skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Black Tux | Los Angeles, CA (Santa Monica) | Full Time, On-site | https://theblacktux.com/

The Black Tux is taking the dusty old tux shop to task in every way, finally making renting a tuxedo the convenient, enjoyable, and stylish experience it should be. We’ve grown considerably since our 2013 launch, and are excited to add more great talent to the team as we continue to scale.

We are looking to add a full-stack engineer to our Growth team, which is responsible for building and testing new features to drive user engagement, conversion, and retention. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team with members from design, product, marketing, and engineering to build innovative solutions informed and validated by data.

-- What we’re looking for --

* 3+ years of professional software development

* Experience with a dynamic programming language such as Python or Ruby

* Familiarity with a web framework: Django, Pyramid, Rails, Node.js, etc.

* Fluent in front-end web technologies (e.g. SCSS, JS, jQuery, React, Angular, etc.)

* Strong eye for UX/design

* Someone with initiative and a fast learner

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Or, feel free to email me directly at matt@theblacktux.com (I lead the Growth team and would be happy to answer any questions you have!)
The jQuery version has artificacts for me on mobile (iPhone 6s Plus with Safari).

Nevertheless, I like the idea. Well done.
How We Fared in the Cyber Grand Challenge
Rushing to catch a flight but Infoxchange (@infoxchange on twitter) is hiring several mid/senior level dev and a dev / technical dev team lead roles that all work closely with the ops team I lead there.

Don't have time to do he full blurb right now but we're an awesome not-for-profit organisation based mainly in Melbourne, various areas of the business provide different services to other NFPs and community organisations as well as products that have been funded by winning awards / challenges (such as the google impact challenge last year) to assist people that are homeless, at-risk, need mental health support, trauma counselling, refugee assistance etc...

A big (main) part of that is designing, building, maintaining and improving a number of different web based applications and services that link to each other for things like patient management, electronic referral etc...

Main language in dev is Python and PHP, and in my team is Puppet, Ruby and whatever else is the best tool for the job and organisation, lots of really new tech, I'm quite proud of us in many ways being very early adopters of new and interesting tech in the OSS world and we contribute back a lot as well.

Very transparent organisation with quite a flat layout and essentially no internally bureaucracy, it's the only job in my life where I wake up on a Monday morning and want to go to the office!

Really got to rush off now but please check out https://www.infoxchange.org or twitter.com/infoxchange and get in contact if you're looking for work in Melbourne and you share our vision that underpins every decision we make: 'Technology For Social Justice'.

Thanks,
Sam.
“select” Isn’t Broken

So - this one I have mixed feelings about. It is normally true. But you could have genuinely hit upon a bug. Granted it is much easier to investigate and prove with open source today.

14 odd years ago I was working on HP-UX & C applications. One of the signal commands caused things to crash. I finally figured out the test that could cause it to crash. Now HP support seemed to think I was crazy for asking me to debug their code. I took me ages to get them to understand - that the OS was their code and not mine.

Well, either way, they got a tier-3 OS support person involved who collected data, confirmed the bug and provided a fix.

The point is - it may very well be a platform bug. That is code too. It just shouldn't be your first (or may be even second or third conclusion) and you should have a unit test to exercise the bug.
> The missile was launched by two separate keys (also kept in the safe), turned simultaneously and held for five seconds by the commander and deputy. Located on separate consoles, there is no way they could be operated by one person. It would have been impossible to start World War Three by accident.

Seems to me the separate-console defense could have been easily defeated with a simple mechanical contrivance. How hard could it be to make a gadget that lets you turn a key from a distance?
When it comes to container platforms, there isn’t one to rule them all
The athletes staying poor doesn't bother me. Whatever your sport, there is a pro-option if that's what you want to do.

The construction workers getting cheated of their wages in Sochi, and deported from Russia, however, is an obscenity the IOC should be taken to task for.
Did anyone invest the effort and time to figure out how secure and practical this is?
Miniscule amounts of bitcoin really. Is it the end of the world if I lose 50 cents worth of bitcoin?

oooh scary.
Software development, do good manners matter?
Monty Hall Search Optimization
It's not about "just" keeping it in memory, it's about handling hundreds of updates per second without creating un-vacuumable bloat (per description in OP's link).
NMPA, Nashville Songwriters: Exclude Sony Music from Royalty Rate Proceeding
eh..a little off topic, but I still want to comment on it. :-P Star Trek's utopia has a couple of major important technologies:

* Removal of energy scarcity - dilitium is mined off planets, by robots and provides cheap limitless energy

* Replicators - Controlling the atom to the point where we can make exact duplicates. If everyone can replicate a Rembrandt, the original no longer has its insane value. There's no wait to authenticate if something is "real" or "original" Some people prefer "real" food, even realizing the difference is pretty much all in their heads. All basic things can be copied and only the very complex can't be duplicated (like Lt Commander Data's brain).

