skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting use of nanotech!
Great point - too often realism is mis-labeled as cynicism by those who have drunk a little too much of the Kool-Aid. It's one of the things about SV that gradually wore me down over time: the constant need for people to declare everything great because to admit otherwise (i.e. accept reality) went against the prevailing start-up ethos.
Wish there was a demo or more info in form of a video. Right now the main focus on the landing page is a "Request Access" button.
Angaza | Android Developer | SF | ONSITE https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/

Angaza enables businesses to bring off-grid energy to emerging markets. Your day's work means more families turning on electricity for the first time that night:

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

We're a for-profit company, post-series A, with our technical team based in San Francisco. Right now, we're looking to add a developer focused on Android. Our mobile software is used by agents selling and servicing off-grid solar installations in more than a dozen countries. You can lead its development as we continue to rapidly expand.

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/ [San Francisco]

We're also hiring a number of other roles in Nairobi, e.g.:

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/director-of-sales/ [San Francisco + Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/senior-account-manager/ [Nairobi]

Our hiring process typically involves a phone conversation, a small home project, and an on-site interview. We don't believe in gotcha logic puzzles or adversarial whiteboard exercises, and we give you specific constructive feedback wherever possible.
Teslas Model X is ugly? The BMW i8 is ugly? I'd be very curious to see what a none ugly car is in your opinion.
Because even though there are 300,000 - 500,000 new consumer products launched in the U.S. each year, 99% are generic commodities like a new kind of 2% milk or whatever. The number of new products that are actually interesting is very small, which means that there is a very high cost of discovering and reaching out to enough of these product makers to make the site viable.

and from your letter:

The typical budget of a new specialty food product is 30k - 100k per year total, and almost all of that is allocated for
manufacturing/distribution/development/salaries, so the marketing budget at these companies is basically zero.

You've got some unstated/hidden assumptions that I am trying to illuminate.

Why do you believe the actually selling and distribution method of a new product doesn't fall into the list of "critical things founders need to know how to do to have a successful business" and instead can be outsourced?

You built a "selling" product for founders who don't know how "to sell" in the first place, I don't think there should be surprise that it failed. Just my .02
browsers mostly just need to sandbox websites, so websites cannot do any critical operations that would require AV supervision.

That's the way it ought to work. But it's so tempting to launch stuff from the browser, from Adobe Reader to Flash to Microsoft's "protocol types" which launch apps.

The proper role of antivirus programs is as a "guard". When you download a file, a program looks at it and decides if it should be allowed in. This at least gets rid of all those attack .zip files that show up in email attachments. It also has a well-defined interface with the application.
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We're looking for an iOS developer to do some work on our app.

Must be competent with Swift 3, xCode Auto Layout, and HTTP (REST calls). Your duties would include working on a few features as needed, tightening up existing layouts to work on all phone sizes, and implementing layouts that have been pre-designed.

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Yes, several.
Skuid | San Francisco, CA/Chattanooga, TN | Full Time | On Site

Skuid is a platform that allows you to design and develop bespoke web applications with an engaging user experience, incorporating data from almost any other platform, declaratively without code. The company culture is top-notch, we're growing at a rapid rate, and hiring for multiple positions:

* Software Engineers - (Node.js, Postgres, with frontend)

* Systems Engineers - (Manage multiple cloud platform environments)

* Developer Evangelist

* QA Engineers

* Sr. UX Designer

* Technical recruiter

For engineers, the interview process consists of a few phone screens, a 2 hour at-home programming challenge, and an in-person interview. Apply at https://www.skuid.com/careers/
Another item is that in developing nations, where there is a burgeoning car market, for many people car ownership = status, at least for the time being, so car ownership is going to be a thing for a while before attitudes change.
It's fairly straightforward to fix - single payer. That's not easy to, like, actually do, since there's established interests in the current system. But it is simple to describe.
>uncritical adoration

Really? Hacker News comments are uncritical adoration?

I'd weight the cynicism and perma-contrarianism a tad bit higher.

In fact, I believe the success of a startup is inversely proportional to the amount of hate it gets in HN comments.

Theranos excluded from the sample, of course.
4,000,000 / 8,000 == 500 liters per day per person?
Just out of interest, are you skeptical of static type systems in general? Because AFAIK there has never been a quantitative study proving their effectiveness, only empirical studies.
MedTech Exchange, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | ONSITE

We are a small, but growing healthcare IT company based in Atlanta, Georgia. We’re looking for developers who are passionate about making fast, scalable, and well-designed web interfaces for the healthcare industry. You will be utilizing the latest web technologies to solve challenging problems, create innovative web applications from the ground up and understand exactly what it takes to create an outrageously good user experience while driving down the costs of health care.

