skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scribd is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

Right now we’re looking for:

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We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

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Scratch like visual programming environment which live execution visualisation
I think you are making a great point here: different sectors have different security needs.

At the consumer level, I think users really need help from their ISPs. My provider (Cox.net) already emails me if they detect outbound activity matching virus activity. Though I can't say it doesn't make me at least a little nervous about their inspection of my traffic habits, this ISP level intervention is at least something concrete that could happen in the near term to blunt these types of attacks.

For Enterprises, I see the big failing is mostly around the focus on external threats (APT+Scary Hackers) with no consideration for the much greater danger of internal threats [1]. This is the "dumb" stuff like someone quitting to move to a competitor and the day before they give notice they copy every file off the file server to a thumb drive "just in case they need it". Or even the new scary forms of user assisted ransomware.

1 - The guy that runs HaveIBeenPwned.com has a free course on this I've been sending around https://info.varonis.com/the-enemy-within that explains it in terms an executive might understand.
"You didn't fix this problem a third-party created! You are at fault!"
>A collection of projects detailing how I learned to be a Self-Drive Car Engineer.

Easy typo fix there. "Selft-Driving Car Engineer" makes him sound like an adult, and not a toddler.
Jupyter notebooks are cool, but they are kind of mysterious in terms of how they work. For example, recently the R kernel started crashing whenever I opened a new R notebook. I finally found a note in a local document that said, "If your R kernel keeps dying, you may have to update pcre by executing 'conda update pcre'." I had never heard of pcre, but I updated it and the R kerel started working again. Go figure...

I am really excited about using R Notebooks.
Cyence | San Mateo, CA | Onsite

https://www.cyence.net | jobs@cyence.net

We do Risk Analysis and Data Modeling at scale for the cyber insurance industry.
We use data science, machine learning, economic models, and automation at scale to create risk models for companies across all sectors.
We've added world renowned insurance customers at a rapid rate, and are focused on hiring.

Some of the positions we're looking for are:

-Cloud DevOps
-Data Engineer
-Data Scientist
-Cyber Analyst
-QA Engineer
-App/UI engineer
-Software Engineer

But if you're interested in what we do, send us a message, we would love to chat.
You can handwave some sort of FTL communication based on undiscovered physics if you want, but if you do that you need to avoid trying to explain it in a way that violates current scientific understanding. For example, you can't just declare that it works because of quantum entanglement.
Abstract – Workflow Management for Designers
And it's still only the second worst modification made to HP Printers.[0]

[0]:http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/hps-dr...
Out of curiosity, which position did you apply for? Feel free to send your resume directly to me as I'm not seeing it in our system!
Tulip | https://tulip.co/careers.html | Boston, MA | Full time, interns | Onsite

Do you want to help realize the next industrial revolution?

Tulip is transforming manufacturing processes by bringing the latest technological advances from the lab to the shop floor. We have multiple Fortune 500 customers and are already enabling production lines building the things you interact with everyday.

Whereas most factories are still using state of the art technology from the mid 19th century, we come from the future to bring them a rich, realtime web app, modern tablets, IoT systems, in-depth analytics, and more. Our products are already (measurably!) helping our customers, so we're rapidly expanding our number of customers and size of deployments.

We’re looking for people to join our core team who are excited about working across our software stack: Meteor-based web development, IoT/embedded software, computer vision, data engineering, technical operations / DevOps, web-based UI design, and anything else we need to make the best product possible. E-mail us at jobs@tulip.co.
I wish there was a systemd free desktop Linux...
Location: NYC

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Machine Learning, Deep Learning (TensorFlow, Keras), Security Research, Java, Python, JavaScript, C, Spark, etc

Cover Letter + Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BhA6dCNEA7WELlDpdOQKu_pj...

Email: kuza55@gmail.com

Looking to transition from security research & software engineering roles to focus more on machine learning & deep learning.
https://www.weave.works | San Francisco, CA & London, UK & Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time

* Senior backend dev: develop microservices (primarily in Go) and container tools (all locations)

* Senior frontend dev: write reactive and snappy web UIs that show complex data and are easy to navigate (Berlin only)

* Developer experience/evangelist: spread the word in meetups/conferences, develop integrations for our tools (London and SF only)

Come help us build OSS tools that other developers use to tame their containerized applications. Projects like Weave Scope observe containers/pods/services and their interactions to provide visibility and insights. Developers can quickly see the state of the resulting systems and validate their assumptions.

