skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alloy | San Francisco, Vancouver BC, or Berlin | Full-time, Onsite | https://alloy.ai

Alloy is a supply chain platform that connects manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and retailers, giving businesses end-to-end visibility with fast and actionable insights, across the entire organization. With Alloy, brands can track products down to the store shelf, optimize purchase orders to prevent out of stocks, and respond quickly to consumer demand. Manufacturing is alerted when inventory of a raw material falls below target at any facility, or when downstream demand exceeds forecast. Fulfillment teams can track shipments and lead times to improve service levels. Alloy continuously makes recommendations so that the right products are in the right places, at the right time.

Engineers at Alloy are tasked with solving the interesting and difficult problems that supply chain data presents, while making it all seem simple and easy to the user. Whether you enjoy building data pipelines that process billions of data points per day, digging into the math of forecasting and replenishment models, or creating intuitive frontend apps, there is no shortage challenging and rewarding things to work on.

Our stack: Google Cloud Platform, Postgres, Redis, Python, modern Java, React.

We have rapidly growing revenue and large contracts from some of the world’s most recognisable brands. HQ is in SF, with small outposts in Vancouver and Berlin. We’re hiring engineers and for various other roles - if the problem sounds interesting, I’d love to tell you more. https://alloy.ai/careers - mention HN in your application
The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 by Bruce sterling was the first long form e book I read. It foretold the future in many ways. 1st, it was a bright shining line between the old world of govt doing this stuff in shadows, buried in a blurb on of 10 of the newspaper, and it being in the open for millions to read all the details, about plain as day. As long as you knew bbses... it was there. Second, it was distributed for free so I payed the author nothing, which felt weird. Like a piece was misssing. Third it introduced me to brutal fatalism, which is a cousin of realism but also a neighbor of depression. There was no happy ending, people did not learn from their mistakes, bad deeds were not apologized for not punished, and laws did not change. Law enforcement are still, largely, uneducated and technically illiterate, and they are still going after harmless nobodies for no good reason.
Ask HN: Is DigitalOcean less reliable than AWS?
I'm thinking to migrate one of my services to AWS from DigitalOCean because we are having a lots of updates and network issues almost every day. Is AWS better than DigitalOcean?
Nowadays LA is much worse than SF in terms of homeless people.
For the sake of easier application software, yes. sndio is the higher level of abstraction. There is a lower level API, audio/mixer/midi(4), but they exist as only ioctl(2) calls.
Seattle is pretty nice, especially if you can ignore the random junkies and homeless tent and RV encampments around town.
I think you could've just as easily stated. "Huh interesting what are the downsides?"

Suppose that would admit not knowing something... certainly not something we should be encouraging!
I took at as OP thought they were too young for the role, since PMs tend to be older.
Also this article fails to point out the insanity of the housing market where a sane person living for $2000 a month would be living in a fairly comfortable space even in New York (okay maybe not middle of the city) but out there you get a room and a shared bathroom, with a private sink as a selling point?

And they wonder why smart people don't have kids. Imagine even thinking about having a family.
It is if your future job pays well enough and you can do the basic Math to figure that out.
personally, I can't stand to read any article about an 'MVC variant' that has some new idea for how to delineate the difference between model, view, and controller
Globalism is going to lead to an averaging out of the standards of living across the globe. People from wealthy nations are in for a rude awakening.
gesundheit
> The best way to not have a German court decision would have been not to ask for one.

PGLAF didn't.

> They could have easily avoided the whole situation if they just ignored the lawsuit brought against them in Germany.

That would not have avoided having court decision - that would just lead to the decision be by default, without their argument even being heard and without the court exposing the flimsy base on which the decision stands. They'd have lost not because the argument is bad but because they didn't show up. And you can't appeal not showing up.

> They are fighting in a German court, even if they could have avoided it, because they would prefer not to have a German court decision? That doesn't make any sense.

I am not sure what gives you trouble here. Imagine you are wrongfully arrested. You would then probably go to court and demand your being released, and compensated, even if you would prefer - and would vigorously claim - that the entire arrest is unlawful and you shouldn't even be here at the first place. Same here.

> The way to avoid embarrassment on all sides would have been to ignore the lawsuit

Ignoring court decisions rarely works that well, especially in modern globalized world.
30% of http servers on port 80 are not hosting wordpress. Vast amounts of embedded stuff out there.

