skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | Seattle | Full-Time | On-Site ($130-$250+ depending on experience)

Amazon's New Product Demand Forecasting team is responsible for one of the most challenging problems in supply chain optimization: predicting sales for products that have no sales history. This is a uniquely creative space in Forecasting requiring our machine learning models to capture both the nuances of the global consumer marketplace as well as customer behavior on Amazon.

Our team works closely with research scientists to invent new ways to make use of novel data, solve hard engineering problems around scaling and performance in predicting for tens of millions of products, and iterate quickly in order to stay on the cutting edge.

I'm looking for an experienced software developer (sorry, no university hires at this time!) that is comfortable with big data and machine learning and can:

* Design systems that provide a stable base for innovation in a rapidly changing business

* Improve Forecasting algorithms through data-driven analysis and experimentation in our Scala/Spark environment

* Optimize for scalability and performance of both distributed computations and near-metal C++ code

* Learn quickly and keep up with a rapidly changing machine learning and big data landscape

* Communicate their ideas clearly with all members of a diverse team

If this sounds interesting, as the hiring manager I'd love to chat or buy you coffee. Email me (Stefan) at smai@ (amazon.com) with your resume and a brief introduction. (Interview process is 1 phone screen and onsite interview with whiteboard coding and behavioral questions about your experience.)

P.S. Big shout out and thanks to the HN community for the "Who is hiring?" threads! I've gotten to meet or email with nearly 100 very talented engineers and scientists (and hired several) over the last 2 years. I'm now down to 1 more opening on my team. I'll say this: if you think you're not qualified -- send me an email anyways. I've been flabbergasted with the number of strong engineers who preface their email with "I'm probably not a fit". Imposter syndrome is real -- send me an email anyway and let's at least have a chat!
FYI this is the "Who wants to be hired?" thread, not the "Who's Hiring?" thread.
StriveWire | Hamburg, Germany | Full-time | Onsite | https://strivewire.com

We're redefining eSports for a global community of gamers from more than 190 countries. Looking for experienced full-stack engineers with a passion for Javascript to work with us on our Node.js / React / Hapi.js / PostgreSQL / Redis stack hosted on AWS.
Please have a look at https://strivewire.com/jobs or drop me a mail at beni at strivewire com.

We pay competitively.

Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering.
My mistake if I misunderstood the post I was replying to, I thought the poster was concerned about the number of clients the source stream would need to supply.

So as opposed to ESPN needing an individual stream for every single (for example) Comcast subscriber who was watching, they send one stream to Comcast, who would then replicate it within their network to each subscriber.

I'm not a networking expert though, so maybe it's not that simple.
> The market fails people like him.

How? Doesn't this just imply that there is enough supply for those companies that want to pay a lower wage?
ARM Announces Mali-V550 Video Processor and Mali-DP550 Display Processor
If Google wasn't there, other companies would be doing those things. Arguably, I think most of Google's competitors, doing those things as well, have more ethical business models.

I also think the amount of important things Google is doing has decreasing drastically. Chrome is the last major completely-in-house product I recall Google has released, that wasn't sourced from an acquisition. (That isn't to say acquisitions don't count for anything, but clearly they were able to develop their special sauce outside of Google, so Google is not required to do that thing.)
They tried this before with clones in the 90s. It didn't end well for anyone involved.
So they're a private "almost-bus" company?
> It's much simpler and saner than Windows or Linux.

So true. This is why Genode OS is grabbing my interest these days.
Your time is so regimented and strictly tracked that you'll get scolded for trying to use the bathroom outside your scheduled break and you have to take scores of calls a day, many of which from people who are abusive (and to whom you can't respond in kind or even terminate the call). Also pay is heavily incentive based and the metrics are always changing out from under you.

E: here's a longer article for reference. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/th...
Monetate Labs | Data Scientist | Conshohocken, PA (outside Philadelphia) | Full Time | ONSITE

Monetate Labs is currently looking to hire a data scientist. We are a small team (currently two) that are responsible for R&D on machine learning products at Monetate. We shepherd machine learning products through ideation, feasibility research, and development.

Data Scientist: http://monetate.applytojob.com/apply/ubNfk0jm3Q/Data-Scienti...
Why doesnt McDonald's let you build a big mac at home - it's not like people don't have access to lettuce, tomatoes, hamburger buns, meat, cheese, mayonnaise, pickles, etc. The only thing we really need is the sauce that makes it a big mac.

hey before I answer you wanna take a stab at that question?

EDIT: I don't know why I was downvoted, it's a fairly close analogy.
Abortion Is Murder (Available on Spotify and iTunes  By, Evon Latrail)
Not illegal, just against the EULA. Basically they could revoke your usage of the software and probably legally fine you.

It is a software license issue. Technically it would be something like unlicensed distribution/copying.

