skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: St. Louis, Mo

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, Anywhere in the world

Technologies: C/C++, Java, XHTML, PHP, Shell Script, Ajax

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: andrewokowalewski@gmail.com

Expected Graduation date May 2017

I am in my last year of Computer Science Degree at UMSL, graduation date got moved up due to extra classes taken last summer. Willing to do an internship or anything that gets me into my degree field.
Yep, we can help out with a J1.
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles, California or Remote

I am seeking work in Virtual Reality and have been building skills in VR, Unity, C#, and 3D modeling over the last few months.

I'm a recovering web developer who has decided to pivot entirely to VR by the end of 2016. I also just relocated back to LA from NYC. I was working on a VR game in Unity for Samsung Gear VR as a training exercise in order to teach myself all the skills necessary to ship VR product and slowly getting back to wrapping that up. My background is in frontend and UI/UX and I intend to apply those skills to VR.

My skills in VR currently include entry-level Unity, C# Oculus SDK, User Interface and User Experience design for VR, Samsung Gear VR (hopefully HTC Vive, Oculus, Microsoft Hololens, Google Daydream soon), 3D modeling in Maya.

My applicable skills from 15 years in design and development for the web include being a full-stack web developer (Python / Django, PHP, DevOps, DBs, Javascript HTML/CSS etc), UI/UX designer, product and project management, remote team management, online marketing, QA and development lifecycle, tech writing and system architecture, more. I also founded 2 social media startups and have worked in early stage with multiple VC backed startups, as well as interactive agencies and SMBs in the past.

I attempted to start a "journey" blog here: http://www.globalgum.com though I've slacked a bit in updating it since I started the coast-to-coast move. Looking to fire it up again soon.

If you are seeking a VR team, I have been building up a network of Unity developers and can work on assembling a team if needed. If you're doing the same, reach out and maybe we can team up.

Feel free to reach out at vr+hn@globalgum.com Thanks!
If you open it on your computer and your phone, you get to see your plane fly out onto your computer screen after you throw it from the phone.

I wonder how they are doing that, must be by IP?

Or maybe the planes coming from the bottom of the screen are a realtime feed of new planes world wide.
CrowdStrike | Los Angeles, California - United States (Remote-option) | Full Time

Data Engineer in Machine Learning

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Google Capital led Crowdstrike's most recent, $100M, Series C funding round in June 2015.

We are looking for another Data Engineer to come join our Data Science and Machine Learning team. We apply machine learning as part of our solution for helping customers prevent breaches.

We recently contributed the first signature-less engine to VirusTotal, which uses machine-learning to help the anti-virus community identify malware.

Learn More About Us:

- https://www.crowdstrike.com/why-crowdstrike/

- https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/battling-unknown-malware-with-machine-learning/

Apply here:

- https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/?p=job%2FosNW3fwY
This is definitely going to break at least one phone
A couple of hidden features a lot of people ignore are:
1. iBeacon
2. AirKiss and AirSync protocal for hardware connection.

To me, the 2nd function is a next big thing beyond social media. It seems not very significant now but will have a big impact in future.
I should've been clearer: For low-level programming, Rust is already fine as it is. What I want is a high-level language that offers some of the benefits of Rust (safe deterministic non-memory resource management), without the unnecessarily low-level features (sized types and overemphasis on unique ownership). Due to its C++ heritage, Rust has a tendency to conflate ownership (a high-level concern) with indirection (a low-level one), which is fine for the niche it targets, but too inflexible for general-purpose programming, IMO.
we recently released Townsourced.com as an alternative option to Craigslist and FB garage sales. In addition to buying and selling locally, users can post events, jobs, volunteer opportunities ect. Users create and moderate the communities. Users can also post to multiple communities simultaneously.
I think a related thing people say (that makes me cringe) is that xyz is "just a CRUD app", quite dismissively. You could argue that the vast majority of applications are "just CRUD apps"! Once you get up to a certain scale, even "basic CRUD apps" are complicated.
Some shipping carriers require a phone number, so I believe that Amazon transmits your ship-to phone number with the explicit requirement to use it only for logistics purposes. I'd complain to Amazon for a seller who used the number for any other purpose and certainly for one who called me for a review.
Yes, this, so much. I've got a HP LaserJet Proffesional for riddiculous price and the only thing "proffesional" about is that the cartridge costs as much as another laser printer 100$+! (what the hell) and the aftermarket ones cost as much as original ones for different printers.
Doesnt work with Linux apart from basic stuff, wireless interface is broken, have to powercycle repeatedly after any amount of idle time. Great machine!
This is unfortunately necessary.

docker-compose starts all services simultaneously and doesn't want you to use an init system inside the container, which means that any dependency that requires a service to be actually available needs some sort of waiting hack.
I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only the first one matters in this case, the rest is for punishment.
Tell me more about the dictatorships replacing Salazar and Franco.

