skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mentioned in the other comment, given the full-time duties I have to care for my current family situation, there simply is no physical possibility for doing anything that remotely resembles work. Devoting the time necessary to create presentation materials alone would be way, way too prohibitive. Already, even just spend a couple hours on telephone interviews and a couple hours on personal code projects is an extreme time strain for me, not to mention that in this rural area there is no reliable internet connection and I often go for hours, sometimes even days, without ability to connect except by tethering to a 4G device and paying huge data charges.

If I have to pick between spending those few hours actually coding vs. spending them making videos or something, I think it's obvious that actually coding (and reading to stay current) is much more important. That's what I want to do in my next job. Making YouTube videos is likely to be completely ignored by most recruiters, and even when considered it won't be regarded as useful in the way that actual coding skill will be.
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: yes
Relocate: yes
Technologies: Java, C#, MATLAB, Git, Bash, FEA, GD&T, SolidWorks, Adobe Illustrator

Mechanical & Software Engineer

email: calebfrost@gmail.com
website with full resume: http://calebfrost.wix.com/portfolio
I think the idea is that there's a potentially meaningful part of someone's life outside of their company if what they work on isn't just contained in their company. I don't read it as the OP suggesting it's a precondition for a meaningful life; it seems to be one potential path.
Google is working on a virtual reality version of Chrome for Android devices
Ask HN: Project based on real world problems
I am a student pursuing Computer engineering in India. As part of our academics we are supposed to do a project for final year. I wanted to somehow make a project that would directly or indirectly help the people of India/world by solving some real world problem. What should I look into?
Not everyone responds to rejection that way.
Euclid Analytics | Backend & Software Engineers | San Francisco (SF), CA, ONSITE Only | euclidanalytics.com

Who we are: We're a Series C funded startup just over 30 people total and our tight-knit team is focused on using Wi-Fi data to help retailers make better decisions. We create analytics products based on substantial amounts of data–40gb/day & growing. Roles: Euclid Analytics is looking to add Backend and Software Engineers to our backend team! We're looking for candidates who have at least one year of industry experience and who are passionate about solving hard problems.

Tech Stack includes: Scala, Python, Spark, Kafka, MySQL, Redshift, AWS, and Mesos. Projects include: classification models to guess whether someone is visiting a store or walking by, streams for real-time alerts, simulating store traffic, helping clients improve their staffing, and calculating cross visitors across different stores. Much of our work involves figuring out how to make these calculations work in an efficient, distributed way across large datasets.

Interview process: Intro call with our tech recruiter, a phone interview with a hiring manager and a take-home technical assessment. This is followed up by a day of onsite interviews that will most likely include probability/stats questions, a deep dive on your take-home exercise answers, a data manipulation question, and lunch. For programming questions you're welcome to use your own laptop or one that we provide–we won't ask you to write code on a whiteboard!
I believe if AMD hadn't released x86-64, our desktops would be running on Itaniums.

It would take some time to sort of the issues, but given the Wintel stronghold on the desktop, everyone would be moving screaming into Itanium and feel happy about it later on.

But AMD gave people an alternative, so Itanium died.
Crowd Source: a company that sells fake paparazzi, supporters and protesters
Or rip off your fingers if you use your fingerprints to unlock, or just drug you with scopolamine to unlock it.
Bipsync | New York, NY | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite | Full-time | To $115,000 plus equity package, healthcare, dental, vision and flexible working

Bipsync is a fast growing, venture-funded SaaS startup with a product obsessively designed to help financial organizations manage their research. Most of our customers are multi-billion dollar hedge funds based in New York. As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll use your full-stack skills to develop the product on a range of platforms, including web, desktop and mobile.

Interviews will usually be a quick telephone call followed by an in-person meeting. We don't do crazy problem-solving whiteboard stunts.

* Email: dan@bipsync.com with questions, etc.

