skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AdQuick | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Los Angeles, CA (Santa Monica/Venice) | Fulltime | ONSITE

AdQuick is a marketplace for outdoor advertising (think billboards, bus shelters, etc). We’re bringing a $40B globally fragmented market into the 21st century. Some billboard companies still only accept checks! So don’t even ask for ROI analysis ;) We’re ex-Instacart tackling another archaic industry.

We’re seed funded by top tier VCs. We haven’t announced funding yet but they’re household names. One of our advisors was formerly the CEO of CBS Outdoor.

Our stack is Rails & React. Python/OpenCV for image recognition. Ton of interesting challenges. How do you efficiently search the globe for billboards that target a certain demographic. How about generating optimized campaigns? ($50K budget, maximize impressions from females $100K salary) We’re using image recognition to measure social media impact. Integrating with Google Analytics and other data warehouses to calculate ROI. And much more.

Interested? Let’s chat. You can reach me at fahim@adquick.com or @fahim on Twitter.

Here’s some information to get you up to speed.

How we used image recognition to measure impact of the billboard we sold to Drake: https://medium.com/@fahimferdous/drake-saved-6k-in-instagram...

How we drove 650% ROI for Orange Theory Fitness
https://adquick.com/otf-case-study

How does AdQuick compare to the old way of doing things?
https://adquick.com/compare-to-direct
For this reason, I wouldn't be surprised if AI actually generate more work, at least for most of our lifetime. People that will supervise and correct AI errors while/after they process data, while current jobs mostly stays "until the AI is ready to actually take over".

If this makes you laugh, you have probably never worked in the public sector or big corps.
>>In AU->US outsourcing, the motivation for outsourcing is not to drive down labor costs, because labor costs are clearly higher in the US. The only reason to outsource from AU to US is if people in the US can do it better.

As an Indian who was in the trenches during the call center craze during the 2000's.

Let me tell you our American managers used to often tell us the real reason for outsourcing to India was rarely if ever cost. It was scale, it was really hard to find college degree holders, and many times engineers in thousands of numbers to work on doing things like taking calls all night in the US.

Apparently a lot of people in the US won't do jobs like these because they think its beneath their station.
SEEKING WORK | Ulm, Germany, Munich or Stuttgart, or remote

I have 15+ years of experience in cross platform C++ and Python development for the desktop. Additional experience with writing 3D animation and rendering software, including using OpenGL, CUDA and employing path tracing/ray tracing.

http://linkedin.com/in/stwerner/
https://developer.blender.org/p/swerner/
Nigerian engineer handed written test at New York airport
You should read this
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-morality-chang...
There are products like AliveCor's Kardia on the market. The issue is that it's difficult even for a physician to interpret EKGs, and automated interpretation has proven quite challenging. There's been a lot of progress in detecting certain rhythms like atrial fibrillation (which is what AliveCor's product is able to auto-detect), but other rhythm detection remains difficult.

Edit: Data science types wanting to tackle this problem, check out https://physionet.org/challenge/2017/
My wife sometimes reminds me "There's a reason married men live longer." When your wife tells you it's time to go to the hospital, it's usually time to go.

Yeah, there are some stereotypes I'm repeating, but they're accurate somewhat often.
Hangouts switched to WebRTC and NaCl (for video processing like hats) in Chrome back in 2014, but still requires plugins (NPAPI or ActiveX) for any other browsers.

https://www.cnet.com/news/in-chrome-googles-hangouts-plugin-...
Elevate (Apple App of the Year) | iOS Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | elevateapp.com

Elevate is a cognitive training tool that was the recipient of Apple's App of the Year award and Google's Editors' Choice distinction. It has been downloaded more than 13 million times, helping users around the world build critical communication and analytical skills.

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You seem to be thinking of your PS4 as a "home console" and the Switch as the "portable", whereas the Switch is really both those things and none of them. You can play the same games both on the couch and on the go (unless you are hellbent on always playing two games in parallel on each console).

I think the Switch will allow for a new "non-binary" way of thinking about what's portable and what's a home game, and fit into our lives in a new way. I can't wait to start playing a game on the commute back home from work (which takes well under the 2.5h), and continue the same session on the big setup later when I arrive. I think it will allow me to spend more hours per week playing big titles compared to what I can spare today.
Nintendo has a history of only supporting games on their consoles. They still don't view themselves as your home theatre center-for-everything like xbone does, and that's a relief for me. They only thing they need to be "complete" in this day and age is to have good online multiplayer.

