skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Soma) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops)

Hi! We're Nylas. We build N1, the extensible, open source email client, and the infrastructure powering it. We're looking for fronted application engineers (React, Electron, JS), designers, backend systems engineers, & infrastructure/operations engineers.

We recently launched N1, have accumulated over 16K stars on GitHub, and are looking for core application engineers to design an extensible platform around email, calendar, and contacts. You'll not only use modern web tech to build a better email experience, you'll design the developer platform to power the next generation of email apps. See more about N1 here: https://nylas.com/N1 & code: https://github.com/nylas/N1

We take pride in the diverse culture we've built and are looking for more than raw technical talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7sHc4P4zPg

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* N1 uses javascript (ES6), React, Flux, SQL for offline caching, Electron, and no jQuery

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/nylas

* We're a small team

* We have a paid vacation policy & value personal responsibility and ownership.

Benefits include free Lyft to & from the office, full health, dental, vision, and lunch every day. Some remote work / work-from-home is OK too

Apply at https://nylas.com/jobs or ping me directly (karim@nylas). We're a diverse team, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Saudi wealth fund takes $3.5bn Uber stake
Alloy | San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, BC | Full-time, Onsite | http://alloy.ai

Over $20 trillion worth of goods are manufactured, transported, and sold each year - the things we use, wear and eat every day. The global supply chain is one the world's largest economic engines, but it struggles to keep up with its own complexity.

The manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that make up this complex network are limited by the information they posses. They struggle to track and respond to supply and demand as their product travels from production to consumer. Those who try rely on 40-year-old data standards, lots of manual Excel work, and hordes of human middleware.

At Alloy, we’re set to change all this. We provide the first comprehensive, low-latency view of demand and inventory across all distribution channels. Our platform connects manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and retailers, allowing companies to track their products down to the store shelf and better respond to end-consumer demand.

We are early stage, well funded by leading VCs, and growing. Our small team has diverse backgrounds and experience in analytics, large-scale enterprise software, and retail and financial technology. Culture really matters to us: we value diversity in all forms and strive to foster integrity, respect, and open communication.

We're committed to make enterprise software inspiring. We use Google Compute Engine, Postgres, Redis, Apache Spark, Python, Java and React, all wrapped in strong design.

== About You ==

You thrive in a small team where you can build technology from the ground up. You love to pick up new tech, get good at it fast and do something creative with it.

You don’t shy away from even the most challenging problems and are relentless in always looking for better solutions. You are self-motivated and enjoy working with others towards a common objective. Building software is the means to an end: you want to change the way an entire industry operates.

As an engineer at Alloy, you’ll do any or all of the following:

* Model parts of the supply chain and develop features that bring them together

* Automate the collection, parsing, and storage of huge volumes of data

* Design a flexible but blazing-fast analytics framework that powers instant insights

* Build beautiful, easy-to-use apps that our customers love to use

* Dive into server provisioning, deployment, automation, and monitoring

We would love to hear from you - send me a note at evan@alloy.ai
Nonsense, it took 10 seconds for me to run it. Just open firefox and click "remind me later" when it offers to update java.
How to write your own Virtual DOM
The key for me was:

> Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your network address. Like Bitcoin, Urbit address space is a cryptographic asset with a limited supply.

Additionally from the whitepaper:

> Functionally, Urbit is a full execution stack. VM, compiler, OS, network, web server, and core apps are 30kloc […]

It's a distributed, encrypted peer-to-peer virtual machine. Fascinating.

Interesting to see what Urbit _actually_ is after all the pretentious bullshit they've spouted in the past.
To write portable code, I wouldn't study de-facto definitions of de-jure undefined behavior, except to see if I could cover every possible one and only if all alternatives were inferior.
Currently to get the stream from ffmpeg into nginx you have to do the following:
ffmpeg -re -i input_file -c copy -f flv rtmp://nginx_server_url:1935/app

It would be nice to have the ability to set up an app block that looked kind of like this

application source1 {
exec fffmpeg -f decklink -i 'DeckLink Quad (1)@8'
-f flv rtmp://localhost/app/$name
}

ffmpeg is still pushing the stream to nginx, but nginx is in charge of starting that process.
That's what was in the article... I was expecting a longer list somewhere.

Those are not game killers. If points like that were game killers, we wouldn't have had the Atari or the Nes.
Blood money while they continue to execute people in the street.
A lot of people are mentioning "let's build a clone that is better and will do us greater justice", but ask yourself, with 14 million entrenched users, how is building an upwork clone any different to "let's build a twitter/facebook clone"?

