skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The two choices facing platforms would seem to be to put extremely restrictive measures in place compromising their users’ free speech and privacy, or to do nothing at all.

So where is the problem again? "Do nothing at all" sounds good to me. Be the dumb pipe or host you're supposed to be.
so it is more like airbnb.

schedule Management hell. plus lawsuits from everywhere :)
I've long thought the endgame of Uber is open-source software that continually automatically adjusts how much of the transaction it skims off so that it always has just enough to pay its own AWS bills.
Unmiss: Add Ruby's method_missing to you JavaScript objects
OpenFaaS accelerates serverless Java with AfterBurn
Zemanta (an Outbrain company) | Full-stack Engineer, Backend Engineer | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Full Time - Onsite | https://zemanta.com
At Zemanta, we're building the most advanced native advertising platform in the world. Our recent acquisition by Outbrain is a testament to our cutting-edge tech and the strong team that built it.
Despite the acquisition, Zemanta lives on as a standalone product built by a small (<15 engineers), passionate team based in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. There is still a lot to do to keep up with the growth of our business, so we're looking for:

Backend engineer to grow our RTB (real-time bidding) infrastructure that currently processes 100k bid requests/second (Go, Python, Kafka, Aerospike, Hadoop, Redshift)

Supply integration engineer to help integrate new ad exchanges into our real-time bidding system (Go, Python, Kafka, Aerospike, Hadoop, Redshift)

Full-stack engineer to take our user-facing dashboard and API to the next level (stack: Angular, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS)

Frontend engineer focused on improving our users' experience and making our dashboard super-performant (Angular, Webpack, Typescript, Less)

Data scientist to work with the large volume of data and optimise our prediction algorithms (stack: Python, Jupyter, Go)

Devops engineer to scale our current infrastructure and help migrate it to Outbrain's data centres (AWS, GCP, Docker, Kafka, Hadoop, Chef)

More info & apply here: https://zemanta.workable.com/
Regardless of what one may like or wish, it's the reality on the ground.
Cool idea.. name could use some work.. .I read it as PlaneOl not Plan-EOL.
non corporal entities (.inc) are
The Google Bus
I think that I've faced a similar issue with a non-cancelable room. The date was changed into a random one.

Not a big loss, but I've stopped using their services since.
What politician is going to vote against cracking down on sex trafficing though?

Once they named this bill the way they did, this was a lost cause. We're well-fucked here, I imagine.
I can't even drink 6L of water per day. I can only assume that young Slovenians must have a routine operation to install a wine bladder somewhere along the gastrointestinal tract.

Can you hear the sloshing as people walk? Do you have to salt the wine to avoid a nationwide epidemic of hyponatremia? Do people actually eat food, or do they just get all their dietary calories from sweeter wines?

Six liters? What the hell? I might have had 750mL of wine total so far this year. How do you even... What do you... No, I literally cannot fathom the depths of this aspect of Slovenian culture.

This has to be an exaggeration, so let's check.... "Slovenians drink on average almost 100L of beer per year." "Economic improvement in Slovenia leads to increased sales of alcoholic beverages." "Slovenia ranks 5th in alcohol consumption in EU." "...between 10.3 and 13.5L of pure alcohol per year." "Slovenia: Could a Country Be Addicted to Alcohol?" "According to official data, every fifth man and every 25th woman in the country is an alcoholic."

The alcoholism rate in the US is maybe 5% to 5.5%. I think it's safe to say I don't understand the problem. At least you're not Estonia, I guess.
The biggest frustration comes when Twitter forces me onto t.co which redirects to analytics.twitter.com, which is rendered dysfunctional by my network-level adblocker.
A lot of these things are done for "support" reasons.

For example, someone I know works for one of the big cable internet providers. To paraphrase him: What they can do to your modem remotely is terrifying.

I know for one thing, My modem is an Arris SBG6580. For some reason, it seems that I don't have the ability as an individual to update/change/modify my own hardware. This is hardware I purchased outright, instead of leased telcom hardware, yet the only way it will ever be updated/patched is if my ISP pushes an update through (I believe) DOCSIS commands.

