skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automata Technologies | Central London, UK | Full time | Onsite

Automata is a London based technology company working to democratize robotics through low-cost hardware and easy to use software. Eva, Automata’s first product is a low­-cost, plug & ­play, table-­top robotic arm enabling automation of menial tasks currently done manually in manufacturing and other industries.

We're looking for software developers of all types, from front end (javascript and web technologies, WebGL and the interesting architectural problems that come from controlling a real time system through a browser), Go, C++ (our back end needs to coordinate robot commands, plan the robot motion and interface with the world) all the way down to embedded C running on microcontrollers (controlling our motors, detecting collisions).

Apply by emailing us or through AngelList
https://angel.co/automata-technologies
http://automata.tech
Hi! Thanks for creating Ink it has been awesome for us. Let me talk to the bossman to see what I can share :)
I'm partial to Five Card Draw. The street, not the game. Now how do I get dead people to vote for things I want?
Halite II: A New Programming Competition from Two Sigma
Rideways | Java and Node Developers | Manchester, UK | https://www.rideways.com/ | ONSITE

Rideways is building a platform for ground transport solutions. This means that our customers can book taxis, buses and trains. We're using Java 8, Spring MVC, React, Camel and AWS to make it easier to book a taxi, bus, train or shuttle from the airport to your hotel or conference centre.

We are hiring:

- Frontend (node) developers (http://grnh.se/ts3cw71)

- Frontend (node) lead developer (http://grnh.se/mdh5yg1)

- Principal Java developer (http://grnh.se/hgs75x1)

- Lead Java developer (http://grnh.se/l4sj6i1)

- Test Engineer (http://grnh.se/akrltg1)

- Product owner (http://grnh.se/d03c2e1)

- UX Researcher (http://grnh.se/vrcg5d1)

We are a small team within the larger Rentalcars.com company and we are looking for enthusiastic developers, keen on working in an agile team.

If you are interested, please email me on arthurembleton@rideways.com or apply through our jobs board at http://grnh.se/fvg20p where you can see all of the jobs currently available across Rentalcars.com
>> a national network because that would make information easier to transmit and this would undermine the regime.

That is the old thinking. Today many such countries are realizing that such information networks are great tools both for surveillance (China) and manipulation (Russia). Telephones were once seen a threat, until they realized that intercepting telephone calls is far easier than intercepting letters. North Korea is probably behind the curve on this front. Give everyone a smartphone. Get them to direct as much of their lives as possible through that phone. Now you can watch them better than ever before. That students will use the phones to organize protests pales in comparison to the intelligence streams they create.
Apple, Inc. | Sr. Frontend Engineer, iTunes Engineering | Cupertino, CA, USA | Full-time | ONSITE, VISA

Join iTunes Digital Supply Chain to come work on internal and external facing web-sites. We work in a team oriented manner with an eye toward site usability and code re-use. The ideal candidate will have great communication skills and come with a passion for iterating on products.

Send resumes to: dsce-job-apply@group.apple.com

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=86380756&t=0&so=&lo=0*...
I'm certainly not a lawyer, but my experience is that in copyright law - for better or worse - it generally doesn't matter if you believe you have rights to use some property, the only thing that really matters is if you actually have those rights. Applying that perspective CBS is absolutely in the wrong corner in that regard.

As for the photographer, we don't know the circumstances of his use, but as the article noted, it's not unlikely to be considered fair use. A single frame from a movie/series can reasonably be seen as a quote, whereas their wholesale use of the photographers entire picture clearly is not.

But whatever the circumstances in either case, CBS suing for a screenshot of an old movie/series seems to be a perfect way to get bad publicity, and no pity whatsoever if they would loose in court.
Almost nobody wants it to be illegal/fineable to post screens and clips from TV-series, and pushing it that way is trying to get the cat back into the bag. It's part of our culture now, and that cat isn't going back anytime soon.
Compared to the 1950s it's also far easier for the average individual to learn how to do basic home maintenance, change their own oil or cut their own hair. It's not all doom-and-gloom.
My grad school advisor and I were always scanning interesting things when we had sequence testing to do. We scanned other objects like pumpkins and such as well. We scanned the salmon since we thought it would look interesting on a high resolution T1 scan. It looked really great in the end:
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/fmri...
Unikernels were my first thought. Thank you for the summary.
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Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite

The Fraud, Engineering, Algorithms and Risk group is responsible for combating fraud and abuse for Internet Software and Services at Apple.
The FEAR engineering team is tasked with building mission-critical, robust and scalable distributed systems that can keep pace with data across a number of high-profile and large-volume Apple cloud properties.