As a member of the team you'll be designing and developing new user interfaces as well as supporting our existing systems. As an early hire, you'll have the chance to build new product and shape the culture of our company as we grow.

We're looking for serious developers on both the front-end and server-side (Java, Play Framework, Scala, Angular 2) -- people with some professional experience (3 years or more) to join our team right now and be, or grow into, technical leaders in short order.

Interested? Send your resume to hiring@medtechexchange.com
ADHD has a high co-morbidity with anxiety disorders.
> I think it's more the difference between imperative and functional styles that's throwing people for a loop.

Pun intended? If so, nicely done.
Besides what looks like a well-executed writing and reading experience on e-paper (at last…), the live syncing of sketching looks especially promising (as shown in the video).
Viv Labs | Sr. Frontend DevTools Engineer | San Jose, CA | Full-time | http://viv.ai

DESCRIPTION

Viv is the next-generation virtual personal assistant, brought to you by the team that created Siri. In addition to being far more capable and intelligent, Viv will provide a truly open platform and marketplace that lets any developer extend Viv's capabilities for new domains and services. VentureBeat (http://bit.ly/1NSHobJ) named Viv one of the top 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016. Check out this demo (http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/9/11639992/viv-digital-assist...) from TechCrunch Disrupt NY, and watch the power of Viv in action.

Viv's Developer Center provides a set of tools that make it easy for a third-party developer to create AI capabilities on top of their web services, and then publish the new functionality to a marketplace accessible by many users across a variety of devices and experiences. As a Sr. Frontend DevTools Engineer, you will be building a new kind of web-based IDE for a new kind of platform. In this new paradigm, developers write programs to teach Viv how to write its own programs. Come help us pioneer a new way of writing software, one that is a collaboration between the developer and the AI.

REQUIREMENTS

You are excited about our vision and want to collaborate with our team to build an amazing product
Intimate knowledge of JavaScript, DOM/browser, and Node.js APIs
Experience with React or similar view-binding/reactive or functional UI frameworks
Experience collaborating closely with designers in an iterative environment
Able to quickly build out web UI from specs/sketches

DESIRED

Experience optimizing and writing performant client-side code
Previously built web-based developer/expert tools
Familiarity with ACE, CodeMirror, and/or lexers is a plus
Experience building Electron apps or browser extensions is a plus

Apply here: https://viv-labs.workable.com/jobs/98839
TapFwd | Full-stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-Time | Tapfwd.com

You're a generalist in the true sense of the word. You don't know what challenges tomorrow may bring, but you're happy to hack away at them - from high performance back-end applications to sophisticated web apps.

You love the uncertainty and ownership that comes with working at an early stage startup. If you need someone to hand you a well-packaged engineering puzzle, then this job isn't for you - you'll see projects through from concept to production to iteration.

Please apply at Tapfwd.com/careers

Requirements:
- Master of at least one scripting language (e.g., Ruby, Python, etc.) and at least one compiled language (e.g., Java, C/C++). Bonus points for Java and Ruby experience.
- CS degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
- An appreciation for the delicate balance between expediency and elegance. You're a detail-oriented perfectionist who understands that sometimes "perfect is the enemy of good."
- You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer.
- An all-around nice person who wants to surround themselves with other nice people. No jerks allowed.
- Excited to work in downtown San Francisco. We will relocate you if necessary.

Bonus Points:
- Hadoop/big data experience. Experience building high-performance, reliable distributed systems.
- Entrepreneurial blood. We’d love it if TapFwd were a stepping stone on the path toward starting your own company.
Poverty Doesn't Need Technology. It Needs Politics
I regularly do this with the amount of butter that Kraft thinks mac and cheese requires, often by at least 25%…
How to use PVS-Studio for “free”
Matt Levine highlights [1] the discrepancy quite nicely:

[...] let the wife's lawyer describe them:

Oesterlund was “a highly successful internet swindler,” engaged in “internet scams, forgeries, tax fraud, bank fraud, HUD fraud, immigration fraud, fraudulent overseas transfers and other misconduct,” Fisher told a Florida judge.
Or here's the wife's defense of the business:

“Every time you click on an ad, someone gets money,” she told me, shrugging. “We were the people who got the money.”

