skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently more interest as Vancouver turned against foreign buyers with new taxes. However, the strong USD should clamp down a bit. Seattle also has strong local demand though, for now.
A self-checkout machine is only a robot if your definition of "robot" is so broad it includes vending machines and parking garage barriers.

The job's just as lost, of course.
Location: NYC, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Swift, Obj-C, iOS, Git, Sketch, Firebase, REST APIs

Resume: charleshkang.github.io/charleskangresume.pdf

Email: charleshkang1 [at] gmail

I'm a junior developer, but am extremely passionate and motivated to constantly be learning. I've contributed to open source and am currently working on a interview flashcards app, which is open source! I'm in a very active Slack channel for iOS devs, where I try and answer questions, as well as ask good questions of my own.
I live in a city, rarely drive and have been consciously limiting my air travel for over a decade (tricky when my family and friends live abroad) —

May i enjoy a steak once a month, please?

Who dictates what spread of consumption and therefore environmental impact I am allowed?

- ed

Apologies, I responded here instead of generally..
Different sugars are digested differently, but natural fructose in a fig is the same C6H12O6 that's in a processed fructose source like HFCS.

People like to talk about "processed" sugars like it's the sugar itself that has transformed, when really the problem with processed sugars is that it's just the sugar, and it's too easy to consume too much of it.
That's indeed pretty good. Thanks for the link.
I got an external Lenovo keyboard because I really like the trackpoint.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-0B47221-keyboards-Universal-...
Show HN: Create and share lists of your favourite records
As a music fan I love reading other people's lists of their favourite records of all time/of the year/etc.

But I find it a bit overwhelming to have to then go and search the record on a streaming service to assess whether it would be something I was interested in.

So I made this. You can quickly throw together a list of records and all the reader has to do is click on them to sample them :)

I've put together some 2016 year-end lists that were put together by major publications by way of example:

Metacritic Top 40 albums of the year: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/2

Pitchfork's top 50 of 2016: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/3

Gorilla vs Bear - Best Albums 2016 (some lesser known artists in here): https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/6

One for the metalheads... CoS top 10 metal albums of 2016: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/5

I built it with some spare downtime I had over the holiday period. Nice and simple Rails application.

It's just a small project not a startup, but I would love your opinions on it. It's open-source too. GitHub repo: https://www.github.com/cjbutcher/tapedeck-2.
Looking into this now. If you email me at suchow (@berkeley.edu), I can send you an email with a working link once it's back up.
What's the cost of living in Victoria?

I was there last year and loved it (equally Van was lovely), but the rent looked almost as outrageous as London.
CPUs may, but getting BIOS support on your particular board may be an issue. I've had a number of boards over the years where I had to wait months for the manufacturer to put out an update to support new DIMM sizes correctly.
Hotel taxes support infrastructure and city services. And things like proper safety and fire regulations in hotels ensure that guests know where fire exits are, that fire extinguishers are available and operational, that smoke detectors are present in the proper locations and functioning, etc. All of those things cost money. AirBnB offers none of those things. It took a string of deadly hotel fires in the 70s to get regulation up to speed. I wonder what it will take with the illegal hotel rental market.
> very easily breached

What happens when someone exchanges one currency for another?
Some useful shortcuts:

r random collection.

c create a collection.

space stop music.

] next track.

[ previous track.
Doesn't really change the truth behind his statement either way.
Last time I used self-check, I had to wait for another human to verify my age, to purchase beer. The time before, I had to wait for a human to verify I had bagged all of my items.

I was a grocery store checker in 2007, when these devices were first announced. They are as capable as they were 10 years ago, handle the same edge cases as 10 years ago, and require the same human intervention as 10 years ago. And there are still human checkers at every store - usually they "turn off" the self-check at night, since the human that watches it goes home.

All this AI is just a "mechanical Turk" - using AI to perform most of the tasks a human doesn't want to, and keeping a human around for the edge cases that are too expensive to automate. Humans have such a robustness of variety and ability that we can quickly solve most issues. After a certain point, it just makes sense to keep a few humans around for the really rare edge cases, like the when the grocery store is flooding.
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Negotiable (travel OK)

Technologies:

Email: ed@edboxes.com

Some of y'all might be familiar with the number of electrons I've perturbed around here; I've got some free space in my pipeline right now and am looking for some interesting projects. While right now I run a boutique consultancy, and am mostly looking to stay that way--that's not a given for a compelling opportunity, so let's talk.

I do just about everything, and I can leverage the full extent of my toolbox to help your company succeed.

- Platform/infrastructure challenges, be they maintainability or scalability? I've stepped on just about every rake you're likely to run into; I'm comfortable and confident with all of the major provisioning tools both on the instance and cloud levels (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, BOSH, CloudFormation).

- Application problems got you down? Whether it's C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Node, or Go--I've got you covered.

