skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Insikt (pronounced “in-seekt”) is a white label loan origination and investing platform that enables any brand to lend to its customers and any accredited investor to invest in consumer loan portfolios.
Insikt was born out of our realization that banks will not be the lenders of tomorrow – brands will. Traditional banks, saddled with new rules and regulation, are no longer in the business of taking risk and making loans and cannot be relied on to deliver credit access and opportunity to the masses. Instead, tomorrow’s lenders will be media companies, retailers and prominent brands that have deep relationships with their customers and want to step in to help their customers get a fair loan. But, to do it right, they need scoring, servicing, technology and capital — all of which are expensive and difficult to build. So, why build it if you don’t have to? This is the future of lending. Any brand or company can be a lender. We’ve launched “Lending as a Service” (LaaS) to power this transformation. We are bringing together the best and brightest to solve real problems in the financial industry. We are looking for diverse talent across many different domains including designers, front end and back end development, product management, analytics and data science, credit, operations, and capital markets.We want passionate, fun-loving people who can contribute positively to our company and our culture. Let us know if this sounds like you.
http://www.insikt.com

Technologies: front-end: angular, react
back-end: java/scala (finagle), node, groovy, postgres
we run on AWS and we use ansible for deployment.

Contact me: jlisam@insikt.com with the subject "HN".
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin. No remote unfortunately
For anyone jumping into Elixir/Erlang, here's a few great books you should look into:

* Learn You Some Erlang http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
* Erlang in Anger http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
* Programming Elixir 1.2 https://pragprog.com/book/elixir12/programming-elixir-1-2

For working with larger scale Elixir apps, a working knowledge on the erlang vm/beam.smp & OTP is vital to your success!
My problem with such tools as that it always looks nice on toy examples but when faced with some real-life complexity the source seems always way more clear and faster to navigate.
I literally closed my account because of their ridiculous security requirements.

For the record, I'm much happier with Interactive Brokers: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/
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Our mobile App for iOS and Android enable gather information and resolve tasks using private workforce or using our community (crowd). We have been growing the last two years and now we're expanding to other countries.

The roles we're hiring for:

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How about, oh I dunno, actually posting a recording of the noise?
After 2 months using Elixir in a big project for a big company, I must say that I'm really enjoying what's going on. Some libraries are still young, but other than that, the main ones work as expected.
Bored teenagers can (and sometimes do) "exploit" real drivers. I've seen kids throwing rocks, and bricks off of overpasses, walking on the sidewalk lunge as if they are about to jump into the road as a joke, etc... I've also seen people slam on their brakes and/or swerve into other lanes to avoid empty plastic shopping bags blowing around, etc...
They value stability highly. So they often go with mainframes and software that was written in decades past. When the software was written, that stuff was often pretty good.
That's not the worst abuse; the worst abuse is studio apartments renting for over $2000/mo.
>Of course you do. The rise of the managerial and professional classes is a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution.

Not without political changes. Nobody is saying that industrial revolution did not bring middle class or reduce poverty. It's just that whole society must change and that includes new politics, new laws protecting their new rights, etc.

Some examples:

- 1819: Factory Act limited child working hours to 12 hours per day.

- 1832: any man owning a household worth £10 or more was allowed to vote,

- 1867: some working men were allowed to vote.

- 1874: Maximum weekly working hours per worker: 56.5 hours per week.

- 1918: all men over 21 and women over 30 were able to vote.

And that brings us back to the issue. Automation changes things and laws, rights and whole society must change.
Really, the only question that differs usefully is whether self-driving cars are deterministic enough to be reliably trollable.

Which if they take off, we'll probably find "Yes, until the machine-learning algorithm at the top aggregates the metrics from multiple cars on the road, devises a new rule, and pushes that rule via auto-update."
How hackers took over my computer
Good points. Still, all I can think about is that poor dog.
Sure :).
We are using local storage to cache some information and apparently local storage is not available in Safari's private windows.
He has no friends

but he gets a lot of mail
Frequently rediscovered technologies
We are working on this based on what we have discovered so far, there appears to be a content issue that's impacting deliverability. We have ruled out any issues with the IP address these messages are being sent from. Our lead reputation engineer going through this and we've not been successful in reaching out to the inboxtrail team yet.

