skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From my point of view, on the grand programming landscape, they're right next door to each other, and at the global scale that includes things like SQL, Prolog, J, Verilog, etc., barely distinguishable.

I agree, and when hiring recently I specifically noted that I didn't think anyone familiar with Python, Ruby, Javascript or Perl would have much problem easily learning another on that list. The operative words in the sentence question, which admittedly had little qualifying explanation, were "what programming feels like".

I find programming Perl is often and exercise in choosing the right Perl language options to fit your idea of what you want to accomplish as closely as possible, because the language was designed with affordances for how we think and express ourselves colloquially. This is how Perl tries to ease the act of expressing intent.

I find that Python tries to ease the act of expressing intent by limiting your options to the point that you have fewer choices, but the transcription of idea to code becomes rather ingrained and automatic.

Both are valid attempts at the act of easing programmer burden, but along that spectrum, I find them opposed. I can see how many Perl coders used to one approach might find the other stifling, at least initially.
The Starving Lands
Emailage | Machine Learning Engineer | Chandler, AZ | Onsite

Company Info:

Emailage is growing at an outstanding rate and we have an immediate opportunity for a skilled and enthusiastic Machine Learning Engineer to join our team.

Emailage is a global hub of intelligence associated with email addresses, which empowers companies to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or legitimate. This vast network is combined with machine learning algorithms to generate a Risk Score, based on rules that are easily tailored to existing risk engines. Emailage Risk Assessment empowers companies to effectively fight fraud, increase revenue and transaction approvals, while preventing unnecessary customer friction.

Position Intro:

Data science and machine learning are the foundation of our approach to identify both risky and positive behaviors. We see it as the process of creating knowledge from data. At Emailage, we see a lot of data, and that will be your playground to implement scalable machine learning models and enhance big data processing capabilities in collaboration with our data scientists. You will be developing and deploying our advanced algorithms on production and perform as a bridge between data science and software development teams.

Some skills we are looking for:
AWS (S3, EC2, EMR) | Python, R, SQL | Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB | Knowledge of various Machine Learning frameworks

Full job description can be found here:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/machine-learning-engineer...

We have other technical positions on the IT side:

Sr. QA Automation Engineer: https://blog.emailage.com/jobs/sr-qa-automation-engineer/
IT Infrastructure Engineer: https://blog.emailage.com/jobs/it-infrastructure-engineer/

If you have any questions/interested, feel free to send me an email @ garett.brock@emailage.com
And taking these email addresses and googling them only yields search results from some kind of random correlated "free public info" type sites. So I am assuming these accounts were put together by using info on these sites and then mass uploading them to the FCC. So it doesn't look like this is some sort of massive hack or anything of that nature.
More seriously: yes, you should name functions/variables/etc. reasonably. And often if you write a comment, you will find you are actually explaining away a wart. But often you need to document business logic, code that needs to be written in a less than clear way for performance reasons, explanations of why you chose approach A instead of what would seem like another perfectly reasonable approach B, URL links for standard doc PDFs, and a million other little things.

There are comments that aren't necessary if you write your code better, but there's others that are needed even if you write your code perfectly.
Truckfly | Paris, France | Full stack software engineer | REMOTE, INTERN

Truckfly is building the next generation of tools for the trucking industry. 2 years ago we launched an app for truck drivers, Truckfly, which is used by more than 75k truckers in Europe every month. Last year we launched Dashdoc, a service for trucking companies which is seeing strong growth.

We're looking for our first full time engineer to help us build our apps in React / React Native and Django / DRF.

Salary 40-60k€. We're based in Paris but we're happy to talk to you wherever you are :)

Drop us a line at jobs(at)truckfly.com!

Website: https://www.truckfly.com
I've been building web apps since 2001, specializing in document creation and management applications that run on and offline.

Location: SW Missouri

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Perl, JS, CouchDB/PouchDB, HTML/CSS

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: bill at cherrypc.com
If someone rear ends you because you have B-mode or one pedal enabled then they're following way too close to begin with. Way too close and/or not paying attention at all. B-mode doesn't slam on the brakes. It engages regen to decelerate at perhaps a greater rate than rolling resistance.
Here is one https://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/HOWTO.html I found quickly.

Writing an emulator is almost as much fun as writing a compiler. And when you are done, you will have another level of appreciation of how computers work.
I think you definitely have a shot. I'd suggest spinning up some social media accounts to widen your engagement since you're going to have a ton of overlap with the Instagram/Snapchat crowd. Also your prices for the higher tiers look on the cheap side. Don't be afraid to play with pricing.
In my opinion BPD is a combination of [false beliefs / a false worldview,] usually created by toxic (or abusive) imprinting during formative years, along with higher-than-average emotionalism (which is probably genetic).

