skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aquila | Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer | SF, NYC | REMOTE, CONTRACT https://aquilacashflow.com

About Aquila:
We are back to Who's Hiring after receiving great talent from this post. Thank you HackerNews Community.

We are a bleeding Edge FinTech Innovation. We automate receivables finance underwriting & collections for small, high-risk businesses that no one else will touch.

We're building a world class recommendation engine for small business operations and finacing.

Our team: Software Engineers, data scientists and product experts. Our platform is built on Ruby, Python and AWS.

We hire onsite and remote. We're a fast-moving, fast talking team.

Our Requirements:

* Demonstrated passion for Fintech innovation, Opensource contributions, blockchains, and datascience

* Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning

* Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw!

* No Fear of the edge of FinTech datascience and engineering

Our Interview Process:

* Github & code review -> Founder interview -> Team interview + test -> Decision for either 2-week trial or immediate hire.

Open Positions:

* Senior Data Engineer (Python): Apply here: https://aquila-1.workable.com/jobs/485712

* Senior Software Engineer (Ruby): Apply here: https://aquila-1.workable.com/jobs/484859
its not news that:

1) she took millions of dollars in personal bribe money to give oppressive regime (Morocco) weapons during her tenure at department of state? (#9 on the list),

2) took million dollars in personal bribe money to give oppressive regime (Qatar) weapons during her tenure at department of state (#15 on the list),

3) paid people to start riots at Trump rallys (#5 on the list),

4) Obama had his cabinet picked by the chairman of Citigroup (#100 on the list),

5) mainstream media collusion with Hillary campaign (#37, #50, #58, #71, #81, #86, #90, #95, #97 on the list),

etc etc
This is neat, and there's a lot of interesting comments and pointers elsewhere in these comment threads.

What I've been doing (for the last 25 years or so) is simple. I always keep a window open, visible in all virtual desktops, on the bottom right of my screen, with: vi ~/notes/notes

For somewhat less than the last 25 years, ~/notes is an encrypted git repo. I have a cron that, minutely, adds, commits, pulls and pushes to a couple of my servers on the Internet.

I generally have one of these for each company I work for, and another one that I've used for all things personal.
>P=0.05 is best interpreted as "There is a 95% chance that this data isn't pure noise".

No, that's not what P=0.05 means. This misconception is exactly why p values are so problematic. The question we want to answer is unanswerable, so instead we subtly substitute a different question in its place and don't even realize we've swapped concepts.
Bity (bity.com) | Backend Developer | Neuchâtel, Switzerland | ONSITE and partially remote | full-time

Bity is a young, growing Swiss startup. We are a team of local entrepreneurs and professionals coming from UN, CERN, and the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities. Our mission is to build the future of finance and help society transition towards a fairer, more decentralized economy. Currently, our main activity involves allowing people to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in exchange of Euros and Swiss Francs. Our next steps: providing a wide range of reliable services based on blockchain technologies.

We are looking for experienced backend developers in Python or talented software engineers that can get up to speed quickly with our stack. Correctness, pragmatism, and opinions are required for the job. Expertise with Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, pytest, PostgreSQL, and Kafka will be appreciated.

Selected candidates will be joining as core member of the onsite dev team and should expect to receive responsibility quickly. In the short term, they will be spending their time implementing new functionality with direct impact in our business as well as helping design and migrate to our future architecture. As the company size increases, they will also be given the opportunity to grow professionally and to make their position evolve accordingly.

Are you a good fit? Ping me at alejandro@bity.com.
Could you clarify - did you go over all classes in your codebase and added __slots__ attribute? Or you have some tooling to do that for you? I don't have any clear counterargument but that sounds wildly unpythonic thing to do.
Also, good secure defaults. I see too many pieces of software ship with insecure defaults for ease of use. This needs to stop.
Mobile Facebook with JavaScript Off Is an Interesting Experience
Turn off javascript in Chrome developer tools and visit https://m.facebook.com/
How is this better than using skin cells to create induced pluripotent cells?
Kingfisher | Engineering + Product| New York City

Kingfisher is a web-based visual mapping tool that helps individuals and corporations organize, explain, and collaborate on complex issues. Our team is based in New York City but we have team members located in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and elsewhere. We entered an open beta in August of 2017 and our early users hail from New York Times, Disney, Salesforce, Etsy, Stack Overflow, Pinterest, Intuit, L’Oreal, and Vice.

