skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems are really twofold:

(1) Defining the proper goals, and

(2) Measuring the right things (such as the real goals of interest rather than biased proxies.)

With police deployments, you are assuming the solution (rather than letting your algorithm optimize it) by saying "I want to put more police where more arrests occur". What you really want is probably something more like (the exact goal may be different, of course) "I want to deploy police resources where it will most effectively reduce the incidence of crime, weighted by some assigned measure of severity." Then let your ML algorithm crunch the various measurable factors and produce an optimum deployment to do that.

(But, then again with that goal -- and similar problems exist with many likely real goals -- you run into the other problem, which is measuring the incidence of crime -- measuring crime reports may be the obvious approach, but there's plenty of evidence that lots of factors can bias crime reports, including communities having bad experience with police being less likely to report crimes.)
> this is my first job offer in the field ever...

Take the job for the work experience and opportunity to expand your professional network. Go in with a plan to stay 12-24 months. That will afford you more options as your career progresses.
The stream is the consistency (locking) boundary. Your first step it to get your model aligned with such boundaries. For example, your amazon shopping basket is independent of my basket. Then you chose your concurrency model - append to a stream with an expected version (pessimistic) or just append anyway (no expected version). Your amazon basket may be the later, your amazon payment and shipping checkout may be the former.

Locking across streams is an anti-pattern / smell. It can be done (as can anything) but it usually points to a modelling problem. Example: cancelling an amazon order is a _request_ that is in a race with the fulfillment system (boundary); it may or may not be successful.
Morning Consult | Washington, DC | Full-Time | ONSITE | Back-End Engineer

Morning Consult is a data and news company. We run polling operations for several news agencies (including Politico and Vox) and we are working on building the largest collection of public opinion data out there.

As a back-end engineer you would be working on scaling and optimizing our intelligence platform (morningconsultintelligence.com), adding new features, managing infrastructure, and doing whatever else might be needed. You'll have lots of autonomy, and influence in the design and development process. Ideal candidates are comfortable working with minimal direction. Bonus points if you have a data background.

Tech stack: Node, Express, Handlebars, RethinkDB, AWS

Job description/application information here:
https://morningconsult.com/work-with-us/

Email jbyess@morningconsult.com if you have questions about anything.
GALE, a digital marketing agency in Toronto is currently seeking full time Front End Developers to work with our clients in the retail space to develop a product using ReactJS and Django/Python.

Looking for people who have 1+ years experience as a front end developer using NodeJS or AngularJS. If you have not worked with ReactJS before that is fine. We will train you on site.

Please reach out to Lindsey Cavanagh at lindsey.cavanagh@galepartners.com if interested.
GM Has Built a Stealth Truck for the Army
"Pirate" Streaming is legal where i live and there is not a single streaming site that has such a low offering as Netflix does. Even thought i think we have the 5th biggest Netflix library world wide. Its really hard to pay for, or so watching movies generally, when the offering is so bad compared to the "free" offers.
They got killed by Reddit. No pun intended.
Vroom | New York, NY preferred, but open to remote for the right candidate | Full Stack / Front End Engineer (junior, mid-level, senior) | Salary: $70k-150k+

Technologies: Javascript (ES6/ES2015), Node.js, React, Redux, MobX, Nginx, Webpack, AWS, continuous integration, git, Sass/PostCSS (or experience with CSS Modules, Radium, etc.), Optimizely, NewRelic, Segment.io, etc.

We're trying to make used car buying/selling as easy as buying a pair of shoes online. We're on track for $1 billion in revenue this year. We're a relatively small company trying to build out our NYC headquarters (~30 employees, ~5 engineers). This means you'll have the opportunity to really make a difference and touch the whole stack.

We're looking for driven engineers who can write clean code, work autonomously, stay at the forefront of technology, care about the user experience, and can work well with or without other people.

