skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | NYC - New York, NY
Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately held companies and a small (growing) number of public companies track who owns what. We're growing rapidly and are hiring across the board.

We're building out a new team in our New York, NY (NYC) office to handle publicly traded companies.

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Senior+ backend or full stack engineers

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Required:

* 4+ years professional software development experience

Nice-to-have:

* Experience with Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol

* Professional experience in Finance, Banking or Exchanges (ACH, Wires, Trading Stocks, etc)

* Familiarity with Python and Django

* Experience writing unit tests

Drop a note to robert.balousek+jan18 [at] carta [dot] com for more info.
ProTip™️: Copy and paste the headline of the article into Google to get the full article. I really need to write a Chrome extension for this but haven't had the time. :(
How they built a $10B growth engine was by being precisely on point with their timing and then having pretty good product execution.
In my case it wasn't just that I used pointers which might work in some cases. Instead I used a pointer to a global variable containing a function reference (directly using a function reference was not possible as those are not 'compareable'). Therefore, whenever I started the programm the global variable had a different location and therefore it didn't macht the location it had when the file was saved (during an earlier execution).
Flying Cars vs. Self-Driving Cars Nanodegrees
Which API(s) do you rely on? Are you sure that self-hosting them is not an option?
I think most people dont understand that corporations are amoral entities.
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Part time.

REMOTE or
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I have 10 years of development experience with Apple related technologies, macOS and iOS. For the last 2 years I've been doing React Native too.

I can provide consultation/debugging/development for any of the above.

My email is my username at gmail.
It isn't just that we develop tech that is useful in space, but that it also pushes the current tech to the next level: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/10/04/nasa.everyday/...
My response was about whether AMD was part taking in schadenfreude, in reference to the OP's statement that this was "a big FU to Intel". I wasn't making a statement on who else was affected and/or who was at fault.
(edited) Would these homeless people be sent to the moon mandatorily or voluntarily? If voluntarily, why only send homeless people? Why not send everyone who wanted to go?
Are you sure that all Intel CPUs are affected? Might just be older ones.
Trello will probably be assimilated into Jira's answer to GitHub projects.
Oxeon | Healthcare Data Scientist | San Mateo, CA | Onsite or Remote (US only), Contract | $110-$150 /hour | https://www.oxeonpartners.com

Entrepreneurial data scientist needed to find insights and patterns in large healthcare data sets that will be used to assist cancer diagnosis and treatment decision making.

We are currently working with the a number of the nation’s most recognized oncologists and working with two large cohorts of medical records containing tens of millions of patient data points.

Oxeon conceives, designs and validates new business concepts to then create and launch new healthcare technology and services companies, either in partnership with a strategic partner (e.g. large health systems) or as an independent de novo company. Our team is small, moves quickly and works with our network of the nation’s leading healthcare executives to source innovative ideas, hone them into compelling new businesses.

CONTACT: ds@oxeonpartners.com
It is intentional. That was something that impressed me about it -- exactly how intentional everything is. Also, she has a digital art board but scanned drawings on paper because she wanted a rougher, more sketchy look to it.
Tapad | Full-Time, Onsite: NYC or Oslo | $100K - $160K/YR + Bonus

Tapad is known for inventing and introducing the Tapad Device Graph™ to the industry. We are continuing our innovations by building more useful, data-intensive products to empower marketers to do things more intelligently. We process over 30 PB’s of data in any 60 day time frame, and apply AI/ML techniques to process and extract the value for our customers.

Tapad's Open Source tech stack (below) handle:

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Distributed Applications... Scala, Python

Distributed Computing... Google Cloud, BigQuery, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark

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Here are our open roles in Engineering:

Data Scientist (NYC) - http://grnh.se/6c1pdb1

Data Scientist (Oslo): http://grnh.se/djs0pg1

Site Reliability Engineer (Oslo): http://grnh.se/hadlum1

Senior Software Engineer (NYC): http://grnh.se/5giaqb1

Senior Software Engineer (Oslo): http://grnh.se/v4bnl51

Senior Solutions Engineer (NYC): http://grnh.se/4mxjky1

Senior Solutions Engineer (Oslo): http://grnh.se/f31igy1
Does this also apply to vsyscall's being emulated? Will this mean that older static binaries will no longer run? or just suffer a penalty as well?
Daily Harvest | https://www.daily-harvest.com | jobs: Software Engineer; Product Manager | Princeton, NJ, USA | Full-time Onsite | https://www.daily-harvest.com/careers
contact me at savraj@ [our domain] and mention HN in the subject line!