Honestly, I don't think you're judging the man fairly. You point out everything he could possibly have done wrong and completely ignore his good deeds.
I've not seen this issue. I work for Microsoft and use a Mac for most of my work.

Example screen shots or URLs?
Transfix - New York, NY - Onsite Full-Time

Looking for:
Front-End Engineers
Back-End Engineers

We're reinventing trucking logistics by creating an on-demand marketplace for shippers and drivers. We're well funded (we raised $22M for our Series B) and are looking to grow our engineering team heavily.

Tech Stack: Aurelia.js, ES6, Sass, Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, AWS

We're looking for mid-senior (3+ yrs of exp.) engineers to build out RESTful services, improve parallelization with asynchronous services, create data visualization, and help transition us fully to a SaaS platform.

Interview process: Recruiter Screen (30m) > Tech Screen (1-1.5hrs) > On-site Interview (3hrs)

If interested, you can reach out to me directly at michelle@transfix.io
ClarityAd | New York, NY | Onsite | Full time

ClarityAd's software protects from bad ads. We run ads in our custom browser environment in the cloud to gather hundreds of data points. We assess security and compliance for billions of ad impressions daily. Our back-end stores this wealth of data in a way that's usable and efficient, allowing publishers and ad platforms to protect their audience in real time.

You will work with our VP of engineering and back-end engineering team and you will be directly involved in:

- Setting up a robust and highly scalable backend

- Optimizing database queries and caching as required

- Optimizing web server configurations

- And most importantly, participating in the day-to-day improvement and extension of our product functionalities, for all things backend.

We would love to hire someone with ad tech experience, but we’re ready to train newbies and give you a deep understanding of the ad serving stack and Real Time Bidding (RTB). This environment has grown to such a level of complexity and automation that consuming online media has become an exercise of frustration: Latency, invasive ads, privacy issues, malware/malvertising that exposes users to trojans, ransomware, botnets… The rational option for the audience is to rely on ad blockers. Our unique product suite makes it possible for publishers and ad platforms to protect their audience in real time. We have the secret sauce to disrupt this market for good, annihilate the bad actors and restore confidence in publishers.

We are passionate about solving these issues and we want to grow our team with people who share our vision and ambition.

We use: PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis + Lua, Node.js, C++ (browser sandbox). Our infrastructure includes: AWS EC2 (thousands of VMs) / Route53 / ELB / S3 / Bare metal / lots of exotic hardware in exotic places with exotic vendors all playing nice with Puppet.

Bragging rights:

- We routinely are the 1st to report on-going live malvertising attacks to ad platforms, including to Google

- We increased our volumes by 20x last year and keep getting stronger

- We have have received mentions in Google’s Security Hall of Fame

- We're still an “engineer only” startup, even as our monthly revenue passed into six figures less than 3 years in.

Apply at jerome at clarityad com (co-founder / CTO)
Under Hawaii’s Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground
it's not that silly. We're mostly all developers so its easy to forget but most people dont have desktop computers nowadays. Mobile is the primary experience for many people.
> Recently, I was curious why an org that’s notorious for producing unreliable services produces so many unreliable services. When I asked around about why, I found that that upper management were afraid of sending out any sort of positive message about reliability because they were afraid that people would use that as an excuse to slip schedules. Upper management changed their message to include reliability about a year ago, but if you talk to individual contributors, they still believe that the message is that features are the #1 priority and slowing down on features to make things more reliable is bad for your career (and based on who’s getting promoted the individual contributors appear to be right). Maybe in another year, the org will have really gotten the message through to the people who hand out promotions, and in another couple of years, enough software will have been written with reliability in mind that they’ll actually have reliable services. Maybe.

This sounds like it could be Apple?
Have you had a chance to look at Google's Preemptible VMs? They're a fixed 70-80% off of list price.

Another point is, Google's VMs are generic CPU/RAM combinations. You don't need "network optimized VMs" or "storage optimized VMs" - you simply get those things on any VM. This makes the "excess instance supply" market much more fluid and simplifies folks' lives.

Happy to discuss further!

(work at GCP)
I think it's a stretch to think most reviewers will care about the legality (especially because it's pretty unlikely to get enforced against them) but it may get the "career reviewers." I wonder what proportion of these reviews are from those "whales."
Other than reusing existing cables, how this is going to be cheaper than 10GBASE-T isn't clear to me.