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-01/mortgage-...
It worked for me for some reason. Tested it before the post and just now. Good we have archive.org regardless to solve that problem. :)
AWS Personal Health Dashboard – Status You Can Relate To
Amazon is doing great things and anyone downvoting loves Hitler.
Python, Django, Nginx, Gunicorn, Postgres, Ubuntu, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular when I need it.
Still not gonna buy a FitBit, so I hope their acquisition turns out disastrous if they don't plan on supporting it.
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It's still an error discovered at runtime. It's one that smacks you in the face instead of silently doing the wrong thing, but it's still found at runtime. I really prefer my errors to be found at compile time, but that's often harder to do...
What the hell is up with all this AWS spam? There's 8 links on the front page about AWS submitted by the same two people. 19 AWS posts submitted in the past 24 hours.
"why Netflix uses Linux instead of Solaris"

Just a reminder, we also run FreeBSD on our CDN servers at Netflix.
And drugs
This is actually how Codeship's Docker infrastructure works by default, builds up containers and executes all commands in them natively. DinD still possibly but somewhat yet useful with that approach.
> A binary executable does not rely on the very fine details of the implementation of the OS heap manager, for example, while a dump necessarily would.

What are you talking about? What is it about brk(2)/sbrk(2)/mmap(2) that would be a problem?
Show HN: Built cloud phone system for remote sales teams
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I love entrepreneurs, I just love the people overcoming all the obstacles and following their dreams and passion and just hustling and hustling until they succeed. They are plenty of stories like this.
PH was far from a meritocracy. It was basically a forum with SV insiders and people trying to "get in" in that ecosystem. But it was totally rigged, so that's the opposite of a tool who supposed to democratize access to exposure.
I don't believe people are hating on this, most of us just are just shaking our heads.
MineralSoft (YC W16) | Product Manager | Austin, TX | https://mineralsoft.com

MineralSoft is a SaaS & data platform for oil & gas assets.

We're looking for a technical product manager with experience growing a software business. This will be the first non-founder on the product team.

link: https://mineralsoft.com/jobs#op-151759-product-manager

email: jobs@mineralsoft.com
> Try to explain how it is written "ha" but spoken "wa" without referencing the Kana.

Unless your object is to learn writing, specifically, why is it important? It's like learning homophonous spellings in English -- it has no bearing whatever on the spoken language.

Tae Kim has put together a nice site but he's an amateur without much knowledge of linguistics.
What is the selling point of this? Poor man's Map(no reduce)??
oops. Someone has a lawsuit. I wouldn't like to defend it. I hope they have E & O coverage, but that probably won't cover a CEO's intentional fraud.
I ran the numbers recently -- just bought a hybrid (non plugin) Ford Fusion. Getting between 45 - 50 mpg. If I use Tesla's numbers for charging kWh and range, and at 10 cents/kWh, it is equiv. to getting gas for my car at 1.90 per gallon. Which is pretty close to where gas is right now.

Now other markets have higher electric cost (and tiered electric -- so you have to use the numbers for the higher tier). On the flip side, gas won't stay at 2 bucks forever. But electric rates may go up too.
Hiring onsite engineers for Yup (edtech startup based in SF that connects students to tutors in 30 seconds over a mobile app). Focus is on education, not answer giving.

Team of 12 including world famous Swizec Teller + 11 other homies. Hell of a lot of La Croix and other goodies in the office. Amazing team, good times!
Then I click the "I plan to scale this to solar-system size" button when deploying, instead of the default "I'm a fallible human being and prefer not to burn piles of money" setting.
Damn, AWS is on a tear RN.
Browse federal websites and check how many Sun icons you still see. My hypothesis: Oracle killed Solaris once they realized USDS and 18F had solid long term growth prospects.
Parkinson’s disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain
I think they both are being sarcastic. I am migrating from Solaris to AIX (stupid government) at work and AIX sucks.
There is no drought in Southern Ontario. They are drawing well water, not residential water. A farmer could draw that much water and pay absolutely nothing.
Noo! This makes me so sad. I love my Pebble Time. Fitbit :( I don't want to own a FitBit. People should be snapping these watches up they make your life better. For example: no more ringing phones. No more pulling phones out of pockets. Sleep tracking. Tracks activity...
AppNexus just fired something 14% of their staff in NYC, around 150 jobs. Mostly marketing/sales but I knew a few devs who got canned. Apparently doing some housecleaning before their IPO
>relatively small community

Lmk when you create a website with this much traffic. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/producthunt.com
Part of it is the cereal business model. You introduce more flavors not because they are going to sell well or to increase volume, but just to take shelf space at the supermarket away from your competitors. In this case the shelf space is mindshare, media coverage and "feature coverage" in researcher's market comparisons.
I much prefer Julia Evan's zine on strace:

http://jvns.ca/strace-zine-unfolded.pdf
I guess that's why we drink fizzy and creamy drinks so much!

