skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abl Schools | Sr. Ruby Engineer | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE | www.ablschools.com

Technology has made the world more connected, fundamentally changing how we live, work and interact; yet traditional schools have not evolved to prepare students for the 21st century. Replacing textbooks with tablets won’t be enough. We believe schools need a new foundation. That’s why we’re building a web-based school scheduling platform, that allows administrators to put master schedules and daily calendars into a single cloud-based system. We are creating the next generation of software for all K12 schools to fundamentally change how they design, measure and improve their schools. We are also a company that deeply values diversity in every way. Adam, our Founder, wrote an article on this subject on Medium here: https://medium.com/@adampisoni/in-defense-of-diverse-foundin....

Qualifications:

+Expertise with Ruby on Rails

+Experience building large scale distributed systems and networked services

Your Impact:

+Help set the direction of our company and product

+Measurably improve student outcomes

+Improve the work lives of teachers

+Help spread new, innovative school models

+Give schools greater visibility into how they use their time and resources, enabling them to better support their students and teachers

Apply: http://grnh.se/3oxq571
On open traffic data:

http://opentraffic.io/

https://github.com/opentraffic

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/12/19/open-tra...

https://mapzen.com/blog/open-traffic-release/
The point of analytics is to create knowledge. So you're saying either that you don't think analytics produces knowledge, or "Knowledge will have a marginal impact at best on reducing poverty".
15M-20M in bitcoin is nowhere enough to "corner the market". there are hundreds (?, maybe thousands?) of whales with more ownership than that.
Until for some reason a user really needs to use a classic UUCP bang-path. Poor help!trapped!in!lost!server ;)
>She got unexpectedly pregnant

This may show my bias growing up in a traditionally christian environment, but for years the rub on the right has been to disregard two of those realities and handwave the other as: she got unexpectedly pregnant, because she lacks personal responsibility, and is therefore not entitled to the support of the state or society. When the Haves "get unexpectedly pregnant," it's an accident or a surprise, when the Have Nots do, it's a sin. Even some of the responses here dogwhistle the sentiment that the people in this position kind of deserve it, which disgusts me.

And to the other reply to your comment: Good thing this isn't a sympathy contest, and that humans do not have a finite capacity to care for their fellow humans, so we can feel bad for the dead people and still work for the benefit of the people left behind. "These are nice points, but wave of hand I'm not going to listen to them, honey." Of course they needed a throwaway account to say it here, too bad that attitude prevails in so many of our interactions every day.
How to Get Each Myers-Briggs Type to Love You – Astroligion.com
These photos are a treasure.

It's remarkable how elegantly dressed everyone was, even the children.
Why are people who have no idea how the Internet works conducting investigations related to Internet crime?
Except they don't. 1) Apple Music for Android 2) iTunes for Windows.
Plato's cave of nihilists
Does outsized wealth concentration always turn local élites into a sad parody of Tiberius Caesar's Rome?

I bet the rubber barons of 19th century Brazil had some amazing orgies too. They didn't pretend that they were disrupting the fabric of society, though.

This quote in the article had me literally laughing out loud:

'Furthermore, these elite founders, C.E.O.’s, and V.C.’s see themselves as more influential than most hot-shit bankers, actors, and athletes will ever be. “We have more cachet than a random rich dude because we make products that touch a lot of people,” says Founder X. “You make a movie, and people watch it for a weekend. You make a product, and it touches people’s lives for years.”'

When I hear "product", I think of a bottle of shampoo. In SV, the same word apparently means some kind of transcendental gateway.
Why is that necessary? The "open Google Analytics" part makes it clear enough. It's not as if they're an interpreter that is going to crash when they see something they can't logically do ;)
Any links to material introducing how animations like his are created?
> I would argue that food escapes its measure of utility because otherwise, we would all be eating only the cheapest and healthiest option all the time

Economic utility is subjective; while it includes health effects, to be sure, it also includes things like the taste and other enjoyment factors. It absolutely is not the case that, were food a perfect example of rational choice, we would only be buying options that cost-effectively optimized healthiness.

> Its true healthcare has less frequency so you cant be a sophisticated consumer: but its more frequent than a car

“Healthcare” is a broad class of different products and services, many of which are far less frequently purchased than autos (if you buy open heart surgery more often than you buy a car, you are way out in a tail of frequency-of-purchase distribution of at least one of those items.)