I'm not surprised that it's treatable in most cases, assuming it's not TBI related. False beliefs gradually go away; rough edges in character are gradually worn down with life experience and maturity.

Poor imprinting is difficult to overcome, I think certain tenancies always remain, but one can learn to direct emotional energy in better / more productive / less destructive ways.
"Is it okay to make end users addicted to your services?"

I don't think the definition of "addictive" you seem to be using is the standard one, or it would apply to making any product or service better in any way.
I've been reading the NYT since my high school government teacher told me about it. It is far and away the best reporting I know of. I consider myself left-leaning and typically in agreement with the opinion section.

Yet the last year of straight Trump derangement, especially things like its relentless daily excoration of the tax bill over the past month, has finally started to chip away at my respect for the grey lady.
> "I don’t really see how the firewall relates to surveillance in this way."

Really? One of the Great Firewall's primary use cases is to prevent data that could be used for surveillance to leave the nation.

China prohibits all sorts of data from leaving through the Great Firewall, such as telemetry.

> "The US is the global leader in surveillance as far as I’m aware."

We are definitely the leader when it comes to foreign surveillance. When it comes to domestic, however, China is easily winning. They don't even hide it -- they require practically all interesting data to be available for their use by law.
I was actually in a 500 Startups batch over 2 years ago, and they did pay.
China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People
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Location: UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not right now

Technologies: Javascript, ES5/6, React, React-Native, Redux, CSS, SASS/SCSS, Stylus, Less, Webpack 1/2, HTML, jade/pug, CoffeeScript, gulp, grunt, Node, Angular, Backbone, marionette, MEAN stack, Riot, TDD, HTML5 Canvas, GSAP, Flux, SVG, WordPress etc.

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YouTube ad's scandal and Facebook watch
Advertisers react to YouTube’s latest ad controversy
YouTube is enmeshed in another ad scandal, with advertisers like Mars, Lidl and Adidas pulling their ads off the platform over videos of children there accompanied by obscene comments. British advertisers’ trade body ISBA even called top marketers and Google execs to a meeting about the issue.

Despite the fuss, ad buyers say most brands won’t reduce their spending on YouTube, and those that pull their ads are likely to return.

“Brands say they care [about brand safety], but do they really?” said an ad buyer from an agency holding company, requesting anonymity out of concern of irritating Google. “History says they’ll be back and spending more.”

As Stéphane Bérubé, L’Oréal’s chief marketing officer for Western Europe, put it: “At the end of the day, consumers are there.”

Facebook adjusts its Watch strategy
Three months after launching video-viewing tab Watch, Facebook is altering its deals for shows for the section.

The changes:

Facebook is spending $50,000-$70,000 per episode for individual short-form series, two or three times what it previously allocated for these shows, and buying fewer shows overall.
It’s pushing media partners to make longer episodes.
Facebook wants longer periods of exclusivity for shows.
“They want more sophisticated, premium content — which will cost more money,” said a Watch partner. “Based on what they’ve bought from us, it has the look and smell of TV-type formats, not Facebook-type formats.
Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents
Please do not include the words "not rem-ote".
Probably not that many people will prefer a keyboard-driven PDA style of device

An iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard doesn't feel like it's keyboard-driven, it feels like a touchscreen GUI device with a second-class accessory only for typing into textboxes.

Is Android any different in regards to this "feel of being keyboard driven" - and is the Gemini customised at all around this?
FULL PEDANT MODE

they only measure the last incomplete lap really.
Bullshit. Text parsing is significantly more complicated and error prone than typed data.

Coreutils still works, true, but it does not work great.
We use quite a lot of custom built tools and Splunk to funnel the logs from everywhere, so we can use their AI/ML to detect anomalies etc.
I Slipped on JavaScript’s Banana Peel
Thanks.

> You don't recover meaningful energy by regenerating vs. coasting over the same distance.

In fact, you lose net energy if you regeneratively break and then accelerate (vs just coasting) because it's only 80% efficient. So if the "default" position of the pedal is to be braking, rather than coasting, I naively expect it to induce more braking followed by more acceleration, wasting net energy.
Except for the part where other professions do hire like software development (and a lot of firms don't require take home tests). Generally jobs that require a technical skill set and are equally high paying do focus on these things. Consulting has case study interviews and quantitative tests, finance firms outside of the sales heavy organizations are known for asking complex math problems and puzzles. Hell, even accounting firms do case studies for people with a bit of experience (something you get good at by dedicating extra time outside of work).

In similar fields that don't do these types of challenges, they focus on academic excellence and professional certifications. A doctor will get hired because they came from a top residency program, a lawyer will get hired because they made law review at a T14 school.