The method used to find “websites” is almost designed to return this answer https://w3techs.com/technologies
Istanbul Real Estate Property, Apartment,
This is why every open source project needs a basic CircleCi.
Not in my experience. They just have less higher level services. We have many nodes there with 400+ day uptime and net reliability is excellent.
I spent a couple weeks in the bay area recently, touring around, seeing what it's all about. I left feeling quite underwhelmed and pretty happy I don't live there.
Hahaha, many years ago I went to a MarCon in Columbus that had been scheduled alongside a high school prom. Not necessarily a problem, but there are always people in costume at these things, and there happened to be a dominatrix leading two gimps on leashes through the main concourse at the same time that the kids were parading through...
> Because it's difficult to believe that there's only enough resources to prosecute a handful of companies at a time.

The decision in question was in a civil suit. The suit was brought by a "privacy watchdog" organization that's presumably at least partially government funded to investigate cases like this, but that doesn't prevent anyone else from suing as well.

So if you know of a European company with similarly privacy-violating practices, what's stopping you from filing suit? Or if you're not an EU citizen, you might still be able to get some less corporate-friendly group to investigate.
Fission,Serverless Functions for Kubernetes,SD Times' GitHub Project of the Week
That is indeed a defect of US system, and one that people should account for when they make their choices. I wish US stopped doing that (especially that the tax treaties in many cases lead to the fact that US doesn't even see any money anyway, it just produces tons of paperwork for expats).
Oh no, the last time I visited Seattle was in 2010. Has it gone to shit since then?
Monty python solved the Fermi paradox!
Last time I was in SF I stayed near the Tenderloin area: I've never seen anything like that level of homelessness, neglect and dysfunction in any other first world country.

The existence of such conditions in a city of billionaires is shameful shit.

The US economy generates over $100k per household, and people are living on the street, or crammed into dorm rooms? It's a cruel, obscene disgrace.
I thought it was 30% Netflix
Leon Africanul
True story. I share a messy studio with my girlfriend in the Bay Area. We’ve both at times felt like it’s weird for us to live in a small cramped space, but any time I learn about life for poorer people the world over I realize that living in cramped messy places is the global norm. The fact that I grew up around clean single family homes is just an artifact of the wealth around me.

I will say though that I hope robotics can increase global wealth dramatically enough for everyone that no one has to see their quality of life go down.
Domino effect. It’s not just reclassifying documents, it’s reclassifying entire projects, and so many more things that can fall out from that trigger.

I don’t have first hand knowledge of any such cases, but I can certainly conceive of them.
Things like artificial intelligences can be transferred via Morse code.
What nonsense. Sure, the valley can teach you some new JavaScript frameworks and how to best invade your users privacy to sell ads, but real programming happens everywhere. There’s plenty of ways to launch your career without working for Zuckerberg or Bezos.
College: Commodity or Community?
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Scrunch is a Brisbane-based Influencer Marketing platform that utilises Machine Learning and Big Data to help brands find and collaborate with influencers.

We are looking for full-stack developers, Machine Learning engineers and a new CTO.

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* Frontend: Mostly FlightJS, however, we are working on porting our app to React.JS.
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* Ops: AWS as well as a number of smaller cloud services.
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Though we do require sound technical skills, good attitude and desire to learn are our highest priorities.

Please email your resume to dev@scrunch.com

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It depends. The big X tech companies, and hot unicorns in the bay area pay crazy salaries for engineers.

3k a month doesn't seem too bad when you are making 200k+, which is close to ~triple what you'd make in some rando mid sized city.

Working for the average SF startup though? Yeah, you'd be better off somewhere else.
It's probably just that the photocopier enabled offices to change but didn't allow many new fundamentally different companies to come into existence which only exist because of this new tool. The bloggy technologies (Internet, smart phones, better batteries) all enabled people like us to start new companies that depend on the tech.
Tool for Thought
OP...

I went out to eat with friends and we were all arguing about the "next big thing".

It was basically between blockchain, bioengineering, and clean energy.

Curious what others think. (I went with Bioengineering).
Well, I only have experience with chat apps, but I think it's the advantages of chat (rooms/subs basically for teas + private messages), but without the expectation of immediate feedback. Also probably great searchability.
Hello all, I am the author of the blog post. Just wanted to clarify a few things. This is a older post when Deis Workflow was being actively maintained. It is no longer actively maintained: https://deis.com/blog/2017/deis-workflow-final-release/

Also, the intention of the post to show that there is value to create a PaaS for allowing developers to rapidly try out ideas without waiting on infrastructure to be provisioned. If these ideas were proven, they could then deploy the applications to a maintained production grade environment.
Dieting food list
Seneca's Letters on Ethics is wonderful, also. Such an extraordinary writer, and such a lovely edition. https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Ethics-Lucilius-Complete-Anna...
I seriously doubt you've thought this comment through. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, among others, are renowned for producing important research. NCSA Mosaic and LLVM are just two noteworthy technologies coming from research done at UIUC. Alumni have come to form Netscape, AMD, Oracle, and YouTube.

