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nuTonomy (self-driving cars) | Software engineers, machine learning specialists, roboticists, and many more | Santa Monica, Boston, Singapore | Onsite | Visa |

nuTonomy is one of the leading start-ups in the autonomous vehicles area. We have fleets of autonomous cars in Singapore and Boston.

Yes, the first time you will be riding on a self-driving car, it will be a terrifying experience, with the spooky wheel that moves by itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_lAjIfZwU
The second time, we hope it will feel boring, which means that we achieved our objective to create a comfortable and predictable and overall safe car.

We are growing rapidly, and have many job opportunities. Here you can see a sample: http://nutonomy.com/careers

But really, rather than "filling opening positions", we are looking for excellent candidates that will do exceptional work. When these smart people join, it's them who tell us what they need to do. So I encourage you to get in touch even if no listed position corresponds to your profile.

In particular, there are needs that we have but hard to describe without giving away too much of our secret plans. These involve problems related to programming languages design, automated synthesis of programs, formal methods, etc. Please get in touch if you are a senior person in those areas -- even if you don't see the connection to autonomous vehicles.

Feel free to get in touch with any question (andrea@nutonomy.com). Please do not send requests regarding internships to me; we have a large intern program, but I only deal with senior & research positions.
There wasn't much fraudulent or dishonest about Juciero. It was overpriced, stupid, and a totally unnecessary luxury item, but that's not the same thing as scamming people.
Like for what?
> Hill thought that seemed like a big story

It is a big story still. It sounds illegal.
I have wondered if it might be feasible to deliver certain kinds of supplies all the way to the lunar surface using a light gas gun. In fact, you could take the idea to absurd levels by using lithobraking [1] to "land" stuff on the surface. One way to do this might be to explode the shell just above the lunar surface so that the contents will embed only a few centimeters into the regolith, so it can easily be recovered using very simple technology. Kind of like mining really rich ore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking
You're doing gods work. We're a small-ish publisher, and i constantly am battling these pre-roll video ads getting stuffed into display ad placements. The biggest offender I've seen, apart from Cedato, is C1Exchange. At one point, they were serving preroll video ads into 100% of our display units, completely disregarding A) that we turned off video display units and B) that all of the units on the page are 728x90. It's straight-up fraud.
if the tool told you something you already knew - that notable logos are good, what would be the point?

maybe there's more value in discussing why the algorithm thinks bland logos score higher than the notable ones.
One thing missing from the comparison to IBM and Sun is that precisely because those companies made things so expensive people started looking for alternatives.

The ES/9000's were really good machines for the time. Had IBM not raped people on those, companies might have stuck with them for a little longer. The AS/400 was priced more reasonably and people loved those. You couldn't get someone with an AS/400 to move to a Unix workstation if you used a nuclear bomb.

As for Sun in 2001, the problem was that they were so absurdly overpriced and underpowered that commodity x86 simply blew it away. If I didn't have direct knowledge of the dysfunction that was Sun at the time, you would have thought they were taking kickbacks from Oracle, Cadence, Synopsys, etc. to limit performance. (Explanation: Oracle, Cadence, Synopsys, etc. all had very expensive software packages that were licensed per processor core per year and effectively only ran on Sparc. So, the lower the performance of the processor, the more cores you needed and the more expensive your license to Oracle, et al.)
∇f(x_1) is the gradient of f evaluated at x_1, a point in R^N.

The first equation indicates that for any two points in R^N, the maximum norm of the difference in gradient is less than a constant times the distance between the points.

The keyword to google for is just "Lipschitz".
Perhaps something like

> Start making feature

> People hype it up

> Feature gets scrapped

> Angry mob
So people might be allergic to raw oats, but almost no-one ever buys/consumes raw oats right?

Maybe I just jumped the gun and assumed you were making some quack-ish comment that we're all having some kind of micro-allergy everytime we consume oats, when actually you were really just saying people are allergic to raw oats.