That being said I'm looking at the switch as a vita replacement, not a home console.
Or if you have money, you get all the points.
SEEKING WORK - India, Remote

Software Developer with a passion for Data Analysis / Visualization and Open Source.

GitHub: https://github.com/pravj
Blog: https://pravj.github.io

Information Retrieval and Data analysis (ETL) [IPython, ML, D3, Plotly]
Web services [AWS, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, RethinkDB, Golang, Python, Node.js]

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I think the main difference was textures: on the 64 they ended up being blurrier/flatter and therefore less pixelated. That said, there were definitely PS1 games that looked great and weren't cursed with jaggies (Wipeout, for instance).
Ask HN: What was the biggest challenge in securing your SaaS/service?
By securing I mean building technical security to protect customer / commercially sensitive data, not securing the funding. It would be brilliant to hear both those who did, and those who chose not to care or give up in process.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, Bay Area, Remote

UI/UX product designer with 10+ years of experience

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I can help you with:

- UX and usability Research - from initial research, building personas, empty maps, building competitive analysis and feature metrics

- UX Design and UX Architecture

- Prototyping

- UI Design

Worked with companies that went trough YCombinator, 500 Startups, Techstars… Won best design award at the 2014 @Launch Festival in San Francisco

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Website: https://merquro.com and https://habitual.io
Contact me at vesna.planko@gmail.com
Also, I believe most weather forecasting makes good use of ensemble runs - take your initial data set from observations, introduce N sets of appropriately sized random variations in the initial data, and run N simulations. Then you look e.g. at the the spread of results, giving you information about the certainty of your prediction.
It's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range
Illegal Actions in Virtual Reality Should Be Banned – Or Punished?
These people have always existed. They will continue to exist. They will continue to find ways to harass the people they see as easy targets because they find enjoyment in it. Nothing you can say or do, no policies twitter puts in place, will ever eradicate them. At best it will slow them down. There's always some work around and they have lives sad enough to dedicate to finding these work-arounds.

For all of human existence up until last decade, these types of people didn't have a wide social outlet for their thoughts, just like everyone else didn't. Now it's open to everyone. Yes, it's morally reprehensible. But this is not something that we or any social media company can ever solve. It will always be a cat and mouse game. But it's a game that you don't have to play.

You can still be a citizen of the 21st century world and not be on social media. It does not put you at any disadvantage to not have a twitter account. If you believe that it would, reconsider your priorities in life.
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You can fix the account in the URL by changing the authuser parameter. You'll need to remember the order you signed into accounts and enter the right number, but at least it's a workaround. The account is controllable from the URL for all Google services. It's horrible UX but it's there.
As an fyi to the folks developing this website and those thinking about signing up, I refreshed the page while logged in under my account and it loaded a different account. I have screenshots and other information to pass along if you give an email.
That's why they want to hire you to fix it :)
Why are we down voting this? Of all people in the world, Ray Dalio would want us to ask, "Why." Principle #1: Trust in truth. Whether I'm being facetious is an exercise to the reader.
>> Solved that problem with a Raspberry PI.

If you're ok substituting a Pi for the NES Classic, you might want to try substituting a GPD Win [1] in place of a Switch.

Depending on the games you play, the GPD Win is an excellent portable computer for playing games. After I saw the opening title list and pricing of the Switch, I just ended up buying a GPD Win and play a lot of my Steam library on it. For the games it can't play, I can still use Steam Streaming if I'm playing with it at home. I was pleasantly surprised with some of the 720p frame rates I could get with it. There's a list of games that are playable in the GPD Win's Reddit group [2].