We are building the next-generation libraries, platforms and data pipelines to empower our data scientists to rapidly build and deploy complex models to production.

Key Qualifications:

* MS or BS in Computer Science or related field

* 3 or more years experience building large-scale

* distributed systems

* Skilled in Scala or Java

* Working knowledge with at least two of: Spark, MapReduce, HDFS, Cassandra, Kafka

Description:

We engineer high-quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems that power data exploration, model building and production models.Our core systems need to work seamlessly across different execution contexts (real-time, near real-time and batch) and support diverse big data stacks such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra and beyond. We work at a unique intersection of huge data volumes and adversaries that are continuously adapting, which means we are operating at and beyond the limits of conventional big data systems.
On our team you can be sure that every commit you make will come with the satisfaction that you are helping protect and improve the user experience of hundreds of millions of users.
This role requires in-depth knowledge with cutting-edge big data technologies. Tuning, troubleshooting and scaling these big data technologies are a key part of our work, where having a curiosity with the internal workings of these systems is key to being successful.
This is a hard-core software engineering role, where a large part of an engineer's time is spent writing code with the remainder being spent on designing and architecting systems, tuning and debugging big data systems, supporting production systems and supporting our data scientists.

if interested send your resume to mansur.ashraf@apple.com with [HN] in email subject
TL;DR: Ghostly presences – the feeling of someone near you when there’s no one there – could be down to your brain trying to make sense of conflicting information.
>In 1952, Buck’s attention alighted on the chemical element bismuth, which exhibits strong magnetoresistance: Its electrical resistivity rises dramatically in response to an applied magnetic field, especially at low temperatures. At the boiling point of liquid helium (4.2 kelvins), the electrical resistance of bismuth varies by a factor of tens of millions with the application of a strong magnetic field. Buck thought this behavior could be useful for building computers. A relatively small current in a control wire, and the magnetic field it produces, could bring about an enormous change in the resistivity of a piece of bismuth, abruptly halting or allowing current to travel through it. He would have an electronic switch.

sounds like a memristor? There is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoresistive_random-access...
I think diversifying production base would all ready be in works.
Name 1 dictator after the Stalin?

I lived there before the collapse. It was a communist state. With centralized planning. And all the waste that goes with it.

After Stalin, the Soviet Union had several levels of "above president" parliaments (with an elect and/or rotating boards), such as the "Supreme Soviet", that had enormous power. Presidents where forced to resign, some where placed under house arrest.

A dictatorship did not exist there in the form of a president.

Communism is Marxism. You will never be able to separate them. Nor change the fact that they don't cure human suffering, they produce it.
thanks for the tip, old habits die hard :)
I got my current job without interacting with HR at all. Phone screen with the CTO. Phone screen with the engineering manager. In-person interview with the CTO, then the engineering manager, then the team I would be joining. In a perfect world, prospective employees (of any discipline) would have absolutely no interaction with HR prior to being given an offer, and HR would have absolutely no say in hiring.
Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions about consumer behavior.

Through our self-service analytics platform, we help our clients – some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms – answer questions like:

- Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in NYC? [1]
- What's going on in the meal-kit space? [2]
- After a Game of Thrones season ends, do HBO Now subscribers stick around?
- (Check out our research blog [3])

We’re just 20 people today - mostly senior engineers and data scientists. 15 of us are technical, and 8 have PhDs.

We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

- Senior Data Scientist
- Senior Software Engineer (frontend/backend/data)
- Client Success Manager (our first)
- Product Designer (our first)

I'm a founder (mike@). Apply directly [4] or email jobs@ and CC me.

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lyft-gets-boost-...

[2] https://www.recode.net/2017/11/1/16581142/blue-apron-market-...

[3] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/

[4] https://boards.greenhouse.io/secondmeasure
It was 70%. Also, newsflash: 30%-events happen, one out of three times.
SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events.

Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web.
Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer

iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs
I'm a little bit philosophically opposed to Electron based apps but VSCode has been nothing but snappy for me on all matter of low-end machines and virtual machines I've used it on.
Handshake | Application Security Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, Quality Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE

Handshake (Joinhandshake.com) is the leading platform helping close the opportunity gap for recent college graduates. In the past you needed to live close to a big economic hub, or have well connected parents to get a job after graduating from college. We are trying to change that to make employment more democratic.

