skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how you avoid some company reading your email and still have automatically indexed, infinitely scalable email in-boxes. Gmail is still the best game in town for this reason. The AI features are getting increasingly good--Gmail automatically creates calendar entries based on email content which is a pretty nice feature.

More generally most cloud services are going to have the same properties. It would be more useful to define clear bounds of what companies can do with your data and back them up with workable legal protections.
Gaetan Consulting - Junior and Veteran AI/Machine Learning engineers and interns needed. Remote OK

- We are developing ways of clustering and visualizing data for advanced data interpretation in the Financial Markets.

- Example: https://medium.com/@gaetanconsulting/unsupervised-machine-le...

- We are a Python & Linux house in terms of Data Science

San Francisco CA, Geneva Switzerland

If interested, please contact gaetanconsulting@gmail.com
Grand Rounds | Lead Front-End Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com

Grand Rounds[1] was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[2] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[3].
We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[4] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our mission.

For this particular opening, we're looking for an experienced React Engineer to join our growing team. You'll leverage your skills in a fast pace environment to help us deliver the next generation of our mobile applications as well as be a key contributor in the standardization of front end components and application services.

We're building on the modern ecosystem of JavaScript technologies. You'll be immersed with ReactJS, ReactNative, Redux, GraphQL, Jest, Yarn, and will have the autonomy to help shape the toolchain. The team you'll join is comprised of 3 other software engineers, a test engineer, product manager, designer, and a UX/UI researcher. We have clear business goals to achieve.

The ideal candidate will have led in the development of a JavaScript application at scale. You'll mastered JavaScript long ago, knowing the pitfalls of asynchronous javascript, and know how to leverage modern standards to avoid them. You'll evangelize importance of encapsulation, separation of concerns and other best practices that lead to building reusable components and libraries. You'll have had experience building ReactJS components and GraphQL APIs. Knowledge of Ruby and Rails a huge plus.

This an ideal position for a highly motivated individual wanting to make a significant impact through the work they do. If this sounds like you, please reach out to me brett@grandrounds (mention HackerNews) and we'll be in touch.

[1]https://www.grandrounds.com/life-at-grand-rounds/ [2]https://rockhealth.com/announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital... [3]https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Small-and-Medium-Compan... [4]https://blog.wealthfront.com/2017-career-launching-companies...
"Six months after Funk and Taylor completed their report, AAP bore the brunt of more than $500 million in Congressional cuts to NASA's Fiscal Year 1968 budget. The program, which for a time in 1966 had been planned to include some 40 Earth-orbital and lunar missions, shrank rapidly during 1968-1969. It was officially renamed the Skylab Program in February 1970. Between May 1973 and February 1974, three three-man crews occupied the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit for a total of 173 days."

For context, the US spent ~$110B (non-inflation adjusted) on military actions in Vietnam, 1965-72.

To think we could have ceded Vietnam a few years earlier and visited Venus for pocket change (and potentially not had Nixon as a president)... the mind boggles.
ROOT Insurance - https://www.joinroot.com/hiring/full-stack-developer.html
Forget books, start coding!! To get going, CodeAcademy.com is amazing!!
WeTransfer | Platform Engineer | Amsterdam | Full-time | On-site

We're a fast growing profitable scaleup based in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Our mission is to provide the effortless transfer of creative ideas, which results in transferring more than 1 billion files per month between our users. To keep up with that, we're expanding our platform team and are looking for an engineer with experience in AWS infrastructure-as-code and continuous deployment. Our stack:

- AWS (heavy users of EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, RedShift, SQS, ...)

- Terraform for infrastructure, Ansible for provisioning

- Datastores are MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch

- Applications are written in Ruby, Elixir, and Go

https://wetransfer.homerun.co/

Apply there or send me an email at vermaat@wetransfer.com
dupe, please check before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456690
My dad grew up in Port Richmond (or as he calls it Richmond Harbor Estates) in the 50s and 60s and calls it stoop.
The problem with this question is by the time I finish typing my answer, the JS world will have moved on to the next big thing
How to Set Up a Super Productive Docker Development Environment
It was a MOTH! DEATH'S HEAD MOTH! A MOTH! NOT A BUTTERFLY GAAAH! DIDUEVNSEESOTL???? :)
I can see the use of blockchains and networks like ethereum, but it seems like the majority of use cases could run on a private network. I still don't see the appeal of a single public network. Why not a dozen or a hundred? That's why the value or Ether seems so useless to me. There was a backlog of transactions lasting hours yesterday and this is supposedly just the beginning.
InComm Digital Solutions | Senior/Mid-level Software Engineer, Systems Engineer | Portland, Oregon | ONSITE

Come work for InComm in downtown Portland. Free lunch and breakfast once a week, free monthly transit or parking pass, annual hackathon, lots of learning opportunities, collaborative atmosphere.

