skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucid Design Group | Onsite | Full-time.

www.lucidconnects.com

Hi, I'm VP of Product and Engineering at Lucid.

We at Lucid believe that transparency into the operations of commercial buildings will have profound global effects on business efficiency, occupant comfort, and environmental impact.

Our interview process is a quick call with me, followed by a coding test, and then team interviews.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
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https://lucidconnects.com/company/careers/full-stack-enginee...
Hackerrank is a lot of fun, you guys have a great product.
The author of that answer does not actually think there is a conspiracy. He has written a detailed explanation of what is happening in the form of a lighthearted parody of a hard boiled detective thriller [1]. It's witty.

Someone who got it was Seth, who left the comment referencing the famous line from the noir thriller 'Chinatown' [2].

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HardboiledDetecti...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-line-Forget...
New diagnostic tool could make detecting Zika cheap and easy
It's not a trivial task for either Flow or TypeScript to support definitions of one another.

We've attempted to build a TS => Flow conversion tool, but it's much harder to go in that direction because you have less guarantees.

You aren't going to find a lot of "features" that either one supports that the other does not. However, many of TypeScript's implementations of the same features are less strict even with all of the strict flags on.

Here's an example that came up just last week: https://gist.github.com/thejameskyle/24a4e32be4899419e53eec6... (Note: This is not a bug in TypeScript, it's a design decision)

Because Flow is more strict than TypeScript it's much easier to convert from Flow definitions to TypeScript definitions.
You mean a probe capable of self-replication? They can absolutely be quite small. As a motivating example, a bacteria is capable of self-replication despite being microscopically small! Human beings are capable of self replication, along with being able to construct anything they want out of raw materials.
The big argument against intelligent life being common (and us not being unique) is the existence of stars. No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light. If you assume von Neumann probes and Dyson spheres are possible, then star light is incompatible with the existence of advanced technology.

While life appeared very early in the history of the earth, technologically advanced life took billions of years to evolve. You require a planet with an extraordinarily stable climate to allow a technological society to evolve and I predict this is the filter.

Just one factor contributing to this stability is the need for a very large moon to keep the axis of rotation stable over billion of years. If the Earth didn't have its moon the Earth's axis would tip over creating massive climatic change. The more we look at the universe the more unlikely the stability of Earth's climate looks.
Trading Ethereum: Making 10% every 20 minutes
JSOS
For those who haven't heard of Quip: one interesting data point is that Facebook uses it internally, since they don't use any Google products. I'm sure countless other companies use it too.
>I spent years trying to find a place to live that was walking distance from a good surf break in the sun.

My wife and I just moved to Yamba, NSW which fits this pretty well. We're ~500m walk from 2 different beaches one of them a surf beach and about a km from another surf beach. I don't surf(yet) myself but my friends that do are all very excited to be in the area so apparently its pretty good here.
So Microsoft installs have become as bad as RealPlayer installs used to be back in the day.

Serious question: are games that important that you'll take these intrusions rather than switch to (Calculate) Linux?
You're right I should. I guess I give them a pass because they aren't motivated by personal vendetta.
LabCorp to Acquire Sequenom for $302M in Cash
Parallel sort (for index creation) for PostgreSQL
It is very simple and very annoying:

<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=https://pragprog.com/no_js">
</noscript>

Disabling autorefresh on Firefox:
http://lifehacker.com/5321420/disable-automatic-web-page-ref...
It is very easy to implement this (I have worked on such a limiter before). You pick the point of entry into your network (wi-fi connection, ISP connection), keep packet and byte counts for every such point of entry, and limit them.

ISPs have it especially easy, because they can be assured of being able to distinguish traffic from a given user (hardware control of the medium). It's a bit harder in wireless scenarios, since the client can spoof multiple different IDs, but it's hard for them to keep open a TCP connection under those conditions.
Really? T-Mobile should know your mac address and ip and be able to rate limit based on that.
As mentioned in the comments, this doesn't work when you try to sign in via Google because it checks the signature of the app. The PTC signon doesn't do this so it's currently allowed, but I'm sure Niantic will patch it soon.
I'd like something that doesn't show apps when they are brand new, but features ones that stand the test of (a little bit of) time and have proven useful beyond the initial launch phase.

Maybe it's just me getting older...
My favorite finding was the clustering of Bayesian classifiers all trained on random samples of data resulted in significant improvement. (Think Decision Tree -> Random Forest)
Seems that Facebook makes extensive use of Quip internally even though it's doing the whole Office 360 subscription doohickey.

"An interesting side-note, though: While this deal means Microsoft will use Office 365 for e-mail and calendaring, they probably won't get much use out of Microsoft Word — Facebook uses Quip, a mobile word processor developed by former CTO and current Twitter board member Bret Taylor, for word processing."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-facebook-exec-microsoft-go...

