skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My90 (www.textmy90.com) | SF Bay Area, CA | Full Time | ONSITE | apply be emailing info@datapact360.com

Hiring LEAD ENGINEER @ 70k-80k + 1–2% equity | https://angel.co/my90/jobs/167364-lead-engineer?utm_source=n...

My90 is on the cutting-edge of companies and cities trying to understand and strengthen community-police relations. My90 works with community members, police officers, and city officials to help them solve the problems they encounter in their day-to-day lives. We believe that better communication leads to better outcomes, such as improved public safety for everyone. Our tools include communication technologies and data analysis.

My90 is seeking a full-stack Lead Engineer to run our front-end and back-end software around improving community-police relations and public safety. The ideal candidate will have expertise with Ruby on Rails as well as a drive to transform how the public and the police interact.

The Lead Engineer will manage creating and scaling the technical infrastructure of our services. They will work closely with our CEO and non-technical team members to maximize the effectiveness of our platform as the company closes its seed round and scales regionally. Because My90 is an early-stage company, all roles are dynamic. My90 team members must be flexible, results-oriented, and collaborative.
Among products whose review distribution is heavily skewed toward 5-stars, the 1-star reviews are often the most useful, since this is where you might learn that reviewers are being offered compensation in return for removing their negative review (either by stating it directly, or as evidenced by an aggressive comment left by the seller in response to the unhappy customer).
Absolutely true - however, in a true "apples to apples" comparison, if you're only running a single EC2 instance (for example) and it dies you're offline as well - AWS does not "automatically" have a failover setup for you. In this case 2 dedicated instances with a load balancer is going to get you the same setup you'd get on AWS (only likely cheaper and a lot more powerful setup).
100 people?! I could do that myself, in a weekend.
Datawheel, LLC | Boston/Cambridge, MA | Onsite | Full Time

We are looking for someone with a keen eye for design and usability to help bring our current and future products from mockup to implementation.

Details
Personal Qualities

Self-starter, able to work independently
Familiar with working on a small fast-paced team
Willingness to learn and develop new technologies

Requirements

3+ years experience with front-end web languages  (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Familiarity with Node.js environments
Experience with rapid prototyping
Experience in product design is a huge plus

Benefits

Laid back work atmosphere
Potential for international travel

To apply, visit http://www.datawheel.us/team/
> I like to think the IT department sources our hardware on flea markets.

For the really old legacy systems, NASA actually searches (online) flea markets: http://www.geek.com/chips/nasa-needs-8086-chips-549867/
Eva Diagnostics (http://www.evadiagnostics.com) | Full-Time | London UK | ONSITE

Eva is an award-winning healthtech company developing the next generation of connected patient-side blood tests offering new insights for better health outcomes. The company is presently developing technology which will reduce healthcare costs and improve patient quality of care across anaemia treatment and chemotherapy.
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Eva is seeking an experienced cloud developer who is interested in joining a multi-award winning startup with fantastic opportunities for personal development. As part of the engineering team, the role will involve close collaboration with our design, electronics and software teams to develop an innovative data collection and analytics cloud platform that integrates with our devices. You will have the opportunity to take full responsibility for your role, interact with clients and partners, and gain detailed insights into the entire cloud development lifecycle for medical data.

Responsibilities

- Design and implement a secure, scalable cloud backend for device and 3rd party integration

- Oversee the verification and validation of the cloud and analytics platform

- Maintain software quality throughout the development process

Apply and see more here: http://www.evadiagnostics.com/cloud-developer
Half-Life's writer reflects on his masterpiece
Can't remember the last time I saw any promotional material in my email that I didn't sign up for myself, gmail is very good at filtering it out. I would say email is better nowadays if only because you can contact most people and organizations through it. The bigger the network, the more useful the service.
I'd say a lot of it was friends or hush money. $100M to do the job, $400M to keep you quiet and in my backpocket
My first thoughts when I visited the site was "This all looks very silly. Who would even do this?"

