skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> McCarthy hunted down communists (supposed and actual).

yes, and communism is a political belief. Political persecution is a political action, not an economic one.

> It appears to me that you are conflating 'socialism' with 'planned economy' and 'capitalism' with 'free market'.

I don't believe I am. The premise of capitalism is mutually beneficial trade of privately owned and produced goods. I think you are confusing capitalism and social democracy, in that social democracy adds burdens onto the capitalist economy (for example, taxes and regulations) for the benefit of society at large and to counteract the problems that free-market capitalism can create (exploitation, the tragedy of the commons, etc).
BillTo | Co-founder | San Diego, CA | REMOTE https://bill.to

BillTo is an early stage fin-tech startup building the future of automated, scalable billing implementations for online businesses big and small. We believe that the fight for global equality and opportunity begins with empowering individuals and small businesses worldwide. That's why we aim to build the highest quality of tools possible for doing business online and establishing a lasting presence - available to all, not just those who can afford it.

We're seeking technical and business minded individuals who are interested in joining us on this mission. We do currently have paying customers, and are looking to expand the range of our efforts immediately (marketing, optimization, etc etc). We have started with a small, focused scope, and are now ready to grow our bandwidth and offering.

Feel free to email me with any questions/comments/etc, thanks for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Adam <adam@bill.to>
Root | Columbus, OH | Full-time | Onsite |
https://joinroot.com

Root is an auto insurance company, like GEICO and Progressive. We use data science to identify and insure good drivers, reducing insurance premiums for good drivers significantly as a result.

We're a startup — we're 18 people who have been working on this for almost 2 years. We've built an iOS app that gathers data on how well people drive. We use that to set insurance prices. To build the best possible product and user experience, we went through the arduous process of starting an insurance carrier from scratch.

We've raised $7M, and we're looking to bring on a couple more talented engineers. Tech stack involves Ruby / Rails and Javascript / React Native. Email us at jobs@joinroot.com
Airware | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime | ONSITE

Airware is building differentiated, innovative software for drones to collect new types of aerial data, take people out of harm's way, and provide completely unique insights to businesses in the insurance and mining/construction industries. We're looking for iOS and Cloud Platform positions right now:

Engineering Manager, iOS
http://grnh.se/r4t0he1

Software Engineer, iOS
http://grnh.se/4b7wsg1

Software Engineer, Cloud
http://grnh.se/b1lot01

See all roles here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware

For perks we've got a downtown office, catered meals, flexible working arrangements, and the occasional day in the great outdoors for flight testing.
Charter's Spectrum sued for slow internet speeds
Salonized | Senior Ember.js / Rails developer | Amsterdam | ONSITE / REMOTE | FULL-TIME

Salonized eliminates the time-consuming and tedious task of scheduling appointments, managing inventory, calling to confirm appointments and sending out reminders. Salonized is designed for all kinds of salons: single person businesses, large businesses with numerous employees and multiple locations, and everything in-between.

We’re a small 7 person team located in the Hackers & Founders building on the Herengracht in the heart of Amsterdam. We’re bootstrapped and quickly growing our revenue every month and starting to scale up to bigger clients. Our clients value our support, ease of use and quality very highly, which are also our own biggest priorities. You can see the passion to create a high quality product within each of the team members.

Want to know more? Visit the following pages or send me an email at dax@salonized.com.

Ember.js Developer - https://www.salonized.com/en/jobs/senior-emberjs-developer

Rails Developer - https://www.salonized.com/en/jobs/senior-ruby-on-rails-devel...
It's difficult to search for 'OR' - please write out the name of our state to make it easier to find.
A look at the internals of .NET delegates
How long should you stay in one job?
MathML has been dead for years. HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is not part of the spec and never will be. What is part of the spec is MPEG-DASH. But, File Storage, WebRTC, and Pointer Events? Those are actually useful for modern web development.
Neue Store - Alternative to the Apple App Store
You might want to write out 'Oregon', as searching for 'OR' is not very easy.
Teachable | NYC | Full Time | ONSITE | VISA

Teachable lets anyone easily create and sell online courses on a beautiful, self-branded website. We have 7,500 active teachers (and counting), who to date have made over $36 million teaching over 3 million students on Teachable-powered online schools.

We're hiring for Senior Front-End Developer and Data Engineer, as well as other roles. Interview process generally work sample then onsite.

Full details/application at https://angel.co/teachable/jobs
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/895/
That headline is in the "wet roads cause rain" style.
Apple is focused on offering a secure, fast, modern platform, and they keep moving it forward. These dusty apps aren't being banned, the authors just need to recompile them and re-release them. Blame the authors for never maintaining, not Apple.

