skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that so many tech professionals don’t have GitHub and Stack Overflow profiles, personal projects, etc is exactly why having those things helps you stand out. It’s definitely helped me, hugely, aside from just plain increasing my self confidence. I’m no web startup Silicon Valley brogrammer either, 50 something application support specialist in London.
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KloudTrader's mission is to make algorithmic trading accessible to traders without a software engineering background through visual programming languages; DIY Roboadvisors. We are an early stage startup willing to offer significant equity. Email us at jobs at <company name>.com

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First of all, police in the U.S. aren't an institution--they're beholden to local governments (and state governments in the case of state patrol). Ergo you can't [reasonably] generalize about police nationally based on a handful of malfeasants.

The idea that police nationally get together and conspire violence against the public or even a particular racial group is beyond absurd. This is among the most dubious of conspiracy theories, and I don't know how such theorists can hope to be regarded as credible, reasonable people.
Millions of Americans as destitute as the world’s poorest? Don’t believe it
sunsite.unc.edu

I used to check it almost daily for new Linux software, because maybe that next editor, scripting language or window manager would be just what I want -- or at least an interesting experience.
This is a major point in Class by Paul Fussell.

https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/...
Sourceress | Senior Python Engineer Lead | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite | https://www.sourceress.com/jobs

Do you want to grow into a great engineering leader? We strongly value personal growth, and pay for coaching for all employees.

Other Qualifications:

- Do you love mentoring other developers and helping them grow?

- Are you an incredibly prolific programmer who knows both the value of shipping quickly and the value of software craftsmanship, and has the judgment to know when to apply each?

- Are you empathetic, highly systematic, intensely driven, and intellectually curious? See our values here [1]

Our stack: Python (Django, nltk), AWS (S3, PostgreSQL), Javascript (React)

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We just raised $3.5M from OpenAI researchers and Lightspeed [2] at one of the highest ever valuations coming out of YC. One founder previously sold a company and is a published machine learning researcher; the other was Chief of Staff at Dropbox, and our team of 10 hails from other great organizations as well (Google, MIT, McKinsey, etc)

We have a real business, customers, revenue, crazy growth, funding--and a ton of work to do. We have machine learning problems that are core to our product, data infrastructure and scaling problems to tackle, and interesting product work to be done as well.

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Just email me at josh@sourceress.com

[1] https://www.sourceress.com/jobs

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/sourceress-raises-3-5m-to-...
Common | NYC | https://www.common.com
Common is building housing for cities that are designed from the ground up for roommates. We build beautiful, furnished homes, provide shared supplies and cleaning, and find roommates to live together. Members can transfer between any home in our 5 cities.

In October 2015, we opened up our first coliving home in Brooklyn. Since then, we’ve expanded to 14 homes across 5 major cities. We also just raised a $40M Series C https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2017/12/20/coliving-gets-real-..., largely to grow our team of 5 engineers.

Technology is at the heart of Common. From our marketing, to our sales pipeline, to our leasing, billing, and member management, nothing we do has been done before. We build a lot of technology to create operating leverage and provide a better experience for our members. Here are some of the roles we're hiring for (left hand is relevant skills, right hand is job listing):

Rails + Salesforce | Software Engineer (sales and growth): https://angel.co/common-living/jobs/307394-software-engineer...

React | React Engineer: https://angel.co/common-living/jobs/307666-react-developer

Rails, working in complex or regulated industries | Software Engineer (home management): https://angel.co/common-living/jobs/312215-software-engineer...

React, node.js, some rails experience | Software Engineer (member portal): https://angel.co/common-living/jobs/312219-software-engineer...
Nested.com | Various roles | London | ONSITE | Full time| Right to work in UK | https://nested.com

Who we are: We’re an ambitious team with big plans. Our goal is to be one of the defining tech companies of our generation by using technology to rebuild the process of selling a house from the ground up.

To us it seems crazy that people’s biggest asset is also the least liquid. Our vision is to allow every UK homeowner to get a fair offer on their house in minutes. We have previously founded GoCardless and Songkick and are already on a faster growth trajectory than both and backed by Europe’s leading VCs and entrepreneurs. Having done it before we know what it takes to be successful. We’re looking for exceptional people, excited by the prospect of building something that matters.

We’re looking for:

* Head of Product - https://nested.workable.com/jobs/422781
* Software Developer - https://nested.workable.com/j/817387C4B1
* Snr Software Developer - https://nested.workable.com/j/1D3FE7D3CD
* Front-end Developer - https://nested.workable.com/jobs/407370
* Snr Data Scientist - https://nested.workable.com/jobs/586258

All of our Developer roles are full-stack and work across both Elixir and NodeJS/React. We are building cross-functional teams that are truly autonomous with a focus on great engineering practices and getting stuff done.