Of course, when all the individual companies created different backdoors for support, and now are all purchasing each other, it's likely many of the backdoors get forgotten or ignored.
interestingly enough much of Houston had running electricity the whole time. We have an office downtown that flooded and never went to backup power and the datacenters stayed on the mains as well.
I didnt word that as clearly as I meant;

I just think that each step in the processing of food should be transparent.

Has frozen food sat in various places far longer than expected?
You can get pretty good safety-performance trade-offs even without JITting, but yes, JITs are also great. But all that is only true for languages that are less insane than C, I agree. (Come to think of it, I don't know if people have explored the field of UBSan-style things in combination with JIT technologies.)

As for a "reasonable" C compiler, there is always -O0.
TIL, cheers!
Algolia | multiple roles | SF, Paris, NY, Atlanta, London | Onsite only, Full time

Hey HN, at Algolia we are facing a major challenge of scaling our team to follow our growth and our series B investment. We are currently looking for multiple dev roles, but looking for other areas such as marketing and sales as well :)

We are a hosted search API, that allows anyone to quickly build good search within hours. https://www.algolia.com/

Responsibilities depend on the role, but we normally have teams that are responsible for different areas like the dashboard, infrastructure, our open source libs etc.

Technical requirements are as per role. You don't need to be a superstar, but it helps if you want to become really good and enjoy the environment.

I'm biased, I work there, but I can say that the past year has been good to me both technically and life wise (I relocated to Paris). My co-workers are extremely nice and knowledgable people who seek to bring the best out of everyone. My colleague wrote an article about his experience -
https://medium.com/@liamboogar/celebrating-one-year-at-algol...

As usual, there are job perks but I'll let those be discussed if you apply -> https://www.algolia.com/careers
It does, it is shredded vegetation in a bag which is squeezed by an amazingly overengineered solid steel screw press with giant, beautiful one-piece plastic moldings on the back. It is also true that you can extract the vast majority of the fluid without the press just fine. It is not "chopped" into "smaller" pieces, but literally shredded.
long-lived != immortal! I still take the essence of your point though.
> There is nothing to 'push' the donkey to the left or the right.

It's funny -- I can imagine a real human (perhaps a particularly anxious one) stall in indecision wondering which similar-looking pile held more value or which was closer. Fear of wasted time would likely force them to make a decision. And once they committed to a pile they would likely continue until/unless they discovered new information.

What if the agent had a list of waypoints and only re-evaluated the list every N ticks or when the horizon reveals something new?

I know very little about AI so I have no idea if this is out of scope or could possibly apply.
I'd suggest that maybe expanding YCR to YCombinator Research might have been a better title, no way to edit a title though alas.

Sad to see their VR work go unfunded now though. There have been several opinions voiced recently that VR is effectively dead; I think it's just that we don't really know how to use it best yet - and this group was one of the only groups I was aware of taking a full head-first jump into figuring out what can work in VR
> What politician is going to vote against cracking down on sex trafficing though?

A good one that doesn't vote on a law based on it's always-misleading title.
Open source today is far from where we thought it'd be in the 90s. I did a post on this a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
Which of the points of my post is this in reference to?
That typing is in realtime! I rehearse screencasts until they flow naturally like you see here; there's no content editing and no script. I basically record the whole thing from beginning to end, over and over, until it doesn't change significantly from run to run and I don't feel it catching anywhere.

I do edit out pauses to breathe, to drink water, sometimes to double-check my thinking about what to do next, and occasionally to open a second terminal and check something.

Destroy All Software is six years old, so I've had a lot of practice. Most DAS screencasts require a couple hours of initial silent prep, then around 10 full runs from beginning to end. When it starts to flow well (run #5, give or take), I fire up ScreenFlow and start doing each run as if it might be the final published version (because it might actually be). With these longer "from scratch" screencasts, I only make one or two attempts per day; by then my throat and brain are both pretty tired.

