skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teralytics | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Singapore | ONSITE, VISA, Full-Time and Intern | https://www.teralytics.net/jobs

Teralytics is hiring Software Engineers in Singapore and Zurich, and for interns in Software Engineer and Data Scientist roles in Singapore. I'm the hiring manager for Singapore, so I'm pitching mostly for those roles here, but you can find out more at our job website: https://www.teralytics.net/jobs.

We're looking for functional programmers with good knowledge of distributed systems, databases, stream processing, or statistics. Scala knowledge preferred but not required. Salaries are extremely competitive and perks are good but we're also extremely selective. For interns, the work and environment is very good: I'm ex-Microsoft, and I'd say it's far better than the MS intern experience in those regards (we can't match their intern salaries though).

We are an analytics company (ETH Zurich spinoff) that operates across a very large swath of the problem space: integrating deep into the "sensors," through the processing and analytics, and then the visualization. We are solving some hard problems around realtime streaming, geospatial and predictive analytics, and work closely with data-driven customers to improve how cities and transportation work. The Singapore technical team is small (approximately 10) but growing in size and capabilities. Unfortunately, our work and opportunities are outpacing us, so come and help us!
Okay, but a lot more people own pets than own cattle. In the computer sense as well.
I've always followed the two-word scheme, but not so random as just the first sci-fi or cartoon names that sprung to mind.

Recent incarnations have been:
StarshipEnterprise
CaptainKirk
MysteryMachine

Two words seems expedient, and a coupling of 2 + 2 or 2 + 1 syllables (loosely speaking) seems to leech into memory pretty well.
Fwiw I don't think this advice applies well to virtual machines created by things like docker.
Why Chubby Dating Site Is the Best Choice for Chubby People Meet
What exactly felt good about FiveSquare Eve / WikiEve / Smalltalk Eve? What internal criteria did it satisfy and how did you know?
We had servers like Rauros and Caradhras, but all of the newer machines had numbers, since they were well into going virtual when I got there.
Heh. Fabricated or real, that would get a fair amount of news time and attention. Maybe Romney too.
Unfortunately that is not financially rewarding enough and will be skipped for higher risk applications. But I think you are spot on.
Transfer yes, but if you need to get H-1B or O-1 then no. The process with the new government is too unpredictable.
> I can barely conceive of the poor experience of running a modern web browser on 4 GB of memory at 1366x768.

The laptop I'm typing this on is exactly that: A Lenovo Ideapad from 2010 with 4GB and 1366x768 resolution, running Bunsenlabs Linux and the latest Waterfox (Firefox fork with telemetry removed). It's blazing fast even without a SSD; the browser starts in the blink of an eye and it takes nearly 70 tabs open to start slowing down.

Yes, the resolution can be limiting for some websites, but most are designed well enough to work fine on it. In fact, on text-heavy sites like HN I find myself browsing at 120% magnification for less eye strain. I couldn't imagine what 1080p or higher on a 15" screen would feel like, but it would likely be painful. It's actually more comfortable to read on than my iPad mini for that reason as well, and of course typing is a dream compared to any other laptop I've used, to say nothing of klunky touchscreen keyboards.

Granted, it would be slower with a more bloated Linux distro and certainly was with Windows 7, but when it comes to the OS I prefer minimalist and stable to kitchen sink and bleeding edge.
I'm interested but do you have any remote software engineering positions?
You should tell the story of your Ponzi scheme somewhere.
Unsurprisingly, I've done this in the past.
>cache is happening at ISP level and that things are fine in the live version on the real internet

great example of how the Real World works vs what consumers think
If they create a work situation where by cutting corners on container safety, protocols, and employee attentiveness I think they are guilty.

And in the modern security context we're pushing deadlines just to race to the latest features with almost no regard for security in the process.

Something has to change. If this kind of negligence were causing similar problems in physical realms there would be regulations.

The tech companies behind these mistakes won't have that free roam forever. Every major screw-up is a step closer to regulations and everyone will cry about it when it happens... But so many companies today don't seem like they're ready to behave responsibly.
Normally yeah, nothing wrong with the lifestyle as long as it is declared and is known and no fear of it being exposed. Except that the Chinese got their hands on the OPM database so they tell what is declared there and what isn't. If they didn't disclose these things there, they'd still hopefully run to the security officer and report but they might be think again since they'd be in hot water as well for lying before.
Let's be realistic. 64 A72 or A11 cores is a pipe dream. It's not going to happen without a massive nm process advantage.