Tech stack: C#/.NET (Windows today but .NET core in The Future(tm)), Microsoft SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Redis, RavenDB, React+Redux, HTML/CSS/JS, Docker, Puppet

Openings:

Software Engineer (.NET or front-end) https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6091/software-engineer...

Senior Software Engineer, full stack (.NET + React/Redux) https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/5845/senior-software-e...

Director, Software Engineering https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6417/director%2c-softw...

Product Manager https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6309/product-manager/j...

Senior Systems Engineer https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6020/senior-systems-en...

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Email me at rfaaberg at incomm dot com if you are interested!
Cambridge Semantics Inc. | Cloud Architect/Developer | Boston, MA | Full-time, On-site

Cambridge Semantics™, the leader in Smart Data Lakes™, is seeking a skilled Cloud Developer/Architect with strong Python programming experience to join our fast-growing, world class team for the opportunity to shape and evolve strategic cloud capabilities and contribute to our efforts in pioneering semantics based business intelligence solutions!

You would be working directly under the VP of Cloud and taking ownership of cross-cloud projects involving continuous delivery and integration, architecture, and implementation. We are in the early stages of team building, so now is a great opportunity to influence part of the architecture and collaborate on the strategy moving forward!

You can find the full position description and the application here: https://csi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=28. Feel free to email lexi@cambridgesemantics.com with any questions!
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit is now generally available - now with Keras support
Hmm...are the rates of black holes per volume well-constrained at all? I was under the impression that it's a possibility that dark matter consists prominently of primordial BHs? The truth or falsity of this would seem to have a big effect on rates.
Anecdotes and asserting that empirical data exists without providing it isn't very convincing.
Ask HN: Do I need to learn React before applying for a new job?
I have been working on AngularJS at my current company for last two years. While in the background, React took over the world!

Now wherever I am applying, react-redux is kind of a must. Do I need to learn them before starting the applications?

How do you, in general, keep yourself up-to-date with latest technologies out there?
Surprised that the article showed up on HackerNews
It's nice being able to outsource all of your operations needs to S3 or Surge.sh or Netlify or GitHub or really just about any CDN on the planet.
Scale API (YC S16) | ML & Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time | $100,000-$120,000 + Equity 0.25%-1.5%

Scale API is looking for software engineers and machine learning engineers to join our team of 10. Scale API is an API for human intelligence. Our mission is to bring human intelligence to software applications. By combining machine learning and a human workforce, we're actively bridging the gap between what software can do and what humans can do. Our current clients include Alphabet (Google), Uber, Procter & Gamble, Houzz, and many more.

Why you should join:

- We're working on a core problem for our decade - bringing human intelligence to software

- We are growing exceptionally quickly and have amazing investors. We are an extremely promising startup for our size.

- We're a talented team with experience from Dropbox, Quora, Snapchat, Facebook, Palantir, MIT, Harvard, and CMU.

Email careers@scaleapi.com with your GitHub and LinkedIn profiles
Wow, very literal meaning of liquidating government assets...
Yeah it was widely discussed at the time, what with Google censoring results and whatnot.
Point taken, but it's really more of a city-state isn't it?
If you find the author to be an "odd nut" for caring about scientific accuracy, you may possibly be on the wrong website.
PonzICO: Let’s Just Cut to the Chase [pdf]
https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/im...
Now it's been pointed out, it's blindingly obviously wrong to me, for one reason: the "live butterfly" looks more aerodynamic. Entertainingly, this is no less wrong: the one time a live butterfly is likely to have forward-stretched wings is in flight.
As pointed out, this will be HUGE.

For starters, this will enable client (browser) software development in a language other than Javascript/ES6. With, probably, a plethora of compilers to choose from, some of them giving better optiimizations than others.

I think this will make an explosion of more browser-hosted applications, with much more power than before. And will make many more programmers go into serious frontend app development.

Also, as a personal wish of mine, this enables the possibility of being able to program on the language of your choice, both in the browser side and on your server side. For example Haskell/Haskell, Common Lisp/Common Lisp, Clojure/Clojure, Racket/Racket Python/Python, etc. And i mean using in the browser the FULLY FEATURED version of the language, not a subset or a limited version like ClojureScript, PyJS, Transcrypt, etc, but a full version of the language supporting the full libraries available for it.

This also gives us a little step forward in liberating ourselves from being tied to the mainstream operating systems: Windows, Apple X, Linux, BSD, because more and more apps will target the browser environment, not the operating system directly.

