skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Close.io | REMOTE

WANTED:

- Full Stack Python/JS Engineers who sweat Product Details

- Senior Frontend Engineer (React.js & Backbone.js)

WHO ARE WE:

At Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring product-focused engineers to help us unify the world's sales calls and emails into one beautiful workflow.

https://close.io

Learn more or apply: https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/?lever-source=HNFeb17
If you are doing a lot with docker images, it might be worth considering Concourse CI (https://concourse.ci). I haven't played with it in any depth yet so I'm not sure how it compares with other solutions, but I like the idea of your entire build pipeline running through docker images. Theoretically you should even be able to run it in kubernetes.
I've actually tried that cute "Strike out clauses from your employment agreement you don't like and sign THAT document" tactic with several past employers, and each of them pulled me aside my first or second day of work and gave me a stern and clear "Sign it unmodified or GTFO" talk. In my experience nothing in an employment contract is in any way negotiable. I don't even bother anymore--it's futile.
json:

$ time python -c "import json;
for i in range(0, 1000000):
json.loads('{\"data\": \"hello, world\"}')"

real	0m3.142s
user	0m3.098s
sys	0m0.034s

ujson

$ time python -c "import ujson as json;
for i in range(0, 1000000):
json.loads('{\"data\": \"hello, world\"}')"

real	0m0.444s
user	0m0.399s
sys	0m0.028s

Like with many things, it's a question of being smart about your choice of libraries.

Also, just because I was curious:

$ time pypy -c "import json;
for i in range(0, 1000000):
json.loads('{\"data\": \"hello, world\"}')"

real	0m0.422s
user	0m0.386s
sys	0m0.032s
The Farmer's Dog | Software Engineer | New York | https://www.thefarmersdog.com/ | Onsite | 90-140k + equity

The Farmer's Dog is a VC backed direct-to-consumer pet food company. We're building a subscription based e-commerce platform to support and manage custom subscriptions and food production. We've been cashflow positive from day 1 and are growing faster than expected.

Even though we don't sound like a typical tech company we take pride in development. We've built an e-commerce platform from ground up. It consists of 2 isomorphic Redux apps backed by a shared NodeJS API. We have CI and CD processes in place, and make use of docker-based microservices via Iron.io. We have plenty of challenges to tackle from predictive analysis to optimizing fulfillment operations.

We're looking for a senior Software Engineer who's comfortable writing backend code and dealing with docker and aws. Our stack is react (and redux), node, postgres, docker and aws.

If this sounds like you reach out at info+hn@thefarmersdog.com
It may be a nuisance but passive smoking has negligible effects on public health.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-fi...
Yep. I've done similar. Once, I'm pretty sure I dodged a bullet, because the person I was talking to went from sunny and gladhanding to really frosty and stiff in one sentence. (To be clear, I doubt it was some calculated IP grab effort. I just took the demonstration to mean that any future conflict resolution would be a mess.)
What he wrote was a statement of fact, not of opinion. Gigster can in fact do something really awful and there is no recourse. In any contract negotiation, sometimes you need to be clear what the problem is. If you, as a party to a contract, indeed feel like there is zero chance that other party will do anything to injure you, will keep to their promises, and has your best interests at heart, what is the point of the contract in the first place?
I don't think it's that. GitLab IS a complex setup and Rails is not helping making it simple. There is a ton going on in the stack and the company only has limited resources.
The reason for Apple to lock the web browser engine is simple: it prevents you to turn an iphone into your bare platform, as much as you turned AT&T into a bare pipe. They know money comes from services not bare platform.
You don't have a right to drive your car, that is a privilege. We have a right to protest.
You will just have to decide whether to take my word that the prospect of him being a propaganda person is laughable. For one thing this comment of his was something that he came to after moving back to the US and establishing a business here. For another, a Chinese propaganda person would be unlikely to criticize the Chinese people in a way that his comment did.

For the record, the extent to which Americans can be trusted to be honest and trustworthy on a daily basis came as a shock to him after living in China for many years.
I intended it to be more prescriptive than descriptive, more of an idea that people should take and adapt to fit their circumstances.

I fear I did a horrible job of describing it in those terms, though. Or perhaps the thoughtful responses like yours have just helped me clarify my thoughts on the topic. Because in reality, I'm a huge proponent of the creative side of development. I think it's often so underrated by many companies and interviewers.

Creativity is absolutely part of the value a good developer provides, and creative developers shouldn't hesitate to discuss that in interviews.

It'll sometimes be the case that the company of person interviewing you won't value creativity. Which is actually super useful to find out, because interviews are a two-way process. If you're a creative developer, and an interviewer makes it clear they don't care about that, they've helped you by letting you know unequivocally that you don't want you work for them.
Poki — http://jobs.poki.com | Amsterdam | Onsite | Full-Time

Poki is an online playground with 30 million users around the world. With a team of 25 we build a web game platform that helps game developers achieve success, and brings fun games to kids of all ages around the world.