1: https://liliputing.com/2016/10/gpd-win-handheld-gaming-pc-qu...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/gpdwin/comments/5a8z2t/games_that_a...
>perfect harmony

But that sort of gives away the game, doesn't it? There is no perfect harmony in the real world, that only exists in the stylized world of scientific modeling. If you take scientific modeling on faith, or worse, if you adopt a "good enough is" position, then you've already smuggled in mathematical realism and given yourself a foregone conclusion.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Remote

iOS developer looking for new projects. Have experience with both Objective-C and Swift. http://bit.ly/1uh9Ori Feel free to get in touch at nickiosdev+hn@gmail.com for more info.
Ask HN: Is there a streaming client for HN?
Similar to reddit-stream.com.
Hangouts on Chrome uses NaCl for some visual processing (like hats), or at least it used to. So the NaCl code may show up as a plugin process.
Or attach them to large cargo ships?
TIGA – Skills, AI, Robots and Technology: The Government’s Digital Strategy
Mysterious mages among us
Yes, the entry names are automatically done by a hacky module I wrote, I'll fix it, thank you.
Did this trip 6 or more times, it's not that bad...
You spend a night kind of drunk but that is it.
Yeah - see my half-joke comment below
>I don't mean to be uncouth, but if you are 55 and not retired yet, you are going to have serious employment issues in software industry....

as defined by Silicon Valley. There are plenty of roles outside of SV for the gray hairs.
AI is a huge area that will lead to many advances, each one with different impact.
People kept devices which allowed strangers to talk to their children sitting in their house, often in the children's bedroom for nearly a century and it wasn't a major problem. The vast majority of child abuse (like 95+%) is committed by parents or close family members. The danger of strangers is overblown and you shouldn't have to harp on that to get people concerned about companies unnecessarily snarfing up every bit of data about everyone of every age.
Hm, yeah, that's true, and I see your point. Right now I think the benefits outweigh the costs, but I'll definitely think about this (for embedded players, etc).
Last August I go to bed one night and I feel extremely nauseous with a burden on my chest. After vomiting I feel relieved but the burden is still there. So I decide to visit the ER afraid that I might have a heart attack. They give me all the exams and it turns out it was a stomach problem, specifically GERD which turned out to be a bitch because it took 6 months to cure and a very strict diet.

While at the hospital the doctor informs me that quite a lot of people with stomach issues misinterpret them for heart attacks and vice versa, which is the really troubling thing because they think it's their stomach and they die since they neglect to see a doctor. So I ask him, how do you tell whether it's a stomach or a heart issue? You don't, he replies. If you feel anything funny related to your chest go to a hospital.
+1

I get a recaptcha every time I log into hilton to book a hotel room for a trip. That's the only site this happens on; I wonder what I'm doing to trigger it.
Completely understand, and I agree with you. I just wish it was an easy decision to make.
So because I see no reason to upload a photo my 7 year old twitter account is now considered second rate whereas the bot account created last week is not because it was updated to upload a random profile image.

Seems a bit like trying to claim they are doing something while nothing important gets done.
Pandora| Sr SWE Analytics| Oakland, CA| onsite| https://pandora.com/careers/position?id=oSMG4fw8 | Java, Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Ingestion pipelines
Terminal Tragedies - An introduction to CTFs for newbies
That too - comment above this mentioned 55.
"Nintendo have $10.5 billion in the bank – enough for it to take a $257 million loss every year until 2052."

http://nintendotoday.com/nintendo-not-doomed/
I'll just leave this:

Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-la...
Nice idea! But maybe lead with different verbs for the different types?

Ex:
"SEEKING WORK"
"OFFERING GIG"
They said to be betting heavily on AI for day-to-day management https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/bridgewat...
Great, but then I get to decide who is in the second group.
I interviewed at Bridgewater recently. It was a unique experience. From what I could glean, they are trying to take the institutional knowledge and systems thinking that informs their trading strategies and turn those into code.
Role of Luck in Startups – Very Interesting
Why couldn't they have used "func" for functions, like so many languages do, instead of "fun"?
> I came across this a long time ago, but read it again, and laughed out loud several times. It's a good read.

I've read it before as well, but read it again recently due to this HN post (before it moved up in the stack, sometime last week).

While I always find it an amazing and amusing recollection of the period, at the end I always find a bit of "smoke" in my eyes, knowing that we have lost one of the greats of our age, and that I will never be able to say to him personally how much I have enjoyed reading and listening to his words.

Fortunately, though, we do still have those - and they seem to continue to inspire people - which is really something.
This breaks the HN guidelines egregiously.

You've been posting many inflammatory political/ideological comments. We've already asked you not to do this. If you keep doing it, we will ban you.