Apologies. I just had a similar convo with someone that said 'carbs are bad because inflammation' so that probably gave me a hair trigger.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148452
Mathematics has successfully modelled change over time for hundreds of years without mutable memory cells in a computer.

Please don't build software that mutates my data. I want history/provenance and reproducibility. I don't mind the odd bit of optimisation, but your use of the phrase "conceptual mutability" would have me worried if I was a customer of yours :)
People would start baking their own bread.
there is 'flow'.. which means you're jamming on some code..everything is working and you're making incredible progress quickly. Developer feels a euphoric sense of amazing accomplishment, which is the opposite of the typical state.

This is the opposite of starting out.. (on anything).

Flow is inevitably followed by something called 'boredom' which can manifest itself as surfing HN (may also cause painful itching and oily discharge. Please see your doctor if you experience these symptoms).

In all seriousness, flow is real but difficult to obtain as it requires many hours of frustrated, mindless hacks before achieving such a state. Being 'online', however, sounds like some stupid Hollywood term that is banal, but accessible.
Who are the competitors to AmaFaceGoogFlix? I'm based out of nyc, and the common logic here is that dev salaries start maxing out in the 150-170 range. If you go to a hedge fund, you can get more, maybe pop 200. But for more than that? You have to go to AmaFaceGoogFlix.
> I don't know a single person at Google who makes less than $180k in total comp, and that includes new grads.

I assume this is MTV/SVL/SFO/NYC? I'm sure you can find new grads who make less than that in other offices. At least I make less than that as an L3 in SEA
Cities will create another problem: those drones are essentially small airplanes, so that it's pretty easy to build a strip for landing and taking off in rural areas, but smaller roofs in a populated city would make taking off harder and landing extremely hard. VTOL drones like quadcopters could solve that problem but they have much shorter range compared to similar winged aircrafts.
Fyndiq | Backend Developer | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE FULL-TIME | https://www.fyndiq.se

Fyndiq is what we call a B2B2C online marketplace for bargain products. On one hand we
have merchants who want to sell bargain products in Sweden. On the other hand we have online shoppers who are keen on finding a bargain. Fyndiq is the one bringing them together.

We're looking for a Python Backend developer who has skills and experience in building service oriented systems (microservices, APIs, Pub/Sub). See http://jobs.fyndiq.com/jobs/23687-backend-developer for more info.

We also have other jobs as Senior System Administrator, Data Engineer and Senior Backend Developer. You can check http://jobs.fyndiq.com/ for all jobs.

If interested reach out to me at arthur@fyndiq.se
No, the server just says "I know these email addresses starting with 'foo': foo@example.com, foo2@gmail.com, foo3@hotmail.com". If your friend's email address is in there, you know they have Signal.

The hashing is so people can't easily get a list of all the phone numbers, which is easy to work around, but, then again, they could just hammer the endpoint querying for all the various numbers anyway.
Not that I'm aware -- how would holding it reduce taxes? I'm not sure I understand.
Well done. I was talking to a colleague earlier this week about creating something similar for WA. We have the exact same problem with reservation windows being several months in advance and cancellations popping up.

I wasn't aware of ReserveAmerica. I always go straight to state or national parks sites to reserve.

What's the differentiator between what wanderinglabs offers vs. reserve america - pull checks & notifications?
> Did you just call pressed veggies and fruits sugary drinks? As in more or less the same as Pepsi?

Well, they didn't make any comparison to Pepsi in their comment, but I 'll go ahead and make that comparison.

12 fl oz of:

* Orange juice: 31.2g of sugar

* Apple juice: 36g of sugar

* Coca-Cola: 39g of sugar

* Pepsi: 41g of sugar

Not the same, but in the ballpark. But iirc, regular Coke and Pepsi aren't growing. Diet Pepsi/Coke are. The brands are also coming up with semi-diet versions, such as "Coca-Cola Life" (17g of sugar).
That’s fine. I agree; “HTML-lite” is fine, and most of AMP is even an acceptable implementation of that concept.