I also live stream these on Twitch before making the final version, so you can see the sausage being made if you like! It's basically the same as what you saw in this video, but the pauses are there, you get to hear me become confused sometimes and comment on my mistakes, and there's a bit of Q&A afterward. The schedule isn't fixed, but I try to tweet with a couple hours' notice (https://twitter.com/garybernhardt).
> and Python really has no infrastructure for that.
Nor do any other dynamic languages like Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, Lua, or PHP, as far as I can tell.

This is not correct.

Common Lisp easily supports structs, and is a dynamic language. No need to specify types for structs, although you can optionally do it in CL if you want.

Here's a textbook example (straight from the CLTL2 book...)
Here a struct is defined (only one line needed), and then the struct is used.

;; structure definition
(defstruct door knob-color width material)

;; Automatically creates the following function:
;; make-door
;; And accesors (can be used for getting and setting)
;; door-width
;; door-knob-color
;; door-width
;; door-material
;; ----------------------

;; 'instancing' the structure into "my-door"
(setq my-door
(make-door :knob-color 'red :width 5.0))
;; accessing
(door-width my-door) => 5.0
;; setting
(setf (door-width my-door) 43.7)
;; accessing
(door-width my-door) => 43.7
(door-knob-color my-door) => red
We actually implemented quite a big project with Vue/Typescript. Half year later we removed all ts code in favor of plan js.
not sure how they managed to convince the investors.
as far as the money spent - setting up physical manufacturing of anything, especially at scale is orders of magnitude more expensive than setting up an "IT" shop. here we're talking the actual (apparently worthless) juicers and the packs.
Major League Hacking | Design & Engineering Roles | Full Time | Onsite

We work with the largest community of student developers in the world to help them become amazing hackers. Major League Hacking (MLH) works with student organizers across the globe to put on events on their campus. We're a B-Corp that's been around for four years and work with 200+ events per year for 65,000 students.

We're currently hiring a software engineer and designer.

Full-Stack Software Engineer:
We're looking for an engineer to help us write and maintain software that helps us empower hackers, working across frontend (HTML/CSS/JS) and backend (Rails). We're a small team and you'd have the ability to help guide the engineering products from start to finish while working with an accomplished senior engineer.
- More and Apply: https://careers.mlh.io/jobs/product/full-stack-engineer/

Designer:
Although not yet on our jobs page, we're just starting the search for a new designer. As a designer at MLH you get to launch and guide a number of brands that we maintain while also creating print and digital designs for events and products.
- Apply: https://majorleaguehacking.typeform.com/to/rmtogi?role=custo...
Why am I being down-voted?
Dell is an outstanding Texan this is great to hear.. I donated as well but mine was a little shy of $36M
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Engineering: https://jobs.lever.co/scoot?team=Tech%20Team

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Clean Disruption – Why Energy and Transportation Will Be Obsolete by 2030
just say onsite, dont use the word remote.
I really wonder why there is nothing like 3 yet. I've had two friends, and myself, independently come up with the same basic idea. An e-ink calendar that can sync with you google (or other online) calendar.
Don't even think about having fun, unless you have empirical evidence that it can be fun.
It isn't just junior devs. It's also senior ones with a sophisticated grasp of CS trivia and little expertise outside of it.
TUNE Inc | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://jobs.lever.co/tune

TUNE has open positions for Software Engineers (Mid-level and Senior), DevOps Engineers, Product Managers, Sales Engineering and Support Engineering.

What sets TUNE apart...

100% of employees' premiums covered for medical, vision and dental

Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver, 2 weeks for secondary caregiver

4 weeks PTO (increases annually)

401k

Equity (varies by position)

100% commuter transit coverage

TUNE Cares is our philanthropic program supporting education, the environment, diversity, and other important community causes through life enriching experiences

The TUNE House program is designed to promote a collaborative environment for women aligned in their effort to be innovative and extraordinary leaders in the tech industry

A top-notch culinary team serving light breakfast and full lunch.