Engineering

Senior Fullstack + Front End Engineers - We are looking for great engineers to join our startup team as we build the next generation of content mapping tools. These are enterprise-strength tools anyone can quickly learn to use to map and track complex thoughts or systems of any kind.

Product

Product Manager - We are looking to hire our first Product Manager to help guide the product’s development, identify and execute on company priorities, and drive growth with both our consumer and enterprise customers.

Product Designer - Our canvas based interface provides an exceedingly diverse range of users with tools to create compelling knowledge maps and track complex thoughts or systems of any kind. We are looking for a great designer to join our startup team as we build the next generation of content mapping tools.

https://kingfisher.link/jobs/
Milwaukee, WI | SSIS Developer | Contract, 3 month | On-Site

We have 2 spots open. We're looking for 3+ years of experience with ETL work. Full-stack .NET development a big plus but not required. For a full-stack developer, there could be opportunity for hire following the contract.
o Data Integration tools: SSIS
o Database: SQL Server
o Data Query tools: SQL, T-SQL
Rates dependent on experience (sorry - I know that's annoying!) but somewhere around $55-65/hr is likely.

Contact Jenny Munn at jenny.munn@centare.com for more info.
I hope they still keep Groove alive for OneDrive streaming, but I fear the worst.
I'm wondering how exploitable this is. Kube-dns doesn't listen outside of the cluster, so to you need to be able to run arbitrary code inside the cluster to make use of it.

Then it lets you escape to the dnsmasq container. Which does have a shell, but I'm struggling to think how this gets you more capability than "able to run arbitrary code inside the cluster".

Most likely I missed something. Help me spot it.
Simulation showing life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into ponds
East West is a good bank for you. Another bank is cathaybank.com — also good for people in your position.

Email me. My address is in my user information here on HN. A Mandarin-speaking lawyer works for me. He may be able to help you.
Right, so speeding up blocks is roughly equivalent to increasing the block size, which is what the whole BCH vs. BTC split was over, correct? So I guess the arguments against it would be the same? And if I understand correctly the core argument is that it would make it harder for anyone to verify the entire block chain. Is there any real argument against it beyond that?
>This is very different to electricity, because physical resources are consumed that the consumer did not ask for or need

This entire article is glossing over the fact that the vast majority of electricity produced is from converting a physical resource into the electricity being wasted. Excessive wasteful packaging is stupid, and so is using excessive amounts of power to make Dunning-Krugerrands.

You could certainly place your miners near energy sources such as hydro, solar, or geothermal, but that doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin mining is, by definition, a measure of wasted electricity.
> We've created a long term societal motivation/reward to harvest every joule produce by the sun and use it to calculate hashes

The blockchain doesn't have the economics to incentivize limitless energy consumption. The upper bound is exactly how much people are willing to pay for the bitcoin you mine.
Some people have allergies.
I am looking forwards to trying this out as an easy access cqrs / event sourcing entry point.
Poetic Computation
Redash is more that just a SQL editor. It's a full-featured dashboarding system which works particularly well with relational data sources.
If you Google, you can find tons of good stuff written in Lisps. Julia is an up-and coming language - but it is highly regarded by the data science community.

> What exactly does it mean to have "good dynamic typing facilities"?

The ability to change the structure of your program at runtime will be at the top of the list for me. You can't do that with Ruby/Python.
We had a tiny Lidl store for years, but suddenly the Lidl corporation changed their minimal size for stores and closed it. Took half a year till a non-profit opened at the place. They give jobs to disabled people, but are quite expensive compared to the Lidl.

