skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFC Systems - FieldAlytics | Web Application Developer | State College, PA; Nashville, TN; Remote | ONSITE, REMOTE, http://www.efcsystems.com

We make software for managing all aspects of farm and field management - mapping geospatial boundaries and tracking vehicles, prescribing fertilizer inputs based on soil nutrient levels and previous performance, predicting harvest outputs, tracking work done on a given field, generating reports to inform agricultural strategy, etc.

Stack consists of Javascript, Python, node.js, Postgres + PostGIS. Looking for developers with good overlap in those areas (or comparable technologies). Mobile development experience is a plus.

To apply, shoot an email to Alex at awebb@efcsystems.com with your resume and a bit about you.

Remote available (US Eastern or Central) for senior developers with prior remote development experience - please be sure to mention it in your email!
First and foremost, clone and build it. If you cannot clone, build and get it running within an hour, it's generally crap and not worth your time[0].

Once you get it building and running, you can now start making simple changes in order to find your way around.

[0] Developers should pride themselves on how (relatively)simple this process is for their project(s).
Linux will dominate the desktop share and we are all waiting for that day. Cheers :)
"the underlying technologies are not yet scalable" - What does this mean?
Start with How – Hacker Noon
FØCAL | Developer | Cambridge/Boston | ONSITE, REMOTE-possible | http://f0cal.com/

---FØCAL---

Build once. Build everywhere. -- computer-aided design for computer vision.

Next-generation HPC image processing backplane that delivers unparalleled performance and predictability, cloud to edge.

We have an innovative team and are looking for outstanding contributors in a lot of areas - feel free to reach out.

- contribute to a fast-paced venture-funded startup in an exciting field

- get mentorship from senior developers

- invent!

Please email (see my profile) with:

- your development experience

- technologies you hope to learn or things you find interesting

- anything else!
and chromium, which should be renamed chrome beta, since a few years ago when all maintainers are Google employers, even went so far as rolling back all the privacy contributions such as options to disabled/disable 3rd party cookie and referrer. both of which are crucial aspects on how Google/doubleclick get paid by after showing you ads.
If you're starting a family, consider these words from Robert Sapolsky:

"The parasite my lab is beginning to focus on is one in the world of mammals, where parasites are changing mammalian behavior. It's got to do with this parasite, this protozoan called Toxoplasma. If you're ever pregnant, if you're ever around anyone who's pregnant, you know you immediately get skittish about cat feces, cat bedding, cat everything, because it could carry Toxo. And you do not want to get Toxoplasma into a fetal nervous system. It's a disaster."

"There's a long-standing literature that absolutely shows there's a statistical link between Toxo infection and schizophrenia. It's not a big link, but it's solidly there. Schizophrenics have higher than expected rates of having been infected with Toxo, and not particularly the case for other related parasites. Links between schizophrenia and mothers who had house cats during pregnancy."

https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_sapolsky-toxo
What do you think you are lacking? Do you have any leaders you admire? Why? What would YOU like in a manager or a leader? Books are good, but management is mostly common sense and not being a prick to your people. Don't buy too much into the management hype. Be empathetic. And remember your number one priority as a manager is to make sure those who work with you (not for you, WITH you) are well resourced to do their jobs and their opinions are heard and respected. Otherwise don't hire them.
Being an electron app, can anyone tell me how it behaves when viewing 200, 400, records at a time? I attempted to open PopSQL but I don't really want to sign up for an account just to try the thing out.

I tried out TeamSQL a while back and it choked pretty hard at about 250.
As a counter point, you could argue that the pseudonymous nature of cryptocurrency is simply another technological hurdle that, like the scalability problem, can be overcome in time.
I can't decide if this is a joke or not :)
Even if the price stagnates, that beats fiat inflation. But infinite growth is on the table too since there are mathematical guarantees about rarity and few fundamental means of crashing it.
Silicon Valley Shake-Up: These Are the Next Top Tech Towns
Battery status API support is pretty bad on mobile, but you could look at the rate of battery discharge which would probably be slightly different between devices etc.

Similar to how time skew is used for tracking as clocks go off sync.
The Italian Influence on Argentinian Spanish
Yup, I'm happy with it. Can't see how else you would get this amazing data which is obviously going to be extremely helpful for managing an increasingly overcrowded train system.

Even the article says they're using this to assess the value of advertising spots, rather than some of the more nefarious things that _could_ be done with this technology.
I'm just surprised that I saw the same problem on the PDF.
If the goal is climate-friendly power that doesn't take a lot of space, the obvious choice is nuclear. It has a better safety record than hydroelectric and is currently experiencing a tremendous expansion in China and other parts of Asia.
Yep, it's working now.
> Learning from experience isn't science. Trial and error isn't science. There's more to it than that.