The merger did precisely what they wanted it to do:

Give a single player a dominant market-share. This single player will then engage in price-flooring practices until they've snatched up the largest market-share. They will then enforce their gradual fee and upselling strategies.

This is no different to any other market where a monopoly exists. Internet companies like to claim they aren't monopolies by saying "just visit another site for their services" but entrenchment of the market is exactly what makes them monopolies.

If a large-enough competitor came along (with big funding backing it), you'd soon see Upwork change tack and go back to price-flooring.
Location: San Francisco Peninsula
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PLC Programming (Structured Text, Pascal-like language), Robot Motion, Precision Controls, CAD, Python, .NET, C/C++, Matlab, Java,
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0K7a02_S9mxSFRSdVZxRTh6dHc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/proericchan
Email: pro.eric.chan@gmail.com

Hi I'm looking for full-time position working on cutting edge technologies, I am mainly interested in machine vision, and have some experience with OpenCV in Python. My current responsibilities are to develop and implement robot motion planning and control algorithms in the semiconductor automation industry, but I feel confident in my ability to quickly obtain the skills needed in any position, including support, quality, engineering, and even sales.
>Hume is also susceptible to his own problem

If one gave as one's reason for seeking truth "humans sometimes happen to seek truth" you are correct, this would be an invalid reason because of the Is-Ought limitation. That cannot be the reason one seeks truth.

>you think what atheists reason about the universe doesn't come from something more...I call it a feeling of existential validity. I believe also that my instinctual feelings come from something beyond, something greater, a higher order, whatever you want to call it but it's far beyond what we have knowledge of

Discussing this issue is tricky because ultimately, being a Christian, I don't disagree with your experience in which you intuit something greater or with Hume's pinning of essences on a Supreme Being or with almost every person of every belief system I have ever met who feels very deeply something is actually going on here and I might refer to this universal experience as the supernatural existential or desiderium naturale. Ultimately I am not arguing against morals actually existing and so don't mean to put down this feeling you have, only let you know what is required for such a feeling to not to be dismissed as delusion. Strict Empiricism cannot account for it and must reject it but you, I, and even Sam Harris (cf. http://www.newsweek.com/rationalist-sam-harris-believes-god-... ) seem to reject this Empiricism. The Empiricist says your feelings here are a delusion but I'm saying they are not--quite the opposite.

>mentioning of suffering, beauty, love

The inclusion of terms like beauty and love is not at all illogical. What the "Is-Ought" Facts-Values gap shows us is that nothing is truly Immoral unless it holds such a quality objectively. In other words, unless murder objectively holds the quality:'immoral', when an individual says "Murder is Wrong" the meaning of that sentence is nothing more than "I dislike murder" -- a subjective opinion. The limitation is extended not only to 'shoulds' but to values generally. That is, we see the difficulty in locating 'beauty'. A sunset is not truly beautiful unless something about it objectively holds the quality:'beautiful'. If this is not the case, when an individual says "that sunset is beautiful"—even if 99% of humans agree with him (ad populum)—the meaning of that sentence is nothing more than "I like this sunset" -- another subjective opinion. In subjectivism, no one can ever be truly wrong about any value statement (what is moral, what has beauty, what deserves value/love) and so a sunset carries the same objectively neutral quality as excrement. Only if conditions are endowed with objective/mind-independent values, which cannot be located using empiricism, can something be understood to truly be beautiful or worth loving.

>If life is good and meant to be

A oft-assumed contingent that Empiricists do not have evidence for. And that pure Reason does not insist upon. As Hume writes "It is not contrary to Reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger".
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803716 from yesterday
Why are you running KeePass in wine?
WR is aggressively building out its Helix Cloud platform. Silicon is useless without the services/app dev/data management backend. If WR can migrate OS users up to Helix Cloud they can (somewhat) offset losses on Intel hardware and giving the newer OSs away for free.
This varies greatly by specialty. Surgeons (and anesthesiologists) are working 80 hours/week or more. Most non surgical specialties are well under 80. Pediatricians, dermatologists, psychiatrists and a handful of others probably average around 50 hours/week over the entire residency, with another 10 hours/week of home study (equivalent to a developer reading technical articles from hacker news & stackoverflow).
Wow, the blog post was really well-written, containing lots of interesting points for non-physicists interested in learning quantum mechanics, and the game seems fun. And on HN the author encounters a bunch of dreary know-it-alls going on about how they don't like java applets for some reason (apparently it upsets their anal notions of security in their little laptop world.) Just open it in firefox, it works fine.
Typo:

> "Each urbit is a node on _an_ global, encrypted P2P network."
San Francisco | Founding Engineer | Alien Labs | Full-Time, On-site | VISA | https://angel.co/alien-labs

Alien Labs is building bots that automate routine or repetitive work, allowing teams to spend more time on work that requires creativity and emotional intelligence.