We’re a bootstrapped company where development, data and design come together. We are looking for:

• Full-Stack Web Developer - http://jobs.poki.com/full-stack-web-developer

• Senior Front-End Developer - http://jobs.poki.com/senior-front-end-developer

• Senior Back-end / DevOps Developer - http://jobs.poki.com/back-end-devops-developer

• Product Manager - http://jobs.poki.com/product-manager-web-platform/en

# Stack: Go, Node, React, Redux, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, AWS, GPC

We believe in giving smart and creative people the freedom and autonomy to do great work.

Apply: http://jobs.poki.com

Culture: http://poki.com/company/tropical-retreats/
Location: Milan, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: for the right opportunity

Technologies: R, Python, SQL

Résumé: on request

Email: furfaro.emanuela@gmail.com

Just finished a PhD in statistic. I worked on more "classical" and theoretical statistics than the AI/ML that are very in vogue in these years, however those are field that I would like to explore.
Right now I can create statistical models to answer any kind of question about your business or about your productive processes.
I can also works as contractor.
Feel free to contact me for any further question.
Yes. That's why collective action is so important: a company can avoid the loss of a single employee much more than the single employee can afford the loss of a job, but a company can't avoid the loss of even a single department quite as easily, let alone all employees of a certain type.

It's insurance for bad management decisions, effectively. It's useful for all the reasons insurance is useful.
LaunchDarkly - ONSITE in Oakland, California.
Not currently hiring remotes workers
Unable to sponsor visas at the moment.

Posting as an engineer who has been working here one year. This is a fantastic team and product. The business is very healthy- not just good growth, but very satisfied customers who are sticking around.

https://jobs.lever.co/launchdarkly

Eng interview process: Offsite coding task that we discuss in person when you're here + other technical and cultural chats.
Look, I love GitLab. Gitlab was there for me when both my son and I got cancer, and they were more than fair with me when I needed to get healthy and planned to return to work. I have nothing but high praises for Sid and the Ops team.

With that said, I'll agree that the salary realities for GitLab employees are far below the base salary that was expected for a senior level DevOps person. I've got about 10 years experience in the space, and the salary was around $60K less than what I had been making at my previous job. I took the Job at GitLab because I believe in the product, believe in the team, and believe in what Gitlab could become...

With that said, starting from Day 1, we were limited by an Azure infrastructure that didn't want to give us Disk iops, legacy code and build processes that made automation difficult at times, and a culture that proclaimed openness, but, didn't really seem to be that open. Some of the moves that they've made (Openshift, rolling their own infrastructure, etc) have been moves in the right direction, but, they still haven't solved the underlying stability issues -- and these are issues that are a marathon, not a sprint. They've been saying that the performance, stability, and reliability of gitlab.com is a priority -- and it has been since 2014 -- but, adding complexity of the application isn't helping: if I were engineering management, I'd take two or three releases and just focus on .com. Rewrite code. Focus on pages that return in longer than 4 seconds and rewrite them. When you've got all of that, work on getting that down to three seconds. Make gitlab so that you can run it on a small DO droplet for a team of one or two people. Include LE support out of the box. Work on getting rid of the omnibus insanity. Caching should be a first class citizen in the Gitlab ecosystem.

I still believe in Gitlab. I still believe in the Leadership team. Hell, if Sid came to me today and said, "Hey, we really need your technical expertise here, could you help us out," I'd do so in a heartbeat -- because I want to see GitLab succeed (because we need to have quality open source alternatives to Jira, SourceForge Enterprise Edition, and others).

Not trying to be combative, but, "You truly get what you pay for" seems a little vindictive here -- the one thing that I wish they would have done was be open with the salary from the beginning -- but, Sid made it very clear that the offer that he would give me was going to be "considerably less" than what I was making.
I agree with the CEO being responsible. As I mentioned 15 hours ago in this HN post in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537245 "the blame is with all of us, starting with me. Not with the person in the arena."
Zoomi Inc | Software and Machine Learning Engineer | Malvern, PA | Full-time, REMOTE

Zoomi is an analytics company that uses proprietary artificial intelligence to discover, interpret and communicate insights from learning interventions to optimize individual and business performance
– Analyze massive amounts of data collected both natively and/or through our API

– Identification of individual cognitive, behavioral and affective preferences and performance to understand unique learning strategies

– Proprietary artificial intelligence including machine learning, deep learning, data mining, and natural language processing methods

– AI-informed learning analytics (descriptive, predictive, prescriptive) derived from data combinations between learning and business metrics allowing calculation of ROI

– Dashboard visualization and real-time, automated AI-based personalization of content for an individualized learning experience

– AI-based optimization of social learning

– Productivity, Efficiency, and Compliance Improvements

You can find job postings here: http://zoomiinc.com/careers/

For the Data Scientist role, we are looking for specifically for a candidate with a deep understanding of machine learning, preferably an advanced degree in the subject.