- Mobile? I've brought projects to completion in the native toolsets on both major platforms (Objective-C, Android Java) and I'm about to launch a project in React Native.

- In more than just the technical sense, I've also helped a number of companies work through cultural and process problems. If you're running into Agile or DevOps process concerns as you scale or prepare to scale, let's talk.

Hit me up at ed@edboxes.com and I'll get back to you ASAP. o/
Functional Coverage with Jacoco Agent in Maven Project(uses Apache Spark)
Beside saving the planet, we actually don't need to eat a lot of meat, once or twice a week should be sufficient in terms of health benefit.
FinZen | CMO | Remote

We are FinZen, a decentralized Ethereum-based Financial Trading DAO, which allows you to use financial instruments for any index that you like. We have onboard some very interesting people, and technical development is in full-flow.

We are in need of a CMO who is experienced, knows the crypto-currency ecosystem and preferably has worked with successful projects in the past.
If interested please send a mail over to afzalulh@gmail.com
A little off topic but could you point me towards some resources for learning about what pgp was meant to solve? I've read back and forth opinions about it on hackernews,reddit, etc but I've not seen a definitive description of how it attempts to solve the problem of encrypted communication that wasn't heavily editorialized.
Yammer (Microsoft) | Software Engineer | San Francisco, Seattle | Onsite | https://careers.microsoft.com/yammer

Hiring all roles (mobile, front end, java services, infrastructure) in San Francisco and Seattle.
Yammer's mission has always been to connect people with information to enable better, faster decisions. We believe effective communication involves more than chat rooms (though we use those too!). A big part of the mission I enjoy is that we are sparking cultural changes in our customers; to become transparent workplaces, with fewer silos and greater connections across the org chart from left to right and bottom to top.

Since winning TechCrunch in 2008 our growth has been exponential year over year. Over the last 4 years as a part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite, we've been quietly tying our systems together with the O365 fabric while continuing to improve the experience using our tried-and-true data-driven methods. We know everything we ship has an impact, and precisely how much.
We create with vim, SublimeText, IntelliJ, and GitHub; run on Macs and Ubuntu; write Swift & ObjC, Java (Dropwizard), Python, and Ruby on Rails; manage PostgreSQL, HBase, RabbitMQ, Memcache, HAProxy, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Storm, Kibana, and Vertica clusters at scale; and automate using Puppet, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and Azure across physical data center & cloud environments.
We have two floors in the "Twitter building" at 10th and Market in San Francisco, where we work next to the Outlook Mobile, MileIQ, Volumetrix, and other acquired startup teams. It's a fantastic, open, creative space.

If San Francisco isn't your thing, we have a large sibling team in Seattle (Redmond). We're hiring for all roles in both locations!

Microsoft pays very competitively, invests in employees, and is highly supportive of a diverse and respectful workplace. It's a startup atmosphere with the stability and maturity of a large company, which makes it a perfect balance for me.

Email rtagger [at] microsoft.com for more information or if you have questions :]
Ask HN: Tips for highschool summer internship?
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> And let's face it - browser warnings about bad certificates are generally ignore

That's getting harder and harder to do. Doesn't Chrome require you to find three hidden buttons and enter a password to ignore the warning?

> Should I really have to pay someone to find out if a car has been used as a rental car or in an accident?

I don't follow... You don't need a certificate and the site can get a free one from LetsEncrypt

> If I'm looking at a congressman's voting history, is there a real benefit to that data being transmitted via an https session vs. http?

... not yet :)

But yes, it may allow to make certain conclusions regarding your interests, maybe your place of residence etc. But the larger idea here is to get users and the infrastructure accustomed to encryption. Chrome and Safari, for example, are moving towards treating any non-encrypted site as a security risk. That only works if the overwhelming majority of sites actually are encrypted, or it will just annoy people.

> There's a layer of complexity in the way that isn't necessary or helpful

which is motivation to improve the tooling. With LetsEncrypt the whole process has already become much easier. It's only a matter of time until SSL just works, the same way lots of other protocol negotiations invisibly happen today.
> What happens when we're accessing data from a custom device with minimal resources

They'll have slightly less-minimal resources. SSL really doesn't require a Cray anymore. IoT-devices without encryption are a privacy nightmare, anyway. Some of them actually have access to extremely sensitive data or, even worse, can control critical hardware – c.f. pacemakers.

> And what happens when a guy working a low level office wants to expose a web service for something like viewing an event calendar?

