skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sentieo | Customer Success Manager | SF or NYC | Full Time | ONSITE

Are you a Customer Success Manager who is enthusiastic about making sure customers are engaged and happy with software? Then come join our team. The ideal candidate has experience managing customer success at a modern SaaS organization. You should be very comfortable running educational and communication campaigns to teach our users about new and existing features, and using data analytics to refine campaigns.

Sentieo (www.sentieo.com) is the first true modern alternative to Bloomberg and CapitalIQ. Built by former hedge fund analysts, our platform overlays cutting edge search, collaboration and visualization tools on financial data sets to allow investors to supercharge their research and make better investment decisions.

Our product is currently being used at 100+ top hedge funds, investment banks and mutual funds around the world. We are a well-funded, fast growing financial data startup which is quickly earning ground in a $100Bn+ global market.

With offices in New York, San Francisco, and Delhi, you will be joining a global team of 80 that is constantly striving to deliver value to our clients through excellence and innovation.
To see open positions and apply, visit https://sentieo.com/content/pages/careers.html
you right! I mean better not to learn Uber lesson :)
> the poor get handouts, the working poor get fines

> many Walmart employees are on food stamps.

Are you implying that Walmart employees are not 'working poor', or is the first sentence a dramatic over-generalization that doesn't contribute to the conversation?
> The general tone here can at times feel like an uncritical adoration of the valley ecosystem

This is a classic perceptual bias. Everyone feels like HN is full of whatever they identify against, because those are the things we notice the most. Since you identify against "the valley ecosystem", HN seems full of uncritical adoration for it. It's a mirror of your own preferences.

There's also the enormous home-team advantage that anything "anti" has in the human brain, which gives rise to all the snark, cynicism, and rage-fests that take over online communities by default.
A classic response to this is "Did anybody consider the economic impact on ferriers when the demand for horses goes down?"

And yeah, there are people projecting such impacts, but overall it's usually considered valuable to innovate. Some jobs will inevitably be left behind as older tech becomes obsolete. There's been a few different ideas on how to solve this problem, but none of them are perfect.
Nah, unfortunately not.

Scotland in general is very well placed for renewable energy, with both great geography and skilled labour. I feel like the businesses based in Aberdeen haven’t realised that opportunity though.

The local industry has been a one-trick pony with no ambition to diversify. The end result is what we’re currently seeing.
ProtonMail launches SRP-based authentication secured against MITM
So what you're saying is that there are a bunch of unix engineers looking for jobs.
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The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda
Surfly | Software Developer | Amsterdam, NL | VISA https://surfly.com

We're looking for a Javascript / Python engineer with deep knowledge about the web (caches, proxies, event loops, browser rendering). What we do goes far beyond regular web development. Our stack includes: Redis, MemSQL, Varnish, ATS, Ansible, Esprima, Haproxy, Nginx. We use Python, Javascript, C and Lua.

What we offer:

- Upto €65K
- We'll arrange tax benefits for migrants
- Developer focused (sitting/standing desk, multiple screens, good hardware)
- Nice office located in the centre of Amsterdam
- Reimbursement of costs for conferences etc.
- We'll help with VISA and relocation

About Surfly

Surfly allows you to surf the web together with others. Unlike traditional screen sharing it requires no installation or browser plugins. By using a smart content-rewriting proxy we allow any website to be shared, without website owners having to change them in any way.

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We're a small team (< 10), have a great product and are getting some good traction with revenue. We are focussed but try to stay pragmatic. We are driven but have a relaxed and healthy work atmosphere. The coming few years are going to be great for Surfly, come join us! Please apply here: http://jobs.surfly.com/o/fullstack-developer-amsterdam
Sentieo | Content and Social Media Marketing | SF or NYC | Full Time | ONSITE

We’re looking for a creative and data driven marketer focused on creating content and managing our social media engagement. The ideal candidate would have experience managing content creation at a successful and modern SaaS organization.

Sentieo (www.sentieo.com) is the first true modern alternative to Bloomberg and CapitalIQ. Built by former hedge fund analysts, our platform overlays cutting edge search, collaboration and visualization tools on financial data sets to allow investors to supercharge their research and make better investment decisions.

Our product is currently being used at 100+ top hedge funds, investment banks and mutual funds around the world. We are a well-funded, fast growing financial data startup which is quickly earning ground in a $100Bn+ global market.

