skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NGP VAN - Washington, DC and Boston, MA

We're hiring for a couple of technical positions right now:

* Front End Engineer (DC) - https://ngpvan.applytojob.com/apply/VmmRqh1pxg

* SQL Server Developer (Boston) - https://ngpvan.applytojob.com/apply/RsXLLR2Wd9

NGP VAN is a technology company where we do exciting and meaningful work that has a significant impact on promoting civil rights, social justice, and environmental responsibility.

Employees enjoy an unusually generous set of benefits, including 12 weeks paid parental leave, profit sharing, 100% premium-paid health/dental, and an ongoing education allowance. NGP VAN is one of only a handful of companies to be recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for nine years in a row.

Last year we were named one of the Coolest Companies of 2016 by DC Inno. We've also been named one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. The Wall Street Journal wrote “NGP VAN is something of a secret weapon for the Democratic Party and the labor unions and progressive groups that use it.” We have also won the AAPC award for Best Use of New Technology, and the Campaigns & Elections Award for Most Innovative Product.

Join our team and work alongside about 200 smart, passionate, and innovative co-workers, many of whom are industry recognized as experts in their fields.

We interview across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.

Keywords: ONSITE
There are GUIs for Sass now that require 0 knowledge of the command line. I think Prepros lets you drag and drop a folder and click a folder watcher button. `gem install sass` + a basic Gulpfile isn't that hard either.

https://github.com/joe-watkins/gulp-sass-starter/blob/master...

Although you're correct, I meant in a professional environment. Id be quite surprised if I caught one of my devs not using a preprocessor.
These 'machines' were not connected to anything. On your laundry day (yeah, you will spend a whole day doing laundry, and not just loading and unloading a machine), you will pull it in your bathroom. Then connect one hose to the faucet, run another into the bathtub. They were absolute crap. Laundromat is a big step up compared to that.

In fact, building the network of government owned laundromats would be better fit for centrally planned economy of the USSR. My guess the only reason it never happened is the inability to build a reliable heavy duty automatic washing machine.
Voice search, notes, and encrypted file transfer now on Firefox Test Pilot
Err.. Didn't bother to check dependencies. So this is just a UI generated on top of swagger. Thanks for pointing that out :)
No matter how much you know, there will almost always be an expert who knows more than you. So it can be intimidating.

However the opposite is true: no matter how little you know, there's guaranteed to be others who know even less about a given topic. So as long as the content is correct, even if it appears "lightweight", it could be of great value to others.
Is there something like this for Facebook Messenger?
ViaBTC’s BIP148 IOU Token Value Drops by 99.24% Overnight
Yes, Directus, but it's built in PHP and mysql.
Malicious crossenv package on npm
It supports up to 20MB, I think the server is overloaded right now, working on it
Exactly. It's just trying to prevent you from breaking motor vehicle laws like driving down the wrong side of the road.
Thank you. Try 'Add Your Own'
When I was on the front page of HN, IIRC it meant about 5k visits in an hour. How can such a low number kill a webpage... Or do other on the front page experience much higher traffic?
Hi stephen! Is a technical/qualitative degree a must have? I can make a good case as to why I have equivalent skills.
This comment is verbatim from the github page. Am I missing something?
You're all looking at this from a dev perspective ... look at Slack's customer base.

Slack Enterprise is expensive for a messaging service, and one of their main selling points is support and reliability. When a huge customer reports a breaking bug they need to resolve it ASAP, turnaround time is probably the number-one priority.
RINSE | San Francisco, CA, Culver City, CA, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, Boston, MA | Full Time

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for about four years now, our business fundamentals are solid, and our customers love us! We have a number of open positions:

1) We're actively seeking Software Engineers of all skill levels, including those looking for leadership opportunity. We're primarily a Django / Python shop, but an individual with solid systems engineering fundamentals will succeed, regardless of technical specifics. It's a "target rich" environment with plenty of opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the business! We're solving problems as varied as demand forecasting, route optimization, QR tagging for inventory control, SMS automation, and a suite of mobile apps for our customers and staff. See:

https://www.rinse.com/careers/software-engineer/

https://www.rinse.com/careers/lead-software-engineer/

2) In particular, we're missing a Senior Front-End Developer to join the team and provide some leadership in the development of our suite of hybrid mobile apps and web tools. We've seen success building a React Native app for our customers, and we have sophisticated internal apps on Backbone.js. Our users are an interesting mix of newly-acquired customers, highly-engaged staff who need these tools to do their job, and vendors who may be the dry cleaners down the street from your house. See https://www.rinse.com/careers/senior-front-end-developer/

3) We're hiring our first Data Scientist to augment our data-driven management culture. The ideal candidate will span Data Engineering, Data Science, and Business Intelligence roles, and be familiar with enterprise data warehousing technologies. Important technical skills include SQL and Python, with Excel familiarity a big plus. We have an interesting and growing data set; this position will enjoy considerable executive visibility and a significant influence in the direction of the company. See https://www.rinse.com/careers/data-scientist/

See https://www.rinse.com/careers/ for even more open positions, including numerous open marketing roles!

