skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The resale value on a MacBook is actually crazy high, so that's something to consider. I've heard stories of people buying Apple hardware at a steep student discount (20% or more) and re-selling it at the end of the year...for a profit.

Most PC laptops are worthless after 12-18 months of use. You either give them away or throw them out. If you buy a low-end system it's junk, and if you buy a high-end one, the only people looking for such a system would want to buy it new anyway, so you're stuck in a trap.

A MacBook often sells for a minimum of 50% of its purchase price if in good condition, possibly more depending on demand. The metal cases generally hold up a lot better than the plastic housing on less expensive laptops.
Agreed, what is it with the push to touch screen? Although I expect it's manufacturing - better to make all of them touch and then up-sell the customers :/
> Ubuntu is not a best choice despite of the popularity, I'd recommend Manjaro (XFCE edition since it's simpler - so not a lot of things can be broken, not the Gnome/KDE version), or Debian stable if you need stable system.

Listen: I learned unix by installing MkLinux on a PowerMac G3 (the beige kind that came with MacOS, the single-tasking cooperative OS from the '80s) in 1997. I built my first PC in '99 or '00 and ran Debian on it until the old glibc transition broke so much that I switched to Gentoo, and much later to slack & arch.

I've done the distro-shuffle. There is no magical Happy distro where everything finally Works. Everything is constantly being rewritten, and some percentage of it is egregiously, embarrassingly broken at the user-facing level.

In some ways it's even worse now than it was in the early 2000s. So after nearly 20 years of "you shouldn't have used distro X you should use distro Y", I think I'll pass.

And despite this rant in 3 years I'll probably be dumb enough to think "well maybe this time things are finally working well", yet again.
Even a single minute of my time wasted can not be un-done. So if you accept the arrow of time points forward and that no single action can ever be truly un-done there are some actions that are worse than others. And so it would be good to aim for the least harm done.
Surprised not to see focusmusic.fm
You can listen to electronic, downtempo, classic and rain channels. I like electronic while writing code.

Link: https://focusmusic.fm/
No, 13" MBPs can get 16GB too.
Interesting. I'll have to give it a try. I've been against a screen + drawing surface combo up till now, my Intuos Pro has met my needs pretty well. But I'm always down for more precision.
Pandora | Oakland, CA | Full Time - Onsite |
Pandora has a great opportunity for seasoned engineers with several years of diverse experience, and a passion for learning and applying new technical knowledge. You should have outstanding analytical and programming skills, with a deep understanding of large-scale application development. You should have a track record of building robust, scalable, multithreaded applications.

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Generally available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~9 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes. I’ve also been doing some Swift lately.

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Yammer is looking for awesome engineers to join the team in Redmond, WA located in the Puget Sound region and close to Seattle. Send your resumé to brida @ microsoft.com or apply at one of the URLs below.

About Yammer: At Yammer, our mission is to change the way people work, and that mission starts with us. We use our own product every day to promote and encourage our culture of openness and transparency. Yammer provides each user with a voice, empowering individuals to share ideas, ask questions, and voice concerns. We're passionate about building a great product that people love to use, and we're always on the lookout for similarly product-minded engineers to join us. Our engineers work on rich, complex problems. At Yammer, engineers don't just get handed specs and mocks to build — we work in an iterative and collaborative way with Product and Design to create the best possible user experience. As such, we need people who are enthusiastic, ask great questions, enjoy collaborating with a cross-functional team, and have strong opinions but aren't afraid to admit when they're wrong.

We hire smart people, expect them to learn and grow, and trust them to make day-to-day decisions. We care most about creating products people love. To enable that, we move quickly by pushing code to production throughout the day, we iterate, and we value learning over shipping features.

Software Engineer II
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Keywords: React, Js, JavaScript, HTML, Backbone, ES6, Redux, TypeScript, Ruby, Rails, Java, Postgres, REST APIs, Docker, Azure
Overpressure blowing up a container or piping isn't pretty. Air compresses very well, so it gains a lot of volume quickly and gives flying debris a lot of energy compared to e.g. a bursting water tank.
Should the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Be Stopped?
> I don't get the amount of grudge towards Apple for the new MBPs

MBP would be a fine laptop for a twice less cost. There are cheaper decent alternatives.
It depends on what you do, if you have to juggle multiple VMs or deal with massive projects 16GB will be an issue for you. If you are a creative that works with graphics/video/music, your work machine will most definitely require tons of RAM, and that limit will def become an issue.
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No. The devices automatically connect to the base station with the strongest available signal.
Backend Engineers, All Levels | Coffee Meets Bagel | San Francisco | Full-Time | On-site https://coffeemeetsbagel.com/jobs/

Hey I’m Karim, CTO at Coffee Meets Bagel. I’m looking to hire some backend engineers from mid level to senior to lead (engineering manager).

Our stack is Python, Go, C*, Redis, Elastic Search, PG, Spark, …

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating app that focuses on quality over quantity. We're growing fast and looking for great engineers to help build new features and scale out our platform globally.