The only example that I can't really debunk is the civil engineering one, although, it isn't known for being high paying and i'm not super familiar with the industry.
The NYT site and app are VASTLY superior to the Post's. I subscribe to both and find that I turn to the NYT more often because the reading experience is so much better.
An on-line only subscription is far less than the donation I give to my local NPR affiliate each year. Well worth it.
I just use duckduckgo. I've tried it for years and it just wasn't good enough and then about a month ago I got fed up with Google's data mining again and tried it for like the 5th trial period and I haven't switched back. If you haven't tried duckduckgo for over a year then I suggest you give it a trial again.

I'm running a custom theme to remove the Google search bar from my Android phone, installed Firefox Quantum and set up a Mozilla account, so now everything is gone from Google except my Gmail and that will happen next along with Dropbox too.

If you want Google to be a better organization then you have to vote with your feet. Do that and your voice will eventually mean something, but until then Google won't listen.
>On the other side of the American political divide, many have found the 'failing' NYT to be unrepresentative of their experiences as Americans, and have begun to dismiss it's coverage as partisan and often distorted.

Americans are now the most divided along party lines since 1990s.

http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/1-partisan-divides-ov...

I think NYT are just mirroring the reality. Hiring climate change deniers as columnists, profiling neo-nazis while at the same time actually doing their job WRT Trump (compare to the Iraq War and sensational Judy Miller headlines).

> They also find the NYT to be a major nexus of sensationalist coverage of the Trump presidential campaign and administration, distracting from balanced and substantial coverage of the race in favor of an obsession with email scandals and essentially unimportant (but amusing or provocative) actions by Trump and his entourage.

Disagree. I think they are just covering the reality and sometimes go to the absurd length to remain "impartial" and give all sides to the story, no matter how ridiculous they are.

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I agree with you WRT covering mass shootings, but perhaps it's bigger problem than journalism, so that's why it never changes. If it bleeds, it leads.

Mandatory plug for Charlie Brooker

How to cover mass shootings

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o1V4lX_g4

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Also I posted this recently WRT Richard Spencer types: they are mostly attention-craving nobodies, so the media is essentially amplifying their message.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/lets-just-stop-writin...
I believe this is one of the features of the Brave browser.
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) | DevOps/SRE | Sydney/Melbourne | FULL-TIME, ONSITE http://www.iag.com.au

`docker run -it iagdevlabs/apply`

A permanent position has opened up in our skunkworks team inside the IAG enterprise's digital space (think NRMA, CGU, SGIO, SGIC, Coles insurance etc.).

We’re looking for a true technologist, firmly rooted in DevOps culture, with a strong Linux base and preferably an engineering background. Familiarity with Cloud, Microservice architecture, languages like Golang, Java and tooling like Rancher/K8s, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus considered a bonus.

If you are interested in learning more, please debug through the little Docker-based puzzle above (there’s an embedded application form at the end I promise!).

Sorry - no relocation or remote opportunities. Please reach out if you have questions: Martin.Baillie@iag (domain in title)
I need to make samples.  Is there a list of fake products and images somewhere?
National Sleep Foundation’s updated sleep duration recommendations: final report
Maybe they should compare the city mouse and the country mouse next.
if youre a week in, youll find this helpful.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/
Google's report from 2013, cited from their blog, says that they resell electricity at a "slight net loss".[1]

I didn't compare to buying RECs. The point is that Google is 100% renewable voluntarily. While RECs may be worth some tax credits, it's obviously a net cost or else Facebook would also be 100% renewable.

That said, I'm fairly confident that Google's approach is more costly than just buying RECs because demand for RECs is not very high. Google doesn't buy RECs directly because they want stronger guarantees of additionality:

"Buying a few years’ worth of RECs from a renewable project does not provide the stable and sizable cash stream that a renewable project developer needs to get financing to build new green power projects. In a PPA [power purchasing agreement], Google is agreeing to buy all the power from a project for many years. Google has, in effect, totally accepted the power price risk that the project owner would otherwise face—instead of taking the risk of selling into the power market on a short-term basis, Google is providing the seller with a guaranteed revenue stream for 20 years. This is something the developer can literally take to the bank. If we were to buy only the RECs, this would represent a fraction of the value of a typical power project,5 and would still leave the renewable developer to face the market risks of future energy prices, making it much harder for them to obtain financing for projects.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
first time I hear about Switzerland paying well (I mean, I haven't heard the opposite either). Is it also this bad in London and Berlin?
100 times over. Same with The Economist. No more subscriptions if I cannot unsubscribe when I want.
Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foundation.
You know that these sketchy pharmacies are run by gangsters who have bumped people off (source bbc world service) and also do nice things like sell HIV drugs to poor Africans that don't contain enough of the active agreement
What languages are supported by iExec?
Mile into the Wild Walkway
Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next?
I'm learning PHP for a new position and tried using codewars and codefights. I'm not impressed by the UX with either of them, they're over gamified. The quality of Kata on codewars is not good (at least the easy stuff) and both are broken in random trivial places.