See also embedded tweet.
Parallel output by default is just how it's going to work on a distributed computing platform.
If you say so. From what I can see, games have had achievements right from the early days. High scores in old arcade games were just a different way of tracking achievements.
Noninvasive Prenatal Screening Can Replace Current Trisomy Screening in All Ages
Sauce Labs (San Francisco, CA)

Sauce Labs provides the world’s largest cloud-based platform for the automated testing of web and mobile applications. Its award-winning service eliminates the time and expense of maintaining an in-house testing infrastructure, freeing development teams of any size to innovate and release better software, faster.

We are currently looking for:

Customer Support Engineers

Engineering Managers (Web Engineering)

Lead Software Engineers (Desktop Platform Support

Senior Software Engineers (Business Intelligence)

Senior Software Engineers (Rest API)

Software Engineers (Appium)

Software Engineers (Mobile Emulator/Simulator Cloud)

Software Engineers (Web Backend)

If you’re interested in joining Sauce Labs and would like to learn more, please visit: https://saucelabs.com/careers
BachBot: Deep Learning on Bach Chorales
That shaping should not be broken by HTTPS. The only things that would be affected by HTTPS is carriers munging the bits.
TX Shale Oil $2.25 a Barrel
This is a such a big company but I have never heard of it till now.
What size company is Quip? What size company is Salesforce? It doesn't matter how productive you are, how smart you are, or how "anything" you are. You can't beat the bell curve. What matters in the grand scheme of things is how good everyone else around you is. I've never seen smart/productive people last at large companies. The bozo/non-bozo ratio is always too high at big companies.
Hart (https://hart.com) | Javascript/Frontend Engineer | Anaheim, CA | Full-time, onsite

OK its Eric (eric@hart.com) from Hart. I post in the HN forum every month and have found some great people. Here is the deal our hiring process is to have a phone interview, a culture fit, and a code challenge. We require everyone do a challenge no matter what the position is (even the chef). Here are some of the perks we offer.

* 100% Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family
* Unlimited Vacation Policy
* Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave
* 401k Match up to 7% of annual salary
* Life Insurance
* AD&D Insurance
* Educational Reimbursement
* Gym Membership
* Advancement Program - Hart University
* 15” MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt Display, Magic Mouse and Keyboard
* Noise cancelling Headphones
* Stocked kitchen with coffee, drinks, and snacks
* Daily catered team lunches

Thats just the stuff off of the website. I there are so many more that you really only get to witness by working here. Listen I am just a DevOps guy if you would like to work here feel free to send me your resume eric@hart.com. or you can check the job link http://grnh.se/7a63oy

As a Javascript Engineer at Hart you will work with the company's software development lifecycle to design and develop new enhancements to the software as well as new development and architecture. Primary responsibilities include requirements analysis to gain an understanding of business needs to develop level of effort estimates, software design and development, unit testing, performing design and code reviews, and development of technical documentation. Additional responsibilities include performing system analysis, code modifications, and functional testing to troubleshoot application production issues.

You’ll work with the team to build products on the cutting edge of usability, interaction, and design. Our ideal candidate is someone who’s comfortable taking ownership of their work and effectively searching for creative solutions to the complex problems we encounter.

You’ll work in a high-communication environment where collaboration with the Design, Data Science, and Backend Engineering teams is key to your day-to-day success.
No, because cats < dogs.
Judge voids VirnetX's $625.6M Apple verdict; VirnetX plunges
Hey guys, author here. I used the embed code because some of the images are large and WordPress wasn't resizing them correctly for some reason. I also was unaware of the policy in Imgur's ToS. I will look into these issues and update the article accordingly.
Bainbridge Health | Philadelphia, PA (Center City) | ONSITE | FULL TIME | bainbridgehealth.com

Bainbridge Health is building a SaaS platform for medication safety analytics and administration. Our customers are hospital pharmacists and nurses, and other medication safety staff.

Front-end Engineer #1

We are looking to hire a front-end engineer with 2+ years of experience working in a team environment. Experience with data visualization and reporting, setting up CI/CD and build for front-end projects in a services environment are both major plusses.

Additionally

We're also looking for full-stack engineers and operations folks interested in building a reliable platform with as much automation as possible. Experience with Docker, and an interest in scheduling platforms like Kubernetes a major plus.

If you are a junior developer, or a more seasoned developer who loves testing and working with customers, we are also looking to hire people into a SWE in Test role to help make sure our products are doing their job reliably for our customers.

We are a spin-out from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, with early stage financing from CHOP and BioAdvance. These are ground floor opportunities, so bring your ideas, dreams, and drive and put them to work building something great.