Although not currently posted, we are also looking for Python and JavaScript developers to work on our product development. Keep an eye out for these postings soon or feel free to reach out to learn more before they are posted.
Apple patents new augmented reality system for future iPhones
While related security, privacy and data protection are all different matters with varying degrees of protection in each jurisdiction. Code protection is a matter of intellectual property law, which is only tangentially related to those areas and in fact often is opposed to privacy laws and data protection.

Europe is a pretty big place. Not even all of Europe belongs to the EU, which is often cited for good privacy laws. Indeed, when it comes to laws that protect your privacy and your data against companies trying to do with your data as they please, the EU does quite ok (with minor variations from country to country). However, these laws can be excessive and overreaching at times. Often they don't quite fit the reality of how business on the internet is done but rather bureaucrats' idea of how business on the internet is done.

While this generally is true for each EU country, privacy protection against the state and its agencies itself varies vastly from country to country. Germany and the Netherlands for instance do quite well in that respect. France, less so. The UK is arguably even worse than the US (thanks in part to now-PM, former Home Secretary Theresa May and because of the Five Eyes shenanigans in general).

As for non-EU members both Switzerland and Iceland do exceptionally well in terms of privacy and data protection. As an added benefit, for a lack of international involvement and a high degree of independency neither of those two can be easily strong-armed by other state actors into bending laws or surrendering data.
Beaconhome.io (http://beaconhome.io/) | Lead SW Engineers: Embedded Systems, Linux/Android Build, Android/iOS Applications, Machine Learning | San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | ONSITE

We're a stealth consumer electronics company that's building a product poised to change the way people experience their homes and bring them material improvements to their health and well being. The opportunity is enormous, making our work exciting, challenging and rewarding when we look at how our company stands to make people's lives better. We're a small team so you'll have the opportunity to be a part of the early team and build critical parts of our company.

We're at the forefront of applying the latest technologies to a challenging problem. Hardware, firmware, Android (RxJava), iOS (RxSwift), AWS, Serverless, Deep Learning and more are all on the table and being implemented everyday.

Check out detailed roles on our website or AngelList and mention HN --
http://www.beaconhome.io/roles | https://angel.co/stealth-consumer-iot-company
Why Managers Must Learn to Say No
Definitely needs rss...
Same here, I'd never heard of it. I switched over to check it out, and am very pleased with how much more responsive it is than neomake. It's marking things while I'm still in insert mode, and not waiting till I save the file, quite useful. It's probably going to stick around and be my new go too!

Even though I write ruby and javascript all day, I still like to go and read how others are using vim. I usually walk away with a keybinding or plugin that makes my life better.
First learned about this from This American Life:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/350/...

And, yes, it was the first thing I thought of, too, when I saw this thread.
> To be fair all the contestants (including Go) were running single worker process.

This makes the benchmark results much less impressive. Sure its cool that this micro framework allows you to serve a million requests per second with a single process but no one is going to be running a single process per server in production if they value their uptime.
Genomenon | Senior Software Developer | Ann Arbor, MI | On-site

We're building a database of genomic information that helps with data curation and genome interpretation for diagnosis and treatment, as well as research.

Ideally, someone with full-stack experience would provide the most flexibility in terms of responsibility, as we're an early-stage (funded) startup. We've built the first version of the product and have customers, but we have lofty ambitions and a large vision for what we can become.

Experience with Python and/or Ruby, Bash, and JavaScript (front-end, along with frameworks like Angular and React) are mostly what we need now.

https://www.genomenon.com

Reach out to me at schwartz@genomenon.com.
Omada Health | San Francisco, Ca | Rails, DevOps, iOS, Android | H1B Transfers OK | ONSITE

Omada Health is a digital health company on a mission to make healthy behavior change more accessible and achievable. We’re looking for software engineers on all our stack to join our growing engineering team.
As a key member of our engineering team, you will help design, build and maintain systems necessary for rapid growth.
Our team practices pair programming (at least 50% of the week) so you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques and share your skills.

Rails Engineers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/94276

DevOps Engineers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/267353

Android Engineers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/267369

iOS Engineers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/125038

Front End Engineers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/266693
Causality in machine learning
Disclaimer: I am an avid cast iron user.

It seems like cast iron fails on electric cooktops, or in the case of much of the thin modern cast iron cookware. In an effort to keep weight down to compete, they ruined the product. Gas flame mostly solves this, but is increasingly uncommon.
in which field?
Grove | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco

Grove is a small seed-funded company with a bold vision to democratize access to quality financial advice and redefine the multibillion dollar financial advising industry using technology.