UIUC is the most noteworthy of midwestern universities, but is hardly the only excellent education available to undergraduates and grad students.
How to create an Angular 5 app with Visual Studio 2017
Our backend is currently 50% Kotlin with hopefully 100% when we do a full migration. I think you're already aware of the benefits such as data classes which remove the cruft of normal POJOs. What Kotlin doesn't gift you is a magically better architecture. There's still verbosity in querying a db, serializing JSON, mapping SQL results. Those things by themselves are of course not difficult but add in different layers and abstractions and suddenly the language itself doesn't help that much when your overall flow is just as complicated.

I'm not sure what is necessarily better right now - I am pretty happy with Kotlin (using Dropwizard) and the type safety that comes with it.
It’s 30% Netflix and 30% Wordpress and 50% Amazon and 40% Google.
This should not be a surpise. Most business types don't give a shit about anything but money. Community, social, environment, or any other negative externaliaities. They just don't care. They're after and bound to "feduciary" responsiblity. (Short term reward and ignoring long term consequences)

I realize that was a moral high horse: I'm curious about how you can reward people for positive long term growth.
And yet, the housing market still makes buying prohibitive in that same region.
America benefits from a steady flow of immigrants
while I agree with you I think it is also common for authors of articles on design patterns to talk up the design pattern as something new, and give it a horribly abstract name like 'dependency injection' instead of something common and specific that people otherwise familiar with the pattern can easily map their experience to. In the case of 'dependency injection' which to the best of my knowledge is just 'passing in data to the constructor' this may have been a new concept for the people that came up with it, or it may have been a rebranding effort.
i'm seeing some different information.

on wikipedia- it says $78k, but that data is apparently from 2010-2014.

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_...

newer data suggests it is at least $87k, with some sources suggesting $92k+

>California Association of Realtors also estimates that the minimum qualifying income to buy in San Francisco is $254,000 annually.

i think being in the 'middle class' should mean you have some hope of escaping rent and actually own something reasonable.
Sure, but I don't think anyone has claimed otherwise? Obviously there's very little genetic basis for the concept of race as a big important thing, but social constructs are absolutely real even if they're a product of our collective imagination.
> ethical?

Yes, tracking cookies is ethical.
If some internet users do not want to get tracked - they can run their browser in Incognito Mode.
The statistic that constantly rattles around in my head is that 70% of the world lives on less than $10/day. There's an awful long way down from here.
>That's not a counter argument but dissatisfaction.

You're correct but mainly because I wasn't paying attention and phrased it as a question. Written instead as a statement, it's a valid counter argument because it's criticizing the parent comment's ridicule of a different instance of criticism.

> Are you saying that EU companies also don't follow their laws?

I'm insinuating that if someone wanted to defend Facebook's position one avenue would be to argue that the law is being selectively enforced. Obviously this isn't a comprehensive argument but it's an easy platform to jump in other directions from.
I guess it comes down to whether you want to pay Heroku or maintain the infrastructure yourself and pay your cloud provider.
On the other hand, Deis Workflow had a lot of features that were similar to Heroku but Heroku Private Spaces seem more feature rich.
They describe their methodology here.

https://w3techs.com/technologies
GPU accelerated databases
You forgot pornography
It was described to be like this by a mother who went through this: she watched her child struggle with homework, not being able to focus, getting bad grades, falling behind in reading and math. One of doctors suggested this "pill". She gave it to her son, and then that same night she watched him sit down and do homework like she's never seen him before. In that respect it was an easy decision. That was in the late-80s or early 90s. Her son became pretty successful and is doing quite well. She credits that success in part to the decision to give him those pills.

It was not about a competitive edge, acing the SAT or going into Harvard, for them back then it was about not failing behind and ended up in remedial classes.
Analysis of tweets of 3 world leaders
I used tweepy, textblob and plotly to chart the positive/ negative sentiments in the tweets. The results are here -
https://plot.ly/~ashane/4/gaps/ --> Barack Obama
https://plot.ly/~ashane/2/gaps/ --> Donald Trump
https://plot.ly/~ashane/6/gaps/ --> Narendra Modi

Modi makes the fewest negative sentiment tweets, Trump the most. Trump also makes the most positive sentiment tweets. Obama stays mostly in the middle. Interestingly there is a point after which his tweets are mostly positive sentiment. It could correlate to the time after he left office.

The code for this is https://github.com/thcricketfan/PythonAnalysis

Comments/interpretations and suggestions are welcome.
Use uBlock Origin [1] and uMatrix [2] instead.
Also using Inox [2] browser helps too.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
[3] https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset/releases
When there's a potential ambiguity and one meaning is sensical and the other nonsensical, that's not actually an ambiguity.