So in such a universe, an athlete gets everything a regular earth citizen gets, and visa-versa. It doesn't matter if you're in Star Fleet or choose to bus tables in a restaurant, you get the same type of living accommodation, and you can live or work anywhere thanks to transporters and limitless energy. People choose the jobs they want. Star Fleet isn't a military operation and you can resign at any time. In this world, a lot of useless jobs would go away .. Olympic committee trademark enforces for example.

The whole thing breaks down terrible in some episodes. In DS9, Sisko's dad owns a restaurant with a bus boy. Someone chooses to be that bus boy .. for no money. Maybe if the writers used a robot bus boy?
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979458
>so it's fine.

Not according to copyright law. Just because you have a computer (with a browser) doesn't give you the right to do what you want with someone else's content.
On their about page

"In 2015, Reframed.TV exceeded investment expectations with no commercial revenue."

No details of the metrics but that itself would be an interesting post considering the staff numbers and investment.
If you can afford to install emacs+x11, that could work pretty well over ssh.
Clojure Gazette – Issue 184 – August 01, 2016
"...chances of life are 1000 times higher in the distant future than now."

I still don't see this as a solution to the Fermi paradox, considering the billions (more?) of planets in our galaxy.
22 Super Apps for idevices, which today can be completely free
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We're a regulated bitcoin/ether(/others) exchange in Hong Kong, with many projects in our backlog!

We're looking for technical folks to fill some roles:

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We help with sponsorship/relocation to HK.

Some nice perks we have:

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KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) is hiring:

Applications Developer (Audio) | Los Angeles | Full-Time

Some of the biggest names in public radio - NPR, KPCC, WNYC, and WHYY - are partnering to build a system that simplifies the workflow and delivery of on-demand and podcast audio. Our goal is to create the platform that many public radio stations use to power their digital audio future.

We’re looking for a passionate developer to build the core systems and services around audio upload, management and delivery. If you're a dev who loves podcasts and public radio, this is a unique opportunity to have an impact on the future of the industry. Developers on our team work across the stack to build web applications, and get excited about learning new things. Most of our apps are written using Rails, Ruby, Javascript, Node.js and the Elastic stack.

The development of this project will be led by the product team at KPCC. We're based in Pasadena. If you're interested, check out our full posting here: http://bit.ly/1m8yQps.
I think you underestimate the amount of technology and manpower rich countries invest in modern athletes, certainly in the "non-game sports" (things with a start and a finish, plus events such as the long jump or archery, where one competes more against oneself than against the competition, and where the optimal motion sequence can be trained for) and the manpower needed to evaluate measurements.

Fitness and motion analysis are not something they do every few weeks. Endurance athletes have their heart rate measured almost full time, and have lactate measurements taken between set pieces; top sprinters and swimmers have an expert look at video of their starts, turning points, etc. _every training_ so that progress can be tracked and regressions can be caught early; cyclists measure their heart rate and the force they exert on the pedals all the time.

Cameras are cheap nowadays; labor is not. The second athlete may be cheaper than the first, but that curve levels off very quickly. That's why, typically, the big sports have their own training centers, but the smaller sports share infrastructure (if your rowing section has ten persons, sharing infrastructure with canoeists probably is a win; if there are a hundred, that's no longer the case; the canoeists will want slightly different setups for their weight lifting, etc.)
> AND spending money in it's ecosystem?

Well, it is an Apple product.
Same goes for food, etc. my point was that not everything has to be for financial gain -- we have basic needs that are higher in the priority stack and will always be there.

About homes specifically - they have a life span too so they eventually have to be rebuilt or, as others have pointed out, maintained.
Here is a simple example from another open source project of mine: https://alpha3.histori.city/api-examples/

If you don't like how it looks, you can always use a different set of stylesheets and HTML templates (written with handlebars) to change the look & feel.
I think the company is actually based in New Hampshire.

http://arcade.city/
> "we have the same customers."

Well, I assume that means the Powerwall, in which case I agree, they do have a lot of the same customers.

I think there's a lot of potential to market Tesla cars/batteries to Solarcity customers, and Panels to Tesla car/battery owners. I wouldn't be surprised to see combo packages sold in the future.
Javelin perhaps not, although track and field as a whole is one of the most watched part of the Olympics.