Dog-friendly offices

Opportunity to strongly impact company strategy and growth
Fun, creative and focused teams committed to learning and problem-solving through collaboration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15151627
Ask HN: What can we do (individuals and community) to stop war with North Korea?
I'd like to see Trump and Kim meet in neutral territory, in person, and form a personal relationship.

I'd also like to see all the rich entrepreneurs in the tech community stand tall and use their money to prevent war.

Everyone stands to lose a great deal if this madness is not cooled down.

I can't think of a war since WW2 that anyone won.... including the U.S.

What else can be done?
They will probably be available on eBay cheaply now that they are paperweights for those who bought them.
Rumor has it that their engineers couldn't concentrate...
This video is one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Edit: Most like contains strong language...
The decision to have a build machine with a raid-0 disk array could do with some elaboration.
SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
The Act is as bad as the EFF says it is. 18 U.S.C. 1591 makes illegal "participation in a venture" which financially benefits from trafficking. This bill defines "participation in a venture" to include "knowing conduct by an individual or entity, by any means, that assists, supports, or facilitates the violation."

That language vastly expands potential liability. If a website knows that its services are being used to somehow assist in sex trafficking,[1] the website could be as culpable as the persons getting paid to coordinate the shipping of sex slaves. It's completely bananas.

Here are the sponsors:

Rob Portman (R, Ohio)
Richard Blumenthal (D, Connecticut)
John McCain (R, Arizona)
Claire McCaskill (D, Missouri)
John Cornyn (R, Texas)
Heidi Heitkamp (D, North Dakota)

[1] It's pretty much impossible to run a website that allows people to communicate that isn't used for illegal purposes. For example, GMail is definitely used to facilitate a wide variety of illegal conduct. Up to now, for criminal liability to exist, you had to go beyond knowing that your service was used to assist criminal activity to taking special measures to assist that criminal activity. This bill basically lowers the standard from "having intent to assist the illegal activity" to "knowing that what you're doing will somehow assist the illegal activity."
There are tons of new toy companies started every day; just visit the American International Toy Fair in New York next February to get an idea of what's happening and what it takes.

Note the toy business can be quite painful (as well as fun). There are many regulations in regards to safety (ranging from paint toxicity and bits that don't fall off and cause choking all the way up to privacy protection for kids under 13). Margins are incredibly low and sales prices have to be low because kids go through a lot of toys and are finicky (we all know the joke about the kid preferring the packaging to the toy itself, which is a real phenomenon).

You can see this in the market caps of the two industry "giants", Hasbro (12B, 1.5X revenue) and Mattel (5.5B, 1X revenue) which are not large companies.

Still, it can be fun. I did some work with Hasbro and know some Mattel folks: they are all "ordinary" business folks (hard nosed about COGS and marketing) but all seemed to have fun with the product line and really enjoy it. More, frankly, than some I know toiling in the bowels of FB or GOOG, much less Oracle.
Webflow | Frontend & Backend Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full Time | $100k-$160k + equity

Heya HN! We launched here almost 5 years ago [0], and now we're looking to add a few more engineers across the stack to round out our team.

On the frontend, we really push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. Here are some examples of the types of visual tools we build here: [1] [2] [3] [4] - and that's just scratching the surface. Our frontend stack is based on React, Flux, Redux, Flow, Immutable.js, GraphQL, Apollo, CSS-in-JS, etc.

On the backend, we run an entire hosting platform that scales to millions of requests across hundreds of thousands of websites and applications. There's a healthy mix of Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, Rancher, Terraform, Docker - and whole slew of AWS services (we love Lambda!).

Most of us work remotely (across 10 countries, primarily US and EU timezones), and we have a strong design-and-engineering-driven culture. We all care deeply about building powerful tools for the open web platform to empower millions more people to create for the web, because learning to code is so hard that only 0.25% of the world knows how to to do it. If you've ever seen Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle" talk (google it!) and really resonated with it, this is the team for you!

