skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I mostly agree with this. Developer productivity is the best thing to optimize for. These are the most important metrics for that, in my opinion: Code readability, good editor w/ intellisense, fast test suite, solid library ecosystem.

It would be interesting to see an analysis done of developer productivity across languages to find out which language provides the best over all value for new and existing codebases.
Sticky Comments Increase Fact-Checking on Reddit
Show HN: A leaderboard of the top open-source e-commerce platforms
The Police Can Target Muslims Using This Conspiracy Theorist’s Website
Here in France the minimal penalty rate is set by law, and it's mandatory to put it on every bill, with the payment terms now. It's part of a crackdown on big companies crushing the smaller ones with unreasonable payment times.
PlushCare, Inc - plushcare.com | Fullstack | Fulltime San Francisco, California
At PlushCare, we believe in helping every individual achieve health and happiness. We believe through the use of technology, we can create the ideal healthcare experience. Simply put, our mission is to challenge the status quo by providing every person convenient and affordable access to the best-trained doctors in the country. We allow patients to skip the waiting room and get diagnosed, treated, and prescribed medication by top U.S. doctors via smartphone. We're looking for people to join our team to help bring healthcare to the next level.
Interview Process: 30 min phone chat w CTO, a technical screen (~1hr), and a few hours onsite

Culture: Super fun, collaborative team. Everybody here shares the same ambition to make healthcare more transparent. Feel free to shoot us an email at careers at plushcare.com for more information.
You will get about as much nicotine from a potato. Or is it the water vapor that bothers you?
Booking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company.

General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews

I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people are intelligent and helpful, interesting problems to solve and the work hours are unbelievably sane. The company is strongly data driven and very dynamic, which was one of its biggest charms for me. Amsterdam is not a bad place to be either :) The Dutch government also gives a tax break through the 30% ruling to non-dutch people.The work environment is very international and everybody speaks fluent English. The relocation process is also very finely tuned through years of experience of doing this.

If you have any other questions about the company or the hiring process or you would like me to refer you, please feel free to send me an email at siddharthsarda01 at gmail.com (Email also in my profile at Hacker news). To have an idea of the kind of problems being solved here, you can also look at our dev blog:http://blog.booking.com/

We are hiring for our headquarters office in Amsterdam:

- Backend developers - http://grnh.se/g5n6oe

- Frontend developers - http://grnh.se/cxmso8

- Product Owners in various departments -
http://grnh.se/edvq2n

- Data analysts - http://grnh.se/al15kt

- Data Scientist(Machine Learning) - http://grnh.se/5uxtdv

- Android Developers - http://grnh.se/1bnljt

- UX Designer - http://grnh.se/e23axu

- Mobile App Designer: http://grnh.se/kxvh8m
I was considering taking a job recently(would have been 100% remote) that had the same kind of vague "everything you do is ours" clause(also had a similarly vague non-compete) in the contract when I received the job offer. I brought it up and mentioned I can't sign this contract because these issues. The most I could get out of the guy was, I can't think of it every getting forced so sign the contract and don't worry about it. If were out of work and really needed a job I probably would have, but I ended up turning down the offer.
> Type inference: Being able to say:
> var foo = Foo();

I don't want that in my Java.

A developer we used to have used the 'val' feature of Lombok to implement type-inference in a lot of the repos he was responsible for and we took a collective decision to remove every last instance of it from the code base.
Facebook is testing a lot more ads in a lot more places
Agreed. Scaling Django isn't difficult really. Just spin up another instance if you need to. The major problem is scaling the DB. Making sure you're not bogging Postgres down by making it have to deal with possible race conditions is difficult.
I think in your examples this is due primarily to two factors. One, is that land is generally cheap in Grand Rapids, so is drastically decreased as a factor. And two, you're still comparing new luxury condos to teardown SFHs. If you recall, my original point mostly discussed areas with expensive land, such as the coasts.