* https://www.bipsync.com to find out about the product

* https://www.bipsync.com/senior-software-engineer-new-york-in... for the job spec
Doubtful. Expectations of privacy and their bearings on 4th amendment search reasonableness don't have much to do with Snowden's case. The NSA isn't arguing that a government search was unreasonable, nor are their expectations germane; what Snowden took wasn't "private" in a 4th amendment sense, it was classified, and he'd be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
I just used Brave, which ignores all of that and makes the website think its ads are being displayed. It's a clunky browser but it's getting better.
I think you're right--Apple shouldn't control/influence Spotify. The issue here sounds different: Spotify has to play by the same rules as everyone else on the App Store, and Spotify seems not to like that.
Did you think Uber didn't know what laws they were breaking?

And sadly, even if 5% of us don't follow the companies that break the rules - the company still wins. I am a rounding error to them.
Seriosly, some of that was pretty funny...

At a superficial level, I think I would notice extra chips/wiring/HD showing up on a naked Mo-board.

Going further, as you wish to approach this in pseudo-apsolutist terms, GOV would simply choke on any effort to go _that_ far. Be it the Hardware Effort or the Software/Data Collection and Processing Effort (times many many millions), they would gag on The Spew. Yes, no encryption protects data for ever, blah blah. Good Encryption and other impediments just makes persuit/enforcement not worth the effort [insert THX-1138 reference and every real-world example of governments failing to absolutely control their populace here].

And since I am willing to talk in Absolute Terms, GOV is lousy at math. They may know something about Social Psychology, Propaganda, et al, but the Citizenry has both the guns and the numbers.
You could definitely use moonlight to heat up an engine, if you have a big enough concentrator. You just can't reach a temperature higher than the surface of the moon itself. Stirling engines are capable of operating with relatively small temperature differences.
Location: Toronto

Remote: yes

Willing to Relocate: yes; Toronto

Technologies:
Both: Javascript, React, Node, MySQL, MongodDB, Python, scikit-learn, C++

Alessandro: Redux, PHP, Laravel, AWS

Zak: Reflux, Pyramids, Objective-C, Rails

Resumes:

Alessandro: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Owaws6xTfF6B8rMvNkjD_9o0...

Zak: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsqyAOqcuGhhq3m_VwzbUJn7...

Email: two.is.literally.more.than.one [at] gmail com

Attention: this is a joint application.

We are Alessandro and Zak, we met during our [Computer Science] undergrads at the University of Waterloo. We’ve worked (projects, hackathons, etc.), lived and travelled together and we don’t want this to end. We both intend on moving to Toronto in October and would like to work on the same team. Alessandro currently lives in Amsterdam, NL, while Zak is in Waterloo, ON.
There is kind of a reasonable expectation for sites to run JS on your computer, if you don't use NoScript. I'm more inclined to believe they installed an actual rootkit, though. There are vulnerabilities in image libraries all the time, and people who are just technically proficient enough to download the Tor Browser can be tricked into downloading .exe files.
Location: Florida

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvillasante

Email: jvillasantegomez@gmail.com
Google buys output from two new Nordic wind farms
Another way - I disabled that site's Javascript privileges on my computer using the "Quick Javascript Switcher" extension for Chrome.
You're aware that this whole thing is caused by Spotify choosing to violate the terms which they've operated under for years, just to get attention?
== Real Talk ==

I'm posting this on behalf of my company and wanted to personalize why you might want to check us out as I think copy/paste non-personalized job ads on HN are boring and don't deserve a place here.

I started back with Virtru as a Senior Software Engineer in July of 2015 and work remotely. I have never once felt left out because I am remote. This is my first remote job and I cannot see how anyone would ever want to work any other way now. We currently use Slack, Google Hangouts, and Screenhero, so you won't be cut off to fend for yourself in the wild. Most of the developers are on the east coast, but we have a few people on the west coast & central.