Based in Princeton and NYC, we are a rapidly growing startup sending out thousands of products to happy customers each week. Everyone around you -- especially the non-techies in your life -- will at least try, if not consistently enjoy the frozen superfood eats that your work at Daily Harvest will deliver!

Our 39 flavor combinations of smoothies, overnight oats, chia parfaits, harvest bowls, and sundaes are co-created by our team of chefs and nutritionists and come packed with organic fruits and vegetables, and no added sugar or preservatives. Each cup is perfectly portioned, so all you have to do is take it out of the freezer, add your liquid of choice and blend, heat or soak.

Daily Harvest seeks a PM and a software engineer to help build the future of frozen food delivery. As a member of our software engineering team, you’ll craft and ship the code that powers our entire business -- from user-facing UI, to code that interfaces with our shipping providers, to inventory and supply chain management at scale. You’ll be working with a small team of friendly, easy-going engineers and report directly to our CTO in Princeton, NJ.

Your qualifications - 3+ years of experience in software development roles - Experience with Python-powered web-apps (Flask, Jinja, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, Stripe) - MySQL, Google Cloud SQL, PeeWee ORM - Experience with Git, Travis CI, PyTest, and deployments to Google Cloud.
Every dev I know has never liked any ticketing system. Maybe its psychological though, makes us feel like we work at a deli counter?
Find DDG like early Google days in that a bit harder to find things where today Google will have it in the first page. Google has got to a point where it is just amazing how accurate it is.

Suspect part of it is also me and knowing how to phrase searches. Bit that just does not work to the same level on DDG.
The other extreme being low end salaries?
Aurora Solar | https://www.aurorasolar.com/ | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite | Full Time | VISA | Frontend, Backend Engineer

We are building the software platform that powers the the solar industry. Our clients are companies that work on transitioning our society to a future of sustainable energy by selling, designing and installing solar installations. Aurora enables them to do their job better, faster, and more efficiently. Aurora is a cloud-based SaaS solution that allows solar installers to build 3D models of buildings and trees, simulate the impact of shading on a homeowner's roof, design advanced solar systems, calculate the financial return of a solar system and generate beautiful sales proposals. By enabling solar installers to do all of this in a short time and without having to leave their office, Aurora helps to reduce the cost of solar installations and make solar energy more widely available.

Frontend Techstack: Ember, Coffee/Javascript

Backend Techstack: Ruby on Rails, Postgres

If you're interested in working with us, email me at mklocker@aurorasolar.com. Mention you're from HN and let me know what you've been working on lately.
Are they going to also teach that at bootcamps?
I’ve seen too many fintech pitches that go something like:

Fintech: here is our amazing solution to a problem you didn’t even know you had!

Banker: oh you mean like <some common piece of banking terminology>

Fintech: blank stares

A fintech that is all ex-bank who spun off to solve a problem they knew they had, will probably succeed. A fintech that is all web devs solving problems that they only imagine exist will not.
Yes, however you could just have a long haired elephant quite easily. It is conceivable that you might end up with a slightly genetically modified elephant that fills the same ecological niche without genetically being a mammoth. Its easy to see why the author and even the geneticist might choose the term over "genetically engineered elephant" when explaining the concept to the average person.
> Planets will have different g's so first making things in zero-g work seems to be a much more solid approach to developing a long term space program.

I don't think that follows at all, because I think engineering at 2g or 0.5g or even 0.01g has a lot more in common with engineering at 1g or 0.15g than it does with engineering at 0g. Zero-g is qualitatively very different from non-zero g; stuff like room design, plumbing, HVAC, material constraints (the need to avoid things that can powder) are totally different.

> If you want to spread you need to learn how to deal with being surrounded by space and a space station is the best way to do that short of sending people out in space arks.

Within the solar system all journeys are relatively short and it's ok for spaceships to not be closed systems. For interstellar travel I think space arks will be necessary anyway. There's no really plausible way to get to another star in anything short of multiple decades.
The DSM-5 criteria for Major Depressive Disorder are extremely broad. Many serious, thoughtful psychologists and psychiatrists believe that we are at real risk of pathologising normal human emotion.

Code 296.21 designates the apparently paradoxical diagnosis of Mild Major Depressive Disorder, with the following description of severity:

Few, if any, symptoms in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are
present, the intensity of the symptoms is distressing but manageable, and the symptoms
result in minor impairment in social or occupational functioning.

Essentially, the DSM-5 creates a specific diagnostic category for people who are basically OK but slightly sub-par. That's not inherently dangerous in isolation, but it does interact very dangerously with the persistent malpractice of the pharmaceutical industry. Someone who might just need some low-intensity psychotherapy or some peer support might end up on an indefinite SSRI prescription.