Saying that this is ambiguous is paramount to making the assumption that the author does not know the difference, and then trying to twist the meanings to prove your point. That's unnecessarily tendentious.
> Globalism is going to lead to an averaging out of the standards of living across the globe. People from wealthy nations are in for a rude awakening.

In another couple decades, most definitely. Soon? Nah. China is rapidly aging, their economy is overheating, they're about to go through their own debt unwinding. Africa is just a mess. Maybe? I'll believe it when I see it. The United States, regardless of current events, is remarkably stable compared to the rest of the world. That has value.

SF and NYC are a microcosm of the first world. You would have a much higher quality of living in any number of cities or smaller communities in the US or Europe. I'm partial to Berlin, Barcelona, Prague, and most of Portugal, but YMMV.

I bang out comments on Hacker News while overlooking my backyard pool in Florida in a 4 bed/2.5 bath house for ~$1400/month. Why would I trade that for a dorm with shared bathrooms in the most expensive city in the world?
The evolving DDoS landscape
Are that many SF tech workers making over 200 grand a year?
Eh, compare relative costs/relative income and cultural factors. Most of the people I know here in the south bay, if they rent, get some place reasonably nice all to themselves for around that kind of money, and the south bay is better for tech jobs, and at least for me, a much better 'culture fit' - That's the thing; I feel at home here in ways I've never felt at home anywhere else, and I'll pay extra for that.

Things are expensive, but wages are also really high, (I don't know a lot of people in the computer industry for whom $2400 in rent would cause pain.) and I have a great deal of freedom because there are so many nearby employers. there's got to be at least 50 places that might hire me as a programmer or sysadmin within reasonable walking distance. I have to go further than that to get a decent burger! (which is my big complaint about this place; so little nightlife, so little food. But most of the employers feed you, and for weekends there are good delivery services, so it's not that bad.)

San Francisco (and California, to a lessor extent) is setup to charge newcomers way more than long time residents. The density of employers in the bay area means that you can find your place... and just stay there, through many job changes.
I believe you need to be a on an admin account in Windows to change global file associations. In fairness though, most people are logged in as an Administrator.
Just because income inequality is up from the 50's doesn't mean people are worse off.

For $70 a month an entire family can have access to the internet, Netflix and Spotify.

Food is cheaper, more plentiful and comes in more variety now.

Healthcare is much better and more people have access to more treatments than ever before.

You really could go on and on. Even if real wages have stagnated for the working class, modern technology and the convenience that comes with it has made life soooo much better for the large majority of people. The can buy more with their wages, stagnant or not.
I saw a similar feature at least ten years ago elsewhere. I'm not sure of the airline but it might have been Air France. It was more basic - think SMS - and you could do voice calls as well. I figured it was meant for people who were traveling together but who were not sitting together.
Your point is valid but it's also separate from the situation I was discussing. The response you quoted was general because the statement I was reacting to was written generally rather than specifically about this one instance in isolation.
Fsync Performance on Storage Devices
Yeah. How many times this line saved you?

"Officer, The guy in front of me was driving fast too, so why not him?"
That is good. Earlier, as EvanAnderson notes, there was the Blight in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. Also the malware attack on the Ceres colony in The Killing Star, by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski.
Did someone debunk the STD hypothesis? That sounded the most plausible to me when first reported (didn't involve any conspiracy, just humans being humans - plus was shameful enough to justify spinning stories about sonic attacks).
I teach Wordpress Development at a post-secondary school that is design focused.

Two things make it remarkable in my eyes:

1. How many tasks Wordpress can perform really well for a non-technical user.

2. How messy, inconsistent and “complex” it for a developer to build the tools that serve those tasks.

That 30% of the web is Wordpress, is a testament to whose needs win at the end...
Those are some extremely skewed numbers. I live in a $1.7k one bedroom. Rent is like 10% of my pay and I'm just 2 years out of college. No student debt because my family is poor. San Francisco is an amazing place for technies if you're not bad with money
this is absolutely fascinating. why cant these people just commute from pleasant hill or even lafayette? i had the same accommodations as these people and paid only 400 in pleasant hill.
What was the first Wikipedia entry?
I'd argue that they can also be implemented in a much more lightweight fashion than having to go through a whole OAuth flow just for a mobile app that hits an API that you control completely.
One day I'll take my '67 VW Bus and put a nice powerful engine in it. Maybe one of the early 90s Porsche engines (as it would be nice to stay air-cooled and Porsche has VW heritage).

But damn it's an expensive hobby to even own an older car - let alone mod it.
This business strategy is only viable if your market penetration is huge. No wonder the biggest infringer is tackled first. Also, this probably is a precedent-setting decision with more to follow.