We don't care about the source of your education, we care about your abilities!

Day to day you will:

- Apply state-of-the-art NLP methods to valuable
real-world applications
- Prototype and optimize deep learning systems
- Work with our proprietary corpus of user data
- Work with other engineers and designers to develop new
features and easy-to-use interactions
- Actively influence which technologies and frameworks we
use across our stack

You are:

- Excited to build products that span many services &
technologies
- Familiar with one or more backend programming languages
(Python, Go, C++, Ruby, etc.)
- Interested in developing creative and polished
conversational UI/UX
- Comfortable with theoretical computer science,
algorithms, reading research papers, etc.
- Bonus: Research or practical experience with Machine
Learning, Deep Learning (TensorFlow, Theano, Torch,
Caffe, etc.) or NLP (NLTK, spaCy, etc.)
- Bonus: Experience with computer science (ACM, USACO, IOI
CodeJam, TopCoder, etc.) or math (IMO, USAMO, PUTNAM)
competitions.

Benefits:

- Generous equity package, (1.0% – 4.0%) including a 10-year
exercise window and benefits (vacation days, health, dental,
vision insurance)
- Competitive salary ($75K – $125K)
- State of the art equipment (laptop, monitor, headphones, etc.)
- Free lunch, dinner, snacks, etc.
- Introvert friendly environment (closed floor plan, few
interruptions, etc.)

Details at https://angel.co/alien-labs/jobs/134898-founding-engineer
> I am open to other suggestion for "What do you do with all of those idle hands and minds?", but you don't provide any.

I don't think there's any perfect solution, once automation is truly nailed. People don't want to be told what to do or forced into work, but I also think that they need something to work for otherwise we'll collectively go insane.

Ever watch Black Mirror? If not, go see the episode titled "Fifteen Million Merits". Something along those lines, sadly....
None of Intel's or ARM's very low power chips for IoT applications are OoO - uses too much power. Intel have actually resorted to using subsets of x86 on some of them, and even then they're mysteriously unwilling to release proper power usage information.
Slightly contrarian, or maybe not-but is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you? Algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own), telling me what I ought to buy (trust me, Amazon if I wanted it-I'd either already buy it, or I'm buying it later when I have the disposable funds), and now arranging transportation when hinting at going out an about for me (trust me, facebook Messenger-I live seventeen steps away from a bus stop that carries me right into the heart of downtown-I'm good)

I have no mistakes that these features are probably loved by some, maybe even most, but more and more-while I don't want to disconnect FULLY from social media (while I much love the laconic, brevity inherent design of twitter, the fact that the 140 character limit is going away has me sighing heavily), I do sometimes finding myself wishing I could opt out and take a bit more control over the content I'm ostensibly subscribing to.

Has anyone else felt similarly, or could maybe phrase the phenomenon better than I have?
Stormpath | San Mateo, CA | https://stormpath.com | Full-time | Onsite
Position: Software Engineer
Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps developers quickly and securely build web and mobile applications.
Come join a team where you can have huge impact! We're looking for a versatile Software Engineer to work primarily with Java, Spring Boot, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Samza, and Kafka.

We hire smart, fun, humble, and passionate people who love what they do and deliver quality work. We're trying to achieve something great, with great people.
https://angel.co/stormpath
Interested? Apply through our website or e-mail me directly: sarah@stormpath.com
It seems you're disagreeing with yourself.
Technology aside, this is a masterpiece of clear and concise technical writing for a general audience.
Sincere question, can someone explain to me a plausible scenario at this point by which early investors actually receive a payout even slightly commensurate with their supposedly incredible investment?

For example, how can someone in the seed round genuinely be able to cash out given the unbelievable amount of dilution that has taken place. What are the plausible scenarios where this occurs?

EDIT: Specifically asking in the context of a valuation that seems to way outstrip any plausible IPO (or complete takeover) valuation, and almost certain liquidation preferences that accompanied these later institutional rounds.
Uber needing 3.5B is a huge negative sign IMO. Clearly something is broken with their business model.
You have something interesting to say?
HPC as an alternative universe is a fine metaphor. Yet, I don't see how there's no comparison given HPC already had more RAS than I could get out of any Linux box for years. IBM SP2, SGI, and some Beowulf-style clusters had high-performance I/O, single-system image, distributed filesystems, and fault-tolerance where you wanted. That sounds a lot like what cloud market aimed for. On top of it, you had grid and metacomputing groups that spread it out across multiple sites with ease of use for developers.