Lots of open positions right now. Drop me a note (email in profile) or apply online if anything sounds exciting!
Percolate | Mid-level Frontend, Sr.Backend | SF,NY | Onsite

Percolate is the operational layer that many of the world’s largest marketers rely on and we are changing how they do their work. We’re looking for talented Frontend Engineers in SF and Sr. Backend Engineers in our New York and San Francisco offices to help take our product to the next level.

Our Backend team is scaling our platform using Go, Python, Django, Elasticsearch and Kafka, to meet those challenges. Our frontend application is large and built on React, Redux, GraphQL, Babel, and webpack. They love working in a no-VM dev environment and leverage continuous deployment and snapshot testing to keep our process lean.

Requirements:
Sr. Backend: 6+ years Python, SQL/NoSQL technologies, Django/Flask

Frontend: 4+ years Javascript, 2+ years React/Redux, HTML5/CSS3

Please reach out to jessica.hsiao@percolate.com if interested!
Technical terms used in Deep Learning and their meaning in simple words
That's with eight 1.9 TB devices. You can scale it down, of course.

Anyway, the point is you do not need to spend anywhere near $32,500/m to get that kind of performance from AWS. (As long as you don't mind using non-EBS storage.) In this case, an i3.16xlarge is $27,856 per YEAR (if paid upfront).
Careem Labs at Careem | Software Engineers (front and backend) | Dubai | ONSITE | VISA | Relocation assistance

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 80+ cities across 12+ countries and host over 12million+ users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.

Careem Labs, a new division within Careem, can best be described as a startup within a startup. Our goal is to build a platform that will enable others within the region to leverage the capabilities that Careem has built. This includes our core services such as ride hailing, payments, location services and more. We're starting from the ground up, firstly by enabling our clients to become partners and then giving them access to our core services. We're a small team made up of engineers (front and backend) as well as product managers. We're at an early stage so there is plenty of room to make a huge impact within the team and the whole region.

Our tech stack currently includes Java 8, Javascript, iOS and Android, Docker and a mix of SQL and NoSQL databases. We have a microservice based architecture and knowledge of distributed systems is highly valued. We deploy onto AWS. Our tech stack is not completely defined yet and will expand to include more technologies. We're interested in all kinds of technical backgrounds.

I'm one of the engineers on the team. Shoot me an email if you're interested: mukhtar.haji at careem dot com.
Mixmax | Full-Stack Engineer or Fall/Spring/Summer Interns | On-site San Francisco (relocation provided), remote an option w/experience | https://mixmax.com/careers

We're a profitable fast-growing startup looking for all types of engineers: full-stack, backend, site reliability, data, machine learning.

Mixmax is the future of email and external communications. Just like you use Slack to talk within your team, you use Mixmax to talk to people outside of your team. Primarily, we help sales and recruiting teams achieve more and with greater consistency by automating their most common workflows and integrating with their existing toolchain - Gmail, Inbox, Salesforce, Slack, text messaging and more.

You'll work on a modern cloud-based web app built on universal/isomorphic Javascript using open source technologies, including: React, Node, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Electron (more: http://stackshare.io/mixmax/mixmax-for-web)

Check out our engineering blog: https://mixmax.com/engineering
I'd just like to point out, hopefully without being accused of shilling, that part of Net Neutrality legislation involves the quiet reclassification of ISPs as title ii common carriers.

These are regulations designed for phone companies in the 1930s. Why should you worry? Because all network traffic will be subject to extremely broad obscenity laws.

I will try to find the legislation shortly, but effectively, causing "offense" or transmitting "obscene" material gives the federal government an excuse to prosecute you.

Suddenly, posting on 4chan can get you thrown in prison.

Edit: found it[0], I dont understand why no one is aware of this. I plead that you take a moment to check the link, as this is a dangerous extension of government power, especially in combination with current surveillence.

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/223
Great list! Now I'm looking for a similar list for icons. And fonts.
Saw you guys at SPLASH; good shit!
It first requires answer to the question "build what?" before the candidate can talk about "how". Unless they would build everything using the same tech, which also would be an odd signal. You putting a specific amount of money on it adds additional concerns regarding that.