OTOH, cars are also a market in which purchasers take a number of steps to counteract the low frequency. No one is test driving a variety of different surgerical interventions before choosing one.
Checkbook.io | Blockchain enabled Digital Checks | Sunnyvale/ San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Engineering | $100K+ and equity

We are a fintech startup and solving the problem of paper Checks. Contrary to popular opinion paper Checks are not going away, in fact according the 2016 report by the Federal Reserve 17.2 Billion paper Checks were sent in 2015 in the US alone, transferring a sum of money 4.5X times VISA/MC combined!

We’ve built a way to send images of Checks instantly in email and the recipient can Deposit them online by verifying their bank account instantly. Furthermore building and enabling a Blockchain for settlement enables instant verification and disbursement. Basically we are doing to paper Checks what Stripe and Square of have done to the Credit Card space in Online and Mobile payments.

We’re Seed stage and very soon Series A, seeing exponential growth, have a small but great team and super investors (Tim Draper, Naval Ravikant/Kevin Laws of Angelist thru one of their angelist funds, our customers and many more ) i.e. this would be a good time to join

Looking for both a back-end as well as a front-end engineer. Need to have a strong background in being able to write scalable software, preferably multi-paradigm, disciplined. - I’m the Founder of the company - this is a “co-founder” level opportunity - you’ll be working with me and other core people in the team. Work hard - play hard.

Our tech stack is Python, Angular, Postgres.

We move fast - if you’ve done a hackathon - we’ll probably want to do one with you and it’ll be clear if we are a mutual fit

Email admin@checkbook.io or pj [at] checkbook.io
"I've been a fan cannibalism for all my life but was never able to participate fully in it, for legal reasons. Maybe they'll start growing human meat and I can finally be myself without having to murder people!" That hypothetical could happen if they start perfecting musculature scaffolding as a very odd side effect. Sorry, just sayin.
Static types from JSON and GraphQL – quicktype
Bitrise.io ! ;) (CTO here)

Added bonus: most of our tools are open source, e.g. you can use the same runner which we use to run the builds on our build VMs ( https://www.bitrise.io/cli ) to run the bitrise config/build anywhere the CLI can run. Happy to answer any questions!
a very old fashioned retirement/pension scheme probably provided for this; these are all gone
Global manufacturers strain to keep up with faster economy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-hunger-is-i...
As totally skeezy as it sounds, I have a hard time believing you're really "shut out" of the VC/startup scene if you don't attend like the article says.

Agreed that it seems totally out-of-phase with my understanding of reality
In this case, the Techmeme summary doesn't really offer much that wasn't in the header.

I can see it's a Vanity Fair link on the front page, Emily Chang's name doesn't mean much to me, her book doesn't mean much since it's not out yet and the title is predictably uninformative, and the summary is only a very slight expansion on "Silicon Valley + orgy".

Brief summaries are something I'm in support of, especially if they help me avoid clickbait, but in this case it's a lot of words that don't really expand on the link title.
I don't think it's on purpose. It's decomposing a monolith down to microservices, without any verification. Since each player is only responsible for their little corner of the world, no one actually has any sort of responsibility to ensure the overall system still works.
> They won't like it but tough beans. People don't like a lot of things we have to change for the better of society.

IMHO it's not a better society when we're forcing people to eat synthetic meat grown in a lab.

If you've got a real winner on cost, taste, or ecological impact, then compete in the open market and make a better chicken nugget.
but why gradle?
optional = forget about it
Interactive Visualization of Australian Wine Ratings – Practical Business Python
WRT "just get the government to do it" US federal legislation, specifically not that driven by "terrorism" or "protect the children" (and we don't want any legislation under either label) tends to take years to go from initial idea to law. That doesn't count the years which would be added for compliance. Or the charter and formation of the "central authority".

If we started today, we might get such a law in action sometime in the mid-2020's, at which point ISPs would have switched to IPv6 just to avoid the legislation. You know, maybe it would be a good idea after all /s

My "idealism" is probably better called "pessimism", and is based off a couple of decades watching well-meaning legislation be mangled beyond repair by politicians and corporations, at the city level.

People are complicated and irrational. People in politics are even more complicated and seemingly irrational, since even the best politicians have to balance the wants and needs of thousands of people and the businesses who employ those people. Politicians at the federal level are even more complicated, since they have 50 states, a number of territories, and gigantic corporations to consider.