Well, guess I got gentrified :D

But it's shocking to see that even in one of the biggest cities in Germany there are places where big corps won't sell. A few kilometers away is a street with 4 super markets in 1min walking distance from each other...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

5 mins of witty, brilliant lowdown on The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained.
This brings to mind the ridiculous mess that is Windows 10's settings menus, which mix important configurations between the old control panel and the new UWP settings ui. What's with this apparent challenge updating core management features in the GUI of new OS releases?
Most likely not silently, but in many cases yes. In the UK we have exterminated many of our large mammals over the years, to the detriment of many species and habitats.
Tom Petty, legendary rocker, is dead at 66
As mentioned elsewhere here:

>>The cell populations are actually quite similar; there are both mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cells in cord blood and bone marrow. In many ways, our service is 'cord blood banking for adults'. However, unlike a cord blood bank, we are developing potential rejuvenative therapies using these cells.

The use of cord blood stem cells has been dramatically low. I believe that around 1 in 14000 are used. That said, cord blood has long intended to be only used for rare blood cancers.

We see the landscape changing, using such cells for age-related disease, but also for rejuvenation. Given the low historical use, it's little wonder why storage isn't seen as high-priority. Personally, I see the young biology in cord blood as an asset that will grow in value. However, it should be noted that cord blood storage has been found to be of variable quality, it's worth going with a reputable service.
> I never been censored

Have you never self-censored?
> I simply believe that foreign nationals shouldn't take out ads to influence the elections of countries in which they're not a citizen. If we can't agree on this, then we'll just have to agree to disagree

I totally agree with it! Now I ask you, do you agree? Because US institutions bought a lot of political ads in the past years when the Brazilian government was overthrow. Now guess which side did these institutions support? :)
Maximize Your Software Outsourcing: Avoid Security Pitfalls
> Having a more typically "professional" office setting, combined with some more flexible perks (like flex funds for wellness), strikes me as a good way to avoid filtering people out and inadvertently selecting for an overly specific company culture.

This is an extraordinarily good insight.

> I love Quake III, but he doesn't, and he feels like it's both a waste of time and a reinforcement of a specific type of company culture that he doesn't really relate to.

Even if I did love Quake III proper (hey I am prone to OpenArena from time to time :)) I could not imagine anything that would force me to hate any given thing more than doing it as part of Mandatory Fun Time.
Gambler hits $1.4M jackpot, casino says bingo machine “malfunctioned
In case you're interested in more tools in that area, I'm actively maintaining & updating a list of BI related tools: https://github.com/thenaturalist/awesome-business-intelligen...
>or the author of the library for bad design

That's the one. That's a damned stupid decision.
Death of gas and diesel begins as GM announces plans for ‘all-electric future’
Also the devs of ddwrt do not take security seriously. Requests to include sane defaults for cipher list, dropbear etc. have been met by derision and an outright refusal to do anything about it.

For example, the Kong variant updates for http and checksum despite repeated requests to deliver over https. I’ve got quite a few other examples but sadly on mobile right now.
From the article:
"Whatever use you choose to put the electricity you pay for to, if you are satisfied, then the electricity has not been wasted."

That is far too selfish of a view for the author to take. Electricity is a finite resource; only so much of it can be generated and available at a given time.
How do we even have multi million dollar ships that are capable of violating the rules of the sea?

If shipping lanes were like roads that might be possible, but they aren't and it isn't, because COLREGS don't work like that.
No, you have the causality backwards: the high value of BTC is what incentivizes large investments of electricity and servers. The value of a currency depends only on supply and demand. BTC has the highest demand among cryptocurrencies mainly due to network effects.
Do you have code for this on GitHub?
Yeah, Visa is useful.
I thought you were joking, but then I looked it up and you're right. That's just insane.
Flow Commerce | Software Engineer (all levels/disciplines) | Hoboken, NJ | ONSITE

Flow is an enterprise SaaS platform that makes it simple for ecommerce brands to sell globally. It’s a large market (~$400B last year) and growing quickly (~30% year over year). We closed a massive series A funding round earlier this year ($16M) and are scaling the team. We love building software. We love open source. We spend tons of time carefully designing our APIs - both for the REST APIs and the event schemas we use on our data platform.