We're looking for a generalist developer to join our founding team (3rd engineer) and help create our infrastructure, client-facing apps, and internal tools.

We're looking for someone who has 4+ years of full-stack experience and an interest in personal finance (more info: http://bit.ly/2kVLxUw).

We offer competitive salaries, generous equity, full benefits, 401(k), daily lunches, and flexible work hours/PTO. Please email me, Chris Hutchins (Founder/CEO), if you'd like to chat more: chris@usegrove.com
My Experience of Building Nachos UI Kit for React Native
Alcoholism is actually one of the drugs that scores the highest on the "harm to others" category, due to things like drunk driving
SEEKING WORK:

Location: Milan, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: for the right opportunity

Technologies: R, Python, SQL

Résumé: on request

Email: furfaro.emanuela@gmail.com

Just finished a PhD in statistic. I worked on more "classical" and theoretical statistics than the AI/ML that are very in vogue in these years, however those are field that I would like to explore.
Right now I can create statistical models to answer any kind of question about your business or about your productive processes.
I can also works as contractor.
Feel free to contact me for any further question.
Does it even matter? Ozymandias worked in upper management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

#Eeyore
Note that the story was from the BBC and compared Europe to Australia. I didn't see anything about US numbers. I wouldn't be surprised if the US had similar numbers to Australia. I suspect not though - in the "deep south" of the US smoking is still common, so if we have lower numbers here it is because the rest of the country has low enough smoking rates to balance out that part of the country.
Pangea Money Transfer | Chicago, IL | Lead iOS and Software Engineer (Platform) | Full Time, On Site | http://engineering.gopangea.com

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, Pangea started with the mission of making money transfer simple, fair and safe. Since then, we’ve been striving to enhance the security and reduce the cost and pain points of international money transfer.

Our first solution allows users to complete a transfer in three easy steps and pay with any US debit card, with an innovative nationwide cash solution coming soon. Receivers in Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Dominican Republic can collect the transfers in cash or receive the money directly into a bank account. Through every partnership and product iteration, we’ll continue to help our users save more time and money.

Pangea is successful because of our world-class team members and strong passion for making an impact in our customers’ lives. We are different. We are innovative. We are eager to learn from each other. We are dedicated to building the world’s best platform for transferring money.

You can see the full description at:

- Lead iOS Engineer - http://engineering.gopangea.com/join/lead-engineer-ios

- Software Engineer (Platform)
http://engineering.gopangea.com/join/software-engineer-platf...

You can email me directly with a resume at bardia --at-- gopangea.com

You can learn more about the engineering team at:
- http://engineering.gopangea.com
- https://github.com/gopangea
You are incorrect, TLS overhead is too big to say something like that. Also on large requests, that you have in streaming, overhead of HTTP/1.1 protocol itself becomes negligible.
There is also one sure-fire way to increase telomere length : get cancer.

So these people were in a thin metal cube, exposed to abnormal levels of ionizing radiation, ... and after that there was telomere lengthening ? I always heard that astronauts, given the groups they're selected from, have suspiciously short lifespans. Still somewhat above average, but these guys got selected from the creme de la creme. Half of them should live to 120, and that is definitely not happening. I've never seen a good study actually comparing it though.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/06/apollo-14-astronaut-dies-o...

According to several doctor friends of mine, balance is the best way to go for a long life. Being too thin will kill you, because once you're 65 or 70 or so you will lose the ability to quickly gain weight. A significant number of people dying from "natural causes" die as follows : they get infected with something stupid, like a flu virus. Or they break a hip or something. Either way, they get really under the weather. Result: they lose weight, a lot of weight, rapidly. If your weight falls under about 35 kg, odds of survival drop dramatically, and they die from "complications" (in practice: secondary infections resulting in metabolic exhaustion: your body simply cannot maintain the minimum energy level to keep you alive. On the plus side: very peaceful way to go, and likely quite comfortable too). Keep in mind it will take a year to work your way back from 40kg to 50kg at such an age, so the higher you go the more likely you'll drop back down due to another incident before recovering.

And of course, exercise only helps up to a normal level. If you spend 2 hours every day running, that is definitely in the "shortens lifespan" area. 10 minutes, probably very good for you. And of course, the obvious : exercise increases the odds of accidents happening. Accidents, even stupid ones, can kill.
Doctrine | Sales | Paris | Doctrine.fr | ONSITE

Doctrine is the "Google" for the case-law in France! We are a young startup with a huge growth. We have raised more than 2M € after less than 6 months of existence.

We use DL / NLP to automate lawyers' interns jobs! and we have a deep focus on User Experience.

We are looking for a French-speaking sales (wo)man to join the team and kick-start our growing sales!

We are also always hiring A-player Developers, Data-Scientists or any bright and ambitious hackers.

Apply here: https://www.doctrine.fr/recrutement or see our open positions on Angel List: https://angel.co/doctrine-/jobs