15 minutes later, having launched and caught a bevy of paper planes, I am rocking in my seat with delight like a schoolboy again.

Thank you for making me remember the simple delights of making, discovering and connecting. Activities that filled my childhood days...
Not "cannot" - just "easier" :)
No, at least for the last Officejet I used. The cartridges are just ink tanks, the print heads are separate. I think that's fairly widespread now; e.g., it's also true on my Canon Pixma.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Bangalore, India

Technologies: Frontend: React+Redux, Angular 1, VueJS, BackBoneJS.

Backend: PHP, Laravel, Codeigniter, MySQL, Postgresql, Mongodb, Redis, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, Beanstalkd, Supervisord, Gearman, Memcached

Others: Good Photoshop skills, Built Wordpress plugins, Chrome Extensions and Atom editor plugins.

Workflow: Webpack/Gulp/Grunt, Git/Subversion, Bower, Composer

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxcnkqs0tn1hs79/Vivek-Gupta-Resume... (a bit outdated)

Email: mail+fl@vivekgupta.com

P.S. Open for fixed price and hourly price projects ($40-50 an hour).
Bad procurement policies.
Interesting, thanks for the pointer! Doesn't look like it's a business podcast at all (but a “how to pick up chicks” podcast?), but maybe I'll check an episode or two.

Back when Startups For the Rest of Us was new, I found it to be a pretty good value/minute compared to other podcasts I could find at the time (2010). The episodes start with a useless 5 minutes of chit-chat, but the other 15 minutes was pretty solid.
you can read results many way, including "this means that incentivized reviews makes otherwise lazy but happy customers, to leave a review."
> They also need to ban merchants from hounding me to review their products. One of them even called me on my phone. I don't know how they got my number.

If you go into the "Address Book" in your account settings, you'll see a phone number listed with each of your addresses. I'm assuming that gets passed along to merchants with your order details.

I report any merchants who make unsolicited contact. It's extremely annoying/invasive, especially when they abuse your phone number.
Very nice site! As some feedback it broke my back button on Firefox though and I couldn't return to HN.
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SEEKING WORK - Orlando, US / Remote
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We are a UI UX & Product Designer duo looking to help startups with either their existing products or new product ideas.

If you are on a budget and looking to design a product that has great user experiences then please reach out to us. If we love the idea then we can even work for equity.

We arent just UI designers and web designers. We spend a lot of effort into understanding your target market and users. This critical step will help us design a product that provides experiences tailored to your vision.

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Skills : Photoshop, Sketch, Principle, Framer, HTML5-CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Mobile UI UX Design, Web / Saas app design

Resume: Available on request

Contact and portfolio: https://sofriend.ly
Searched to see if anyone here mentioned ReviewMeta. If anything, this will make their service even more important because the beauty seems to be in tying all the fake reviews together, not necessarily using these keywords.
Monzo | London | REMOTE, INTERNS and VISA all welcome

We are building a bank from scratch using modern technologies. Our product is a mobile first bank account for retail customers.

We are hiring for

- Backend developer
- Web developer
- Android developer
- Security engineer

You can get a better sense about what we are doing on our blog (https://monzo.com/blog) and in particular the blog post about our backend platform (https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...)

As long as you are a nice person that learns things quickly we would encourage you to apply. We care deeply about our company culture, fostering an environment of inclusiveness, transparency and feedback. We're 18 months old, 60 people, raised £13M in funding, have 50k prepaid cards in the market and 200k people on our waiting list.

Our interview process consists of an informal phone call, a take home exercise, an exercise review call and an on-site or Google Hangouts interview.

For a full job description, please have a look at our job ad on our website: https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/244898
Amazon: No More Incentivized Reviews*
I don't think I'll take this seriously until Amazon stops gaming their own review system.