But in practice, the way AMP is used has fundamental problems. Like the fact that content is hosted by a third party, or that links are broken, or that scrolling is wrecked. I like the speed of AMP; the implementation is catastrophic and I wish dearly that I could disable its appearance in Google search results.
>I totally get it, I would like to see more evidence also

Right, me too. I can't find Google doing anything wrong here. The article was under NDA so Forbes and Google took it down willingly.

No proof of the +1 statement. No proof of Google censoring the article. We have no story here.

Unprovable accusations don't help your side of the fight, though. Even if they hint at something that is true.
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For many years people have posted these sorts of variations on the 'Who's Hiring' threads. It's long been a standard moderation practice to demote such submissions because they (obviously?) don't meet the HN guidelines' primary criteria. That's all that happened here.

If we didn't do that, the front page would fill up with these, because everyone has a different idea of what sort they'd prefer. That's particularly to be avoided on the day when the 'Who's Hiring' is already on the front page and the other regular threads are on /ask.

I agree that it's nice for people to offer mentoring to others. We've reduced the penalty on the current submission so it shows up high on /ask.
SEEKING WORK - LOS ANGELES AREA / REMOTE

Full stack developer with 15 years of experience. Great track record with the clients.

Technologies: Java, Javascript, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Spring, MongoDB, MySql

Resume: http://amitgupta.io

Email: amitgupta15@gmail.com
> The "Bad" Parts of Technology Cannot Be Separated from the "Good" Parts.

However, there might be some value to price discrimination. Consumer tech reaches new heights of capabilities and new lows of cost. That's great of ISIS but bad for States that fight ISIS.

It seems like we either have to make consumer tech less accessible or military technology better, but we already have fearsome military technology but we've promised not to use it (bio-, nuclear, and chemical weapons).

Asymmetric warfare, huh?
Eating them whole is even better. But calling pressed fruit the same thing as the poisonous crap they would rather have us drink isn't helping anyone. It's clearly not the same thing.
The competition is fierce? Must only be a SF phenomena. My side of the country doesn't feel that way at all. Seems like there's way more jobs than qualified applicants over here.

Still the same problem of most being unwilling to pay for talent, but those who are still aren't having THAT easy of a time.
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Apparently as per the article they're at least offering refunds to some subset of their customers.

Also, I think at $50 a lot more people would consider it. Keurig coffee makers seem to have done pretty well and I'm sure the $100 cost was a big part of that (as opposed to charging say > $200).
Can you be specific about which of those statements you think don't apply anymore?
For bidirectional audio, 64kbit/s is not good enough.

On sound quality, the current bluetooth headsets are 2-3x priced over the same brand's top wired headphones, for fraction of the quality. Not just because the aptX HD is not “good enough”, but because the poor DACs. Good enough DACs are power-hungry bugs, it is unlikely to see them built into wireless headsets in 2-3 years time.
One of the hardest things to remember is that despite what our culture seems to believe: your moral worth is not equivalent to the value of your current employment relationship. Don't let anyone, especially self-doubt, try to blame the lay-off on you or that you did anything right/wrong. Don't let anyone tell you while you are unemployed and seeking employment that you are worthless or terrible.

One especially hard one, I found, to deal with is unemployment insurance. You pay into unemployment insurance while employed, it's an insurance product designed to soften the blow in precisely these sorts of situations. Some state governments (in my case I especially throw shade on Indiana) force you to read brochures (and sign and fill out forms) designed to make you feel as guilty as possible to deign to take money out of the insurance pool you contributed to. It's hard to stay emotionally afloat when even the systems designed to help support you in a tumultuous time were designed to also harass you for needing them.

