skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
liquid oxygen would turn pretty much every spark into a party including turning a lot of materials which are not normally combustible under atmospheric levels of oxygen highly combustible.

Nickel and steel would combust during tests of the SSMEs. (Space Shuttle Main Engines) Even increasing the fraction of gaseous oxygen in the atmosphere can turn all sorts of surprising things combustible. (Like living human flesh!)
Converge | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineers | Onsite | Full-time | Drones / Mobile / Web App

* We're an enterprise software startup (seed stage) that makes it easy for skilled professionals (think construction, insurance, real estate, etc) to use drones everyday in their job through a combination of incredible AI and HRI. We're generating revenue and among our customers, count a Fortune 50 company.
* Looking for junior or senior software engineers, and (paid) interns. We're less concerned with your skill set and more about what you would find motivating to work on every day. We do work that spans everything from Drones to AI to Data Viz to IOT.

About Converge:
* Started in 2015, our founders were some of the first people to work on drones in the world, worked on the unmanned Blackhawk helicopter, and created the first mobile app ever for flying a drone (way back in 2008 at MIT...)
* We like people who have excelled at something outside of work, and are just downright interesting to have a conversation with.
* We like diamonds in the rough, but like to keep high expectations for each other.
* If you are looking for a keg, ping pong table or bro culture, we're not going to be a good fit for each other. We actually do fly drones for our job, so I guess that's a culture benefit?
* Our team is small, we're very deliberate about hiring- you would be in the first 10 employees.

To get started, please go to this page to get ahold of us: http://www.cvg.io/careers/

If you come from an underrepresented group in tech, please get in touch w/ me (@edave) directly via my HackerNews portfolio.

Some buzzwords for you keyword searchers: iOS, Android, Fullstack, Rails, Python, Ruby, React, ES6, Angular, Machine Learning
The whole thing is quite confusing. Is this open source? Is there any demo app that shows how it all works(i.e. the Service Control)?
Last time I've checked 'cloud endpoints' was a half baked solution on appengine. I didn't have a good experience with swagger either.
Watch a 2-year-old solve one of philosophy’s most famous moral dilemmas
London | Clearmatics | ONSITE

We’re a fast growing startup working with UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNY Mellon, and ICAP on the utility settlement coin project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12350715

The Clearmatics team is small but experienced, driven by motivated people who want to build innovative solutions for a market undergoing rapid change since the financial crisis.

Our interview process typically consists of a phone screen, on-site technical interview then CEO Interview

Senior UX Designer https://clearmatics.workable.com/jobs/274769

Platform Engineer https://clearmatics.workable.com/jobs/289831

Chief-of-Staff https://clearmatics.workable.com/jobs/265837

Startup Accountant/Finance Manager https://clearmatics.workable.com/jobs/265841
TypeScript 2.0 Awesomeness
All of SpaceX's launches are likely on hold for a few months, anyways.
New Startup Releases Bluetooth Rear Backup Camera for All Cars
Risky to deny refunds. A few chargebacks and he could lose his payment processor.
Yes, but manual translation of a novel would also hurt ;-)
_Challenge accepted_

j/k... but I hope a Hero Will Rise
Up next week: "The Lost Art Of Rote Memorization".

You see, when I was studying for an amateur radio license, I had a realization. Memorizing page after page of meaningless numbers and acronyms could actually instill a sense of curiousity about what those numbers and acronyms meant. What is a sideband and why does it single? Who is a Hertz? Why would I want to limit third-order distortion to below 0.1% of the principal frequency? You see, nobody had ever told me that it might be good to be curious about the thing I'm doing!

Sorry, this is meaningless drivel. Yes, you should know what the keywords do in a function declaration, but once you are aware of what 'static' means then typing it yet one more time does not help you whatsoever in the least. Yes, you should know know what various delimeters do in your language, but if you're not sure just go look it up, it doesn't make sense to fight it.

The reality is that there are all kinds of things that are best left in reference material. I have the Regular Expression Cheatsheet pinned right next to my desk; I could easily write a regex without it but by having a reference right there I conserve that mental bandwidth for tasks that matter. Pop quiz: which is the code for a word character, \w or \W? Is that something you want to be thinking about while you're also trying to juggle business logic for three other classes?

The same thing applies to all kinds of other things. We have documentation for a reason, memorizing the order of function arguments for a function I only use once a year is a waste of brain space. Some functions have all kinds of quirky behavior that you really need to double-check unless you use it daily - for example, anything in the C stdlib. It's not worth introducing bugs for the sake of avoiding using your IDE.

