skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like there's a large volume of information in the logs. I mean, if Tesla can tell whether the driver has his hands on the wheels there's probably a ton of other details.

It makes me wonder how practical it would be to use these logs. I hear about so-called "black boxes" in cars (not just Tesla), but where are the tools to decipher the data? How much can you trust that the logs reflect reality?
My take on the desire to regulate/manage is that some people would rather have an economy of perverse incentives than tolerate the inevitable abuses caused by lack of accountability. Management in the programming world feels the same way. At first, to many of us, this seems foolish and counter-productive, but then think: how does a university policy maker or a manager explain the rotten eggs (low output academics, unproductive developers) to their "boss," which might be the tax paying public or a budget strapped firm? How does a competitive university distinguish itself in a communicable/verifiable way? Could I be fired, or in the private sector sued for letting smart people fuck up unsupervised? It is difficult to trust others when the worst case outcome exposes us to catastrophic consequences.

I personally agree with the author, but I think there's serious work that could be done to mitigate or remove the incentives to manage, and I don't think those are as thin as "tell people to stop trying to control what they can't"
If I recall the first TV ad they did was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLYPMmZfwY, which is the only one I saw -- but I saw it a lot on late-night television; probably Comedy Central or Adult Swim.

The ads were problematic in the sense that they were essentially context-free, and while "us millennials" are enticed by shows we want to stream, we're also very cautious and skeptical of heavily advertised services at a late hour.

In me, the garish palette of the ads and the name evoked MTV-style advertising of the mid-1990s, when I was much younger, and bombarded with sketchy ads for polyphonic ringtones, J2ME games, and other services for brick cellphones on late-night television: an association that made me more wary than anything else, especially since the offered content appeared decidedly second-tier.
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I'm a software engineer at Improbable. We're building SpatialOS, a distributed operating system that facilitates simulation on an unprecedented scale. My team is responsible for taking SpatialOS and helping corporations and governments ask huge, "what if" questions of the real world.
We're backed by A16Z and partnered with Google (https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/improbable-teams-with-goog...).

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EMEX | Houston TX, Portland OR | Senior Software Engineer (Ruby) | Fulltime, onsite or remote | www.emexllc.com

EMEX is a rapidly growing online energy broker. We have an innovative reverse auction platform that lets customers buy cheaper electricity and natural gas without the hassle. Our proprietary broker management system powers our internal operations and that of many of our partners.

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Our primary stack: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, React.

Ideal candidate will be near Houston, TX or Portland, OR, but I'm open to remote (in US only) for the right person.

If you'd like to learn more or apply, email me at: ives.j [at] emexllc.com.
New ideas are always good, nothing advances without trying new stuff. I'm sad I missed out that they had gone into production, I thought I was on the list for that. Or maby I just missed it.

The main issue with this system is the stainless steel keys I think (required to have enough strength so they don't bend up). High security keys always cost more, but cutting SS keys has to be murder on the key duplicator (and $20 per key is quite a price and reflects the challenge of working with SS). And it's more expensive for Bowley, so lower profit margin compared to their competitors even at scale.

However I'm sure the quality is good for that price. I am curious though, are their any anti-drill pins in the cylinder? Or, if the entire cylinder is Stainless then that is practically the same thing.
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Remote: YES
Willing to relocate: Yes, , South California, Bay Area, Oregon
Technologies: iOS, Swift, Objective-C
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WoUBJdvIIO-mfv3DASTIWo4sNV8NqFiFTqQjZ7gY500/view
Email: ipogo [at] gmail.com
IMHO, yes, as would any other city within a few hours. You just need to be close enough to pound the pavement and take meetings. Of course it is marginally better to be able to list a Los Angeles phone number and address on your contact info.
Location: Orem, UT
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Selenium Webdriver, Ruby, Rails, PHP, PgSQL, MySQL, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SASS
Résumé/CV: https://alexcbilimoria.com/alex-c-bilimoria-resume.pdf
Email: acbilimoria [at] gmail.com
Location: Central Virginia
Remote: if possible
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: C, C++, Embedded Linux, Georgia Tech OMS CS student wanting to get into robotics.
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lr0m3YKXXNauvAO4S0URgNJqYwJADbsyYGGrKzngnzE/edit?usp=sharing
Email:nerd.king@gatech.edu
It's not that their SR-IOV implementations are incompatible, it's more that SR-IOV doesn't imply anything about driver compatibility. It's is a mechanism for exposing underlying hardware (or slices of hardware) to guests and nothing more. It does not encompass register sets, queue formats, etc.

So you can assign a virtual function from any SR-IOV-capable NIC into a VM using common code, but what the guest sees inside the VM will still be an Intel, Mellanox, Chelsio, etc. device. Naturally they'll need a driver for that device.

If your fleet includes NICs from a variety of vendors, you'd never be able to live migrate VMs between hosts with different NIC models. Until recently, no vendor I knew of included the relevant serialization and deserialization functionality to allow for live migration at all.
Mattersight wants to use AI and Alexa to send you ads based on your personality
Scaling Unsplash to 10M+ requests/day with a small team
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Zoomi is Artificial Intelligence for learning.