Alhazen's Book of Optics is "not science" in exactly the same sense that constructions in Euclid's Elements are "not algorithms". Both claims are drawing, IMO, indefensible post-hoc epistemic lines in the sand.

> Along with all that learning came a lot of crazy beliefs and practices

I don't see why this matters.

1. Scientists, following a scientific process (perhaps not particularly well, but that's just a Scotsman argument), found themselves believing all types of crazy shit. Read about the 1950's. Science certainly dispels a lot of superstition, but it's not a bulwark against bad or lazy thinking.

2. Just because there existed supernatural explanations for e.g., crop rotation or glasses doesn't mean that the people who discovered those things weren't following a fundamentally scientific process.

> But we also explained things in terms of ancestral spirits, angry gods who needed to be appeased, creation stories, etc.

And?

Hell, there are still people who believe lightening and eclipses are supernatural events. It does not follow that we don't have a science that explains these phenomenon.
> there is pushing a country into forbidding every kind of energy generation available

which is not what is happening in Brazil. There are enormous opportunities for energy generation far away from the Amazon. In fact, a lot of foreigners don't know but the vast majority of Brazilian population lives nowhere near the Amazon. Creating an energy grid in the forest is a great way to waste energy due to traveling long distances in transition cables.
Fullstack dev | Québec City | Full-time | Onsite | cortexstudio.com

You are the ideal candidate for this position if you are a motivated and energetic full-stack developer, you take initiatives, find solutions to problems, you are thorough and take a lot of pride in your work.

Responsibilities and Requirements:
Experience with JavaScript (Redux, React), Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, Django, Node, Security, Web Services (REST), APIs, OAuth, CMS, HTML, CSS, POO & Functional Designs, iOS, Android, Swift, Objective-C, Java, C++
Create state-of-the-art, modern Web applications from A to Z, both at the client and server levels;
Be able to develop responsive Web interfaces;
Communicate efficiently with colleagues;
Experience in planning and delivering software used on multiple platforms
Have a great attention to detail and good observation skills;
Be able to build and consume Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ...);
Have experience with security concepts and how to apply them to a web application;
Be on the lookout for emerging trends and technologies as well as opportunities;
Be able to know when to develop reusable tools to increase productivity;
Make the right technological and architectural choices (tools, techniques, etc.) to answer a given problem;
Understanding the benefits and being able to implement SEO;
Devops skills are an asset (Chef, Linux, Web servers configuration, AWS, Monitoring)
Being active on github is an asset=

Location:
Quebec City, Canada (must have basic notions of French)

Email:
jobs@cortexstudio.com
In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain"
via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Berlin - Content Marketing / Marketer

- Content Production (Blog Content, Product Writings, Newsletter)

- Content Marketing Strategies (Long Term SEO Optimization, Newsletter Campaign, Growing your Mailing List)

- Landing Page Optimization (.e.g Best Practices Guidance, SEO, Conversion Rates)

- Dedicated Content Promotion (Social Media, Reddit, HN, Influencer)

- Social Media Channel Optimization & Assistance (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram)

- Landing Page or Blog Setup (e.g. Hosting, Domain Registrar, Initial Setup)

I am eager to work with you or your company on these things.

Looking forward to hearing from you: https://www.iamliesa.com/
There is also a sensor stack for different wavelengths that is actually realized, not a pipe dream like the article makes it seem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor
It will become uneconomical to mine and therefore people will stop doing so, causing the hash rate (and therefore the cost of energy + hardware required to mine) to plummet, eventually making it economical again.
OP here. Yes, SolarCity panel install was pretty straightforward.
The Plum Guide (www.plumguide.com) | Software Engineer (Senior & Mid- Level Engineers) | FULL TIME | Old Street, London | ON SITE | £35,000 - £75,000

The Plum Guide is building a marketplace of the world’s best holiday homes. For real!

We are taking a systematic and obsessive approach to testing every single home on the planet, and accepting only the top 1%. We do so by putting every home through The Plum Test: a gruelling hospitality exam, which uses a mix of algorithms and physical visits by hospitality experts. We are funded by an all-star cast investor group including Local Globe.

We are closing our Series A round of funding with the objective to take Plum global. The first city we are opening is Paris.

You will be joining a team of 5 skilled developers in a fast-paced environment with lots of knowledge sharing and super interesting problems to solve. You will always be learning and have project ownership and responsibility.

Over the next 3 months you will:

-	Work on an array of projects to scale our platform to multiple cities. This includes working on i18n, booking platform, payments and our cloud architecture.
-	Work in sprints to improve conversion, performance and support growth.
-	Play a key role mentoring, leading best practices, code reviews.
-	Be responsible for shaping the stack, integration, deployment, testing and agile processes.
-	Write awesome code!

