skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Columbia University | Associate Software Developer | New York, NY | Fulltime | Onsite | https://ccit.college.columbia.edu/

Columbia University is hiring! We're looking for a talented full stack web developer who will help build web applications for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Our stack is Symfony, MySQL, and Linux.

We offer:

* A great work-life balance

* Education benefits

* Generous vacation allowance

* Retirement benefits

* Medical, dental, and vision plans

More information: https://ccit.college.columbia.edu/jobs/associate-software-de...

Contact us at ccit-jobs@columbia.edu to apply.
What "security industry"? In how many companies nowadays is sitting and thinking things through an encouraged approach? It goes against the current economical values. The problem are not IoT vendors, the problem is money-driven economics.
GoEuro | Berlin, Germany | Engineering| Full-time | On Site
We are Europe’s leading travel platform and you get to work alongside our CTO Kacper (former Engineering Director at Google). We are a Goldman Sachs and Atomico backed business.
We are seeking leading engineers to improve our travel search backend & booking engine with a software craftsmanship mindset to design and develop software to an amazing scale and create an outstanding engineering culture. We are mainly working with Java and solving very hard and ambitious travel problems.
http://www.goeuro.com/jobs?gh_jid=100355
james.peters@goeuro.com
Which law are you thinking of? There isn't a physical law I'm aware of that claims gravitational attraction toward a center of mass, you might be conflating several laws or thinking of an approximation rule that was never intended to cover one object inside or even near another.

Newton's law of gravitation is stated in terms of a particle to particle relationship.

Center of Mass is the balance point of an object, and objects will always rotate around their center of mass unless constrained, but this doesn't relate to gravity.

You can approximate gravity at a distance from any object by using the object's center of mass, but that approximation breaks down when you're close to it.
I've been a very happy user of Pinboard for the last few years (ever since Delicious got super slow).
I even subscribe to the archive feature, although I have no illusion that I will get around to reading all my 20k bookmarks again...

It seems Pocket(which recently started using their extension to politely spam Chrome start page with article suggestions) and Instapaper are in some sort of war of attrition while pinboard is happily chugging along.
How can an posting dated from 2005 with only 19 points (at time of writing) reach number 2 on Hacker News? Does anyone know how the ranking algorithm works?
The flip side is that RStudio is AGPL [1] – although not too surprisingly this is not heavily advertised. It may be easy to setup, but your legal department will have a heart attack if they find out that you're using it. At some point, RStudio will ask you to comply with the AGPL or pay them for a non-AGPL license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
> I am coming up on two years of this next month.

I thought you were gonna say you were coming up on two months... It seems like you were at your previous employer for 4 years!? There is no way you would be interpreted as a "job hopper" by the managers and recruiters I have worked with through the years.

Dude, quit!
Ten years (or a bit longer, depending on how you measure it) is a good run.
"And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The intervening years have created a situation that is, as far as I know, without precedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, but not in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. My friends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. [2] And yet Apple's overall market share is still small.

Though unprecedented, I predict this situation is also temporary"

Did PG's prediction come true?
If you are coming from OSX use Ubuntu.
Methinks domain plays a significant role...
Greenhouse Software | NYC/SF | Onsite/Full time

Greenhouse builds software that helps companies be great at hiring and onboarding.

Founded in 2012, we have grown to more than 200 employees and have more than 1500 customers, some of which are the best known tech brands.

People love working here. Need proof? We are Best Places to Work winners on both coasts and have a 5-star rating on Glassdoor. And we're hiring!