Zoomi, a performance optimization data analytics company, brings together the disciplines of predictive and prescriptive analytics, machine learning and data mining to glean insights and intelligence about a learner's behavior, cognitive and engagement preferences to synchronize learning with business outcomes. Zoomi's first-to-market technology delivers measurable ROI for corporate training and education programs. The company was founded in January 2015 by a global team of industry-leading engineers, developers and designers. Zoomi's headquarters are in Malvern, PA.

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It could also have been a head injury. Hard to say from the description.
Last time I pinged their spokesman (Alex Voica), the answer was that they hadn't found someone with the 'right fit'.
it is what you concentrate on when your other numbers don't look so good.

The 3 is going to be a real test here. Not that they can make the car but that those expecting to get one at 35k actually get one and on a timely basis. Then throw in, is there any profit at that price point when factoring in all related costs?
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 health brand on a mission to disrupt the $60 Billion pet food industry. Our products are human-quality, personalized and manufactured on demand.

Even though we don't sound like a typical tech company we take pride in development. We’re building a subscription based e-commerce business from the ground up and have plenty of interesting problems to solve. Our aim is to offer a seamless subscription experience through on-time production, customized products and best in class customer support. 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. We also have openings for Junior/Senior CX and Senior Ops positions.

If this sounds like you reach out at info+hn@thefarmersdog.com
Amazon fundamentally does not understand UX. Office is too entrenched and Google Drive has great UX. This product is dead on arrival.
Just a heads up, your resume has a typo (missing word) in the first sentence of the first paragraph. "Worked on a small team [of] developers in a lead position developing backend systems for both internal and customer-facing services."
What infrastructure do you have in mind? Factories?
Having lived (and survived!) the NYC dating scene it took me until the "I would cancel, contact support..." part of your post to realize you were talking about Uber and not the lunatics you encounter during the NYC dating experience.
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Current open positions:

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For a working dev who occasionally uses OpenBSD, is passionate about the project & its goals and wants to contribute, how would you suggest I start?

I tried keeping up with the mailing lists for a while, but I found it difficult.
Made by me (impactful first):

https://backdoor.sdslabs.co/

https://truesharer.com/

https://gcdc2013-know-your-gov.appspot.com/

"Looking for Software Engineering positions in US, Australia, London, Spain, Sweden and Norway."

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocation: Yes, to US, Australia, London, Spain, Sweden and Norway.

Technologies: Python, PHP, C, Numpy, D3.js, Docker, Java, Android, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, CSS

Apart from these things, I am great at anything related to Linux (shell, networking, security etc).

I usually learn something in a short period of time. I move fast and break things to learn super quick. Though it takes time to master things.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7flsak0407xki2q/AbhishekKandoi.pdf...

Email: abhikandoi2000@gmail.com
I mean, graves that aren't consistently below the frost line can eventually move and shift to the surface. That's a sight that'll have you chopping up the corpses of loved ones, I bet.

Edit: speeling
Biology is at the intersection of those fields. There is an oversupply problem, and it is definitely the worst offender for metrics-based research micromanagenent.
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Our flagship apps - Zombies, Run!, Racelink, and The Walk – combine innovative real-world interaction and gameplay with captivating stories and design. In short, we make exercising fun. We want to find someone who can help us maintain and improve our existing apps and develop new experiences that are just as revolutionary and innovative.

As web developer at Six to Start, you will be primarily responsible for sustaining and improving the infrastructure that powers Racelink and Zombies, Run!, apps with 4 million downloads. You’ll work with a fully remote development team and be able to make an impact straight away.

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About Nexedi: We are a small international team (headquarters in Lille, France) creating free software since 2001. We run our own stack including solutions like SlapOS (Cloud Deployment), ERP5 (Business) or Wendelin (Big Data/Machine Learning) for which we provide customization services as well as other software products which we develop and use internally (NEO - distributed database, jIO - cross storage JavaScript connector with offline/sync). We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings. We mostly hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript. Join us!
That's great, but I'd love to hear what your manager says about your recent performance. Is there any way I can sit down with him or her and maybe come up with a game plan of how we can improve their performance in helping you meet your managerial goals?
HelloSign (https://www.hellosign.com) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

We're hiring experienced developers to work on our two flagship products, HelloSign and HelloWorks. We have open front-end and full-stack positions (PHP or Elixir).

Our typical hiring process is quick, involving a phone screen and two on-site interviews.

More info about the just launched HelloWorks (Elixir & React/Redux) here:
* https://www.hellosign.com/products/helloworks
* http://blog.hellosign.com/the-new-web-elixir-phoenix-channel...

Job listings: https://jobs.lever.co/hellosign
that's the metanarrative that is used yes.

Realistically they more often invest on their perception of others perception of the promise of future value. How those perceptions get linked together is interesting but it is not nearly as objective as you imply.
Why would startups need to do this? AFAIK, at least for small US companies, they can just hire anyone they want. They are not obliged to post the jobs or accept general resumes -- if they want to hire an insider, they just hire him, and no one outside would even be aware that there was a job offering.