It can be a full time job to interview and look for your next job. Don't forget to take some emotional breaks and see friends and family you love and remind yourself you aren't alone, and are worth more to the world than just the job that laid you off or the next job that you will eventually find.
Interesting third argument.
Based on work by google and published papers, monorepos have some advantages. Of course not always and not everywhere.

But here, reddit connects it with service oriented architecture. Somehow i dont get it.
It's more commonly known as "flow" but it's practice. Limit multitasking. Have clearly defined goals (this is probably this biggest factor) that you need to accomplish. Start where you most feel comfortable and if you want to get to a point where you can publically flow, figure out mini challenges to get to that point. Don't get caught up in the film though. Some people are just lucky to go into insta-flow/-online most have to unplug and replug in. It's similar to mastering programming, it's just another discipline you have to train yourself into. You'll know when "it" happens. Good luck.
What are you gonna do with it with the the packs? Or you can use it without them too?
Sr. Software Engineer, PM | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF, NYC | Onsite, Fulltime

Zenysis is building a data analysis product for governments of developing countries. Our current projects focus on healthcare and affect over 100 million people. In the past year, we've helped governments fight epidemic outbreaks, combat food shortages, and allocate several hundred million dollars in healthcare spending.

We have a lot on our plate. We're building early warning systems for disease outbreaks, automatically detecting low-quality data, and running models to recommend the most effective health interventions across entire countries. The work we do is not always easy, but it's very rewarding. We're looking for other mission-focused engineers who care about seeing their impact in the world and are comfortable building complex, mission-critical systems.

More info: http://www.zenysis.com/careers.html
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PropertyWebBuilder is an open source real estate website builder. A few users are interested in a mobile app client and I am looking for someone who can create an iOS client for it.
Looking to have it ready early next year so plenty of time to work on it part-time. Will prefer someone who is interested in the real estate space.

Website: http://propertywebbuilder.com

Think this is for you? Email work @ propertywebbuilder.com
It can mean: "you want to know the price? Well, that depends... How much is it worth to you?"

Among plenty of other things
Too bad this wasn't around when I was using LaTex to write a paper about Lua.
The trouble is, I've always thought Juicero was a bank shot for digitized food in general. If that's the case, they needed to be serving consumers not businesses.

The concept of food that's uniquely tagged and tracked from origin to consumption is pretty attractive - makes contamination a breeze to trace back, keeps you from cooking with rotten food since the machine knows to reject it, and it could automatically track what you've got in your kitchen to suggest recipes / restock for you.

That's all been thought of before, the trouble is how on earth do you build that network? I suspect the reason Juicero got so much money is they were trying to build it first with high end luxury foods, and then expand down-market to eventually own the 'groceries of the future.'

Personally, I think good ol Jeff Bezos is going to win this one too by first owning grocery delivery straight up, and then going 'oh by the way they're all trackable if you want, you should buy Amazon brand appliances to make use of the feature :)" because as others pointed out here, counter space is at a premium and nobody really wants appliances that don't work with all their ingredients.

Anyway, that's what I tell myself to make this whole ludicrous story less sad.
We guarantee payments and provide legal insurance to both sides. But honestly, once you have worked with someone, your trust of them is probably enough for you to decide if you want to keep them on without the insurance.

If you get a worker that is working on a Dog Sitter platform and you've had an appointment or two with them, you're probably going to judge they're OK enough. The insurance is more of a first-time-per-person kind of thing. Same for renting out your house and so on: For the first meeting, yeah it's super important. After that, you'll probably know if you trust them enough to skip the fees.
Excellent user experience. Thanks for including Washington State. I'm already sharing this with friends.
Augmented Reality Finally Takes Center Stage
Those who funded this will only squeeze their portfolio companies still remaining for a juicier return.
Amazing. If I were an investor in that I'd really wonder what the founders know and aren't telling me.
Software Engineer | Scalable Press | San Francisco, CA | Salary range: $105k+ depending on experience + options | ONSITE | No resume needed

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team wrote our API that helps print over 10,000 shirts a day. Our stack is Node, React, Mongo.