A healthy mix of experience in our stack and beyond would be highly desirable.

-	C#, .Net, MVC, Core 2.0, Web API, EF
- more on the spec.

Full spec: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5aJ7zjP-jctWWFJSEpYTUtZUDg...

Please send your CV and a covering letter to Sophie Lake, sophie.lake@plumguide.com
Real-time analytics using Postgres
LIGO is really the 21st century telescope. Instead of receiving electromagnetic waves / photons, it receives spacetime waves / (gravitons???). As we have been building larger and larger telescopes, we would certainly build larger and larger LIGO's. Put them in space, put them on the moon, and put them on Mars. Galileo would be proud.
Have you ever traveled to another country? It might change your perspective on what's feasible and what's not. It's politically infeasible here because of groups like the NRA, but it's perfectly feasible in terms of logistics and any normal perception of rights. Remember, hotels are private property. Any owner of private property should have the right to exclude or limit dangerous items on that property. Any reasonable owner of a high-rise hotel might exercise that right, and any who don't could be considered accessories to acts like these.
Can you share your sources for that? I've heard from medical residents that longer shifts do not result in better patient outcomes. The first paper I Googled agrees - it shows longer shifts for surgeons are not safer (longer shifts had 9.1% rate of complications/death and shorter shifts had 9.0% rate): http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1515724
This is second-hand information but I have reasonable confidence in it:

PCI-DSS (payment card companies) requirements forbid the slabs' use anymore. You instantly fail your payment card audit if you have one on site, and that can cause you to assume liability for all subsequent customer fraud incidents for the next X months, and in bad cases massive fines and possibly losing your payment processing equipment licenses (the ability to take EFT cards of all types)

It's not considered secure storage of cardholder data, just as bad as if someone wrote down the cardholder information in full.

Interestingly enough, mail-order magazines still try to get you to write down your CC data directly. I wonder if that is sanctioned?
DIGIMONDO | Software Engineer | Hamburg, Germany | ONSITE | https://www.digimondo.de/en/

DIGIMONDO is an IoT startup in the Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) field. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help us build new and maintain our existing web applications, maintain and optimize our Docker-based infrastructure, and work on end-to-end solutions for our customers. Technologies we use include Elixir (Phoenix), NodeJS, Angular, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Docker.

To apply contact team@digimondo.de

More at (German/PDF): https://www.digimondo.de/assets/20170901_Entwickler_Stellena...
tl;dr: Impressive Prisma clone with six filters but running all calculations locally in the browser. Compared to Prisma it feels slightly slower or as slow, one filter almost froze my MBP 4@2.7.
Is it just me or this story requires fb login? Maybe it's time for HN to introduce some form of tagging such articles during submission?
Water Ice Mystery Found at Martian Equator
> Every minute you spend "securing" your RELEASE NOTES is better spent securing the APPLICATION.

I've never worked in a place where developer time is really that zero-sum.

If your release notes are executable code running on your infrastructure, then their security does matter.

I'm sure there's a team of developers at Avast who wish they had spent more time securing their "release notes".
you should likely put a warning message for mobile users to let them know the website doesn't work on mobile
Stash Invest | Software Engineers (Backend, iOS, Android, Frontend Web App Developers), Data Scientist, Director of Information Security | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite

Hi all! Stash is investing, simplified. With a mission to bring financial education and literacy to everyone, regardless of income, the Stash team has built an investing platform where people can "learn by doing" with as little as $5.

We have over a million users, raised our Series C in July brining our total funding raised to $78.75M, and are a 2017 Webby Award Winner.

Check out our career page for our open roles: http://grnh.se/3rolbe1

Feel free to reach out at bcheung@stashinvest.com with any questions!
SUSE | Team Leader | REMOTE (worldwide) or ONSITE | Full Time

Kernel Team Leader (Hardware Enablement)

Your responsibility will be to manage a team of Linux kernel experts and coordinate efforts to advance the technology in the Linux kernel and make it suitable for SUSE's Linux based products. Your team is spread over many locations, with engineers in Czech Republic, US and Germany and Australia.

The Hardware Enablement kernel team you will be heading is responsible for hardware-, platform- and architecture-specific code in the kernel. This includes arch code for ARM64, zSeries and POWER, it also includes USB, sound and graphics (both kernel and userspace - X and Wayland). The team is also responsible for running the kbuild infrastructure, consisting of an instrumented git repository and CI tooling around it.

The team is widely distributed around the world, and most of its members are working remotely. If you want to work from a SUSE office instead, that is fine as well.

How to apply

Preferably, submit all relevant information in a single PDF file, so that no important detail is lost in transit. Give us some time to process your application. Expect the interview to be done over phone. Form submission for this position at https://jobs.suse.com/job/nuremberg/kernel-team-leader-flexi...