Want to join a rapidly-growing startup that actually has a sustainable business model? Perhaps your family ran a dry cleaner or laundromat when you were growing up? Delighted with our service? Let's talk!

Email sam <at> rinse.com with questions, or contact jobs <at> rinse.com directly to apply.
3 fundamental problems with software user analytics
I think you're being too literal. I'm not the person you replied to but I've also wondered how the unbounded growth is sustainable.
Six apps, six embedded web browsers.
Exigent Capital | Chicago | Data Scientists, Python/Go Engineers | Full-time | REMOTE or ONSITE

Market Making / HFT group focused on cryptocurrency markets. Looking for quant / data scientists to find new edges in the market and talented Go/Python engineers to expand the trading platform. Experience in traditional equity markets is a large plus. Fair-market compensation and can offer partner-level equity sharing for right candidate.

Contact hiring+hn ||at|| exigentcapital.com
Of course, an Android fanboy site defends the Android cult and tells their readers that it's okay, it's just him that's wrong.

Ridiculous defense.

"androidcentral.com", yeah, really seems unbiased...
Ask HN: What is your CSS setup in 2017?
What is your preferred setup for managing css code in 2017? Do you use pre-processors? a grid system? frameworks like bootstrap? CSS modules? JSS?

Why?
By claiming that you was senior engineer on previous project. Usually right after first slightly less experienced person appeared. Alternatively, by having assigned task that you did without much supervision (cause nobody had time).

Judging from observation, people become seniors after being employed for about four months (including part time period).
> Slack is so overrated and people just use it because everybody does.

Sidenote, I use it because the integrations take a burden off of me. Ie, my CI might not have integrations for Discord. My CI has plugins, and do those have integrations for Discord too? Etcetc. Being the most popular is not always just due to "we use it because everyone does".

Personally, I dislike how expensive Slack is. I'm not sure if I prefer Slack over Discord or not, but even if I preferred Discord, I'd still choose Slack for the integrations that I don't have to write myself.
What I Didn't Learn So Far as a Programmer:
- How to properly encode text
Cf. "Windows 10", which had to a version number because people were looking for a "Windows 9" (i.e. Windows 98 & Windows 95) prefix in a version name string despite it being available as direct numeral values.

Feel free to be horrified, but you'd be a bit naive to be surprised.
there are just a lot of people who things the world owes them something and they have no respect for their surroundings / community.

I was waiting for the subway, and this guy leaning against a trash can throws his trash on the ground. If I didnt see things like this nearly every day I would write it off as a one time occurrence.
Amazon Web Services | SDE / SysDE / Research/Data Scientist | Seattle, Palo Alto (ONSITE) | VISA, aws.amazon.com, AS16509

The Internet is the world’s most complex network, with over 57,402 unique networks connected together, it contains hundreds of millions of edges and nodes. It is THE most pervasive, important, and complicated communications network in the world -- somewhere out there things are about to go south. One of the core backbone routers of a major Tier-1 Internet provider is having a bad day. It started with a transient, yet persistent, problem which was only detectable by a slight increase in dropped packets that went mostly unnoticed. An hour later the router suffered a catastrophic failure dumping 500Gbps of traffic onto an already congested alternate path causing ripples across the Internet, disrupting websites and other Internet based services on the U.S Eastern seaboard. Social media is ablaze as frustrated people rant about their favorite website, video, or gaming service being down, or so slow that it’s unusable. While the Internet burns, our customers are humming away oblivious to the disaster. If you have an insatiable curiosity, love the process of discovery, and you’re reading this with a grin... we should talk. Come join us and...

* Do what nobody else in the world is doing... literally.

* Gain knowledge and expertise on the inner workings of the Internet, working with top-tier Network Engineers

* Define and Develop Amazon’s Internet Monitoring architecture

* Play in the piles of data to discover patterns that push our understanding and knowledge of Internet performance and availability anomalies

* Build massive real-time systems which inform and drive complex changes across the Internet

* Gain practical experience building software using Amazon Web Services

We are hiring for SDE/SysDE I (Entry Level), SDE/SysDE II (Mid-Level), Senior SDE, and Research/Data Scientist I/II (Entry/Mid Level), and Data Engineer I/II.
Sound like fun? Email me: nahtnow at amazon dot com.