For instance, if you take a look at Comcast's rating on Amazon the have 4 stars, but if you click in and look at the breakdown 85% of the ratings are one star. The fact that this magically translates into a 4-star rating in Amazon's world is a huge issue.
I think most of us still just want 10G Ethernet to drop in price to the point where using it in a budget SAN makes sense.

Last I checked it was starting to get there, for single NICs; it was the switches that made even high-speed in rack deployment not make sense.
While I was waiting for Angular 2 I ran into Aurelia and haven't looked back. http://aurelia.io/

Aurelia stays out of the way and sticks to web standards, it has been a joy to work with.
Correct. Message delivery strategy is separate from message processing once delivered. If you choose at-least-once delivery, you'll need to handle possible duplicates regardless of whether or not you can process a duplicate message in a lock-free manner.
Location: Portland, OR
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Bash, C#, CSS (Bootstrap/Foundation/Bourbon Neat), Go, JS (Angular/jQuery/Meteor/React/vanilla), LESS, PHP (WordPress), SASS/SCSS, Scheme, VB.NET
Résumé/CV: http://benaiah.me/resume.pdf
Email: benaiah@mischenko.com
Github: https://github.com/benaiah

Polyglot developer, usually working on web frontends and large WordPress systems (though I'd like to move away from the latter if I get the opportunity). A huge Emacs fan, as you can probably tell by my GitHub, though I use Vim bindings in Emacs and Vim itself for working over SSH. Eager to jump in wherever I'm needed - I have widespread tech experience and I'm very fast at picking up new systems. Remote would be ideal, but I'm happy with an office position. Would strongly prefer not to relocate outside the greater Portland area, but I'll consider it for an exceptional offer. Feel free to send me an email at benaiah@mischenko.com
WhatsApp now lets you write, draw, and add emojis to photos and videos
As a software engineer watching bees is pretty fascinating. FWIW right now I am studying to have my own meloponine [1] hive at the backyard, to help with local pollination. I believe there are some decent softwares for bee hives and apiaries management out there so we can help a bit regarding their endangered status, hopefully.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee
Ah, that did it! Thanks!
Never heard of Prestel (or perhaps long forgot about it). In 1984 you could to any one of a large number of free dial-up bulletin-board systems, some of which were connected to a message forwarding network known as FidoNET. Also, for way than $16K per year, you could go to some state-sponsored university and get a real e-mail account. :) People weren't such early home computer users by 1984. Many computers usable for dial-up BBSing were affordable, going down into the couple hundred dollars range. Commodore 64's, Ataris and so on. Apple II boxes were pricey, but the clones not as much.
I don't think this is meant solely for data centers, more like offices, branches and home where it'd be cheaper to simply replace the switch/NICs than to rewire the entire place where they're in the walls. The savings are in the labor costs.
But how do I know you really needed the product and use it in an everyday situation?

That's the problem I have with these freebie reviews. I want to know if the product that I need works as advertised as told by people who actually need it and use it themselves.

Not by people who just liked getting free stuff.

Or do you actually pick what you actually need for free and thus are able to give a good review?
How do Chinese software developers protect their products?
My employer, a facial recognition company, is receiving more and more interest from Chinese companies. However, discussions with engineer and media industry friends in China, Thailand, and Vietnam, they all report 100% usage of pirate software across the board. They are talking TV/Film media production, business process, accounting, software development suites, and all the related server and infrastructure software to make whatever they do operate. They report it is unheard of to actually run legitimate, licensed software unless your company/employer is a owner/investor/partner with the software vendor. As a small, but international vendor of location security software, is the only hope to partner with a Chinese company that can then hopefully be honest in policing the use of the partnerships software products? How does your organization, with an active presence in China, police the use and piracy of your products in Asia?
A big issue with allowing organ markets is that impoverished people can practically be forced to sell their organs.
> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