If we had a MBP with 64 wimpy a53 cores it would still only have 50% of the performance of a Intel i7 8700k or AMD Ryzen 1800X on paper. Of course that is faster than most notebooks but if you truly care about CPU performance then you usually wouldn't use a notebook in the first place.
I begrudgingly use a MBP now after many years dealing with similar issues on Linux. The hardware is great, things adjacent to hardware are great (drivers, external monitors, configuration) but I would prefer to have the windowing system behave more like Gnome. Things like Alt+click to drag a window, Alt-Tab cycling through windows not apps (and stick to the same desktop workspace at that) menu bar location etc.
Your link is broken, I think you accidentally linked to the upload page.
The author of this article did a terrible job identifying the problem (and if there is one) and justifying the solution.

There's nothing illegal about working online from your laptop on a tourist visa, nobody that i'm aware of has ever been thrown in jail or busted by immigration from the USA to Thailand to Romania for working in a cafe on their Macbook.

The Estonia digital nomad visa does sound quite friendly however, especially the part about the 'e-resident' not even being required to pay taxes to Estonia, just that their tax residency is legal. Well played again, Estonia.
Could you say how you do that? Keep an open indiana VM and tell Jenkins it's a build slave?
Shouldn't line of business software naturally trend from being a creative pursuit to a standard engineering or trade, where defined systems are applied to a semi-novel problem using known patterns and rules? Rediscovering the whole thing every time is certainly inefficient.

I think there will always be room for green fields, though. Even in very old fields scientists and inventors still discover new approaches and solve new problems on a daily basis. Yes, this will move to the fringes, but is that a bad thing? I'd rather spend 10% of my time on research and reimplementation and 90% on a Fun New Problem/Approach rather than 90% of my time reinventing the wheel and 10% of my time on new stuff.
This is true, but some guesses are better than others ;-)
That goes against the paradigm. I prefer that my hostnames are ambiguous, that way I'm forced to write tools to automate administrative tasks.

If I know the hostname I or my team will be tempted to make one-off changes, breaking the whole "cattle" idea.
How to Bring More Funny
We could, but food is basically a defining characteristic of human culture. Food comes in such an amazingly varied myriad of flavors, textures, temperatures, methods, spices, etc. I think at this point we've evolved such that for some 99.9...9n% of us, we literally can't eat the same thing every day. It would suck one of the simple joys of life out of our lives.
I'm not sure how Musk's experience grows with sales on a linear basis.

Or how sustainable "double yoy" sales are.
The traditional DNC/RNC campaign-finance and media-buy systems are not very efficient. They're also based on relationships. Candidates must appeal to broad coalitions of donors so that they can afford the TV airtime necessary to succeed. Ads must not be too damaging to the reputations of the career staffers and media companies putting them on the air. This tends to constrain the ideological space a successful candidate can occupy.

We saw a successful candidate from outside that space because the efficiency of Facebook's ad platform, plus a unique and possibly Russian-intelligence-supplied savvy in wielding it, obviated the need for (as much) donor consensus to achieve a winning level of influence. I don't know about "any mom and pop millionaire," but you need less of them in your court than you used to.

That scandal that has everyone up in arms is Facebook's complicity in Trump's election, which is a consequence of its enablement of extremists in general, which is a consequence of its ad platform's cost-efficiency, which is a consequence of its troves of user data. But it's not data that started a drumbeat of public intellectuals calling for heavy-handed intervention in the New York Times editorial section (a fingerprint we've seen before). It's influence. The establishment is (correctly) not trying to engage populism in a meme war. It's fighting back the way it knows how.
Thst sounds a bit crazy, but then again those are still some of the great museums so maybe they were doing something right.

I particularly love the wording here. items Nichols defines as “a kind-of-thing” of which a museum already owned enough representative examples “to serve scientific and educational purposes.” Museums usually considered a “kind of thing” a specific item from a distinct region, species, or people—a Zuni vase for instance, or a Zande spear-head.

Oh a “Kind of Thing?” I’ll take two!
Casper | Corporate Security Engineer, Senior Application Security Engineer, Fullstack JavaScript Engineer | ONSITE | https://casper.com/jobs/corporate/?department=Technology

Casper (casper.com) is a global sleep company that launched in 2014 with an obsessively engineered, outrageously comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers. Its critically acclaimed sleep surface was developed in-house, has a sleek design, and is delivered in a small, "how did they do that?"-sized box. The company is one of the fastest-growing consumer brands of all time, and its product line has expanded to include sheets, pillows, a matching foundation, and a dog mattress. Casper was named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2017, and its eponymous mattress was crowned one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions.

We are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so that we represent all those who dream big equally.
I registered island.nu when the TLD launched. .nu was the first TLD that you could register under that wasn't a com/net/org or my own country's TLD.

