skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect tptacek's expertise in his domain. I sometimes argue with him in other topics, where he is out of depth but assumes that because his a respected expert in one domain he is also an expert in others when he is actually not an expert at all.

this applies to all sorts of things, and PG is no exception. PG is an expert on programming and on founding VC funded companies. he is certainly not an expert on most other things but would frequently comment on those things as if he was, and then act very defensive and shocked when he was criticized for things he was wrong about or tone-deaf about.

really this applies to ANYONE in this community. there is lots of very intelligent, well-reasoned discussion, but nobody ought to get a pass on things because of their reputation. we ought not defer to authority. we ought to discuss the arguments as presented.
Show HN: Bookbinder (Remastered) – Create stylish eBooks within minutes
A few weeks ago, I posted Bookbinder on HN (and elsewhere). But, I had lackluster screenshots that evoked MS Word circa 1997. (I was so fixated on functionality, I forgot I was also building a design tool.)

So I added new templates, better customization options and a bunch of screenshots that demonstrate the design and functionality of the service.

https://bookbinder.co
check out my profile @ https://linkedin.com/in/vaibhavdeoda
For perspective: I started doing contract CAD work in 1990. I started doing freelance residential and commercial design in 2002. I started practicing architecture in 2007. The tl;dr: If I have doubts about a potential client paying quickly or at all I will validate that doubt by requiring a check rather than just hoping I am wrong.

Typically, I require a substantial retainer to be applied against final invoice. By substantial, I mean big enough to cover all the billings up to payment of the first invoice. Payment terms are always "Due on receipt of invoice." I am not in the no-interest short term unsecured loan business. This means:

1. I will not be upside down where I am owed money for work I have done.

2. I will not discover that the client does not have funds to pay me.

3. I will avoid potential clients with a strong propensity not to pay without investing much time.

4. I will avoid potential clients who will use me as a bank.

5. I will avoid potential clients who believe that since they did not build it, they should not have to pay.

The most significant characteristic of a good client is that they pay quickly and well. Here, "well" can mean a lot or regularly, but preferably both. Writing a check before we start is a good indicator.

There are exceptions of course. Bureaucratic organizations have their payment procedures. On the other hand, if the person who I am talking to cannot authorize a retainer, then I might not be talking to the right decision maker about the financial aspects of the contract.

Good luck.
LogMeIn | Designer - New Product Innovation | Boston | ONSITE
I work at LogMeIn, and while we are now a huge SaaS company my team is focused on operating independently to build an awesome new product.

We are a super small team of engineers, product, and data nerds. We all wear lots of hats depending on the day but we are looking for a great designer to join us to lead all things visual. You will be responsible for creating prototypes, high fidelity designs, interviewing users, designing and performing other types of research, brand management and more.

Since we are part of a larger company we can offer full benefits, awesome new offices in Seaport, and competitive salaries. Shoot me an email if you want to find out more - calum.barnes@logmein.com
Split | http://www.split.io | Frontend / Backend / Data Engineers, Support & Sales Roles | SF/Redwood City | Full time

About Split: Split is the platform for controlled rollouts, providing feature flagging SDKs in eight distinct languages and a web UI that lets anyone on the team create feature rollouts and target them to the right users. Our customers use Split to run experiments, permanently control features, or even just as a safety net for every release. Our integrations with services like Datadog, JIRA and Slack help teams reduce time-to-resolution if things go wrong.

Our stack - Java8, React, Mongo, Aurora, Kinesis.

Our openings are a great chance to join an early team with a solid foundation—we recently raised our series A from Accel Partners, LightSpeed Ventures and Sway Ventures and have customers like Segment, WePay, and Main Street Hub. Frontend and backend engineers will be a core part of leading the planning, design and building of services to support new features and products, and our sales and support roles will be key advocates for our growing customer base.