We're working on many projects right now - one of which is the refactoring of vroom.com to migrate off .NET and into Node.js, making it a universal/isomorphic Javascript single-page app. Since we're a small team, we want leaders who are not only competent, but can also work autonomously.

Unlike most other companies, we're not really into micromanaging employees and pointless meetings. As long as you're doing quality work, you can work from home or whatever hours are most comfortable to you.

Send your resume to jeremy.bernier@vroom.com if interested.
Management is hard, yes, but the person who posted this is a terrible manager.

They probably work at a dysfunctional company where they don't have any models for good management, and think of themselves as just doing normal management things, but they're wrong. Very little of what they describe is acceptable, and even less of it is actually good.

If your manager isn't terrible at their job, they're not working like that.
seems like mostly updating to the newest models and making the entry level sku's much cheaper to attract more people kicking the wheels and lower the bar for dev's wanting to try out Azure. I would love to see they take this to an extreme and either make the A0 or A1 free like AWS.
Keep politics out of discussions where not relevant.
wouldn't inferred types fit into the "Diagnostic" interface?
There are both "info" and "hint" levels which seem appropriate.

(I don't disagree with your general point, just curious about this specific example)
But that's not the argument I'm responding to.
Mid nineties to early 2000s was when modems were mainstream. People usually got their email using POP3, dialing up either manually or automatically on a schedule. Email clients were designed around offline use, as were newsreaders. Outbox was a thing; it was where your emails went until you went online next.
Thanks for the explanation!

Having a single place for printing rather than one per application sounds like a nice idea indeed. If only they had documented it better... ;-)
Location: Washington, DC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes - Only Los Angeles (previously lived), Seattle, or for a lucrative offer

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Python, Java, C++, C, Smalltalk, C#, Spark, Kafka, Django, Docker, Onyx, Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Neo4J, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, React, Game Engines, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, Project Management, and more.

Résumé/CV: Ask, will email if legit

Email: jdmmilk@gmail.com

About: I have been in the industry full-time for 15+ years and have experience in a vast assortment of technologies. Further, I have worked for companies of all kinds, ranging from startups to consulting firms to government. Ideally, I am looking for a senior position focused on big data, back-end services, architecture, management, or anything focused on creating new technologies.

I am as comfortable writing prose as I am code, and I do not shy away from either. Finally, I prefer to use the best tools for the job, but if I am forced to choose favorites, I would be biased towards working with Clojure or another functional language.
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TicketCity | Austin, TX | Full Stack (mid-level or senior) | Onsite

We are an eCommerce marketplace for live events (sports, concerts, theater).

If you get sh*t done and love working on a close-knit dev team, we want you!

Our stack: Javascript, jQuery, Angular, React, MS-SQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Node.js, .NET, Objective-C

https://jobs.lever.co/ticketcity/5a194cda-d136-4ddf-abb1-6bd...

Feel free to email me (Caitlin) at csullivan@ticketcity.com to learn more about the role or life at TicketCity in general.
Well, for Rust the binary blob isn't opaque: you can go back through the source code history and find the exact source for every revision of the blob, all the way back to the OCaml bootstrap implementation. There's no loss of "user freedom" at any step, just a lot of complexity (but compared to the complexity of, say, GCC it's a drop in the bucket).
Best football mobile score game.. Score Hero Level 189ars
How many emails have been triggered thus far with the service? And does it feel kind of weird seeing that data and knowing that you're pretty much being notified of people's deaths (at least if used as intended)?
Hey, How do you handle SEO since the front end is REACT?
I don't have any experience with Azure. Are prices competitive with AWS?
Discuss.io | Seattle | Onsite, Remote maybe | Full-Time | PHP

We're a Seattle based startup specializing in on-demand qualitative consumer depth interviews and focus groups using webrtc. We connect marketers, researchers, and brands to millions of consumers in 33 countries right from their laptop.

