skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricing of compute on GCE is extremely competitive. The per-minute billing (which Azure matched) really adds up for tons of workloads. Similarly, our custom shapes means you don't end up paying for twice as many cores (16 => 32) when you really want something in between.

Where I do agree is networking egress. The big three providers all have metered bandwidth rates that are way above the "all inclusive" fee you pay to Hetzner, OVH, DO, and others. The cheapest way to host an ftp server that serves 20 TB per month is certainly on one of these (today). None of these providers will let you serve 1 PB / month this way, but if you're in their sweet spot and they can make it work out on average, it's a good fit.

But if you're looking to just have a simple "VPS" in the cloud, our f1-micro is just over $4/month (the AWS t2 series is also super cheap). Again, you're right if you're talking about networking egress, but not everybody needs to serve multiple TB per month.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so I'm trying to take your money in exchange for services.
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires

We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that, again :)

Hiring at an experienced level in lots of key disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack (modern frontend + api skills - particularly Node or Python), designers, product, iOS & Android. We are growing in all of our European offices - London and Barcelona being the two newest. In short, if you've got good industry experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to make things better, we're interested.

We want to hire people interested in large-scale challenges and building new products. We have an incredible amount of historical data and a unique position in the market. What should the future look like? How do we best use our data, our scale and new technologies to our advantage as we grow? We're particularly interested in data-driven personalization and recommendation, exploring new travel products and experiences, as well as developer enablement and tooling.

We're one of the very few unicorn companies HQ'd in Europe who are profitable, and have been so for the past 7 years. Our CTO Bryan Dove joined us from Amazon S3 - in London you would be working closely with him alongside some very experienced industry figures in a cool and central location.

Please ping me an email at alex (.) treppass [at] skyscanner.net for a referral. Happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can. CV in Word / .doc format would be ideal.

On a personal note, I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability. Engineers have a lot of room to make decisions and move fast, and the encouragement to make things better and make us faster as a tech company. It's exciting.

http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
No, we don't ban people for arguing with us.
Programmers Don't Know Anything About Testing
SEEKING WORK - NYC, REMOTE PREFERRED

Full-stack ruby developer specializing in web apps and SAAS. 6 years professional experience.

mail(a)citizensinspace.com
Why Are People into Event Sourcing?
Lokad (https://www.lokad.com) | Paris, France | Senior Compilation Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE

Compilation, Big Data and Machine Learning applied to Supply Chain. We are profitable, fast growing and largely bootstrapped. Supply chains are incredibly complex, and we need a compilation engineer to get those challenges addressed at scale.

At Lokad, you will benefit from the coaching of an awesome dev team. You will gain skills in modern compiler design, and how to compile with a cloud platform as your target. Our codebase is clean, documented and heavily (unit) tested. Our offices are quiet (no open space!), bright, and you can get three monitors.

We are a C#/.NET shop, and you will be developing under Visual Studio, the source code being versionned in Git. Our apps are hosted on Microsoft Azure. With .NET Core coming this year, we anticipate a few strategic migrations toward Linux.

We expect a vivid interest for compilation. A taste for low-level high performance computing and distributed systems is also a big plus. Contributions to open source projects are also highly regarded. We are located 50m from Place d'Italie in Paris (France).

To apply, drop me a mail at joannes.vermorel@lokad.com (I am the founder)
Postgres was so much easier for me. In fact I cannot see the reason Elasticsearch is so popular. For our website search I first researched Elasticsearch. Each of the short pages of the so-called Getting Started guide (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...) felt like walking into either (a) a brick wall or (b) an empty room:

p. 1: sales pitch

p. 2: sales pitch

p. 3: "The only requirement for installing Elasticsearch is a recent version of Java." Ugh.

pp. 4-10: A new JSON API to learn. This is just the part about getting your stuff into Elasticsearch and, at last, doing a query that is no better than "select * from table where last_name like '%Smith%';

p. 11: "More complicated searches," an apt title. Here is the Elasticsearch query that's equivalent to "select * from table where last_name like '%smith%' and age > 30":