Check out our careers page for more details: http://www.bainbridgehealth.com/#!careers/cwoac

Sam Wilson
CTO and Co-Founder
Oh yea, the most popular posts are known as "comment graveyards" because they're cross posted to other reddits. But believe it or not, that's a sign that the moderation is working well. It's the less popular posts that slip past the front page before being replied to that slip in quality—those posts will often have sub-standard replies that never get the moderation they deserve.
Amazing transformation!
Well done, sir!
You probably haven't used Google Docs in a while. It's much more capable than four years ago in my experience, and does everything I want it to do these days.
I'm no fan of facebook (Deleted my account in 2007), but they were better about privacy than MySpace (especially under News Corporation), which they replaced.

If this trend continues, the company that replaces facebook will have much better respect of privacy than those that came before it.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Introduces New Blood-Testing Device
Definitely not my intention. )-:
Embeds will be gone soon.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030161416.h...
I just started using Zoho Mail a few weeks ago. So far so good.
I didn't do it. Just noticed it.
Replacing ill workers with healthy ones may accelerate some epidemics
Jumpsuit – React/Redux made simple
> What happens is that each Spark partition outputs its own CSV, which is never what anyone would want!

1 file per partition is exactly what you want when the output is large, so that multiple executors can share the work of writing out the output.

> The expected (undocumented) solution is to compress into one partition, but then non-primitive data structures get output incorrectly.

By "compress" do you mean coalesce? Yes, coalescing the RDD/DataFrame into one partition is the commonly accepted solution for when you want to force 1 output file. The cost of doing so is that you lose parallelism, since only 1 task will be able to write out that file.

And what do you mean by "non-primitive data structure" in this case?
What do you mean by "write with a superposition of all letters at once"?
I'm surprised they didn't mention Sapir-Whorf in the vocabulary section. I think the implications for coding and UX are huge.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003/evergreen)
The rules for using DFS 5ghz channels are so harsh that the networks built with them are almost uselessly unreliable. You're /far/ better off just not using channels requiring DFS. Especially if it means you can actually own the equipment you paid for.
Or there is a lot of wind from a prevailing direction :)

The other thing to look at is fence posts if they are old.
Seems to imply they had to do something to the entrances, but not what. Maybe there are little ramps added every year? I'm gonna go look now.
Why is waiting 5-10 seconds for your editor to open such a problem?
Things are stabilizing, was not expecting the article to get this many hits!
>When I was the editor of Dr. Dobb's, we were very concerned about how to create a lively discussion forum that was free from jerks and unpleasant people.

I think this seminal essay is required reading on such matters:
http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...
"the building is located on unstable mud-fill, just off the bay’s original shoreline."

Nuff said.
Mapr: Persistent Storage for Enterprise-Grade Spark Applications
> GoogleDocs hasn't changed appreciably in the ten plus years I've been using it

Google Docs went publicly available in 2007 (= 9 years ago); how can you have been a user for 10+ years?
That was one of my favorite parts of the game, and the Achievement really was the cherry on top. It pops up just before you fade in, and it seems like a cheeky spoiler, and then the huge white Title Text to the dialog to the absurd "you really should grok where you stand on this" setting comes in. And then - if you wait for a little bit - the point really gets driven home...
commit ed877ef653847d056bb433975d731b7a1132a979
Author: djm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>
Date: 3 weeks ago

upstream commit

Add a ProxyJump ssh_config(5) option and corresponding -J ssh(1)
command-line flag to allow simplified indirection through a
SSH bastion or "jump host".

These options construct a proxy command that connects to the
specified jump host(s) (more than one may be specified) and uses
port-forwarding to establish a connection to the next destination.

This codifies the safest way of indirecting connections through SSH
servers and makes it easy to use.

ok markus@

Upstream-ID: fa899cb8b26d889da8f142eb9774c1ea36b04397
I'm fully aware of that. I've used Office 365. It's still tied painfully to its legacy, and Microsoft is in a vulnerable spot, trying to transition the product to the future.

Think like an ambitious CEO for a moment. The dynamic nature of the situation on the ground means that Office - the most successful enterprise monopoly since IBM invented the punchcard - has never been more vulnerable. You can buy a competitor in the space who isn't carrying around a bunch of legacy, whose founder's track record of successful cloud products includes, oh, Facebook. You've already got a monopoly on an enterprise cloud product where Microsoft can't really compete. Same end user base.

Do you grab for that brass ring? Or make excuses why it's impossible?
Lots of misinformation in this thread. Would be great to hear from a professional.
But what I'm telling you is that this

> My understanding is that current life developed about as quickly as it possibly could have, at least on a geological scale.

does not actually imply that abiogenesis is "eager". Our evidence is consistent with it being being so improbable that even if the universe were filled with young Earth's with the appropriate conditions, there would still be less than one such event to date per observable universe.
I live in the Outer Richmond district of San Francisco, which was built on sand dunes. Most houses in my neighborhood were built in the 1920s and 1930s, +/- a decade.