For more and to apply: https://jobs.lever.co/split
X and rhubarb pie, where X is any kind of fruit or berry, is a staple pie variety in Maine, so it's not exclusive to the South.
The Trade Desk | Full Time, Onsite | San Jose CA, San Francisco CA, Aliso Viejo CA, Ventura CA, Boulder CO, New York NY, London UK, Sydney AUS, Bellevue WA

Hiring: All levels of software engineers, as well as front-end focused developers who are comfortable with data-access design, development and optimization. You might be a great fit for The Trade Desk dev team if:

* You are a full-stack engineer who wants to work everywhere, not just a small subset of components. Experience / interest in working in a variety of layers and technologies within a SOA is a must for our team. This includes: client-side AngularJS / JQuery, MVC-based web architecture, external RESTful APIs, distributed (and in our case, highly scaled) request handling services, no-SQL and relational SQL databases, many-layered data pipeline (e.g. data bus architecture, Hadoop / MPP data warehouse, etc.) that moves hundreds of thousands of items per second, and data visualization (e.g. Tableau). Experience in all these layers is not strictly required, but we do like to see experience working in more than one, as well as eagerness to work on projects that might slice through them all.

* You have product-driven software development experience using a modern, object-oriented language. Memory-managed languages are best -- .e.g. C#, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. We do most of our work in C#/.Net, but specific experience here is not required.

Cool stuff about TTD:

* Our platform processes 5million+ queries per second

* Work with the best engineering team in AdTech

* The combination of huge data sets, high throughput, low latency and amazing scale means that we're constantly solving some of the biggest challenges in computer science.

* We've grown faster than any other adtech company in the industry, and have been recently recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine and Deloitte.

* Amazing Company Culture (We're very proud of our top rating on Glassdoor)

* Top-tier benefits

If you're interested, please apply directly on our website: https://www.thetradedesk.com/join-us/open-positions

*Note: We are also hiring a Big Data DBA (Vertica), an East & West Coast Solutions Architect, a Sr. Data Scientist, and a BI Data Warehouse Developer!
Objects containing references can share referents.
Opus One Energy Solutions | DevOps, Software, and QA developers | Toronto or Richmond Hill, ON | ONSITE, FULLTIME | https://www.opusonesolutions.com/

Come help build the future of the electricity grid! We are a talented cross disciplinary team of engineers and developers building software solutions for electrical utilities. Our platform enables better planning for renewable resource integration and provides real-time operational views of the electrical grid in order to maximize clean & sustainable electricity.

Our Tech Stack

* Python
* React
* Docker

Interview Process

1. Phone screen
2. Onsite. Discussion about your experience with a mix of behavioural and technical questions.
We don’t do whiteboarding, instead we have some short code questions where you have full access to any
resources you would normally use.

Compensation

* Salary: competitive
* Health & Dental coverage
* Learning budget

We have several open positions on both the operations (electrical engineering) and R&D (software) sides of the business. We’re looking for talented software, DevOps, and QA engineers.

Think you might be a great fit? Apply through our website at https://www.opusonesolutions.com/careers/#navigation-positio...
Well, for Schroedinger's cat, it's hypothesis 1. For quantum systems, hypothesis 2 has some evidence behind it.

But you can't translate the quantum stuff to the cat, because the detector makes a measurement. So because of the detector, the uncertainty is gone, and there's no uncertainty in the state of the radioactive atoms, let alone in the cat.
I grant you it's an anecdote, but I think there are poll numbers to support that people tend to shy away from sports broadcasts that are more political. I believe they did polling on Colin Kaepernick and his effect on NFL ratings. I can't find a direct ESPN study, but I can link you to tons of articles of them being political and generally left leaning.
It could be a small part of those people who are doing this in order to have a bigger bonus. Bad incentive structures that cause bad behaviours is not an unknown phenomenon.
I've lived in the midwest all of my life, and grew up eating Rhubarb Pie that my grandmother made. The Rhubarb she used was from her garden, and is likely the decedent of my original German homestead family from several generation back.

