know what the performance characteristics are before you release your code: when Microsoft releases VisualStudio 2018, your existing application doesn't change until you rebuild it. In contrast, for code running in a web browser or something like the JVM, your existing code may run faster or slower without you even knowing about the new version.

While the release of a new AOT compiler version might not affect the performance characteristics of your application without an active choice to recompile, the release of updates to any OS components your application interacts with, may, in much the same way that a new web browser or JVM version would. The only way you get immunity from that is to bundle the whole software stack running on the bare metal as your "app", rather than relying on lower-level software that may change independently.
Even if they reverse course (or just delay it for a bit longer to give their users more time to switch), I think people are going to be shouting "down with Mailchimp" for quite some time. It's really hard to trust someone after they've screwed you thoroughly.
That would make issue trackers / change logs more interesting to read. ;-) A lot!
>If the US economy tanks, they'll be fine. If Europe falls apart, they'll be fine. A bunch of start up unicorns fail in Silicon Valley? Fine.

I think you're probably unfamiliar with the Harvard endowment's performance over time. They were badly hosed during the recession, despite their diversification.

> They care about wipe out risk, on the scale of centuries.

Perhaps they should, but they don't. They could easily put all their money in TIPS, after all.

The various college endowments are quite competitive with one another, with all the risk taking that implies. It's very silly.
How to Deploy Software
The Mailgun spam rate of 37.5% [1] seems both awful and unusual as no other provider seems to suffer from this. Does anyone know if this data is flawed, or what's the story here?

[1] As reported by https://www.inboxtrail.com/compare
There also used to be a program that would transmit audio over radio waves using a CRT monitor.
Also, US military procurement could not possibly work without a free market in which they could buy supplies in. There's entirely too many different kinds of things they need, from uniforms to food to parts for materiel. It would be utterly impossible to manage the production and distribution of these things of these things without a robust market that rewards everyone involved.
I don't think the two other responders to your question quite have the whole answer so I'm going to chime in. Warning: I'm not a kernel developer, have only read the article and work with linux daily.

To answer your second question, this doesn't have anything to do with disk changes/inotify/etc that a program would use. My understanding is that currently \many\ IO devices respond to the kernel's request for data by triggering an interrupt that then takes time for the kernel to get to for reading. The interrupt process can be a bit slow leading to latency when waiting for the disk to respond. The new system, rather than waiting for an interrupt, continuously checks the driver for new data and as it doesn't rely on an interrupt can achieve far better latency. Lower latency means more operation per second.

With spinning disks who are only able to do <200 operations per second with latencies around 5ms this won't have much of an effect but with SSD who are able to do >2000 operations per second with latencies around 0.5ms trimming off 0.1ms per operation (made that number up) via polling rather than waiting on an interrupt can mean about 20% more operations per second.