Roll your own operating system and still keep compatibility with most apps!!
UCLA Library | Head of Core Systems Development | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | ONSITE

This is a senior management position within the UCLA Library's Digital Initiatives and Information Technology department (http://library.ucla.edu). The objectives of this position are to help manage and set the direction of the Library's software development efforts, as well as the operations/support of production services. We are looking for a leader with a strong technical background that can bring teams together, drive consensus, and set strategic direction.

This role supervises 8 career FTE staff, contract staff, and student employees who are responsible for maintaining a large number of web applications, web services, database driven applications; service usage analytics; and for development of new applications and services. The position is responsible for day-to-day supervision including delegating projects and tasks to individuals with varying levels of formal education, certification, professional experience, and with diverse software development and IT skills.

For more information and to apply for the position please go to: http://ucla.in/2rbWFTu
Native Core Animation code generation
Clickbus | São Paulo, SP, Brazil | Full Time | ONSITE

ClickBus is an online booking platform for bus travels, operating in Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and Colombia.

Operating since 2013, we're the leading booking platform in Brazil, working with 100+ bus companies and serving thousands of clients every day.

We have an opening for Jr DevOps/SysAdmin at our office in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Our current stack is Linux, Java, PHP, Ansible and AWS Services. Besides Linux, no previous experience or formal education is required.

You can find more info here (in pt-br): https://www.clickbus.com.br/institucional/vagas-infra-analis...

If you're interested, shoot an email to recrutamento@clickbus.com.br with the subject "Analista de Infraestrutura Jr.".
You don't necessarily see the underside of the wings in a natural pose.
What's your tech stack?
Microsoft releases version 2.0 of its deep learning toolkit
I think this is more for someone already familiar with the foundation level than for a beginner
I'm hoping it'll help modernize the enterprise/commercial side of things. If you've ever had to deal with these types of devices, you'd realize they're very antiquated. http://www.micronet-inc.com/products/product-techspecs.aspx?...
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Lua Technologies | iOS, API, DevOps Engineers | New York City, NY | ONSITE | https://getlua.com

We are looking to fill a few full-time developer roles for our HIPAA compliant, cross-platform messaging application built for healthcare organizations to communicate securely, maximize productivity, and accelerate workflow for better care coordination.

Lua’s core is built in Ruby/Rails and runs on AWS (Amazon Web Services), with many of our performance-sensitive parts moving to a more modern Elixir/Phoenix stack. We have client apps running on Android, iOS, and Web. Preference goes to flexible engineers, and bonus points for frontend engineering experience (we make heavy use of React.js).

iOS Engineer: http://lua.applytojob.com/apply/CVdU2b9FAt/IOS-Engineer

API Engineer: http://lua.applytojob.com/apply/iFv0jdrpIR/API-Engineer

DevOps Engineer: http://lua.applytojob.com/apply/HKiJplmxCQ/DevOps-Engineer

Apply at the links above or by emailing devjobs@getlua.com.
I wish I could up vote this several times.

I feel like a nice interactive JS widget letting you play around with portfolio variables (duration, %win, company size distribution, etc) would dissuade so many fledgling company founders.
First@Lastna.me

I love it but it's hard incredibly hard to explain to customer sercice reps or family members that "no, not .com or anything, just my last name with a period before the last two letters."
2 month OSX programming contract
for a pair of programmers
in Sevilla, Spain

We're developing a tool (an OSX app) for OSX app developers

email profpandit@khitchdee.desi
Notice they said, email and twitter. Both are things that don't use much data. They already know that AT&T and Verizon will choke the crap out of this with their false limitations.
More specifically, we search the Ethereum blockchain for contracts whose bytecode (which is always stored on the blockchain) is similar to that of some known Ponzi scheme. We use the normalized Levenshtein distance (NLD) as a measure of similarity between two bytecode files.

...

This search resulted in further 55 potential new Ponzi schemes, not included in our original collection of 137 contracts.

It's so awesome that it's possible to do this and that it actually works!
Much better! Thanks for looking into it.
No problem!