If you’d like to see more about our tech-stack take a look at our Stackshare https://stackshare.io/nested

The stats:

* Eng team = 22 Total company size = 64 (January 2018) - Check out our team here https://nested.com/team

* £8m Series A raised March 2017 and £36m Series B raised October 2017

We pay competitively and don’t leave money on the table. We’ve also got some great benefits (read more about these on the by clicking any of the job links above)

If the above sounds of interest then please get in touch, we would love to hear from you! Please apply using the links above.
Not where I come from (rural Northern California).

We were pretty much lower middle class (sometimes lower-lower) , had friends who were better off and friends who were much worse off, and nobody really talked about money openly.

In my family I always figured it was WASP reticence, but now that you mention it I think it was something broader. Maybe: people with money don't need to talk about it, people without money are embarrassed to talk about it, and if you're somewhere in the middle you don't want to reveal your hand.
>I find it kind of strange to spend that time and money on doing something that has little to no productive value.

That's entirely the point. Lawns originated in the middle ages as a status symbol. They demonstrated a) that you could afford to waste a perfectly useful piece of arable land and b) you could afford to pay a team of men to neatly scythe and shear it. It's hard to tell how much land an aristocrat actually owns, but the size of their lawn acted as a reasonable proxy.

The invention of the mechanical lawnmower helped to democratize the lawn, establishing it as a symbol of middle-class suburbia. A small lawn in front of a suburban house didn't demonstrate that you were gratuitously wealthy, but did demonstrate that a) you could afford a larger plot of land than strictly necessary to accommodate your house and b) you had leisure time to spare.
We have some experience with on-premise installations for corporate teams. If you're interested in learning more, we're happy to field questions.

Disc: I work for Diamond.
forgive me if this is totally petty, but: "thermodynamic" is an adjective, not a noun.

"Storing Renewable Energy Using Thermodynamic" ... what, exactly?
About 2e-1 centuries ago, there was this website called ars-technica.com. Had a pretty good forum, if sometimes kind of rowdy in that early-days-of-the-internet way. East Coast financiers built a suburb in its place, after the closing of the frontier.
What worries me more is the link between sleep and Alzehimer’s/cognitive impairment.
HotGames. I started on computers playing games, and I remember spending a lot of time on game review websites downloading demo's, trying out cheat-codes, and utilizing the walkthroughs to get through tough spots. It was HotGames that got me into web design by inspiring me to make a website for my own game reviews. After that it was Joe Cartoon and all the similar Flash animators that got me interested in Flash.
+1 for corruption at all levels in the process.

+1 that many people benefited who were unable to afford decent healthcare
No fascism here, just a buggy program. All the developer has to do is to follow Apple's rules whereby the user is given the opportunity to control inappropriate content. As was mentioned in the article, the developer expects to fix their filters and resubmit the program.
I average ~25 seconds myself. Cool to see this here on HN!
I must live around weirdos. One person pays, and someone else always objects.
Summer Memories: A C64 Scene SID Music Album
You can still write simple apps by just putting in a script tag, that never stopped working. However, if you want to write a complicated app, then you've already accepted that you need complexity and thus you should be taking the time to evaluate different build systems, pick the right one, and settle on it. Like I said, there are multiple mature solutions to do that.

The fundemental problem is that you are either trying to write Hello Worlds with enterprise-grade build tools or that you're trying to write web apps with single script tags. Your hello world with React + Babel + Webpack is going to be big. That's the point, you're importing an library that is built to make extremely large complex web apps simple to make, therefore by definition that library has to be big and complex. But the joy is that you can then build out an entire web page with significant reactive functionality in a matter of hours.

I get that looking at a lot of options makes things look scary, but you only need to look at those options once you're ready to build something big. And big is going to be scary regardless. Until then, you will have no issues just importing a script into your web page for the little things.
I wish this didn't force us to use pre-existing lego pieces by abstracting away the math. So so so many cool things could be built in the computer vision sphere if engineers weren't afraid to go a level deeper, ignoring all the opencv stuff, and just implemented the math themselves. There's no reason we can't get creative on a level further down. With all the clever math people that are enthusiastic about abstract algebra in security, you'd think there'd be some spillover of that math confidence into the CV world.
Show HN: New premium web content writing service for the UK
Review kaggle corporación favorita grocery sales forecasting
Coalition | Back-End Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Product Designer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time

Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a better cyber insurance product. Coalition is automating risk assessment to make purchasing insurance easy, and using our knowledge to educate clients and mitigate risk where possible.