Can you offer suggestions on similar platforms that are less gamified, higher quality challenges, and more reliable?
> Apple could send out a rest link via email, but bad guy already has my email.

If you lose your phone, you can change your email password.
> Do you ever hit the brake pedal outside emergency situations?

Yes. BTW, you mostly use B-mode on the highway. You don't get any advantage in stop and go traffic.

> What is the rate of braking when you take take your foot off the pedal?

It is greater than aerodynamic friction. What I like is that in emergency situations where you do brake, it brakes faster since in the interval between your foot on the accelerator and your foot hitting the brake, it's already braking.

> Does it take into account the car in front of you?

There may be cars that do this (Tesla?) but not the Leaf and probably not the Bolt.
I know a few people that do accounting on the side. And lots of accountants own their own businesses.
I'm a psychiatrist, and I'm heartened to see this show up in the HN top-10. Lots of people have someone in their life with Borderline PD (or at least features). It's a serious impairment that sometimes gets vilified or downplayed as "just a personality disorder." If people could "just stop doing it," they would.

It can be hard to maintain steady, honest empathy for people with Borderline PD, but their suffering is very real.
I would not. They had the melamine-in-baby-formula incident, in some regions they have poisoned tap water, and corruption is omnipresent. I‘m too selective about what I put into my body to take any chances there. Eg if they don’t filter water, pills might contain lead.
Yup. I heard a lot of recommendations for that, saw that part I of "Wrath of the Khans" was 3 hours, and I kept putting it off.

One day I figured I should at least see what everyone was talking about, so I started listening during a bike ride. It made me want to exercise more, just so I could hear the next part of the story.
i am new to robocode but from skimming through it it seems you are just controlling one tank? this two sigma game involves controlling a swarm of bots with colonizing involved so its a different problem. in any case, just 'cause something exists shouldnt block you from trying your own twist on it.
The inability to get an equal trade shouldn’t stop you from trading anyways, as it misses that there is huge relative advantage of having a monopoly, even if it means you have to give someone else a “better” monopoly.

This is because if two players complete two monopolies first, they are basically guaranteed to be among the final two at a 4+ person table, as their early monopolies will quickly drain the other two or more players who refuse to make these trades and are therefore wasting time walking around, during which they’ll grow weaker and weaker due to your monopolies.

Knowing this, it almost doesn’t matter if the trade is equal, so long as you’re trading for a post-jail monopoly (pre-jail tends to be low value), because the winner, once you and your opponent have your improvements, will be decided by chance, as one of the two monopolists will bankrupt one of the other, more behind players first, and then take all their money and property, almost certainly netting themselves several more monopolies and funds for improvements.
Robot bees can now dive in and out of water using tiny combustible rockets
The NY Times paywall has got to be one of the easiest paywalls to bypass. You can either browse its site in private/incognito mode (or using Firefox Focus on mobile), delete a cookie, or disable Javascript on their site (though this isn't ideal when viewing some of their interactive pieces). I wonder if this is a deliberate compromise to ensure that nobody is ever really locked out of their content.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/961df8c6d9236aa25d28e4bcc14b0354...
I haven't read those, but just skimming their amazon pages they look to be about why wealthy individuals are less likely to be prosecuted, which doesn't really apply to large corporations.

Plus Uber is in the middle of a court case right now, so I'm sure both Uber and its lawyers have very good reasons to worry about laws.
Sticker Mule | Senior Software Engineer (C++) | Remote | Full-time

What you'll do
1. Build, test, install and maintain software to automate our manufacturing processes.
2. Continually seek ways to optimize those processes.
3. Write clean, performant code in accordance with our team’s code style guidelines.
4. Work to improve and maintain the code health of all our software.
5. Collaborate with other developers, team leads, and stakeholders to ensure that we’re always building the optimal solution.
6. Participate in peer code reviews.
7. Share expertise with other members of the team, mentor junior developers.
8. Spend some time on-site at our factory to learn about software requirements and maintain existing software.

Requirements
1. This position requires regular visits to our manufacturing facilities in upstate NY.
2. Applicants will be sent a Hackerrank test within 1-2 business days of applying.

Apply
https://www.stickermule.com/career/df523075-edca-4b4c-9d6c-9...

Links
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- https://www.stickermule.com/careers
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