(*) Note, I currently don’t have openings for interns or just-graduated college students. For internships or recent college grad positions please apply here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/team/university-tech
Reddit or 4chan, decisions, decisions.
Interestingly, South Carolina produces most of its energy using nuclear already... It is too bad the broad public perceives nuclear as a 'risky' energy source. It is in fact the safest energy source we have ever developed, in terms of deaths per kilowatt hour. Its just that when something goes wrong, it goes REALLY wrong. That makes more of an emotional reaction in the general public than the scattered and sporadic deaths in other industries, in which there are sadly many, many more. So, it seems it is hard to get support to invest in newer, safer technologies in the industry. I do understand the short term economic incentives. Nuclear is expensive to build. However it is very cheap to operate, and relatively environmentally friendly. It takes long term planning on timescales of many years, and looking at safety data rather than focusing on the disasters on their own. Neither of which humans are any good at.

The one thing that turns me off nuclear power is how to store nuclear waste. The collapsed storage tunnel at the Hanford site this year is an example of how poorly this can be done. The waste will remain dangerous for thousands of years. How do you build a storage facility that keeps it contained for that long?
Bluetooth battery indicator is on iPhone since 2007.

Android?
A third of those bacteria are the same ones that live on human skin; that doesn't seem too scary.
Which, once again, shows why nuclear is an economic disaster. The extremely high capital costs, and the long times from conception to completion means that it's very difficult for it to profitably (after adjusting for financial risk) compete with fossil fuels, which can be ramped up or down based on their costs, or renewables, which while also predominantly capital driven, can be brought from idea to pumping electricity in a fraction of the time.
Snap Updates are getting smaller, here’s why:
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Ruby, React, Rails, Flask, Django, HTML, CSS, SCSS, jQuery, Git, AWS, Linux server administration

Resume: https://www.caregraphics.io/resume.pdf

Email: joshhn@caregraphics.io

Website: https://www.caregraphics.io

I am a full-stack jack-of-all-trades with 9 years of experience. Lately, I have been working primarily in frontend and API development.

I am looking to join a team and build something wonderful.
Feature Labs, Inc. | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site | http://www.featurelabs.com

Feature Labs builds automation technology for developing predictive models. With our tools, users can discover the most predictive patterns in behavioral and transactional datasets to accelerate the data science process.

We’re growing our technical team with engineers interested in pushing the boundaries of data science automation. At our core is a feature engineering algorithm called Deep Feature Synthesis [0] and we regularly publish peer reviewed data science research [1].

This role is perfect for someone who wants the opportunity to shape the direction of our technology and product.

Paid internships available, as well.

To apply: careers [at] featurelabs.com

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_feature_synthesis

[1] http://www.featurelabs.com/resources/research.html
People seem pretty enthused about it in meatspace, if not online.
Is there an extension like Noscript, but for CA certificates? In the same way which Noscript blocks JavaScript by default, but allows me to gradually build a whitelist of domains which I agree to run JavaScript from, is there an extension which doesn't trust any of the included CAs by default, and allows me to gradually enable CA certificates over time, so that my trust store is composed mainly of easy-to-trust CAs like Let's Encrypt and doesn't include dodgy CAs operating out of China?
Well, yes, the governance is horrible, but the oil is a bit deceptive.

It really isn't that good of oil and requires a higher price to refine. It is somewhat analogous to what the Canadians have to do to the oilsands production. Since it requires more work than say Saudi or North Dakota shale, it has a higher cost of production. Saudi's cost are very low, and the tech is making ND / TX fracking cheaper along with a new pipeline that cuts the cost of ND oil.

So, it requires a bit more competence and investment to get the value and compete in a global market. Sadly, Venezuela is incompetent.
Varnish Software | Software Engineer | New York City (NYC), NY

C, Linux

Varnish Software is the company behind Varnish Cache, the popular open source caching proxy. Looking for a full time engineer who is comfortable working with Varnish Cache and VCL, C, Linux, HTTP and with client facing interactions. Full benefits, all skill levels considered.

If you are interested, please email: reza AT varnish-software DOT com
There were a few articles with actual content on this topic covered on Daring Fireball in recent months. Not sure what this blog blurb is adding to the conversation.