I have heard about larger companies / government agencies having these kinds of interviews due to internal procedures, but hopefully most startups have more sane setup.
+1 to working with Haiku. I submitted some patches, and they're a friendly and welcoming developer community.
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Machine Learning (scikit-learn, some TF, own algorithms), Python, C, R, Matlab

CV: https://gertjanvandenburg.com/files/cv.pdf

Email: see CV
Location: United Kingdom (US Citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Postgres, RSpec/Capybara,

TravisCi/GitlabCi, Coffeescript, Javascript, Gitlab/Github, Slack/RocketChat

Résumé/CV: https://schwad.github.io

Email: nicholas.schwaderer@gmail.com
I could keep coming up with examples, both current and historical, because this is a general phenomenon. Anytime there is a large payoff for a small number of slots, along with an inability to instantly measure top performers, a filtering heirarchy is naturally constructed. Military officers (94% of commissioned officers do not retire with the military http://www.skyhinews.com/news/hamilton-military-retirement-8...), tech start-ups (duh), organized crime, trade guilds, investment banking etc., etc.

You can think such fields are a bad bet for newcomers, should be regulated, and so on, but it doesn't make sense to say that they are "in crisis". They can last for arbitrarily long times, and generally produce what they are expected to produce!

There's also little reason to think that academics and law aren't just as much determined by genetics as musics, sports, and acting.
<< Ford sells that many F-Series trucks in the U.S. about every three weeks. >>

This is why Ford is unlikely to succeed at pivoting into the electric car market. The power and pull inside their company doesn't want them to. It will take superhuman leadership to overcome that force.
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That's an interesting comparison — we could very well end up in a market where existing manufacturers catch up and vastly outsell Tesla in the long-run (Android), and Tesla ends up as a very successful luxury model (iOS).
anaconda-project: NPM-like dependencies management for Python
Location: New York City

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Javascript (React.js included), some AWS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vjtorres/

Email: victorres11@gmail.com

Interested in a growth engineering position or on teams that have a cross-functional need.
As a former GSoC mentor, I think it's important to have an onboarding pipeline in your project, and disagree with the notion that the mentor/student relationship is somehow atypical - such relationships pop up all the time in the natural course of projects, and are key to the health of most of them. It's up to you to select the students who you think will stick around. Given that, taking the time to onboard junior people is a really rewarding investment in the project.

(My student ended up going on to work for Red Hat. I don't presume I had a lot to do with it, but I think the culture did.)
As much as it would be nice to have an alternative to MS Office, it seems like a lot of these 'killers' focus on the wrong things that are needed.

1. Completely offline use, including local save, backups etc. Which goes completely against the cloud. But this is something that Microsoft got right with 365. I can install it and use it completely isolated from the internet and still collaborate online if needed.

2. Academic writing features, like citations, footnotes, and things like that. No alternative I have tried has ever been able to easily do these things, and MS Office has them all built in.

3. Suite interoperability. I need to be able to make a chart in Excel. Copy and Paste (Ctrl+C/V, not some export process) it over to Word in the document, then paste it into PowerPoint for the presentation. Or maybe save it out as a PNG for Latex or something.
when i grew up i used to drink fresh (pasteurized) milk, later switched to UHT, nowadays i tried even pure raw non pasteurized milk from farm milk vending machine and honestly i can't say difference between pasteurized, raw and UHT, all of them of course full fat 3.2-3.6%, these days i even tried 5% Jersey cow pasteurized fresh milk but that taste to me like spoiled milk and can't drink it, on the other hand i tried lactose free full fat UHT milk and i was surprised by nice sweet flavor, very suitable for children (it was surprising to me considering i noticed zero difference between 82% butter with it without lactose)

for practical reasons i prefer UHT milk, much easier to store and keep in fridge only 1-2 boxes you are going to drink
Looking Closer: What It Means to “Learn to Code”​
I got turned down with a form letter when I applied to Improbable before there was an SF office. Should I send a CV for SF anyway?
I wonder how likely it is for Apple to support Vulkan on its hardware.
In my experience money is a key incentive for students in GSoC and that makes it hard to keep them as volunteers

I think this nails it.
Source? That's a huge architectural change for them.
Ah, since you own both, I'll take your word for it.
Having worked in aws for two years, I have zero faith in Amazon's ability to deliver a compelling user interface for anything remotely casual.

Also, I'm sorry, amazon has absolutely no strength in enterprise marketing, and Microsoft is king of that realm for a reason.
Doh! That'll teach me to make quick updates to the resume on posting day...

Much appreciated!
Is a mistake still a mistake when it is a profitable action?

If fitting to human irrationality increases generalization performance, then it does not matter if the "machines seem destined to repeat our mistakes", it is still a useful signal. If fitting to human irrationality decreases generalization performance, your algorithm is overfit to noise (and you have bigger fish to fry than human irrationality).

Overfitting to noise is perfectly avoidable, not pre-destined when part of your data is noisy (noisy data is the rule not the exception).
Design for Golang Projects
Nothing special - just macros (provided by the framework that the components run in), which allow the programmer to filter based on filename and/or log level, and print the filename, function and text to file.

There's so much trace that you can't use it in production mode, even if you have a test system which isn't handling any load, so it's purely a debug tool.