These are the roles we're looking for:

* SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER/ARCHITECT

* SENIOR PHP DEVELOPER/ARCHITECT

* QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST

* PROJECT MANAGER

Bonus points if you are familiar with WebRTC, FreeSWITCH, Plivo, and Twilio.

Please see the job description here - https://www.discuss.io/career/

We offer attractive salary and equity package depending upon your experience. If this sounds like a great fit, we would love to hear from you.
Please send a note along with your resume/cv, Linkedin, GitHub link to shalendra@discuss.io
Waldo Photos | Austin, TX | Onsite | http://waldophotos.com

Looking for: Full Stack/Backend engineer, Android Engineer.

Waldo Photos delivers photos from SLRs and professional cameras straight to your device (iOS, Android, web) with a clever mix of facial/object recognition.

We're hiring smart engineers to help us solve hard problems. We're using a microservices architecture with a blend of shiny (GraphQL, React) and tried-and-true (Node.js, Kafka, Python, Postgresql, Java) tech.

More info in our TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/waldo-raises-5-million-for...

We're rounding out the initial team (currently 12) with a senior full stack/backend engineer. We're also looking for an Android engineer.

Come work with us: andy@waldophotos.com
I spent time working in Inkjet Land at HP. If you dry fire a thermal inkjet print head you will damage it. Some of these built-in restrictions really are there to protect you and your product. It's hard to tell where protecting you and your product from actual damage ends and protecting HP's ink business begins, and that's unfortunate.
Seems to repeatedly show a plane with one stamp from Mountain View...
McAfee trials was actually installed by default.
Overhauled responsive mobile experience for Helpmonks
Google, according to the info popup bottom right
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely.

15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion.

* Architecture and code reviews.

* One-time engagement for ideation and product scoping.

Lots of experience working across timezones.

More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
Probably Google, I get redirected to download Chrome when I visit without WebGL :)
made by http://activetheory.net

paid by google.
There is a great incentive to obfuscate when your "value delivery" is skimming (mutual funds that charge 1.25% management fees for underperforming the S&P), privatization fraud (health insurance in the US, government contractors, and pretty much everything related to real estate since "home appreciation" is now supposed to pay for people's retirements instead of pensions), taking advantage of stupid people (lottery, penny auctions, telemarketing, almost all advertising), education fraud (textbook industry, "student loans now, regret later" private colleges and universities - which since many student loans are federally guaranteed is also a form of privatization fraud), or "intellectual property" racketeering.
Toronto, Canada | Kira Systems | REMOTE ok | Clojure/ClojureScript Web Developer

Kira Inc. is a Toronto-based startup using machine learning to automate legal work. We’re looking for a developer to work on our Clojure and ClojureScript web application. Our stack includes reactive single-page web client code and a distributed backend to handle internal computations. Our team is small, pragmatic, and inquisitive; we love learning new technologies and balance adoption with good analysis. To us, agile is a verb, not a noun, we adopt what works for us rather than strictly following a particular methodology. We prefer to hire near our downtown Toronto office, but also welcome remote applicants.

This position is focused on internal tools such as application analytics and internal integrations. It involves a bit of everything in the web stack:

* Client-side UI code.
* Server-side REST routes.
* Platform and core APIs.
* Document and report generation.

You should have knowledge of some of these. Most of all we look for those interested in learning.

Please send us:

* cover letter — tell us why you’re interested,
* resume/linkedin profile,
* link to github projects or other work samples.

If we like the look of what you send us, we'll ask you to perform a short take-home coding test, and if that is satisfactory, we'll invite to an interview with the team.

Please apply online at https://kirasystems.com/careers#op-131123-clojureclojurescri...
C and C++ also use years. For example, C99 was standardized in 1999. C++11 was standardized in 2011.
Every med student I know went through a hypochondriasis phase. I wonder what Poulson will think in a few years, once he is out of school.
Interestingly, 538 ran a piece recently that implies that that's not the case this election, and that Trump actually has far more upside from unregistered voters than Clinton does:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/missing-white-voters-cou...