Disclosure: I lead product development for Mailgun.
Watch the House Judiciary Hearing of FBI vs. Apple Live
Microsoft to unify PC and Xbox One platforms, ending fixed console hardware
Yes. See past recipients at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award . Almost all of them are for fundamental work that everyone builds on, and seeing that relies on the benefit of years or decades of hindsight.
Have you watched all of it? I want to get into it but am not sure where to start. If you had to choose 1-2 seasons of TV and a few films, which ones would you watch?
I seriously believe they are working on a Fusion Reactor.
Cyber attack on TalkTalk racks up £60m in damages, loss of over 101k customers
Ask HN: How does UX looks like in your company?
Do you have UX designer? Or a researcher? Who speaks with your users/customers? Or is UX part of graphic designer or coder's job?
Imagine New York City -- where unless a car appears as if it is ready and willing to kill pedestrians people will jaywalk directly in front of it.

Now imagine New York City clogged up with self driving cars -- frozen at each intersection in fear of hitting someone. It'd be a disaster.

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?
It is not a platform in the sense that's meant in the post above, which is why I said the article is misleading, not wrong.

Like you said, KDE leverages Qt. Qt doesn't leverage KDE in the sense that "Qt's native platform is KDE".

When you say "native" when talking about a cross-platform toolkit, you're implying the toolkit was first designed to run on that platform and then ported to others. Qt predates KDE, as you well know.

Are we done splitting hairs?
It's a possibly interesting question with a bad example case. In the specific crash cited, the human driver stated that they reached the same conclusion the car did. So to the extent that the car's algorithm was "gameable" here, a human was gamed the same way.

(Besides, since the "win" here was "Get the car to crash into your vehicle," I wouldn't call it "winning" precisely ;) ).
You mean "I cannot lie" or did you intentionally change the lyrics because you were worried about someone guessing the correct Sir Mix-a-Lot lyrics...?
You're absolutely correct. However, according to WP core devs, nothing should ever be done to inconvenience the user. Moving to a new version of PHP when apparently, user's who have websites don't even know the name of the language their website is built in, should not be put off by having to upgrade this strange thing.

I can't agree enough though, WP can be a huge driving force in making all hosting providers utilize modern versions of PHP. However, instead of using that weight to make a difference, they're completely content to hold PHP back. All at the expense and detriment of the user, in the name of the user.
Open Sourcing Mental Health
I don't believe this is shaking up anything. What this person is doing(I know personally the guy, I was born in Spain) 2D presentations(plotters) has been done by cookers manually for decades.

IMHO 3d printers are going to be very important in the future,but not in their current form.

I volunteer teaching kids 3d printing and engineering not because the present but because of the evolution of it in 10 or 15 years.

Like it was essential to me to have an assembler or compiler when I was young in order to own a computer company or control machines as an adult, being raised with 3d printing is going to be essential for owning the robotics and technology space of the future(DNA manipulation).
Ethereum Now ‘Self-Sufficient for 4.5 Years’ Says Buterin as Price Climbs
How to Detect Drones, Predict Weather, and MORE with SDR-RTL and NooElec
Are these problems with Slack, or problems with the way people use Slack? I use Slack at work; it's just a fancy chat channel hooked up to our repository. We use it when we need to collaborate on something quickly and use other things when time is on our side.
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We have no UX role at all. It's not well, but it works.
Chicken chicken chicken (2007)
It's a one way bet! History proves that you can't lose any money at all investing in real estate. Ever.
Just a reminder for everyone wanting to simulate a bad network connection: setting a static packet-loss percentage, latency, and bandwidth limit does not accomplish that task. Real networks suck due to wireless interference and bufferbloat, which aren't simulated by tools this simple. Optimizing your software to perform well under this simulation may help it work well on a satellite link, but could be counterproductive for common real-world problems.
Yeah, we shouldn't mention bad company behavior on a thread about... bad company behavior.
Well went thru the links and not one sound clip I heard of this noise - which I find equally just as odd, lots reports of the noise and clips of people getting there slot of TV fame, but not one link to the actual noise - least what I gleaned thru.