Recently I've come to learn that Rhubarb is not native. Which was surprising to me because I see it everywhere. It came over from our European immigrants and has been hanging out ever since.

Last spring I was hiking in a forest in ND, and came across a beautiful patch of rhubarb. This got me thinking -- where did this patch of Rhubarb come from? If all local Rhubarb eventually can be traced back to the mother plant brought over from Europe as immigrants made their way west, could we use genetic markers to trace individual patches back to specific homesteads, and ultimately to specific counties of origin in Europe? This kind of thing fascinates me.

According to the linked article, the plant originally came from China. So in theory, only part of the story would be told by linking a patch back to Europe. You could continue to trace back all the way to China.
Why is it "time"? Is there some critical shortage of handicapped parking? Every time I go anywhere with a parking lot, there seems to be lots of available handicapped parking. Obviously it's great fun to feel indignant when you have to park in a less-good spot while someone with a placard pulls in and walks in - clearly a cheat - but if it's not actually significantly affecting people on average, just write it off as cost of doing business.

That said, I even caution against judging other people for their use of a disabled placard without an apparent motion disability. I had a friend who had nothing obviously wrong with him (I was friends with him for about a year before I even knew he had a disabled placard), but one day he gave me a ride and apparently felt the need to explain to me that he has MS, and that walking was quite painful for him even though he moved with an apparently normal pace and gait. Presumably there are many other reasons why an otherwise normal-looking person would have and/or use one of these placards, so I really think you need to come in with more than anecdotes about people who don't seem disabled.
Site is throwing NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID on latest Chrome Canary, is anyone else seeing that?
What is the management engine, and how does one access it remotely?
Senior software engineer. Austin.

> Mostly Java, C, C++ & A fair amount of Node.
> Spring Framework
> API Architecture and development
> SQL & NoSQL experience
> Experience with (real) big data and low latency development from bast jobs.
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, some Python, some Java and Android, RoR, PostgreSQL, Front-end (HTML, CSS, JS and most of it's preprocessors/dialects). I am a full-stack developer specialized in minimal Ruby frameworks and performance.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/badosu/CV/blob/master/cv_en.pdf

Email: amadeusfolego [at] gmail.com
From the Wikipedia plot summary it doesn't seem much different from what currently happens in countries like Saudi Arabia.
What people accuse Yelp of doing is pretty close to racketeering (or is? IANAL) and thus there is a high burden of proof. As a sibling comment points out, not every accusation needs detailed proof but some do and despite the years of accusations there isn't any definitive proof.

Also, look at the information you've seen about bad practices at Uber recently. I'm aware my next statement is pretty weak reasoning, but if Uber with all its money and talent has these problems out in the open what makes you think Yelp would be that much better at keeping this a secret?
Manifold | Frontend Engineers and Fullstack Engineers | Halifax, NS | Remote, Fulltime, https://www.manifold.co

At Manifold, we help developers discover and use innovative tools and technologies; so you can focus on building, not managing, your applications. Each new cloud service we use today introduces complexity in the form of another bill, account to manage, credential to secure, and code to deploy.

Today we’re solving this problem through Torus and the Manifold platform. Torus simplifies your development workflow by enabling you to store, share, and organize secrets across services and environments. While, Manifold allows you to build and offer cloud services to developers without having to worry about billing, identity, and credential distribution (An example of one such service: JawsDB).

We’re a small, remote-friendly venture-backed company based in Halifax, Canada with teams in Toronto and San Francisco. With a shared passion for making developers lives easier and our backgrounds reflect that, having worked at the likes of Red Hat, Heroku, and Salesforce.

Senior Front-End Engineer apply at https://jobs.alongside.com/details/senior-frontend-engineer/...