Here's a glimpse at who we want to hire:

* Application Security Engineer (NYC or SF): you'll manage our security program and use tools like Burp, Kali, and Metasploit to hack new features before they go to prod and make our SDLC more secure (http://grnh.se/3mo5by1)

* Senior Full Stack Engineers & Full Stack Engineers (NYC): develop "secret sauce" features in Ruby on Rails & Javascript, build and deploy globally distributed systems, design and implement a unified API, and build our mobile experiences (http://grnh.se/3b2atw1)

* Senior Front-End Engineer (NYC): You'll architect a platform of reusable Javascript components that other engineers will depend on and redesign the UI/UX of our platform making our application more interactive, performant, and unified (http://grnh.se/yqt2ei1)

Learn more about Greenhouse and our amazing team here http://www.greenhouse.io/careers
No, you argued it was superior, then failed to expound any actual evidence.
Recruitics | New York, NY | Full-Time | ONSITE

Software Engineer

We at Recruitics use data to manage how our clients’ job openings are marketed to job seekers and to measure how effective they are at reaching the right applicants for each job. We do this by developing career site analytics and tools to manage online ad campaigns for job openings. Our software looks at web traffic, advertising cost data, applicant tracking systems, and more to answer questions about the performance of jobs and the behavior of candidates.

We’re looking to hire a mid-level software engineer on our data engineering team. You’ll be designing and developing our attribution model in Java using Apache Spark. You will hammer tons of data into Elasticsearch, Redshift, and S3. Together, we will explore a number of new AWS offerings, and learn what works and what doesn’t. You’ll engage with our ops team, figuring out why clusters had problems and tuning them for performance.

We wear many hats but are still primarily software engineers, and we want you to help us build the algorithms that power our analytics.

Sound interesting? Email me at patrickd a~t recruitics.com or apply here!
http://jobs.recruitics.com/job/software-engineer-data-engine...

We start with a quick phone screen and move on to more in-depth on-site interviews, no more than 3-4 hours. If this sounds like the right challenge for you but don’t feel you meet the exact requirements listed in the full posting, still drop us a line, we’d love to hear from you.
Excel to support opening utf-8 encoded CSVs
Just curious, did you check out Lektor? I haven't experience with it, but I think it is designed just for that kind of scenarios.
For Android (and for Windows Phone) it requires permissions to pretty much everything. It's pretty evil in that regard.
Someone recently submitted the post.
Everyone is saying in the comments "I also learned cursive". Are there schools where you do not learn that? In France (and from I can tell - everywhere in Europe) this is the only writing possible. Adults also write in cursive by default.
To add some quick answers in my experience:

1. It's a general attitude toward building interfaces; the reader of the code is put first. Yeah underneath things may be messy, but using those things should be nice. The onus is placed on the implementor, rather than the user. Ruby libraries will go to fairly extreme lengths to make things nice to use.

2. Matz has always said that he meant the path of least surprise to him, not to every programmer. I personally find this point the weakest.

3. Yes, stuff like rubocop can help teach you this, but you really pick it up from reading and writing others' code.

4. Ruby has had a test-focused bent for a long time; and so it has a lot of tools for testing. Back when I taught Ruby professionally, I even had an organization with a Perl webapp want me to teach their testers Ruby, to write test suites for the app in Ruby rather than Perl. Perl also has great testing, so I'm not sure I agreed with them in this case, but it is something many people feel.

5. I've seen many unmaintainable Ruby apps as well; I think this is something that should be aspired to overall, not necessarily something that's true today. Or rather, there's a period of development where people get enthused with a language, write tons of unmantainable code, step back, figure out why, and then the next iteration is better. Justin points out that node, being earlier in its life, might be in step 2, and that Ruby, being more mature, is on step 4 or 5 here.
He has a TV show on RT (https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/), a Russian state-run news channel which is widely criticized as being a propaganda outlet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_and...). That seems like a massive conflict of interest to me. I also don't imagine it would take very long for him to lose his show if he published any seriously damaging Russian leaks.
Android SMS/MMS from MacOS Messages App
For me it is very related to what I need to do. Wringing out 1000 LOCs in a day -Nitzer Ebb, Ministry and Rammstein it is. EBM in general is really helpful. And interestingly this specific song by U2: https://vimeo.com/41133252
I laughed at the dig about Intel and Microsoft stickers. They're much easier to remove that the giant glowing billboard ad built into the Mac chassis.
That's predating the talkie era.

