skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently acquired by CTrip, China's biggest travel services provider, we have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company.

Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack (modern frontend + api skills - particularly Node or Python), designers, product, iOS & Android. We're growing in all of our European offices; London and Barcelona in particular.

We want to hire people looking for large-scale challenges and building new products. In short, if you've got good industry experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.

Our current focuses are around high-frequency travellers, data-driven personalization and recommendation, as well as developer enablement and tooling. What should the future look like -- how do we best use our data, our scale and new technologies to our advantage as we grow? Come help us find out.

Please ping me an email at alex.treppass@skyscanner.net for a referral. Happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can. CV in pdf or word doc format would be ideal.

On a personal note, I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. Engineers have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.
Just because something else was more shit doesn't make it any less shit.
Do you think Twitter should have a shared default blocklist?

That would kill Twitter almost immediately as everybody is added to the list (if nothing else, as a retaliation for somebody else adding them to the list) or do you mean that they should have the slightly more intelligent blocking features it has (including young accounts and/or accounts with few followers)? Because they are pretty easy to bypass by having a bunch of accounts follow each other and create them well ahead of time (and no Twitter can't prevent this: finding cliques in a graph is NP-Complete, and Twitters graph is crazy big).

Twitter could add many things, but they haven't even figured out that they need to accounts with female names and portraits and user names that ends in a number, even though they are always spammers.
Trusted Sources: Why Museums and Libraries Are More Relevant Than Ever
I am betting that there are Chrome devs who feel that Firefox didn't deprecated NPAPI quickly enough - it was something like two and a half years ago when Chrome did the same.
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Once again, the policy on headline titles for articles on HackerNews is a bit bizarre. The original title explained that the man almost died. This current title is "The Other Half" and does not explain anything at all.

As a practical matter, the policy seems to amount to "We use the title of the original article, unless it is strongly stated, in which case we regard it as clickbait and change it to something dull." That is not a good policy, since we should all hope for and promote strong writing, and the fact that a strong headline could be confused for clickbait is not a good reason to change it. Nor should the default be "use the article's original title" since a better default would be "Highlight what part of this article would be interesting to the Hacker News audience."
If aliens landed in an American urban area, they would see dogs walking around with people behind them, picking up the poop, and special people who walk around with the dogs in the middle of the day, and the aliens would have to conclude that the dogs are the most important beings on the planet.
For a brief period of time I was either able to edit someone else's profile or the information I entered was overwritten with that of someone with the same last name. Be careful with entering any personal information there.
ARM | IoT Developer Evangelist | Austin, San Jose

You will engage with developer community events, meet-ups, and user groups. You will understand their technical challenges and guide those looking to create smart connected products through one-to-one engagements and the creation of web content.

As part of ARM’s IoT segment team you will be an advocate for emerging technologies and applications, contributing to ARM product roadmap and marketing strategies, and collaborating with ARM partners and the wider ecosystem.

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_arm/externa...
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Our 20-person company has helped over 25 million users lose weight with our iOS, Android and web apps. Combining calorie tracking with technology, we're enabling people to change their lives for the better. We believe by helping our users reverse obesity and diabetes, we'll continue to be successful as a company. We've been profitable for a while and a top Health & Fitness app for even longer.

Lose It!'s founders have taken one company public and sold others to Macromedia and Microsoft. Our product-focused organization knows the importance of a quality, well-designed user experiences- losing weight is already hard enough.

We're looking for more mobile & full-stack software developers. If you enjoy picking up new technologies and languages quickly, you'll learn a ton with us.

I run the development team at Lose It!. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions: eric@loseit-corp.com
For more on the position, or to apply, go here: http://loseit.com/jobs/developer/
This is perfect. I'm running a Discourse forum and I needed something like this. Just signed up!
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I've helped scale Twilio and Shyp's products and engineering teams. I can find and fix your bad problems in production.

Minimum contract length is one month.

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Contact: kev+consulting@inburke.com
ARM | Senior IoT Ecosystem Manager | San Jose

Reporting to the Director of IoT Segment Marketing, you will be an advocate for emerging technologies and applications, contributing to ARM product roadmap and marketing strategies, and collaborating with ARM partners and the wider ecosystem.

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_arm/externa...
Appreciate the answer, thanks. I guess that would rule out the people who definitely do not even want the possibility of the prospect of maintaining their own engine. I would be curious to know what kind of percentage we would be talking about...
Because it's fun.
If Twitter wants to show the alt-left tools the door too, I'm certainly not gonna cape up for them. But there is a difference of orders of magnitude in both size and cohesiveness to wrestle with here, and it's not towards the burned Bernie bros. That alt-left doesn't have members of state-blessed media outlets (well, until recently, when cheering on pedophilia became a little too much for them) on campus tours where he'd out trans people with a pack of jackals ready to pounce.