The summary is that by far the largest unregistered cohort is those who are young, poor, and uneducated. And this election, the poor and uneducated group is largely in Trump's camp, while in past elections they may have split roughly evenly between Republicans and Democrats depending on other issues.

The other interesting thing is that the Trump campaign has done fairly little with voter registration drives, perhaps because of this image of it largely helping Democrats. Would be an interesting example of how hewing to common wisdom rather than data can end up hurting a candidate, if 538's analysis is true.
Mophie’s modular case brings everything but a headphone jack to the iPhone 7
Machine Learning Wars: Amazon vs. Google vs. BigML vs. PredicSis
This is both a lot more reliable and more straightforward to both set up and use.
>> Typically a newbie will ask about which framework they should learn..

Honestly the easiest way to learn this is to contact your local recruiters and ask them to send you some openings for FED positions.

In nearly every one, you will see which JS framework is the main one they use. In my recent experiences (the last two or three years) most corporate environments are using AngularJS, while the smaller startups are using React and some mix of various other libraries for their apps and sites.

There are still a few agencies I know using BackboneJS, since it was in that first wave of JS frameworks and there's apps and sites out there which still need supporting.
Two much more powerful, deeper, and more interesting articles on the same subject:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/30/god-knows-where...

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/neuwrite/pubs/avivHarpers.pdf
Immutable User Interfaces (Lee Byron)
https://activetheory.net/work/paper-planes-io for Google I/O 2016.

It featured prominently at the beginning of the video stream.
Firefox will get 3~9% faster when running gdoc test cases with chrome user agent
Have been using angular 2 since beta. Had some frustrations through the RC releases and lots of breaking changes. The new new new new router being a huge one.

Overall though I love the framework and will def be my go to for front-end apps. Typescript is a huge plus. Lovely dev experience now that it's stable.
BayLearn 2016 Brings Machine Learning Researchers, Industry Together
TL,DR: author voluntarily donated a kidney to his stepfather's brother, against the advice of much of his family. Years later, the recipient is doing fine but the author (on his way to becoming a doctor), has reviewed the risks of being a donor and now is nervous about the whole thing.
7 of the Best Cities for Digital Nomads
This one I agree with. I wouldn't use the service personally until the issue is fixed. But it is so counterproductive to find a security problem the average user wouldn't notice, and then not tell the author about it.
Location: East Hartford, CT
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Java, Go, PHP, Swift, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, React, etc
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2YOMRqh4cKNUWNGaDRMLXJBRUE/view
Email: joelmaat [AT] gmail [DOT] com

I'd technically have 9 years experience, but I've been unemployed since the end of 2010 due to debilitating mental illness (OCD?). I never stopped programming, so I've managed to avoid becoming rusty.
The only things I found really annoying ... Completely disappeared in the last major update. Very clean to work with now.
But they seem to show your full name and public Facebook picture, which opens you up to all kinds of potential real-world harassment that doesn't exist on the (if you're smart) fully anonymous Craigslist. Such as showing up to your workplace to demand their money back, or finding your contact information via a Google search.
"I continue to be impressed by the quality of The New Yorker's reporting."

It really is quite good and I have gone out of my way over these past 8 years or so to show them whatever patronage I can. To that end, I subscribe to the digital version on my kindle as well as buy the print version (which I prefer, aesthetically).

Since we're talking about it, I think any discussion of how good the New Yorker is has to touch on how good the London Review of Books is. It's a truly remarkable publication. Very, very left leaning but I appreciate it nonetheless. I highly recommend an LRB subscription to anyone that appreciates good, original, thoughtful reporting and commentary. As a bonus, you get a very different perspective on many world events than you get from US media.
It's a toy, regardless of what the developer says.
How does one learn to make sites like these (particularly the "see work" link)?
At a previous job, we had serious development bandwidth issues. The company was trying to solve that by hiring more developers, and all it was doing was making things worse.