We offer flexible hours with a good work-life balance, with a typical day going from 10am-6pm. All our tools are open source: https://github.com/weaveworks Browse our PRs to see how we work as a team!

The hiring process: Checking your CV/GH/SO (if not enough signal: small coding challenge), 30 mins hangout, afternoon take-home coding/design challenge, in person interview with future colleagues

If you’re interested please drop us a line with your desired location at jobs (at) weave.works

Note: Weaveworks will consider visa sponsorship on case-by-case basis, subject to business needs and individual eligibility.
How do you pay to acquire customers? Seems like leveraging the relationship is how these companies advertise to survive.
"The will of the people is the ultimate mandate in a democracy."

Until a small group of judges say otherwise.
The single best reason why the death penalty should be abolished is because it does not have an 'undo' button. It's bad enough if people get jailed for a long time when they are innocent, it is much worse when they're murdered by the state for crimes they did not commit.

Other important work done:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

edit: sad to see this thread flagged off the homepage.
I don't hear any music.
I click to start and it pops up a login page.
As a side note, if you really dislike the current Linux UIs, you may like Elementary OS (https://elementary.io/). It's UI took a lot of design cues from Mac OS and Chrome OS.
But not for someone who robbed a bank and used the car as a getaway vehicle.
I like his message mainly because I agree with the death penalty in principle. If you want to be a shitty human being, with 7B people on the planet we don't really need you.

But, in practice, we will never get it 100% right. Probability of killing an innocent person will always be >0.

For that reason alone, we should get rid of it.
Location: Burlington, VT
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Python, C, unix, bash, fastlane, cocoapods
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/evanlaird/resume/blob/master/evan_laird.md
Email: evan.laird@gmail.com

Recently left my old position to travel. Back in the US looking for new
opportunities. 3.5 years of experience as a senior member of Vermont
Information Processing's iOS development team. BS in physics. 26 years old.
Flat characters are also a regular feature of sci-fi, so Chinese sci-fi may be getting the a double dose of flat...

For example, read most things by Asimov or Herbert. Although I enjoy good characterization, lots of sci-fi works fine without it.
Location: Kajaani, Finland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: System admin (linux, windows servers)/helpdesk Specifics can be found from CV

Résumé/CV: https://mega.nz/#!d1ojXD5a!opkYrKMhWTUJjS9dfPDplUpGZCgXcxvsl...

Email: ilkka@darkball.net
Yes, though both nuclear and solar require significantly less primary materials extraction than fossil generation. The highest impact from coal is actually air pollution affecting the general population rather than on-the-job deaths of miners.
I think we underestimate how hard it is to polish hardware to Apple-level tolerances.

Especially because:

1. It takes a lot of capital to even attempt.

2. The traditional players in position to do so do not have it in their DNA (Dell, HP, et all).
What's an MC layer?
Either Pinterest is interested in running Instapaper at a loss, or they've found a way to make this financially worth their while.

Or they want to grow Instapaper at the expense of Pocket, and then do something else with it.

Disclaimer: I am a competitor to Instapaper and talk smack a lot.
This solves one incentive problem, but not (in my opinion) the main one. The people responsible for security (i.e. corporate IT departments) are quite often not the same people who would suffer in the event of one (i.e. customers). Therefore, security professionals are mainly incentivized to appear trustworthy.

Actually being trustworthy is certainly the easiest way to do this, at least up to a point. But it tends to push people toward public, visible security measures over private, invisible ones, regardless of their relative effectiveness.

It cuts both ways, too. Even if you do everything right, if you do get hacked that trust is gone and no insurance payout can buy it back. And I'm not sure any customer is going to react well to "Yeah we lost your data, but Goldman Sachs claims it's not our fault".
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I trust Libre Office way more since it's free software and I can actually inspect the source code to see what it's doing. I don't trust web apps like these at all.
That is a failure condition, but it is strictly better than what we commonly have now: universal default passwords.
I don't doubt that some fail. But so many who have had them fail make it seem like the ports are absurdly fragile and fail for everyone all the time.
we have recently started migrating to python from R because of notebooks and pyspark.

I dont see us moving back anytime soon, because production code in python is orders of magnitude better than R.