We’re looking for developers who are passionate about:
- APIs - both REST and real time event processing - Machine Learning / NLP to solve real problems in the ecommerce world - Bringing great UI and UX to the enterprise

About you:
- You take pride in owning technical features from concept to keyboard to end-user. - You’re comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a bias toward delivery. - You believe in automation and tools over process and bureaucracy.

About us:
- Balanced and Productive. We have a great core team that genuinely built the culture on a foundation of trust - more at https://www.flow.io/our-company/ - Founded in 2015 by second time successful entrepreneurs (Gilt Groupe, Fizzback).

Open source: node.js, react, redux, scala (the kind of scala without a var), play framework, golang (CLIs) - more at: https://github.com/flowcommerce.

Our commitment to diversity goes well beyond demographics. We have many friends here on HN, and are really looking for interesting people from all backgrounds, industries, and levels of experience. It's early enough that you will have a huge impact on what we do and how we do it. If you have questions or want to apply, pls drop me a note: Eric <em at flow.io>
Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then()
They FINALLY got rid of the no alcohol sales on Sunday here in Minnesota literally a few months ago.

Been on the books since statehood, finally enough people got sick of the crap and got the stupid liquor seller lobby told off by telling our representatives we'd not vote for them anymore if they continued to do the stupid no sunday sales crap.

http://www.startribune.com/a-minnesota-first-liquor-stores-a...

Sunday selling laws in general are stupid.
Unless bitcoin doubles in price every 4 years, the frequency of reward halvings.
Then cost of electricity used in mining will remain constant.
Octopuses Are Urbanists, Too
I wonder what is going to happen to the team developing it – IIRC they had a huge team in Paris and Seattle working on it.
Selfish or not, it appears that it's going to happen. We're on course for that, anyway.
Programming with Facts: Experimenting with Datalog in JavaScript
do you sponsor visa
You might find our recent blog post interesting:

https://medium.com/fuzzy-sharp/migrating-to-postgres-2dc1519...

TL;DR: persistent + esqueleto + servant
But in Bitcoin's case it's the same, even the article mentions that "doing today’s calculations would “consume way more power than is generated on the entire planet” if it were done using the CPUs available when Bitcoin launched in 2009.". Energy used when mining Bitcoin could also be considered incidental, the goal is to calculate hashes.
The article says that http is dependent on one server per resource, and that this is a weakness.

In a distributed web you need seeds. Whether they are called "servers", "peers", "devices", or "clients" is dependent on implementation and semantics. For the purpose of my comments I chose to call dedicated seeds "servers", because it made sense to me.

And yeah, we can do that now! I've even used an old cell phone with a busted touchscreen as a low power syncthing device. Mostly it was meant to relay notes between my phone and laptop if one or the other was sleeping or dead. It worked great. Eventually, I stopped depending on it, because I have a headless machine running now (a "server") that does the same thing.

All I had to do to migrate was share my syncthing directories with the server. It was a breeze. I didn't have to worry about configuring addresses or anything.

Also, the server is useful as a relay, but if my phone and laptop are both on, say if I'm working at the library or something, they just communicate directly. So I don't depend on the server in the same way.
Microsoft OneDrive | Senior Software Engineer | Redmond, WA | Full time, onsite

OneDrive is at the center of the mobile-first and cloud-first company strategy for Microsoft. Each month hundreds of millions of people around the world use OneDrive to store and interact with their most important data, and we're committed to building and delivering the best experience for our customers.