One of the more interesting things about Virtru is that a lot of work is around browser extensions, which is fairly atypical for software products, so you'll get to learn something new.
So what's working there like for a remote person? We have a stand up for the feature team at 10AM EST, and one for our DevOps. After that your day is usually in your court outside of the regular sprint end/begin activities (retro, review, planning). If you like going heads down with no/minimal distractions you can often achieve that. You won't be micromanaged to get your work done and getting your work done is the most important measure. You'll get the freedom to experience what it is to worry about only your work and not if you're showing your face for enough hours. If that means you bust ass 3 days a week and keep yourself available for the other two for stand up, possible reviews and questions, and maybe a meeting no one should care.

Rather than write a novel, if you have any questions please contact me via running this JS snippet to get my info:

[103, 114, 101, 103, 43, 104, 110, 64, 118, 105, 114, 116, 114, 117, 46, 99, 111, 109].map(x => String.fromCharCode(x)).join('')
Nice! I read a little bit about the Web Audio API but haven't gotten a chance to try anything with it yet, this sounds awesome.
All I'm looking for is one of:

- you didn't meet our (technical) expectations

- we cannot meet your expectations

- you're qualified but we cannot pay that much

- you're generally qualified, but we need a Foo Expert today

The common letter one gets is "we chose somebody else who is a better fit". Sure, but what exactly fit better?

I don't think this is too much to ask for. Even that kind of feedback is non-existent, and I'm off wondering whether it's one of those or some remark I made or something else.

The most honest feedback I got was in small shops which didn't put an HR department between me and the CTO/CEO.
What matters for purposes of 4th amendment jurisprudence is whether or not someone's expectation of privacy is reasonable, not whether or not their expectation is fulfilled.
Kind of amazing you can't make an account on 911.com, register your cell phone and home phone #s and put in your preferred language, allergies to medicines, serious illnesses etc and have all that come up to the dispatcher when you call....

But I also worked in that industry for a while and thats not going to happen anytime soon by the looks of it
You imagine wrong, it takes teams of people to keep running the infrastructure that Google is built on. And keeping running infrastructure that's multiple generations old is wasteful.

What you should be arguing is that it's worth it for Google to port the API to current infrastructure. But porting it is not as simple as saying "Leave it up!"
Shippo | San Francisco/SOMA | Onsite, Visa | Full-time
http://www.goshippo.com

Shippo is a shipping API company that connects e-commerce businesses and marketplaces to multiple shipping carriers from one place. Our API powers shipping for companies like Shyp and Weebly, and we recently partnered with Stripe to offer shipping directly through their API.

With Shippo, businesses of all sizes can easily access Amazon-quality shipping operations and data. We are doing for shipping what Stripe has done for payments.

You will be faced with challenges in building and scaling mission-critical systems that are used by thousands of customers as a core part of their checkout flow and fulfillment process. From designing robust APIs to turning data sets into shipping recommendation engines, we need a strong and diverse team to help us grow quickly.

Current technical openings include:

* Senior backend engineers - we work with Python (Django), Postgres, AWS

* Senior frontend engineers - we use Ember

* DevOps (not listed yet)

* Support engineer

* Developer evangelist

* Senior product manager

* Content writer (not listed yet)

Technical hiring process:

1. Phone screen

2. Tech interview 1h via skype - pair programming

3. Onsite half day - pair programming/whiteboarding, meet the team/founders

If you're interested in any of these roles, please check out https://goshippo.com/jobs/ or email directly jobs [at] goshippo.com. Please be sure to mention you saw the note on HN.
Location: Japan / San Diego

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, get me off this island.

Technologies:

NodeJS, Java, C++

Android, ReactJS

Postgres, Mysql, MongoDB

React, Vue, Angular

Linux

Docker, Chef,

Willing and love to learn. Will pick up any technologies / stacks.