Also, please don't make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not actually quoting them.
If you use Wifi, keep in mind that it's built on a very fragile physical layer. In fact, the MLME expects up to seven failed transmissions before calling a packet dropped (otherwise it would destroy TCP's performance due to TCP's default congestion control mechanisms). The delays each way from two people speaking over noisy Wifi networks can already add substantial lag.
That's great.
Except it wasn't until the year 1990 that someone like John Carmack could make a smooth-scrolling 2d platformer that would rival Super Mario Bros in terms of performance.

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

SMB was released in 1985.

So yes, please tell me more how an early 1990's PC, without the specialized hardware that consoles had, in the hands of a programmer not-quite-up-to-par in the skills department as John Carmack, would kick the SNES's butt when it came to smooth-scrolling games.
Ask HN: Freelancers/Agencies, how do you write software specifications
I find it difficult to do any project that goes for more than a couple of days unless I have a locked down overall scope and preferably a detailed specifications document specially for web projects where we need to define things like UI, wireframes etc.

There are silo tools like balsamiq etc. that lets you do a wireframe. But then wireframes are just one part of the overall specs. What about things like Use cases, User Flow etc.

I am asking because if you do a big project that takes at least a month or so, it is dangerous to do them without clear specs. Clients mostly mean well but a loosely defined project can turn into a nightmare pretty quickly once the client gets into the mode of "I like this page from this site but the menu from this other site...".

Is there a tool that lets you do specs that actually work and keep you on track ? I know that there always will be scope creep but in my recent experience, a well defined specification makes your life much easier to keep both the client and project on track.
Starling | Front End Engineer & Full Stack Engineer & Security Engineer | SF | Full-Time | Onsite

Starling exists to make organizations better. We're a data aggregation and analysis platform for People data, helping companies create data-backed strategies to build great organizations. From diversity and inclusion, to attrition risk and prevention, we cover a wide range of challenging problems.

We’re looking to hire Front End, Full Stack and Security engineers. You would be joining a small, fun team of incredibly gifted and passionate peers.

Our platform is live and revenue generating, backed by some great investors. We're working with some of the top tech and non-tech companies in the US.

We make extensive use of python/flask, React, Node.js, D3.js - experience with analytics products is a huge plus.

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>New account follows a lot quickly, but doesn't have followers

>New account that with time never ever tweets, only retweets and follows

Both of these are also the behavior of people who use Twitter simply as a content stream. They pretty accurately describe how I use Twitter.
Nice PR stunt! I think the wrong incentive tells me that the quality of the submissions and the outcome of this (hiring the right people) won't be very good.
Planet | SF | System Testbed Engineer | ONSITE | https://www.planet.com

Planet designs, builds, and operates the world's largest fleet of earth observation satellites. In this role, you will lead test and validation efforts to improve quality and drive development speed through testing and validation. You will work closely with cross-functional team members to develop and maintain a test infrastructure and to test new hardware designs and software products.

You will work in a lab environment with exposure to hardware, ground support equipment, and test equipment. Our system testbed is a new and growing project, so you would be responsible for gathering customer requirements from other hardware and software engineers and building infrastructure from the ground up.

The Must Haves:

* Experience working in a lab environment and building/maintaining test hardware fixtures for spacecraft and/or embedded devices

* 3+ years of experience with Python and embedded C programming

* Experience with verification and validation of systems that include embedded software

* Comfortable in a Linux environment

* Experience with continuous integration, automated testing, and build systems

The Nice-to-Haves:

* Experience with AWS, Docker, Jenkins

* Aerospace experience, especially with power systems, ADCS, or flight software

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/15/earth-imaging-company-plan...

Apply at: https://www.planet.com/company/careers/jobs/?gh_jid=587830
I'm not preferring either option. Of course they can be banned. But they will come back. They always do. Why subject yourself to that continuous cycle of stress?
Why the title change? "archive.org guy nearly died" was much more direct/informative. I wouldn't take a second glace at this thread under "the other half" assuming it to be marriage advice.
Counterexample to "hard to use" point: Protonmail.

(Arguably, it's easier to use for some scenarios, compared to Signal or WhatsApp, because one doesn't need to have a reachable mobile phone number.)

As for the crypto - I think, OpenPGP isn't broken or "worse", just has different properties (like lack of standardized PFS, which has both cons and pros). But, yes, protocol limitations for metadata security (e.g. subject lines) are an issue.
It takes ages to load too on mobile: couldn't get past the loading wheel; a shame...