Can they make switches & NIC's reasonably priced compared to 10G? If so what in the spec allows them to do that?
Bro, if you need validation or affirmation from "normies" to motivate you, then you're in the wrong business. Keep plowing ahead, networking, meeting pleasant like-minded friends, and learning. You're still young.
I was also surprised at how it appeared to run at full frame rate on my aging iPhone 6
Importance of Agile and DevOps for User Experience
Anybody know what is going on with Duolingo's monetization model? They where supposed to sell crowd sourced translations, but my impression is hardly anybody is buying and the few users that do translations are mostly translating stuff that doesn't appear to be for commercial purposes.
This is long overdue! I'd like the option of a partial refund on all the items I've purchased that had these sorts of reviews.
A business that runs on a perfectly legal, accepted practice is not the same as one which employs illegal or unacceptable methods. Like perjury laws, it doesn't make people honest in court, but it encourages it and provides for penalties or redress.
Historically speaking, I don't feel like the basic way that society fails is by "hunting and killing the rich." I mean, you can MAYBE gloss the communist revolutions of the early 20th Century that way. What else?
Very neat, I used to use django + docker in production myself but we handled deployments via circleci. Essentially the build version would be published into consul and circle ci would handle the generation of a new build version from git. The only crappy part was docker tooling breaking our builds every other week. We relied on some homebuilt code that handled publishes to the docker registry and updating our consul cluster. That being said we never included the database in our deployment strategy and relied on it up and working 24/7. Also consul was a constant pain in the ass.
You do realize that we're still dealing with the world of models that need be trained. Models are only as good as the data that is given to them, and data is only as good as those who collect it. Neural Networks aren't even close to real AI, they're black-box models - believe them blindly and catastrophe will follow. An excellent example I recently read pertains to a hospital attempting to use a neural network in determining whether to send pnemonia patients home or have them stay in hospital for treatment. The model told them to send asthmatic patients home. Why you may ask? Well, asthmatic patients were always triaged to the ICU, thus the results told the hospital to send this group home. We don't even understand cognition in the human brain, how can we expect to stumble upon it with digital systems?
Did you open a support ticket, there is a category specifically for Billing issues.
Never heard of this before, but apparently Qupzilla is a lightweight browser which uses the cross-platform Qt application framework, and it comes with a builtin ad blocker. Nice; I'm going to check this out soon.
You seem to have externalized all the failures that have lead to your current situation. At least that's how it comes across. You are in charge of the situation. Just because you have been coding since 10 doesn't mean you are entitled to anything. It doesn't mean you should be rich and it doesn't mean you should have a well-paying job.

Most of the people that do well tend to have a different attitude. They assume that success and failure is in their control (to a limited extent of course). They also tend to do work that they find fulfilling regardless of how much money they make and whether other people shower them with praise or not. In short, the motivation is intrinsic. The success then seems to happen on its own. Not to say that luck is also not a factor but it's out of your hands anyway so focusing on that aspect is wasted mental effort.
Honestly, as someone who is both going through the Big-Co. hiring process myself, while also interviewing cadidates for replacing myself, I'd say it's 50% skill and 50% a crapshoot. They are heavily optimized for turning away bad candidates and as a result have a high false negative rate. Don't beat yourself up over that.

My advice: don't take your Dad's offer, yet. Move to the valley. Get a job at a random startup, or big-co. Hell, get a job at a random ass company as the role you want. Provide business value for money for a year then keep interviewing.

Also, based on your portfolio, If you are willing to move to the bay area, I'd phone screen you this week. We'd get you a visa.
TalkType: Baidu's deep learning powered voice first keyboard
Such as? What are these programs encouraging women to become garbage collectors or construction workers or miners, and on the same scale as the endlessly hyped women-in-tech initiatives?
Why doesn't Amazon have a simple 'verified purchaser' flag that users can filter by?

They know who actually *paid* for the item (since they collect payments).
For all those complaining about reviews based on free products, I'd just point out that most non-crowdsourced reviews have been based on free products (which may or may not be returned after the review is written) for pretty much forever. Some exceptions like Consumer Reports of course.

Arguably, Amazon reviews are different--because you theoretically expect the reviews to be coming from regular buyers. But I strongly disagree, as a general principle, with the view that if you're given a free copy of a product/book/etc. to review, you're going to simply give a positive review no matter what. Frankly, discounts feel much more like an implied quid pro quo.

I don't do a lot of reviewing (and I do reviews on my own blog, not Amazon) but I give an honest assessment and I clearly disclose if I've been sent product to review.
Tableau | Seattle & Palo Alto USA, Vancouver CAN | Onsite

http://www.tableau.com/

Our mission is to help people see & understand their data. I'm not good at marketing, you can Google us & read for yourself. I've been here >3 years and love it - common feeling here, the high retention rate and happy team speaks for itself. Happy customers, too. The customer conference is a lot of fun.