It's true that for skilled programmers, most of what we do is thinking about how to solve the problem rather than mechanically typing it in. But that's no reason to make the act of typing it in needlessly difficult. Programmers have been using intelligent assist systems for as long as we have had interactive computer systems, dating right back to vi/emacs macros.

These are a good thing: after I've encapsulated fields in getters/setters for my first five classes, the next thousand that I'm going to do over the course of the year buy me nothing, and I might as well let my IDE handle the mechanical act of declaring ten pairs of getters/setters for yet another class.
Snowplow Analytics (http://snowplowanalytics.com/) | London, Berlin, Remote | Full-time, Intern

Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) is the leading open source event data pipeline, used by some of the most data-sophisticated organizations in the world. Headquartered in London UK, Snowplow is looking to fill a variety of positions in London, Berlin or working remote.

Positions:

Technical product manager - http://snowplowanalytics.com/about/jobs/technical-product-ma...

Data engineer - http://snowplowanalytics.com/about/jobs/data-engineer/

(junior) Data analyst - http://snowplowanalytics.com/about/jobs/junior-data-analyst/

Remote, INTERN.

Snowplow Analytics is looking for 1-2 open source software interns this Winter (sometime November through January), for a 6-8 week paid internship. Our interns will work directly on and contribute to projects within the Snowplow open source stack (https://github.com/snowplow). A Snowplow intern loves coding, enjoys experimenting with new technologies and is happiest working "in the open" on community/team projects. Technologies we use at Snowplow include Scala, Rust, JRuby, Go, Hadoop, Kinesis, Redshift, Spark, Akka and Kafka.

This is a paid internship; we will consider remote candidates who are up to UTC +/- 5 hours maximum. Interested? Please email intern@snowplowanalytics.com, and tell us about a piece of software you are proud to have written. (And don't be afraid to suggest specific projects/initiatives/features that you would like to work on in your internship.)

For background on our last 2 internship programs check out:

http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2016/03/17/2015-2016-winternship-wrapup/
http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2015/07/10/introducing-our-2015-summer-interns/
Really sorry you didn't have a good experience. I'm not sure why you weren't able to get support. I've always done my best with that and I've recently formalized the process with a support center, ticketing system, and community based support.

If you're interested in trying the new version please open a ticket (http://duetapp.com/ticket) and I'll just give you a copy of 2.4, the current version. No fee. Just let me know what email you used when you made the original purchase.
The Lurn
Rosetta collects and examines space dust samples from comet 67P
A small tree-based router for Ruby apps.

https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda
It's possible to insure against business risk as well as asset risk, though it's usually not worth the premium. Though I've never been in the space business I would be surprised if it were not common for launches.
I know at least one large ISP that does exactly that, so I guess there's not much preventing everyone from doing it.
Thank you! Really like mine. As luck would have it, the distributed daemon I haven't released yet is called "oar" so it fits perfectly :).
LoomAi (YCF S16) | Computer Vision Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time | $120K - $150K, 0.5-2.0% equity | www.loom.ai

LoomAi is a VC-funded computer vision startup based in SF. Founded by Lucasfilm and Dreamworks alums, we are building a new technology platform for virtualizing people into 3D digital experiences such as messaging, games, computational photography, and social VR. You will be joining a team of founding engineers who are working on cutting edge technology for creating photoreal digital humans. Our team comprises multiple PhDs, has decades of experience writing industry-strength software for VFX, has collectively published more than a dozen graphics and vision papers (including two this year at SIGGRAPH/SCA).

Requirements:
* Experience writing fast, advanced 2D/3D computer vision software
* Strong C++ and Python programming skills
* Familiarity with modern machine learning frameworks and algorithms
* Strong object oriented programming skills
* Experience with solving large scale numerical optimization problems
* Experience with rendering or image processing algorithms
* B.S/ B.E / MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related

Plus:
* Experience with facial detection and tracking, facial capture
* Knowledge of SLAM or bundle adjustment
* Experience programming in Unity or Unreal engine
* 5 years industry experience

Please reach out to jobs@loomai.com
Improved Frontera: Web Crawling at Scale with Python 3 Support
I'm not sure Dropbox really knows what to market themselves/what their usecase is at this point. I guess they don't want to risk being seen as a service for free static web hosting.