There's a difference of kind here.
Why not use the etcd built in to Kubernetes instead of Consul?
New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many Open Source works from it
Latency and speed are two very different things. For good audio quality, the first is way more important than the later.

Also, lossy codecs usually drop a good chunk of information in favour of compression, working with larger packets for better efficiency and adding even more latency. In that sense, G.711 or higher-quality PCM is the best if you want lowest latency possible.

I've worked for some time with telecom to know that each time you add a complex codec (G.72x) you may end up doing a few conversions on the way: in most gateways, if audio comes in as codec X, it gets converted to PCM internally and then re-converted to codec X again before going to the other end. Adding bypass logic adds little benefit as you have to scale the system for worst case scenario (all channels performing the costlier compression), so bypass only complicates your code.

So those "X ms of algorithmic latency" for complex codecs may end up being multiplied a few times: throw in echo cancelling, jitter buffers, etc and you get a call where you end up interrupting each other all the time due to audio delay.
You talk about SQL and No-SQL as managed services and it shows that your experience is limited to a classical application consisting of virtual machines and some data storage. However these are not the only services offered by both platforms and currently AWS has a richer feature set. For example Lambda and its deep integration with whole AWS platform is the biggest game changer from my point of view. If we are talking about virtual machines and databases, I can accept this comparison. However we are talking about 30+ services, some of them are even not available somewhere else and solving serious business problems in production and at scale. It is very wrong to put everything into basket and compare. Maybe GCP has better pub/sub service and AWS has better object storage. These should be compared seperately. Answering to your question, why do we still stay at AWS, because it is solving our problems in the most cost effective way and with reduced complexity, we are happy with it.
My wife's favorite aunt lost her first husband to exactly that: he was impaled by a tiller. Gruesome.
I never claimed that there is no differences between ethnic groups.

I suggested looking and comparing the magnitudes between different factors and putting them into order of importance.

We know that taller people have higher intelligence than shorter people on average [1]. Compare effect sizes between black and whites and tall and short white males. Now ask if the difference between ethnic groups is important or not.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence

ps. 90% of genetic variance in human races exists in the African continent. If we clean out all environmental factors, the "smart genes" are probably in Africa. We just need to find them and distribute them.
Gorka: Anti-Terrorism Advisor to Trump and Family Friend of David Irving?
You get much better compile times if you keep scala compiler running in daemon mode (in SBT or IDEA; AFAIK Gradle can't do this yet), so it gets more benefits from JVM HotSpot. It makes a tremendous difference (up to 10x) on larger code bases and in fact, I often get 1-5s incremental compile times on a 20 kLOC codebase. Another trick is to modularize the project and enable parallel compilation to speed up compiling everything from scratch.

As for C++ compile times, the major culprit are templates. Changing a single line of the implementation of a template requires to recompile all code using that template. Scala does not have this problem, because it has generics for most of the things that C++ templates are used, and generics support separate compilation.
I drove past an office in Mountain View a couple of weeks ago in the middle of the night, and there were two Dalek-looking robots patrolling the empty parking lot, making whooshing noises, talking to nobody, and covered in flashing blue and white lights. It was surreal and funny and oddly unnerving.

They didn't look like these, so I guess there are at least two companies building autonomous security robots.
To me, this is the more interesting news.

"his star hire Jon Rubinstein, one of the creators of the iPod, will leave after 10 months as co-CEO."

Citadel recently got rid of Keven Turner, Microsoft's ex-COO, from the CEO position at Citadel Securities. It sounds like the experiment of hiring tech executives into asset management roles isn't producing very promising results.
Skimmed thru the article, and didn't read the comments - so maybe I missed it somewhere - but I once read a story in an old issue of Popular Science (1940s or 50s), probably "The Model Garage" (my favorite part of that era's magazine) - where the explanation given as to which side the filler was on seemed logical enough (perhaps for the time - but it still seems to hold on most vehicles today):

The filler is always on the opposite side of where the exhaust pipe is routed.

Granted, this doesn't help if you have dual tailpipes (though usually the pipe is y-split just before the output), or if you have dual straight-pipes (I don't believe any production vehicles have this as an option - it is usually an aftermarket performance mod).

But ultimately - the explanation was with the filler opposite that of the exhaust pipe, you decrease the issue of the heat from the pipe, or leaks from the filler, becoming a dangerous combination.

That said - now that I think about it (I guess I'll need to crawl back under), my Isuzu VehiCROSS has the exhaust running down the passenger side, and the filler is on that same side. However, the exhaust is routed out the left (driver) side - I'm not sure how the filler pipe and everything else fits in there.