Fullstack Engineer apply at https://jobs.alongside.com/details/full-stack-engineer/21147
Location: Bay Area

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to Relocate: For the right job, see below

Technologies: PHP, Ruby, Python, JS, PostgreSQL, mongodb, nginx, others

Resume: http://matthewgerring.com/resume

I am looking for either a) part-time contract work or b) a full-time position producing editorial content with a news media company (think data visualizations, interactive stories, multimedia, etc etc). I am willing to relocate for the latter.
TL;DR:

1. Guy worked for synopsis

2. Unlike competition synopsis didn't have a vhdl product
.com is still king. It's going to be a while until the others get real penetration. And some tld's are never going to take off. Either the pricing is completely unrealistic or the tld is so long you can achieve the same thing in a shorter tld.
Location: San Francisco
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Whatever you got. Lots of experience in Go, Python, Node, Google Cloud, AWS, Mongo, PHP.
Resume: Email me
Email: jobseeker072016@gmail.com

I have nearly 10 years experience at startups. I've been very earlier at numerous companies and helped build teams and systems that run companies. Looking for something beyond just an IC role. Eng manager, dir of eng, architect, etc. If you have a small team and you're looking for someone to lead it and grow it, that's me. Not opposed to writing code but want it to be less than 50% of my job.

Also not opposed to being employee/engineer #1 (or extremely early) and doing it all again if the company is right.

Posting anonymously because I have a job currently and obviously all of my co-workers read HN. Email me for more info including LinkedIn.
I don't know if that's at all true, but I sure like that idea.
Location: Estonia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not right now

Technologies: Java, clojure, javascript(reactJs, emberJS), AWS, kubernetes, MongoDB, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyriand

Email: jyriand [at] gmail.com

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One thing that Yelp absolutely does do, I've seen it with my own eyes, is play with 'recommended' reviews based on whether the business in question is paying them. I can't provide hard links because it's a client of my wife's business.

Specifically, a business had about 20 very positive reviews in total, all of them 'recommended'. A review that isn't 'recommended' basically doesn't exist; it doesn't count toward the average rating and it can only be viewed if a small print, difficult to see link at the bottom is clicked.

So, a business started with 20 total rating, and all 20 of them 'recommended', with a very good average rating.

Said business decides to send some money Yelp's way; that goes on for a few months, and they get a minimal uptick in hits, but worth less than what's being sent to Yelp.

So they (within the contract with Yelp) stop that relationship.

Shortly after, 75% of the reviews switch to 'not recommended'; the ones that remain are among the lowest ratings. The new average for the business isn't terrible, but it's lower.

Multiple calls to Yelp are all handled basically the same; "That's just an algorithm and we don't really control it." ... "I think if you re-establish your contract with us, you might get more business."

The language on the phone is tricky; nowhere is a direct connection between sending money and 'fixing' the Yelp score mentioned. But it's heavily implied. When asked directly, they just deflect talking about the opaque 'algorithm.'

That was the most recent case my wife dealt with. There have been at least two other fairly similar situations.

At this point, she's telling her clients that it can be dangerous to engage with Yelp if they haven't already done so.

TL;DR: Yelp is shady as hell. Full stop.
Airtame (https://airtame.com) | Copenhagen, Denmark | Full-time, Onsite or Remote

Airtame is a fast-growing startup in the heart of Copenhagen. Our wireless streaming solution helps people work better.

We're currently hiring:

* Embedded Linux Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/embedded-linux-engineer)

* UI/UX Designer (https://airtame.com/jobs/ui-ux-designer)

* Web Developer (https://airtame.com/jobs/web-developer)

* Senior Software Engineer in Test (https://airtame.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-in-test)

* Senior Application Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/senior-application-engineer)

* Full-Stack Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/full-stack-engineer)

* Infrastructure Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/infrastructure-engineer)

* Technical Support and Network Specialist (https://airtame.com/jobs/tech-support-network-specialist-dk)

Our talented engineers are given significant ownership and responsibility over projects. We value rapid iteration, continuous integration and testing, and we are serious about producing high-quality, maintainable software. Frequent code reviews, linting, and pairing are all integral components of our engineering culture. We encourage experimenting with new technologies and constantly challenge ourselves to improve our code, processes, and systems.