I think you can still use Google Drive for this, it's just a bit of a pain/the Drive UI is bad.
Sure, for Sequoia. But the next paragraph says Benchmark, for example, "has multiplied investors’ money 11 times net of fees in its 2011 fund...It includes blockbuster investments like Uber Technologies Inc. and Snapchat Inc." to which all I can say is...maybe on paper. My point is that the gains are unrealized until you get the actual money. So "multiplied 11 times" is only true of the monopoly money. Whether it's true of the realized gains remains to be seen.
Exactly. That is the problem with the entire PC thing. You have to walk around on eggshells being worried that you will offend someone and never say what you think. I mean seriously. Be worried that someone who worked on a rocket project for SpaceX might be offended by what I say? I am supposed to not say anything because of that?
Making the world a safer, postier place.
> My (Indian) landline ISP even writes to http pages, injecting ads for higher tier internet plans

I've now gotten used to pages not opening up due to ad-blockers; I refuse to disable those. It may not be all that bad to shun sites that refuse to display content upon detecting ad-blockers.

> Tor is good, but slow, and many websites block it or show captchas.

And then you have Cloudflare.
ADstruc | https://adstruc.com | New York, NY | Onsite | Full-time | Visa Sponsorship | Full-stack Software Engineer

We're a Techstars 2010 company changing the way OOH (Out-of-home) advertising (think Billboards, Subways ads, etc) are bought and sold. We are looking for full-stack software engineers to help us take on some incredibly exciting opportunities as we scale.

ADstruc is the leading technology services company for the outdoor advertising industry. Our workflow automation software, Drive, delivers unprecedented ease and efficiency for agencies that plan and buy OOH in-house. Project X, our managed services division, leverages Drive to deliver audience focused OOH campaigns for brands and agencies that require a strategic, full-service planning and buying solution.

Techstack: Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, Resque, PHP (Symfony Framework) back end; heavy Javascript (Backbone.js) front end.

If you are interested, please apply here: https://adstruc.com/s/home/jobs/software-engineer or email me directly at eric@adstruc.com (mention HN).
Amazon Lab126 (lab126.com) | Sunnyvale, CA | Software Developer, Concept Engineering (ONSITE)

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

We’re looking for Software Development Engineers with broad experience and interests who thrive in fast paced start-up like environments. In this role, you will be a part of the Concept Engineering team that brings in new ideas and delivers high-fidelity proof of concepts. Responsibilities include:

Actively participate and lead concept development and design ideation as part of a small team
Rapidly build and iterate on polished, high-fidelity prototypes that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task
Develop functional prototypes to prove and sell concepts to development teams and senior leadership
Partner with other teams to ensure that our techniques and technologies translate through to shipping products and services
Be able to work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed to create delightful experiences for customers

Please email sjambula@amazon.com if you’re interested!
Wow, I thought I was the only one who still did this.
I sympathise, and I would agree that if you take official advice from your tax authority on some point, that should set an upper bound on your tax obligations.

It doesn't help that bad or just plain wrong advice is given all the time by the tax authorities, at least in my country. I no longer even bother asking them about most things, because the last few times I called with a relatively straightforward business question, they still managed to give me completely wrong answers (always in their favour, naturally). The reason I know that is because when I was surprised by those answers and then took independent advice, the independent advisors used the tax authority's own official documentation to show me why what they told me was incorrect...
Evaluation Criteria for Airborne Wind Energy Systems
What's sad about it? They have insurance, it's just hardware. Nobody died or was even injured, so it's merely an invoncenience.
And media can be manipulated. Its like 1984 when you think about it.
Heads up, couldn't find your E-mail in your profile. Might want to update it.
Thread.com (YC S12) | Software Engineer | London, UK | Full-time | Onsite

We're a startup that's using human stylists and machine learning algorithms to reinvent how shopping works for men (and someday women) who want to dress well but dislike shopping. In the process we're helping them to feel happier and more confident about themselves. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator. After launching 3 years ago we're already doing $1M+ in monthly sales with over 400,000 men using the service in the UK.

We're a team of 6 full stack engineers with lots of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before), and we're proud of the effort we've put into building and maintaining a strong engineering culture since the very first days of Thread. You'll be one of the first technical hires, getting to build and own huge parts of the product, and help us continue to shape our culture.