Practically speaking they don't care though. The machine building market is vanishingly small and the licensing gives Apple plausible "we never said it would work" deniability.
Free software is definitely better than Open Source, but only if you imply that free-as-in-freedom is granted. Otherwise you often get something free-as-in-beer only like a mobile phone OS, which you surely don't have to pay for, but restrict your use of it in many ways and doesn't respect your privacy, all aspects having nothing in common with the concept of freedom. GNU GPL grants this freedom, but the term "free" is often abused to imply free-as-in-beer without the end user noticing the difference.
Apple never wanted to be part of the DIY PC movement.

They adopt industry standards when convenient, but would be perfectly content to make a Pro machine locked to Moore's Law and 3-year turnovers.

Dongles. Dongles are your Pro future.

Apple don't want to be associated with the "Gamer".
Can you please summarise at the conclusion the breakdown of people who declined to write their country in the Location: field, and what that country was determined to be?
Location: New Hampshire, USA

Remote: Yes please

Willing to relocate: No, but possibly willing to commute in the Greater Boston Area

Technologies: Javascript (Node & React), PHP, MySQL, Blockchain

Resume/CV: https://www.mlangley.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/langley-...

Email: mike@mlangley.net
I helped my friend run conduit last week to solve this exact problem... a 100'($500) thunderbolt cable lets him keep the machine and storage in a separate room outside of the studio. Probably cost close to $600 when you factor in the conduit materials and the Korean BBQ wings he fed me!
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python (Django, Tornado), Javascript (Vuejs, Angular, React, Node, Express), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), Mobile (Android, Cordova, Ionic), Linux Systems Administration, Puppet, Nginx, Caddy, PostgresQL

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-hefner-799b3227/

email: jghefner [at] gmail.com
> How?

Preventing someone from entering the industry fails the person.

> Doesn't this just imply that there is enough supply for those companies that want to pay a lower wage?

If you ignore the human aspects entirely, sure.

There's no telling what heights he could climb to if given the chance, but nobody wants to do that.

They want years of professional experience before they hire someone. But they only want to pay entry level wages. This creates a catch-22:

If you have the professional experience required, you can find a better paying job elsewhere.

If you have no professional experience, you can't get an entry-level position.
Guidebook | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime, ONSITE, VISA transfer | Software Engineer--Android

At Guidebook, we’re developing mobile apps to help organizations of all types connect with their audiences. Now, at 6 years old, we’ve powered over 20,000 events, conferences, and guides. On average, we serve hundreds of thousands of users per week, and some of our more popular events can attract tens of thousands by themselves. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Android Engineer to join our team.

Best way to apply is to head over to our careers page and mention that you saw this on HN :) https://guidebook.com/careers/#open-positions
Isn't Lua supposed to be an example of a concatenative language?
The Self-Made Myth Debunked
The issue isn't that they're fake but that positive reviews end up hidden as 'not recommended' and negative ones suddenly float to the top once the protection money stops.

It looks like there's manipulation of the algorithm that determines what reviews are legitimate on a per client basis. The 'free' package is pretty unforgiving, but if you pay then its tweaked more towards your favor. Nothing about this would be illegal. Its how Yelp manages their site and I believe have already won a lawsuit against this.

Consumers need to be taught that Yelp isn't trustworthy. Sadly, it seems to have a Facebook-like network effect that'll be tough to beat. On the plus side Google reviews are the default on Google maps and other Google services and they seem to not play these games.
I'm not arguing against that, I'm arguing against "how every human body has the same design range of motion." I don't think that everyone achieves their potential range of motion equally well but I definitely also don't think everyone has the same potential range of motion.

The problem with calling us "designed" is that it makes it sound like we are all built to some universal specification. This is not true, but the parent post acts as if it is. Whatever evolution does (call it design if you must), it does not act particularly strongly to get all humans the same potential range of motion.
Yeah, I'm starting to think I may need to custom build a desk. Desk height is a clear part of the problem. But I'm afraid that the best desk height for preventing tension is going to be around where my knees end up.

The chair will be difficult, because in order to not have arm tension I'll have to have them resting almost down to where my hip bone is. I can't say I've ever seen a chair with arm rests that low.

I'm realizing that the key issue for me, ergonomically, is the "arm rest," which is really not a good name because it is impossible to truly "rest" my arm on one, meaning relax the muscles.
Bear in mind, Google did not develop YouTube, and YouTube was incredibly popular long before Google got involved. Google purchased YouTube. Their own video posting service, Google Video, is barely remembered today.
Profit margin, plain and simple. I'm willing to pay a premium for the best laptop, been using macbooks exclusively for years and they are actually a great value for the quality of the components. But I will not pay 3x for comparable desktop that I can't upgrade just to run MacOS.
If you're feeling adventurous you can also try Fish shell with it's collection of themes

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/blob/master/docs/Th...
Melbourne Business School, class of 2015 (part-time).