Ah, so you're in the "reject science" camp. Gotcha.
I know from first-hand experience that as soon as you ask to deviate from a more or less standard workflow on leaving a review in exchange for a discounted product, MOST reviewers flock away. Of course very few reviewers might do illegal things, but these will be minority and highly unscalable for a purposes of launching product (plus these people will be quickly caught by amazon itself)
We should create a URI standard for that; xkcd://927
Many, if not most, printers come with partially-full cartridges, so buying a new printer instead of a new cartridge may cost less, but will get you less than half as many printed pages. The only printers that I am sure come with full cartridges are costly industrial inkjets ($5000+).
Regarding your last paragraph, there's two different angles here. The "machine learning is racist" angle I think is quite valid, but covers a different topic than what we've been discussing here. To be more specific, there's two different ways in which we can have racist models:

1. The algorithm is biased in a way that reflects reality but does not reflect how we wish it to behave. This is the "machine learning is racist" angle. A lending algorithm might quite rightly think that black people are a higher risk, but this is ethically problematic to act on, because denying loans to black people only serves to compound the social problem (even though it may make financial sense for your bank).

2. What I'm arguing is that we can have racist algorithms due to the fact that the data itself may be biased in a way you're not aware of. To take the red shirt example, something I forgot to say before was that if, say, a fad spreads among the black community of wearing red shirts, then you're going to see an uptick in arrests of black people, but your algorithm won't be able to figure out that this is actually due to arresting red-shirted people, which means it will believe that black people in general are more likely to be arrested.
Johan (jmena@pulsepoint.com) from PulsePoint here! Both of these roles are for my team (I'm a engineer here), so if you have any questions (technical or otherwise) or are interested in applying feel free to reach out directly. Please include your resume, GitHub profile, and anything else of interest.

------ PulsePoint (https://pulsepoint.com) | Senior Backend Engineer, Scala | New York, NY | Full-time, remote or onsite

We're looking for an Senior Backend Engineer to help us architect and scale our micro-service oriented platform. Some technologies we use on a daily basis: Scala, Akka (cluster, http, fsm, pubsub, many more), Play, Docker, Mongo, PostgreSQL and Jenkins. We also have some Clojure and Ruby sprinkled around, and we're looking to introduce some more of both. We like functional programming and hopefully you do too!
Other teams have an array of services that we can take advantage of like Mesos, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Zookeeper, ELK, Hadoop, etc. Ideally you'll have plenty of hands-on Scala and Akka experience, but a strong Java background is ok too. You need to have experience working with distributed systems too.

------- PulsePoint (https://pulsepoint.com) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Scala, JavaScript) | New York, NY | Full-time, remote or onsite

Similar role to the above, but we'd expect you to have senior-level JavaScript experience. We're currently running on Angular 1 (CoffeeScript, JavaScript), and are in the process of migrating to a React / Flux stack. If you have shipped a few JS projects and are interested in working with some of these technologies, please reach out!

------- About PulsePoint:
We are profitable company (so we're not going away any time soon) in the advertising technology industry. We have nice benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401k match up to 6%, life insurance, stocked fridges, beers, generous vacation, etc. (everything you'd expect from a tech company these days and then some): Check it out: http://www.pulsepoint.com/Benefits/ — We were also voted one 50 best places to work in 2016 by Inc, and by Crain just last week (http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160928/SMALLBIZ/16092...)!
Finally, to save you the trouble, here's our Glassdoor page: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-PulsePoint-EI_.... :-)
I did not have a simple experience with React. I did front end development for years, ending with jQuery-driven AJAX sites pulling from REST APIs (2013), and when I tried to learn React this year it was all voodoo.

Is there a good tutorial out there for lapsed front-end devs?
Dedicated scales in a way that cloud cannot: vertically.

Want to build a 1TB DDR4 RAM beast with 40 cores? Yeah, you can do that with dedicated.
Person B in that case would be following the license, yes. Person C uses it as background music for an advertisement on YouTube in contravention of the license. That's the problem.
True, but there are significant privacy implications.
Apparently if you build permanent buildings in another country, its politically very different than if they let you camp there. So we camped.
I worked on an Ember project once, the first JS framework I ever used. It really frustrated me that I had it had to use Babel to convert the ES6 into ES5. For some reason, on my laptop, that took about 10 seconds, so every time I wanted to check if some new code worked as expected, there was this long delay. There were a lot of other issues I had with it too.