Here are few examples from my experience:

Atlanta, Midtown neighborhood. This area has both high-rises and SFHs. Look at this link, and you generally find that comparable quality SFHs run over $1M vs. $250-$700K for new condos: https://www.redfin.com/city/30756/GA/Atlanta/filter/sort=lo-...

Seattle, Queen Anne and Belltown. Also a mix of condos and SFHs. SFHs are significantly more expensive: https://www.redfin.com/city/16163/WA/Seattle/filter/sort=lo-...

North Miami Beach. There are no SFHs available on the beach, so condos already sit on more desirable land. However, SFHs further inland with no easy access to the beach are still more expensive: https://www.redfin.com/city/11467/FL/Miami-Beach/filter/sort...

North York, Toronto. This also has a mix of condos and SFHs in the same area. SFHs generally run 2-3 times more expensive: http://www.remax.ca/find-real-estate/#minPrice=10000&propert...
UC Berkeley | Software Engineer | Berkeley | Full-time, REMOTE, ONSITE, http://berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley is hiring a full-time software engineer to work on a DARPA-funded project to build next-generation methods for social science research [1]. The software engineer will join a team of scientists and engineers building Dallinger [2], an open-source platform that automates the full pipeline of crowd-sourced experimentation, from recruiting participants to managing the resultant data; think lab-on-a-chip or microfluidics, but with people. The position is a 2-year contract, renewable up to 3.5 years, and includes a comprehensive benefits package. The full job ad and instructions for applying can be found at http://bit.ly/2hCqGrj. Remote work is possible.

Our stack is Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets, the SciPy stack, Jupyter notebooks, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, all on Heroku & AWS.

Note: if you responded to the January "Who is hiring?" post, no need to reapply — we'll be reviewing applications this week.

[1] http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-03-04

[2] https://github.com/Dallinger/Dallinger
you can also use the aptly named fivenum() func in R :)
tl;dr - disagreement != homophobia.

The issue I have is that what some people consider "homophobic" isn't really homophobic at all. For example:

Not homophobic:
* Having a deeply held belief that homosexuality is wrong.
* Being for laws that provide freedom of conscience.
* Being against laws that elevate people to a protected class.

Actually Homophobic:
* Conspiring against, starting rumors about, or otherwise attempting to defame someone simply because they are gay.
* Verbally or physically assaulting someone simply because they "look gay".
* Believing that anyone who claims to be LGBT isn't really a person (or is somehow lesser) because they aren't like you.
Rideways | Java Developer | Manchester, UK | ONSITE | https://www.rideways.com/

Rideways is hiring Java Developers, Senior Java Developers and a Technical Lead to work at our office in central Manchester. We're using Java 8, Spring MVC, React, Camel and AWS to make it easier to book a taxi from the airport to your hotel or conference centre.

We are a small team within the larger Rentalcars.com company and we are looking for enthusiastic developers, keen on working in an agile team.

If you are interested, please email me on arthurembleton@rideways.com or apply through our jobs board at http://grnh.se/fvg20p where you can see all of the jobs currently available across Rentalcars.com
At home I cook on cast-iron pans with metal utensils.

Once they are seasoned well they are remarkably non-stick and easy to clean with just hot water and a stiff brush.
The question is an insult to the interviewee. The interviewee can stammer around and say something about great fit, being a team player or whatever … basically re-iterating the requirements of the job and state how well he fulfils those. What is the honest answer? It all boils down to “I fulfil the requirements, and then some!”

In my eyes, the question shows hostility towards the interviewee.
Setup Gitlab for Docker based development
Oscar Insurance is a startup using technology, data & design to change the way people find and access care. We are disrupting the healthcare industry by putting people first, not business and cost. www.hioscar.com
W
e're currently hiring for a variety of Full-time/Onsite roles here in our New York City location.