The electives that have been most useful to this startup: "Entrepreneurship & New Value Creation", "Managing Service Businesses", "Negotiations", "Mergers & Acquisitions", "Business Law".

Amongst other outcomes, these units a) quite radically changed my perspective on matters pertaining to value creation & capture - which was especially surprising for someone with two decades meandering experience across many different product & service development gigs - and b) gave me the analytical tools & confidence I needed to put my ideas into practice.
I guess there is a space where it matters more and one where it matters less (at least for me).

Something like a notebook or a smartphone? Thin, light, and pretty have a bit more bearing on these things because you carry them around and other people see them. The value you place on this sort of "form v. function" balance will vary but I can certainly see how "form" can have some legit worth.

But with a high-end workstation I feel that there's much less of an argument to be made for the importance of "form" past a more basic level of build quality and form factor. It might matter a little bit more on a workstation than something like a server that lives in a rack 24/7 but when considering a high-powered workstation purchase, I care very little about it being thin, light, pretty, or unique in shape. Power, flexibility, and "upgradeability" matter vastly more.
ANI reminds me of HDLs [1] - I'm assuming that's the inspiration with terminology like "latch"?

Hardware is also concurrent by default. Coding some hardware logic will also change the way you approach coding. Anyone who's interested get an FPGA demo board and write some verilog or VHDL - I highly recommend it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
Geesh, does reporting my experience with the two languages really warrant this kind of snarky ad-hominem attack?
Neat! But fwiw, the Martian bricks are up to 50 times stronger :3
A back door is a back door is a back door.

Let's hope Intel and all the other chipmakers will learn this lesson (unless it's done on purpose, in which case they won't care about any lessons learned - they'll do it anyway).
Algorithmic Accountability
SEEKING WORK - Remote Only, Mexico

Technologies: Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Git, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Jax-RS, Slick, Finatra, Sinatra, Security, Web, AngularJS, APIs, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Docker.

Résumé/CV: I'm a generalist who have worked in several areas (embedded devices, j2me, android, desktop, web, back-end, front-end, BigData), currently I work mostly with Web Applications and BigData.

I can do a lot of things and I can learn fast what I'm required to.

I'm focused on writing maintainable, secure and scalable applications, I always try to apply good coding practices to make the life easier of the people who will work with my code.

I'm pretty interested in security related things, I've been passionate about security for the last years, I know about common vulnerabilities (exploit and prevent) and how to write secure software. It can be good to mention that I learned to program because I was trying to do reverse engineering like 8 years ago and took assembler as my first language which I learned by myself.

I've experience working with demanding clients, switching schedules to what a client prefers and I have great communication skills.
Printing's gone better nowadays. My Chromebook is able to recognize the network printer.
It's tall enough that I can neither bend me legs to 90 degrees nor use a regular office chair.

While 190cm is not this tall, it's just too tall to fit into most industry norms: Beds, bikes, desk & chairs are all made for "slightly smaller" people. The 3cm my armrests are missing in height are exactly those 3cm that my whole upper body will gravitate down so that my arms can rest. 2h later I have a stiff neck, 8h later a sore back.
tl;dr Zip There isn't a good mapping between zip-code and water source so water source being the common denominator for high lead levels wasn't recognized, little additional effort was put into combing through the data and you know the rest of the story.
Everwise | New York City | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack | Onsite | Full-time |

Everwise is a startup that works with over 300 enterprise customers to help their employees grow and reach development goals over our Learning and Development platform. We do this from a new angle - harnessing the power of social relationships, including matching users with mentors and peer groups, and using curated content to supplement the experience. Our platform and matching engine allows us to scale out customized learning experiences for both our enterprise clients and their individual users. Our Engineers are working on an array of problems like improving Matching,creating new functionality on our platform, and working on move to mobile using React Native this year.

Day-to-day we leverage, React, React Native, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Redis, AWS,and Postgres; we're looking for someone who can solve an array of problems with a broad set of technologies.

Interview Process. We have 3 structured interviews - A phone interview to test for initial fit, followed by a panel engineering interview over Video/Coderpad, followed by a structured on-site interview to finish.

If you are interested in this role, or any of our others, please reach out to me over email - stephen@geteverwise.com

Note: we will again be hiring more Jr. Engineers later this year, but need to first focus on hiring a few more Senior Engineers. We are currently seeking candidates with 5+ years of working in a production environment. This hire will help with training and mentoring our more Jr. Engineers as we grow.

This role, and all others can be found here. https://boards.greenhouse.io/everwise#.WJNT2LYrI6g

Thanks,
Stephen Fleming
Everwise | stephen@geteverwise.com
I think what I have to say, then, is welcome to quantum mechanics. Or, in fact, welcome to probability theory. Mathematically, there's no difference between a process which can only be predicted probabilistically, and a process which really is random; no difference between incomplete knowledge in your head and stochasticity in the world.