We have a super fun office near Union Square right off the BART line and you'd get to work with a bunch of very smart, driven, passionate, and fun people all dedicated to helping our users find love!
https://jobs.lever.co/coffeemeetsbagel/70425a5d-b1a1-44c8-88...
Confusing the Inverse
The server would be interesting if it implemented libvirt virtual network and virtual hard disk drivers so it could run on cloud hosts.

Does it?
"Rival" OS X? Meh... as far as I'm concerned, the Linux desktop experience exceeds OS X easily. Honestly, after being forced to use OS X daily for the last 6 months, I really don't see anything special about it, with the sole exception of iTerm2 which admittedly rocks.
Snow is also a problem for several reasons. Also, roads where the painted lines are so faded as to make a poor contrast with surrounding features.

I've also had a lane sensor that worked well during the day, but was confused by the taillights of vehicles that passed me at night, apparently thinking that was the new left boundary and so warning me I was out of the lane on the right.
Lumi (YC W15) | https://www.lumi.com | Los Angeles, CA | Frontend / Backend Engineers | REMOTE OK | Fulltime, Interns

Lumi helps e-commerce brands design and order packaging online. We're solving complex supply chain problems involving everything from turning vector-based designs into production-ready artwork, to bringing elegance to the complex systems of pricing, manufacturing, shipping and freight in the packaging industry.

Our stack: React, Node, Haskell, HapiJS, RethinkDB.

As an engineer at Lumi, you'll become an important part of our dynamic and productive team. You will be leading projects building the architecture of our customer-facing site and backend tools.

Because of our small team and rapid development cycle you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects and interact closely with the design and strategy of Lumi.

Expertise with Javascript is required. Our stack consists of React, HapiJS, RethinkDB and Node. Our admin-facing tools are built in Haskell and React.

You can apply by going here: https://www.lumi.com/jobs or contact me directly.
> And, no, my time as someone who plays video games is much cheaper than today's SSD storage.

Flash storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and my time means more to me than it ever has. If I could spend a few dollars to have more gigabytes of fast storage, that sounds like a bargain.
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It's a pretty well-known fact that execution typically costs around 10 times more than life imprisonment. Here's a page with links to multiple peer-reviewed sources, covering multiple states: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty.

The issue is that the appeals process is extremely expensive and time-consuming. You could conceivably simplify and streamline it (to the extent permitted by the Supreme Court, which has been mandating ever-stricter requirements for capital punishment cases), but that would make it even more unacceptably error-prone than it already is.
Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE

We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 26% of the Web that runs on WordPress.

We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on:

- We have some good distributed systems deployed that we are constantly improving: https://data.blog/2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elastics...

- Various versions of search, related posts, and recommendations have been launched over the years, but we've only recently had good enough tracking to easily test algorithm changes at our scale. Lot's of new data available for improving search relevancy.

- Billion plus unique users of our search systems each month, searching in every language that humans use.

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No walls around the garden. Make the Open Web a smarter place.

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Isn't that along the lines of System 76 [1]? I haven't tried any of their machines, and they aren't exactly trying to compete with Apple, but they are Linux first.

[1] https://system76.com/
Tesorio (YC S'15) (https://www.tesorio.com/careers/) | Burlingame, CA | ONSITE

* Senior Backend Engineer: build microservices to interconnect accounting software & work on our webapp's backend (Python/Django)

* Senior Full Stack Engineer: work with our frontend stack (React/ES6) & our backend stack (Python/Django)

* Apply to any of these roles here: https://www.tesorio.com/careers/

Tesorio is a Y Combinator-backed startup that is building the next-generation of business finance & transactions. In the same way that Stripe modernized payment processing, we want to do the same but for business finance.

We are developing machine learning algorithms to understand business cash needs, predictive algorithms to forecast future cash flow, and a sleek UI/UX to make our products enjoyable to work with.

We raised a seed round led by top investors including First Round Capital (Uber + Warby Parker), Floodgate Capital (Twitter + Lyft), Fuel Capital (Layer + CoreOS), Red Swan (Coinbase + Buffer), Slow Ventures (early Facebook team), Hillsven Capital (founders of Ariba), and Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail, YC Partner).
Scalyr | Agent Engineer | $125-160K, >=0.3% equity | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE)

"Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mean data collection agent. An ops visibility tool is only as good as the data it collects, and we pride ourselves on gathering everything from logs to system metrics to application metrics to API data. If you enjoy constantly getting to play with new tools, come help us connect to... everything. You'll get to play with packages from Apache to Zookeeper, APIs from AWS to, er, Azure, while tackling challenges such as monitoring 100,000+ simultaneous log files using minimal CPU.

At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility tool that our users rave about, because it smashes expectations for performance and ease of use. We offer the equity, influence, and fun of an early-stage company, with stability, great pay, and a low-stress culture. We have great backers, strong traction, and an 11-digit target market. I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say this is my favorite so far.

If this sounds like fun, check out the link below, or drop us a line at jobs@scalyr.com.

https://www.scalyr.com/company/jobs/agent-engineer
Gambit Research Ltd (http://gambitresearch.com) | London, UK | ONSITE | Full time

At Gambit we research and manage automated sports betting algorithms on behalf of our clients. Their algorithms run on our proprietary execution platform which interfaces with a large variety of bookmakers and exchanges, enabling access to the best prices and massive liquidity.