Personally I think that the future is in manipulating the taste buds themselves. Did you ever hear about the "magic fruits" Synsepalum dulcificum? It's a fruit that has molecules that binds to the tongue. The result is that anything sour will taste like sugar. Lemons will taste like candy.

Pop a pill before drinking a bitter non-sugary drink and there you go, you are drinking sugar taste without any sugar!
It just contributes to the disconnect PH & SV have to the bigger issues at their doorstep.
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Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes or onsite

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Javascript, Node, SQL, SVG, TDD, APIs, Data Analysis, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alice-amy-dee

Github: https://github.com/scripttease

Email: amyalicedee@gmail.com
Watch Gung Ho for a mostly-accurate comedy relating to this.
Yeah I just dropped a comment about this on another thread. There's 8 links on the front page about AWS submitted by the same two people. 19 AWS posts submitted in the past 24 hours. It looks like a concerted shilling effort.
A Front End Experience Highlighting the Startup Institute Curriculum
Maybe you could make it up like a news article or something to keep the flair of the game.
Location: London, UK
Remote: Yes or onsite
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Javascript, Node, SQL, SVG, TDD, APIs, Data Analysis, HTML, CSS
Résumé/CV: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alice-amy-dee
Github: https://github.com/scripttease
Email: amyalicedee@gmail.com
Axial | New York City | Full-time | Onsite | Head of Data | http://www.axial.net

Axial is building the online capital market for private companies. In other words, we help mid-sized companies raise equity and debt to grow their businesses, and we make it easier for entrepreneurs to sell their businesses, earning rewards for years of hard work. Every week, over 200 private companies use Axial to passively explore or actively pursue a financial transaction for the next stage of their business.

The Role

Your mission will be to shape and lead a world-class data organization at Axial that helps the entire company make smarter decisions and which innovates new data products for the users of Axial’s online marketplace.

You will be managing a team currently consisting of a data scientist, data engineer and data analyst. You will manage the quality, integrity and stability of Axial’s data and data infrastructure. While Axial’s data volume is smaller than a mass-market consumer product, it is mission-critical to our success and comes with fascinating challenges. Axial is still a startup, and with that in mind, this role will be a mix of execution and management (in other words, you have to like getting your hands dirty, while designing scalable approaches).

Currently, Axial uses data to understand the health of our online network, run predictive analytics, track key goals and benchmarks, and optimize our sales and marketing tactics. The data team builds and tests internal data tools to help Axial’s business units make informed decisions, operate more efficiently and become more self-sufficient around data. The team also helps the CEO and executives with strategic projects.

See job posting for more details: http://www.axial.net/about/current-openings/?gh_jid=515290

Interview process consists of a phone screen and two on-site interview rounds.
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I'm surprised how short sighted these car manufacturers are. The German government seems right here: Germany derives a lot of value from owning (large parts of) the supply chain of the car industry. However, the car industry itself also benefits immensely from having so many high quality suppliers close by. One would think that forward looking CEOs want to ensure that this capability remains intact.
Precisely. The majority of people who are be afraid of using AWS services for the risk of a bill shock due to a DDoS would be small customers who won't be able to afford the 3,000$ per month price tag for the advanced shield anyways. For them, it's still risky to use AWS.
Pacifica Labs Inc. | Business Development Manager | San Francisco | http://thinkpacifica.com

Pacifica Labs Inc. | Marketing | San Francisco, San Diego, Madison, WI | http://thinkpacifica.com

Pacifica is the fastest growing stress and anxiety management application in the world. Based on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, over a million people have signed up since our public launch in January 2015. We're expanding our team as we continue to provide services to mental health professionals and other organizations. Please see additional information here: https://angel.co/pacifica-labs/jobs.
Exactly, especially when one considers the similar situation against the Euro.
It's because they have their AWS conference right now, re:Invent.

Same thing is happening when Google or Apple has theirs.
I assume he's referring to the guaranteed boost rates which range from 1.1 to 2x the fare.

So a passenger could pay $30 for a $60 ride. It's not practical since you'd be losing the increased rates and still having to drive, netting like $10/hour.

There are GPS hacks that can supposedly spoof your rides though.
asp.net mvc/webapi, c#, ms sql, entity framework, redis, nUnit, bootstrap, sass, vue.js
Nothing beyond the funny level. Occasionally, people who somehow got their hands on the naming rights to a vintage brand long dead are using "electric!" as a hand-wavey excuse as to how they will reconstitute the name to its former glory, but those rarely get to their second concept rendering. And then there are probably some leftovers from the era of approaching EV from the bottom, with minimalistic vehicles that are more in line with electric assist velomobiles than by electrifying big, heavy cars. But those are more established niche than startup.