Knowing the VX, though - given its "odd-duck" and somewhat hand-built "custom" status in the car world (rumor has it that with so few built, an assembly line wasn't created for them, and they were all hand assembled; it's known that a ton of parts for them are the same between the VX and Rodeo/Trooper/Hombre) - there's a good chance the routing isn't "optimal" (I just had a custom heat shield made to fit between the exhaust and a connector for the TOD module - owners have had it melt and water intrude into the connector - burning it and sometimes the module out - and given that they aren't exactly easy to obtain...well, I wanted to protect it from that possibility).
Because Bridgewater is one of the most technologically advanced hedge funds in the world?
Why Casey Affleck won the award for best actor at Oscar 2017
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I am not surprised. I got sick in 2014 and spent a summer implementing OpenPGP from scratch. It is _extremely_ ugly. If I was Google I would make something better and push that, instead of spending tearful days implementing the really bad specification that is RFC4880.
Best practices are not to use that for anything other then kubernetes components - it contains all your secrets in pain text, for example.
Blogger is very far from creating a monopoly on blogging platforms.
My experience applying as reference for others:

They provide no feedback re: evaluation and ignore emails entirely upon rejection.
Adversarial examples?
>most opioid pain treatments have far more severe side effects than pot

What are those? Beyond the physical addiction, which shouldn't be much of an issue with proper dosage.
Pretty printed json isn't too bad, but I intentionally never bulk edit it. This format shouldn't end up heavily nested anyway?

Toml is nice for simple configs/Cargo.toml but I think everything I said basically applies to it as well. Toml has recent work on it in 2017 for some (but not broad) library support but what does it look like in 2024?
My wife saved my life by making me go to the doctor when I scoffed at it. Wear sunscreen folks.
If true, that would be to the detriment of our industry. The systems produced by that generation were typically simpler and more reliable than what we have now.
Ha though so, it's a small world ;)

The MeteoSwiss utilizes K80 GPU's in the system hosted at CSCS though right? Or were you saying you don't expect a shift to accelerator-based weather models as a general trend?
Ask HN: Would you like to help making a “new DMOZ”?
I think the idea of having some site like this has some merit to it, but this idea of plotting them on these graphs is misleading and inappropriate.

The graphs are drawn as line charts, with everything being points on the line. This creates the illusion that every technology goes through a lifecycle between all of these states in the exact same path. This is utter nonsense.

Take for instance, your technology graph, where you list "Augmented Reality" as being in the "Disillusionment" phase. Being a point on the curve, along with every other point on the curve, it's implicit that someday "Augmented Reality" may move to be more widely adopted in the "Productivity plateau." But that may never happen; it may just end up being a fad that Nintendo tried to make money off of and never really succeeded at. Nevermind that it's debatable what "productivity" is for a concept like AR.

These graphs also give no real useful information on their Y-axis. It's not really useful to know if the author thinks that Swift is about to peak and that Java has plataued. It may be extremely useful to know how many people are starting new Swift projects, relative to other langauges in the same niche (e.g. Obj-C, maybe Java if you want to include Android? Idk it's not my niche). That might be information someone can use to decide whether they should start a project in Swift or do something else.

Also, the selection of these charts themselves is a little odd. Why a chart devoted just to PHP frameworks? Is this the State of Dev or the state of people who only know one language and read about the rest in school?
tl;dr: tg@ interprets the new GitHub terms of service to require him to grant rights he doesn't receive from contributors to his GPL projects, and plans to remove projects such as jupp from the site.
Quantifying the Impact of “Cloudbleed”
I'm not making the connection to the title. Yes, some guitars have f-holes, but most don't. F-holes aren't mentioned in the body of the article either. None of the guitar pictures feature guitars that do have F-holes.
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I think a large part of the problem is how many diverse applications are now being served through the browser. Interop always had problems and this is just the natural evolution of old issues like bad CSS rendering.
If you are in your career for more than 5-10 years and the only thing that you can offer to a potential company is the ability to Sling code, why shouldn't your job be outsourced? Being able to sling code is a commodity.

It took me a while, but I think I've developed enough architectural and soft skills to not be lumped in the pool of easily outsource code slingers.
I also haven't used Scala at scale enough to say; the incremental compilation story is much better than templated C++ but I think compiling a large codebase from scratch would be quite slow, and slower than templated C++.

I think any design for generics that provides the same guarantees as C++ templates (type-safe, resolved at compile-time, value types aren't boxed) is necessarily going to cause long compilation times. The only other implementation I know of that checks all three boxes is Rust's, and so far generic Rust is even slower to compile than templated C++.
There are massive bot farms on Twitter that are obvious to even casual observers and most of them don't have "egg" accounts anymore. Look at the auto-replies to any political tweet, major news story, or from a popular account, all automated garbage that follows the same template.

Why Twitter ignores the crap which pollutes their product is amazing to me. Maybe they don't want to touch them because it ups the engagement numbers and inflates active users?