Yes, early films were shot square-on into the set, as one would film a stage production. That changed with The Great Train Robbery, which introduced a very large number of the set of camera techniques used in film since: long shots, close-ups, tracking, panning, dolly, cross-cutting, and other methods. All in 1903, by Edwin S. Porter.

All that was well established by the time talkies started becoming widespread, particularly with sound-on-film in the 1930s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(190...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film
This list of what makes a physical law is a pretty good start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_law#Description
Time since submission is an important factor. Take a look at /newest; this is by far the most upvoted article on it, and most articles there have 1-3 points.
Stealth Infrastructure: Disguised Cellular Base Stations
Those things is not a deal breaker, it doesn't make sense to pay double price in comparison with similar laptops just to get above things, especially TouchBar which costs about $500 and will make you fill uncomfortable with laptop at least for a first time (but I guess constantly).
Agreed. On Hacker News, it often seems as if everyone has an opinion about everything and feels compelled to share it immediately, without doing any investigative work or deep thinking first. It's a race to the bottom.
IMSI catchers (like Stingray) are not fully passive devices. They have an operation mode where they broadcast a signal that appears to come from a legitimate cell phone tower. This captures traffic from all devices within range, targeted or not. This is why they are often called "cell site simulators" because that accurately describes how they are often used. For more information, check out this EFF page.

https://www.eff.org/sls/tech/cell-site-simulators
I don't think anybody is taking it extremely seriously. For Google, it's PR. For individuals working on it, it's fun, interesting, and accessible.
The new Macbook Pro supports max of 16GB RAM while Thinkpads support 32GB. This makes it hard to justify getting a Mac.
X writes secure code, Y writes secure code, Z integrates both parts in a secure way. X creates a secure update. X releases an update which makes a race condition with Y leading to elevated privileges possible in Z's product. Who's liable for the issue now?
This. We model death rates somewhat accurately. Health care costs somewhat less so. Macro financial systems somewhat less so. I'd put "assign risk to a moderate sized enterprise's network of data systems" at more complex than all of those.
Mods - needs a '[2005]'.
The thing that most impressed me is when the hard drive failed in the Inspiron when we were living in Austria. I had purchased the computer here in Oregon and brought it over there. I called up the local Dell number, expecting to have some huge hassle where I'd ship the computer to the US or something and wait a month for it to work its way through the system.

Instead, a guy showed up at our door the next day with a new drive that he installed.

It was definitely within the warranty period, but I was really impressed.

They're not perfect computers, and I do tend to be pretty careful with them, but so far so good.
Sindeo "A better way to get a mortgage"
sindeo.com

check out a demo here: http://finovate.com/videos/finovatefall-2016-sindeo/

mission driven company improving the mortgage experience. Financing a home is one of the most important decisions of a consumers financial life. we save our average customer over $20k during the life of their loan. that's awesome.

Mortgages are a great place to be if you love fintech and want to help out consumers. Mortgage market is $10 trillion. Student loans, credit cards, auto loans are all about $1 trillion each. So this is a much bigger space that is super meaningful.

Looking for:

Director of Engineering

Senior Full Stack Developer

Jobs page: https://www.sindeo.com/jobs/

Stack: Primarily Django/DRF and Angular.

contact rex.salisbury [at] sindeo.com if interested!
For cursive, the winner is a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil. It doesn't need much pressure, and it doesn't make a blob if you stop.
19 points are worth exponentially more the younger the post is, and exponentially less the older it is. If you're trying to understand why a post is where it is, age is just as important as votes.
Whenever I meet someone who says, "You seem really smart, you must use a Mac," I understand who they are made for.
I immediately clicked ("return of the Mac" + "Paul Graham" = perfect clickbait, given what's been going on these past few days). Got me.