We're stable, cash flow positive (so no need ask VCs for $$$), and building a product which truly changes people's lives (there are thousands of people across the world now making a living using Webflow to build professional sites [6] for others).

We're looking for senior-level engineers that have had significant experience building production SaaS applications, but we also consider more junior-level engineers who have a track record of learning quickly.

If you are interested, send me a personal note (email in my profile) - I'd love to chat more!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499

[1] http://3d-transforms.webflow.com/

[2] https://webflow.com/feature/interactions-v2

[3] https://webflow.com/designer

[4] https://www.flexboxgame.com/

[5] https://webflow.com/hosting

[6] https://webflow.com/discover/popular
Most people will point out that is just as bad or even worse; because erring about how much any minority its in disadvantage its always better seen than erring against it.

I just wanna give a bit of historical context when this was written, back then these were acceptable ads on magazines: http://cdn2.independent.ie/incoming/article30576661.ece/128f... http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/536a53836da8110b266... http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/p5hte68.jpg
But won't technological progress in electric transportation severely stunt the problem of emissions and pollution?
I don't see any issues on the server side. What exactly isn't working for you?
> You can’t prove even very simple universal properties of dynamically typed code, such as “when given an integer, this function always returns an integer”

Really?

Straight from my common lisp (SBCL) command line:

CL-USER> (defun myfunction (x) (atanh x))
MYFUNCTION

CL-USER> (describe #'myfunction)

#<FUNCTION MYFUNCTION>
[compiled function]

Lambda-list: (X)
Derived type: (FUNCTION (T)
(VALUES
(OR (SINGLE-FLOAT -1.0 1.0) (DOUBLE-FLOAT -1.0d0 1.0d0)
(COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT) (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT))
&OPTIONAL))
Source form:
(SB-INT:NAMED-LAMBDA MYFUNCTION
(X)
(BLOCK MYFUNCTION (ATANH X)))
; No value

CL-USER>

What happened here?
I defined a function, i never declared which type does the function use, but the compiler can infer all the types.

If i supply a string to "myfunction", the compiler will complain. Typing is strong, but it's dynamic.

What will atanh return?

CL-USER> (describe #'atanh)
#<FUNCTION ATANH>
[compiled function]

Lambda-list: (NUMBER)
Declared type: (FUNCTION (NUMBER)
(VALUES
(OR SINGLE-FLOAT DOUBLE-FLOAT (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT)
(COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT))
&OPTIONAL))
Derived type: (FUNCTION (T) *)
Documentation:
Return the hyperbolic arc tangent of NUMBER.
Known attributes: foldable, flushable, unsafely-flushable, movable, recursive
Source file: SYS:SRC;CODE;IRRAT.LISP
; No value
CL-USER>

The wonders of CL... not only i get all the possible input types, but also the return types. And the documentation, and the source code file(!)
> Or anywhere in Europe!

Not sure what you mean there. If you meant their core business is illegal, Wikipedia[0] seems to disagree (of course I wouldn't trust Wikipedia and would consult competent legal counsel if it were me).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe
I don't think these are mutually exclusive. At work, my goal is to create products that people use (and pay for). At home, my goal is to learn and have fun. Different approaches for different contexts.
On the website I just see the fullstack option. Can you say a salary range or equity ?
Thanks
Also, all of our cameras and displays should use hexagonal pixels. :-)

And maybe we should use triaxial fabric more commonly (right now only used for stuff like space suits and bullet-proof vests).
Probably nothing. The good news is that Steve Bannon was correct when he did that interview a month or so ago. North Korea already has the capability to kill millions in Seoul so if MAD holds, no one will do anything.
Totally off topic, but isn't it bizarre how our politicians nor anyone else in the overseeing agencies/industries can seem to understand why "healthcare" is so expensive...until we actually open up the market for entry of new physicians there will be no solution. Yet I never hear this in popular media.
If reality is a service, some people unsubscribed long ago.