We are looking to expand our 5-person engineering team, especially on the back-end and API. These roles come with significant amounts of responsibility and autonomy. Our front-end is in React, our back-end is in Python 3.6, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS. We are also always open to new technologies; we believe in using the best tool for the job.

Email jobs@thecoalition.com for more information.
I don't recall the domain, but circa 1994 "what's new" was a succinct, daily list of new websites. Like, almost all of them :)

I distinctly remember the original website for the Twinkie torture test...
Show HN: Pure in-browser hledger playground with optional remoteStorage
> Anybody insisting on splitting the bill, or obsessing over who ordered what, is also seen as a cheapskate.

If we're splitting a bill, I insist on this, because some of my friends don't drink alcohol, and some do.

(I drink.)
Seriously, don't! (Curious why? Google it)
Rover | Seattle, WA | Onsite | Full-Time | https://www.rover.com

We’re your rainy-day-dog-walkers. Your every-day-belly-rubbers. Your middle-of-the-night-pee-breakers. Because we get it—your dog is family. And when you can’t be there, you can trust us keep your dog happy, healthy, and sweet as ever. But it’s not just about dog love. Rover is also an award-winning technology business committed to making pet care safe, easy, and affordable so that everyone can experience the unconditional love of a dog.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/rover

Our open positions:
* Engineering Manager, Sitter Experience and Operational Efficiency: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/4035065f-47cf-479d-8eb5-47ca6049...

* Lead Development Support Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/63c3aba4-d52e-4d6d-a337-9b2e2c42...

* Senior Data Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/a5f5b3de-c8c5-4606-92c3-817b01a5...

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* Senior Software Engineer - Platform Performance and Stability: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/73309a52-eb53-4538-b2a0-1873c3fa...

* Senior Software Engineer - Search: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/8e3e6307-7106-4c3c-aa77-7992330e...

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* Software Engineer - Platform Performance and Stability: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/98e5805e-43c1-4adc-80dd-6656eab7...

Tech Stack: Python, Django, React, Redux, MySQL, Postgres SQL
Wolfram Language / Mathematica. Probably not "underrated" since it is backed by an entire company with the sole purpose of developing it -- but as a programming language it is absolutely underappreciated.

* Essentially a Lisp. Data and program can be freely interchanged and is frequently done in completely normal code.

* The most impressive "standard" "library" in existence: everything from symbolic calculus, machine learning, UI building, graphics, signal processing, data import and export, foreign function interfaces and it just goes on and on.

* Incredible attention to consistency and interoperability. Everything behaves in predictable and orthogonal fashions. Right from the low-level pattern matching up to interacting with the build in database.

* The best documentation of any programming language. Nothing compares even slightly in breath, friendliness, consistency.
HHMI Janelia | Software Engineer (computer vision) | Ashburn, Virginia | Fulltime | Onsite

We are looking to hire a software engineer for at least one year to work on the implementation of automatic neuronal arbor reconstruction from volumes of electron microscopy: a central problem in the emerging field of large-scale cellular connectomics.

The work will be centered on bringing automation to the software CATMAID[0], in particular by applying flood-fill networks and their tensorflow implementation[1] to build a workflow that will speed up the work of dozens of laboratories already using CATMAID for computer-assisted yet manual reconstruction of neurons for mapping wiring diagrams with synaptic resolution.

The engineer will be embedded in the Cardona lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus[2], among computer scientists and neuroscientists working together to map the wiring diagram of complete brains at synaptic resolution.

Optionally, solve an open GitHub issue for CATMAID, submit a pull request, and include this with your CV and statement. Applications including a pull request for an issue will be given priority consideration.

Official listing and more information: https://hhmi-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fusea...

[0] https://github.com/catmaid/catmaid
[1] https://github.com/aschampion/diluvian
[2] https://www.janelia.org/lab/cardona-lab
GST is only complex for people who don't have to file it.
There is a difference between those who actually have money and class vs people desperately trying to project the image of money and class. Anyone concerned about 'class-passing' should be aware that it's not the top that is behaviorally constraining, it is the middle.

The people most obsessed with putting up the act of their high class are those whom aren't there yet. The mid level professional who is working 80hrs a week and making $90k/yr will absolutely put on the whole 1% act. They will buy the luxury car, fancy clothes/watch/jewelry etc... and be in debt up to their eyeballs. They will also be the first to notice/comment on anyone who isn't up to their 'standards' while standing on cliquish etiquette rules.