Site Reliability Engineer (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/13255?gh_jid=13255
Security Engineer: (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=483542
Software Engineer: Web & Mobile (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=247940
Software Engineer: Data/Systems (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=248056
Software Engineer: New Grad (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=261348
Software Engineer: Internship Summer 2017 (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=268766
Software Engineer: SWAT (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=261602
Software Engineer: Product Infrastructure (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=240077

Oscar was valued at $2.7 billion following a $400 million investment by Fidelity.
Take a look at how we're simplifying healthcare: http://incredibleinsurancemachine.com
Sure they will, unless they don't care about performance.

This the first step to eventually replace Hotspot with Graal.

Twitter already experimented with it and is giving a presentation at FOSDEM this weekend.

https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/graal/

So any Java developer conscious of what to make the most out of the JVM will need to learn it.
I don't think I can comment on that! Sorry. Someone who is working on storage at Google today would have a better idea of what's public vs not.
OpenShift Origin is the open source project. There's no licensing costs unless you want Red Hat support.
It is often the factors you cannot put that easily in numbers that make the difference. I googled for the razer blade and found pretty fast those issues:

- It seems to have around 6 hours surfing time on a battery while the macbook has 10.

- It seems to have a worse screen with bad viewing angles.

- The razor weighs 1.93 kg while the macbook weighs 1.37 kg. This makes quite a difference when you e.g. travel a lot by public transport or by aeroplane. The razor also is marginally thicker (3 mm)

- The razor has USB 3.0 while the macbook has USB 3.1

- The razor has a drastically slower SSD than the one of the macbook

- The razor has shitty speakers, while the macbook has pretty good ones.

- The keyboard seems to have some issues like the function and mediakeys not being lit.

In the end it is pretty obvious, that they are completely different machines. The razor is a mobile gaming machine optimized for gaming performance, while the macbook is a high quality general purpose laptop, optimized for performance in general.
Have a contract that you draft that they counter sign. Set your own terms there. Any potential conflict would have to go through court in any case.

Obviously not legal advice.
I'm %100 on your side. This is how the whole hiring process works though, on both sides. The employers make it sound like a dream job and they know it's not. So... it's a complete joke and that's why the process is very subjective anyway
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The NASA article [1] gives a little more background, and offers another explanation:

Bailey found Scott’s telomeres on the ends of chromosomes in his
white blood cells increased in length while in space.

This could be linked to increased exercise and reduced caloric
intake during the mission.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-stressful-will-a-trip-to-ma...
SEEKING WORK - remote, short to medium term projects - zak.wilson@gmail.com I make software - mostly full-stack web development and HTTP APIs, but I'm adaptable.

I have some interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. I have minimal experience making Android apps. I can do stuff that's harder than basic CRUD apps. Stuff I know well: Clojure, Ruby (with or without Rails), Python, Django, Javascript, Lua, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SASS, responsive CSS.

Other stuff I've used for something non-trivial at least once: Common Lisp, Scheme, Java, SASS, C, PHP, Haskell, Bash, Perl, MongoDB, Mirah, Android development with Clojure. Yes, I can probably pick up that language or tool you're using that nobody has ever heard of.

Github: https://github.com/zakwilson
It happens in real life at Google, too.
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GoMeta | Augmented Reality | San Diego, CA | Full-time, Onsite or Remote

Angel backed ($2M), led by Xooglers, GoMeta is building a platform that allows anyone to create interactive AR experiences. What Youtube did for the publishing, distribution, and discovery of video, we are doing for AR.

Our early beta testers have already built all kinds of stuff - https://medium.com/@metaverseapp

Some other links:

http://www.gometa.io/about/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/ex-googler-raises-2-...

http://www.cbs8.com/clip/12772141/mad-dash-for-hidden-cash-d...

We are running quickly, and are looking for exceptional developers. Some of the technologies and languages we currently work with are Swift, React, and Node.