It's a pretty good read though. At the end, there's a mention of % of YC people on OS X. I bet anything that OS X would be the dominant platform in that demographic these days.
I'd love someone to point to evidence of this beyond pure anecdotes. Yelp clearly allows negative reviews on accounts which advertise with them which can be seen with this Google search [0].
Furthermore an independent Harvard Business School study showed no evidence of fraud [1].
Sure Yelp gives a hard sell, but until some disgruntled ex-employee blows the whistle, or multiple businesses record evidence of this extortion, I'm not ready to believe this is any widespread fraud. I'm sure there are isolated cases, but surely someone would have come forward to back up claims that Yelp can manipulate reviews and ratings?
[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayelp.com+%22thi...
[1] https://www.yelpblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hbs-stud...
> Isn't this a simple instruction you give students in the very first class like "before you submit your homework, restart R session, and make sure your submission runs in the new session"? This only requires them to click a menu item (Restart R session), and a button (Knit or Source or something).

It's the nature of learners to make mistakes. The more things they have to remember to do, the less cognitive power they'll have to focus on what they're trying to learn.
> Would you take advice on how to fish, from a fish

I think you were joking here, but holy crap yes I would take fishing advice from a fish (provided it was a human-level intelligent fish that spoke english... which if I'm following your metaphor correctly it is in this case)

More generally the issue with "not asking fish how to fish" is it's the exact opposite of how successful companies treat customers. I ask my customers how they liked the product, what they'd change, how they'd sell it to other customers, etc, etc. That isn't an error. It's one of the most effective business improvement tactics I know of.

This is not to say that the information source is unbiased (customers are much less likely to suggest a price hike for example), or particularly skilled at knowing how to address their needs (they'll ask for a "faster horse" when they mean "gasoline engine" to ruin a quote)... but the fact remains that fish (customers or investors) are the best source of information you have.
What Happens to the Markets If Donald Trump Wins?
I have, it's a nice venue, but there are lots of places to see a concert.

I care a lot more about bulldozing the South Bronx.
points / time_elapsed ^ 2 ?
Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Growth & Product Analysts

MarketInvoice | London, UK

Smart analytical thinker ?

MarketInvoice wants you. The rate that a startup learns is what drives it's success. We want to hire people who can help us learn faster.

If you've ever worked at a business which sells to other businesses (or if you've been a contractor yourself) you'll appreciate the pain that comes with getting your customers to pay promptly. We solve that pain, as soon as a company has issued their customer an invoice we can advance them the money (the companies then pay us back when their own customer pays them) so they have it instantly so they can pay their own suppliers and staff on time.

Our users love us. We have one of the highest NPS scores in the financial sector and our users keep coming back to us. We're currently financing over £1m/day and we're the largest startup in this space worldwide.

We want to press the accelerator pedal on our growth but we know we need to make smart decisions in order to enable that. Whether that's picking the right KPIs for product decisions, segmenting our customer base or modelling the credit limit we can extend to a user.

We've made two hires from HN. Email me at i.ghory@marketinvoice.com if you're interested in any of our roles.
Factoring in the real world battery performance between those machines helps understand the Thinkpad tradeoff. One I'm not willing to take.
I'm glad you're tough enough to carry heavy laptops, most of the people are not so tough.
It doesn't glow any more on the newer models. Also there's a difference between a manufacturer's logo and stickers. You'd be hard-pressed to find a laptop that doesn't include the former.
Another Shadow Brokers Leak
We have some notes on small file performance for EFS and ObjectiveFS at https://objectivefs.com/howto//performance-amazon-efs-vs-obj... that you might find interesting. Scaling out PHP on AWS is definitively easier with a shared file system.
Microsoft MMPC's blog post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/11/01/our-comm...
Damn, who do you know what owns business that Yelp hasn't tried to shake down? At some point you are being willfully ignorant like climate change deniers.
I guess the algorithm counts a coefficient (num_of_upvotes / time).
Unless you don't need more than 16GB for the near term future. My MBP has 16gb and never seems to be near an issue for me even running kube-solo, a few vboxes, and light PS work. I would have liked the option to get 32 just to future proof since I tend to keep my mac laptops for 4-5 years but I'm willing it trade that off for the better screen, trackpad and software.
How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs
I honestly hope the Touch Bar doesn't survive longer than one generation of MacBooks. I believe the whole thing is a gimmick (a well intentioned gimmick) meant to drive forward one thing, Apple Pay on the MacBook. Most likely it's internally perceived as a situation where the end justifies the means, if Apple Pay is widely adopted on the MacBook this will look like a genius decision down the line and make a ridiculous amount of money in the long-term. If not, blame the Touch Bar.