GET /megacorp/employee/_search
{
"query" : {
"filtered" : {
"filter" : {
"range" : {
"age" : { "gt" : 30 }
}
},
"query" : {
"match" : {
"last_name" : "smith"
}
}
}
}
}

It only gets more complicated from there. There is talk about ranking, but it was still a black box even by the end of the Getting Started guide, and I was going to want to tweak it. It just seemed more obvious how to do so with Postgres (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/textsearch-contro...).

How is Postgres merely "good enough"? How are other products better? What is their draw?

Is it ease of set-up? For me Elasticsearch was harder to install than Postgres and made me learn a bunch of new syntax, beyond the SQL I have to know anyway to write web applications in the first place. Postgres handles stemming, stopwords, ranking, snippets, and highlighting.

Is it better ranking? Postgres can weigh the search words' frequency, their proximity to each other, the length of the document, the number of unique words in the document, and the "mean harmonic distance between extents." I was able to further tweak the results by using other columns and joining other tables.

Is it faster search results? Postgres searches tens of thousands of pages in a split second.
Deepgram (YC W16) http://deepgram.com | ONSITE | San Francisco (SoMa) | A.I. Scientists, Web Engineers, Sales/BD | Full-time | $65-$120k + equity

We do search for recorded speech using deep-learning. We find keywords/phrases and predict what's in videos, podcasts, phone calls—anything with recorded speech, really.
Founded by two particle-physicists, we’re a highly-technical team working on hard-problems (building ML models for sales, anti-fraud and understanding human languages via sound) for big-enterprise (as well as some more playful tools like Hoogley for Youtube and Podenvy for Podcasts).

Read about us in TechCrunch last week @ http://tinyurl.com/deepgramtc
Read our post about How to get a job in Deep learning @ http://tinyurl.com/deepgram2

Role Descriptions:
Web Engineer We need help building-out the speech search API and front ends. Leans toward backend but creating good interfaces is needed. Creativity, high energy, motivation, and experience building APIs and complicated web apps is a must. Experience working with Tornado, AWS, GCP, Docker and fluency in Python, C++, Javascript is a big deal too.

AI Scientist We need help building DNN models, and running it all on a HPC cluster. Creativity, high energy, motivation, and experience building DNNs in images, speech, or similar is a huge plus. Large scale computing and low level hardware experience is a great thing to have too.

Sales We’re hiring for a variety roles: SDR, A.E. and BD

To apply, goto http://careers.deepgram.com/ or ping me directly using the info in my HN profile if you have questions.
I sure don't. But see that word 'patently'.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, New York City based.

Full-stack developer who just started a brand new digital agency! We specialize in Skills (applications) for the new Amazon Alexa ecosystem. Also back-end integrations and other interesting data projects.

Primary toolset is Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, JavaScript, Node, Express, Backbone, React.js. Also experienced in Devops with Heroku, and a contributor to Dokku (free Heroku alternative). Have setup a server from scratch before many a time as well.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

hi@zachfeldman.nyc
http://zachfeldman.nyc
Warby Parker | NYC | Onsite | Full-Time | Principal Software Engineer

We’re looking for a stellar Principal Software Engineer to lead a brand-new team at Warby Parker! The go-getter in this role will be blazing a whole new trail for the company, so the job is ideal for an ambitious engineer who’s eager to pioneer new technology and products within an already successful organization.

We’re building a cross-functional team of (initially) five people focused on long-term product development utilizing emerging technology with a substantial mobile component, including the development of iOS/Android applications. This project will entail everything from developing a proof of concept to user testing to launching a consumer product that meets Warby Parker’s high standards for amazing customer experiences.