Do you expect the candidate to talk about some tech stack and/or development process to you? Do you expect the candidate to describe what they'd work on (then why don't you ask that?)? Do you expect the candidate to to treat the question as "if you could work on whatever you liked", or is it "what kind of product would you build", and then talk about the process? Do you expect the candidate to ask for clarification, or is that a bad sign already (since they were to dumb to understand your "simple question")?...
That's not how ideology works. That's not how history works.
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | Multiple positions | Fulltime | ONSITE

We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medical care worse and more expensive for everyone. We are a group of previously successful engineers and entrepreneurs (MIT, Dartmouth, Datapower, Stripe, Salesforce, etc) and senior doctors (Johns Hopkins, UCSF, etc) who are determined to finally fix this.

Compensation: market salary & equity -- we are well funded.

Stack: includes Rust, React and Node. We will also be solving some very interesting problems in the areas of APIs, domain-specific machine-learning and fine-grained application security.

Please email jobs@commure.com and mention "[hnews]" in the subject line.
Any chance you'd be interested in adding more direct support for nonlinear systems? That seems to be missing from most computation graph compiler libraries, e.g. Tensorflow.
Same experience here. Been reflux free for years now and have better GI motility even when I don't take betaine HCl.

For large trigger meals + alcohol (e.g. greasy pizza and beer) I'll still take some.

Changed my life.
HUH? Privatization is Government Work being run by a Non-Government Identity? The logic is confounding.

So all those Military Industry is still paid for by the TAX PAYER?! Makes no logical sense.
not quite every day, but the live feeds are good

https://redef.com/channel/media/mix
I agree except for the sport programs. Sport programs are a net loss for almost every university.

"Nearly every university loses money on sports. Even after private donations and ticket sales, they fill the gap by tapping students paying tuition or state taxpayers."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/15/athlet...

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2016/03/how_m...
n = 14, with 7 of those regaining the weight they lost and 7 keeping it off.
My understanding is that it wasn't working particularly well anyways. The concept may have been ahead of it's time.
> I’ve never gotten the impression there are strong internal privacy controls

At least my friends that work there claim otherwise, but obviously they are biased. But so are you, I suspect.
I've been using this:

https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator
Zenrez | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | zenrez.com

The Zenrez engineering team is building products that are fundamentally changing the fitness industry. We’re empowering studio owners to grow their small businesses and allowing them to focus on what matters most, teaching their amazing classes.

Our core suite of software products cover the full customer lifecycle for studio owners, from acquisition, to retention, to recovery.

We are a full-stack JavaScript shop. We deploy to production continuously, consistently and safely adding value for our customers. Our current focus is scalability and evolving our service oriented architecture.

Candidates should have at least 1 year industry experience.

Please email me at daryl@zenrez.com
My argument for writing exhaustive automation tests for your software
We never cover every case when writing automation tests for a software. But what if we do write exhaustive automation tests.
This is my argument for why we should be doing exhaustive automation and what benefits will it bring.

Also, this blog talks about achieving continuous delivery with the help of exhaustive automation coverage.

https://www.plightofbyte.com/testing/2017/11/01/exhaustive-automation-testing/
I can't remember where I read it, I'd have to do some googling, but from what I remember there were very real material obstacles to the Red Army making it all the way to Germany. While the German revolution of 1918 was absolutely a tragedy (in a myriad of ways) there's some decent scholarship on how isolated the Soviet state would still have remained. iirc things like Polish nationalism, and internal disagreements within Russia( bol vs Left SR; bolsheviks wanted to wait and the Left SRs wanted to march all the way to Germany)
Try it with the LING Erlang-on-Xen unikernel and see for yourself if it's not debugabble.

Looks like they've got a solution for dubugging: https://twitter.com/erlang_on_xen/status/641628659657371648
Code you can't update is normally an expensive liability in the case that it's not perfect. Also, then the stub service worker is subject to the same problem it's attempting to solve.

I'm still left in a situation where I need to trust you don't mess up.

You even say it yourself:

> (Of course, we can't prevent the update, but we can at least try to convince the user to close the web app before it steals their private keys.)

At that point, the game is up.
The different forms of quantum computing skepticism
Thanks, I came to the HN comments to see if someone posted the link to the study.
Given this reality, why not create a multiplicity of currencies, all convertible with each other and with different inflation rates? Currently we have a hodgepodge of assets with various interest rates that are all convertible with the fiat currency, but as with the gold and silver standards, we are mapping objects with other kinds of utility, such as houses, onto the financial asset spectrum and distorting those other uses. Interest rates should just be used to efficiently allocate resources across time, and the vehicles we have of doing so are very rough and prone to supply and demand shocks for reasons that have nothing to do with one's value of current time and future time.