Several meta-analyses have indicated that SSRIs are not significantly more effective than placebo in mildly depressed patients, with a significant frequency of adverse events. Most SSRIs have known "discontinuation effects" (e.g. withdrawal symptoms), making SSRIs a distinctly questionable choice for mild or short-term depressive episodes. Despite this, there has been a vast increase in the number of SSRI prescriptions, with most of the growth occurring in patients who historically would not be considered sufficiently impaired to warrant drug treatment.

10% of Americans over 12 are currently taking antidepressants, rising to a staggering 23% of middle-aged women according to the National Center for Health Statistics. There is a huge racial disparity, with 13.6% of non-Hispanic whites taking antidepressants versus 3.9% of non-Hispanic blacks. Less than a third of people taking a single antidepressant have seen a mental health professional in the past year.

Something is seriously wrong with the way we diagnose and treat depression; I lay the blame almost entirely at the door of pharmaceutical marketers.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm
If fraud is rationalized with group identities then it is even more important to keep the price for cheating high, because the cost is also higher when group identities are involved. When the seeds for prejudice are already there, the main victims of that kind of fraud are not the would-be employers but all the involuntary peers who share the same marker.
Yeah - a moleskin black book. Plain and simple. Lose this and I'm hosed.
And Bitcoin Market ? TradeHill ? Youbit ? Bitcoin-central ? Bitcoinica ? Bitstake ? Intersango ? FXBTC ? Bitmarket.eu ? Bitfloor ? Bitomat ? Britcoin ? Vault of Satoshi ? Kapiton ? WeExchange ? UpBit ? CoinEX ? Cryptorush ? McxNow ? MintPal ? SwissCEX ? Prelude ? LibertyBit ? Comkort ? CoinSwap ? BitYes ? Yacuna ? Virtex (I remember this one, was very big and "trustworthy") ? Excoin ? BitSpark ? Coin.Mx ? Harborly ?
A text-search parser (for PostgreSQL)
Ok, we've changed the title to use more neutral language from the article text.
There are a lot of answers here about how expensive Apollo was, and about how those expenses haven't really gone away. Those answers are basically right: putting humans on the moon was, and would still be, enormously expensive.

But there's another factor at play which I haven't seen any mention of, which is that our risk tolerance as a culture has dropped considerably since then. We went from Mercury, to Gemini, to Apollo, in an INSANELY short period of time. We went from having never launched anybody into space, to Apollo 11, in ten years; we went from never having launched a Saturn V to putting three humans on top of one in thirteen months. We lost three astronauts due to multiple design flaws in the Command Capsule, then redesigned the capsule and launched it with astronauts in it in eighteen months.

None of that could happen now. And the reason can only partly be blamed on NASA losing its mojo. In truth, the entire spaceflight community has developed far a more comprehensive, reliable safety culture. But that culture is by necessity much slower than it was then. Nobody in the industry could move as quickly as NASA did in the mid 1960s. NASA of today can't - but neither can SpaceX, or Blue Origin, or Sierra Nevada, or anyone else I know of.

Even if we wanted to, we would have to re-educate our engineers. Engineers are taught how to do program management starting as undergraduates. We have an entire generation of aerospace engineers who have been taught to move at deliberate, conservative speed, to make sure nobody gets killed. The human inertia inherent in our current engineering culture just wouldn't allow us to go back to the speed of the 1960's.

A slower, more comprehensive safety culture costs even more money, but more importantly it requires financial support from Congress and the White House over a much longer period of time in order for a mission to make it from proposal to launch - support which is extremely hard to sustain across administrations.

And (personal opinion here) society as a whole is supportive of - indeed, has demanded and driven - these changes. We would not tolerate the US government spending 2% to 3% of the entire federal budget on a manned spaceflight program, and then losing an entire crew in a pre-launch accident, and then returning to launch in 18 months.
DuckDuckGo | Frontend Engineer | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

DuckDuckGo | Backend Engineer | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

We're looking for candidates that are excited to join us in raising the standard of trust online.

More info: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring/

In addition, these aren't up yet, but are coming:

DuckDuckGo | Frontend Engineering Director | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

DuckDuckGo | Business Development Director | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

DuckDuckGo | Legal Advocacy Director | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

If you think you might be right for any of these Director positions, please feel free to reach out to me: yegg at duckduckgo
Rentify | Software engineer | London | Full-time

Rentify is an online letting agency that uses technology to make both landlords' and tenants' lives easier (and cheaper). We offer landlords guaranteed rent based on an algorithmically determined property valuation, and attribute most of our savings to efficiently using technology to solve the many moving parts of property rentals.