So who knows, just equally as odd no recordings I could find of this noise, though there must be some out there somewhere I'd imagine if it is that much of an issue.
it was already done ~86 days ago, so it won't be back for a bit longer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684447
Browser market share in February 2016
There used to be an OpenSSL worm that took advantage of a bug in the SSLv2 support: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/09/25/1210247/new-linux-wo...
I have to put in a security question answer every time I log in to the Bronto email marketing service. Have to go into LastPass and look up the string I used.
I disagree. Rights to locations are a practical necessity to classical liberalism itself, and are not at all at odds with its logic. The basic foundation of liberty is the ability to own private property. I think most (if not all) classic liberal thinkers would object to the assertion that my ownership of private property requires restitution to be given to anyone.
Isn't that something that coders could do?
A friend of mine works for them and he pronounces the company name like "daiquiri", so I'm pretty sure they are aware of the comparison.
SparkPost gives you 100k emails/m for free.

I don't work for them.
SoftIron builds a single processor AMD Opteron A1100 64-bit ARM server, in a 1U chassis: http://softiron.co.uk/products/

Not sure on pricing though.
Great article! I had no idea that Wordpress still deployed on such outdated versions of PHP.

I moved away from Wordpress years ago, but it's always great to see the community pushing to make everything more secure.
Any advice on what paper of theirs to read in celebration of the event? Something approachable.

When Lamport got his in 2013 I took the time to read "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" [1]. Been sleeping under the rock since then.

[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf
Thistle - SF - https://angel.co/thistle-1/jobs/97516-software-engineer

Thistle offers a subscription for delicious, organic and healthy meals - the ease of Munchery/Sprig with the business model of Blue Apron

Looking for full stack engineers (senior and junior) that are passionate about healthy food. Work includes:
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- Infrastructure for designing, preparing and delivering 1000s of meals.
- Testing new user acquisition and engagement strategies

Stack is Python/Django, but if you're a fast learner we will be just as interested in what you like to eat for lunch.
This topic comes up over and over again, and people keep missing a key difference between automated vehicles and human drivers---automated vehicles have cameras and perfect memories.

How many times do people get to play that game until the NYPD is flooded with metrics on where to go to hand out free jaywalking tickets?
Transmission?
Why do I get the feeling Yelp has a lot more low skill employees than nxVenture Capital? The exact opposite point can be made with Walmart.

edit: also, did anyone else find his claim that he pays his Administrative Assistant 300k to be a bit strange? That's an insane amount of money for that position is it not?
Those things are solved by non-native toolkits.

Qt comes to mind - which allows simple css styling of the whole UI, applied everywhere, in a simple manner – but still can look native.
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We are actively looking for a smart and curious thinker to join our team and create a modern developer tool for the martech industry.

About:
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A perfect candidate:

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* speaks e-commerce language and fluent English

* knows cloud stack

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* enjoys being pushed out of the comfort zone

Your job will be to:

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If this was true, you'd expect hobbyist radio operators to notice, right? That increases the required conspiracy size by orders of magnitudes.
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Ha, yea. The Chicago region has a lot going for it but there are a few things that are really painful. Cloud tax? Brilliant Idea! Despite that, taxes and the like are modestly-sized constants. They haven't stopped businesses from growing exponentially here and I don't think they're a reason (alone) to relocate. Though there will certainly be edge cases where they add enough friction to prevent positive feedback loops from kicking in.

For Catalytic, we'll live or die based on whether we can quickly find the right colleagues and customers. This region has a lot of both. And there are some very real advantages to starting here (big fish in a little pond, etc) vs SF.
You want the author to add a random buzzing sound to add more credibility to the article?
Darn kids these days, with their automocars and compuwhatsits. It's a darn shame they'll never know real life, shoveling horse dung and plowing the fields, like humans were meant to live.
In actuality, text is a visual representation. Code is text, what he means is the abstract.

Text mandates a layout that most have at least some experience, but because it's sequential it doesn't map as well to problems in more yet few dimensions. Good graphical layout in contrast is almost a niche skill, just like project layout, architecture (3D) or and software architecture and engineering in more than three dimensions.
Unless behavior changes, perhaps because something changed regarding enforcement of laws governing pedestrians which changed the perceived incentives. Which, were self-driving cars to become more common and, consequently, moving violations by human drivers less of a problem for traffic and safety and pedestrian violations relatively more of a problem for traffic, would probably happen.
It's a long book but it is worth reading. One of my favorite books.
Nepsu Triangle Speaker
It's slightly non-trivial to even shield modern car audio system itself from interfering with it's own AM receiver. It involves things like dynamically scaling various clocks to be outside of the currently tuned AM channel and so on.
18F | Full-time | ONSITE (DC, SF, NYC, CHICAGO) and REMOTE

18F is a technology consulting office inside the government, for the government (i.e. we are all federal employees!). We work with federal agencies to build and buy digital services that meet their needs, and we educate our fellow federal employees about how to move to high-functioning, efficient, and user-centered software development techniques.