I was told by a contractor that it's extremely common for houses to have shifted considerably, sometimes by several feet. Mine certainly has, though not nearly that bad.

Most of the houses are built on concrete foundation walls that go about 3 feet into the sand. Despite being unreinforced and using water-permeable cement, they've seemed to hold up reasonably well. It's usually the whole house that shifts and racks. Yet looking from the street you wouldn't expect that because all the houses abut each other, with only a few inches or none of space in-between. (Perhaps this has mitigated the problem somewhat, though.)

Despite being built entirely on giant sand dunes, the Richmond district is only "moderately" prone to liquefaction. And there wasn't much notable damage during the 1989 earthquake, AFAIK. I think (though cannot confirm) that similar foundation techniques were used as far back as 1905 and earlier, in the Richmond, Sunset, and elsewhere, and judging by their survival and continued use of the foundation techniques I'm not particularly worried. (While widespread building in the western half of the city didn't begin in earnest until about 1910'ish, there are hundreds of buildings many decades older randomly distributed, especially closer to the beaches.)

The bigger problem is that almost all houses in the western half of the city were built with so-called soft stories as the first floor--basically a giant open space supported almost entirely by the external walls. Interestingly, AFAIK this design came before the widespread introduction of cars. These days nearly all houses use that space as a garage, but I believe they were built as unfinished first floors intended to be finished as desired--e.g. workshop, additional family rooms, in-law apartments, etc--while keeping the initial purchase price low.
that increase in value is peanuts compared to Benioff's net worth of 4.2 billion https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=benioff%20net%20worth
An example where the half star appears in the middle of text would be helpful, e.g. "Die Hard 7 ( 1/2*) is the latest movie..." In most of the examples I have, the stars are kind of on their own rather than in the flow of text, and that makes a difference to the Unicode committee.

If you have good examples, you can email my username @righto.com
> If I were a German politician, I might question the use of German funds to sponsor projects that end up being used by startups in the US as infrastructure.

Only if you're bad at math.

The thing about funding public research generally is that the ROI is extremely high. When something good is free to use then it will be widely used and produce widespread benefits.

Which means that if you spend €30K with the result that local people capture a benefit of €200K and startups in the US capture a benefit of $800K, not funding it is cutting off your nose to spite your face. You're getting back more than you put in regardless of what anybody else is getting.

And the US has the same calculus regardless of what you do. If everyone makes the rational choice then it balances out because everyone is funding research and everyone is benefiting from it (and people rationally fund it in proportion to the benefit they get).

The only reason everyone doesn't is because the benefits are diffusely distributed so public research doesn't have a strong lobby. But you still come out ahead by doing the right thing here regardless of what anybody else does.
Then they made it speak SQL, so it was called PostgreSQL, which some might confuse as "Postgre SQL".
Location: New York

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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python( Flask, Django, Celery ... ) Javascript( Node, React, Express, Redux ...), HTML5, SASS/CSS, Git, Linux, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Ansible, Nginx, AWS/Azure.

Additional Skills: DevOps, Webapp & Network security, SEO.

Other Interests: Machine learning, Automation, IoT and Electronics.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1fm7p9kr8mjbz8m/Resume.pdf

Email: mail@snehesh.me

Full Stack Developer with Python(3 years), JavaScript(<1 year) hands-on experience. Interested in overall product development (design, development, deployment and marketing), looking for an interesting opportunities in NYC.

Interesting stuff I'm working on now :

[1] Minimalist database less blog engine with blog publishing as simple as git push ( github.com/snehesht/blog)
There have been a number of sites that have popped up as submissions here on HN where the site rendered without an adblocker loaded so slowly as to be basically unusable. Rendered in lynx, however, it was both readable and extremely fast to load. Does that count as an adblocker, or a TOS violation? What about curl + an html viewer (without JS capability?)
A few people will do this. Most people won't, in my experience, especially if you use hellbanning. I've seen HN accounts full of rude comments that have been hellbanned for years.
>A little meta-civility goes a long way, too.

Yes, but you can easily blow up the stack with all this recursion, since the real world doesn't have TCO.

>If one is inclined to call people jerks, bozos and assholes, perhaps one is not understanding people very well.

Well, some people legitimately and truly are "jerks, bozos and assholes" though, some even embrace the jerk ethos openly. If you're addressing them, it's fair game to call them that.

Except if your worry is that calling them that wont help them change but alienate them -- but maybe changing them is not the author's goal, but rather routing around them.

>When I see a company describe its “no assholes” rule, I see a company inclined toward calling people assholes.

That's not the bad thing though is it? The bad thing would be being an asshole, not calling out one. So, as long as the company doesn't do it to people undeserving the title...
Gives a whole new take on the twitter of "Internet of Shit"
I think the question was why the builders didn't do it in the first place.