Resume: Will provide on request

Email: aa5188@protonmail.com
A dead man switch on GMOs, in case there are any other unexpected consequences, has already been mentioned here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015572

And after reviewing that thread again, it appears such technology has already been commercially developed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...). Although in this instance it doesn't make the plant susceptible so much as it creates a food system dependency on the company that sells the GMO in order to grow the food in the first place.
Rapid 7 | LA - El Segundo, CA / Austin TX / Dublin, Ireland / Belfast, Northern Ireland / REMOTE(research)

Rapid7 is probably known best as the company behind metasploit. We currently have a bunch of openings for almost anything from security research, frontend development or devops. While Rapid7 is a security company you will not have to be a security expert to come work with us. See https://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp for the complete list of job openings.

For the interview process, it depends on the specific group but typically involves a screening interview with a recruiter, some onsite interviews sometimes with whiteboarding sessions and then typically an interview with your bosses boss.

If you have any questions about the process or anything feel free to contact me directly as well, ulrich_dangel@rapid7.com

Platform Delivery - LA - El Segundo, CA / Austin TX

These roles are within our Platform Delivery team, focused on simplifying and enhancing how we deploy our increasing range of micro services run inside AWS as well as putting some focus on our CI environment for on prem solutions and how we can ship them faster to customers.

Threat Analyst & Security Researcher - El Segundo, Cambridge, Austin, Remote

This role is within OCTO, our office of the CTO, and focuses on wide scale security and networking research. One example of such type of research is Project Sonar - https://sonar.labs.rapid7.com/ - an internet wide survey tool.
The article seems to imply that this is a recent addition to the privacy policy. Google keeps archived versions of their privacy policies (https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/archive/), and you can easily see that the "telephony log information" was added in the March 1st 2012 revision of the Google privacy policy.

You can see a summary on https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-...

As the EFF mentions, this was a big privacy policy change, and it was widely announced. For example, I searched through my emails right now and found an email from Google (on my @gmail.com address) on 2012-01-28 announcing the change and asking me to "please take a few minutes to read our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service at http://www.google.com/policies".

For completeness sake, the diff from the changes on June 28th: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/archive/20160...

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this. I speak for myself, not for the company.

EDIT: Interestingly, the language in the 2012 unified privacy policy matches very closely the language that was used in Google Voice's privacy policy since 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090315193708/https://www.googl...

> Google's servers also automatically collect telephony log information (including calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information, and types of calls).
SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area or remote

Generally available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~9 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes. I’ve also been doing some Swift lately.

In the past, I've worked with companies like CircleCI, Remind, Leap Motion, Anki, Rocket Fuel, and TaskRabbit. Before that, I had two startups of my own. In my spare time, I fly airplanes. Currently fully booked through the end of July, but I'm always happy to grab coffee and chat.

Links:

http://toddeichel.com/about

http://www.github.com/tfe

http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddeichel

http://stackoverflow.com/users/203773/tfe

Contact: todd@toddeichel.com
In keeping with the spirit of "Show HN" is there anything I can play with or try out?
ViaSat, Inc. | USA (anywhere) | Full Time | https://www.viasat.com

ViaSat's Cloud Engineering squad provides network and security services to every program at the company, from development through production, with a focus on utilizing public and private cloud platforms. We engage hands-on with other engineering teams to help them get to the cloud. We also build the network services platform these groups use to meet their operational, security, and regulatory requirements.

On any given day, you may be walking colleagues through the finer points of VPC design, helping a product team debug a critical failure in production, or presenting a workshop on developing against our internal APIs. You might be adding DNSSEC to our DNS service, writing automation to validate TLS configurations across the entire network, or expanding our platform into São Paulo. Our work and our products are always evolving, which leaves little chance you'll ever get bored.

We are looking for engineers who are proficient with multiple languages, and are familiar with existing IaaS and PaaS products like AWS, OpenStack, or Marathon. We also need our team members to be good communicators and people-friendly, as our daily work involves interfacing with many people all around the company. An engineering degree or equivalent experience is necessary.