With offices in New York, San Francisco, and Delhi, you will be joining a global team of 80 that is constantly striving to deliver value to our clients through excellence and innovation.
To see open positions and apply, visit https://sentieo.com/content/pages/careers.html
This is an adolescent evaluation. FreeBSD will have a new TCP stack with BBR made public in a couple months. It will be easier to correctly deploy and more cohesive than Linux. The entire packet path is more cohesive and easier to debug and tune using DTrace although Linux might have caught up here recently. By volume, FreeBSD is doing at least 30% of Internet facing traffic between a well known company and some quieter giants. BTW it only took a half dozen people collaborating between 3 companies about 2 years catch up to state of the art.

I've done a great deal of reading and research on OS ethos, IMO a thriving and production worthy operating system can be maintained with as few as 40 people in total. The superiority of Linux feels exaggerated, and systems innovation has chilled because of it.
The way I would sum up interpreters and compilers, trying to put it as concisely as possible:

Step 1. Write a program that reads the input program into a data structure that exactly represents the language. You just wrote a parser.

Step 2. Write a program that operates on the data structure from (1) to execute the program. You just wrote an interpreter.

Step 3 (Optional): Write a program that converts the data structure from (1) into a different data structure that you can interpret more efficiently. You just wrote an optimizer.

Step 4 (Optional): Keep iterating on (3) until the output of your optimizer is machine code. You just wrote a compiler.

Not saying the above obviates the need for a book like this one (at all), I just had never thought of it in quite this way and wanted to write it down. :)
Location: International with clients in US, Europe, ME and Asia. HQ in Barcelona.

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: short-term

Technologies: Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows), Web, Backend (Go, Scala, Java, PHP, Node.js), Design

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Email: stefan@mobilejazz.com

We’ve worked with various folks from HN over the past 5 years with very satisfying outcomes for everyone :-)
George Hotz Is Releasing His Self-Driving Software into the Wild
Isn't https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/... as posted by loeg exactly that?
No, no it won't.

Innovation is generally not accelerated by people that are comfortable/have all of their basic needs met. It's accelerated when you are put into a situation where you need to innovate or fail.

Failure is actually the stimuli and it pushes people to succeed more than anything.
It's better to earn out than burn out.
Thanks for the comments! Are you asking the lyrics or music generation?

For lyrics, we actually didn't train on Christmas songs. Training data was a large collection of romance novels. (See neural-storyteller by Jamie Kiros). The "Christmas trick" we did was applying a "style shifting" after image captioning and before lyrics generation, where the shifting vector was obtained from ~30 Christmas songs.

For the music generation. Although we are aware of some basic music performing rules, such as melody following chord etc, we actually didn't add this kind of rules.

For the blues scale here's the thing. I didn't really know much about music, so I spent several hours reading things like basicmusictheory.com. It happened to introduce blues so we just used it. But you're right on the relevance between blues and pop: only a very small percentage in our pop music collection is blues, after we ran the scale-checking code.
Many of Lowe's 'Things I Won't Work With' entries (or the explosive ones at least) show up in Ignition! as rocket fuel attempts. Even the ones that are utterly idiotic like ClF3, which will happily light asbestos on fire.

A lot of the things people make turn out to be useless, but the dream of a quality rocket fuel (high energy, dense, hard to trigger) keeps things going.
(Populism explained) Why we all need to get better in telling jokes
Sometimes you can tell the company spirit by simply being interviewed there. I once was there and the process and people doing my review were awful and look at everything in terms of measurement. "So Joe, from 1-10, how good of a husband are you?". Then a friend of mine told me that people who answer high score to that question were ignore right off the bat, since they looking for someone 8am-8pm. As she said, "so many times I was told by my manager if you have life and family, don't work here".

Edit: interesting read from a few days ago, shows you their true colors: http://www.alternet.org/activism/nestle-trying-break-us-penn...

Edit #2: Should have said this was interview done in Europe. So different rules apply.
One of the things I learned a while ago is that there is really no point in complaining about being busy -- because "busy" is so subjective and virtually everyone views themselves as "busy" until they start tracking their time like you did.
I wouldn't say 8 to 10 years. A major bug in Linux's default congestion control algorithm was only fixed just last year:

https://bitsup.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/thanks-google-tcp-tea...