Even influencing a completely honest political group to do what everyone agrees is the right thing takes a significant amount of time, money, and effort. And if we're honest, they aren't all completely devoted to their constituents, and won't agree that it's the right thing to do.
Those are the only exceptions. Everything else the make for iOS is exclusive.
Recalls True Detective Season 2 when they infiltrate a similarly described (but likely dramatized version) party with Politicians instead of Tech players:

[Midseason spoiler warning]

"Bezzerides goes undercover, posing as Athena to infiltrate one of the secret elite parties in Monterey. With no phone, transmitter or weapon, she is forced to rely on Woodrugh and Velcoro for support. At the party, she is drugged and taken to the guests with a busload of other girls. Her attempts to search the party are hampered by the male guests (Geldof, Holloway and Tony Chessani among them) and hallucinations of a strange man from her childhood, implying that she was sexually abused"...etc
Memrise | Full-Stack (Python) & Mobile Engineers | London (relocation available) | https://www.memrise.com

Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to help anyone achieve confident, real-world language skills in just a few short months; our product is innovative and fun, and it delivers the goods.

Last year, we won the "App of the Year 2017" at the Google Play Awards. With near zero marketing spend we've grown organically to tens of millions of users, and we're already profitable with a team of 55 (comprising 37 nationalities).

We are expanding and looking to fill the following roles immediately:

* Mid-level and Senior Full Stack Engineers

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Senior Android Engineer

We use Python 3.6 / Django / MySQL running on Kubernetes for the backend and React/Redux on the frontend. The iOS and Android apps are regularly featured native apps written in Obj-C/Swift and Java.

We also have some ML-based features to work on using Tensorflow / Keras / CoreML (NLP and image processing).

If you're interested in any of these engineering jobs - or if you are just awesome and think we'd be a good place to show off your talents - please apply at https://www.memrise.com/jobs/

If you don't see a specific role on the jobs page that you fit, please apply for the "Speculative Application".
I think OPs question was exactly asking the question of when these problems do arise, not how large they are when they do.

I'd be curious to hear when they do, would be great if you had some real world examples.
Yeah, at the time most writing about crypto was about how it was a munition and illegal to export, and about Phil Zimmerman getting hassled at airports.
But Facebook wasn’t?
There's no shortage of demand from vegetarians and vegans considering all the meat-shaped tofu you can buy today at elevated prices. Manufactured meat is preferable to supplements and it's going to sell.
It's not just high-rolling ones.

Over the last few years I've been involved in the furniture and construction industries and their "decadent underbellies" are just as bad if not worse than what I've seen in tech, finance and elsewhere. According to many insiders I know in the concrete world, they have the most insane industry parties. Carpeting is pretty crazy too from what I've seen.

It's not unique to any industry.
One alternative: https://appcenter.ms
Not all knowledge is useful or productive. If I decide I'm going to count every single hair on my scalp, I've produced data, I've done analytics on my scalp, but the knowledge I've created is not useful.

It's clear that analytics creates knowledge, but from what I've seen that knowledge isn't always helpful.

It really must be judged on a case by case basis, but analytics often just confirms what we've already known or suspected. We already know that mental illness is responsible for homelessness. The utility of additional analytics here is probably marginal. What is needed are treatments and cures for mental illness itself.
I'd be careful with predictions wrt JavaScript frameworks. Though I personally like React, just two or three years ago Angular was the framework of choice for many (I've never been a fan of it). Front end framework churn seems inherently cyclic in nature, where a new minor generation breaks with tools of the slightly older generation to define itself on the marketplace.

Moreover, it must be said that neither React nor Angular are front end libraries in itself; they merely organize DOM manipulation and event handling in a more or less bureaucratic way.
Tao is long defunct, yes (went under a decade ago). It turns out that people don't really want a runtime-portable OS/apps (IIRC the biggest takeup it got was as a Java runtime for mobile, because the competition at that time was all interpreted). There was no security model in VP, though -- single flat address space and bytecode could turn any integer into a pointer and dereference it (loads just got translated into host cpu load instructions), so there was no isolation between processes or between processes and the os.
Is worth mentioning that SubstrateVM (https://github.com/graalvm/graal/tree/master/substratevm) is now open source, which does whole-world AOT compilation to produce a single executable or shared library. It does have substantial limitations (eg no runtime class generation/loading), so it might not be suitable for every project
If you get disturbed an average of every five seconds then you have around 6 million visits per year. Usually something worth celebrating for a new site, and you don't have to keep it on indefinitely :)
What a shame for some, but I'm happy to see a Gastown company succeed. The tech hub around Victory Square is such a great little community.
I feel like an ISO country code is more of a surrogate key anyway; it's a mnemonic made-up value specifically designed to be used as key.
Netflix | Senior Software Engineer, Edge Device Services | Los Gatos, CA, Full-time | ONSITE | https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/861260
Ping me directly on Twitter @yunongx DMs are open!