You can see some examples of our work here: https://pages.18f.gov/intake/past-work/

Open positions:
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I want to get into it but am not sure where to start. If you had to choose 1-2 seasons of TV and a few films, which ones would you watch?
Arguably, that's already being worked on---semi-automatic cruise control that factors in signals about local traffic flow and the curve of the road has already been deployed in some luxury vehicles. Applying it to freight hauling probably has more to do with the entrenched cheap solutions we have now than with missing technology.

("Why don't we have both?" as the meme says)
There was a discussion about it on HN few weeks ago and someone rightly pointed out this is prone to social hacking by the attacker saying "well yeah I put some random garbage string, don't remember exactly". Remember, human part is the weakest point here.
It's what have been done in 1977 on the MITS Altair 8800 by Steve Dompier at the Homebrew Computer Club. The beginning of the personal computer history.
Interesting story about Diffie testifying at the Newegg trial.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-cryp...
And yet - if there are human drivers, even if 4 cars hit the intersection at the same time, eventually someone will go first. It might be comical for a few moments, but eventually things work out.

With self-driving cars, you could end up in a deadlock and no one would get anywhere...
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Fullstack Software Engineer

Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by First Round Capital, the Gates Foundation and Imagine K12. We're looking for engineers and offer meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.

Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node (for notifications), Go microservices, Backbone.js

Here's the listing: https://www.raise.me/jobs/full-stack-engineer Don't worry about the '5+ years...' or having experience with our specific stack. We know talented engineers can learn our stack. However, we are looking for engineers who would consider themselves mid-level to senior, as opposed to people with no job experience.

Apply to jobs[AT]raise.me or you can email me directly at ryan[AT]raise.me.
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Come join us in building out Indiegogo's platform to help entrepreneurs bring their idea from concept to market. We're all full-stack engineers and build mainly on Rails and Angular with a dusting of React.

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I'm a Software Engineer here and can answer any questions. Feel free to reach out directly: w+hn@indiegogo.com (engineers only - don't abuse it)
Axon.io | Seattle | Onsite | FTE

Looking for:

-Backend

-Full Stack

-Web Dev

-Android

-iOS

-DevOps

We develop wearable cameras and software services for law enforcement to encode, ingest, encrypt, process (facial recognition/transcription/etc) and allow users to manage and interact with their data all at scale.

Contact Email: jbrande@taser.com
"nothing should ever be done to inconvenience the user."

Having sites hacked due to old version of PHP is an inconvenience.

Why not just tell everyone to chmod 777 the entire website too, just so they're not inconvenienced?

Tongue-in-cheek, of course, but there's a balance to be struck between convenience and security, and I think they're somewhat on the wrong side.

I was really mixed on the 'auto-update' wordpress core stuff. While I get it - it keeps some people up to date - it also means my system needs to be left in a state where software can be altered, and that means it can be maliciously altered too.

The "moving to a new version when they don't know the language" argument - I don't buy it. Almost everyone I know who has wordpress installed who is not a techie has a host that manages it, or presses a button on a control panel. Pressing another button, or having the host do some more stuff - neither of these are inconveniences that outweigh the security benefits - not just to that site owner, but the rest of the internet.
isn't it possible that you've seen qt apps you couldn't tell apart and therefore didn't realise they were built with qt?
Thanks for mansplaining that.
Okay, I didn't know that. I made that assumption because I've never seen a web browser resume a download that was interrupted.
A negative income tax is, imho, the least morally reprehensible replacement for our current welfare state (which is extremely immoral).
He starts off by saying Humans are pretty good at guessing what others on the road will do. Driverless cars are not, then goes on to quote Our test driver, who had been watching the bus in the mirror, also expected the bus to slow or stop

So apparently in this case the human didn't out guess the car, since he saw the bus and could have stopped the car if he thought the bus would not stop. Humans are unpredictable, and no one (human or computer) can predict their actions every time.
too many variables? have you done a tech company before? are you solid in a market yet? what's your goal? have you been through an incubator? how big is the team?

https://equityzen.com/blog/metrics-required-for-series-a/
Why Apple Must Win vs. The FBI