But I'm not sure these are conflicting narratives - without LeBron less popular basketball players wouldn't get viewers, but without a base of less talented players LeBron wouldn't have a platform. Javelin's contribution to Olympic popularity is less direct than, say, a weak sprinter who races against Usain Bolt, but it's nonzero.

Bringing so many sports and athletes together is part of what helps the Olympics maintain reputation compared to other narrower events like international track races or swim meets. Phelps competed far more places than the Olympics, but that was still the contest that earned him the most attention and sponsorship.

More broadly, though: even the star performers are getting underpaid unless they get outside-the-Olympics sponsorships. IOC funds don't trickle down anywhere near as much as revenue does for other sports, so Olympians big and small are relying on external revenue to make a living.
Funny Farm
By writing one letter at a time, you're not utilizing your "full communication" power. In fact you're using just 1/26 of the power of the alphabet, that comes at 3.84%. So, instead, write with a superposition of all letters at once to utilize 100% of the power of the alphabet, using 100% of the brain.
Who says the universe is infinite?
Or window.payment which Chrome and Safari are already implementing (using Apple Pay and Google Wallet respectively).
Agreed. Even if Trump wins, both parties and Congress, as well as Obama's appointed Supreme Court judge will try their hardest to prevent Trump from doing anything unconstitutional.
It was verbose. I actually left a comment in the example about how it could have been written better. Someone else further down in the comments suggested a nicer way of writing it. I think most people got the idea though! Thanks for the feedback. :)
This person's phrasing of his / her sentiment is a tad off-putting, which is why I imagine people are downvoting, but honestly I see it as the same way: I made a TCP request and fetched your data. How my data display device (i.e. web browser) displays it is up to me. If I choose to alter it or enhance it, that's up to me. It was your decision to send me your data, not to tell me how to display it.
I just want to know what the cost is now for a combined solar panel installation and battery storage for couple days of home use. I assume the Tesla/Solar City deal make more sense with the combine of solar installation plus the Gigafactory, rather than with Tesla the car.
Sounds like a bug/limitation in the code and goes against what UDT was designed for. Is there a ticket open?

Thanks for the link to uftp, didn't know about.

Also, UDT works in a LAN too, of course, and before finding UDT, I had been wondering how Weta Digital shares huge media files with Universal Studios in LA. Seems like UDT is built into a lot of commercial products.
I hear that the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for their company, for themselves, for their employees, for their family, etc.
Privacy Enhanced Payment Channels for ZCash
If this was required to view sites, I'd definitely pay it. But I also wouldn't go out of my way to do it.

I'm sure the right business could pull it off, but I don't think it's going to be voluntary donations.
Leap seconds and now "leap gps". Never thought about the earth's movement being so frequently and steady. I wonder if glonass has a better solution for this dynamism? And the new Chinese system?
> raised alarm bells in U.S. media circles over the prospect of wealthy individuals using the courts to muzzle the press

Is that really true? What legitimate media outlet thought this was about muzzling the press? Libel has never been allowed.
Wouldn't it be great if that money went into the Servo [1] project? We wouldn't have to rely on blocking content to speed up browsing.

[1] https://servo.org/
Achieving Secure Continuous Delivery – OWASP Talk
Synthego www.synthego.com | Redwood City, CA | Fulltime | Onsite

We are a 37 people biotech startup working on building the next generation cloud-enabled biotech lab. The goal is to provide a single scientist the ability to run their own fully-automated laboratory at low cost, performing millions of controlled, repeatable experiments per day without human error.

We make Synthetic RNA kits for scientists working with Cas9/CRISPR technology. Check out this TedTalk by Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR - it’s pretty fascinating stuff: http://tinyurl.com/q598fus

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cheers. :-)

Locals and citizens only (Canadians and Green Card holders welcomed)
Yes, because every problem is easily solved if we only taxed everyone and everything into oblivion. Couldn't have anything to do with the government taking and printing endless streams of cash, wasting it to buy votes, then using their monopoly of force to prevent competition when they hand over the bungled job to private firms.
This article is damage control for the author's naiveté.

The problem: Reframed did the due diligence after talking to Simon and seeking additional investment.

It's also not clear if Reframed ever provided any real value, but it's clear they we're willing to take real money and assign themselves a $4M valuation. That might not be a sham straightaway, but it's probably one in the making--good intentions aside.

Your investors will rightfully blame you if you get them scammed. You're expected to be competent enough to protect them because that's part of your job as "The Management".

