skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lose It! | Software Developer (iOS/Android/Web) | Boston, MA | FULL-TIME, ONSITE, http://loseit.com

Our 24-person company has helped over 25 million users lose weight with our iOS, Android and web apps. Combining calorie tracking with technology, we're enabling people to change their lives for the better. We believe by helping our users reverse obesity and diabetes, we'll continue to be successful as a company. We've been profitable for a while and a top Health & Fitness app for even longer.

Lose It!'s founders have taken one company public and sold others to Macromedia and Microsoft. Our product-focused organization knows the importance of a quality, well-designed user experiences- losing weight is already hard enough. We're looking for more mobile & full-stack software developers. If you enjoy picking up new technologies and languages quickly, you'll learn a ton with us.

I run the development team at Lose It!. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions: eric@loseit-corp.com For more on the position, or to apply, go here: http://loseit.com/jobs/developer/
Generally speaking, if you have two options, it's not at all true that doing both is necessarily better than doing one or the other.
The quoted rationale by itself seems reasonable. The entire business model of Patent Trolls rests on the fact that companies will settle even the most ridiculous allegations if it's cheaper than fighting them.
Major up vote for Indie Hackers. Courtland does an amazing job!
LedgerFunding, Inc. | VP Engineering | New York City | Onsite

We are an early-stage FinTech startup that leverages the blockchain and distributed ledger technology to create a trustful smart market for working capital. Our use case was selected into the IBM Blockchain Founder Accelerator.

We are looking for an engineering leader to join us. Responsibilities include software development, product roadmap, and building the engineering team. Our ideal candidate would have worked in established company and startup with the following experience:

- professional software development and managing software engineers

- planning, architecting, and launching enterprise-grade systems and solutions

- DevOps with cloud technologies and modern programming languages for web applications

- familiarity with blockchain (any flavor)

If you are looking to join a blockchain-enabled business rather than another crypto project, and if you are looking to take your career to the next level, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/529131252/?pathWildca...
At some point, Shark Tank could be fun. Someone on Reddit mentioned a similar postcard app and I still need to find and watch that episode.

Right now the plan is to spend as much time as I can talking to customers and improving the product.

I would like to get some local tv media coverage in December. I'll wear a suit and a bowtie and say hi to my Grandparents through the TV. (And bring Andy too if he can swing it.)
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I find Tanto Cuore makes a nice sweet spot - it's mostly as parallel as Dominion, but adds just enough interaction. Normally I'll get about 3/4 of the way through a game with newbies and then they'll go a couple of rounds of all buying me bad habits, and I'll smile because they've got it, and end up on a negative score.
Do you actually think GM who are "so good at manufacturing" will sell more EVs than Tesla will sell Model 3's by the end of next year?

GM could should they choose to do so. They can certainly manufacture them, whereas Tesla's ability is questionable. But one has to sell them once their made. Oh, sure, you might buy a Tesla. Hell, I bought a Leaf, I might buy a Tesla. But you know who won't buy a Tesla? Everyone after the early adopters. GM's been making cars for over 100 years. Odds are really good that a potential customer has owned a GM. Odds are near zero that a potential Tesla customer has owned a Tesla before. For good or for bad, GM is a known quantity. Personally, I go back and forth before laying out money for a $700 phone that is a switch from my current phone. Now scale that up to a $35K car. Maybe you'll just take that out of petty cash from your last liquidity event. The rest of us will scrape together a down payment and hope we can make that monthly nut. And if you're doing that, you're going with the safe bet. The safe bet has a nation-wide network of dealers to work on it, has sold cars for 100 years, and isn't going out of business any time soon. The less-safe bet can't even tell you when you're getting your car +/- six months. In short, when we bought our Leaf, I knew it could easily turn into a $35K mistake, but we have the means and the risk tolerance. I would not make the mistake of projecting that to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America.
I thought you were going to say its a mercy because of how horrible it is to play Monopoly in the first place :)
is it? I'm not saying you need one or the other.
I'm saying that it's a spectrum and you have to chose what you optimize for.
The most functional building is not going to be the most beautiful one and vice-versa.
Sweden always (well, for the last 400 years or so) had a quite different way of governing and different values than Russia.

You can look at Finland which was governed by Sweden for a long time, then was a part of Russia but had its own laws etc and was a semi autonomous experimental area. During that time there were still feudal slaves in Russia. Poor farmers didn't have it easy anywhere of course.
interesting read for someone into academia history and socio cultural norms theory. but can't imagine why it is on the HN frontpage.
Granular | System Enginers, Platform Software Engineers | Full Time | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Granular’s mission is to transform the business of farming. We are building out our Systems Engineering / Platform team to meet our scalability, performance, data ingestion pipeline and future product needs.
Our tech stack is mainly: Python, Django, Pyramid, Angular, AWS, Postgres and a bunch of other related technologies.