You can read a bit about our values on our Company Culture Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/ZXs2YYy6/culture-airtame

Send an email to tech-jobs@airtame.com if you're interested. We sponsor work visas for non-EU applicants.
Armada - http://armada.ai - Cambridge/Boston ONSITE

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= What we do =
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We're helping shippers make the right logistics decisions at the right times by tracking pallets and running analysis on the global supply chain to figure out what the hell is going on. (Think Skynet for Logistics if we gave skynet a finger to touch every shipment in the world and we didn't try to kill everybody).

This is one of the few massive industries ($4T) left that are left to be digitized and completely optimized with technolgy.

We have some funding, customers, interesting strategic partners, and are growing fairly quickly.

Come solve hard problems with us.

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= Looking for =
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- Web developer (Node/react)

- Embedded/firmware developer (C/C++)

If you'd like to learn more, please shoot us an email at techjobs@armada.ai (it'll go to our CTO Konstantin)
In Michigan, Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie is pretty common and available at any larger grocery store year round. Plain rhubarb pie (which is superior in my opinion) is much less common but still available upon request from most bakeries. Similarly, my family has "Rhubarb Crunch", basically an Apple Crisp using rhubarb instead of apples, at every major family gathering in the summer.
Why would you want 1000 investors over a single entity.

There is a reason many companies aim to stay private.
Camels and Rubber Duckies (or How to Price Your Software)
BidMotion | BackEnd Engineer | Paris, France | Onsite, Full-time | VISA, http://www.bidmotion.com/careers#op-102102-backend-engineer-...

We are looking for a backend engineer experienced in distributed systems. You would be working on our current platform - which has already gathered several TB of data and scaling -, and on our new product: our own DSP.

This might be the job for you if:

- You have experience with programming high performance systems in either Core Java, C#, Python, Go, Scala or Rust

- You have worked with ZooKeeper, Kafka, Consul or any of the other usual suspects

- You grin a bit with pride every time your system scales to new levels

- You’re fluent in English

We’re a 2 years old growing AdTech company based in Paris with a team of roughly 20 international talented people, out of which 8 are engineers. We have achieved $40M in revenues this past year as well as being in the Top 25 worldwide within the mobile advertising industry.

On the other hand, what do we offer you?

- Rebuilding components from scratch (you know, the way you always wanted to ;))

- Wish list – choose your own equipment

- Latest technology

- Personal space: 1 engineer - 1 desk

- Be part of a team with very ambitious goals

- Balance between your professional and personal life

- Playstation and other perks (Snacks, team events, etc...)

- And of course, very competitive packages

tl;dr: We’re small, but shooting for the stars. If you are looking for a place where you can make a huge impact and grow, come join us.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us hr@bidmotion.com
I own a coffee shop in addition to my tech work. Most people know having runway is important to any startup. If he had to declare bankruptcy 6 months after opening he wasn't set up for success.

If you make good coffee, choose the right location, and do a decent job of marketing you can get cash flow positive with time. Acquiring customers can be slow, but once they taste good coffee they will come back.

Much of the other comments here are true, you don't open a coffeeshop to get rich. The only way you can make good money is to scale into multiple locations.
> "Fun fact": many years before modern neutrino experiments nailed down the number of "normal" light neutrino species to 3, using General Relativity and known nuclear physics, one could use the observations of the ratio of light elements (He/H, Li/H, etc.) produced in the early universe to make the prediction that the number of light neutrino species had to be equal to 3.

Could you give a bit more detail on how the observatsions, plus nuclear physics, plus general relativity, led to that conclusion?
This guy seems to think we've got that much time before all hell breaks loose due to runaway clathrate gun methane buildup and dramatic ocean level rise from both temperature expansion and glacial melt. I don't really like to think about it...
https://guymcpherson.com/
if he was a golang dev? :D