I just wish there was a decent dplyr for python though :(
So you're aware, your name clashes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
Manner - Deep Reinforcement Learning to optimise your bot's dialogues
> Masquerading as a regular cellular service provider, Stealth Cell Tower surreptitiously catches phones and sends them SMSs written to appear they are from someone that knows the recipient. It does this without needing to know any phone numbers.

Pretty witty, but how does this work? Does it wait for the user to send a message and snoop?
Google's Schmidt drew up draft plan for Clinton in 2014
The characters may seem flat, but that's just one perspective. I recently finished all three books and can attest that more nuanced, multi-dimensional characters do appear later in the series, though there are also even flatter ones as well, so perhaps it's a wash.

Highly recommend the audio book versions on Audible. Great narration.
Execution is cathartic but hardly effective. Clearly it does not deter murderers as they believe they will either get away with it or they simply don't care as long as they satisfy their need to kill.

The wrong people can be executed and unlike a prison sentence, there's no going back.

Appeals can last for decades and waste enormous amounts of time and money.

End the death penalty. It's just not worth it.
What if I give away the software and then sell support contracts?
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 52,000 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, Tech Platform, 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)
I've bought three Apple laptops, and will probably continue to buy them. But....

Machining a laptop chassis from solid aluminium isn't what makes Apple laptops expensive. Sure, it does add to the cost.

What makes Apple laptops extremely expensive is the ridiculous mark-up Apple charge.
Bringing Algolia’s awesome experience to Shopify
SEEKING WORK Canada, Remote
I'm a data scientist with more than 10 years experience in machine learning and analytics. I focus on thorny problems for business, the sort that IF they can be solved will move the needle in real ways. Someone else may have tackled the problem and failed, or it just looks too complex to even start. If you want to get in touch my email is in my profile.

Some of the types of thingsI've done in the past:

- Scored accounts for collections agencies. Improving collections by over 30%.

- Built preventative fleet maintenance models, decreasing maintenance costs by 23%.

- Built an application to optimally place physical sensors for a military security application.

Currently freelancing to bootstrapping a business.

Technical skills include: Deep learning, Machine learning, Operations research, Python, Haskell, Mathematica, SQL, Tensorflow, Spark, GPGPU, GIS, Big data, AWS, Devops, Agile/CI/CD, Git/HG, Postgres, Linux and others.
Mixmax | Full-Stack Engineer or intern | On-site San Francisco or Remote | https://mixmax.com/careers

We're a growing, fast-moving team looking for all types of engineers: full-stack, backend, site reliability, data, integration.

Mixmax's mission is to reinvent the way professionals communicate for work. We're building the impossible: a rich communications platform that brings the power of the web to everyday communication. This includes easily scheduling meetings, completing surveys, making purchases, signing documents, and even interacting with apps. We’re fully integrated with Gmail and Google Inbox, and even have a Electron-based native desktop application. Already, we’re seeing phenomenal growth, with customers from Uber, Airbnb, and tens of thousands of more businesses depending on us for their daily communications.

We’re well-funded with an A++ list of investors who previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft, and Square. We have big plans ahead. Come do the impossible with us.

Our stack: http://stackshare.io/mixmax/mixmax-for-web

Email careers@mixmax.com and let’s chat! Also check out our eng blog at mixmax.com/engineering
Build a Universal JavaScript App with Next.js
Location: Asunción, Paraguay

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Meteor, Node.js, CoffeeScript, MongoDB,
Elasticsearch, Redis

Résumé/CV: http://softwarerero.com/

Email: el@softwarerero.com

I have been around for a while (C++, Smalltalk, Java, Scala) but my recent experiences are in the Node.js and Meteor world (frontend + backend). Until last week I was backend developer and CTO of an education startup, but we were not profitable and shut down. If you want to hire a distributed team there are several of my colleagues that are also looking for new horizons.
You think that's a lot? I'm not trying to single you out and please don't take this as a personal attack. But it's disturbing to me especially in light of the dyn attack and others people STILL are not getting how badly our security infrastructure is horrendously broken and/or non existent on the net.

Letsencrypt are one of the good guys. They are fighting the good fight. With the admirable goal of trying to get the web moved entirely over to SSL. It's an uphill battle because we have decades of SSL being a pain in the ass to deploy and maintain. "But certificates are not hard to generate and deploy!" Over 50% of the web disagrees with you.

People have got to start taking this stuff seriously. Everyone should be donating monthly to OpenBSD for OpenSSH which everyone and their grandmother uses in their infrastructure but they take it for granted and don't donate. Which I personally find appalling that it's so widely used and yet supported so very little for such a vital part of everyones infrastructure.