The root cause of the development bandwidth problem was that we wasted vast amounts of time and energy on building misfeatures. And we built so many misfeatures because we had way too much development capacity in relation to our product planning capacity. So the BAs didn't have enough time to fully develop ideas before sending them to engineering, and were instead stuck throwing things over the wall when they were still half baked. All these half-baked ideas took time to build, and then they took time to fix after they bombed on the market, and they slowed everything else down since every new feature is something you have to ensure still works when you make a change in that part of the software. Day in, day out, we were taking on technical debt to cover our design debt bills.

So then we tried Agile, and man oh man did that make things worse. 'Cuz now instead of just lobbing things over the wall, the BAs had to be actively involved in every sprint. There goes any opportunity to sit down and concentrate, because now you've got a nattering horde of 20 developers all trying to get clarification on last week's decisions, which leaves less time to make this week's decisions, which means next sprint things will be even more sketchy and ill-defined.

The correct solution would have been to hire more business analysts, and they key thing we needed from those business analysts wasn't instructions on what to build. It was instructions on what _not_ to build.
This is what happens when management gives up and turns IT to developers. And I believe that happened when accountants took over because of Sarbanes Oxley. The accountants had no idea what they where getting into. Then the Tech Bubble happened and $$$ filled their eyes. Developers became GODs and now... This happened.
R and its libraries are GPL licensed. Is there some corporate license available to prevent companies from being required to publish proprietary code that interacts with R? Or was the usage limited to to internal systems?
Sure, blame an entire country.

Edit: For all I know, the down-voters are credulous mopes who agree with you about blaming a country?
Site is down.
www.normative.com - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - ONSITE

JavaScript FullStack Developers (senior)

Normative is a Software Design consultancy based in Toronto. We are looking for Senior FullStack Javascript developers - our current stack is React.js/Redux/Hapi.js w/ Postgres but can vary project to project.

Our work is mostly building app and prototypes for startups and large organizations. We don't do any marketing or ecomm work. Preference given to those with experience in IoT ( beacons, ect. ) , Blockchain tech, or skills in Graphics programming ( AR apps ).

Cool office in Kensington Market, competitive salary and 5 weeks vacation out of the gate.

Hiring process is: Screening phone call, At-home coding test (2hrs), In Person Interview, Reference Check and then Offer.

http://normative.com/were-hiring-full-stack-developer/

or you can reach out directly andy [at] normative [dot] com
I also see the opposite: I get texts asking me to email someone. If I email them I get some variant of a 419 scam. With the motorcycle it was "I'm on a secret mission in Afghanistan but I want to buy your motorcycle for my brother who lives in Chicago."
I'd go pretty far in that direction, were I running this service. Something along the lines of "hey, I do my best, but anything that'd significantly impact anyone's life if it were disclosed accidentally or compromised is best stored offline, with information on how to find it being all that's actually set up to go out via my service." And maybe I wouldn't even be comfortable with that.

Actually, on further reflection, I wouldn't be comfortable running a service like this at all, for reasons amply detailed elsewhere in these comments - in short, it's a great way to paint a target on your chest for everybody from random scammers to state-level actors. I must admit I am considerably impressed by your courage in continuing to do so. Don't get me wrong - I think you must be a madman. But I can respect a very brave madman!
Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: AWS, VMWare, windows server

Résumé/CV: http://amzn.to/2cYgK8u

Email: quickemailmatt@gmail.com
>Suicidal tendencies, then?

No, it might surprise you to learn that all humans eventually die. Some of them even have families they want to send 'death-bed' notes to.
I actually expect the exact opposite. Local used items will appear next to brick-and-mortar ads. FB might also introduce local/used promoted listings.
Not necessarily. I think some of the systems use radio links to a central location and transponders at fixed points on the route to track the buses.