Apple should have done a full touch input screen on the MacBook. It might not have been perfect, but it would have been lauded as revolutionary by the mainstream media. By not doing it they have now given their competitors the chance to grab that market.

When Apple does eventually make a full touch input screen MacBook, Apple Pay will be a part of it. The Touch Bar is just a stepping stone to get to that point, but it's a step they should have skipped.
Could conceivably have been a temporary test network, run by a Chinese mobile manufacturer. Typically they'd be doing on-location testing of their hardware. I used to do a lot of this kind of work with Chinese and Korean companies and we'd frequently pitch up in a city in the US, Europe or Asia with case loads of GSM test gear.
Austria effect, everything is efficient there :-)
Which no longer glows at least. (2016 MacBook and MacBook Pro models)
So by posting this are you suggesting he writes a follow up article about the return of the PC? I think that might be premature, but definitely Apple has forgotten which group started the surge of people buying Macs.
I imagine people will use it on the desktop apps and soon everything will just be running with WASM! It sounds like it has the potential to unify web development with development on all platforms if it is efficient enough.

EDIT: I didn't think I would be excited about WebAssembly but I'm now really curious to see what happens with it.
"But the C++ macro system blows goat dick" teehee
I would recommend Elementary OS (Based on an Ubuntu).It is closer to an OsX experience imho. However, make no mistake, it won't replace OsX and its rich ecosystem… https://elementary.io
The term bahramdipity comes to mind...

bahramdipity - the suppression of a discovery, sometimes a serendipitous discovery, by the often-egomaniacal act of a more powerful individual who does cruelly punish, not merely disdain, a person (or persons) of lesser power and little renown who demonstrates sagacity, perspicacity, and truthfulness.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/19271/...
I agree that this is rather useless. I have given up on Facebook and Whatsapp and what I am missing most is the double checkmarks when a message has been delivered / read, as well as attaching any kind of file to a message.

That being said, I use Signal extensively and have convinced some people to use it as well. It's an important piece of software to me.
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but I feel like this is yet another modern philosopher re-hashing the same stuff that's been discussed ad nauseam for literally thousands of years. Classical philosophers established long ago that philosophy in a vacuum is pointless, that it shouldn't be considered as an exercise by itself, but rather as a tool to consider everyday matters, whatever these may be. Most forms of meta-philosophy are interesting mental masturbation exercises, but that's about all they achieve.

> This provincializing of Europe helps to show how at least two ancient civilizations, India and China, have intellectual traditions of writing and argument enough like "Philosophia" to merit the name of philosophy. But Smith goes further, proposing that the reflections of nonliterate societies, oral traditions, and discursive forms based on myth and metaphor have some claim to count as philosophy as well.

Again, sorry but this isn't anything new. In fact, a lot of classical philosophy takes its roots in oral tradition, you could even argue that most old religions are based on these principles. I find it a little bit offensive to not only assume that Smith is the first to come up with this idea, but to completely ignore History in the process.

All that said, this is just a book review and I haven't read the book itself. If I'm being needlessly harsh and idiotic, I'd love to be shown so and read the book for penance and enlightenment.