All of my machines are named after islands:

Mauritius
Sable
Padre
Nauru
Jarvis
etc.
The person who posted that wasn't the same person.
Personally, I love it. It is easy to set up your logo, custom web portal, customers, line items, and rates. Once you've got that done, creating an invoice only takes about five clicks. FreshBooks also emails invoices and reminders for you, allows you to easily accept payments electronically, let's you send satisfaction surveys to your customers, and gives you a weekly report on how much you've earned, how much you've collected, and how much customers still owe you.

I evaluated a bunch of other products, like QuickBooks, Curdbee, etc. but always ended up coming back to FreshBooks and have been with them consistently since about 2010.

Their customer support team is also great. I've only had one or two issues with the system, but in each case, they were quick to respond and help me resolve the issue.

The hardest part of running a small business for me is collecting money from customers, and FreshBooks makes that easy. FreshBooks allows me to connect with my customers in ways I wasn't able to before and it has reduced the process of billing to just a few clicks I have to do once a week; allowing me to focus on the services I provide instead of data entry and invoice tracking.

I hope that helps.
Mention the true cause, get jailed for "offense."
Ah yes, the tried-and-true method of jump-starting a project by adding managers.
cost == bad;
What makes this better than using regular asserts? Are asserts normally just associated with automated testing in .NET?
My understanding is that the metal doesn't get hot enough to bind to end up in the vapor in any quantity as long as the heating element is immersed in liquid. A "dry hit" is when you take a drag on the device when there is no liquid or not enough liquid in contact with the heating element. It tastes terrible, burns out coils faster, and burns your throat.

The only study I've seen that shows that heavy metals in vapor is an issue used conditions that are unlikely to occur in "real life" because of this. The argument seems to be that one could become accustomed to it through the cravings associated with nicotine withdrawal, but I honestly find that unlikely. In reality, you'd burn your coil up in short order, and if you can afford a new coil you'd have been buying more liquid in the first place.
All that says is that joblessness can be one of many factors in the opioid epidemic - it doesn't make a very strong case for it and still comes off as a fishing trip.

It also doesn't explain why GP is introducing the opioid epidemic as a consequence of globalism.
Security consultants and contractors already exist.

But why would Panera, Equifax, et al bother investing in better security when they face no consequences for these incidents?

Markets can't solve everything
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We have recently opened an R&D centre in Bengaluru and are looking to scale up the team to tackle some interesting problems. If you'd like to solve problems with smart, empathetic colleagues and have a lot of fun while doing it - this is the place to be!

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If you're interested please e-mail mjayakumar@reflektive.com with your resume/LinkedIn attached.
>Some last points are that: top CPU speed are (mostly) not growing anymore. That lets others catch up Intel in the few area that they did not yet -- others also are catching up on the process side.

Meanwhile in reality the top end non apple ARM SoCs only have the performance of a single highend intel core.

http://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks/
vs
http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/7779910
That’s because business in America allow everyone to fail upwards after you hit a certain echelon.

There’s no accountability and it’s about protecting everyone in that class at the expense of all other employees and consumers.

Yay, America!!
I don't really get this. "What's the story here? Everything is running exactly as planned. Now I'm sleeping at the factory because it's hell."

One of those things doesn't sound much like the other.
Why Doesn't the US and Mexico Build an Economic Free Trade Zone on Their Border?
Me too on the periodic table names, but with a bit of creativity related to the machine too:

- Helium - my Surface 3, because it's light

- Lead - my heavy Linux laptop

- Lithium - the Mac Mini I bought to keep from going crazy using a decade old Macbook Pro for iOS development

- Caesium - my Dell "workstation" Windows laptop, because I bought it to save time (compared to running Windows + Visual Studio in a VM)

- Uranium and Thorium - the beefy Xeon workstations that run a bunch of VMs and things - named because they put out so much heat that they might be radioactive
Sidecook- Airbnb for Personal Cooks
FCC Proposes Limiting Program That Provides Internet to Low-Income Americans
A Linux container is a virtualization system that virtualizes the entire userspace, not the hardware itself (which is what standard VMs do).
The press loves controversy.
I disagree. They have certainly sacrificed battery size at the altar of thinness but not transistors. Who else is doing 100mm^2 SoCs in consumer devices? Now take that up to 200-300mm^2 and imagine the possibilities with tailor-made blocks and cutting edge memory. Look at Intel's dual core die shots, >50% GPU and my laptop is still jankier than my iOS device.
What evidence do you have that artists lie like this? I don't think the incentives you speak of really exist.
While I don't doubt that social aspects play a part. I wonder how much of it is some sort of self medicating with the nicotine.
You can get the command line tools without installing Xcode from the App Store by running the command: xcode-select --install
React Component Library Kit
> First of all, it's not about whether you work at a university and have a PhD. People can do excellent research without a PhD, and certainly not everything that a PhD-holder does deserves to called research.