In this role you’ll be responsible for architecture and selecting technologies used. Current technologies include Swift, Python, JS, OpenCV, React, Reactive Cocoa, Tornado and AWS infrastructure—and you’ll be the person helping decide which other ones we pursue! Think you’ve got the goods? Keep reading.

What you’ll do:
•	Lead technology for an independent product group operating within Warby Parker
•	Mentor and recruit a team of best-in-class software engineers
•	Develop and evaluate industry-leading technologies
•	Implement new ideas from prototype to production
•	Design and implement new tech infrastructure

Who you are:
•	Equipped with at least 6 years professional programming experience
•	An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases

Extra credit:
•	Experience with multiple languages, web frameworks, and datastores
•	Experience in native mobile development
•	Expert knowledge of Swift
•	Also a plus: experience with Python, JS, OpenCV, React, Reactive Cocoa, Tornado and/or AWS infrastructure (we use them all!)

Please apply by sending an email to recruiting@warbyparker.com
Thank you. Should have clarified that I know to use their API. But will this just be an absurd amount of data? I'm comfortable with python/R. What other languages should I use? Any database languages?
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I think Slack can be forgiven for not catering to people who basically don't want a chat application to function as a chat application.
FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE (UK-only)

http://www.freeagent.com

At FreeAgent we help freelancers and micro-businesses take control of their company finances.

We have built an award-winning, online accounting product that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 53,000 paying customers and continued strong growth. Customers love what we do!

We're a growing team of over 110 people, based in Edinburgh but with remote staff around the UK. If you want to come and help us make small businesses awesome at doing their finances, we're currently looking for software engineers to join our team.

We have opportunities across many different engineering areas (e.g. website, front-end, API development, a real-time double-entry accounting engine, tax platform, data platform, mobile apps), so we can offer a broad scope for skill and career development. Our stack is Ruby/Rails, Javascript, React.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch.

We're growing quickly and have an expanding number of vacancies across our engineering organisation:

* Full-time, full stack engineers of all levels across several teams (Product, Compliance, Growth, Website)

* Product Managers

* Product Designers

You can apply directly via the website –
https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers – or feel free to get in touch with me (CTO) directly: olly [at] freeagent [dot] com

(We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now)
googles and ubers of the world are not just their end-user facing apps + the backend required to support them.

these are large businesses with end user-facing "IT" side of the house being just the tip of the iceberg.
Basically, Donald Trump's Border Wall Already Exists
Pathgather - http://pathgather.com - ONSITE - New York, NY (NYC)

At Pathgather, we believe that learning matters and that modern companies can't afford to provide the same tired, low-quality experiences they've been using for the last few decades. Our enterprise learning platform is used by some of the largest companies in the world like Qualcomm, Walmart, and Twitter to help their employees find great learning content from any source, share knowledge with their peers, and track their progress towards career goals - and we've wrapped it all up into an experience that employees actually love to use.

We're growing in a big way and are looking for experienced engineers to join our team to help make enterprise learning better. Our stack is React + React Native + Relay + GraphQL + Roda + Sequel + Postgres + etc.

* BACKEND ENGINEER (Ruby), $100-130k, 0.1-0.5%, https://jobs.lever.co/pathgather/e700098b-b552-4b10-a5a5-e0e...

* FRONTEND ENGINEER (React), $100-130k, 0.1-0.5%, https://jobs.lever.co/pathgather/8a543314-5444-468c-85ce-3ed...

If you're interested, contact neville@pathgather.com, talk to us on AngelList, leave a comment here... etc.
Grades do not matter anymore but the students with inflated grades may have had a worse preparation for higher education.

Then people will choose their high school depending on whether they need that extra preparation, and those schools will have more students or be able to charge more.
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Fieldbook | https://fieldbook.com | San Mateo, CA | Software Engineer, Lead Product Designer | Full time, Onsite, Visa OK

Fieldbook is a new information tool that combines the best of a spreadsheet and a database. We help business teams get their operations out of spreadsheets—from project tracking, to data collection, to content management systems.