Email sean@gometa.io if interested
Pathable, Inc | Seattle, USA | Full-time REMOTE | https://www.jsco.re/nukt

Work from anywhere on either Ruby/Rails application or our next generation ES6/Meteor application. We build software for in-person conferences and events. We're profitable, established, small (>25 people), and majority owned by the original founders. We provide stipends for co-working space wherever you may find yourself. Likewise for health insurance if you are not a US citizen.
Well that's exciting. I've been pushing towards Kubernetes with the company I'm at right now, got half the battle done by dockerizing our services and using Harbor to manage the containers.

Do you have any advice, or gotchas on getting into kubernetes development?
Parents would be away for 4-5 hours at most while I was at home I guess, but we'd be without parents for more than that because we'd go out and do stuff with friends even when parents were home. Parents were kind of there to fulfill your basic needs, not your social needs. I think my parents would have probably loved to spend more time with me but kids prefer to be with other kids.

To be fair, it did go a bit lord of the flies on occasion, in the sense that we engaged in "wars" with kids from different streets and so on, sometimes someone would get a thrown rock to their head or get a beating, but nothing too serious. Also we were constantly getting injured while playing from falling, stepping on sharp shit, etc but kids are incredibly resilient, they recover from anything and quickly. The important thing is to teach the kid not to fuck around in traffic, that's where the real danger is. And if there is a war not to pick shit up that might be explosive.
Honest question: what incentive would private companies have to address climate change? It strikes me as a perfect example of an externality that these companies wouldn't be incentivized to change.
Exactly.

I run backups on my computer before installing new software/fiddling with important settings/etc. because I've fucked up before.

I'll run backups of phones (or at least verify that they are present) before trying to fix issues on them after nuking my mom's phone which resulted in her losing pictures of my niece and nephew. (Luckily she had sent a lot of those pictures to us via e-mail, but still).

We learn and adjust.
Then leave Reddit and Facebook for Reddit and Facebook. From my experience here, HN members really do value the community they foster here. Each of us is responsible for maintaining that, even when we — or others —sometimes slip.
Actually Graal is capable of more optimizations than Hotspot, for example it has more aggressive escape analysis heuristics.

Twitter is reporting their experience in production at FOSDEM

https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/graal/
Qlicket | Engineers & Salespeople | Pittsburgh, PA | https://www.qlicket.com REMOTE Engineering and ONSITE Sales

Qlicket currently provides hotels/motels/B&Bs with a superior guest WiFi solution, utilizing a patented gateway controller. We have 100% retention of paying customers in the U.S. market and at present serve clients across 16 states. Now that we've found initial product/market fit, we are looking for someone to lead and scale our sales efforts.

We also are doing some things with WiFi in the Offline to Online space, and will be launching a new product offering this year targeted at a much larger market. We are looking for engineers with the following development backgrounds:

* Linux Kernal

* Device Driver

* Embedded Systems

* Low Level C, C++

Please email kumar@qlicket.com if interested.
Second Measure (YC S15) | SF Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) | ONSITE (relo ok) | https://secondmeasure.com

Second Measure analyzes credit card data. We process billions of purchases to help investors (VCs and hedge funds) answer questions like:

- How quickly is Shake Shack growing?
- Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in Boston?
- How does Hilton spending change after a customer's first Airbnb stay?
- (Check out our research blog [1])

…through an analytics platform we build in-house.

We’re a 13-person team comprising mostly engineers and data scientists. 10 of us are technical, and 4 have PhDs. We love solving hard problems with compelling data. We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

- Data Scientist / Research Scientist (stats; Python/R/Spark helpful; quantitative PhD preferred)
- Senior Software Engineer (frontend/backend/full-stack; AWS; Python; Mesos/Spark/Lambda; D3+ReactJS)
- Product Designer / UI/UX Designer ("full-stack", from research to prototype to mockup to engineer-ready spec)
- (See: https://boards.greenhouse.io/secondmeasure)

We’re in downtown San Mateo, just minutes from Caltrain and 101.

I'm a founder (mike@). Submit via job board and mention HN, or email jobs@ and CC me.

[1] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/second-measure-launches-off...