We're hiring pretty much every engineering specialty, still growing fast - my team specifically is looking for web client expertise, but if that's not your thing I can connect you with someone who knows your specialty better. Web client stack is the usual SPA ecosystem: Angular, React, Node, TypeScript. Happy to go deeper if you're interested. Reach me at jclement@tableau.com or koggit@gmail.com.
Yes, but cloud scales in a way dedicated servers simply cannot. I agree that a lot of people use cloud when they shouldn't, but there are a number of cases where it remains very relevant.
Incentivized reviews do skew the score distribution. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a reason to ban them.
Exfiltrating files with BusyBox
No, healthy people are born with empathy. Which is why childhood animal mutilation is a standard test for sociopathy.
Base AWS and GCE VMs are like $4 a month. Isn't that basically free?
Pup Up - Boston, MA
Looking for: Big Data/ Engineering Intern

We're creating a platform that delivers high quality photos of canines to end users for their pleasure and enjoyment.

Tech stack: React Native, AWS Lambda

If you're interested, check out our careers page on our website http://getpupup.com/
Done :)

npm install currencyformatter.js
AUSTIN, TEXAS- ONSITE ONLY- TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Interview process: Recruiter PS, Coding test, SME PS, Onsite

WP Engine is seeking a Technical Architect to help lead our strategic initiatives for our Research and Development organization.

WP Engine powers amazing digital experiences built on WordPress. With over 36 million visitors a day across more than 300,000 WordPress sites, our content management platform elevates WordPress into a really easy to use, secure and scalable solution. Our services reach everyone from the individual blogger to a large enterprise marketer. We are a disruptive force in the WordPress platform sector because we combine this robust, easy-to-use open source technology with enterprise grade tools, applications and expertise.

https://wpengine-careers.com/job/oLDo3fwz/
I was thinking of making CRUD a specific event type that had meaning only in the context of changes to an instance of some schema. Of course, the most interesting events will not be CRUD oriented, but does this mean it's a mistake to include them at all, particularly if interacting with other systems that do use a CRUD metaphor for interaction and state must be synchronized?
Repl.it | San Mateo, CA | software engineers, onsite https://repl.it/site/jobs

We're building a platform for teachers to teach programming, for students to practice programming, and for programmers to run and share code on the go.

Since our Classroom product (https://repl.it/classroom) launch we've been growing rapidly and as a team of 3 we can barely keep up with the growth. We are still at the seed stage so it's a great time to join the company and have a big impact.
On that note, I'm sure this announcement will make for an interesting day over at ReviewMeta.
If you have an interactive UI, you have a state. A button is either pressed or it is not pressed, active or disabled or hidden. A text form has a text value. Your layout has state (position, color, etc.).

If your UI is interactive, you have events and actions that mutate that state. A keyboard event modifies the state of your text form field. A button press signals an action. Etc.

A state machine is `State0 + Event -> Action + State1`. Since your UI's entire functionality can be described by the state it is in combined by the Events and resulting Actions and changes in States, your UI is a state machine. This describes the superset of all UIs. Non-interactive UIs can still be described by this, although the benefits are slim because the state isn't really mutated without interactivity, so your State0 is always equal to your State1.

Note that I'm saying UIs are state machines...not like state machines. They literally are state machines. Whether you model them as such is up to you, but my claim here is that modeling your UIs as state machines has tangible benefits because they are state machines.

Funnily enough, there are plenty of articles out there that claim to make stateless UIs. These claims are false...any critical look at the model shows that the state exists, but either is modeled implicitly (keeping state in the DOM and outside of javascript, or within a rendered object, or within a closure attached to an observer somewhere, etc.), or explicitly moved somewhere else. There might be some merits to the latter model (as well as some drawbacks), but the former model is just delusion...a perfectly leaky abstraction where you have state, but have lost your ability to work with it.
That's only a problem when a legitimate voter exists (edit: and hasn't died, as Chicago is notorious for). If we never require verifiable ID, how do we limit fraud in registration?
Who's playing games? I've read the comments in this thread from 'StavrosK. You and he don't appear to be talking about the same service, and he's the dev. But if you don't feel any purpose would be served by your continued participation, that's your call to make, of course.
I wouldn't really consider Vancouver a cold area. It doesn't even have a single month that averages below freezing.
According to Dropbox, it has performance implications and is complicated thereby introducing a large attack surface. For some reason, they believe their own kernel module is less complicated and easier to reason about than FUSE, despite having more in-kernel code and not being open source; I would venture to say their words about security are more about control of the attack surface rather than any actual implications about the quality of the FUSE code.
If you stay on the surface and follow trends you will think front end web development is insanity inducing. But if you go deeper, develop your own thinking and deep patterns you will realize that the web platform is doing just fine and is progressing better than most languages/platforms out there.
Dead simple uptime monitoring for 1$ a month