This is not the only job opening currently available at SUSE, see suse.com/jobs
A large share of an asset which appreciates over time is a permanent ongoing reward. The effect of a conventional fractional reserve currency is the opposite; inflation erodes the value of currency holdings unless they're directly or indirectly invested in producing stuff
(Sure, who has access to what investment opportunities isn't even and nor is the initial distribution of wealth, but cryptocurrency doesn't attempt to solve that problem)
There will be a day 0 company along soon enough, there always is
eShares | Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Salt Lake City, Rio de Janeiro | Engineering & technical roles | Full time | ONSITE

eShares is the platform and network for tracking and managing private asset ownership. Many of the companies you see on this page use eShares to manage their equity. We're looking for a wide range of people to join us.

If you're in the bay area but want to get out (NYC, SLC, Seattle), let me know.

* Senior full stack engineers (Python, Django, PostgreSQL, APIs, AWS, Javascript, React, FIX protocol)

* Experienced team leads or engineering managers

* Dev-ops (AWS, Ansible, Jenkins, - or - what are we missing?)

* Security engineers

* Senior product design (HTML, CSS, UI/UX)

What's eShares like (aka, what's different)? https://blog.esharesinc.com/eshares-101/

How do we hire at eShares? https://blog.esharesinc.com/how-to-hire/

What do eShares offer letters look like? https://blog.esharesinc.com/a-better-offer-letter/

eric+spooky@esharesinc.com
Fast Neural Style Transfer works like this: Each style image is actually trained on a neural network outside of the browser (using Python on Tensorflow) for around 6+ hours with a GPU.

The output is a neural network that can take any content image and outputs it in the style it was trained on.

The browser does this:
1. Downloads the model (6.6MB~) for the particular style.
2. Does one pass through the content image and outputs the styled image.

No training is done in the browser whatsoever.
There was an episode of Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast with Zeynep, good introduction to her thinking:

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/persuasion-and-contro...

(BTW, regarding "supererogatory" = "good even beyond what's required" - awesome word, isn't it, and I've been looking for an opportunity to drop it into a sentence :-)
> Why do they need to do this?

This is explained in detail here:

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/review-tfl-wifi-pilot.pdf

If you would rather buy a paper ticket with cash you can still do that, and you won't be tracked if you put your phone into wireless mode. Personally I'm happy for them to collect limited amounts of data, with restraint, if that means they can improve the effectiveness of the network. But if you're not, that's understandable, and it's not that difficult to avoid it.
The forms are unencrypted including the password field.

Good luck.
I never used Eudora, but I use Claws Mail (formerly Sylpheed Claws) and it sounds like it has a lot of the same features. Very customizable, powerful mail filtering, and an ancient UI. :-P
Airtable | Software Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE

Airtable is a collaborative real-time database. Our mission is to expand human productivity by letting people create tools to organize their world. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airtable as a toolkit of building blocks that people can repurpose to create their own applications. Our product roadmap is filled with interesting enhancements and additions to this toolkit that will push the boundaries of Airtable's capabilities. To see some of the ways people are already using Airtable, check out http://airtable.com/universe

We're hiring engineers for web (JS, Node, React), iOS (Objective-C, Swift), and Android.

We're a small team, with backgrounds from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. We believe in the power of highly motivated and capable individuals to accomplish great things in small teams, with end-to-end ownership of projects and rapid iteration.

You can apply here: https://airtable.com/jobs
Is that actually viable ? The Synopsy and Cadence tools have had several million man hours put into it.

Does something like Chisel give you competitive apples-to-apples performance ? All the way to GDS?
Just hit "Close" on the top left.
So there will be one or two major currencies for people who don't want to think, and thousands of others who want to play the investment game, just like what happens every day in the stock market.

We currently have one currency for most people's everyday use (local government currency), and they don't bother to read up on what the stock market is up to, but there are plenty that will and choose to buy shares in whatever they think is worth buying.

And we'll probably even have the equivalent of retirement accounts and mutual funds for cryptocurrency, we're not even that far away from that reality today.

So yeah, there are people who aren't going to want to pay attention to all that, and they won't need to whenever we've reached that tipping point. They'll just have bitcoin (or whatever) and deal exclusively in bitcoin, and they won't care what its price is compared to everything else, just like no one bothers to peg the US dollar to any particular share.

It's because fiat currency is still so dominant that bitcoin appears to be volatile in comparison, because they're using USD as the anchor. If bitcoin becomes the dominant coin, it will appear to be just as stable, if not moreso, as you won't have quantitive easing or government manipulation to worry about.
“Welcome Packet Overview” – [Episode #91] Make Money Online
How would tracking the Oyster card ID that's registered to my name, address, and credit card # in their system be an improvement compared to tracking the hashed MAC address of my phone?