1. https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth

2. http://blog.timac.org/?p=1707

3. https://blog.halide.cam/one-weird-trick-to-lose-size-c0a4013...
Filter effects were very hard to understand, can't you apply filters first and then show it in the bottom list like Instagram?
Justworks Inc: New York City, NY - Fulltime - Onsite Only - Will relocate

Front-end Engineers - Security Engineers - Engineering Managers and more!

http://bit.ly/1NMwpCp OR email jobs@justworks.com
Web is much more advanced (and complex), and that's why you can't just drag and drop. Or can you? Remember Wix.
I guess we're not getting a normal headphone jack back are we. Seems like the trend is to keep getting rid of things.

I worry that in a couple years we'll just have a shiny black lump in our pocket that we'll communicate with via intuition.
That's how it was at least once upon a time. To appeal to media, the opening scene of The Godfather is a good example of that.
BidMotion | BackEnd Engineer | Paris | Onsite, Full-time | VISA
http://www.bidmotion.com/careers#op-102102-backend-engineer-...

We are looking for a backend engineer experienced in real-time 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: a real-time ad bidder backed by machine learning.

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

- Minimum 3 years of experience

- 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 or check other openings http://www.bidmotion.com/careers
Bootstrap 4 Full CSS over CDN is 23k minified & gzipped. There are Sass GUIs for novices, but you're correct I was referring to professionals. I don't understand the appeal of not using a build script, and, say going back to adding browser prefixes manually one-by-one? There's no benefit other than the hour you save at the beginning of your 3-month-long project editing your gulpfile.
I think the way it works in the real world unfortunately is:

code bloat => "your phone is full" => "oh, my phone is too old" => new iphone => free space => code bloat

That said, I also delete bulky apps before I start deleting media.
>These guys are the researchers and engineers with the deepest understanding of decentralization, game theory, and adversarial blockchain design.

These guys don't have the deepest understanding of any of those things. The minutia of the protocol, and the source code that implements it, is extremely important, but knowledge of it does not impart one with any insights into game theory, the political implications of different decentralisation tradeoffs, and adversarial blockchain design as it pertains to political/economic attacks.
The central challenge for new nuclear in the USA can be called the "chump search". You need to find some chumps to put up the billions.

The chumps footing the bill tend to be poor utility rate payers who are ignorant of the economics.
Facebook did flirt with HTML5 but ditched it in the end. So that's not really true.
I've been thinking about creating a Dutch foundation for one of the open source projects I work on in order to provide a legal entity to collect donations and apply for services like code signing in a organization name. This makes it a whole lot scarier!
Programming Across Paradigms [video]
goodlord.co | Typescript/React Engineers | London, UK | ONSITE | https://workat.goodlord.co

goodlord.co | Scala Engineers | London, UK | ONSITE | https://workat.goodlord.co

goodlord.co | Devops Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes) | London, UK | ONSITE | https://workat.goodlord.co

Goodlord exists to streamline the lettings process for agents, landlords and tenants.

We're hiring at various levels of experience so get in touch! (minimum 2 years solid industry experience)

nick+hn@goodlord.co
Draw out the process a bit, and fairly good chance the oldest generation voting "out" have died and replaced by younger "in" voters...
"I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills."
This is a great reason to start a blog IMO, it's what I did. I believe it helped me get my current job.
As a project management professional, I have to wonder why these project so-often fail to meet their objectives of cost, scope, and schedule? It makes you think that there have been so few of these projects, in the past 40 years, that any "lessons learned" from former projects are unavailable. Plus, the duration of such projects probably causes loss of knowledge via retirement of the smart people.

If you want to make these projects work, I would recommend spending much more time on planning and give project control to the project managers. My guess is, that since this was a "state owned project", they took a typical "state run" mindset, which always displaces the liability of incompetence and failure onto the endless bank account of the taxpayer.
You definitely should go for it. Writing helps a lot in organizing your knowledge. I have a technical blog where I publish my small discoveries or results of some longer research. Each time I write a post some interesting questions will pop up in my head (even when I feel I know the matter very well). Additionally, I am really happy when I can give someone a link to my post that answers his/her question. So good luck and I hope we will see your blog post one day on HN :)
Short a major customer outcry, Apple is largely incentivized to not fix this—

(1) They substantial profits from memory upsells on their product lines
(2) Larger apps take more horsepower to run— so older models become less effective sooner!
This looks pretty interesting! Would really like a way to filter based on genres, as there seems to be an overwhelming amount of comics that I'm not interested in at all.

Another neat feature would be to see top books of all time and for a specific year, instead of only specific months.

Looks a very tiny bit weird that when going to the next page from the first page, the "Previous" button shows up before the content has loaded.

Lastly, it might be a good idea to keep track of which comment sections have been expanded, either in sessionStorage or as a query parameter. I misclicked somewhere, and when I hit the back-button, the scroll position was off because I had earlier expanded a comment section.
Great app! Loved the popularity score feature.