Android lets you and virus makers and scammers do whatever you want. Why not focus on that if freedom is a bigger end goal that quality.
Behind every "private" trade is the power of the government to enforce the trade. Some contracts are unenforceable, and while you're free to make them, as a practical matter, they are generally avoided where there is an enforceable alternative. Because otherwise you're back in a state of nature, where the weak are at the mercy of the strong. That is the inescapable consequence of liberty as an absolute.

And of course we have the power to force people to give up their privacy and divulge details about private interactions: we do it all the time in the context of child pornography, for instance. As individual human beings, we recognize that privacy (and personal liberty) are important values. But they are not absolutes, and we strive to balance them against our other interests, such as our health and happiness. A democratic government is the means that we use to distribute the responsibility for striking the balance.

It might seem unfair that we don't get to choose at birth whether we want to live in modern society, where taxes are mandatory, or in a state of nature, where we are free of the terrible burden of taxation (and also free of any chance to amass a fortune, beyond a particularly large pile of coconuts). But there are many things we don't get to choose when we are born. Such is life.
Heating my oven up to use a pan on the stove seems ridiculously inefficient. Also I don't sear at 400. That seems way to low for most things I'd cook in cast iron.

Also, I've not once used barkeepers friend on my stainless. It tends to clean up fine with a scotchbright pad. But I mostly use teflon pans these days.
I use dokku for deployment and on-premise gitlab for CI.

Dokku's main advantage is that it's a no-brainer : if you're used to deploying heroku apps, it's very similar. It also automates the creation of data containers for database services, for example. On top of that, while I can use heroku's buildpacks for small sideprojects, I can also take full control of the build using a Dockerfile (which is what I do for bigger projects). The main inconvenient is that it can't manage multi host container deployments, like docker-swarm or kubernetes (I don't need it, so no need to compromise on simplicity).

Gitlab's pipeline both offer CI and CD, with a lot of cool features around it, like being able to tell on a commit page when it has been deployed on production, for no configuration cost.

Regarding costs : well, it's the cost of a dedicated server.
I think the message of the article is great: move beyond the "standard" descriptions and pay more attention to what you're trying to show and who your audience is.

That said, it's a slight pet peeve of mine when people recommend the median over the mean to describe center. The median, on its own, does not describe what is "typical" any more than the mean does; it just has a small advantage in that it will always map a real observation, so for discrete data you don't end up with things like "1.9 legs." (That said, a mean of 1.9 legs actually seems much more informative to me than a median of 2 legs, so even in that case I prefer the mean.) It's easy to envision many situations where the median's representation is wildly inaccurate, just as you can imagine ways in which the mean can be misleading.

The median is also insensitive to skew, which is often cited as a good thing, but really that's something you should determine on a case-by-case basis. In many (most?) applications, there's no tangible benefit in having a measure of center that ignores skew. The median's insensitivity also creates strange situations where subgroups in the population end up unrepresented (e.g. if the poorest 20% become even poorer because of changes to the tax code, the median doesn't budge). In general, the median conveys remarkably little information. It's great at showing the center, but it gives zero indication of anything else. The mean certainly has its issues, but it's far from inferior. Use the median when the situation calls for it, certainly, but realize that it's just as limited as any other measure, if not more so.
Should a Jewish baker be forced to bake a Swastika cake?

Should a black florist be forced to make arrangements for a KKK wedding?

Should a Muslim butcher be forced to prepare pork for his customers?

I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to eat something that someone didn't really want to make for me. Can you trust food that was only made under threat of government action? I can't.
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE)

Frontend Engineer: $135-170K, >=0.3% equity

Agent Engineer | $135-170K, >=0.3% equity

At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility tool that our users rave about, because it smashes expectations for performance and ease of use. We offer the equity, influence, and fun of an early-stage company, with stability, great pay, and a low-stress culture. We have great backers, amazing traction (50x growth in the last two years), and an 11-digit target market. I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say this is my favorite so far.

Frontend Engineer: we earn our keep by giving users unprecedentedly fast and easy tools for exploring vast amounts of operational data. That starts with our unique backend query engine, but it doesn't mean anything without an equally amazing frontend. We're building a brand-new web app that adds features while removing complexity, all with an eye to performance. As a ground-up rewrite, there's lots of opportunity for you to have a significant impact. If you care about user experience, enjoy great engineering, and want to join an experienced team where you can really stretch yourself, we'd love to hear from you.

"Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mean data collection agent. An ops visibility tool is only as good as the data it collects, and we pride ourselves on gathering everything from logs to system metrics to application metrics to API data. If you enjoy constantly getting to play with new tools, come help us connect to... everything. You'll get to play with packages from Apache to Zookeeper, APIs from AWS to, er, Azure, while tackling challenges such as monitoring 100,000+ simultaneous log files using minimal CPU.