Our distributed, concurrent system has a core written in Erlang, which interacts with a wide variety of Python processes across the rest of the business. Some of the other technologies we use are: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, C, C++, Julia, R, Go, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Sentry, Git, GitLab.

We have a very flat hierarchy and an emphasis on employee freedom. We encourage our team to work on projects that interest them, as we believe people are happiest and most productive when intellectually stimulated. You don't need to be interested in sports or betting.

We're actively hiring for the following positions:

- Software developer

More information can be found at http://gambitresearch.com/jobs.html
I went to a private school. It was pretty non-traditional in many respects, and it wouldn't surprise me if writing a thesis wasn't common at other schools.
Do you plan to make async (the tool) public in any way? I'm pretty interested in that.

btw: I really love your companies "chattyness" on all types of knowledge that you guys gain! :o)
I was thinking the same thing!
Chinese wuxia (kung fu mythology) is already a hugely interesting genre that many westerners miss out on.
Sign up here https://www.longgame.co/#invite-form or email dan@longgame.co and we can try to get you in faster
This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

And thus the state protects the convicted from the vengeful desires of the victim's family members and doles out the justice the community has deemed appropriate. Just because the victims pay the state to "string 'em up!" instead of doing it themselves doesn't mean it's not mob justice.
A lot of what's nice about Macbooks is in the software. The battery life is at least partly due to software, making good/attractive use of the display, handling sleep states well, multimonitor support, and so on. You'd have to put thousands (tens of thousands?) of (expensive-)person-hours into Linux to close that gap enough to matter.
Just started listening to it. The Focus tab so far sounds like a simplified version of music by early electronic composers of the german school: Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, etc.
Underdog.io | New York, NY | https://underdog.io | Full-Time | ONSITE

We’re looking to hire two full-stack engineers. Ideally, one would be a Javascript/Node.js Engineer, and the other would be a Python Engineer.

Today, Underdog.io is a curated marketplace for talent. We connect amazing people with founders, hiring managers, and recruiters at top technology companies.

We’re building technology to reduce the noise of the job search and match. We started Underdog.io because we experienced the pains associated with (1) hiring while working at top startups and (2) looking for new opportunities.

Our platform is currently live in SF, NYC, and LA. We work with over 250 awesome companies. Quality is key to our model -- we turn away one of every two companies that have tried to join the network. We've proudly bootstrapped and profitable.

As we scale, we’ll focus on building tools for candidates to organize, search, and discover new job opportunities. In our view of the future, job candidates don’t receive as much unsolicited outreach from recruiters. Job search is organized, and talented candidates have more high-quality options.

We use Python/Flask, Javascript/Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, AWS. We're also working on a project in Ruby/Sinatra. And we're big supporters of open source.

Link to Github: https://github.com/underdogio

Link to recent Medium post: https://medium.com/@cmuir/lessons-from-sixteen-months-of-boo...

Email chris@underdog.io to apply.

Because we're still a small team, we're not able to accommodate recent bootcamp graduates. No recruiters or dev shops, please. =/

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How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04 [0] also provides details on how to use certbot to obtain SSL certificates.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secu...
Alcosynth
I work in the infosec field and I think it is unfair to blame the whole industry. I think the whole technology field is to blame here (although I really don't like to play the blame game). By the way, I have been around the security industry for around 10 years, and the same exact conversation has been going on. 10 years ago it was the Web, then around 7 years ago it was Mobile, now it is IOT, several years from now, we are going to have the same conversation regarding a different technology unless we do something regarding the root causes.

The root causes are the following:
1- Security more often than not is an afterthought. When you are trying to go to market, under tight deadlines, burning the night oil, nobody has time, energy or money to think about security.
2- The lack of security education by most of the stakeholders (upper management, product managers, engineers, etc) does not help and keep security a taboo, in most organization, nobody has the title of making the software secure. So it falls into nobody's lap
3- While, I have all the respect to the profession of honest sales, some salesmen ruined it for all of us, feasting on the lack of education mentioned above. Trying to sell tools/services as the silver bullet to the security problem, an idea that is very well received by someone who does not understand the problem and really looking for a silver bullet
4- At the end of the day, the real issue is that security is a cost center, there is no ROI for the business for doing security other than avoiding problems that "could" happen in the future.

That being said, there are three classes for clients I have seen doing security:
1- Heavy losses: for banks for example, the risk of losing money is quiet real and tangible. Besides they (at least in the U.S) under heavy regulations to do so. But their real motivation is risk mitigation.
2- Regulations (worst reason to do security): such as the PCI industry, they have to do security checks to avoid fines. This category usually try to do the minimum to get by.
3- Proactiveness: hats off to this category, as they don't really have to do it other than they think that this is something that must be done.

Solutions:
1- More education
2- More education
3- More education
4- Implement more security controls natively into frameworks (output encoding, entity frameworks, etc) and browsers (such as CSP policy, etc)
5- More fines for companies that don't really take the minimum amount of steps to ensure data confidentiality and integrity.