SSL is the same way, it's a vital part of everyones infrastructure and both the OpenBSD folks and lets encrypt should be bankrolled by the tens of millions each year from both individuals and the corporations who use this software on a massive scale. Seriously, Cisco, Juniper, Oracle (yeah I know it was a waste of bits to type that name here), every corporation using SSH should be pouring millions into the OpenBSD foundation and you should all be ashamed and publicly called out for not doing so!
So if I give away some software for free-as-in-beer, but without source, I'm liable.
Is it better to kill an innocent or let them spend their life in jail? Given the states of our jails, I'm not sure but I think I'd prefer death.
San Francisco needs to re-orient its processes to include this sort of urbanization desperately.
There is also the Shrinter https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/shrinter.shtml
I don't find the fact that some people are found innocent to be a convincing reason to be against the death penalty. The replacement, which is life in prison, strikes me as even less appealing. How is sending someone to jail and leaving them there for 20 years only to figure out that people fucked up and the guy wasn't actually guilty - "Sorry chap, but it's only a third of your life we've ripped away from you, you've still got one third left!" - any better? I'd rather be dead.
For those confused by the title, it means they're working on adding LLVM support for RISC-V.
SOXHUB | San Francisco, Orange County | Software Engineering | Full-Time

SOXHUB is streamlining SOX audit compliance through our SaaS platform. We target large public enterprises that are faced with internal compliance tasks. We're aiming to solve narrow enterprise problems deeply by understanding the problem through internal industry experts & building the best UX/product solution.

- Node/JS, Ember, Docker, Python and more

- Small team, lots of independence & mentorship, flexible schedules

- Contribute to open-source projects

- Fast paced & growing

For more information, or to apply, please contact me at rajiv@soxhub.com or visit https://www.soxhub.com/jobs/software-engineer/.
Here's some Chinese traditional instrumental music that has a good combination of interest and subtlety - it's low-key and sort of emotionally oblique: http://www.sinicave.com/pd_an_music.cfm

(I can't vouch for that vendor, having never used them.)
I use let's encrypt for gitlab pages, as seen here: https://robigalia.org/

The key is doing a dns-01 challenge, instead of http-01, so you don't have to put challenge-response garbage in your repo.
Location: Campinas, SP - Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Python, C, Clojure, PHP, JavaScript

- HTML, CSS

- MySQL, SQLite

- Ansible, Jenkins

Résumé/CV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69029695/resume.pdf

Email: lucas [at] fastmail [dot] nl
Smart Cities Will Help Afrika Move Forward
I was thinking about that actually. I like the portability of a laptop (working on couch, at table, back deck etc). I think I need to test it out a bit as my wife would also like a new laptop. Perhaps an iMac or mac mini in the basement would work well. Is it preferrable to use an apple product to remote into another apple product, or could I get a Windows/Chrome/Linux laptop and still remote in?
aren't people (and all living organisms) the quintessential example of a local decrease in entropy that results in greater overall entropy? we are highly ordered groupings of matter but we're really great at churning about the matter and energy around us and we eventually decompose too.
I actually didn't know about him.. i'll check it out for sure !! I actually also like to listen to piano heavy stuff.. My favorite by far is Ludovico Einaudi. My favorite albums from him is "Divenire" and "In a Time Lapse". The list should be much longer :) this was just what i could remember right off the bat.
Location: USA
Remote: Maybe
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/iongorincioi
Email: gorincioii99@gmail.com
Hunt for a job here: https://remotebase.io/companies
Monthly (daily?) reminder that you should use an app that encrypt your messages.
Install dependencies using Yarn with npm fallback
Of course. Is there a (low volume) mailing list somewhere I can sign up to get announcements for things like this?

P.S. Let's Encrypt rocks! I just donated.
I meant to write reach, sorry. Glad that it's working well now.
Thanks for the reply, and for the link, it sounds like something fun to get into =).
The first link sends at least me to a Page Not Found site. Also, when I google Neumitra, I find a link to your homepage, but the site loads only a grey bar at the bottom. I'm using FF and Chrome with u-Block-Origin, fyi. Hope it helps, your stuff looks really cool from what I could find!
Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)

Description: Pomodoro technique® time tracker.

Last month we built the public API. This month we want mainly to rebuild leaderboards using async tasks.

Skills needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

License: MIT