This was on the front page today, but flagged as a dupe, also an interesting read as it explains about flame graphs too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384370
Show HN: Bell+Cat – A database in your browser. Saves to Google Drive
yawn try again sweetie by the time you finish typing your answer some other boring knucklehead will have typed the same answer thinking they're clever
Tell me what you're expert in and I'll find examples of its misapplication that are really annoying to you. This kind of dismissal-by-ignorance is one of the reasons we can't have nice things.

a dead butterfly is more aesthetically pleasing than a living one due to the outstretched wings

No it isn't; you're just used to seeing them that way. There's an excellent scientific reason for it, since it facilitates species identification, but I'd rather see butterflies portrayed alive than dead unless that's semantically appropriate (eg for a gothic aesthetic). I have a garden and we let it run fairly wild to attract bird and insect life, so I have lots of real butterflies, bees etc to look at.
Even if so, if you "learned Javascript" as opposed to "learned last big thing", then it will look the same to you.
I think this is the best beginners book for sure. In case anyone is wondering, it doesn't teach ES6, but it does teach veey grounded Javascript ideas and it won't be difficult to catch up with the latest changes to JS after learning from this book. It's also free!
Barrett Technology | Software Engineer | Newton, MA
Barrett Technology | Firmware Engineer | Newton, MA

Barrett Technology is a robotics company which concentrates on robotic arms and hands. Our current product is burt a haptic device used for upper body rehabilitation and therapy for stroke patients. We also have a lot of motor control based work going on at the moment with some exciting customers. We are looking for software, robotics and firmware engineers at the moment.

For job listings: http://barrett.com/opportunities.htm
If you are interested please send a resume with a cover letter to: resume2017@barrett.com
Kollegorna Tech Radar
http://web.archive.org/web/20161108070757/http://nytimes.com... "Hillary Clinton has an 84% chance of winning"
The important feature is Keras compatability: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/Using-CNT... (although it doesn't seem to be in the official repo yet: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/pull/6800)

In terms of "how is CNTK better than TensorFlow," CNTK performs 6x better at minimum on old LSTM benchmarks, which is big. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07249)
Ha, neat. I just got Plex DVR running a couple days ago.

I have both an OTA tuner and a CableCARD tuner. I don't really watch TV, but Comcast did the thing where it's cheaper to buy TV than to not, and I figured I'd rather have a CableCARD in a HDHomeRun box somewhere on my network instead of a set-top box in my living room.

Plex found my 120-odd cable channels, found all my broadcast channels, and it assembled a cohesive program guide with everything that I could conceivably watch with cover art and program descriptions and everything. I didn't have to register with any other services, or screw around with anything outside Plex itself. It just works™; took maybe 15 minutes to go from "Plex" to "Plex is recording stuff".

My favorite feature is something I hooked up yesterday -- automated commercial removal via a postprocessing script that invokes https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip.

Net is that anyone in my household can say "I want to watch this show", Plex will record it, strip ads, and make it available on any device, and it wasn't even a pain to set up. I'm quite happy.
It's interesting to contrast this with the PG era of YCombinator:

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html#f1n
The right to encrypt - unlike the current debate over a right to healthcare - is a negative right: All men are born able to encrypt (given the math), it can only be taken away.

Positive rights, like healthcare or Social Security, are a thing that you are not born with that is given to you. The government does not have to provide you with encryption software in order for you to encrypt.

That is to say, I think you are correct and that right does exist.
When I worked for Flywheel (which was an Uber competitor that uses taxis, and whose customers were concentrated heavily in San Francisco), there were a number of different, crazy seasonal effects.

Rainy weather definitely spiked demand in a big way (I sometimes wonder if Flywheel would have managed to make it over a few more hurdles if California had not been in an intense multi-year drought when I worked there). There was virtually no demand from Christmas to New Years, and then New Years Eve saw demand that was 10x what it was on other days. There are other extremely high-demand holidays such as Halloween and St Patrick's Day. Basically any drinking holiday, for obvious reasons, except 4th of July.

Uber is in many more markets, of course, though I suspect that a smaller number than you'd think are by far the heavyweights in their revenue and an even smaller number are the heavyweights in terms of improving their bottom line. They have surge pricing, which we didn't, and which is presumably better at turning demand into revenue than we were. Other markets may have different relationships with their weather than San Francisco did.
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Mystery Applicant | Full Stack Ruby/Rails Developer (£45-60k p.a.) | Bath, England | ONSITE, REMOTE

Mystery Applicant is looking for a Full Stack Ruby/Rails Developer (onsite or remote within the UK) to join our technical team. We might be small but we are agile and leaders in candidate experience measurement. We provide analytics to some of the world’s largest and most well known employers. We are growing and have some exciting product enhancements to bring to market. That’s where you come in.

This is a great opportunity to join our team and make your mark. If you’re interested then get in touch using the application form, ideally with links to some of your code (including test code), and we’ll set up a time to chat.

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* No agencies please
The “rare write” mechanism
Interesting how even after all this time that no one knows who "Tank Man" was and within China, few even know he existed at all:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
How we think about the nuclear threat