The OneDrive Engineering Fundamentals team is looking for passionate, skilled engineers to help us win in this competitive cloud space. As an engineer on our team, you will design and build products and services that fundamentally improve how we develop and release software to the world. You will have the opportunity to directly impact all teams within OneDrive as well as our hundreds of millions of customers, and you'll collaborate with product teams across the entire company to drive meaningful and measurable improvements.

We want people who are fanatical about the cloud, who use OneDrive and even our competitors' products, and who want to change the game by working on OneDrive.

Contact: derekp@microsoft.com
For many years, my dad was given 4 days off a year for both sick and vacation time. Any other time was unpaid. He changed jobs last year, and I haven't asked him if his new job is the same or not.

It is absolutely ridiculous.
Conduit | Software engineer (JS or Python) | Cambridge, MA / Boston, MA | Full time, ONSITE

https://conduithq.com

In a nutshell, we're building personal relationship management software for professional networkers, small business leaders, and anyone who wants to organize the people, relationships, and interactions in their lives.

Driving all of Conduit is the Conduit Personal Graph, a powerful graph model of a person's relationships and activity-- automatically synced, organized, and managed. It's the first-- and most comprehensive-- graph of its kind. Through the Personal Graph, we ingest, process, and surface tens of millions of data points. That information provides new insight for people looking to understand their own lives. And we think that's a special thing :)

No legacy: we work with modern technologies.

Our core:

- Front-end: JavaScript (ES6/Babel) React/Redux, Node.js/Express, GraphQL, Apollo, Babel, Webpack.

- Back-end/data: Python 3, PostgreSQL, Flask, Redis, Pandas/Numpy, Jupyter.

- Across our stack: Docker, Kubernetes.

--

For the position: - We're hiring engineers #3 and #4 on a tight-knit, VC-backed team. - Strong compensation package (actual equity, not options!), flexible vacation policy, technology budget, weekly team lunches, and more.

More details: https://angel.co/goconduit/jobs

Email me (CEO) to apply, mention HN: brandon@conduithq.com. Please, no re mote, no recent bootcamp graduates, no recruiters.
Free karma to anyone who wants to add those up and see if Apple actually has the cash to do it.
Beme (CNN) | Platform Engineer (Golang) | NYC | ONSITE | https://beme.com

Beme is looking for a software engineer to join us in creating the next generation of apps for newshounds. We're building a new, independent, and wildly ambitious technology+media company bringing a wider range of perspectives to the news. We want to change who informs the world, and how. Our team is small and we are in our earliest stages, so your impact will be massive.

You will be developing product features and infrastructure at scale. If building a better, scalable foundation for the future of video and mobile technology is a challenge you want take on, we’d love to hear from you.

This position is based at Beme’s office in Tribeca, NYC.

What you'll do:
- Architect application’s backend, creating scalable services, frameworks, and storage solutions using GoLang.
- Have a voice in the entire product, but focus on the performant, server-side implementation of features.
- Collaborate with the rest of our small, talented team of designers and engineers on a mobile-first application. Specifically Beme’s API and workers written in Golang, and hosted on AWS.

What we're looking for:
- Prior experience with Go and AWS is not a prerequisite for a seasoned coder, but mastery of at least one statically typed language (C++, Java, Golang, etc), understanding of back-end scalability, performance, and/or automation is important.
- The ability to comfortably straddle the line between back-end dev and dev/ops.
- A practical view towards technology selection, striking the right balance between cutting-edge tools and more stable, rock-solid, traditional choices.
- Eagerness to learn as well as teach. Our engineering team come from large scale platforms like Livestream, Google Search, and Tumblr; there are many learning opportunities in this role, but we also expect you can show us a new thing or two!

We have all the perks you might expect: catered lunches, unlimited snacks, relaxed time off and work from home policy, subsidized health, vision, and dental care, 401k program, and fun team outings. We also have a homemade arcade. Interested? Get in touch with us at jobs@beme.com.
He did, reportedly. H1B -> EB2-Green Card -> U.S Citizen

He noted that he used several "grey areas" in order to get citizenship, effectively bending laws in ways they weren't meant to be used.