[3] http://www.economist.com/news/business/21705369-alternative-...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/second-measure-is-secret-weap...
But this (the e-mail DoS) isn't even an extreme case. When you have on the order of a million accounts, especially when you have large distribution lists, you need to consider this as an expected case (and the best practice solution is pretty well understood: limit send-rights to large distribution lists to the people who need it).

It's depressing how little effort Microsoft invests in trying to fix the obvious brokenness[1] of email (including reply-all) and (especially) calendaring. It's a particular contrast to the often controversially heavy handed actions by Google to "outlaw" insecure internet practises.

1: The brokenness is obvious, the solutions admittedly less so.
the whole inauguration crowd debacle strikes me as ridiculous. We know Trump is a man with an ego, he made a claim that the crowd was big, it wasn't as big as he thought, the media starts whipping up a frenzy about how it proves we live in a "post-fact" world. Then, the media started throwing up photos from earlier in the day to show that the crowd was tiny, when there are other photos that show a bigger crowd, for example: https://i0.wp.com/www.commonsenseevaluation.com/wp-content/u...

The real story here, in my opinion, is how both sides respectively exaggerated and underrepresented the size of the crowd (unimportant), and the media spun it into a narrative that was very clearly designed to invoke 1984-esque ideas that the party can declare that 2+2=5 and it becomes the truth.

Also, your decision to "agree to disagree" on everything I've said strikes me as unhelpful. Rather than flesh out why you disagree with, for example, established facts like that poor whites largely voted Trump, you refuse to engage? If you wish to critique my argument then you should be expecting me to counter your critique.
EDITED | Engineering Positions | London, UK | Onsite | Full-Time

We’re currently hiring for front-end, back-end, and DevOps Engineers. Our stack is primarily Python & JavaScript, with frameworks like Django/Flask and react.js/d3. We aren’t afraid to integrate new tech and like to keep exploring what’s out there.

We're an established startup, focused on doing important things for retail, the fourth biggest industry in the world, helping them reduce waste and be more efficient. We have a beautiful web app, used everyday by hundreds of people at Topshop, Saks Fifth Avenue, GAP and more.

Our engineering team is a group of smart people from really varied backgrounds. We’re solving diverse and interesting problems on a daily basis, like image analysis, big data visualisation and a load of other fun things that come with having a rapidly growing data set. We love good practices like extensive testing and continuous integration, and enjoy giving back to the community, so open source contributions are highly encouraged.

Our office is large and sociable; people eat lunch together every day and we have drinks and snacks in the office every Friday, as well as team days out and all expenses paid trips abroad. There’s a video on our jobs page of our most recent one: http://edited.com/jobs/

Half of the team has actually found and joined us through “Who’s hiring”, so don't hesitate to get in touch, we're always happy to meet new people!

See here for more details about current vacancies and to apply directly online: https://edited.com/jobs/engineering/
I'm not sure what the costs to society of bicycle accidents vs lung cancer are, but if the equilibrium was $1000 per pack I wouldn't consider that unreasonable (although at that price black markets would become an issue)
Convoy | https://convoy.com | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite

We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors. Read about us: http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/superstar-investors-back-convo....

I'm employee #2, and I've been here since we were borrowing desks at a local startup incubator. We've grown a lot since then, but we still have a tight-knit, high leverage engineering team. I love arriving at the office in the morning - I get to work with the smartest folks I've ever met. No company I've ever been at, including Amazon, has felt like this much potential for impact.

We would love more engineers, up and down the stack, and anywhere on the generalist <-> specialist spectrum. We use pretty cutting-edge tech (React, React-Native for mobile, TypeScript + Node for backend), but we're a lot more interested in engineering chops than any particular tech skills.

If you're in Seattle, reach out and grab coffee with me or one of our other developers. The last 18 months have been a wild ride, but we have years and years ahead of us to build a logistics titan!

Some, but not necessarily all, of our open jobs: http://jobs.convoy.com