Company facts:
- On track to double to 12 million items printed and shipped in 2017.
- 13 software engineers / 1 UI/UX / 1 PM
- San Francisco office near Montgomery BART
- CEO used to write code

Interested? Email me and mention you’re from HN. No need to send a resume—I’d like to hear about what you’ve been working on lately, and feel free to include any relevant project links.
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PS We're also hiring an engineering manager, UI/UX designers and PMs for our ecommerce products and warehouse software.
it is valuable to separate, but why is it valuable to force a different syntactic layer, often with heavy constrains on what logic can be expressed which inevitably leaks back into various helpers implemented in the layer you've just separated yourself from? why is it not better to separate using mechanics native to your language?
since you mentioned chromebooks i feel obligated to mention the truly stellar galliumOS, an xubuntu derivative for chromebooks. i've been using it for about a year on a toshiba chromebook 2 and it's been a joy -- everything works perfectly, and after swapping in a 128gb ssd i have zero complaints.
+1 would love to see HTML light, and that's why I initially assumed AMP to be.

Edit:

Now that I think about it, Twitter does try to use AMP as HTML light, since they don't use the cache.

Yet I think AMP is does not make a great HTML light, likely because it has to support the cache use case.
Let's say the customers, that you sold your produce to, know that you sell at your farm: the YouTube channel.

You may be willing to toil the earth at new location, but not having those same customers who want to buy from you at new location, is the biggest loss, more so than the land.

The land owner, didn't mind what you were doing, it's even legal what you were doing, but then one fine day the landowner dated a girl who didn't like that you cultivated onions, she hates onions, she convinced the landowner to get rid of you. And the landowner owns 70% of the land in your country and 90% of the produce buyers are also residing on the same lands. Going to new land is much much unfair proposition. At these scales the legal system, which still exists and has power, should step in an break apart the land owner or impose rules which forces him to play fair.

Anti-trust laws exist for this very reason. Break up Google.
> But if user A withdraws their consent for the social network to process personal data about them, user B's photo is still personal data about user A if the social network knows or could know that user A is in it.

Except that is not included in this. You are in fact not even supposed to retain data to identify a user after their account has been used to match them on other data.

I don't know the law by heart right now but I had discussions even a year ago with people consulting on this about this very topic what to do for such cases.

This law was not drafted in a vacuum where nobody looked at real world situations.
I just assumed it's what someone who'd actually thought about the problem did for performance.
In my opinion, Uber has a legitimate software model, but it's business is not sustainable. The software, and ease of use is their selling point outside of fake deflated prices. They need to sell it to cab companies, and be the OS that runs them.
This story is surfacing every few months on many major outlets. The story itself is fun, but the fact that it often tries to "prove" that the US was first in space without any proof is misinformation. A lot of non-technical people will take this story and pass it as a fact.
I can. I've never seen people claim that the Koch brothers pay actors to run over counter-protestors
Nope, most senior devs at such companies are pure code slingers or small team leads. The "select few", which I interpret to mean people who can architect or lead large projects, start at 400k or so and top out at undisclosed millions.
See https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029.
I can get behind that, but they should at least keep a mirror with gitea to demonstrate the product.
This entire line of thinking is very reminiscent of the Air Force's X-Plane program in the 50s.

The Air Force was heading down the road of airplane-to-orbit back in the 50s, but everybody decided that rockets were the way to go so the X-Plane (at least in terms of rocket-planes pushing the envelope of manned flight) program was abandoned.

Who knows where we would be had we kept going? If nothing else, we could have seen major improvements in heat management.
I guess the components. I think the sold the machine at a loss and maybe you could make some profit reselling some components, yet I am not quite sure.
> Why reach for a government solution immediately?

I'm not a fan of running to big govs, but I fail to see any other usable solution. Do you have any to offer?