An interesting question is: how could a fully deterministic ontology give rise to beings capable of having probabilistic beliefs? Worse, how can a fully deterministic ontology give rise to truly random mathematical entities like Chaitin's Omega? In fact, in such a universe, where do the bits for atomic random-number generators come from? After all, if they're not really random, there should be some deterministic model capable of predicting them, and yet, quantum mechanics tells us precisely that such a thing is impossible.

You can try to have a Bayesian epistemology with a nonstochastic ontology, but it doesn't really make sense. Just let your ontology be stochastic: then and only then you can physically account for both physical randomness and probabilistic belief.
The recent MacPro was only a misstep in that they bet on CPU/GPU design zigging instead of zagging.

It was a technically beautiful machine (still is, really) but their choices meant it became impossible to update.

If the market had gone the other way we'd likely be talking about the 2016 MacPro instead.
At least in C# terminology, a "setter" for a public property is mediated access, unmediated access would be a public field that can be set without invoking a setter method.

Getters and setters in C# are method calls, like `setFoo` in Java, so can't be assumed to be simple, they can do anything any other method can do.
Knewton | NYC | ONSITE |

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Knewton is the world’s leading adaptive learning technology provider with the mission of bringing personalized education to the world.

We are looking for the following: Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, SRE/DevOps, Systems, Data Scientist

Favorite Tools: React, Java, Python, Ansible

Perks: Unlimited Vacation, Health/Dental/Vision, Free Lunch, Stock Options

Process: (1) Culture Screen, (2) Tech Screen (3) Tech Interview

Questions? recruiting@knewton.com
Ummm, no, you don't subtract those people. Those people have handicapped passes, they are for use for when they are passengers. Disabled children also have passes too.

At least in my state.

Source: personal experience knowing at least 5 non-motorist (and personally driving them) and 3 children with disabled platecards. My grandma (never knew how to drive) kept hers in my mom's car since my mom was the one driving her 95% of the time. It actually didn't make any sense for her to have one though because she was always pushed in a wheelchair by a non-disabled person.
Here is the funny part. This article is a bad idea and it now can't be killed.

Turtles all the way down.

P.S. If you believe you are the rational one and that other people are irrational, you are acting irrationally.
The author focuses on the algorithmic and computational aspects of programming. Yet, nowadays programming is much more than this beautiful classical view on programming. Programming is more about describing a complex system by taking into account such aspects as concurrency, cross-cutting concerns, asynchronous events, transactionality, distributed computations etc.
the idea that everyone with a nest-egg should run out and buy property, any property, and expect it to go up in price, seems "commodity-like" to me
Anyone who thinks that QM is making stuff up, please watch this video. Here Rubidium atoms (mind you atoms and not electrons or photos) are made to interfere with each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_w6AGe_fIo

Quantum mechanics is a foundation of physics, chemistry and materials science. Still, there is an ongoing debate about the emergence of the classical, macroscopic world from the well-understood microscopic world of quantum mechanics. We contribute to this discourse by demonstrating quantum superposition of massive particles at the distance (0.5 m) and time scales (2 s) of everyday life, thereby advancing the state-of-the-art of atom de Broglie wave interferometry by nearly two orders of magnitude [1]. In addition to testing a central tenet of quantum mechanics, we pave the way for new precision tests of gravity, including the possible observation of gravitational waves and tests of the equivalence principle. In related experimental work, we demonstrate that entangled clusters of approximately 1000 atoms can be used to achieve 10-fold improvement in the sensitivity of quantum sensors based on atomic transitions; the levels of performance achieved could not have been realized with any competing (non-entangled) method [2].
Thanks! We updated the link from https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/859006000136769536.
Were the one-star reviews the most recent ones? it seems like a fairly reasonable optimization that if the average score takes a sharp trend in any direction, reviews from before that trend started shouldn't be counted in the score.
It won't be long till a new job appears "dweller of investment house", with job descriptions like "minimal impact on property". Defining what "unoccupied" means will become very important.
Events and Notifications in AWS Database Migration Service
> It's not that I'm demeaning it, but that I don't feel like it's in the same realm of discussion os the Copenhagen's rather pragmatic "stuff happens behind the curtain, but here's how to work with it" approach.

I don't get the distinction you're trying to make. The maths are all the same, so the interpretation has almost no bearing on how to work with it.

Furthermore, pilot waves produce a deterministic theory because of non-locality, but it sounds like you're criticizing superdeterminism. They're not the same. 't Hooft is working on a superdeterministic theory based on cellular automata.

In any case, how are pilot waves any different than any other classical theory in this regard? It's about describing the system as accurately as one can, which entails inferring the initial conditions based on how we know the system evolves, ie. this cannon ball fell here because it was launched with force X at angle Y from height Z.