Linux is the platform of choice for bufferbloat research, although FreeBSD isn't far behind in adopting the results of it:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2016-April/...
HealthLoop | Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Full-time | Data Engineer | $75,000-$95,000

HealthLoop is looking for a Data Engineer to help build out our data management, reporting, and analytics infrastructure. As an industry-leading patient engagement and outcomes application, HealthLoop houses an interesting and unique data set that incorporates a growing number of data sources, from hospital systems to fitness devices. Help us turn these data into the next generation of healthcare technology!

As a Data Engineer at HealthLoop, you will be responsible for:

* Instrumenting the web and mobile applications to measure the effectiveness and usage patterns of features

* Querying for data sets around usage, split testing, etc. to inform product management and UX design

* Creating infrastructure to make data available to enterprise customers (hospitals, payers, etc)

* Building access layers and rule sets to support complex data sharing agreements and restrictions

* Writing SQL queries to support business users

contact: tom@healthloop.com
There was a Jordanian report that Saudi Arabia financed 20% of Hillary's campaign that was quickly removed and blamed on hacking. [1]

Notably, one of the firms Saudi Arabia hired to lobby for them in Washington, and the firm responsible for taking down this report, was The Podesta Group -- founded by Hillary's campaign chairman.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/news-agency-claims-hacker-planted-s...
Honestly because of people like you who takes time to fact check and post the method used are the only reason I come to HN. Strangely I have never met people like this in real life. Long live internet.
Everyone in this subthread is missing the point of open source industrial equipment.

The point is not to get a cheap tractor, or even a good one.

The point is not to have a tractor you can service.

The point is to have a shared platform.

If you buy a random used tractor and mod it, and I buy a different one, the probability that your mod is compatible with my tractor is low.

If I am just as skilled as you at designing and fabricating parts, maybe that's ok.... I can just adapt your plans to my machine.

With open source hardware, though, you can be a skilled machine designer, release detailed plans, and then a less skilled designer can come along, follow your fabrication instructions, and have a chance that your mod will work on their hardware.

Open sourcing the plans is essentially providing an standard API for the machine.

If you are satisfied that the existing market for farm equipment gives you an optimally efficient process already, then this is of no benefit to you.

If you are a tinkerer and would like to build off a community of tinkerers to design new workflows for your operation, you might find an open source hardware project valuable.
Monzo | Backend, Web or Android Engineer | London | VISA, REMOTE, INTERNS https://monzo.com

At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.

Our backend engineering team have a variety of different backgrounds: we have several non-graduates; only a couple of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you.

We work in project-based sprints, and take turns to be the floating engineer who handles interrupt-driven work and non-critical bug fixes. We work directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to regulation, product to financial crime, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.

We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum.

If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email our CTO Jonas (jonas@monzo.com) directly :) We're very open about what we do in general, so our blog is a good place to learn more about what we do.

Stack: Go, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Kafka, Linkerd/Finagle

Learn more on our careers page: https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/244898
Like we needed more reasons to find 'newspeak' abhorrent ...
I'm glad it gives you faith, because for me it does the opposite. It makes me long for the days where people in this community took an open mind and could entertain the idea that they might not know everything about everything.

I think there are some very smart comments here about the toxicity of internet communities over time that, unfortunately, seem to be evidenced in this exact conversation.
I do this. Almost exactly. Asleep at 11 pm, up at 5:30. Lazy on weekends.
Chrome Dev here. Still trying, and currently failing, to ship App Container (Low Box Token) for renderer processes.

We strongly suspect AV is tampering with renderer process startup causing our attempts to set the low box token to fail (the token manipulation has to occur while the process is suspended, and we suspect AV is injecting threads at this point).

Either that or AV is just crashing the process because it does not expect its calls to fail inside the sandbox.

Very frustrating. Glad jschuh has come out and said what we all believe.
One can probably argue the other way, the downward (market) slide is what led to the Oracle acquisition.
Mnuchin Steals an Idea from Europe: 100-Year Treasurys?
Pop-ups are really taking over the internet. Again. I'm all for optimizing/growth-hacking/whathaveyous, but when it detracts from the reading experience then maybe you've gone too far?

This page had social share buttons on the side, intercom(?) looking button, and a popup to give them my email all orchestrated to fade-in/pop-in before I had a chance to really dig into the article. And now I wont.
“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.” ― Sun Tzu

AV software nowadays is as hostile as the threats they are supposed to be preventing.
I really dislike that they stopped making products with olestra. Not everyone got anal leakage.
At a minimum, most sites strip all exif an identifying information. Most also pump it through something like ImageMagick or GraphicsMagik (and if you can find sites using old versions of graphics libraries with known exploits, that's another issue) to resize and recompress.