He'll use google calendar, same as now. People who can't configure SSL have no business exposing services to the internet.
Location: Baltimore, MD

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C++, C, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, Java, iOS, Deep/Machine Learning (TensorFlow, SKLearn), Computer Vision (OpenCV), Spark/Hadoop

Resume/CV: http://bit.ly/2iXelv3

Email: m.fly00@gmail.com
SEEKING WORK | Ulm, Germany or Remote

C++ developer with over a decade of experience working on desktop 3D graphics/animation software using OpenGL and CUDA. Rendering expert. Additional experience in working with audio. Fluent German and English. Python and Objective-C are also no strangers to me.

https://de.linkedin.com/in/stwerner

stewreo@gmail.com
Finland to Pay Unemployed Basic Income of $587 per Month
I don't know for sure, but perhaps because they get the referral bonus from the link provided?
It does exists, it's called Movable Type, it's just expensive :)

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem like it generates static pages...? I'm keen on that because I really don't want to have to babysit the server and apply security fixes (I trust nginx to auto-update without breaking the site).
Basic income in Finland
Coined by a journalist, no less ... https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Matt+Aslett
Hi Joseph! For the iOS Dev position, is the team willing to look at a junior developer's profile?
Show HN: CredScore allows you rate Google search results
It wouldn't be cheap. The safest, cheapest and most efficient "packing crate" for the parts for a single car is the assembled vehicle. (It's somewhat different when you can stack 50 left front fenders.) A kit car (most use fibreglass bodies) would be a much better option. Expect to spend about 1000 hours (much of that building jigs). The second one you build goes much smoother and faster than the first, even if it's a different kit based on a completely different pair of vehicles (the "source", from which most of the drive train parts will be drawn, and "target").
Songspace | Full Time | Ember.JS | Remote OK if +/- 3 CST
https://songspace.com

Songspace is looking to hire developers to join our team to continue to make the music industry better. You will be joining our team of 3 remote developers to implement cutting edge collaboration features in the music industry. While the position is remote, the main office is located in Nashville, TN, USA. The entire development team is remote, so we heavily embrace remote culture.

We are currently hiring for:

- Junior Ember.JS Developer

- Senior Ember.JS Developer

- Senior PHP Symfony2 Developer

To apply visit https://songspace.workable.com/
For anyone looking for remote jobs:
remoteok.io
weworkremotely.com
It's called Baby brain.
This! [0]

About 12 years ago I proposed during class in school, that to save the planet we must reduce number of people living on Earth significantly and relatively quickly. Well the teacher thought that I was new Hitler (at least at first).

Just like you said, the point is that either people shouldn't have kids at all or have no more than 1. If whole Earth's population would do this, in 30years we will see a sharp fall in the population count. And in 60years it should be reduced by 30% at least [1].

If we will not do this now - our children, or grand children will not thank us.

[0] this is probably against HN ethos, though I couldn't resist

[1] It's completely out of my head, though if the perfect scenario would work - I guess it's a reasonable number.
If you're willing to gloss over the expertise needed to build a vehicle (experiences and know-how) then you might as well gloss over the same on modern platforms.

My current day vehicle requires no additional tools or software other than python and pyserial + a USB/OBD2 dongle that can be had for under 10 bucks and my garage filled with the same wrenches that I could have used to work on many previous generations of car offered in the past few decades. With these tools I can touch every subsystem that a factory service mechanic can.

One could say "You'd be insane to try to bang out every bit of a communications protocol and interface with the car that way", but I could say "You'd be insane to rely on a novice with zero experience to build a car i'd want to try and drive."

I have no doubt that the novice would get something rolling, but suspension / engine / AFR tuning is a skill set that requires experience and education; the novices product would be inferior to the craftsmen.

tl;dr: with sufficient gumption there isn't really that much more stuff in your way of being a backyard mechanic -- sure the companies try to dissuade you from doing so, but they have been doing that since the 50s Jaguars and 1000 dollar service manuals.

There is just a wider variety of required reading. And to those interested : using your CS skills to 'perform the impossible' on a car is a hoot -- As ECMs and control software become more powerful and more in control of the car, so does the technical wizard!
If you just want to encrypt a file, scrypt works well for this purpose.
I recently switched back to Linux (ThinkPad/Arch/Kernel4.8) after 5 years using a Macbook Pro (after using linux for 5 years previously).

Linux hardware support has become much better without a doubt.

However just in the last couple days I've had the following sporadic issues:

* External usb keyboard/mouse simply wouldn't work (and doesn't show up in lsusb). Restart fixed.

* If left overnight, occasionally won't wake up from sleep; requires restart.

* Upon start trackpad/trackpoint occasionally doesn't work; do not show up in xinput; probably fixable, but haven't dug into it.

On the other hand, mac had its own issues:

* Macbook takes relatively forever to come back from sleep; thinkpad is practically immediate.

* Macbook wireless constantly has issues connecting, to the point of having to turn off wireless and back on multiple times (this occurs often).

* Opening many tabs in chrome on mac causes serious slowdowns. Have yet to see any slowdown on thinkpad even with 20-30 tabs. This also goes generally for mac beachball issues.