If this sounds like fun, check out the links below, or drop us a line at jobs@scalyr.com!

https://www.scalyr.com/company/jobs/front-end-engineer

https://www.scalyr.com/company/jobs/agent-engineer
You might want to write out 'Oregon' so people can find it via a text search. 'OR' is not easy to search for. Greetings from over at G5 :-)
One of the consequences of this move will be to flush out tens or hundreds of thousands of applications from the App Store.

Why?

It's a simple matter of economics: Creating apps for iOS is, and has been, for a long time, unprofitable for most developers. Last I looked, most can't earn a living, which means they are working for far less than what they could otherwise earn doing something else.

A good deal of the existing 32 bit apps are simply going to die off as developers abandon them.

This could be good, of course, as it might improve discoverability in certain categories. Time will tell.
Nobody ever said he didn't know how to make money. But look at the number of shifted Mac units, and you won't see much good news there. Despite a year or more of pent-up demand and a much-hyped MBP refresh, the Mac line is up a paltry 1% over what was a pretty lean year. That's stagnation.
It's ironic in the sense that California liberals literally let their guy get away with murder, but for a republican, they're all indignant and stuff for a much smaller offense. Not only is this ironic, it's pathetic and hypocritical as well.
Come on, people. Not "we are working on", but "if I were to start working".
It could be that we've been reading different things (Twitter and Facebook aren't good for this sort of things IMO), but my impression is that people had justified suspicions, and that these weren't just Hitler comparisons (which really should be called out, they're too far out). Authoritarianism can mean a range of things, none of them good, and so so long as people base their arguments on things that Trump and his team said or things that they did, people should be on solid enough ground.

As an example, you say "he's an utter noob", and, sure, that is one of the possibilities. But it's not the only possibility, so one would be wrong to say that it's obvious, for example, that he's an utter noob. He might be, or he might not be. How do you know? And those other possibilities have to be considered too, to be fair. It'd be wrong to dismiss them straight up as clickbait without examining the merits.

(I'm not sure if you meant noob or boob, it looked like a typo to me, but as luck would have it, my reply works both ways.)
There's no hostage situation. I'm not chafing against Firefox; I'd like it to be more responsive and less janky - it's a lot more janky than Chrome, there's a lot more variance in pauses for whatever reason. That's my primary problem with it. I'm not yearning to be free, given what Chrome is.

Chrome is almost unusable in its current form. It's like a toy; it becomes completely unwieldy after opening a few dozen tabs. It doesn't scale to my browsing usage. I only use it for development. I also don't like its text selection algorithm, being a selection reader.

If Firefox approaches Chrome's toy-like non-scaling nature, and retains all its other disadvantages, then I'll look and see what other options I have.
Respect for both sides is good and all, but if your opening shot is a contract like that, then at best you lack the basic respect of reading the contracts you send out, or more likely, have no respect whatsoever for anyone in the first place.

Given that, OP's email was exceeding any levels of respect merited by the messages sent to him.
There are better reason for government stewardship beside the land's visual attractiveness. Protecting watersheds, for example, is of supreme importance, which the article alludes to in its mention of the Everglades in Florida.
Productivity Game Plan: 7 Vital Steps to Reaching Your Goals:
1aim | Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time, Visa https://1aim.com

At 1aim, we develop and produce access control systems, which allow to open doors with mobile phones. We create all hardware, software and IT-Infrastructure to run our systems on our own. Beside access systems we are already putting a lot of R&D effort in creating further new smart home/building automation products. We see ourselves as an engineering-driven technology company, that influences how a future with connected devices will look.

We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams. We try to get rid of as much management overhead as possible (no daily standup meetings!).

Right now, we are hiring new engineers for the following areas:

- RUST Backend Developer

- (Frontend) Web Developer

- Electrical Engineer

We do not care about your academic degrees or where you are from, but about the stuff you did and what you could create in the future given the right opportunities. If you are interested in working at 1aim, write us an email at work.hn<?>1aim.com and tell us about the projects you worked on that you are the most proud of and which technological feats of the past inspire you. We provide visa assistance, relocation support and free housing until you find your own place to live last month.

Interview process: 1st phone interview (screening) -> 2nd phone interview (technical) -> home assignment/technical challenge (depending on application) -> 3rd interview (mixed, via phone or onsite)

Please note that our reply times are still a bit slower than usual because we still have a backlog from last month as a lot of time was taken up by our presence on an important trade fair.
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MeetMindful | Software Engineer | Denver, CO | ONSITE

MeetMindful is a revenue-driven online dating app for mindful lifestyles (meditation, spirituality, wellness, fitness, etc.) Since launching 1.5 years ago we have completed Techstars, had great traction in a growing space and are seeing 20% monthly growth in every major company metric.