We're looking to add some junior to mid Ruby/Rails/Javascript engineers with at least 1 years commercial experience, to our in-house engineering team to help us build both public-facing and internal tools.

Recent projects include building an internal ticketing and task management system using React and Rails, and an iPad app for property valuations and check-ins using React Native and Rails.

Our main app is Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL as a store, hosted on AWS. Other technologies we use every day are Elasticsearch, React, Chef, Sinatra and Redis.

If you're interested or would like to know more, please get in touch with us at jobs@rentify.com - our full job description is available at https://www.rentify.com/jobs#ruby-engineer

No recruiters please.
Server-side rendering means you get a quick first load. Client-side rendering means subsequent navigations are quick, because there's less data to transfer (maybe a little bit of JSON, maybe nothing at all). Going back to the server for 100kb of HTML and reloading the entire page, as opposed to fetching 10kb of JSON and instantly updating it in place, is a very 2002 way of doing things!
My point was about the perceived superiority that some people have over the others, due to their geographical/cultural/religious biases.

I mentioned I was South Indian to emphasise my bias towards such a tone.

But as I have acknowledged in my above comments, I may have looked at the article through biased eyes, but I still think I'm right in my assumption about this author's tone.
Doctible | San Diego, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://www.doctible.com

Doctible is a San Diego based startup changing the way healthcare practices communicate with their patients by building amazing technologies. Founded in 2014, we are rapidly growing and recently awarded the #1 Top Workplace by San Diego Union Tribune.
Our products are built on top of cutting edge technologies and we’re looking to add a motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to our team in our Sorrento Mesa office.

Detailed Job Description:
https://doctible.com/sr-software-engineer
Funny, I was thinking of Turing’s Theta fixed-point combinator.
That’s sad news. I was planning to use them for my programming class. The Geocoding and other APIs, besides being free and generous, were easy to learn and very useful. The technical blog posts were also enlightening.
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Downtown LA, California)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent in the following roles:

* Front-end Software Engineer (LA)

* Mobile Developer (London, LA)

* Senior Infrastructure Engineer (London)

* Senior Quantitative Analyst (London)

* Software Engineer (London, LA)

* Web Developer (London)

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers/ .
Really sad to see. I've been very happy with Mapzen for the past year or so.

Their open source stuff is really good, and the service itself is excellent as well. Not quite as polished as Google/Mapbox, but absolutely usable in production apps.

Would be very interested to read a post mortem. Did they simply struggle to find users, was their pricing strategy wrong, was quality an issue?

If anyone at Mapzen is reading these comments, thank you for all the work you've done. I'll miss you guys.
Ask HN: How do you stop yourself from stagnating?
Sometimes there are points during which I'm doing pretty well for myself and am wholly content with where I'm at, without any strong desire for anything different/better.

How do you stop such a state from stagnating you?
Our economies of wealth are not built "on the back" of the people in the soup kitchens.

Those few people who are going to soup kitchens are typically so crippled by their own internal issues (e.g. mental illness, impulsive criminality, addiction, total inability to manage money) that their productivity is extremely low or negative. Nobody's taking anything from them because there's nothing to take.

In fact it's the opposite of what you said. It's the people in the soup kitchens who are living (e.g. eating soup) on the back of the healthy, productive people running the economy. Just ask: Which group would suffer more if the other group disappeared?

And before those full of moral rage jump in here, no, I'm not saying they deserve to suffer, etc. They don't. But nor is the underclass a productive group being forced to hold up the wealthy. It's not the medieval era any more; in a modern economy those with zero or negative human capital are nothing but a liability.
A credit union
That would come as a pleasant surprise to my friends, who seem to be under the impression (and they are fairly knowledgeable about the process, since it is a sword of Damocles that constantly dangles over them and their families). Also, this seems to indicate otherwise: https://www.murthy.com/2017/11/30/changes-in-employer-employ...

see: "If Employer A is unwilling to go through with the employment offer, the case ends. In that event, the I-485 case cannot proceed, as there is no intent to employ the sponsored worker. The same would be true if the sponsored worker is unwilling or unable to work for the sponsoring employer and wants to stay with the new employer, in this example, Employer B."
Is it developers who are pushing for Jira? I've always seen it as a management-driven thing, effectively cementing the dominance of management methodologies like Scrum.
I'm going to guess: not enough customers to get them to a point where the business is sustainable and not being able to find inverstors that are willing to invest in something like this.

They have a very nice product but competing with the likes of Google is hard.
I tried it and the "percent change" seems to be off for me.

I just ran it and it says BTC is -0.33%, even though CMC says it's +4.63%. Is it maybe showing a different period than 24h?
Node-fetch: Call for maintainers