Conversely working with true high net worth individuals is rarely an exercise in gate keeping. In many cases their standards for behavior are much lower than you would expect because the competitive pressure is off. You'll find that people with millions in the bank are more humble/genuine than those whom are trying to act the part.
WannaMine,sophisticated crypto #miner that spreads via #NSA #EternalBlue exploit
Australia sounds quite different than the US. In the US good seed-stage startups get a lot of funding (some of these deals are European or Chinese companies but most are US): almost $1B has been invested into large seed ($5M+) and Series A rounds for biotech startups in January 2018 alone: http://newbio.tech/funding.html

And these companies have been getting acquired / going public at very robust valuations: http://newbio.tech/blog/biopharma_opportunity.html

The good biotech seed investors I know have been doing very well and involved in several companies acquired for 10 figure sums

Disclaimer: links above are to my posts / analyses
This is a pointless and pedantic complaint. It's obvious to everyone what "free healthcare" means. Words have multiple meanings, and free in this context means tax-funded. Prescriptive language policing never works.
for a currency to make sense it needs to be worth >>> more than what is used to make it.
Dave.com is hiring senior engineers in LA.

We are building the bank of the future, starting with killing overdraft fees. We just raised our Series A from top tier.

Feel free to reach out to me directly. I'm the CEO. Email in bio.
I went to a dentist after many years (no good, I know) and ended up getting some fillings. I was surprised by how much more pleasant the experience was than the last time I had them put in, in the 1990's. The ceramic fillings seem to be a remarkable improvement over amalgam ones. There were also little things, like having a TV, and a pair of glasses to protect my eyes from the glare of the lights.
- Squeeze her hand for a stranger -

I'm crying, my Mom passed away almost 3 years ago, but that sentence got me. Godspeed to the Scientists and best of luck OP's wife.
There's no need for ads at all though. If you don't have many listeners, then there's not much ad revenue anyway. And once you have a lot of listeners, you only need a tiny percentage to fund the entire thing.

It's totally viable to have 10% of listeners voluntarily pay while 90% of listeners freeload. And there needn't be any NPR guilt trip about it because they're not blowing millions on office space and executives.

Any successful podcast can be a very financially successful business for a small number of people.
The Grommet | Full Stack Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-Time, Onsite

The Grommet is a product launch platform. This means we find unique, undiscovered products and help them succeed. Over the past decade, we have discovered and launched thousands of unique and innovative products, including several household brands like FitBit, IdeaPaint, OtterBox, and SodaStream. Over the next year, our engineering team will be developing the next iteration of our platform from the ground up using Magento 2 and Laravel.

Desired skills: 5+ years of professional PHP web development, MySQL, HTML and CSS, writing unit tests, JavaScript. Experience maintaining and developing for Magento is a big plus.

https://www.thegrommet.com/about-us/careers
This is a major shortcoming of MacOS to those of us who use it heavily for photography. Or even those with large cameraphone libraries.

The data is there. It should be available to all applications!
Generic "energy" is not fungible. The use-value, storability, transportability, and exchange-value of a gigajoule differ drastically depending on whether it's a gigajoule of enriched uranium, diesel fuel, electricity, sawdust, hot water, methane...

An "energy-based currency system" is either a barter system that barters various energy-related commodities, or it's just as arbitrary as the USD, with the arbitrariness being set by whoever dictates standard conversion rates between different forms of actual and potential energy.
SEC | Application Developer | ONSITE

We're building the US Securities & Exchange Commission’s next generation analytics platforms to keep our markets safe, effective, and trusted. Come build awesome tools to analyze big data. We do a combination of designing quantitative algorithms and good old fashioned product development. At the end of the day we are creating modern, elegant applications that help our government be more effective at analyzing market data.

Join a small team of talented developers, capable researchers, and former finance people. We use a modern stack of python, pandas, flask, JS/TypeScript, React, Node, kdb, & q. If you have strong experience with any of these technologies, please apply!

For more information or to apply, please send your resume to careers@aretecinc.com.
Hey there,

I think we're different from Rambox in the sense that we're not trying to emulate the in-service experience for many services in our own our app. Instead, the idea is create an access point to take you to the file, email or insight with less effort. As for authentication, that's handed off to the service a user is trying to authenticate (e.g. Google Accounts).

Disc: I work for Diamond
That doesn't control how aggressively the server connects out to other servers though - it limits how rapidly the server processes inbound requests; upping the window from 60s to 1s means that it will only process 10 requests from a given server in a 60s window (rather than 1s window) before deliberately falling behind. Interesting if changing it helped your problem; not sure how to interpret that.
Something to head off likely confusion: The Speed of Light is not about the Speed of Light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo

Don't get these two things mixed up:

- The speed of electromagnetic waves in the local medium
- The maximum speed our reality allows for causal phenomena
There's research that goes on for cryonics, the Wait But Why [0] article on it was interesting.

[0]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html