To learn more about the role, check out https://www.thread.com/jobs. And here's more about our engineering culture: https://www.thread.com/engineering
I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1]

There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies.
Using IQ is mostly illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

- Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

- Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire a sociopath.
There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours. There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets.

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] The illegality comes from IQ tests disadvantaging certain minority groups.
There's nothing wrong with softening your language a bit just in case someone who happens to be involved sees what you write. If not being a jerk means you can't speak what's on your mind, then that says more about your mind than it does the world.
Was the nature of the crashes due to poor process isolation? Processes going into infinite loops? Memory corruption of the OS?

It seems like the limitations were probably not hardware related, although many hardware features since have made certain tasks and isolation easier. Though unix had a reputation for requiring more capable computers to run.
To be clear, I don't owe you or anyone anything with regards to this conversation. I am not obligated to conform to any particular conversational strategy, and if my intention was to simply claim something was incorrect without elaborating, I am entitled to do so.

That said, I was wrong. I recalled what bcrypt does incorrectly.
That's a great move by Hetzner. Glad to see that OVH is not the only main player doing it anymore.

The only issue with both is that they don't handle l7 DDoS, which seems to be getting more common. I also don't like that they leverage TCP rst's for syn floods, but I guess thats better than going down.

But so far, for l7 attacks you still need ddos mitigation strategies or something like CloudFlare.com or https://sucuri.net in front of your site.

thanks,
I think this paragraph is enough to show that SFC isn't in it for the money, is it not?
7 Planes Perfectly Designed (To Kill the People Flying Them)
Solink - Ottawa, ON, Canada (ONSITE)

http://solinkcorp.com/

Front-End/Full-Stack Developer - Send resumes/questions to: cwhiten@solinkcorp.com

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About us:

We’re changing the way the security industry uses surveillance video.

Solink empowers brick and mortar businesses to use data to reinvent their entire operations. What differentiates us from other data-analytics software companies is that we’ve successfully made surveillance video a source of insight. We focus on security applications that combat fraud proactively.

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Tech:

- Front-end: Javascript(React, Angular, D3), CSS (SASS), HTML

- Backend: Node.js, C#, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS
Not exactly that but a similar story for you. I was a huge dork in high school and figured out the sound API on my HP-48G which was just really a way to play a sound from the internal speaker at a frequency and duration. I programmed the first parts of Holst's Jupiter using my calculator and a friend's calculator. Man that was real fun to do. Created an API on top of that to simplify it to play notes at a certain length.

That calculator was amazing. Real nice programming environment there for a high school kid that didn't have programming everywhere like we do today.
They say that the infected file was only there for a day, but maybe it would behoove them to do some bash-fu w/ their logs and get an approximation of the number of users affected!
Perhaps I should've been clearer in the article, but it's aimed at people
learning to program. Absolutely, as a professional, use the tools available to be as efficient as possible. But as a newcomer, relying on tools (and copying jQuery snippets from StackOverflow) too early slows down the learning.
I offer refunds, but it's usually only if the actual product is defective and if it's something I'm unable to fix. It's a bit different than what people are used to with SaaS because the product can't be returned. And I can't 'turn off' access once they have downloaded it. I try to be fair though, and in cases where I can't offer a refund I always try to offer something else

EDIT: I should add that if someone legitimately can't use the app, I would give a refund. I'm just pointing out that unlike SaaS apps that have a policies that provide refunds regardless of the reason, I would rather work with you to solve the problem, because 99.9% of issues are solvable.
Designing a Responsive Landing Page
Introducing Brave Payments
understood. The ones I've been doing are on average 4 hrs ( eg: https://mesosphere.com/careers/challenges/distributed-applic...). Did one last week that was 7 hrs.

I am just tired and exhausted at this point.
> What kinds of applications could you not find a good solution for?

* LibreOffice Writer (lowriter) had an annoying bug where it would sometimes take over a second to redraw the toolbar buttons, and the editor was unavailable during that time. This happened on save, resize, or unhiding the window.

* Konsole's logic to identify the name of the foreground process would occasionally go into an infinite loop and all the konsole windows would lockup and need to be kill -9'd. It can be avoided by using tmux but that's inconvenient. This is sad because it's the most featureful and user-friendly terminal emulator I know of.

* No good C++ IDEs.

* No support for cargo in the rust packages.

* No workable virtualization.

Also, if you use OpenBSD on a laptop, you'd be crazy not to use GNOME 3 in my opinion. Support for the other DEs are not on par.