I appreciate this dismissed as a straw man, but there are definitely online communities (and individuals I know) who reflexively discount comments from people outside academia.

I understand the instinct, it's a reasonable immune response when everyone thinks they're an expert because they read a blog post or a pop sci best seller.

Sometimes, though, the antibodies kill perfectly healthy tissue too, like valid contributions from bright generalists.
Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer

http://typicalprogrammer.com/working-on-an-ipad-pro-as-my-ma...
if true it means they have version 1 chips already today. perhaps this is why the new support for external GPU.
Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
Definitely more interoperability to get best tool for the job and leverage ecosystems. I'm with you on that. On this...

"they should focus on interoperating with other languages (as in the Unix philosophy)."

Maybe instead follow the OpenVMS philosophy where they standardized the calling conventions to support multi-language development.

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/82final/5973/5973pro.html#int...

Microsoft's CLR followed that path in the VM space. Got similarly good results. Tools like Racket and mbase do with DSL's where they share underlying LISP-like language to avoid problems with DSL's own weaknesses.
I just bought a Thinkpad T480 to replace my aging (but still functional) T410. I installed Debian (using the nonfree installer to get the wifi firmware), and everything just worked right out of the box.
I assume you are in favor of closing Las Vegas and prohibiting all those marketing campaigns that play with the brains and sentiment of billions of people. Many different kind of scams or tricks are present everyday.

Also, there are zillions of entrepreneurs wasting their health and time following impossible dreams. I prefer losing money than my health.

I am not endorsing any ICO but education should change to include basic finances since elementary school.
We are talking about the MacBook, IE passively cooled Intel Core m3 running at 1.2 GHz on something like 8 Watts TDP.
I use uncommon female names that are at least six characters in length.

Cirocco - from John Varley's Gaean trilogy

Lorelei - from the Styx song
Why dismantling Amazon really could rescue 'Trump country'
For comparison a g2.2x large aws instance is $468 per month. This is the bare minimum you’d need to run the kind of stuff your talking about and if still be skeptical about running it at 8fps unless properly quantised.
Because you can run out of IPs and all machines have to have static IPs and because it breaks if you decide to subnet and because who knows the atomic number of californium and because machines can just set their own hostname and because of byod etc. etc.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve used ship names from Battlestar Galactica, which are mostly just names from Greek mythology. Galactica, Cerberus, Triton. Pegasus, Valkyrie, Celestus, Prometheus, etc.
> OpenBSD devs go out of their way to delete unused and crufty code.

I noticed this first hand in while submitting a patch for my macbook's touchpad to FreeBSD's wsp driver and then comparing to OpenBSD's driver... The approaches between FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's driver couldn't be more opposite: FreeBSD's is big, explicitly listing each hardware revision/model (hence the reason I had to go in there and add mine), OpenBSD's very minimal, implicitly inferring all hardware revision options so users don't have to add each and every one, it's also very neat and tidy which I think is an underrated quality in source.

Admittedly this is only one file from one small number of devs, far from the whole of FreeBSD, but the contrast matches much of what i've heard of OpenBSD's approach: minimise cruft and bad code, if it's shit and not easy to re-write then delete it, better to be minimal than buggy and insecure.

Full Disclosure: My comment may well be outdated since I moved away from FreeBSD for my desktop 2 years ago, I have nothing against it, I just needed (other) working drivers.
Well, there goes the only App Store application then.
How about "suboptimal"? 16:9 is OK for games and great for movies, and 1080p is at least wide enough that it can be reasonable to stick 2 terminals side-by-side, but it would be even better if it was a little taller.
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* Our office is steps from the beach

No prior Go or ML experience is necessary. No degree required. If you love building things, that's good enough for us. Let's build some amazing technology and have fun doing it.

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When I first learned about neoliberalism it was from The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Much of the focus in the book was on American corporations and bankers forcing Latin American companies to "open up" and the economic and political chaos that resulted.

Really you have to hand it to China. They figured out how to play the game to win. And now it's their western counterparties that are suffering economic and political chaos.
And I was worried about the acrylamide.
What are you basing this off of?
Children raised by wolves: Man raised by wolves disappointed with human life
Making upfront, definitively costly investments in order to avoid potential negative future consequences, is a hard one to justify.

Especially when the future consequences barely exist. It's very rare for a breach to have serious impact on a company, relative to other areas the company could invest.