Thank goodness the deal stopped dead in its tracks before more people got hurt.
I grew up in California...it has to be a big one to even wake me up nowadays.
DevOps Engineer @ The Scale Factory | London, UK (remote possible, but UK only) | Full Time | http://www.scalefactory.com/team/careers

We're a growing London-based business. We design, build, operate, support and scale Linux infrastructure for clients of various sizes, across a number of business sectors, including media, e-commerce, finance and pharmaceuticals.

We're looking for DevOps Engineers to join both our customer-facing and our platforms & systems teams.

Attitude, flexibility, and the ability to learn new technologies quickly, are all more important than years of experience, however you'll need production experience with:

* Linux (either CentOS or Ubuntu)

* Configuration management (preferably Puppet, but a CM mindset is more important than the specific tool)

It'd be great if you also have experience operating AWS, but we'll help you learn this if not.

Full details at the URL above. Apply at https://the-scale-factory.workable.com/jobs/57204/candidates...

You must be resident in, and eligible to work in the UK.
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Entelo helps companies build better teams. We use predictive analytics and large volumes of data to help companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Genentech make better hiring decisions. We also care deeply about promoting diversity in tech.

We're a small, efficient engineering team that's growing very quickly, and we're hiring for many roles including:

* Software Engineer

* Senior Software Engineer

* Data Engineer

Our stack includes Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSql, MySQL, Redis, Javascript, Lambda, Spark, Docker, Elasticsearch, CoreOS, AWS, and more. We work on interesting problems like predicting when someone will leave their job and matching people to jobs. There's a large market opportunity for a fast-moving, modern HR company, and we believe that we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

If you're interested, check out our open positions at https://www.entelo.com/careers, or feel free to email me directly at tom at entelo dot com.
I thought the very fact that complex organisms can be traced back to the Archean hints at cosmic origins of live on earth. Also no signs of a 'RNA-world' on this planet?
I think faking a phone call to your lawyer is pretty unforgivable…
Where else in Thailand would you recommend? I have traveled around the country quite a bit and still like Bangkok best, probably because I like big cities, but I'm open to trying other places.
Obama to Leave the White House a Nerdier Place Than He Found It
Before I switched to CS, I was in a EE program. Our intro to engineering class was filled with stuff like the outdoor decorative fountain that killed six people one at a time, and the transformer box that was used in a game of hide + seek (the lock was missing).

In the case of the fountain, several couples had had a night out and decided to splash in the fountain. The first two knocked a power conduit for one of the pumps loose, electrocuting themselves. The others died as they each entered the fountain to rescue the others. The system lacked a GFCI protector.
I wonder how much this will actually affect Denton. Often people file bankruptcy as a means of protecting their assets, as opposed to accepting that they have none.

I think Denton/Gawker were and are a net disservice to society. But they're also far from the worst or most egregious examples of the archetype of a say-anything-for-money tabloid.

What do others think of Thiel's hand in all this? On one hand, I respect it. Well-played, thus far. On the other hand, it isn't good that a select few (the extremely wealthy) can wield so much influence when other less wealthy people who may have been similarly wronged simply cannot. Equal opportunity and equal justice, etc. That lack of equality is likely a symptom of our costly and cumbersome legal system, though. Also, anyone think this will blow back on Thiel? Perhaps Denton can countersue? Perhaps behaving this way will have costly knock-on effects elsewhere in life or business?
>Python has a "logo inspired" turtle in the standard lib

Yes. Here is an example of its use, that I wrote a while ago:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/01/simple-drawing-program-wit...
Young and Locked Up in Silicon Valley
Linz, Austria / macOS software developer / onsite

I'm looking for a software developer with experience in Cocoa / Swift / Objective C.

We're a small, bootstrapped product company. We make database tools for developers and business users. Our flagship product is Postico, a PostgreSQL client for the Mac. We're also the people who package Postgres.app, a very popular PostgreSQL distribution.

You will work on desktop apps, with a focus on great user experience. I expect candidates to have a strong interest in design and UX.

https://eggerapps.at

Contact email: jakob@eggerapps.at
How we accidentally over-engineered seeding Memcached in Python, Redis and Celery
AUTOGRAM: Given a program and its input, automatically derive input grammars
The taller you are, the much much harder it gets to rotate the body end over end.
It's "select isn't broken" for a reason. Another way of phrasing it is "What's more likely?". In other words, is it more likely that you and only you have discovered a bug in a very widely used function that's been around for ages, or that you made a typo? In 99.99% of cases, it's the latter.