Granular was recently acquired by DowDuPont.
Looking for people well versed on the above (or willing to learn). Looking for folks with 3-5 years of experience.
If this sounds interesting, please reach out to me directly: jimmyjohn [@] granular.ag

Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor H1B visas at this time.
No. There were specific conservative groups that had specific recommendations about how to make universities less radical.
And worst of all, their product is about improving governance. Not a promising start.
>Steindorff:

Digital assets are an entirely new and unique asset class that can’t be evaluated using the same frameworks used to value traditional investments.

Yeah, this is bullshit.

What he is not admitting is that he has no idea how to value it nor does anyone else.( Exponential growth is not easy to model. Closest thing or people who are able to model it are quants who may use a jump diffusion process.

They currently use that to model/price options.

> jump diffusion model, introduced in 1976 by Robert Merton, is a model for stock price behavior that incorporates small day-to-day "diffusive" movements together with larger, randomly occurring "jumps". The inclusion of jumps allows for more realistic "crash" scenarios and means that the standard dynamic replication hedging approach of the standard Black-Scholes model no longer works. This causes option prices to increase compared to the Black-Scholes model and to depend on the risk aversion of investors. This Demonstration explores how the price of European call and put options varies with the jump diffusion model parameters.[1](http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OptionPricesInMertonsJumpD...)

How do you honestly say that this is a new asset class?Currency has been around for centuries. The difference is their hasn't been a currency with daily moves averaging +-10%.

I do not know if that's stable enough to be a currency.
SEEKING FREELANCER | London/Brighton or Remote

Full-Stack Engineer

ReallyCare is a not-for-profit company driving adoption of open source software in the adult social care space. We need help working on a MEAN stack product for providers of domiciliary care which we believe will become the market leading product.

Job Responsibilities:

- Lead the building of entire product

- Build new products from the ground up

Qualifications:

- Excellent Node JS

- Excellent web development skills, which must include experience of AngularJS and Angular

- Strong MongoDB

- Previous startup and product experience

- Ability to work independently and efficiently on projects

Some exposure to Ionic would be an advantage.

Apply at www.reallycare.org/jobs or email me directly if you fancy having a chat - mark [at] reallycare [dot] org
https://github.com/copyfair/copyfair/

Also, AGPL + commercial license works similarly and is GPL compatible.
No, there is no charge unless you start to put apps on the App Store.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2933052/apple-frees-casual-i...
It explains this further rather later in the document.

There's a compatibility mode, where it understands a translation between SHA-1 named objects and NewHash named objects, and translates them at the boundary - i.e. during a pull or a push.

Obviously you're at risk to some extent of flaws in SHA-1 being exploited in your remote, although presumably if the translation layer detects the SHA-1 of something didn't change but the NewHash did then it'll scream.

It does seem this is a temporary situation though, as it mentions in one small sentence that for the final transition stage they envisage the protocol also supporting NewHash, so they can throw away all SHA-1 metadata everywhere. What they don't address in that plan is how the protocol gets extended, but they do clearly rely on that happening for the full transition to take place.
Google launches AIY Vision Kit: Make devices that see
When I moved to Seattle, the D&D Encounters program was just getting started in the local game stores. That was an excellent way to meet other gamers in the area. That program has evolved into the Adventurers' League, which expanded Encounters to include groups outside of participating stores.

Card Kingdom / Mox is very popular; if you have some anxiety, I would recommend one of the other game stores in town. Meeples Games in West Seattle is very friendly and laid back. Uncle's can be chill, too, but I have not attended an event there since the Southcenter store closed.

I recommend checking the Adventurers' League site and visiting a few events at different locations; find which one matches your interests, best. Let the staff know you're new in the area and looking for a group; they'll redirect you to an organizer who will do their best to find you a table.

Alternately, there's a plethora of local gaming conventions around Seattle. Adventurers' Leagues are usually there, too. Same drill -- show up, let them know you're new and looking for new friends.
more accurately, running out of solvable problems

It's time for another innovation unlocking to occur. Someone needs to build a platform that does what the internet did for software, but apply that platform to the world of hardware and the real world.

I still need a robot to clean up my kitchen and put the kid to sleep.
Knotch | Senior Backend Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, Data Scientist | NYC | On-site or remote

Knotch (https://www.knotch.it) is a series A funded ($14M) brand measurement platform used by some of the world’s largest brands and distributed on some of the internet’s most popular publications. Our stack includes Ruby, NodeJS, Postgres, MongoDB, Rails, Grape, Express, Redis, React, D3, StatsD, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, and more.

Company benefits:

- Free health, dental, and vision insurance.