We are looking for candidates with full-stack experience and a real passion for growth. Our team is lean and we take pride in our developer to user ratio. This hire will be our third developer and will help us scale through millions of users. Our stack is a Ruby on Rails API serving a BackboneJS and ReactJS client. We are running on AWS with a Postgres database.

If you are excited about working at a startup that believes in sustainability and reducing complexity, toss me an email: ben+hn@meetmindful.com
Reminds me of the creative Dr. Suess poem someone came up with
http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/attachments/chat-box-...
And physically well enough to exact revenge on those that wronged me.

Edit: That came out much darker than I meant it to.
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TaskRabbit | Staff Ruby Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | Visa considered | https://tr.co/

Each day brings more chores and less time to accomplish them. Whether someone needs a handyman, house cleaner, mover or delivery person, TaskRabbit delights clients by matching the right skilled person in minutes. On the other side of the marketplace we help our Taskers earn a living by setting their own prices, defining their working hours, and give them control to help people when and how they want in the most supportive marketplace.

As a Staff Engineer you'd be one of the leaders of the team, helping to mentor junior engineers, propose creative solutions, and detangle the complex into the simple. This role will be primarily responsible for driving the backend development. You'll work alongside our Chief Architect to have a full vision of the system working to build a robust platform that's clearly organized and easy to maintain. We believe strongly in test-driven development, code reviews, and collaboration. It's expected that you'd be a main reviewer helping to grow the skills of the more junior engineers, along the way hopefully you'll learn a thing or two during the reviews as well. You'll also spend significant time writing code and building features; and we're looking for someone who will be as excited to learn engineering insights from us as they are to teach us the gems of wisdom they've learned along the way.

http://grnh.se/o2et631
Pollution is a "tragedy of the commons", the atmosphere and ground water are shared resources that if degraded affects all of us. But you don't have to regulate how I clean my house, if I don't want to live in filth I'll do it.

If you don't like Apple's house, you don't have to live there. There are many free software projects that you can use for your phone, pc, etc.
> Is there any way to tell before you buy an app?

I believe that most apps built to support "iOS 8 or later" (this is shown in the app's Information section) are 64-bit.

> While six months is a long time, if I buy it the day before the cutoff, I'd be pretty disappointed when I lose access 24 hours later.

I just looked it up, and Apple has been asking developers to build against the iOS 8 SDK for 2 years now:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/apple-once-again-a...
SEEKING WORK - Primarily Remote from Thailand, with potential for short on-site trips.

10 years experience across a mixture of Ops/Infrastructure and web application architecture and development, with a focus on solving unique/uncommon problems.

I’m looking for opportunities to help companies with backend/server-side architecture & development (primarily PHP MVC), system integration and/or server infrastructure setup/maintenance.

I mostly work remotely from Thailand, on a reasonably flexible schedule (I can schedule work hours to get overlap with most other timezones when required) but on-site visits to pretty much anywhere are a possibility if required too.

Contact me via email to stephen.reay@me.com or via Jabber/XMPP to stephen.reay@dukgo.com if you want to have a chat about what you’re working on!
True.

I've seen employers describe their projects/startups and then they just wait for a reaction to gauge if it's something I would consider "fun", they seem surprised when I say I'm game for pretty much anything that solves someone's problem/has active users.

I even love taking care of the un-sexy tasks that nobody else really likes/there's a fight for, especially documentation -- I've written so many internal wiki pages I'm actually kinda sorry they're all locked up behind a login screen.

Any other task that sparks the brain, for whatever reason, is just a nice bonus.
PVS-Studio for Linux: how to find bugs in the code (YouTube)
Put down your stereotypes and you'll realize that with more guns than people in the U. S. simple math would likely dictate much more diversity in gun ownership than you apparently think. Hard to do a join on gun owners and voting records, but given the numbers on the popular vote and the number of guns in the U. S., it's entirely possible that your statement is flat-out wrong.

Additionally, going with the idea that you're right for the moment, you think gun owners are happy about hunting land being taken away?
>What's being tested is the presence of pipelining :D

Which is silly considering a majority of wild browsers now support HTTP/2.

Thanks for pointing our the repo, I missed it before: https://github.com/squeaky-pl/japronto

His Go isn't horrible, but it could be written like this:

func hello(respWtr http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
text, status := []byte("Hello world!"), http.StatusOK
if request.URL.Path != "/" {
text, status = []byte("Not Found"), http.StatusNotFound
}
respWtr.WriteHeader(status)
response.Write(text)
}

Rather than: https://github.com/squeaky-pl/japronto/blob/master/benchmark...

Also, limiting Go to use a single core is unfair because the Go GC is optimized for multi-core operation.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco or Remote

I build high performance, distributed, real-time backends for apps.

15+ years experience building reliable backends for web apps and mobile apps.

Tech: Golang, MySQL, Cassandra, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean

Will travel.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1305696/daniel

Email: daniel@GoDeveloper.com