We're pursuing a big vision to bring the power of relational modeling to non-technical end users. It's an ambitious project with deep technical and UI challenges—but one that will transform people's relationship with the tools they use every day.

Our 4-person team has backgrounds from Amazon, Google, and Facebook. We've raised a total of $2.9M to date from investors including Accomplice VC, Pejman Mar Ventures, Naval Ravikant's AngelList syndicate, Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Steven Sinofsky (ex-Microsoft), and Eric Ries (Lean Startup).

We were #1 on Product Hunt with over 1500 upvotes: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fieldbook-2.

This is an early-stage opportunity that is perfect for someone who wants to optimize for ownership and impact.

https://angel.co/fieldbook/jobs or careers@fieldbook.com
Sam's contention, as far as I can tell, is that YC is hugely important to economic growth. Startups are a small fraction of growth. Of that small fraction, a fraction (20%) require VC funds. Of that fraction, another fraction may not have made it but for YC. So, we're looking at a fraction of a fraction of a fraction that YC is involved with. I'd say that suggesting that YC is hugely, or even just important, to economic growth is absurd (and reflects the massively outsized view SV has of itself).
mm so it wont break the law even if it risks your life - not going to go down well with drivers
As always, if you need to search this thread with some advanced search operators, you can use this front-end I've made:

https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/
> I consider myself a relatively gung-ho free-market type

I'm skeptical.

> A free-market dynamic requires an actual market.

Not really. A free-market type would say the supply is limited. Even if the supply is zero it's still a free-market if the actors are trading voluntarily. The supply for many markets is zero, but it typically correlates with demand.

> The entire purpose of infrastructure is to generate positive externalities

A free-market type would probably use the word value rather than positive externalities. But isn't the purpose of any action to create positive value? Your argument is essentially that forced trades via central planning can create more value than voluntary trades.

> 3. There are broader socio-economic issues of accessibility to services that profit-driven companies have no incentive to be responsive to.

A free-market type would probably say that the supply of accessibility services is low due to limited demand / profitability. While true maybe this is where charity plays a role.
I see you have never tried it in practice. Train conductors in Austria/Czechia/Germany – which tend to be more trained and less busy than bus drivers – tend to stumble around for half a minute for each unintelligibly badly pronounced sentence. Even the pre-recorded messages in buses are of so bad quality that tourists prefer asking other passengers rather than trying to figure them out.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY - UX/UI/Visual Designer & UI Developer

-

Design: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision, Keynote, Litmus
Fluent in: HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Middleman, Git, Wordpress, and Marketo

==========

I specialize in creating beautiful, clean, and intuitive designs that encompass a balance of both form and function.
With over 8+ years of experience, I have worked with a variety of clients from individuals to startups to small businesses to enterprise corporation, like Oracle.

I am a meticulous problem-solver, do’er, and mother of two who loves food, KQED, and arts and crafts and can’t help but look at the world with a designer’s eye.

==========

Portfolio: http://bit.ly/hellojen
Gun-Show Customers’ License Plates Come Under Scrutiny
HospitalRun loads really fast; I'm impressed.
Then make the delay for the announcement of the next stop adjustable, configured according to the timetable.
And since iPhones are powered by Mach\BSD, 99% of all Smartphones are powered by UNIX! :-)
EDITED | Engineering Positions | London, UK | Onsite | Full-Time

We’re currently hiring for front-end, back-end, and DevOps Engineers. Our stack is primarily Python & JavaScript, with frameworks like Django/Flask and react.js/d3. We aren’t afraid to integrate new tech and like to keep exploring what’s out there.

We're an established startup, focused on doing important things for retail, the fourth biggest industry in the world, helping them reduce waste and be more efficient. We have a beautiful web app, used everyday by hundreds of people at Topshop, Saks Fifth Avenue, GAP and more.