- Free lunch

- Free metrocard

- Unlimited vacation and sick days

- Flexible work from home / remote policy

- Dog friendly office

- Discretionary bonus program

Senior Backend Engineer: https://www.knotch.it/jobs?gh_jid=117814

Fullstack Engineer: https://www.knotch.it/jobs?gh_jid=268197

Data Scientist: No JD at the moment, email adam|at|knotch|.|com
> If your manager likes you, s/he will give you good reviews.

That is interesting, because I do my best to work with my manager to define success criteria that are independent of how either one of us feels. The goal being that when one or both of us has a lapse in "liking the other", which can happen for a number of unrelated reasons: depression, stress, illness, pressure, etc. It's hard, especially since I am often the only one that has ever asked my manager for that kind of understanding.
Remarks of Chairman Ajit Pai on Restoring Internet Freedom [pdf]
I am the author of the article. Only meant to make people chuckle, not to offend. It’s just a silly little one-off article that happened to catch some eyes. Sincere apologies to anyone offended by it. I can see how it is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Advances in number theory inspired by physics
What this article leaves out is that unposed photographs of the dead (particularly children) were common in Victorian times - including in my family. My grandmother had (and I saw and was able to examine) such a photo of a dead infant, perhaps two - her sister. Her father, an interior decorator, was on a buying trip to Germany when the child became ill and died, and this may have been a factor in preserving a momento mori of the child corpse for him to see when he returned to London. Cameras weren't very portable, so taking photographs of a sick child just before death wasn't usually a possibility, as would be the case today.
Cyber-thieves seek to cash in on Bitcoin boom
I'd just like to encourage people to apply. I work with @cbanek on the LSST EPO team. Working on a large science project is amazing. Every day is interesting. There is a shared goal beyond just making money, similar to a startup with traction. The environment is pseudo-academic, which combines the best of academia and working for a national lab. The portal already has some design work done but is generally greenfield for technology choices. And last but not least Tucson is great and quite affordable.
OSARO INC | San Francisco | Full time | Onsite | Real-time Simulation Engineer | Front End Engineer | Deep Learning Engineer | Reinforcement Learning Engineer | Software Engineers/DevOps

At Osaro, we're creating machine intelligence software that combines state-of-the-art perception with powerful adaptive decision-making abilities to help computer and robotic systems act efficiently and intelligently. You would collaborate with existing team members with expertise spanning reinforcement learning, computer vision, hardware architecture, robotics and more. Osaro is developing large-scale machine learning products that need to interface with customers’ complex software environments as well as interface with a variety of robotic hardware and sensors.

- Real-time Simulation Engineer: As a simulation engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining software both to interact with and model physical robotic systems, and to create fully-simulated environments in which to train and optimize our machine learning algorithms. http://www.osaro.com/careers/?gh_jid=858184

- Front End Engineer: As a front end software engineer, your job will be to develop and maintain the software infrastructure needed to build these interfaces, which both our internal research and development team and our customers will use to interact with Osaro’s products. http://www.osaro.com/careers/?gh_jid=858140

- Deep Learning Engineer: Seeking world-class deep learning engineers with broad background in machine learning. As a deep learning engineer, you are involved in all stages of algorithm development from inception and initial implementation to evaluation and all the way to a deployable production quality algorithm. http://www.osaro.com/careers/?gh_jid=490809

- Reinforcement Learning Engineer: As an RL engineer you will be uniquely positioned in our team to work on large-scale machine intelligence problems and push forward the frontiers of AI technologies. http://www.osaro.com/careers/?gh_jid=490848

- Software Engineers/DevOps: As a software engineer, your job will be to maintain and develop the software infrastructure to interface with robotic hardware and a variety of sensors, acquire data, run experiments in both simulation and on real physical systems, programmatically store, access, and analyze results, developing dashboards and monitoring tools, and train and reliably deploy machine learning models across cloud based and local resources.

http://www.osaro.com/careers/?gh_jid=490453
Please apply directly on our website. Thanks! http://www.osaro.com/careers/
Microtransactions?
Rocketmiles | Chicago, IL | On-Site

Rocketmiles helps frequent travelers take more vacations. Our team is headquartered in Chicago's West Loop with a satellite office in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

We're currently looking for:

* Senior Software Engineer - JVM (Kotlin, Groovy, Java)

* Software Engineer

* Mobile Engineer

* Senior Systems Engineer

* Staff Accountant

Apply at https://rocketmiles.com/jobs if you're interested
I'd love to see the numbers on open rates of the emails he gets this way. (I am going to guess they are incredibly close to 0%). Let alone any conversion from the email.
> you can see modern governments as a power to defeat or as a way of trying to control power

Summary of all current events
I've been working on a prototype that does exactly this. Sent you an email.
Like every language yes but Perl has an especially pernicious aspect: with Perl TIMTOWTDI is an encouraged and nurtured pathology that got way out of hand. Perl encourages many petri dishes and cross fertilization (or pollination or contamination or pick your word) of everything that springs up. Sounds fun at first, but it becomes a mess. Other languages have cultures (no pun intended) that are more actively encouraging of sticking to best practices.
SEEKING WORK, on-site in the Eindhoven area (NL) | Remote OK

I am a strong software engineer who is passionate about large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines, and cares about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested Scala code.