You'd get bonus points for having a strong security background, knowing advanced networking concepts like BGP and VLANs, and having previous work experience building globally-distributed applications.

Interview process: an HR phone screen, a technical phone/Skype interview, and a half-day on-site interview.

Our team is location-agnostic; you can work from any ViaSat office (https://www.viasat.com/contact/locations), or from home, as long as you reside within the United States.

Interested? Email me at stephan.kemper@viasat.com
TrueCar | Santa Monica, CA - San Francisco, CA - Austin, TX | Full Time

TrueCar is hiring Engineers with interest in Rails, React, Angular as well as Technical Product Managers, Data Analysts, DevOps / Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers, UX Copywriter and more in Santa Monica and San Francisco at this time. Austin is heading up all customer service and dealer relations positions.

We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a little over a year ago. We've been around for 10 years and went public 2 years ago. The company has big plans for the coming years and is looking for good developers to help us grow.

See http://careers.true.com for the full scoop.

* We prefer you work with us in-person in Santa Monica, San Francisco, or Austin. We'll handle most visa situations.

* Benefits are exceptional: health premiums are 100% paid for (not only for you, but your whole family), we match your 401k (up to 3% of your contributions), and give stock options. We also pay for your gym membership (up to $50/month) and have catered lunches every Wednesday.

* Our Santa Monica HQ is right by the beach and Third Street Promenade, so expect fresh air and plenty of food options. Our SF office is right off the Montgomery BART station with 360 degree views of downtown and the bay.

* A meaningful subset of some of the technologies we use: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, React, Flask, Redis, MySQL, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch (the whole ELK stack).

* VISAS are handled under the right circumstances.

Send an email to me (Brett) (bemma AT truecar.com) with your resume and/or GitHub profile. Even if you're not applying but just have questions, drop me a line
The end result might look fairly different, but I'm not sure that 'forked-and-refactored' is considered 'new' by very many people.
memcpy(0x1, 0x1, 0) is a well-defined no-op even when you don't have 0x1 in your address space.

Why handle 0x0 differently?
Spreemo |Senior Rails Developer |Full Time| NYC or Remote within the USA.

Do you want to make a tangible difference in people’s lives with your excellent engineering work? Use your Rails skills to improve the lives of patients everyday through our Unique quality- oriented Approach!!! We are building a dynamic Rails Team and we want you to be a part of it! Spreemo is growing !!! We are looking for someone who is committed to writing well- tested code, and who has a collegial attitude and an interest in mentoring junior developers.

Skills & Requirements
Things Our Ideal Rails Developer Knows:
4 years of total development experience with at least 2 years of Ruby experience.
Best practices in building a RESTful API
Deep experience with Cucumber, Capybara, and Rspec
The hows and whys of git
Thorough understanding of full-stack security and performance issues
Things Our Ideal Rails Developer Loves:
Writing good testable code
Collaborating with others to build something great
Mentoring junior developers
Working iteratively

http://spreemo.com/careers/rails-developer

Please feel free to reach out directly to john.ball@spreemo.com
Well, what I forgot to mention (but kinda hinted at) was that "Personal Computer" quickly became used to just mean business PCs and not Home Computers (even though it technically applies to both).

When the IBM PC came out, it and the legion of clones took over the business PC market and replaced the S-100 CP/M market almost overnight. So when "PC" is just used to refer to business PCs and the IBM-compatible DOS/x86 platform completely and thoroughly dominates the business PC market... than naturally the term "PC" will come to be synonymous with that platform.
Too many languages. Too many interpreters.
This is what our ad-networks are going to evolve into, though unfortunately, not so benign.
Chernobyl isn't a very good example of automation failure; responsibility for that disaster lies entirely with human beings from start to finish. Wikipedia's summary is solid, and rather than excerpt it here I'll just point you at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Accident .