I love working with straight Javascript (ES5), jQuery and template engines like handlebars. I can design things in a way that works for the project and can quickly just refresh the browser to check my changes.
I agree the documentation needs work. It can be a real exercise in institutional knowledge sometimes to piece things together. I'd love to help you package something new, or fix an existing package if you would like. The thing that kept me going is how easy it was to fix ... after learning the incantations.

I think the project as a whole would welcome suggestions on where to improve docs as well, and would _definitely_ appreciate some new docs being written. It is hard to do this once you're too familiar :(.
Seems like the way to solve this, without opening up market pricing for them. In theory, this would create a marketplace where supply outstrips demand.
I'm in England.

I'd be calling the Information Commissioner as well.
> How many engineers would Uber need to have before one would say "okay, that's too many". 3000? 5000?

However many it takes before the cost of an engineer is higher than the value added. I have no idea where that line is for Uber. Maybe it's 10K. Maybe it was back when they hit 50.

> Uber can afford 2000 engineers. That doesn't mean they are anywhere near good at utilizing them, which seems to be the implicit assumption in many comments on this thread.

This might be true but it doesn't support your point. If Uber is bad at utilizing engineers, that doesn't mean they should employ fewer. In all likelihood, they'd be about as bad at utilizing their workforce if they cut it in half.
Most people who are happy with a product will never leave a review. Everyone who receives a discounted product is required to leave a review.
"Fraud is bad" is a pretty simple formulation that we all can agree on. Here's another one: "disenfranchising people is bad". Voter ID laws are _known_ to disenfranchise people who should legally be able to vote at a rate that is so far beyond the rate of voting fraud that it's clear what the actual intent is. This effect is precisely the point of such laws. They are not trying to combat voter fraud, because there is essentially no voter fraud. If voter ID laws did not disproportionately disenfranchise the young and the poor, they wouldn't exist.
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Originally stylized as HoTMaiL, the capitals spelling out HTML! :)
Quick question, the url https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html lists the same url for both 32 and 64bits iso, I wonder if these are multiarch images or just an error.
Yes, yes it can. And because it can isolate tests and reset the environment, you don't really have to be (very) careful about what you do in your tests so order doesn't matter. It makes it really hard to fail there.
I saw Dr. Karr present the Whole-Cell Computational Models a few months ago and I believe it's truly transformative work. Once you wrap your head around what they do, you'll understand the limitless potential this software could have. If you're interested, I think these two articles can give you a good idea of what Whole-Cell Modeling is: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(12)00776-3 https://covert.stanford.edu/publicationpdfs/DMacklin2014.pdf.

I applied to work with them at the time but they were low on funding. I would apply today if I weren't already happily employed. Good luck Karr Lab!
Can we just jump to "ES15" and get the advantages of both semantic correctness AND brevity?
Alfred Nobel apparently disagreed, and it's still the interest on the money bequeathed by his will that funds the prize. So it's unlikely that the name will be changed.
The ftpput and ftpget commands might not be available even as arguments to the busybox command, depending on how it was configured at build time.

# type ftpput
-sh: type: ftpput: not found
# busybox ftpput
busybox: applet not found
#

Likewise for "nc".
Smart design choice to not allow arbitrary user input, just location/timestamps. Reminds me of the Smule apps (such as the Glee branded app [0]) in the early iOS days. The real-time component could be mostly an illusion, but there was something really charming in the idea that you could "pluck" something created by someone else in the world and view/listen to it.

[0] http://mashable.com/2010/04/15/glee-iphone/#lm4kDm3YDmqG
Police complaints drop 93 percent after deploying body cameras
Yet another reason to replace my BB Classic.

Er, no, forget it, I don't need a spyphone.