Core Skills:

- Kafka, Spark Streaming, Avro

- Cassandra (DevOps, Data Modeling)

- Graph Modeling / Algorithms / Queries (with Spark GraphFrames and Neo4J)

- Programming Languages: Scala (highly proficient, 8 years exp.), Python (proficient)

Other Skills: Git, Docker, Akka Streams, Apache Ignite, Parquet, Zookeeper, HDFS, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2/AutoScG/S3/RedShift/EMR).

Professional Background (formerly): ETL Developer / Traditional DWHs / Kimball's and Data Vault Methodologies

Educational Background: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Solid experience working remotely.

All of my recent work history (8 years) is exclusively with startups.

Profile: https://angel.co/dan-serban

My hourly rate is EUR 80.

E-mail address in the profile.
The bigger question is "has the self driving issue been solved in clear conditions."

It's hilarious how far ahead of ourselves we've gotten on this topic. "Can it drive in the snow yet?" Umm, how about we get them to drive from Redmond->Seattle in clear conditions and minimal traffic before we start talking about whether it'll get me to the ski resort.
Jérôme Petazzoni's talk on cgroups, namespaces, etc. I think he has given the talk a bunch of times, I saw it in person once, here is a video I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5i-N34im8

He goes into cgroups, namespaces, etc. Then does a demo where is manually does what docker does, like untars an image, creates namespaces, creates the networking.
Ask HN: Crazy Idea Feedback
I have a crazy idea this seems like a safe place to share it. So here it goes.

What if something similar to Facebook exists but it gives back 80% of its profit back to the community. 20% for operating expenses.

At an individual level it might not matter much but as a community you can pool this money to build something in your town, country or even donate this to your favorite charity.

There are interesting ways you can come to distribute 80% of those profits. Say influencers and early adopter get a portion of revenue from network below them (yes it seems like MLM).

The biggest roadblocks I see is gaining users and traction but after a while it should be able to grow on its own.

I also want to point my basic motivation here, I personally don't want to make any money from this. But it seems like a internet giants of today's seem very inefficient from point of capitalism large profit margins with low competition but above model can add back the competitive dynamics to internet business.

I would happy to give up on this idea if Facebook or Twitter adopt this but I am pretty sure they won't.

Let me know your thoughts thinking of quitting my job and work on this full time, it would definitely be a hard slog for next couple of years but definitely worth doing since it's so much better for society as a whole.
Do you mean the declinations?
In that case if I remember correctly Russian has 5 declinations, not 10-20+.
I never tried to learn mandarin but I guess that it will be much more difficult than Russian.
I learnt to read Russian in my free time during a couple of days.
I can't even imagine how long I would need to learn to read mandarin.
I was quite quick with hiragana and katakana but all in all they are just over 100 characters and now I almost completely forgot them after years of not practicing.
Mandarin has something like tens of thousand unique characters.
But it shows that there has always been sufficient interest in board games to make it worth developing them, but there wasn't a particularly good way to signal that - at least in America - to the people who would develop them.
Is this accurate?

Anyone who has your passcode and access to your device can takeover your iCloud account by resetting the account, lock your other devices, and access any passwords you have stored in iCloud keychain

If so, this seems like a massive security liabilty, and grounds for deleting all icloud keychain passwords.
It would not in any way.
Large doses of aluminum found in autistic brains
This is the case in Java as well--you can redefine standard in or standard out out in any location and it will have an effect everywhere that uses the same classloader.
I absolutely agree with you on the dangers of overabstracting / hiding too much detail. That said, I do wonder if things have changed, since Linus's c++ "rant" re: the type of developers who would choose to work on kernel code in c++. I do remember a time when learning c++ was very much in popular, before the "in" language moved to java, to python, to JS, etc., so there may have been more of a problem with inexperienced coders back then than there is now. (I have no idea if this is true at all, just curious!)

I'm addressing this as someone who has done C++ work on very small embedded systems (e.g. microcontrollers with no external memory) including RTOS code and low-latency control loops, and there were definitely some nice features in C++ that can save you some time and lines of code without adding a bunch of needless overhead. Of course, there was a learning curve when bringing new people on board the project about what was/wasn't allowed for performance reasons. In general though, I see no reason why there couldn't be some subset of C++ used for kernel development other than Linus' / the kernel dev community's general distaste for it.