Netflix is shaping the future of global entertainment and reinventing how people watch television. Netflix applications are among the most successful and widely used in the world across a wide range of devices, including phones, tablets, game consoles, TVs, and desktop/laptops.

Our team is passionate about building and advancing core libraries, platforms, and services that are used across our device platforms. We design systems to be reliable at scale and flexible to product innovations. The projects you work on will not only help to continually improve how we deliver a better experience to our 100+ million members but also boost the productivity of over 200 engineers.

Challenges for 2017

In the coming year, our big goal is to migrate teams to the next-generation of the Netflix API, the system which processes and orchestrates all requests from devices to backend services. We’re building a high-scale platform that leverages Node.js and Docker containers to enable UI client teams to easily write and deploy their own services to the cloud. These services will be sitting in the middle of much of the action. Every request from every device from our 100+ million users will go through this new stack.

This is a highly cross-functional project with implications for many teams at Netflix. It will make our system more usable and developer friendly as well as more reliable, scalable, and performant as we continue to grow globally. There is no shortage of opportunities to shape the future of our product.

How you will help

Build, optimize and scale our Node.js platform and infrastructure Work on first-class integration of Node.js in the Netflix cloud ecosystem Ensure full observability into the state of Node.js services and real-time analytics Collaborate with engineers to identify common pain points, develop solutions, and evangelize best practices Provide technical leadership across UI engineering and help guide the overall engineering vision Improve developer productivity through better tools, processes and frameworks
GiveCampus (YC S15) helping schools raise money more efficiently
GiveCampus is a Y Combinator-backed company that builds fundraising software for educational institutions. We're working to bring actual innovation to the space, and solve the hair-on-fire problems fundraisers face. We're tired of schools being stuck with crappy software that never changes.

We're growing at an awesome pace, and now need more motivated engineers to help us build out the features and products schools want! Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and we have grown the number of schools using us by more than 5x since the article was published.

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel.

Please no recruiters or dev shops.

Reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of. We're based in DC with an office in SF, so we're looking to hire in both locations.
If you take one of the article ideas in isolation, i.e. using AI to match impoverished people with good, unfilled middle class jobs... do you object to this idea by itself, or just to the idea it would be a cure-all, oblivious to other social factors?
It's the first SPA framework I've learned and fell in love with it. I haven't gotten around to researching React or vue yet. I wonder if I'm missing out on anything by not using them.
"Long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in obese patients".. read the first line. Its 16-24 weeks. Thats not exactly long term. Also, the study was done for people at home, not in a clinical ward.

Try this 8 year study instead https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20592131
Or if you want a long term RCT, try this 74 week one:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19339401
You may be thinking of shutdownify: https://web.archive.org/web/20150819204235/http://www.shutdo...

(Note that that's actually the earliest archive that archive.org has of it. Alas, it never actually had a generator.)
For years, Intel and AMD processors have supported patching using microcode updates. Until we know the embargo is lifted and we know the full extent of this vulnerability, we won't know if that would be possible.
The downvotes are people asking you to stop doing it.
Modus Create | Front End Engineers ReactJS and Angular, Back End Engineer PHP, Java Software Developer, QA Automation | Remote | Full-Time Contract
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Show HN: No-swears – remove swear words from JavaScript strings
Angaza | Software Engineers | SF | ONSITE | https://www.angaza.com/contact-page/#careers

Angaza creates technology for selling life-changing products, especially off-grid solar energy systems, in emerging markets:

- https://blog.angaza.com/angaza-raises-10-5-million-in-series...

We've enabled more than a million people to use electricity at home for the first time. The software you build here will reach millions more. We are hiring multiple roles in San Francisco, including mobile and full-stack developers:

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/?venue=hackerN...

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/backend-developer/?venue=hackerN...

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/hardware-partnership-engineering...

Angaza is a for-profit company, post-series B, with customers in more than thirty countries. Our standard hiring process involves a phone conversation, a carefully bounded home project, and an on-site interview. We don't believe in gotcha logic puzzles or adversarial whiteboard programming, and we strive to give you specific constructive feedback regardless of the outcome.
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