Our engineering team is a group of smart people from really varied backgrounds. We’re solving diverse and interesting problems on a daily basis, like image analysis, big data visualisation and a load of other fun things that come with having a rapidly growing data set. We love good practices like extensive testing and continuous integration, and enjoy giving back to the community, so open source contributions are highly encouraged.

Our office is large and sociable; people eat lunch together every day and we have drinks and snacks in the office every Friday, as well as team days out and all expenses paid trips abroad. There’s a video on our jobs page of our most recent one: http://edited.com/jobs/

Half of the team has actually found and joined us through “Who’s hiring”, so don't hesitate to get in touch, we're always happy to meet new people!

More details: https://edited.com/jobs/ or email jobs@edited.com
Euclid Analytics | Senior Backend Engineer | San Francisco (SF), CA, ONSITE Only | euclidanalytics.com

- Who we are: We're a Series C funded startup with just over 30 people and our tight-knit team is focused on using Wi-Fi data to help retailers make better decisions. We create analytics products based on substantial amounts of data–100gb/day & growing.

- Roles: We are looking to add an experienced Backend Engineer with a background in Scala and Spark to join our team.

- Tech Stack includes: Scala, Python, Spark, Kafka, MySQL, Redshift, AWS, and Mesos.

- Interview process: Intro call with our tech recruiter, a phone interview with a hiring manager and a take-home technical assessment. This is followed up by a day of technical onsite interviews and lunch. For programming questions you're welcome to use your own laptop or one that we provide–we won't make you write code on a whiteboard!

- Contact: sheinrich@euclidanalytics.com
They could (theoretically) request the IP addresses of the scam user. A small-scale local thief may well be using their computer without something like Tor.
My last job had a similar setup, with a developer cave (complete with dim lighting to disorient visitors) with 5 devs working on the same system. There were long stretches of quiet time to focus, and a little bit of idle bullshitting with the opportunity to shoot questions across the room when it would be faster than looking things up yourself or going through email.

Now I'm sitting in a cube farm, sharing a cube, and listening to administrative assistants chatter about their children and their health issues and what they had for lunch all day long. I started coming in hours late and leaving hours late just so I have a few hours of peace at the end of the day to get some focused work done. And that's on an 'easier to ask forgiveness than permission' basis.

I'd kill for a setup like the top comment by shostack, but just getting back to a cave would be lovely.
So persuade all your friends not to use it?
So they have internet after all!
Fascinating article. Who decides the mission of a psychologist? Is it to maximize happiness of patients' lives as a whole? Is it to help patients to reach their full potential as productive members of society? Is it to help them to conform to societal standards of behavior or belief?

If I wasn't on guard, prepared to devote thought to the question, I'd have accepted any of those answers - but this article makes it easy to see how those different goals can be in conflict.

If I had to come up with the best answer I could, I think I'd settle on "A psychologist's mission should be to prevent a person from actively harming the physical health of themselves or others, even taking into account reasonable expectations of future harm based on current activities. And additionally to help make any adjustments that the patient requests." So, sometimes it's okay to involuntarily treat, but only if there's a present or soon-to-be present physical danger. Otherwise, only help them with the things they want fixed.

(Note: I once had a long and coherent conversation with a guy who knew he was the messiah promised to the jews, descendant of david, future king of the world. It was an unavoidable fact. Him being a young, black presbyterian had no bearing on the issue. He had lots of evidence, much of it delusional, and much of his reasoning was based on bad information that he was literally incapable of doubting. But in the end, his delusion was immensely satisfying to him, and his life was otherwise boring, banal, and from an outside perspective, depressing as hell. And from what I can tell, as long as he doesn't travel to Israel and get a jewish girlfriend, the more dangerously bizarre parts of his prophecies won't begin, so I just decided to wish him well and let it go.)
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> What makes me sad is to think about how much improvement we'd see if all technologies were as free as software

In some cases it might be fine, in others we might end up with http://i.imgur.com/NhebE.jpg

It really depends.