They developed in parallel and separately but there's lots of similarities. Many startups in HPC were taking HPC stuff to meet cloud-style requirements for years in terms of management, reliability, and performance. That it wasn't up to the standards of businesses is countered by how many bought those NUMA machines and clusters for mission-critical apps. A huge chunk of work in Windows and Linux in 90's and early 2000's went to trying to match their metrics in order to replace them on the cheap with x86 servers and Ethernet. So, yes, HPC was making stuff to meet tough, business needs that commercial servers and regular stacks couldn't compare to. That's despite number-crunching supercomputers being their main market.
Ukrainian tech startup aims to encourage blood donation
The examples in this tool can be misleading, especially if you haven't read the classics like _The Elements of Style_ and _On Writing Well_. Ridding your writing of fluff is central to their teaching, but not at the expense of detail.

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

--- William Strunk Jr., _The Elements of Style_

Instead of quoting them at length, I will let you read them when you have time. The Elements of Style is less than 100 pages, and most of On Writing Well is tied up in the first four chapters.
The same report in slide form and not PDF'd;

http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
I strongly agree in general, but there are risks to acting on your urge even if you turn out to be right:

> is definitely overvalued at $80B"

Stocks move in bizarre ways, particularly tech stocks. If you short a stock and time it wrong, you can easily be right about the fundamentals but get killed by the herd in the meantime.

Going long is safer, but can still be bad. If the price drops below your buy-in, and a merger is agreed at the low price, you can be forced to sell low. You could have bought into Dell, and then been forced to sell lower than your own valuation.
I'm still hanging on to my Windows 3.1 here, you know, the last known good version
So you're saying that you don't eventually need healthcare, except for when everyone needs it then it's the most expensive?

That's like saying you don't really need electricity until later in the day, when it's more in demand for everyone. Should we treat electricity use as a lottery?

In fact, people should be using healthcare more, as a preventative measure (for reasons you just said), but because we treat it like car accidents and house fires and lotteries it's stuck in remedial mode.
That's interesting...it was my impression that some of the kernel features were added specifically as a result of the kernel patches that were originally part of the OpenVZ project. Once the kernel adopted official primatives the original OpenVZ patches were deprecated. It was also at this time that LXC started with some of the same developers from the OpenVZ project.

I could be wrong...but that path dependency seems to indicate that while they were implemented as more general kernel features...one of their motivating use cases was container isolation.

Can anyone more informed clarify the history for me?
In defense of the LA train system, most of the rolling stock on the Expo line are nice new trains, and Hollywood to Santa Monica via Downtown is almost the most pathological route between major destinations you can take in terms of car vs train.

I've been taking the Expo lately and it's already standing-only crowded during rush hour and heavily used off-peak.
Well, in fairness it is the "New Yorker".

Looking at the current LA Metro map (http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/images/system_map_2...), rail service is still pretty sparse.
Get off your moral high-ground. We (USofA) still continue to execute people as well.
Putting aside whatever you think about Saudi Arabia or its government, it is inarguable that this move will be highly controversial. It makes me wonder why Uber pulled the trigger on this knowing there will be a backlash. Wouldn't it have to be because of pricing? I wonder if the leadership of Uber simply didn't want to see any dip in the valuation and Saudi Arabia was the only one out there willing to meet that price. It makes me think that $62.5 billion value is completely unrealistic.
It's amusing that several of the issues raised in the recent security analysis of "TheDAO" raised exactly the same issue with their voting structure on Proposals. Namely, game theory showed the best move was to always vote No so long as the No vote wasn't the deciding factor in killing the proposal.
If you go about you life refusing to meet people because you're afraid you're going to meet a sociopath, then you're going to be awfully lonely. Fortunately, most mature adults are pretty easy to get along with. Yeah, everyone's had a bad experience meeting people here and there. But that's just part of living.
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Location: Edinburgh:

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Résumé/CV: Portfolio and more information available at https://www.seanw.org.

Technologies: Freelance full stack software developer with over 10 years experience including a PhD in software verification offering:

- Web app development: Node.js, JavaScript (AngularJS, jQuery), Python (Flask), Java, PHP (WordPress).

- Mobile app development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap.

- Cloud hosting: Heroku, AWS, Google.

- Workflow improvements: Introducing test suites, staging sites and Continuous Integration into projects.

- SEO services: SEO auditing and technical expertise to make required changes.

Email: sw@seanw.org
I tend to agree however its completely plausible the raising is used just to chase after new markets.