In general, Arch/i3 combo is far better than MacOS for my needs (95% of time in terminal/browser).
US food production is decidedly non free market with the amount of subsidies the industry gets.

Additionaly, you can say the system is working great now, but if it's only doing so by pushing off externalities in an unsustainable way into the future in a forseeable manner, that does not mean the system is doing a great job
I used to have an incredible memory, and in general attributed my SHARP decline in recall to just getting a bit older (though I'm only 27 now...). Still, I did feel that this decline helped me a lot for the very reason you mention. I used to get panic attacks a lot -- not so much anymore. I've joked before that it's almost like I've forgotten my triggers, and that my short term memory is so bad that I don't get stuck in the panic feedback loop so easily anymore.
You are talking about AustraLIA, while I was talking about Austria.

If I got a Euro for ever time someone made that mistake... ;)
I just finished reading The Stranger (translated from French by Matthew Ward), and I've already got The Myth of Sisyphus on my Kindle.

I just pray the translation does justice. Matthew did a fantastic job with The Stranger IMO.
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (Except for something absolutely perfect, maybe.)
Technologies: Rust, C, TLS, Crypto, JS
Résumé/CV: https://psbarrett.com/resume
Email: patrick@psbarret.com

I have an undergrad in EE but spend most of my work and free time doing things with software so I think I've got a helpful of software and a bit of hardware. I've also done a little bit of everything else, documentation, web design, marketing materials, cryptography, and lots more.

You can see way more about me on my website: https://psbarrett.com
That's extremely illogical thinking though. If the pundits have good reasons for thinking the market will crash (and I believe they do), and the fact that it hasn't yet doesn't make it less likely, or mean it won't happen. It just means that it's likely to happen sooner rather than later!

It's not an economic miracle, it's a huge amount of asset speculation built on one of the largest levels of household debt in the world, just like in the US and many other countries before the GFC. All it will take is a rise in unemployment, or a shock from China, and it will go (of course interest rates won't rise, the RBA would have to be insane).
I have several friends who keep chickens. These chickens are never killed, but their eggs are consumed occasionally. These chickens roam freely during daylight, then are corralled into "cages" overnight to prevent wild animals from eating them. What benefit would come of eliminating these chickens? I am neither vegetarian or vegan, but admire both, despite perceiving veganism as the more ideological of the two. I struggle to imagine how the world would be spared demise by invading Tibet and prohibiting the use of yak butter; or banning the cultivation of fish and their superior waste as fertilizer; or exterminating the last remaining nomadic tribe of Africa through prohibiting their practice of non-fatally bleeding their animals for sustenance. If it's a matter of numbers, it is obvious that great benefit would result from the popularity of veganism; but there are also variations in quality and circumstance to consider, i.e. a diet of cellulose might benefit the world and all those not on a cellulose diet, but not necessarily those on the cellulose diet; i.e not all dietary classes are equal and a vast disparity of options may exist between individuals, groups, etc, therefore dietary practices may be circumstantial. The world is large, one person's needs vary from another's, and one group from another's. Might there there be positional benefits to all three diets?

I ask this respectfully, as my unsure self, with no desire for debate, but rather a will for suitable answers.

Some things I've admired recently:

1. https://impossiblefoods.com/faq/

2. http://www.monksmeats.com/
While it's obviously not the best solution, and not something that everyone would want to do, I started creating an application just so that other people could edit a static site. It gives them a basic editor, abstracts away frontmatter, and can generate the new site from updated content.

I definitely have some regrets from this approach instead of just picking a CMS that already exists, and if I were in a similar situation in the future I'd probably start comparing preexisting CMS options.
You don't need any meat. There's no health benefit from meat you can't get from plants, and plenty of things in meat that are horrible for your health.
im a lead dev for a large publisher. when we switched over to https we faced the following non-trivial issues:

1. a lot of third party advertisers/ad servers still run on http, these ads need to be embedded via DFP usually, which you can understand does not work out well. We made the switch months ago, to this date i am still making advertisers switch to https.

2. google says they give better ranking to https sites, thats simply not true so far as i have seen. in fact, in the short run your site takes a hit. not only that, in google webmaster console and google news, you cant shift from http to https, you have to make new accounts for ur https sites. to this day i do not know which ones is google crawling. For google news, my new https account has yet to be approved after months, it looks like google just magically shifts to https in google news. but if feels icky and hacky: explicit is always better than implicit.

3. microservices. remember those microservises that were all the rage? well, its a bunch of different servers and subdomains, you have to shift all to https when you shift the mothership to https.

while above points are valid, i still pushed in my org to shift to https. we now use shiny stuff like http2 and web push, which is awesome. i'd recommend all publishers to do so. but its understandable that management finds all this scary, esp cuz its sounds like a major overhaul of your web assets (which is everything when ure a web publisher) - even though it isnt really actually an overhaul or anything.