Even with that, I'm sure this is an attack vector on a lot of sites that don't bother with these simple sanity checks. It's a really cool little example though.
Well, your project is quite a bit more complex than just making fortune cookie messages. Still amazing how much can be accomplished quickly with current AI tech.

Thumbs up for the cool project.
and they were patched before they could be properly exploited. Its odd to expect AV to be defect free but to excuse defects in other software. I think we're holding AV up to a quality level that's unrealistic here and also dismissing its everyday benefits for average users.
Amazon | Software Development Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE

As Alexa Shopping we strive to enable shopping in everyday life. We allow customers to instantly order whatever they need, by simply interacting with their Smart Devices such as Echo or Fire TV. Our Services allow you to shop, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can go from 'I want that' to 'that's on the way' in a matter of seconds. We are seeking the industry's best to help us invent new ways to interact, search and shop. Join us, and you'll be taking part in changing the future of everyday life. You will have an impact on Amazon's new devices and the way shopping is done in the area of IoT. And finally you will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages. You'll have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers.

Ideal candidate will have at least a bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of professional experience in software development. Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis is required along with proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++ or Objective C.

Preferred Qualifications include familiarity with machine learning, experience building large-scale online services, ability to comfortably work in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment and knowledge of professional software engineering practices.

Send resume to: saili@amazon.com
By chance, have you tried https://gc3-uzh-ch.github.io/elasticluster/ ?

Also, have you looked at Airflow?

Not comparing them, just curious.
Do you know this, or are you just giving your intuition?

I tried a quick Google search to see if this is true, and they don't seem to agree. (However, they are mostly talking about individual trees, not whole forests.) A couple links:

1. "Traditionally, two conflicting viewpoints about tree growth have coexisted. One view was that after an initial increase in growth rate, trees would grow more slowly as they age. Another theory posits that growth rates should increase with increasing tree size. The study results support the latter, showing that in most cases growth rates increase as trees age. This was found to be true for 87 percent of the species reviewed. For the group of largest trees in the study, scientists observed this phenomenon in 97 percent of the species. This translates into a growth rate nearly three times faster for trees with a trunk diameter of 100 centimeters (39 inches) than for trees with a 50-centimeter (20-inch) diameter within a species."

http://environment.yale.edu/yer/article/carbon-capture-tree-...

2. "A 2,000-year-old giant sequoia is just cranking out wood, said Steve Sillett, a professor at Humboldt State University in California who has conducted recent research on the big trees. Other long-lived trees like coast redwoods and Australia's Eucalyptus regnans also show an increase in wood production during old age, according to an article Sillett published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121205-sequo...

3. "This supposition is supported by the fact that we, like others (15), see no consistent evidence for changes in growth rates for individual trees during their lifetimes"

http://www.pnas.org/content/102/51/18502.full.pdf
Contemporary (starting in the 50s at least) suburban living styles makes letting your kids be that independent very difficult. Not just the hyperbolic fear that some have about child safety, but just what they can do locally without needing a parent or older sibling to drive them.

Setting aside rural/country living where your neighbors were miles away, urban (large or small city) living was more centered around local shops, parks, and other environments. Now they live in a sea of houses, and have to travel way outside it to get to other activities or free space like woods and parks for play.
The historical trends of leisure-time vs income are very interesting. Lots of different economic forces at work there -- http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989...
Wow! Very useful, and looks great! Good job!
Softwear | Senior Python Developer | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE http://softwear.nl

Skills: Python, Docker, Bash, MongoDB

Full-Time (or four days per week)

Compensation: Based on experience - up to par w.r.t. developer pay rates in The Netherlands

Medium-sized B2B company serving small/medium retailers and wholesalers. Well on their way from an agency model (company exists since 25 years, founder still serving as CEO) to a PaaS model with a stack of MongoDB/Python/Angular. Legacy is close to being slain for good and there is still room for shaping the future.

- We offer a relaxed working environment in which you can take part in the technological decision-making.

- Our Python backend is based on Pyramid. We aim at open-sourcing the core very soon.

- You've got a drive for quality and the experience to solve problems by yourself and supervise junior developers.

We will interview with Google Hangouts and might get you to Amsterdam for a final round. Only light code challenges. No Visa support unfortunately, so only EU citizens need apply.

Apply by mail nicolas@softwear.nl